headed David said OK get out!" Selznick had already been  unhappy with Cukor ("a very expensive luxury") for not being more  receptive to directing other Selznick assignments, even though Cukor  had remained on salary since early 1937; and in a confidential memo  written in September 1938, four months before principal photography  began, Selznick flirted with the idea of replacing him with Victor  Fleming. "I think the biggest black mark against our management to  date is the Cukor situation and we can no longer be sentimental  about it.... We are a business concern and not patrons of the  arts... ."