Word: wyler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These disdainful words appeared last August in a London Times editorial. Last week they might well have been eaten by their author. As produced by Mr. Goldwyn, directed by William Wyler and acted by Merle Oberon, Lawrence Olivier, David Niven and Flora Robson, Wuthering Heights is not only readily identifiable with the book but one of the season's distinguished pictures...
Married. William Wyler, 34, cinema director (These Three, Dodsworth, Dead End, Jezebel), divorced husband of Cinemactress Margaret Sullavan; and Margaret Tallichet, 23-year-old onetime typist who was "discovered" by Carole Lombard, chosen to play Careen O'Hara (Scarlett's sister); at Lake Arrowhead, Calif...
Woman Chases Man (United Artists). Screenwriters Samuel & Bella Spewack (Boy Meets Girl) wrote a script and, after reading it, begged Producer Goldwyn to take their names off it, returned the money he had paid them. Director William Wyler, who had been given a vacation with all expenses paid, returned to Goldwyn $25,000 advanced to him in salary and expense money to be let off directing it. Miriam Hopkins offered to pay anything in reason not to star in it, at length agreed to give in and work if Goldwyn got Gregory LaCava to direct. Goldwyn got LaCava, but after...
Come and Get It was budgeted by expansive Producer Goldwyn at $1,000,000. It cost 25% more. Part of the increase was caused by delay when Director Howard Hawks quit, after differences of opinion with Producer Goldwyn, to be replaced by William Wyler. Part was caused by Stunt Director Richard Rosson's discovery, when he went to the north woods to photograph lumberjacks riding falling trees or breaking up log jams, that these daring practices, familiar to preceding generations of lumberjacks, are scorned by contemporaries as unsophisticated generosity to their employers. He had to return to Hollywood...
Dodsworth was adapted by Sidney Howard from his own dramatization of Sinclair Lewis' novel, directed with a proper understanding of its values by William Wyler, splendidly cast and brilliantly played...