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Selznick had already been unhappy with Cukor (" a very expensive luxury ") for not being more receptive to directing other Selznick assignments, even though Cukor had remained on salary since early 1937 ; and in a confidential memo written in September 1938, four months before principal photography began, Selznick flirted with the idea of replacing him with Victor Fleming.
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Selznick observed that she had shown no enthusiasm for the part until Olivier had been confirmed as the lead actor so he cast Joan Fontaine.
David O. Selznick dearly wanted to film David Copperfield, as his Russian father Lewis J. Selznick had learned the English language through it, and read it to his sons every night.
Shortly after the death of producer David O. Selznick, ABC acquired the rights to a considerable amount of the Selznick theatrical film library, including Rebecca and Portrait of Jennie ( but not including Gone with the Wind, which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had acquired outright in the 1940s ).
In any case, the test was clearly disappointing, and David O. Selznick, who had signed Astaire to RKO and commissioned the test, stated in a memo, " I am uncertain about the man, but I feel, in spite of his enormous ears and bad chin line, that his charm is so tremendous that it comes through even on this wretched test.
Selznick had brought Hitchcock over from England, launching the director's American career.
They had two sons, Daniel and Jeffrey Selznick.
In 1949 he married actress Jennifer Jones and they had one daughter, Mary Jennifer Selznick ( 1954 – 1976 ), who committed suicide by jumping from a 20th-floor window in Los Angeles on May 11, 1976.
There he joined his older brother Myron Selznick ( who had died in 1944 ) in the family crypt.
Monty Woolley makes a full-blown character of the man who comes to lodge ; Joseph Cotten is droll as the Navy playboy, and Hattie McDaniel does an Andy-act quite well .... No doubt, this would have been a sharper picture if Mr. Selznick had played it in much less time, and it would have been considerably more significant had he kept it somewhat closer to average means.
Eventually Selznick hired William Cameron Menzies, who had worked on Gone with the Wind, to oversee the set designs and to direct the sequence.
He had already survived the dislocations of the 1950s, when other studio heads – including Louis B. Mayer, David O. Selznick, and Samuel Goldwyn – were pushed out by stockholders who " sought scapegoats for dwindling profits ".
David Selznick had attempted to bring Hattie McDaniel, but MGM advised him not to because of Georgia's segregationist laws.
Producer David O. Selznick said that " it was the first time a director had been fired.
So strong was her box office appeal by 1939 that she was one of four finalists that year for the role of Scarlett O ' Hara in Gone with the Wind ; the film's producer, David O. Selznick, had briefly romanced Arthur in the late 1920s when they both were with Paramount Pictures.
Selznick had high hopes that Duel in the Sun would surpass his success with Gone with the Wind.
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Warner's was already building up Burt Lancaster as their new swashbuckling screen star, but the role of a British sea captain seemed to be outside of his range, so Peck was ultimately cast on a loan-out from David O. Selznick who received screen credit in the opening titles.
MCA struggled to gain ground in Hollywood since major agencies like those belonging to Charles Feldman, Myron Selznick, and Leland Hayward had already grabbed up most of the major talent.
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In 1949, the magazine Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan referred to Anita Colby, the highest paid model at the time, as a " supermodel ": " She's been super model, super movie saleswoman, and top brass at Selznick and Paramount.
The Paradine Case was the last film made under Hitchcock's seven-year contract with Selznick, and it has been suggested that Hitchcock was tired of the association by that time.
Selznick had been pleased with Goddard's recent performances, and specifically her work in The Young at Heart, and considered her for the role of Scarlett O ' Hara.
" Selznick remained interested in Goddard and after he had been introduced to Vivien Leigh, he wrote to his wife that Leigh was a " dark horse " and that his choice had " narrowed down to Paulette, Jean Arthur, Joan Bennett, and Vivien Leigh " After a series of tests with Leigh that pleased both Selznick and Cukor, Selznick cancelled the further tests that had been scheduled for Goddard, and the part was given to Leigh.
It has been suggested that Goddard lost the part because Selznick feared questions surrounding her marital status with Chaplin would result in scandal.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 8, 1936, Darren began his career as a teen idol, having been discovered by talent agent and casting director Joyce Selznick.
Although he had been involved throughout the filming, executive producer David O. Selznick disliked the finished film and took The Archers, Powell and Pressburger's production company, to court to get it changed.
She had been promised a role by David O. Selznick in A Bill of Divorcement ( 1932 ) but at only half-salary.
Producer David O. Selznick wanted to cast Clara Bow as the female lead, but executives at RKO's New York offices were hesitant to invest in a Hollywood story because similar projects had been unsuccessful in the past.
The rights to the Selznick library have been scattered, as noted in the following timeline.
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Filming began in early 1947 in New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, but Selznick was unhappy with the results and scheduled re-shoots as well as hiring and firing five different writers before the film was completed in October 1948.
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Eventually, he signed with David O. Selznick, agreeing to go to Hollywood at the end of his commitment to Pal Joey, in October 1941.
Selznick sold half of Kelly's contract to MGM and loaned him out to MGM for his first motion picture: For Me and My Gal ( 1942 ) with Judy Garland.
As a child, Cukor appeared in several amateur plays and took dance lessons, and at the age of seven he performed in a recital with David O. Selznick, who in later years would become a mentor and friend.
He eventually settled for being billed as assistant director and then left Paramount to work with David O. Selznick at RKO Studios.
Cukor was hired to direct Gone with the Wind by Selznick in 1936, even before the book was published.
Of those who did, Cukor preferred Paulette Goddard, but her supposedly illicit relationship with Charlie Chaplin ( they were, in fact, secretly married ) concerned Selznick.
However, despite rumors about Gable being uncomfortable with Cukor on the set, nothing in the internal memos of David O. Selznick indicates or suggests that Clark Gable played any role in Cukor's dismissal from the film.
In 1939, Steiner was borrowed from Warner Bros. by David O Selznick to compose the score to Gone with the Wind.
During this time, Leigh read the Margaret Mitchell novel Gone with the Wind and instructed her American agent to suggest her to David O. Selznick, who was planning a film version.
Leigh travelled to Los Angeles to be with Olivier and to try to convince Selznick that she was Scarlett.
Waterloo Bridge ( 1940 ) was to have starred Olivier and Leigh ; however, Selznick replaced Olivier with Robert Taylor, then at the peak of his success as one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most popular male stars.
She managed to terminate her contract with the studio and achieved acclaim in films produced by David O. Selznick in the mid-1930s.
The director, John Cromwell, later noted that Colbert was very professional, but Selznick expressed frustration with some of her demands.
In another significant film, Gone with the Wind, which was also produced by Selznick, Melanie Wilkes ( Olivia de Havilland ) reads aloud from the novel David Copperfield while she waits for the vigilantes to come home from the raid.
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