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...entirely misleading. The best way to describe my work is to compare it with that of a department-store buyer combined with duties as consultant on fashions and grooming. Rarely do my duties embrace more than that. It is not true that I set up deals between David O. Selznick and his players and, specifically, I have never had anything to do with contract negotiations between Mr. Selznick and Miss Joan Fontaine. I do not, as you intimate, attempt to read Miss Fontaine's mind, nor do I under any circumstances, anywhere, at any time, act as "pipeline...
...this last and most troublous question of all, two of the oldest and foxiest independent moviemakers last week gave an answer that may give other independents an idea. To insure a Broadway outlet for their productions, Producers Samuel Goldwyn* and David Selznick leased Manhattan's famed, 40-year-old, 1,140-seat Astor Theater from the owner-operator, City Investing Co. Major C. I. request:" Goldwyn & Selznick keep the Astor as well supplied with pictures as did former tenant Loew...
Their forward echelon is composed of Selznick, Goldwyn and International (a holding corporation for a number of the newer lone hands, such as Writer Nunnally Johnson, Director Sam Wood and Actor Gary Cooper). Other front-rankers are Hunt Stromberg, and (potentially) crack Producer-Writer-Director Preston Sturges...
...appreciation of the power and subtlety of weather that most U.S. moviemakers seem to lack. When Zack invites his new friends to a New Year's Eve party at the Y, the crowd there is precisely as it should be. So are the decorations and so-a typical Selznick touch-is the sailor, off at the side, solemnly working himself into a lather on the parallel bars. (Other Selznick touches: a stuffy senator asking Zack how the boys overseas are thinking politically and getting a quite unpleasant answer; a woman scolding her little boy-his name: Franklin...
There are dozens of such indications that Selznick knows and cares more about getting American life into good moving pictures than any other man with his combined power and talent...