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David O. Selznick Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina stands in profile by a window, wearing an ornate ruffled dress, with a decorative framed portrait and a bust on the table beside her. Gone with the Wind Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier stand close together, looking concerned, in a black-and-white scene from the film Rebecca (1940), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Orson Welles as Harry Lime stands in a doorway wearing a dark overcoat and hat in a dramatic scene from the film The Third Man. Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson in Rebecca Clark Gable as Rhett Butler stands indoors in formal 19th-century attire, holding a cigar, in a scene from the 1939 film Gone with the Wind directed by Victor Fleming. Alfred Hitchcock stands in a coat and hat next to George Sanders, who is using a phone in a booth, with a police officer in the background in a scene from the film Rebecca. Gone with the Wind
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David O. Selznick: References & Edit History

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Anniversary information added. Jun 18, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 06, 2026
Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Masters - David O. Selznick. Feb 21, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Texas at Austin - Harry Ransom Center - David O. Selznick: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center. Nov 08, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 08, 2024
Noted that he opened his own studio in 1935 and that Gone with the Wind and Rebecca won the Academy Award for best picture. Nov 11, 2019
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Biography of David O. Selznick. Feb 26, 2017
Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - David O. Selznick. Apr 30, 2014
Deleted "in full David Oliver Selznick." Feb 25, 2014
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - David O. Selznick. Jun 16, 2013
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of David O. Selznick. Jun 16, 2013
Added new Web site: Harry Ransom Center - Biography of David O. Selznick. Dec 29, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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