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Hollywood last week remarked with interest the formation of a new cinema producing company-Selznick-Milestone Pictures, Ltd. Director general of the new company was Lewis Milestone (The Racket, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Front Page). President was David 0. Selznick. At 28, David Selznick has sometimes been described as one of the bright young men in an industry full of dull ones. Reared in a household which was kept awake at night by new and erratic ideas about cinema, he has been full of ideas ever since. His idea when he resigned from Paramount where...
Engaged. Irene Mayer, 22, daughter of Cinemagnate Louis B. (Metro-Goldwyn) Mayer; and David O. Selznick, 27, Assistant General Manager of Paramount-Famous-Lasky Studios; at Hollywood...
...sister Athol went to Manhattan and lived in a furnished room on 9th Avenue and 59th Street, eating their meals in delicatessens and out of paper bags set out on the top of their trunk. Norma posed for advertisements, worked now and then as an extra. After Lewis J. Selznick gave her a good part in The Flapper she began to get offers from West Coast producers. Now wife of Irving Thalberg, production manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she lives in one of the biggest houses in Hollywood. She yearly wins the Hollywood women's tennis championship, weekly...
...than her picture, Marion Davies is still the smartest of the four daughters of Bernard Douras, Brooklyn (N. Y.) judge. She was educated in a Sacred Heart Convent and the Ziegfeld Follies, drawn for magazine covers, and snapped one day on the beach by a newsreel photographer. Louis J. Selznick, then Napoleon of producers, starred her; later she met William Randolph Hearst and joined his company, the Cosmopolitan. Now with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she plays golf, stutters when excited, drives a Packard roadster, has a bulldog named inevitably, Buddy. On the lot a butler and cook give her lunch...