Irene Mayer Selznick

Theatrical Producer + Director

Female

Born Apr 2, 1907

Hometown Brooklyn, New York

Died Oct 10, 1990

Death Place New York City, Ne...

Other Names Irene Gladys Mayer

Irene Mayer Selznick was an American theatrical producer.

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David O. Selznick
Married 1930 - 1949
Cary Grant
Dated 1926

Family

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Irene Mayer Selznick

d.1990

children

Daniel Selznick

Son, Age 77

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Paid Notice: Deaths Schwalbe, Mary Anne
NYTimes - Sep 15, 2009

SCHWALBE--Mary Anne, died on September 14, at age 75, of pancreatic cancer. She was an educator and advocate for refugees and displaced persons. She earned her A.B. from Radcliffe College. After working in theater for Irene Selznick and Frederick Brisson and The Playwrights Company, she joined the Radcliffe Admissions office and eventually became
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Asking Price Of Fame: $12 Million; What Can Beat Location? Hepburn, Hepburn, Hepburn
NYTimes - Oct 11, 2003

To her fans, she will always be the actress who went from Bryn Mawr to Broadway and then on to Hollywood, where she earned four Oscars for best actress and starred in 43 films. But in her last will and testament, she identified herself simply as ''I, Katharine Hepburn, of Fenwick, Connecticut.'' Fenwick, a tiny borough by Long Island Sound, is the
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Books Of The Times; Hepburn: The Authorized (It Says Here) Version
NYTimes - Jul 16, 2003

KATE REMEMBERED By A. Scott Berg Illustrated. 370 pages. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $25.95. ''Kate Remembered'' is a strange hybrid: part biography, part memoir; part hagiography, part pathography; part affectionate tribute by a friend and fan; part name-dropping exercise in voyeurism, rushed into print two weeks after Katharine Hepburn's death. A. Scott
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Jean Dalrymple, Persuasive Dreamer Who Brought Theater To City Center, Dies At 96
NYTimes - Nov 17, 1998

Jean Dalrymple, who abandoned a nascent acting career to become a successful publicist, then an even more successful manager of concert artists and finally a dynamic producer of musicals and plays for City Center and other stages, died on Sunday at her Manhattan home, across the street from City Center. She was 96. Miss Dalrymple's stature in the
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1907 Birth Born on April 2, 1907.

TWENTIES

1930 23 Years Old She was an adventurous young girl of considerable intellect who became a lifelong friend of actress Katharine Hepburn. Irene Mayer married David O. Selznick on April 29, 1930. … Read More

FORTIES

1947 40 Years Old Meanwhile, Irene Selznick moved to New York City where she pursued her love of the theatre. In 1947, she worked with playwright Tennessee Williams and director Elia Kazan and produced her first play, A Streetcar Named Desire, which gave Marlon Brando his break-out role.

1949 42 Years Old Their divorce was finalized in January 1949.

1955 48 Years Old The play's success brought her a great deal of respect, and she went on to produce four more plays, among them 1955's The Chalk Garden for which she received a Tony Award nomination.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1983 76 Years Old Considered by her peers within the entertainment industry as one of the foremost historians of Hollywood and Broadway, in 1983 Irene M. Selznick published her autobiography A Private View.

1990 84 Years Old Irene Mayer Selznick died in 1990 at the age of 83 from breast cancer. … Read More

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