Myron Selznick

Talent Agent and Film Producer

Male

Born Oct 5, 1898

Hometown Pennsylvania

Died Mar 23, 1944

Death Place Santa Monica, Cal...

Nationality American

Myron Selznick was an American film producer and talent agent.

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Marjorie Daw
Married 1929 - 1942

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Myron Selznick

d.1944

siblings

David O. Selznick
Brother, d.1965

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Phil Gersh, A Leading Agent In Hollywood, Is Dead At 92
NYTimes - May 12, 2004

Phil Gersh, the last of the Hollywood agents who dominated the talent business in the 1940's and 50's and represented some of the great stars and filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age, died on Monday at his home in Beverly Hills, his family announced. He was 92. Mr. Gersh was one of the larger-than-life Hollywood agents, a group including Myron
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The Selznicks; Leigh's Introduction
NYTimes - Jun 02, 2002

To the Editor: Re ''A Mogul of the Best and Worst Kind'' by David Thomson [May 26]: My father, Harry Ham, was an actor's agent and worked for, among others, Myron Selznick, David O. Selznick's brother. My mother always told me that it was my father, not Myron, who took Vivien Leigh to the set of ''Gone With the Wind'' when the burning of Atlanta
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The Nation; They Just Want A Little Respect
NYTimes - Sep 24, 1995

CHRISTMAS has arrived early, very early, at the Creative Artists Agency, the most powerful talent agency in town. Bonuses to agents are being dispensed now, the end of the fiscal year, ranging from bundles of $100,000 to, in a few cases, some worth more than $1 million. Nice work if you can get it. In the case of Creative Artists and rivals like
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Books Of The Times; David Selznick: A Colossus Obsessed By Self
NYTimes - Nov 23, 1992

Showman The Life of David O. Selznick By David Thomson Illustrated. 792 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $35. Although he wished it were not so and spent much of his prodigious energies attempting to make it otherwise, the fact remains that David O. Selznick (1902-1965) was always best known for producing the film version of Margaret Mitchell's monumental
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1898 Birth Born on October 5, 1898.

TWENTIES

1925 26 Years Old 1 More Event

After his father's company closed in 1925, Selznick worked for other studios, primarily as a production adviser. … Read More

THIRTIES

1938 39 Years Old He owned the Thoroughbred racehorse "Can't Wait", which finished third in the 1938 Kentucky Derby.

FORTIES

1944 45 Years Old Myron Selznick died in 1944, aged 45, and was buried at Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery (now the Hollywood Forever Cemetery) in Hollywood near the Paramount and R.K.O. studios. … Read More

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