Rudy Behlmer
Acting
23
Movies
1
TV Shows
24
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About
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.
Known For
The Dick Cavett Show
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature
Rudy Behlmer
Acting
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.
The Dick Cavett Show
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Cinerama Adventure
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
Becoming John Ford
In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic