Rebecca (1940)

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Daniel Selznick: Son of David O. Selznick and grandson of Louis B. Mayer dies at 88

Producer Daniel Selznick passed away recently at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, California. He was 88. He was the son of David O. Selznick, one of the most prominent and influen…

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Ann Gillis: “Michael Curtiz liked me because I was always on time and I knew my lines”

When I met former child actress Cora Sue Collins at her Beverly Hills apartment in March 2003, she said, ‘Did you ever talk to Ann Gillis? She lives in Belgium.’ I didn’t know that at the time, and…

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Peter Ford, remembering what happened to him 65 years ago: “A boy, his dog, and Charlie Chaplin”

“It was early 1952, I was seven years old, and silent screen legend Charlie Chaplin lived around the corner from my family in a big house on Summit Drive in Beverly Hills, California.” …

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Film history: Focus on David O. Selznick, Alida Valli and “The Paradine Case”

From: Macnamara, Paul. Those Were the Days, My Friend: My Life in Hollywood With David O. Selznick and Others [Filmmakers No. 35], pp. 105-107. Metuchen, New Jersey / London: The Scarecrow Press, I…

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Evelyn Keyes: “The atmosphere on the set of ‘Gone With the Wind’ was almost partylike”

Screen star Evelyn Keyes was initially Vivien Leigh’s younger sister in “Gone With the Wind” (1939) before becaming a star in her own right in several films made at Columbia in the 1940s. When I me…

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#GoneWithTheWind (1939)
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

#VivienLeigh #ClarkGable #OliviaDeHavilland with author #MargaretMitchell and producer #DavidOSelznick at the Loews Grand Theater, Atlanta, Georgia for the premiere (1939).
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Daniel Selznick, ‘The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind’ and ‘Blood Feud’ Producer, Dies at 88
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Daniel Selznick, ‘The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind’ and ‘Blood Feud’ Producer, Dies at 88

The youngest son of film producer David O. Selznick and theatrical producer Irene Mayer Selznick was also a director and former Universal Studios production exec.

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PGA Awards: Martin Scorsese Remembers Kissing Elke Sommer at 1965 Ceremony As He Celebrates “Full-Circle” Moment

The filmmaker was awarded with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award at Sunday's PGA Awards.

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Duel in the Sun was David O. Selznick’s 1946 attempt to do a western in the Gone With the Wind style, an epic western.

There’s plenty of material for melodrama here and it’s melodrama we get, in a gloriously overheated style.

It's a sex melodrama and it ran into huge censorship problems which weakened the movie.

But it's better than its reputation would suggest. I liked it.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2022/01/duel-in-sun-1946.html

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Duel in the Sun (1946)

Duel in the Sun was David O. Selznick’s 1946 attempt to do a western in the Gone With the Wind style, an epic western. Selznick also saw it...