Hollywood Renegade and Founding Member of The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers.David O. Selznick was the son of industry pioneer Lewis J. Selznick, and the beneficiary of a childhood immersion in independent film production.The Selznick patriarch L. J. Selznick had been a formidable independent producer in the early days of Hollywood.He crossed paths with Carl Laemmle at Universal, and then ushered in a new age of Wall Street investment at the World Film company. In 1915 L. J. Selznick left World to become an independent, taking with him Worlds biggest star Clara Kimball Young. Later Selznick partnered with Adolph Zukor, only to return to independent production as the head of Selznick Pictures. David, born in 1902 was training in film production from an early age, while his older brother Myron was being groomed to someday run the Selznick Corporation. But before David came of age, his father suffered a devastating turn of events that brought the Selznick organization to ruins during the silent era.

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