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David O. Selznick: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born May 10, 1902 • Pittsburgh • Pennsylvania
Died June 22, 1965 (aged 63) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors Academy Award • Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1940)
Notable Family Members spouse Jennifer Jones

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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.
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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.
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Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters in A Double Life
Ronald Colman
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Alfred Hitchcock
English-born American director
Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
William Wyler
William Wyler
German-born American director
Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard.
Billy Wilder
Austrian-born American director and producer
Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background.
Francis Ford Coppola
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George Stevens
George Stevens
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Walt Disney
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Cecil B. DeMille, wearing a dark suit and patterned tie, smiles while looking to the side in this black-and-white portrait.
Cecil B. DeMille
American film director
George Lucas wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt, standing in front of a dark backdrop at the 2017 LACMA Art Film Gala in Los Angeles.
George Lucas
American director, producer, and screenwriter
American director Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer
American film producer and director
Warren Beatty wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and light tie, posing at an event with a dark background, 2006.
Warren Beatty
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Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck
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Hal B. Wallis
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Samuel Goldwyn
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