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...Producer David O. Selznick announced the formation of his own television film unit, which will begin producing "in the near future...
...think anyone who hasn't a business head," generalized Broadway Producer Irene Selznick (A Streetcar Named Desire), "should go into business...
Most British stars of Margaret Lockwood's magnitude are fixed in contracts to J. Arthur Rank. Last week Rank's biggest rival, Sir Alexander Korda, made a major bid for star-power. He signed a deal with Hollywood's biggest independent, David O. Selznick, to produce made-in-England pictures with made-in-Hollywood stars...
...Selznick agreed to lend Korda his constellation of stars* in return for western hemisphere ownership of all pictures they might make in England. For the first time, Korda had something like the weight he needs to wrestle with Rank for the British box office. He promptly made plans to star Jennifer Jones in a Technicolor version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Gregory Peck in a Technicolored Tale of Two Cities. Also on the schedule: Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands, Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Jules...
Muses Irene: "L.B. thought that a woman's place was in the home. I almost never got out except with the family." When she was 19, she got out long enough to meet a bright young studio executive named Dave Selznick at a New Year's party. Three years later they were married...