When Myron Selznick, who also represented Olivier, met Leigh, he felt that she possessed the qualities his brother was searching for.

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.

When Thalberg fell ill in 1932, Mayer took advantage of the situation and replaced him with David O. Selznick and Walter Wanger.

When Hitchcock insisted on receiving his contractual $ 1000 / day fee, Selznick took over post-production himself, supervising the editing and the scoring of the film.

When David O. Selznick was casting his production Gone with the Wind, he first announced that Mae West was to play Belle, but this was a publicity stunt.

) When Valentino died in 1926, Monte went to Selznick International where, thirteen years later, he worked himself to death with the enormous makeup demands for Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

When Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in March 1939 to begin his contract with David O. Selznick to direct films, Harrison went with him as an assistant and writer.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked up the cash box, he moved up the darkening street.

When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.

When he had closed the suitcase he found a rag and moved about the room, wiping carefully everything he might have touched.

When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the President of the American body.

When the third car ’ s engine has been mounted, it then can be moved to the hood station ; meanwhile, subsequent cars ( if any ) can be moved to the engine installation station.

When Aalto was 5 years old, the family moved to Alajärvi, and from there to Jyväskylä in Central Finland.

When Robinson first designed his anemometer, he asserted that the cups moved one-third of the speed of the wind, unaffected by the cup size or arm length.

When Al was 11, the Capone family moved to 38 Garfield Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

" When the theatre district moved uptown, the name was transferred to the Times Square area.

When he openly left Octavian's sister, Octavia Minor, and moved to Alexandria to become Cleopatra's official partner, he led many Roman politicians to believe that he was trying to become the unchecked ruler of Egypt and of other eastern kingdoms, while still maintaining his command over the many Roman legions in the East.

When the trumpet signal for the start rang out, Antony's fleet began issuing from the straits, and the ships moved into line and remained quiet.

When prophets and general authorities of the church speak as " moved upon by the Holy Ghost ", it " shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.

When the clutch was to disengage power was disconnected from the electromagnet and the pawl moved close to the sleeve.

When the trip lever moved out of the way the first pawl engaged, creating the cascaded lockup just described.

When bankers in Enid refused to lend him more money to build his planes, he moved to Wichita.

When the piston has moved up to the top of its stroke inside the cylinder, and the remaining volume inside the head or combustion chamber has been reduced to 100 cc, then the compression ratio would be proportionally described as 1000: 100, or with fractional reduction, a 10: 1 compression ratio.

When Pissarro returned to his home in France after the war, he discovered that of the 1, 500 paintings he had done over 20 years, which he was forced to leave behind when he moved to London, only 40 remained.

When it was added in 1597, it was put on the day of her death, April 29, as now, but because of a conflict with the feast of Saint Peter of Verona, which was also on April 29, it was moved in 1628 to the new date of April 30.

When Griffith was 14, his mother abandoned the farm and moved the family to Louisville, where she opened a boarding house.

When one arm is moved up and the other is moved down ( like turning a big steering wheel ), the body reacts by tilting to the side, which then begins the twisting rotation.

When the DKW-plant was moved, the import of SKD-kits stopped, as it became too expensive.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

When she took the story to gossip columnist Louella Parsons, the studio was forced to give in and granted all the profits from MGM movies made and released from 1924 to 1938, meaning the estate eventually received over $ 1. 5 million in percentage payments.

When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ) gave her a small but significant part in the film Three Little Words ( 1950 ), then signed her to a seven-year contract.

When TNT began broadcasting pre-1986 MGM films, it caused a controversy when they began colorizing many black and white classics.

When Schary went to MGM, he purchased the rights to the script from RKO, over the objections of Louis B. Mayer, who believed that the public was tired of war films.

When MGM ( which acquired the rights to United Artists's catalog after its demise ) released Heaven's Gate on VHS and videodisc in the 1980s, it released Cimino's 219-minute cut with the tagline " Heaven's Gate … The Legendary Uncut Version.

When MGM closed its cartoon studio in 1957, Hanna-Barbera began producing cartoons directly for television, finding an audience in the evening " family hour " time.

“ When Schneider managed to hunt up Keaton, he found that genius of the silent screen — old, broke, ill, and alone — some $ 2 million ahead in a four-handed poker game with an imaginary Louis B. Mayer of MGM and two other invisible Hollywood moguls.

When Dean left in 1938 to be replaced by Michael Balcon from MGM, about 60 films had been made at the studios.

The Hermits appeared in several MGM movies, including When the Boys Meet the Girls ( 1965 ) and Hold On!

When Thalberg returned to work in 1933, it was as one of the studio's unit producers, albeit one who had first choice on projects and MGM resources, including its stars, due to his closeness to Nicholas Schenck, who was then president of MGM corporate parent Loew's Inc. Schenck, who was the true power and ultimate arbiter at the studio, usually backed up Thalberg.

When Barker, and Bernard left to form Orion, the label was briefly rechristened MGM / UA Classics before it was finally shut down in the late 1980s.

When the pre-May 1986 MGM library was bought by Turner Entertainment, both productions were included in the roster as well.

When the deal with CBS / Fox ( inherited from Magnetic Video ) expired in 1989, the UA films began to be issued through MGM / UA Home Video.

When Ebsen turned down studio head Louis B. Mayer's offer of an exclusive contract with MGM, Mayer warned him that he would never get a job in Hollywood again.

When MGM first approached her for a screen test, Russell was not enthusiastic, remembering Universal.

* When Ladies Meet ( 1933 MGM )

When the new Happy Harmonies series ran significantly over-budget in 1937, MGM fired Harman and Ising and established its own in-house studio headed by Fred Quimby.

When Disney later reneged on a deal he had made for two other Harman-Ising pictures, the animators sold the cartoons to Quimby at MGM.

When MGM resubmitted the film to the MPAA in 1996, it was re-rated " R ".

When Skelton renegotiated his 1940 long-term contract with MGM, he wanted a clause that permitted him to remain working in radio and to be able to work on television ( which was in its infancy ).

When MGM decided to use the phrase for the movie, they did so without the permission of either Skelton or his Raleigh cigarettes sponsor ; Skelton asked for $ 25, 000 from the studio in damages.

When Roddenberry submitted his first proposal for Star Trek to MGM Studios in 1964, his name for the starship commander was " Robert M. April " ( another name, Captain James Winter, was also considered ).