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...Tale of Two Cities cost an even million dollars. Acknowledging in a formal "bibliography" on the screen its debt to Carlyle and other authorities on the period, it goes far beyond the limitations of the Dickens story. Director Jack Conway, whom Selznick says he chose because Conway is "a master of melodrama, and a big, good-natured, sentimental Irishman," has photographed the storming of the Bastille as if it happened yesterday afternoon. The whole picture constitutes a record of one of history's most melodramatic moments told in an idiom equal to its subject, from a skeleton designed...
...company took over all assets and contracts of David 0. Selznick Productions, announced it had no stock to sell the public. It will produce, on United Artists' lot where Pioneer Pictures will also function, some half dozen films a year at an average of $500,000 each. First on the list is Little Lord Fauntleroy, with Freddie Bartholomew,* starting Nov. 15, to be followed by an effort in Technicolor. Producer Selznick plans to bring Author Somerset Maugham to Hollywood. Directors George Cukor and John Cromwell, Actor Ronald Colman are now under contract...
...Schenck with it. To replace Schenck, United Artists partners-Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Sam Goldwyn-chose Al Lichtman, for eight years the sales manager who was generally considered responsible for United Artists' brilliantly run distribution. With Lichtman as president. United Artists speedily refilled its producing plant with the Selznick company, a new Mary Pickford-Jesse Lasky partnership and Alexander Korda's London Films, whose pictures it had distributed in the U. S. since...
...Lichtman resigned because of ''a difference in views with one of the producers." The producer, every-one knew, was Sam Goldwyn and the difference in views concerned distribution of Barbary Coast (see p. 45). with which Producer Goldwyn was dissatisfied. On the day of the announcement of Selznick International Pictures, United Artists' directors unanimously accepted Lichtman's resignation, unanimously denied that any of United Artists' producers would follow that supersalesman...
...kill herself. Largely omitted from all this are the vital secondary themes of the novel, the marriage of Levin (Gyles Isham) and Kitty (Maureen O'Sullivan), the complex affairs of Anna's brother Stiva (Reginald Owen) and his wife (Phoebe Foster). Far more important, however, is what Producer David Selznick and Director Clarence Brown contrived to stretch the limitations of their medium to include: the strong essential melodrama of Anna Karenina's career and the savage, cold and fantastically elaborate background against which her doom is outlined...