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Awards. Walk of Fame - Motion Picture. 6412 Hollywood Blvd. 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.
22 de mar. de 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. Yet Mayer was also financing half the...
1 de feb. de 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...
16 de sept. de 2018 · That’s why Lewis J. Seleznick (sometimes Zeleznick) had his Petition for Naturalization approved at the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Sept. 29, 1894. Seleznick was in his 20s when he arrived in Pittsburgh sometime in early 1894 following his step-mother’s death in Cleveland in December 1893.
Lewis J. Selznick was born around 1870 in the Russian Empire, most likely in Lithuania, rather than in Kyiv, Ukraine, as he claimed in his own publicity materials. He immigrated to the United States in 1888, first living in Pittsburgh, where he went into the jewelry business, and later New York City.
The papers of silent film producer Lewis J. Selznick consist of business records from various production studios, distribution companies, and theater chains owned by Selznick, as well as correspondence and manuscripts that document Selznick’s other professional and personal activities.
