# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gilbert-seldes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:15:27.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gilbert-seldes"
name: "Gilbert Seldes"
slug: "gilbert-seldes"
description: "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."
tagline: "American writer (1893–1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gilbert_Seldes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1893-01-03"
deathDate: "1970-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.816488
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783032/"
    handle:    "nm0783032"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "غيلبرت سيلدس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيلبرت سيلدس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Seldes"
    title: "Gilbert Seldes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Seldes"
    title: "Gilbert Seldes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B3%D5%AB%D5%AC%D5%A2%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BF_%D5%8D%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%A4%D5%A5%D5%BD"
    title: "Գիլբերտ Սելդես"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Seldes"
    title: "Gilbert Seldes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Seldes"
    title: "Gilbert Seldes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q969685"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump