Rudy Behlmer
Rudy Behlmer (October 13, 1926 – September 27, 2019) was an American film historian and writer. He was an expert in the history and evolution of the motion picture industry. Behlmer began his career with KLAC-TV in Hollywood as a stage manager. At the beginning of the 1960s, Behlmer started researching and writing articles on various aspects of film history. One such project, a career piece on film producer David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind, Rebecca), led to his book Memo from David O. Selznick (1972). It was followed by nine other books as well as numerous magazine articles and film music recording booklets. Behlmer also contributed to a wide variety of works about the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Filmography
The Dick Cavett Show
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
The Making of 'Rebecca'
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Cinerama Adventure
Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
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The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
Becoming John Ford
RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked
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Killer Instincts: Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino at Twentieth Century Fox
The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
Celebrating Dumbo
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'
The Making of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic