Person
Rudy Behlmer
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 13, 1926
- Died
- Sep 27, 2019
- From
- San Francisco, California, USA
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.
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The Dick Cavett Show
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!
Cinerama Adventure
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?
The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Becoming John Ford