David Selznick and Since You Went Away "I have a different concept of producing than other producers. Some producers are money men, and others are just lieutenants. For me to produce is to make a picture. As a producer, I can maintain an editorial perspective that I wouldn't have as a director. I consider myself first a creative producer, then a showman and then a businessman. You need all three things to succeed in the business today." -David O. Selznick The film Since You Went Away was released
Song of Bernadette. Her performance captured the attention of film mogul David O. Selznick. He would eventually produce seven films starring the lovely, ethereal Jones. The Portrait of Jennie was the last film they would make together before their marriage in 1949. Joseph Cotten plays Eben, a poverty-stricken painter struggling to find commissions during the Great Depression. His only friend is kindly cab driver Gus (David Wayne). Eben tries to sell his drawings to an art gallery controlled by Miss
Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 book Gone with the Wind is an American classic. This epic tale is the war and peace of Southern culture. In the 1939 film produced by David O. Selznick, America’s nostalgia for the Old South is filled. It tells the tragic story of peaceful affluence destroyed by the ravages of war and the destitution and desolation of its aftermath. Set in Atlanta, Georgia during the time of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era, Scarlett O’Hara struggles to survive and prosper. O’Hara
played by Ingrid. Her performance caught the attention of Hollywood film producer David O. Selznick, who bought the rights to remake the film in Hollywood with Ingrid in the starring role. Between making the two versions of "Intermezzo, Ingrid worked on the Swedish films "En Enda Natt" ("Only One Night") and "En Kvinnas Ansikte"("A Woman’s Face), among others, and the German film Die Vier Gesellen. In 1939, at David O. Selznick’s request, Ingrid made the transition to Hollywood. With this move she
Vivien Leigh Vivien Leigh is one of the most influential and successful actresses of our time due to her role in Gone With the Wind and her Academy Awards. Early Life Vivien Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley on November 5, 1913, in Darjeeling, India (Source 1). As a child she was educated at schools in England, France, Italy and Germany. Because of this she became fluent in both French and Italian (Source 1).Vivien attended school in London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1932 (Source 2). At
one of the best-selling novels to this date. Shortly after the book was published, it sold over one million copies within six months, as well as being awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The book immediately caught the eye of a young producer named David O. Selznick who immediately purchased the film rights for $50,000. The movie was just as big of a hit as the novel. Gone with the Wind won ten Academy Awards out of thirteen nominations. By today’s box office records, after adjusting for inflation, Gone
Film Score Music To say that music plays a large role in our society would not do justice to one of the most important and popular art forms of yesterday and today. We underestimate the effectiveness and power that music, in any form , can have over even the most insensitive of people. In almost everything we do and see music is involved in some form or another. Be it a piece played at a wedding, a song played on the radio or even the music played in the background in a television commercial
control of the artistic strengths as well as what public needs for entertainment (Pardo). These producers required a business sense as well as being able to ask those questions of what or why. Some of the greatest producers of this time such as David O. Selznick that produced “Gone with the Wind” helped model the Hollywood film producers. Overtime, the decline of
Hemingway and Hollywood "I try, when I'm writing a screenplay from somebody's original work, to be as faithful to it as I can be, within the limitations of a screenplay and remembering that the novel medium and the screen medium are entirely different" -Screenwriter, Casey Robinson, (Laurence 12). Hollywood attempted twice, but it still could not produce a film adaptation of A Farewell to Arms that Hemingway considered to do literary justice to his classic novel. The first effort
In 1939, David O. Selznick produced Margaret Mitchell’s award winning novel, Gone with the Wind. The film won a total of 10 Academy Awards and still holds records for its box office numbers. Its magnificent portrayal of the Old South is overlooked for its historical inaccuracies but more towards what American culture wishes to remember of the Old South. The film’s extravagant depiction brought out one of the strongest female leads known to this date: Scarlett O’Hara. Her metamorphosis through the
Comparing the Text and the Two Filmed Versions of Jane Austen's Emma After reading Jane Austen's Emma, then viewing the BBC production and Miramax films based on the novel one can understand why most authors are horrified over the translation of their novels into film. The two film versions are quite different from one another, but both take such liberties with the original text as to wonder why the film makers of each even bothered with Austen's work. The BBC production encompasses more of
Not all African Americans are thugs and people that do not work. A lot of them have successful careers and have put in the time and effort to have good work ethic and be good people. African Americans have had a difficult history in the American film industry. During the early 20th century of filmmaking, blacks were stereotyped as not worthy of being in films, and they were only certain types of characters such as servants, mammies, and butlers. From several decades of filmmaking, African Americans
The Studio System Key point about the studio system could be: Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the 'dream factory' that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entities which produce and distribute most of the films we watch.