Rudy Behlmer
Acting
1926-10-13 · 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.
Filmography
Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation
2012 · Movie
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
2012 · Movie
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
2012 · Movie
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010 · Movie
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
2009 · Movie
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009 · Movie
In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic
2008 · Movie
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008 · Movie
The Making of 'Rebecca'
2008 · Movie
Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster
2008 · Movie
The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
2008 · Movie
RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”
2008 · Movie
A House of Secrets: Exploring 'Dragonwyck'
2008 · Movie
Killer Instincts: Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino at Twentieth Century Fox
2008 · Movie
Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'
2008 · Movie
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008 · Movie
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
2007 · Movie
Becoming John Ford
2007 · Movie
Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon
2006 · Movie
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
2006 · Movie
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006 · Movie
Credit Where Credit is Due
2006 · Movie
Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption
2006 · Movie
Jezebel: Legend of the South
2006 · Movie
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
2006 · Movie
Desire and Censorship
2006 · Movie
A Streetcar in Hollywood
2006 · Movie
A Streetcar on Broadway
2006 · Movie
William Powell: A True Gentleman
2005 · Movie
Alias Nick and Nora
2005 · Movie
The Music of 'Humoresque'
2005 · Movie
Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born
2005 · Movie
Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale
2005 · Movie
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005 · Movie
Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?
2005 · Movie
Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle
2004 · Movie
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003 · Movie
The Making of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
2003 · Movie
Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'
2003 · Movie
What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'
2002 · Movie
Cinerama Adventure
2002 · Movie
The Universe According to Universal
2002 · Movie
Celebrating Dumbo
2001 · Movie
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
2001 · Movie
The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature
2000 · Movie
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
2000 · Movie
Backstory: 'All About Eve'
2000 · Movie
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
2000 · Movie
Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!
2000 · Movie
The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked
2000 · Movie
The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
1999 · Movie
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
1993 · Movie
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
1993 · Movie
King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast."
1992 · Movie
You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
1992 · Movie
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991 · Movie
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Series
Hollywood Without Make-Up
1963 · Movie