Rudy Behlmer

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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.

Filmography

• Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation (2012)
• Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic (2012)
• Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of (2012)
• Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen (2010)
• Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman (2009)
• 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
• In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic (2008)
• Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008)
• Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster (2008)
• The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious' (2008)
• The Making of 'Rebecca' (2008)
• RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World” (2008)
• A House of Secrets: Exploring 'Dragonwyck' (2008)
• Killer Instincts: Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino at Twentieth Century Fox (2008)
• Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound' (2008)
• Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
• The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007)
• Becoming John Ford (2007)
• Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon (2006)
• Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet (2006)
• The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006)
• Credit Where Credit is Due (2006)
• Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption (2006)
• Jezebel: Legend of the South (2006)
• Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition (2006)
• Desire and Censorship (2006)
• A Streetcar in Hollywood (2006)
• A Streetcar on Broadway (2006)
• William Powell: A True Gentleman (2005)
• Alias Nick and Nora (2005)
• The Music of 'Humoresque' (2005)
• Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born (2005)
• Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale (2005)
• The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
• Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say? (2005)
• Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle (2004)
• Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (2003)
• The Making of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (2003)
• Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' (2003)
• What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain' (2002)
• Cinerama Adventure (2002)
• The Universe According to Universal (2002)
• Celebrating Dumbo (2001)
• Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement' (2001)
• The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature (2000)
• Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley' (2000)
• Backstory: 'All About Eve' (2000)
• Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! (2000)
• Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (2000)
• The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked (2000)
• The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (1999)
• Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul (1993)
• Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic (1993)
• King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast." (1992)
• You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca' (1992)
• Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie (1991)
• Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963)