Word: selznick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOLLYWOOD: THE SELZNICK YEARS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Henry Fonda narrates this special on the career of Movie Producer David O. Selznick with some rarely seen film clips and comments from Ingrid Bergman, Katharine Hepburn, Rock Hudson, Joseph Cotten, Alfred Hitchcock, Janet Gaynor and Dorothy McGuire...
Small and intriguing tales like these surround the geneses of most of America's great films: think of all those people who told Selznick that Gone With The Wind would never sell. Unfortunately, The African Queen falls far short of greatness, selling short its colorful background, despite the efforts of its talented creators (add to the list a fine short story writer, John Collier, whose contribution to the script equalled that of Huston and Agee, and photographer Jack Cardiff, then Carol Reed's right-hand man and cameraman on Hitchcock's magnificent Under Capricorn...
From producer David O. Selznick's overall conception to the small details of costume and set decoration, Gone With the Wind has an innate grace, an elegance and dignity that has disappeared from movie-making. Even the rapid succession of disasters in the final 20 minutes--Scarlett's miscarriage, her daughter's fatal accident, Rhett's madness and Melanie's death--gains complete plausibility from the nuances of performnace and the stylistic subtlety of direction...
Once again, filmgoers have the chance to rereview two such fabled Hollywood performances: Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Since its gala 1939 premiere in Atlanta, G.W.T.W. has been seen by more than 295 million people and earned $75 million in rentals for MGM. This month MGM re-released it for the fifth time, and already has advance bookings (at an average of $3 per reserved-seat ticket) totaling...
Died. Vivien Leigh, 53, brilliantly versatile actress; after a long siege of tuberculosis; in London. A fragile (5 ft. 3 in., 100 Ibs.) British beauty, she spun to international fame in 1939, when David O. Selznick chose her to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind; that part won her an Oscar, as did her Blanche DuBois in 1952's A Streetcar Named Desire. No movie could match the historic 1951-52 London and Broadway stage performances of Anthony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra with Laurence Olivier, her longtime lover, second husband and most ardent...