Of those who did, Cukor preferred Paulette Goddard, but her supposedly illicit relationship with Charlie Chaplin ( they were, in fact, secretly married ) concerned Selznick.

In 1949 he married actress Jennifer Jones and they had one daughter, Mary Jennifer Selznick ( 1954 – 1976 ), who committed suicide by jumping from a 20th-floor window in Los Angeles on May 11, 1976.

She married three times ; most notably to film producer David O. Selznick.

They divorced not long after the movie was completed, and Jones later married the film's producer, David O. Selznick.

Irene Mayer married David O. Selznick on April 29, 1930.

Leigh next sought the role of Blanche DuBois in the West End stage production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and was cast after Williams and the play's producer Irene Mayer Selznick saw her in The School for Scandal and Antigone ; Olivier was contracted to direct.

Years later, Mayer's daughter, Irene Mayer Selznick, recalled that " it was hard to believe anyone that boyish could be so important.

* Irene Mayer Selznick, theatrical producer

Her personal involvement with rising Paramount executive David O. Selznick – despite his relationship with Irene Mayer Selznick – proved substantial ; she was put on the map and became selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1929.

Harlean attended the Hollywood School for Girls and met some of Hollywood's future figures, including Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joel McCrea and Irene Mayer Selznick.

" And audible above all others was Irene Selznick: " Where is he?

Thirteen Women starred Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne in a pre-Hays code, high budget thriller produced by David O. Selznick and drawn from the novel by Tiffany Thayer.

Irene M. Selznick was the producer, and the designer was Cecil Beaton.

Irene Mayer Selznick ( April 2, 1907-October 10, 1990 ) was an American theatrical producer.

Meanwhile, Irene Selznick moved to New York City where she pursued her love of the theatre.

Considered by her peers within the entertainment industry as one of the foremost historians of Hollywood and Broadway, in 1983 Irene M. Selznick published her autobiography A Private View.

Irene Mayer Selznick died in 1990 at the age of 83 from breast cancer.

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After failing to dissuade Selznick from the project, Louis B. Mayer, his father-in-law and employer, agreed that MGM would underwrite the production provided his star child contract actor, Jackie Cooper, was cast in the role of the young David.

Among his active pallbearers were Gene Fowler, John Decker, W. C. Fields, Herbert Marshall, Eddie Mannix, Louis B. Mayer, and David O. Selznick.

He had already survived the dislocations of the 1950s, when other studio heads – including Louis B. Mayer, David O. Selznick, and Samuel Goldwyn – were pushed out by stockholders who " sought scapegoats for dwindling profits ".

When Thalberg fell ill in 1932, Mayer took advantage of the situation and replaced him with David O. Selznick and Walter Wanger.

Powell won the competition, and soon auditioned with Louis B. Mayer at MGM as well as David O. Selznick.

Selznick sold half of Kelly's contract to MGM and loaned him out to MGM for his first motion picture: For Me and My Gal ( 1942 ) with Judy Garland.

When Selznick moved to MGM in 1933 Cukor followed and directed Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ) and David Copperfield ( 1935 ) for Selznick and Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ) and Camille ( 1936 ) for Irving Thalberg.

Despite his successes at MGM, Paramount Pictures, and RKO Pictures, Selznick longed to be an independent producer with his own studio.

David Selznick had attempted to bring Hattie McDaniel, but MGM advised him not to because of Georgia's segregationist laws.

Unlike the case of Gone with the Wind, which Selznick sold to MGM in 1944, It is assumed that The Prisoner of Zenda was bought by MGM themselves because they planned to produce a would-be 1952 remake of the film and wished to better the original film ( a similar situation occurred when MGM filmed a version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1941, having also bought the 1931 version from Paramount ).

David O. Selznick had purchased the rights to Robert S. Hichens ' novel in 1933, before it was published, when Selznick was still at MGM, with Greta Garbo in mind to star – indeed, Garbo was Hichens ' inspiration for the creation of " Mrs. Paradine ".

But the arrangement to release through MGM meant delaying the start of production until Selznick International completed its eight-picture contract with United Artists.

She signed a contract with David O. Selznick and appeared with Janet Gaynor in the comedy The Young in Heart ( 1938 ) before Selznick loaned her to MGM to appear in two films.

In 1938, MGM loaned Rutherford to Selznick International Pictures to appear as Carreen O ' Hara, the sister of Scarlet O ' Hara, in the film Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

American filmmakers George Cukor and David O. Selznick saw him on a 1934 scouting trip to London, and chose him for the young title role in their MGM film David Copperfield ( 1935 ).

Though a film of Taras Bulba did not follow, Lewton was hired by MGM to work as a publicist and assistant to Selznick.

David O. Selznick lent RKO Dorothy McGuire for the film, and MGM lent Robert Young, who reteamed with McGuire after her debut in Claudia.

Filming began in September 1946 but Selznick decided he could not tackle a major production so soon after the ordeal of filming Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ) so he sold the property and script to MGM.

Although David O. Selznick received no screen credit, he returned to RKO from MGM to supervise the production as the last film left in his contract with the studio.

Selznick raised the initial funding of US $ 400, 000 in Los Angeles, with half of that amount coming from his brother Myron Selznick, a Hollywood agent, and the other half from MGM production chief Irving Thalberg and his wife actress Norma Shearer.

The film, which is now lost, was an enormous success and launched Clara Kimball Young and Earle Williams into first place in the popularity polls and Young was immediately signed to a contract with legendary pioneering Hollywood mogul Lewis J. Selznick.

Eventually, he signed with David O. Selznick, agreeing to go to Hollywood at the end of his commitment to Pal Joey, in October 1941.

His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's Head of Production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major films including What Price Hollywood?

As a child, Cukor appeared in several amateur plays and took dance lessons, and at the age of seven he performed in a recital with David O. Selznick, who in later years would become a mentor and friend.

He eventually settled for being billed as assistant director and then left Paramount to work with David O. Selznick at RKO Studios.

Cukor was hired to direct Gone with the Wind by Selznick in 1936, even before the book was published.

Cukor favored Hepburn for the role, but Selznick, concerned about her reputation as ' box office poison ', would not consider her without a screen test, and the actress refused to film one.

However, despite rumors about Gable being uncomfortable with Cukor on the set, nothing in the internal memos of David O. Selznick indicates or suggests that Clark Gable played any role in Cukor's dismissal from the film.

Selznick had already been unhappy with Cukor (" a very expensive luxury ") for not being more receptive to directing other Selznick assignments, even though Cukor had remained on salary since early 1937 ; and in a confidential memo written in September 1938, four months before principal photography began, Selznick flirted with the idea of replacing him with Victor Fleming.

He was offered the occasional job, including the opportunity to direct Since You Went Away for David O. Selznick, but turned them down.

He left RKO in 1936 and soon became the musical director of Selznick International Pictures.

In 1939, Steiner was borrowed from Warner Bros. by David O Selznick to compose the score to Gone with the Wind.

During this time, Leigh read the Margaret Mitchell novel Gone with the Wind and instructed her American agent to suggest her to David O. Selznick, who was planning a film version.