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David O. Selznick

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  • O. course, the perfect choice would be (duh!) 'Gone With the Wind,' David O. Selznick's mammoth adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's saga of the O.d South.

    High-Def Digest: All High-Def Disc News 2010

  • O. course, the perfect choice would be (duh!) 'Gone With the Wind,' David O. Selznick's mammoth adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's saga of the O.d South.

    High-Def Digest: All High-Def Disc News 2010

  • I didn’t have the balls to take on the front office in a dispute, the way I had watched great producers such as David O. Selznick and Jerry Wald do.

    What a Swell Party He Wrote Dunne, Dominick 2008

  • If your goal is to discuss how Hollywood movies were "unrelenting in their hostility towards women and female self-determination" during this era and you're intent on excluding Alfred Hitchcock (who was brought to America in 1939 by David O. Selznick), then you're purposely omitting a memorable line of determined female characters—think Laraine Day in Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) and Priscilla Lane in "Saboteur" (1942).

    Films in Fraught Times Stefan Kanfer 2011

  • It was the third of six pictures Bergman made for the director Gustaf Molander and the one that prompted David O. Selznick, in the midst of producing "Gone With the Wind," to bring her to America.

    Ingrid Bergman In Her Native Tongue David Mermelstein 2011

  • One of the world's most cherished and enduring pictures, "Wind" was birthed in the mind of novelist Margaret Mitchell and incubated by the brilliant, obsessive David O. Selznick, who spared no expense in bringing this powerful, affecting story to the big screen.

    John Farr: Clark Gable: King of Hollywood John Farr 2012

  • Of their 1938 audio version of the best-selling "Rebecca," which preceded director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick's 1940 hit movie, Welles's production partner John Houseman would say: "It was very good and I've sometimes wondered if the movie, when it was made later, didn't use some of the things invented by writer Howard Koch and Orson on the radio show."

    Rosebud and the Radio Tom Nolan 2011

  • After appearing in several other Broadway productions, Mr. Morgan moved to Los Angeles and worked in a theater company founded by David O. Selznick.

    Wry Colonel Amid 'M*A*S*H' Mischief Stephen Miller 2011

  • Jones was deep in an affair with producer David O. Selznick, and Walker was, according to Minnelli's memoir, "looking at life through the bottom of a liquor bottle."

    Somewhere, Over the City Bruce Bennett 2011

  • Through three tortured marriages to Robert Walker, David O. Selznick and billionaire Norton Simon, severe bouts of mental illness and the tragic deaths of two children, she epitomized movie stardom, smiling bravely and hiding her demons from the camera.

    Farewell My Lovelies 2010

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