Memo from David O Selznick by Rudy Behlmer 1972 Hardcover

• Title: Memo from David O. Selznick
• Author: Rudy Behlmer
• Publisher: The Viking Press
• Published: 1972
• Edition: 
  
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN-10: 0670467669
• ISBN-13: 9780670467662
• Dimensions (L x W x H): 8.5" x 5.75" x 2"

Excerpt from inside dust jacket: . . . For years his impassioned and eloquent memorandums to directors, writers, stars, and studio executives have been as famous as his films, noted for their rage and impatience as much as for their wit. . . .

. . . In these pages we are privy to Selznick making fill stars of "unknowns" Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, and Fred Astaire; rescuing Joan Crawford's career from oblivion; replacing Charles Laughton with W. C. Fields in David Copperfield; trying to dissuade Greta Garbo from appearing in Anna Karenina; pleading with father-in-law Louis B. Mayer to be released from his M-G-M contract; bringing directors Alfred Hitchcock and George Cukor to prominence; and casting "dark horse "Vivien Leigh" at the last moment as Scarlett O'Hara. The behind-the-scenes drama during the filming of Gone with the Wind alone comprises almost a quarter of the book. . . .