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Gilbert Seldes

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Gilbert Seldes

American writer (1893–1970)

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About Gilbert Seldes

Gilbert Vivian Seldes was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama critic of the seminal modernist magazine The Dial and hosted the NBC television program The Subject is Jazz (1958). He also wrote for other magazines and newspapers like Vanity Fair and the Saturday Evening Post. He was most interested in American popular culture and cultural history. He wrote and adapted for Broadway, including Lysistrata and A Midsummer Night's Dream in the 1930s. Later, he made films, wrote radio scripts and became the first director of television for CBS News and the founding dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Occupation: film critic, journalist, screenwriter, art historian
Citizenship: United States
Born: January 3, 1893
Died: September 29, 1970

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