The motion picture producer Myron Selznick, who was the head of his father's Lewis J. Selznick Pictures in the early 1920s, is most famous for being the first great talent agent in Hollywood and the brother of David O. Selznick. Movie stars for which Selznick received his ten percent included Constance Bennett, W.C. Fields, Paulette Goddard, ...
Was the one who discovered Vivien Leigh and brought her to the attention of his brother, David O. Selznick, who was searching for someone to play "Scarlett O'Hara" in Gone with the Wind (1939).
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His body rested at Hollywood Forever Cemetary from March 23, 1944 until September 15, 1944, when it was moved to the Forest Lawn Cemetary in Glendale, California.