“I feel, in spite of his enormous ears and bad chin line, that his charm is ... tremendous”
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David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick was an American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive who produced Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both of which earned him an Academy Award for Best Picture. He also won the Irving Thalberg Award at the 12th Academy Awards, Hollywood's top honor for a producer, in recognition of his shepherding Gone with the Wind through a long and troubled producti…
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business · American film producer (1902–1965) · film producer · screenwriter · entrepreneur · executive producer · film director · director · also David O. Selznick, Selznick
Born 10 May 1902 · Died 22 June 1965 · Q72291
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I had been producing, at the time, for twenty years....Additionally it was crystal clear that the motion-picture business was in for a terrible beating from television and other new forms of entertainment, and I thought it a good time to take stock and to study objectively the obviously changing public tastes....Certainly I had no intention of staying away from production for nine years.
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
Deadline.com: Martin Scorsese Accepts Producers Guild’s David O. Selznick Award, Shares How ‘Duel In The Sun’ Inspired Parts Of ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’
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2023· 4 entries
Yahoo: Martin Scorsese To Receive David O. Selznick Award From PGA
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Yahoo: Martin Scorsese will receive David O. Selznick Award from Producers Guild
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IndieWire: Martin Scorsese to Be Honored with David O. Selznick Achievement Award at 2024 PGA Awards
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USA Today: 'Killers of the Flower Moon' director Martin Scorsese to receive David O. Selznick Award from Producers Guild
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2022· 3 entries
WSLS 10: Tom Cruise to get Producers Guild’s David O. Selznick Award
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The Hollywood Reporter: Tom Cruise to Receive PGA’s David O. Selznick Award
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collider: Tom Cruise to Receive David O. Selznick Award at Producers Guild Awards
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1965· 2 entries
Died 1965-06-22.
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At age 63 following several heart attacks, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California
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1954· 2 entries
Ventured into television, producing a two-hour extravaganza called Light's Diamond Jubilee, which, in true Selznick fashion, made TV history by being telecast simultaneously on all four TV networks: CBS, NBC, ABC, and
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They had one daughter, Mary Jennifer Selznick (1954–1976), who died by suicide by jumping from a 22nd-floor window in Los Angeles on May 11, 1976.
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1949· 2 entries
Married actress Jennifer Jones, whom he had discovered early in her career and mentored
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Co-produced the Carol Reed picture The Third Man with Alexander Korda
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1948· 2 entries
Because I was tired," Selznick later wrote
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“I had been producing, at the time, for twenty years....Additionally it was crystal clear that the motion-picture business was in for a terrible beating from television and other new forms of entertainment, and I thought it a good time to take stock and to study objectively the obviously changing public tastes....Certainly I had no intention of staying away from production for nine years.”
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1944· 1 entry
The Hollywood Committee, led by Selznick and Cecil B
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1935· 1 entry
Realized that goal by leasing RKO's Culver City studios and back lot, forming Selznick International Pictures, and distributing his films through United Artists
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1933· 1 entry
Returned to MGM where his father-in-law, Louis B
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1932· 2 entries
They had two sons, Jeffrey Selznick (1932–1997) and Daniel Selznick (1936–2024).
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Under Selznick, forty-one features were made for $10
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1931· 1 entry
Before he arrived, the studio had produced forty-two features for $16 million in total budgets
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1930· 1 entry
Selznick married Mayer and after living in a series of rented houses they moved into an estate in Beverly Hills, California
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1928· 1 entry
Selznick began an on-again off-again affair with Jean Arthur, one of the actresses under contract at Paramount while he was an executive there
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1926· 1 entry
Selznick moved to Hollywood, and with the help of his father's connections, he gained a job as an assistant story editor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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1902· 1 entry
Born 1902-05-10.
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