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.

Selznick, however, overheard her audition and was impressed enough to have his secretary call her back.

Not everyone saw it that way, however, most notably the project's original producer David O. Selznick.

After only four films with Selznick however, the personal and business relationship began to sour and Kimball Young struggled to extricate herself from all business arrangements with Selznick, accusing him of defrauding her of her profits through a series of dummy corporations and by electing himself president of her company while not permitting her any input in her business affairs.

He left RKO in 1936 and soon became the musical director of Selznick International Pictures.

Selznick originally wanted Bernard Herrmann but when Herrmann became unavailable, Rózsa was hired, winning the Academy Award for his score.

Her personal involvement with rising Paramount executive David O. Selznick – despite his relationship with Irene Mayer Selznick – proved substantial ; she was put on the map and became selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1929.

In Hollywood, he became a Vice-President of David O. Selznick Productions.

She soon became the first Selznick star and created the image of the " baby vamp ".

Granger and Walker, whose wife Jennifer Jones had recently left him for David O. Selznick, became close friends and confidantes during filming, and Granger was devastated when Walker died from an accidental combination of alcohol and barbiturates prior to the film's release.

The film's budget became overinflated and Selznick was forced to sell Dieterle's contract to Paramount Pictures, where his career never reached the heights of the previous 15 years.

His second son, David O. Selznick ( 1902 – 1965 ), became a notable Hollywood filmmaker, producing Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

Young became involved in a much publicized affair with Selznick, culminating in a 1916 divorce suit brought about by James Young, charging Clara with alienation of affection.

Whitney himself became chairman of the board, and Selznick president, of the new company.

Duel in the Sun is a Technicolor 1946 Western film directed by King Vidor, produced and written by David O. Selznick, which tells the story of a Mestiza ( half-Native American ) girl who goes to live with her Anglo relatives, becoming involved in prejudice and forbidden love.

Gary Cooper was thus Selznick's first choice, because Cooper's contract with Samuel Goldwyn involved a common distribution company, United Artists, with which Selznick had an eight-picture deal.

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.

Selznick's faith in Menzies was such that he sent a memo to everyone at Selznick International Pictures involved in the production reminding them " Menzies is the final word " on everything related to Technicolor, scenic design, set decoration, and the overall look of the production.

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.

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.

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.

She managed to terminate her contract with the studio and achieved acclaim in films produced by David O. Selznick in the mid-1930s.

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 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.

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 ).

" Selznick spent most of the 1950s nurturing the career of his second wife, Jennifer Jones.

Jennifer Jones and Selznick in Los Angeles, 1957.

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.

Early in her career, she appeared in Three Violent People ( 1956 ) starring Charlton Heston, as the hotel proprietor pal of Anne Baxter, and then co-starred opposite Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones in the David O. Selznick remake of A Farewell to Arms ( 1957 ) as Hudson's nurse.

The book on which the film was based first attracted the attention of David O. Selznick, who immediately purchased it as a vehicle for Academy Award winner Jennifer Jones.

The cast for the David O. Selznick version included Jennifer Jones ( Jo ), Diana Lynn ( Amy ), Bambi Linn ( Beth ), Rhonda Fleming ( Meg ), and Anne Revere ( Marmee ).

The model was hired by David O. Selznick in the 1940s to teach contract actresses, such as Jennifer Jones, about beauty, poise, and publicity.