Editing David O. Selznick (section)

==Later productions==
After ''Rebecca'', Selznick closed Selznick International Pictures and took some time off. His business activities included the loan of his contracted artists to other studios, including [[Alfred Hitchcock]], [[Ingrid Bergman]], [[Vivien Leigh]] and [[Joan Fontaine]]. He formed The Selznick Studio and returned to producing pictures with <!-- Principal photography: 19 September 1943--9 February 1944 https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/24166?sid=24266034-6988-495d-981f-f7b39f3b2e7e&sr=5.3198514&cp=1&pos=0 -->''[[Since You Went Away]]'' (1944), which he also wrote. He followed that with the Hitchcock films ''[[Spellbound (1945 film)|Spellbound]]'' (1945) and ''[[The Paradine Case]]'' (1947), as well as ''[[Portrait of Jennie]]'' (1948) with [[Jennifer Jones]].

He also developed film projects and sold the packages to other producers. Among the movies that he developed but then sold was Hitchcock's ''[[Notorious (1946 film)|Notorious]]'' (1946). In 1949 he co-produced the [[Carol Reed]] picture ''[[The Third Man]]'' with [[Alexander Korda]].

''Gone with the Wind'' overshadowed the rest of Selznick's career. Later, he was convinced that he had wasted his life trying to outdo it. A major effort to was ''[[Duel in the Sun (film)|Duel in the Sun]]'' (1946), which featured future wife Jennifer Jones in the role of the primary character Pearl. With a huge budget, the film is known for causing moral upheaval{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} because of the then risqué script written by Selznick. And though it was a troublesome shoot with a number of directors, the film would be a major success. The film was the second highest-grossing film of 1947 and was the first movie that [[Martin Scorsese]] saw, inspiring Scorsese's own directorial career.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

"I stopped making films in 1948 because I was tired," Selznick later wrote. "I had been producing, at the time, for twenty years....Additionally it was crystal clear that the motion-picture business was in for a terrible beating from television and other new forms of entertainment, and I thought it a good time to take stock and to study objectively the obviously changing public tastes....Certainly I had no intention of staying away from production for nine years."<ref>''Memo from David O. Selznick,'' p. 423.</ref> Selznick spent most of the 1950s nurturing the career of his second wife, [[Jennifer Jones]]. His last film, the big budget production ''[[A Farewell to Arms (1957 film)|A Farewell to Arms]]'' (1957) starring Jones and [[Rock Hudson]], was ill-received. But in 1954, he ventured into television, producing a two-hour extravaganza called ''[[Light's Diamond Jubilee]],'' which, in true Selznick fashion, made TV history by being telecast simultaneously{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} on all four TV networks: [[CBS]], [[NBC]], [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], and [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]].