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  1. Irene Gladys Selznick (née Mayer; April 2, 1907 – October 10, 1990) was an American socialite and theatrical producer. Early life [ edit ] Irene Gladys Mayer was born in Brooklyn, the younger of two sisters born to film producer Louis B. Mayer and his first wife, Margaret Shenberg Mayer.

  2. Oct 11, 1990 · Irene Mayer Selznick, who produced Broadway plays that included the 1947 hit ''A Streetcar Named Desire,'' died yesterday at the Pierre Hotel, where she lived. She was 83 years old. Her physician ...

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  4. May 8, 1983 · Irene Mayer Selznick led three lives. The first was as daughter of Louis B. Mayer, in his time the most powerful of all the Hollywood tycoons. The second was as wife of producer David O. Selznick ...

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  5. Irene Mayer Selznick was a producer and philanthropist in Hollywood and New York. She wrote in her memoir, A Private View (1983), that Act I was spent under the shadow of her father, the film executive Louis B. Mayer; Act II was marriage to David O. Selznick, producer of Gone With the Wind; and Act III consisted of her career as a Broadway producer. She is known for producing Tennessee ...

  6. Sep 9, 2011 · Selznick told her that he was undoing the damage her father had done. David Selznick was the younger son of Lewis J. Selznick, L.B. Mayer’s one-time employer and long-time anathema. The Selznick boys were on Mayer’s “off-limits” list for his girls, but Irene and David, once committed, were not to be stopped.

  7. Selznick, Irene Mayer (1910–1990)American theater producer. Name variations: Irene Mayer. Born Irene Gladys Mayer on April 2, 1910, in Brookline, Massachusetts; died in 1990; youngest of two daughters of Louis B. Mayer (the movie producer) and Margaret (Shenberg) Mayer; attended public schools in Brookline, Massachusetts; attended Hollywood School for Girls, Hollywood, California; married ...

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