Months into preparations for Gone With the Wind, producer David O. Selznick still had no script, no leading man and no Scarlett. Tallulah Bankhead had been campaigning for the part, but Selznick ...

Myron Selznick’s brother, Producer David Selznick, last fortnight made news by hiring his onetime boss at Paramount, Benjamin P. Schulberg, as an assistant at Selznick International.

In Superior Court in Los Angeles, Producer Harry Joe Brown (Ceiling Zero) was sued for $49,954 (10% of his earnings for the past two years and of his hypothetical earnings for the next two) by the ...

Showman: The Life of David O. SelznickBy David ThomsonKnopf, 792 pages, $35Painstakingly detailed and meticulously documented, David Thomson`s”Showman: The Life of David Selznick,” is the most ...

Vivien Leigh, the tiny, frail actress from the Himalaya Mountains who won enduring fame for her fiery film performance as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," died Saturday in London.

Selznick had just about decided to give the role to Paulette Goddard, when Selznick’s agent/-brother, Myron Selznick, introduced him to a British actress with only a few films to her credit ...

•On Feb. 4, 1938, Hollywood talent agent Myron Selznick (brother of producer David O. Selznick) is banned from the 20th Century Fox lot.

Among those present were Selznick’s brother Myron, an agent, and his client, a young English woman named Vivien Leigh. Watching Leigh in the firelight, Myron Selznick noticed how good she looked.

The apparent decision of Drew Barrymore to convert to her husband's Jewish faith puts me in mind of the time, 85 years ago, when Drew's grandfather John, the family's most famous actor, provoked a ...

Of course, that’s been true for Hollywood talent reps since the days of Myron Selznick, Charles Feldman and Abe Lastfogel. But in the past five years, the role of the agent, ...