Selznick v. Schenck

A cinema star's face is her fortune, and her agent gets 10%. When early this month Agent Myron Selznick tried to double Cinemactress Loretta Young's salary (about $35,000 a picture) and get her the right to work for other studios than Twentieth Century-Fox,* outraged Producer Joseph M. Schenck ordered him off the lot. Last week observers thought this tiff might have reverberations: As new president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., forceful Producer Schenck could influence other executives to follow his lead. The Selznick agency, Producer Schenck said, had tried to jack its clients' salaries so high that "to meet the demands would be ruinous . . . to the industry as a whole." Replied alert Agent Selznick: "I confess--indeed, I am proud--that I have substantially increased the salaries of my clients. That is precisely what I am paid to do."

* Actress Young had been refused permission to play Melanie in Gone With the Wind for Myron Selznick's producer brother, David. Reason: Whoever plays Scarlett O'Hara will get higher billing. Wags said it was just as well, that at the rate Gone With the Wind was progressing Actress Young would be old and grey before the cameras started turning.

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