The Big Screen (2012)
“Selznick was strolling through a movie studio with the writer Ben Hecht. They had been friends since the 1920s, and Hecht had served Selznick often—on Viva Villa!, Nothing Sacred, and Spellbound, as well as other fast, uncredited doctoring jobs, such as Gone With the Wind, where Hecht stepped into the perilous hiatus of January 1939, when director George Cukor was removed, and endeavored to reorganize the script. Hecht had been on $3,500 a day then, and he earned that money by locating Sidney H...oward’s original script, the one Selznick had rewritten to death, and saying it seemed pretty good.
By 1951, Selznick had sold off his share of Gone With the Wind for immediate cash, when there was so much more to come. The one-time independent had let it all be traded back to his father-in-law and M-G-M. He had also given up his first wife, Irene Mayer, and married Jennifer Jones, in a campaign to prove she was a great star. Some people in town said he was crazy and always had been. The double success of Wind and Rebecca (1940) had masked that for a long moment.MoreLess
By 1951, Selznick had sold off his share of Gone With the Wind for immediate cash, when there was so much more to come. The one-time independent had let it all be traded back to his father-in-law and M-G-M. He had also given up his first wife, Irene Mayer, and married Jennifer Jones, in a campaign to prove she was a great star. Some people in town said he was crazy and always had been. The double success of Wind and Rebecca (1940) had masked that for a long moment.MoreLess
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