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Lewis J. Selznick (May 2, 1870 or 1869 – January 25, 1933) was an American producer in the early years of the film industry. After initial involvement with World Film at Fort Lee, New Jersey, he established Selznick Pictures in California.
Lewis J. Selznick. Producer: War Brides. Lewis J. Selznick, one of the pioneers of studio film production and the father of Oscar-winning Gone with the Wind (1939) producer David O. Selznick, was born Lewis Zeleznik in Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire, into a poor Jewish family with 18 children.
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Feb 1, 1973 · Lewis J. Selznick entered the film business through a friend who owned stock in Universal Film Manufacturing and who commissioned Selznick to sell it for him to one of two men engaged in a...
Mar 22, 2005 · Mayer was a symbol of the Hollywood establishment that had ruined Selznick's own father, Lewis J., a producer, and Selznick was driven to redeem him.
L ewis J. Selznick was a pioneering motion-picture producer in whose films a number of players first achieved stardom. Born May 2, 1870, in Kiev, then a part of Russia and now the...
Aug 27, 2017 · centric career of its founder, Lewis J. Selznick. But in 1914, World was the talk of the industry and for over a year garnered much publicity in the trade papers. Selznick, a Russian immigrant, was a struggling jeweler in Manhattan in 1913 when an acquaintance, Mark Dintenfass, a partner in the Universal Film Manufacturing Company ...
May 26, 2002 · He was the son of a movie mogul, Lewis J. Selznick, who went bust in 1923. He was raised to look at screen tests of young actresses, to read treatments and scripts, to advise on the...
