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5 days ago · Film historian John Walsh tells IndieWire about his new book for the noir's 75th anniversary — including David O. Selznick's 11th-hour attempts to change Carol Reed's classic.
Cited by author James McKay as the "epitome of the suave Continental", [5] Jourdan was spotted in a French film by a talent scout working for David O. Selznick, who offered the actor a contract in March 1946. [6] His first American film was The Paradine Case (1947) starring Gregory Peck.
5 days ago · Hurricane Helene and the Musing of a Pre-Modern Historian. As a little girl, I loved nothing more than curling up on the couch with a pillow and a blanket and watching David O. Selznick’s vision of Gone with the Wind starring the incomparable Clark Gable (my first crush) and Vivian Leigh. [1] The moment I first saw the dresses, I was hooked.
1 day ago · Producer Lewton, a longtime story editor for David O. Selznick, was hired to head RKO’s new horror unit in 1942 where he turned out a series of well-received low cost, highly profitable B pictures in response to the near bankrupt position the studio was put in by the box-office failures of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons.
1 day ago · As a 30-something producer at MGM, Lewton purportedly advised his boss, David O. Selznick, that it was impossible to adapt Margaret Mitchell’s novel, “Gone With the Wind,” for the movies — that Selznick, in so many words, should forget about it.
2 days ago · Trained at the Itala Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, he appeared in a clutch of British films, including Miles Mander's Fascination (1931), before being spotted by David O. Selznick and George Cukor during a scouting trip.
3 days ago · By 1939, he had international recognition and producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood. A string of successful films followed, including Rebecca (1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Notorious (1946).
