Daniel Mayer Selznick, the final fast member of a household that produced a few of Hollywood’s most iconic movies, died Thursday of pure causes. He was 88.
Selznick died on the Movement Image Nation House in Woodland Hills, the place he was a “longtime and dearly beloved resident,” in accordance with an announcement issued Friday by the Movement Image & Tv Fund.
Selznick was the son of David O. Selznick, who produced “Gone With the Wind” when his son was 3; and Irene Mayer Selznick, a Broadway producer and the daughter of the film magnate Louis B. Mayer.
Raised in Beverly Hills, Selznick graduated from Harvard College and later studied at Brandeis College and the College of Geneva. He too made a profession in leisure, holding a manufacturing govt function at Common Studios for 4 years. He and his older brother Jeffrey, who died in 1997, produced a documentary referred to as “The Making of a Legend: ‘Gone with the Wind,’” about their father’s best work.
Selznick additionally produced a number of tv films and miniseries and served as director of a basis in his grandfather’s reminiscence. In his last years, he wrote a memoir, “Strolling with Kings,” that recounted coming of age in considered one of Hollywood’s first households. The guide shall be printed subsequent yr by Alfred Knopf, in accordance with the assertion.
On the Movement Image Nation House, the place Selznick helped construct a theater named after his grandfather, he shall be remembered for “his intelligence, appeal, sweetness and generosity,” the assertion stated.
Selznick, who was married 3 times, left no fast surviving shut members of the family.
