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Butterfly McQueen was not beautiful, but she had a quirky presence that impressed Producer David 0. Selznick. He gave her the role of Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's neurasthenic maid, in his 1939 production of Gone With the Wind. As Atlanta burned, Butterfly gave haunting memory to the line: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!" Looking as fresh and freckle-faced as ever, Butterfly and her quavery drawl have now returned to Atlanta. Still a part-time playground assistant in Harlem, she will act as hostess for the Gone With...
...scandalous reputation and his status as a fugitive from American-or at least Cal-ifornian-justice. He is telling the world that underneath it all, he is really a very serious fellow, if by serious one means that he is as capable as Irving Thalberg or David O. Selznick or any other old time mogul of making a handsomely illustrated version of a literary classic...
...young Bergman was scarcely a great actress, as David Selznick assured her, but her radiance was irresistible. "Lunching with Ingrid," said one admiring film critic, "is like sitting down to an hour or so of conversation with an intelligent orchid...
...Selznick came across Colleen Dewhurst in a theater, but on the wrong side of the footlights. "How would you like a thousand dollars a week?" she asked her. Dewhurst, who had already appeared in an off-Broadway play, allowed as how she would not mind, and Selznick landed her a big role in Man on a String...
Like the early explorers or like prospectors trekking through the dusty gold fields, each casting director cherishes his discoveries. Selznick also claims Richard Dreyfuss, Candice Bergen and Telly Savalas. "She's discovered the world," says Competitor Jane Feinberg with the most delicate hint of sarcasm. Marion Dougherty, who has been in the business 31 years, gave Warren Beatty his first TV role, in the old Kraft Theater. Says she: "He was a terrible actor then-we laugh about it now-and totally charming." Dougherty also turned up Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman. Stalmaster's finds include Jon Voight...