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David O. Selznick
Film Producer
Male
Born
May 10, 1902
Hometown
Pittsburgh, Penns...
Died
Jun 22, 1965
Death Place
Hollywood, Califo...
Other Names
Selznick, David
David O. Selznick was an American film producer. He is best known for having produced Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both of which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture.
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David O. Selznick
d.1965
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Geoffrey SelznickSon, d.1997
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CHILDHOOD
1902
Birth
Born on May 10, 1902.
TWENTIES
1926
24 Years Old
In 1926, Selznick moved to Hollywood, and with the help of his father's connections, got a job as an assistant story editor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
1928
26 Years Old
He left MGM for Paramount Pictures in 1928, where he worked until 1931, when he joined RKO as Head of Production.
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1930
28 Years Old
Selznick married Irene Gladys Mayer, daughter of MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer, in 1930. They separated in 1945 and divorced in 1948.
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THIRTIES
1933
31 Years Old
In 1933 he returned to MGM to establish a second prestige production unit, parallel to that of Irving Thalberg, who was in poor health.
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1935
33 Years Old
Despite his successes at MGM, Paramount Pictures, and RKO Pictures, Selznick longed to be an independent producer with his own studio. In 1935 he realized that goal by forming Selznick International Pictures and distributing his films through United Artists.
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1940
38 Years Old
In 1940, he produced his second Best Picture Oscar winner in a row, Rebecca, the first Hollywood production for British director Alfred Hitchcock.
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FORTIES
1944
42 Years Old
In 1944 he returned to producing pictures with the huge success Since You Went Away, which he also wrote.
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1948
46 Years Old
"I stopped making films in 1948 because I was tired", Selznick later wrote. "I had been producing, at the time, for twenty years....
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1949
47 Years Old
In 1949 he married actress Jennifer Jones and they had one daughter, Mary Jennifer Selznick (1954–1976), who committed suicide by jumping from a 20th-floor window in Los Angeles on May 11, 1976.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1965
63 Years Old
Selznick died in 1965 following several heart attacks, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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