By Carly Thomas
"his father [David O. Selznick], who died in 1965, produced dozens of iconic films, including 1939’s Gone With the Wind, 1946’s Duel in the Sun and 1933’s King Kong. His mother [Irene Mayer Selznick], who died in 1990, was the daughter of MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer and received a Tony nomination in 1956 for The Chalk Garden."
[N.S.: Irene Mayer Selznick made her bones on Broadway as the producer, in 1947, of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Streetcar won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, but lost the Tony to Thomas Heggen's Mister Roberts.]
"Selznick produced the Peabody Award-winning documentary The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind alongside his older brother, Jeffrey Selznick, who died in 1997. the doc captured how their father shepherded the Clark Gable classic."
[N.S.: Actually, it was the Clark Gable-Vivien Leigh classic (1939); Leigh won the Oscar for Best Actress for one of the greatest performances ever by a lead actress.]
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/daniel-selznick-dead-producer-exec-1235965608/
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