Daniel Mayer Selznick, the next instant part of a home that produced some of Hollywood’s most memorable pictures, died Thursday of biological reasons. He was 88.
According to a statement released by the Movement Picture &, Television Fund on Friday, Selznick passed away at the Woodland Hills residence.
Selznick was the son of David O. Selznick, who produced” Gone With the Wind” when his brother was 3, and Irene Mayer Selznick, a Broadway producer and the child of the movie mogul Louis B. Mayer.
Selznick was born and raised in Beverly Hills. He after earned degrees from Harvard University, Brandeis University, and the University of Geneva. He also pursued an entertainment job, working as a generation manager for four years at Universal Studios. He and his older sibling Jeffrey, who died in 1997, produced a film called” The Making of a Legend: ‘ Gone with the Wind,'” about their husband’s greatest labor.
Selznick even directed a base in honor of his grandfather, which he helped to create. In his last years, he wrote a narrative,” Walking with Kings”, that recounted coming of age in one of Hollywood’s first people. The text will be published next year by Alfred Knopf, according to the speech.
At the Movement Picture Country Home, where Selznick helped create a theater named after his father, he will be remembered for “his intelligence, beauty, beauty and generosity”, the statement said.
Selznick, who was married three times, left no instant surviving close family members.
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