Word: schulberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Myron Selznick's brother, Producer David Selznick, last fortnight made news by hiring his onetime boss at Paramount, Benjamin P. Schulberg, as an assistant at Selznick International. Both Selznicks are sons of the late, famed Lewis J. Selznick ("Selznick Pictures Make Happy Hours"), kingpin of the industry during and just after the War, whose major worries, before he failed in 1923, were: 1) how to get stars like Clara Kimball Young, Olive Thomas and Owen Moore to act for as little as possible; and 2) how to teach the business to his sons, who used to do odd jobs...
...relative and she proudly recites a few lines from Trees. How they then fall out over Pinkie Aaronson and later make up is a tender and amusing tale rendered with penetrating realism. In the enthusiastic first audience were Cinema Producers Darryl Zanuck of Twentieth Century-Fox and B. P. Schulberg. auguring that Playwright Kober and Producer-Director Connelly, who has not turned his hand to so promising a theatrical venture since The "Green Pastures, might acquire feathers not only for their caps but for their nests is well...
...complicated footwork, accompanied by no blows. A Doctor's Diary (Paramount) is a savagely derisive expose of conventional medical ethics, fairly screaming the sort of hospital anecdotes which upright members of the profession refrain even "from whispering. Its casting is as daring as its contention. Producer B. P. Schulberg has staffed it almost entirely with unknown players. John Trent, a self-assured young man of likely starring calibre, was until recently piloting a TWA transport. Ruth Coleman is an erstwhile commercial artist model. Helen Burgess is a Paramount stock player also new to the screen. Key situation...
...casting the rest of the picture, Ben Schulberg apparently looked for foreign types rather than for established picture names. Whether the wisdom of the selections will outweigh the lack of draw names is something only the box-office can decide. A departure was the casting of Marian Marsh in the principal feminine role. She is an ethereal little thing and provides the only element appealing strongly to the emotions of the audience. Under Joe's sympathetic direction she gives a beautiful performance...
...Dartmouth list are Adlis P. Butler, Paul S. Cleveland, Donald W. Erion, Albert L. Gidney, Dean R. Gidney, John R. McKernan, Robert S. Morris, William U. Niss, Budd W. Schulberg, Robert R. Shertz, Robert J. Smith, Richard F. Treadway...