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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. Her sister, Edith (1905–1987), was nicknamed "Edie."
Mayer had two daughters from his first marriage to Margaret Shenberg (1883–1955), which ended in divorce in 1947. [97]
Irene Mayer Selznick was born on April 2, 1907, to Louis B. and Margaret (Shenberg) Mayer. Her paternal and maternal grandparents had come to New Brunswick, Canada, in the early 1880s from Vilna and Kovno on the then Russian-Polish border.
Born Irene Gladys Mayer in 1910 in Brookline, Massachusetts, she was the youngest of two daughters of Louis B. Mayer and Margaret Shenberg Mayer. Selznick spent her first ten years in Massachusetts, where her father began his movie career as a theater owner and film distributor.
Within six months he married Margaret Shenberg the daughter of the kosher butcher across the street. They moved in with her family. Soon after their first daughter was born a year later, they moved to Brooklyn.
Jul 12, 2024 · He married Margaret Shenberg in 1904, and the couple had two daughters, Edith and Irene. After divorcing Shenberg, Mayer married Lorena Danker in 1948. Mayer was known for his conservative values and his commitment to family and tradition.
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