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Lewis J. Selznick (May 2, 1870 or 1869 [1] – 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. Selznick migrated to London at the age of 12, and then to the US, eventually winding up as a small ...
Feb 1, 1973 · David Selznick's father, Lewis, was an adventurer who made and lost his pile in the early days of the film industry, and the son inherited many of his qualities—chutzpa, galvanic energy, a taste ...
His father, Lewis J. Selznick, was a Ukrainian Jew who gave up a thriving career in the jewelry business in Pittsburgh to move his family west in 1920. Lured by the siren’s song of glitz, glamour and easy money that the fledgling silent-movie industry promised, the elder Selznick amassed and squandered several fortunes during his lifetime before finally going bankrupt in 1925 and retiring ...
Oct 25, 1992 · Lewis Selznick was one of those self-invented, self-destructive immigrants who helped create the movie business. Brash enough publicly to offer an unemployed Nicholas II a job after the 1917 ...
Sep 16, 2018 · Lewis J. Selznick, around 1915-1917. Courtesy of the Fort Lee (New Jersey) Film Commission. Starting a New Life. There is no record of why Lewis chose to relocate to Pittsburgh, although his father remarried shortly after his mother’s death. Perhaps Lewis decided it was time to seek his independent fortune elsewhere. He took a further step in ...
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Selznick was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Florence Anna (née Sachs) and Lewis J. Selznick, a silent film producer and distributor of Jewish origin. [3] His father was born in the Russian Empire in 1870. [4] David had three siblings, including his brother Myron, also a film producer and later a talent agent.
