There were movie producers - and there was David O. Selznick, a man we're honoring this month on TCM with the most complete festival of Selznick films that have ever been gathered and shown in one place before. No one, in my opinion, ever fulfilled the job of Hollywood producer extraordinaire better than he. True - he's a man who often drove everyone - from directors to set designers - to distraction with his endless ideas and memos, and yes, he expected his secretaries to, without notice, cancel plans and put in 18-hour days as he forged on, his own energy seemingly unlimited. There's no question he gave new definitions to the words "hands on" and "indefatigable." But if Selznick's passion for making first-class films made him a tough taskmaster, it's equally true he left us a truly dazzling legacy of motion pictures that are second to none, including that saga about the Old South that's been the yardstick for all motion pictures from the time it made its debut in 1939, a movie so famous even layman often refer to it by its initials alone - "GWTW." (That shorthand reference to Gone With the Wind inspired Selznick to later refer to his ambitious 1944 drama Since You Went Away as "SYWA" but he abruptly stopped the practice two years later when it dawned on him that his epic western-to-end-all-westerns, Duel in the Sun, starring Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck, pictured above with Selznick, might not be taken seriously as "DITS.") It's with great pride that we're bringing you the complete Selznick this month, something that's possible for several reasons, starting with the fact that our celebrated TCM library contains those films Selznick either produced or masterminded in his early days as a head of production at the RKO studios. Also in the library are those bell-ringers Selznick brought to the screen in the 1930s while overseeing his own unit at MGM, a studio run by his father-in-law, Louis B. Mayer; that relationship resulted in many a great film, but also, unfairly, gave rise to the quip,"In Hollywood, it's not only that "the sun also rises" but 'the son-in-law also rises.' It's also possible to salute Selznick so completely because of our recent acquisition of Selznick's great post-"GWTW" efforts, all of which we'll be showing for the first time on TCM. (We will, in fact, be having the TCM premieres of 15 Selznick films this month.) What we won't be showing, unfortunately, are those films he wanted to make but never did, either because of money problems or the fact that his sometimes overly ambitious plans, such as starting his own distribution company, went awry. But we're thrilled with the 45 Selznick films we do have on tap. He strongly believed "There are only two kinds of class - first class and no class." As a producer and showman, he consistently went that first route - something we think will make Turner Classic Movies an especially nice place for you to visit all month long in October.