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SELZNICK AWARDED LEAGUE OF NATIONS 1936 GOLD MEDAL FOR "LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY"
David 0. Selznick, president of Selznick International, has been notified by the motion picture division of the League of Nations that he has been awarded the 1936 gold medal for his production of "Little Lord Feuntleroy," which was released through United Artists. Special showings of the production will be sponsored by the League of Nations in Geneva, Paris and other Buropean capitals. The award was decided by the unanimous vote of the 52 member nations. of the C.I.D.A.L.C. (Comite International pour la Diffusion Artistique & Litteraire par la Cinematographe) the League's committee for the propagation of motion pictures. At the same time, the committee confirmed the award of an extraordinary distinction, a special gold medal to Charles Chaplin, "in honor of the greatest personality of the art of the cinema," which it announced a few months ago.
This is the second consecutive year that producers affiliated with United Artists have carried off the League honors. In 1955, the League awarded the regular gold medal to King Vidor for his production of "Our Daily Bread," and the special gold medal to Walt Disney for his llickey Mouse and Silly Symphony productions.
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SELZNICK OUTBIDS ALL PRODUCERS
FOR "GONE WITH THE WIND" NOVEL
David 0. Selznick has announced the purchase of the screen rights to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind," following a bidding contest into which nearly every producer in Hollywood entered. The story
is laid in Georgia's red clay hills, and takes the Civil War as the
background of its action. It is not a war story, bub a tale of society torn by the war between the states and is climaxed by the dramatic period of reconstruction which followed. According to Macmillan, the publishers of "Gone With the Wind," the book, a first novel, has sold 300,000 copies in its first 4 weeks.
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SELZNICK CREATES POST OF HUMAN INTEREST EDITOR
A novel executive position has been created by David 0. Selznick
with the signing of Marshall Neilan, film director, producer and screen writer, as Human Interest Editor for the filmization of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." It will be Neilan's assignment to see to it that the rich human characterizations in the lark Twain classic suffer no change in the cinematic counterpart, and
that nothing of the author's intentions escapes the screen. He will work in close cooperation with William H. Wright, production assistant to Selznick; William A. Wellman, the director, and John V. A. Weaver, who is writing the screen adaptation.
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