David O. Selznick (1902 - 1965) ديفيد أو سيلزنيك

Filmography

• Writer (2)
  • • 
    • • Portrait of Jennie
      • 1948 - Movie
  • • 
    • • Duel in the Sun
      • 1946 - Movie
• Producer (2)
  • • 
    • • Spellbound
      • 1945 - Movie
      • (Producer)
  • • 
    • • Intermezzo
      • 1939 - Movie
      • (Producer)

More details

• An American movie producer. He is best known for producing the films Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), which both won Academy Awards in 1940 for Best Picture. He was...Read more born on May 10, 1902 to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Columbia University and worked as an apprentice with his father until he filed for bankruptcy in 1923. In 1926, he moved to Hollywood and, with the help of his father's acquaintances, he landed a job as an assistant scriptwriter at the Metro-Golden-Mayer Company. He left Paramount Films in 1928 and joined Keith Orpheum Radio Company (RKO) as Head of Production. He is known for A Bill of Divorcement (1932), What Price Hollywood? (1932), Rockabye (1932), Our Betters (1933), and King Kong (1933). While he was at Keith Orpheum Radio, he directed George Cukor. In 1933, he returned to work at Metro Golden Mayer to establish a large production unit with his partner Irving Thalberg, who was in a critical condition. He produced Dinner at Eight (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Anna Karenina (1935), and A Tale of Two Cities (1935). Despite his success in Metro-Golden-Mayer, Paramount films, and Keith Orpheum Radio, he had a keen desire to become an independent producer for his own studio. In 1935, he realized this goal by founding Selznick International Pictures and distributed his films through United Artists. He continued his successes with such classics as The Garden of Allah (1936), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), A Star Is Born (1937), Nothing Sacred (in 1937), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), The Young in Heart (1938), Made for Each Other (1939), and Intermezzo (1939). He won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in the same year. In 1940, he produced his second consecutive Academy Award winning film, Rebecca, the first film production by British director Alfred Hitchcock. He discovered Hitchcock in England and boldly propelled this director into American cinema. Rebecca is the only Hitchcock film to win Best Picture. He died on June 22, 1965 of a heart attack and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

• Nationality:
• US

• Date of Birth:
• 10 May 1902

• Died on:
• 22 June 1965

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Crew worked with

• • Ben Hecht
• • Cecil Kellaway
• • Jennifer Jones
• • Gregory Peck
• • Lillian Gish
• • Joseph Cotten

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