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" 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.
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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.
Selznick and interested
Giroux told Kerouac that movie producer David O. Selznick was interested in buying the rights to the book.
Selznick and Goddard
Of those who did, Cukor preferred Paulette Goddard, but her supposedly illicit relationship with Charlie Chaplin ( they were, in fact, secretly married ) concerned Selznick.
He warned Selznick of the " tremendous avalanche of criticism that will befall us and the picture should Paulette be given this part … I have never known a woman, intent on a career dependent upon her popularity with the masses, to hold and live such an insane and absurd attitude towards the press and her fellow man as does Paulette Goddard … Briefly, I think she is dynamite that will explode in our very faces if she is given the part.
It has been suggested that Goddard lost the part because Selznick feared questions surrounding her marital status with Chaplin would result in scandal.
* The automobile was featured as the " Flying Wombat " in the David O. Selznick film The Young in Heart ( 1938 ), starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard, and Billie Burke.
Selznick and after
Leigh next sought the role of Blanche DuBois in the West End stage production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and was cast after Williams and the play's producer Irene Mayer Selznick saw her in The School for Scandal and Antigone ; Olivier was contracted to direct.
Selznick fought to remain true to the novel's origins and prevailed, and the role went to Freddie Batholomew after an extensive talent search in Canada and Great Britain by Selznick and George Cukor.
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 ).
When she learned of auditions for the lead role in Claudia, Rose Franken ’ s hit play, she presented herself to David O. Selznick ’ s New York office but fled in tears after what she thought was a bad reading.
They divorced not long after the movie was completed, and Jones later married the film's producer, David O. Selznick.
In a letter to his wife two days later, David Selznick admitted that Leigh was " the Scarlett dark horse ," and after a series of screen tests, her casting was announced on January 13, 1939.
In 1983, after a job at the Harry Ransom Center as an archivist in charge of the David O. Selznick collection ended after a few months, Spector “ was sitting around, wondering how I was going to pay the next month ’ s rent, when I got a call from Chris Frink.
David O. Selznick suggested Jungle Beast as the film's new title, but Cooper was unimpressed and wanted to name the film after the main character.
A substantially re-edited version was released in the US as The Wild Heart ( 1952 ) by co-producer David O. Selznick, after a court battle with Powell and Pressburger.
The director was scouting for an actress to play the role of Scarlett O ' Hara after producer David Selznick purchased the film rights to the Margaret Mitchell novel.
He quit this position after the success of his 1932 novel No Bed of Her Own, but when three later novels that same year failed to succeed as well, he journeyed to Hollywood for a job writing a screen treatment of Gogol's Taras Bulba for David O. Selznick.
David O. Selznick lent RKO Dorothy McGuire for the film, and MGM lent Robert Young, who reteamed with McGuire after her debut in Claudia.
However, after William Wellman Sr. met Carole Lombard, he convinced Selznick to cast her.
Filming began in September 1946 but Selznick decided he could not tackle a major production so soon after the ordeal of filming Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ) so he sold the property and script to MGM.
Four years after the film was released, Selznick approached Cukor and asked him to direct A Star Is Born.
Murcia later partnered with Joyce Selznick in management of Ann Jillian until Joyce died of breast cancer shortly after.
It was founded in 1935 by producer David O. Selznick and investor John Hay " Jock " Whitney after Selznick left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and leased a section of the RKO Pictures lot in Culver City, California.
David O. Selznick retained ownership of The Garden of Allah, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Intermezzo, and Rebecca after the liquidation of Selznick International Pictures.
Selznick and had
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.
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.
Selznick and been
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.
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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