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Biography of David Oliver Selznick
Name: David Oliver Selznick
Birth Date: May 10, 1902
Death Date: June 22, 1965
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: producer, movie executive, filmmaker
David Oliver Selznick
Best known for the film Gone With the Wind, producer David Selznick launched the careers of film legends Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Jennifer Jones. Many of his films from the 1930s and 1940s are considered to be classics.David Selznick was born on May 10, 1902, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of three sons born to Lewis and Florence (Flossie) Selznick. The boys were raised in New York City. Selznick's father made his fortune in early moving pictures. In Showman---The Life of David O. Selznick David Thomson wrote, "In David's eyes, Pop was not just a great man, but a crucial innovator in the picture business. Pop's influence on him was vast and unquestioned." Selznick's brother, Myron, was equally close to their mother. The eldest brother, Howard, suffered from health and personal problems his entire life, but outlived both of his brothers.As noted …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…stars, the finest writers, and no expense spared." Biographer Thomson concluded, "Selznick was the most charming, best-read, most insanely workaholic (and most easily diverted), most talented, arrogant, hopeful, amorous, insecure, and self-destructive of all the geniuses of American movie-making." Further Reading Bowers, Ronald, The Selznick Players, A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1976.Leff, Leonard J., Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood, University of California Press, 1999.Thomas, Bob, Selznick, Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1970.Thomson, David, Showman---The Life of David O. Selznick, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1992.Esquire, September 1997, p. 52.New York Times, June 23, 1965.Variety, May 24, 1999, p. 5."David O. Selznick," The Internet Movie Database Ltd, http://chevy.imbd.com (October 16, 1999).Hitchcock, Selznick, and the End of Hollywood, An American Masters Special, Public Broadcasting Company, 1998; produced, written, and directed by Michael Epstein, narrated by Gene Hackman, a production of Thirteen/WNET (November 1, 1999).
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