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Selznick International Pictures

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The facade of the Selznick International Pictures administration building in Culver City became the trademark of the studio
The facade of the Selznick International Pictures administration building in Culver City became the trademark of the studio

Selznick International Pictures was a Hollywood motion picture studio created by David O. Selznick in 1935, and dissolved in 1943. In its short existence the independent studio produced two films that received the Academy Award for Best Picture—Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940)—and three that were nominated, A Star Is Born (1937), Since You Went Away (1944) and Spellbound (1945).

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Cinema of the United States

Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century. The dominant style of American cinema is classical Hollywood cinema, which developed from 1910 to 1969 and is still typical of most films made there to this day. While Frenchmen Auguste and Louis Lumière are generally credited with the birth of modern cinema, American cinema soon came to be a dominant force in the emerging industry. As of 2017, it produced the third-largest number of films of any national cinema, after India and China, with more than 600 English-language films released on average every year. While the national cinemas of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand also produce films in the same language, they are not part of the Hollywood system. Because of this, Hollywood has also been considered a transnational cinema, and has produced multiple language versions of some titles, often in Spanish or French. Contemporary Hollywood often outsources production to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick, born as David Selznick was an American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive who produced Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both of which earned him an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Academy Award for Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Oscars is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot. The Best Picture category is traditionally the final award of the night and is widely considered as the most prestigious honor of the ceremony.

Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind (film)

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 American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, following her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler.

Rebecca (1940 film)

Rebecca (1940 film)

Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick. The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, and adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan, were based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.

A Star Is Born (1937 film)

A Star Is Born (1937 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor drama film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March as a fading movie star who helps launch her career. The supporting cast features Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander, and Owen Moore.

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away is a 1944 American epic drama film directed by John Cromwell for Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It is an epic about the American home front during World War II that was adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the 1943 novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder. The music score was by Max Steiner, and the cinematography by Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes, George Barnes (uncredited), and Robert Bruce (uncredited).

Spellbound (1945 film)

Spellbound (1945 film)

Spellbound is a 1945 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Michael Chekhov. It follows a psychoanalyst who falls in love with the new head of the Vermont hospital in which she works, only to find that he is an imposter suffering dissociative amnesia, and potentially, a murderer. The film is based on the 1927 novel The House of Dr. Edwardes by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer.

Company history

Dolores Costello and Freddie Bartholomew in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)Poster for Gone with the Wind (1939)Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940)
Dolores Costello and Freddie Bartholomew in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
Dolores Costello and Freddie Bartholomew in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)Poster for Gone with the Wind (1939)Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940)
Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Dolores Costello and Freddie Bartholomew in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)Poster for Gone with the Wind (1939)Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940)
Poster for Gone with the Wind (1939)
Dolores Costello and Freddie Bartholomew in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)Poster for Gone with the Wind (1939)Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940)
Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in Rebecca (1940)

In the Tradition of Quality

— Company motto of Selznick International Pictures[1]: 9 

Selznick International Pictures was founded in 1935 by producer David O. Selznick and investor Jock Whitney after Selznick left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and leased a section of the RKO Pictures lot in Culver City, California. The studio itself had been built in 1918–19 by film pioneer Thomas Ince. When Ince died in 1924 the studio was taken over by Cecil B. DeMille. Eventually Pathe took over and then in the 1930s it became part of RKO. In 1957 it would become part of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's company, Desilu.

Selznick leased offices at the studio during the first year or so and at the beginning of 1937 Selznick International Pictures took over the entire lot. The SIP name went up over the entrance of the historic Southern Plantation style administration building and that view of the front of the building became the iconic studio logo seen at the beginning of SIP films. Even though the studio reverted to RKO in the 1940s, Selznick kept offices there for the rest of his life.

Selznick raised the initial funding of US$400,000 in Los Angeles, with half of that amount coming from his brother Myron Selznick, a Hollywood agent, and the other half from MGM production chief Irving Thalberg and his wife actress Norma Shearer.[2] He raised an additional $300,000 from "small" investors in New York, and then the final $2.4 million from Jock Whitney and his family. Whitney himself became chairman of the board, and Selznick president, of the new company.

Because Whitney and his cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney also owned Pioneer Pictures, an independent studio they formed in 1933 on facilities rented at the RKO studios, Pioneer was informally merged with Selznick International Pictures in 1936. Selznick International assumed Pioneer's contract to make at least six pictures in the new full-color Technicolor process, of which the Whitneys owned a 15 percent share.[3]

"Unlike his peers in the major studios," wrote film historian Leonard J. Leff, "Selznick produced films as medieval architects built cathedrals: one by one."[1]: 6 

Selznick intended to produce a few features each year, a plan which he hoped would allow him to be as picky and careful as he liked and to create the best films possible. He said to his company's board in 1935, "There are only two kinds of merchandise that can be made profitably in this business, either the very cheap pictures or the very expensive pictures." Selznick believed, "there is no alternative open to us but to attempt to compete with the very best."[4]

Although Selznick foresaw a production schedule of six to eight features per year, the studio in fact made only two or three per year, due to Selznick's meticulous attention to detail and protracted writing and editing processes. But in its short life, Selznick International Pictures produced two winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture: Gone with the Wind (1939, co-produced with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Rebecca (1940), and three nominees, A Star Is Born (1937), Since You Went Away (1944) and Spellbound (1945).

By 1940, Selznick International Pictures was the top-grossing film studio in Hollywood, but without a major studio set-up in which to re-invest his profits, Selznick faced enormous tax problems. That year, to draw down their profits as capital gains, he and the other owners made an agreement with the Internal Revenue Service to liquidate Selznick International within three years, which they did by dividing and selling to each other the company's assets. Jock Whitney and his sister Joan Whitney Payson acquired Gone with the Wind, which they resold at a substantial profit to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1944.[5][6][7] At the time of the final dissolution in 1943, three features were in production or pre-production, although they were released in 1944 and 1945.

To complete his obligation to deliver two more pictures to United Artists, Selznick formed David O. Selznick Productions in 1940 at the same studio location. The new company also took over the old company's contracts with individual directors and actors.[8]

Vanguard Films and Selznick Releasing Organization

After the dissolution of Selznick International, Selznick established Vanguard Films, Inc. in 1943[9] and Selznick Releasing Organization in 1946.[10] Vanguard was created to continue his productions, while Selznick Releasing was made to distribute output by Vanguard. Previously, Vanguard released through United Artists, of which Vanguard owned one-third of its stock. As with Selznick International, Vanguard was located at the RKO studio.

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Freddie Bartholomew

Freddie Bartholomew

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film)

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film)

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1936 drama film based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, and C. Aubrey Smith. The first film produced by David O. Selznick's Selznick International Pictures, it was the studio's most profitable film until Gone with the Wind. The film is directed by John Cromwell.

Madeleine Carroll

Madeleine Carroll

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Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind (film)

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 American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, following her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler.

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

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Joan Fontaine

Joan Fontaine

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David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick, born as David Selznick was an American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive who produced Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both of which earned him an Academy Award for Best Picture.

John Hay Whitney

John Hay Whitney

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Culver City, California

Culver City, California

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Desilu Productions

Desilu Productions

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Irving Thalberg

Irving Thalberg

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Filmography

Selznick International Pictures

Films were distributed by United Artists unless noted.

Release Date Title Notes
March 6, 1936 Little Lord Fauntleroy [11]
November 19, 1936 The Garden of Allah [12]
April 30, 1937 A Star Is Born [13]
September 3, 1937 The Prisoner of Zenda [14][a]
November 26, 1937 Nothing Sacred [16]
February 11, 1938 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [17]
October 27, 1938 The Young in Heart [18]
February 10, 1939 Made for Each Other [19]
September 22, 1939 Intermezzo: A Love Story [20][21]: 756 
December 15, 1939 Gone with the Wind Distributed by Loew's, Inc.[22]
April 12, 1940 Rebecca [23]

Vanguard Films

Main article: Vanguard Films

Selznick formed Vanguard Films (1943–1951)[24] to complete projects in progress at the time Selznick International Pictures was dissolved. Films were distributed by United Artists unless noted.

Release Date Title Notes
May 18, 1944 Reward Unlimited Short film distributed by the Office of War Information[25][26]
July 20, 1944 Since You Went Away [27]
December 1944 I'll Be Seeing You [28]
December 28, 1945 Spellbound [29]
December 31, 1946 Duel in the Sun Distributed by Selznick Releasing Organization[30]
December 29, 1947 The Paradine Case Distributed by Selznick Releasing Organization[31]
June 4, 1948 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Distributed by Selznick Releasing Organization[32]
December 24, 1948 Portrait of Jennie Distributed by Selznick Releasing Organization[33]

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film)

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film)

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1936 drama film based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, and C. Aubrey Smith. The first film produced by David O. Selznick's Selznick International Pictures, it was the studio's most profitable film until Gone with the Wind. The film is directed by John Cromwell.

A Star Is Born (1937 film)

A Star Is Born (1937 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor drama film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March as a fading movie star who helps launch her career. The supporting cast features Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander, and Owen Moore.

Nothing Sacred (film)

Nothing Sacred (film)

Nothing Sacred is a 1937 American Technicolor screwball comedy film directed by William A. Wellman, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March with a supporting cast featuring Charles Winninger and Walter Connolly. Ben Hecht was credited with the screenplay based on the 1937 story "Letter to the Editor" by James H. Street, and an array of additional writers, including Ring Lardner Jr., Budd Schulberg, Dorothy Parker, Sidney Howard, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman and Robert Carson made uncredited contributions.

Made for Each Other (1939 film)

Made for Each Other (1939 film)

Made for Each Other is a 1939 American romantic comedy film directed by John Cromwell, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Carole Lombard, James Stewart, and Charles Coburn. Lombard and Stewart portray a couple who get married after only knowing each other for one day.

Intermezzo (1939 film)

Intermezzo (1939 film)

Intermezzo is a 1939 American romantic film remake of a 1936 Swedish film of the same title. It stars Leslie Howard as a married virtuoso violinist who falls in love with his accompanist, played by Ingrid Bergman in her Hollywood debut. The film was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by David O. Selznick. It features multiple orchestrations of Heinz Provost's title piece, which won a contest associated with the original film's production. The screenplay by George O'Neil was based on that of the original film by Gösta Stevens and Gustaf Molander. It was produced by Selznick International Pictures.

Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind (film)

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 American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, following her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler.

Loews Cineplex Entertainment

Loews Cineplex Entertainment

Loews Cineplex Entertainment, also known as Loews Incorporated, is an American theater chain operating in North America. From 1924 until 1959, it was also the parent company of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM). It was formerly jointly owned by Sony Pictures and Universal Studios and operated theatres in the United States, Canada, South Korea, Spain and Mexico.

Rebecca (1940 film)

Rebecca (1940 film)

Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick. The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, and adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan, were based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier.

Reward Unlimited

Reward Unlimited

Reward Unlimited is a short film produced in 1944 by David O. Selznick's Vanguard Films, for the United States Public Health Service, dramatizing the need for volunteer military nurses for the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II. Directed by Jacques Tourneur, the 10-minute film stars Dorothy McGuire in one of her first films. The story by Mary C. McCall, Jr., dramatizes the choice that young Peggy Adams makes to become a nurse, her training, and her volunteering for military nursing service. The cast includes Aline MacMahon, James Brown, Spring Byington and Tom Tully.

Short film

Short film

A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits". In the United States, short films were generally termed short subjects from the 1920s into the 1970s when confined to two 35 mm reels or less, and featurettes for a film of three or four reels. "Short" was an abbreviation for either term.

I'll Be Seeing You (1944 film)

I'll Be Seeing You (1944 film)

I'll Be Seeing You is a 1944 American drama film made by Selznick International Pictures, Dore Schary Productions, and Vanguard Pictures, and distributed by United Artists. It stars Joseph Cotten, Ginger Rogers, and Shirley Temple, with Spring Byington, Tom Tully, and John Derek. It was produced by Dore Schary, with David O. Selznick as executive producer. The screenplay was by Marion Parsonnet, based on a radio play by Charles Martin (1910-1983).

Duel in the Sun (film)

Duel in the Sun (film)

Duel in the Sun is a 1946 American psychological Western film directed by King Vidor, produced and written by David O. Selznick, which tells the story of a Mestiza girl who goes to live with her white relatives, becoming involved in prejudice and forbidden love. The Technicolor film stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish and Lionel Barrymore.

Film library

The rights to the Selznick library have been scattered, as noted in the following timeline.

  • 1943: Jock Whitney sold to Film Classics, Inc. the rights to A Star Is Born and Nothing Sacred (both of which were actually owned by Pioneer Pictures), and the Selznick International productions Little Lord Fauntleroy, Made for Each Other, and The Young in Heart.[34]
  • 1947: Cinecolor Corporation acquired Film Classics, Inc.[35]
  • 1949: Cinecolor Corp. resold the company to Film Classics' officers.[36]
  • 1950: Film Classics was merged with Eagle-Lion Films to form Eagle Lion Classics.[37]
  • 1951: When Eagle Lion Classics collapsed, United Artists acquired its assets.[38]

David O. Selznick retained ownership of The Garden of Allah, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Intermezzo, and Rebecca after the liquidation of Selznick International Pictures.[39] Selznick died in 1965, and the following year, his estate sold the rights to 26 of his features to ABC,[40] who still own most of them today (via Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures). The notable exception is Gone with the Wind, which Jock Whitney and his sister sold to MGM in 1944. Turner Entertainment, which purchased the MGM studio and pre-1986 film library in 1986, now owns the film with distribution currently held by Warner Bros. The films A Star Is Born, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Nothing Sacred, and Made for Each Other are now in the public domain in the United States, with original film negatives to the latter three films owned by Disney[41] and the former's owned by Warner Bros.[42]

Papers and other artefacts of the studio are now part of the David O. Selznick Collection[43] in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Cinecolor

Cinecolor

Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model two-color motion picture process that was based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and the 1930s. It was developed by William T. Crispinel and Alan M. Gundelfinger, and its various formats were in use from 1932 to 1955.

Eagle-Lion Films

Eagle-Lion Films

Eagle-Lion Films was the name of two distinct, though related, companies. In 1944, UK film magnate J. Arthur Rank created an American distribution company with the name to handle his British films. The following year, under a reciprocal distribution arrangement with Rank, the U.S. company Pathé Industries, which already owned the small Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) studio, established an Eagle-Lion Films production subsidiary, while Rank's American business dropped the name. PRC, with its existing distribution exchanges, handled releases in the U.S. When PRC shut down in 1948, its distribution exchanges were assumed by Eagle-Lion Films. In 1950, Pathé merged Eagle-Lion with an independent reissues distributor, Film Classics, to create Eagle-Lion Classics. The latter was acquired by and merged into United Artists a year later. Rank also released films in the United Kingdom through Eagle-Lion Distributors Limited.

American Broadcasting Company

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is an American film distribution studio within the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company. It handles theatrical and occasional digital distribution, marketing and promotion for films produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios, including Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios; the Searchlight Pictures label operates its own autonomous theatrical distribution and marketing unit.

Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind (film)

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 American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, following her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler.

Turner Entertainment

Turner Entertainment

Turner Entertainment Company is an American multimedia company founded by Ted Turner on August 2, 1986. Purchased by Time Warner on October 10, 1996 as part of its acquisition of Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), the company was largely responsible for overseeing the TBS library for worldwide distribution. In recent years, this role has largely been limited to being the copyright holder, as it has become an in-name-only subsidiary of Warner Bros., which currently administers their library.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Founded in 1923 by four brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games, and is one of the "Big Five" major American film studios, as well as a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).

Public domain

Public domain

The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because no one holds the exclusive rights, anyone can legally use or reference those works without permission.

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Ingrid Bergman

David O. Selznick

Becky Sharp (film)

Ann Rutherford

Val Lewton

Nothing Sacred (film)

Gone with the Wind (film)

A Star Is Born (1937 film)

Film Booking Offices of America

Culver Studios

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film)

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film)

The Lost Squadron

David O. Selznick filmography

RKO Pictures
Notes
  1. ^ The Selznick International logo theme is introduced with this film, written by Alfred Newman, who composed the score for Zenda. The theme would be used to open every film made by the studio after this.[15]
References
  1. ^ a b Leff, Leonard J. (1987). Hitchcock and Selznick. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 1-55584-057-4.
  2. ^ Memo, p. 103.
  3. ^ Because of its length, Gone with the Wind was considered two Technicolor pictures for the purpose of the contract.
  4. ^ Schatz, Thomas (1996). The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. Owl Books. p. 178. ISBN 0-8050-4666-6.
  5. ^ "Just Gossip", The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 6, 1942, p. 15.
  6. ^ Selznick, David O. (2000). Memo from David O. Selznick. Modern Library. pp. 321–322. ISBN 0-375-75531-4.
  7. ^ Kahn, Jr., E. J. (1981). Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney. Doubleday. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-385-14932-7.
  8. ^ "Old Selznick Company Now Just Gone With the Wind", The Washington Post, August 24, 1940, p. 3.
  9. ^ "Screen News Here and In Hollywood". The New York Times. May 20, 1943. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  10. ^ Pryor, Thomas M. (December 12, 1946). "Selznick Quits U.A.; Forms a New Firm". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
  11. ^ "Little Lord Fauntleroy". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  12. ^ "The Garden of Allah". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  13. ^ "A Star Is Born". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  14. ^ "The Prisoner of Zenda". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  15. ^ Neumeyer, David; Platte, Nathan (2011). Franz Waxman's Rebecca: A Film Score Guide. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810883666.
  16. ^ "Nothing Sacred". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  17. ^ "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  18. ^ "The Young in Heart". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  19. ^ "Made for Each Other". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  20. ^ "Intermezzo". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  21. ^ Thomson, David (1992). Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-56833-8.
  22. ^ "Gone with the Wind". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
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