Metro acquires "Tender Is The Night"
by Thomas F. Brady
(New York Times, November 18, 1948)
Hollywood, CA., Nov. 17 - David O. Selznick announced today that he has sold the screen rights to F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1934 novel "Tender Is The Night" to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a prospective vehichle for Jennifer Jones. A film adaptation of the story, written by David Hertz for Selznick, was included in the deal.
The arrangement for the services of Miss Jones, who is under contract to Selznick, is tentative, according to the announcemnt. She will be lent to Metro for the picture if her schedule permits the engagement at the time the film is produced.
[Miss Jones was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Hollywood yesterday after an attack of acute appendicitis, according to the Associated Press. An operation was scheduled for this morning. The actress has suffered several attacks in the last few months.]
"Tender Is The Night" deals with a man's long struggle to cure his wife of insanity and his own ultimate disintegration when she grows strong enough to get along without him. Selznick has owned the property since 1946.
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by Thomas F. Brady
(New York Times, November 18, 1948)
Hollywood, CA., Nov. 17 - David O. Selznick announced today that he has sold the screen rights to F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1934 novel "Tender Is The Night" to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a prospective vehichle for Jennifer Jones. A film adaptation of the story, written by David Hertz for Selznick, was included in the deal.
The arrangement for the services of Miss Jones, who is under contract to Selznick, is tentative, according to the announcemnt. She will be lent to Metro for the picture if her schedule permits the engagement at the time the film is produced.
[Miss Jones was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Hollywood yesterday after an attack of acute appendicitis, according to the Associated Press. An operation was scheduled for this morning. The actress has suffered several attacks in the last few months.]
"Tender Is The Night" deals with a man's long struggle to cure his wife of insanity and his own ultimate disintegration when she grows strong enough to get along without him. Selznick has owned the property since 1946.
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