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Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South against the backdrop of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of ...
Dec 15, 2014 · Film producer David O. Selznick bought the rights to the book for $50,000 soon after it was published in the summer of 1936. It was the most money Hollywood had given to a first-time novelist.
The scion of a film-producing family, David O. Selznick was the forerunner of the modern independent producer, and probably had a keener understanding and appreciation of movies as art than any of his rival film moguls of the mid 20th century.
Nov 26, 2004 · Fleming, claimed Selznick's biographer David Thomson, wanted Scarlett to be "tougher [and] dangerous". The key to displaying Scarlett as such, he agreed with Selznick, was a heaving cleavage, and ...
Memo From David O. Selznick – The Creation of Gone with the Wind and Other Motion Picture Classics, as Revealed in the Producer’s Private Letters, Telegrams, Memorandums, and Autobiographical Remarks („Jegyzet David O. Selznicktől – Az Elfújta a szél és más klasszikusok készítése, mint az a producer magánleveleiből ...
Feb 1, 1973 · David Selznick's father, Lewis, was an adventurer who made and lost his pile in the early days of the film industry, and the son inherited many of his qualities—chutzpa, galvanic energy, a taste ...
David Sarnoff, the czar of RCA, hired David O. Selznick as head of production for the RCA film subsidiary RKO-Radio Pictures in 1931. Selznick took the place of William LeBaron, who would later join SIMPP. Selznick’s aspirations had been to become an independent producer like his father — not a studio production head.
