{{Redirect|Vanguard Productions|the animation company|Vanguard Films & Animation|the publishing company called Vanguard Productions|J. David Spurlock}}

'''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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==History== After the dissolution of Selznick International Pictures, David O. Selznick established Vanguard Films, Inc., in 1943<ref>{{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 }}</ref> and Selznick Releasing Organization in 1946.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

==Filmography== {{multiple image <!-- Essential parameters --> | align = right | direction = vertical | width = 220 <!-- Image 1 --> | image1 =Spellbound-1945.jpg | alt1 = | caption1 =Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman in ''Spellbound'' (1945) <!-- Image 2 --> | image2 =The-Spiral-Staircase.jpg | alt2 = | caption2 =Dorothy McGuire in ''The Spiral Staircase'' (1946) }} {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Release date ! Title ! Notes |- | align="right"| May 18, 1944 || ''Reward Unlimited'' || Short film distributed by the Office of War Information<ref>{{cite book |last=Doherty |first=Thomas |date=1993 |title=Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |page=325 |isbn=9780231082440}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Reward Unlimited |publisher=WorldCat |oclc = 20626007}}</ref> |- | align="right"| July 20, 1944 || ''Since&nbsp;You&nbsp;Went&nbsp;Away'' ||Produced with Selznick International Pictures; distributed by United Artists<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=24166 |title=Since You Went Away |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=2016-05-20}}</ref> |- | align="right"| November 1944 || ''The&nbsp;Fighting&nbsp;Generation'' ||Short film produced with Selznick International Pictures and distributed by RKO Pictures, promoting war bond sales during the Sixth War Loan Drive<ref name=SoC>{{cite journal |last1=Kerzoncuf |first1=Alain |date=February 2009 |title=Alfred Hitchcock and The Fighting Generation |journal=Senses of Cinema |issue=49 |url=http://sensesofcinema.com/2009/feature-articles/hitchcock-fighting-generation/}}</ref> (November 2 – December 16, 1944) |- | align="right"| January 5, 1945 || ''I'll Be Seeing You'' ||Produced with Selznick International Pictures; distributed by United Artists<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=914 |title=I'll Be Seeing You |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=2016-05-20}}</ref> |- | align="right"| December&nbsp;28,&nbsp;1945 || ''Spellbound'' ||Produced with Selznick International Pictures; distributed by United Artists<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=24594 |title=Spellbound |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=2016-05-20}}</ref> |- | align="right"| February 7, 1946 || ''{{sortname|The|Spiral Staircase|The Spiral Staircase (1946 film)}}'' ||Produced with RKO Pictures; distributed by RKO<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=24977 |title=The Spiral Staircase |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=2016-05-20}}</ref> |- | align="right"| May 8, 1947 || ''Duel in the Sun'' || Distributed by Selznick Releasing Organization<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=24771 |title=Duel in the Sun |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=2016-05-20}}</ref> |- | align="right"| January 8, 1948 || ''{{sortname|The|Paradine Case}}'' || Distributed by Selznick Releasing Organization<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=25678 |title=The Paradine Case |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=2016-05-20}}</ref> |- | align="right"| December 24, 1948 || ''Portrait of Jennie'' || Distributed by Selznick Releasing Organization<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=26052 |title=Portrait of Jennie |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=2016-05-20}}</ref> |- | align="right"| October 14, 1950 || ''Walk Softly, Stranger'' || Produced with RKO Pictures; distributed by RKO<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=26557 |title=Walk Softly, Stranger |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=2016-05-20}}</ref> |- | align="right"| May 28, 1952 || ''{{sortname|The|Wild Heart|Gone to Earth (film)}}'' || Produced with London Films, distributed November 6, 1950, by British Lion Films, titled ''Gone to Earth''<br>Reshot and re-edited for Western Hemisphere release, distributed by RKO<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=50717 |title=The Wild Heart |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=2016-05-20}}</ref> |- | align="right"| December 14, 1957 || ''A Farewell to Arms'' || Last Selznick film. Produced by Selznick Releasing Organization and Distributed by 20th Century Fox

|}

==Library== Like most Selznick productions, films made by Vanguard are now owned by The Walt Disney Company through ABC.

==See also== * Selznick International Pictures * David O. Selznick filmography

==References== {{reflist}}

==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 Category:American companies established in 1943 Category:Mass media companies established in 1943 Category:Entertainment companies established in 1943 Category:Entertainment companies disestablished in 1951