ABSTRACT
In a fi lmmaking career that stretched from the early 1920s through the 1950s, David O. Selznick produced some of Hollywood’s most celebrated fi lms, including King Kong (1933), Gone with the Wind (1939), Rebecca (1940), Since You Went Away (1944), and Duel in the Sun (1946). In early 1949, two newspaper articles confronted the renowned producer’s infl uence in fi lm music and offered startlingly different conclusions.
