Word: selznick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...type, they got a humanist to soften the blow." The humanist in question is A. (for Angelo) Bartlett Giamatti, 39, a Yale professor of Renaissance literature, who last week was named 19th president of the university after a nine-month search almost as much talked about as David O. Selznick's pursuit of the perfect Scarlett O'Hara. The blow that he will have to soften is a painful but inevitable cutback on spending...
Carter also told Congress that he planned to announce some of his choices for Cabinet positions within a couple of weeks. Aware that the talent hunt is beginning to resemble David O. Selznick's search for a Scarlett O'Hara, Carter said: "I'll be a little slow and a little more methodical about the selection of Cabinet members than has been the case in the past." He also said his appointments would be "a good balance of newcomers combined with Washington experience." The one probable appointee whose name trickled out last week belonged unmistakably...
Death Revealed. Mary Jennifer Selznick, 21, only child of Actress Jennifer Jones and the late motion picture producer David O. Selznick; after a jump or fall from the roof of a 22-story building; in Los Angeles...
...David O. Selznick was worried. A scene in Duel in the Sun called for some off-camera sex between Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones. Selznick needed "screwing music," but Composer Dimitri Tiomkin's score had a windy, rasping sound. "Dimitri, the music doesn't have enough shtup," Selznick said. "It doesn't sound like the way I make love." Tiomkin defended his score. "You love your way and I'll love mine," he said. "To me, that's lovemaking music...
Died. Susan Hayward, 55, Oscar-winning cinema actress; of a brain tumor; in Beverly Hills. Born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, the red-haired model was fresh out of high school when she was plucked from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post by David Selznick for a screen test. Hayward scored her first break opposite Gary Cooper in Beau Geste (1939). Mistress of a sultry, come-hither look, she reached her zenith in the 1950s as one of Hollywood's most popular stars, once ecstatically declaring: "I never dreamed this could happen to a girl from Brooklyn." Her most...