David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States on May 10th, 1902 and is the Film Producer. At the age of 63, David O. Selznick biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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David O. Selznick (May 10, 1902 – June 22, 1965) was an American film director, screenwriter, and film studio executive.
He is best known for producing Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Early life
Lewis J. Selznick, a silent movie producer and distributor of Jewish origins, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1870, his father was born in Lithuania.
David had four siblings, including his brother Myron, who was also a film director and later a talent agent. To distinguish himself from an uncle with the same name, David Selznick used the letters "O" instead, and because he thought it had flair. The "O" stands for nothing, and he never had his name changed to include it.
He studied at Columbia University in New York City and began training as an apprentice for his father until his father's bankruptcy in 1923. Selznick moved to Hollywood in 1926, and with the support of his father's family connections, he obtained a job as an assistant story editor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1928, he left MGM for Paramount Pictures, where he worked until 1931. He married Irene Gladys Mayer, the daughter of MGM founder Louis B. Mayer, while at
Personal life
Selznick began an on-again off-again relationship with Jean Arthur, one of the actresses under Paraphrasedoutput's employment when he was an executive at He was presumably dating Irene Gladys Mayer, the daughter of MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer, who was reportedly dated Irene Gladys Mayer.
Selznick married Mayer in 1930, and after living in a string of rented houses, they converted into an estate in Beverly Hills, California. Mayer's father built it and designed by architect Roland Coate in 1933-1934. They married in 1945 and divorced in 1948. Jeffrey Selznick (1932-1997) and Daniel Selznick (born 1936) were both their sons.
Jennifer Jones, a comedian who had begun early in her career and mentored, married her in 1949. Mary Jennifer Selznick (1954–1976), who died after jumping from a 20th-floor window in Los Angeles on May 11, 1976, was their only daughter.
Selznick was an amphetamine user who often dictated long, rambling memos to his executives, writers, investors, and actors. The documentary Shadowing The Third Man relates that Selznick introduced amphetamines to the film, which allowed Reed to get the film on schedule and on schedule by filming nearly 22 hours per hour.
Selznick, a Republican, was a Republican. The Hollywood Committee, headed by Selznick and Cecil B. DeMille, accompanied Dewey Rally in the Los Angeles Coliseum on October 18, 1944, as well as Governor Earl Warren of California, who was Dewey's running mate in 1948. The gathering attracted 93,000 people, with Lionel Barrymore as the master of ceremonies and short speeches by Hedda Hopper and Walt Disney.
Selznick was a sexual predator. Shirley Temple was warned by Anita Colby, the artistic director of Gone with the Wind, that she "had Selznick in stockings" and that she should be cautious. Selznick's autobiography Child Star says this gave her "the feeling that casual sex could be a point of employment." He locked Temple in his office and unsuccessfully tried to rape her when she was 17.About the incident Temple-Black wrote,
He jumped and took my hand in mine as he was walking around my desk. I noticed the telltale stocking feet as I walked down. I stepped out and waved a switch that I had learned from Colby was a remote door locking unit. I was trapped. We circled and changed directions around his house, similar to the wolf and piglet cartoon. I had no trouble avoiding passionate clumsiness as a result of a young dancer's agility and that of an amorous but overweight producer.