Vanguard Films
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Vanguard Films, Inc. was an American film production company, established by producer David O. Selznick in 1943, after the dissolution of Selznick International Pictures. The company's president was Daniel T. O'Shea; Dore Schary was the head of production. The company was liquidated in 1951.{{cite book |last=Slide |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Slide |date=1998 |title=The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=je4lAAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Vanguard+Films,+Inc.%22+%22Dore+Schary%22&pg=PA221 |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |page=221 |isbn=9780810866362 |oclc=681061659}}
History
After the dissolution of Selznick International Pictures, David O. Selznick established Vanguard Films, Inc., in 1943{{cite news |date=May 20, 1943|title=Screen News Here and In Hollywood |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9804E6D9153CEE3BBC4851DFB3668388659EDE |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2016-05-20 }} and Selznick Releasing Organization in 1946.{{cite news |last=Pryor |first=Thomas M. |date=December 12, 1946|title=Selznick Quits U.A.; Forms a New Firm |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01E0DC1431E333A05751C1A9649D946793D6CF |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2016-05-20 }} Vanguard was created to continue his productions, while the Selznick Releasing Organization 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.
Vanguard Films took over the three films still in production—Since You Went Away, I'll Be Seeing You and Hitchcock's Spellbound—and delivered them to the distributor United Artists, thus fulfilling Selznick's contract with UA.
After the agreement with United Artists was completed, Vanguard films were distributed by RKO Radio Pictures or Selznick Releasing Organization. Notable films among those are Hitchcock's The Paradine Case and King Vidor's Duel in the Sun.
Vanguard Films was dissolved in 1951.{{cite news |last=Pryor |first=Thomas M. |date=February 14, 1959|title=Selznick Names Loew's in a Suit |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A01E0DE103EE63BBC4C52DFB4668382649EDE |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2016-05-20 }}
Filmography
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Library
Like most Selznick productions, films made by Vanguard are now owned by The Walt Disney Company through ABC.
See also
External links
- [http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/david-o-selznick_post-SIMPP.htm Hollywood Renegades: David O. Selznick: The SIMPP Years] Linked 2014-02-23
- [http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/vanguard_schary.htm Hollywood Renegades: Dore Schary's account in his autobiography of how he joined Vanguard Films] Linked 2014-02-23
Category:Film production companies of the United States
Category:American companies disestablished in 1951
Category:Mass media companies disestablished in 1951