Rudy Behlmer
{{Short description|American film historian and writer (1926–2019)}}
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Rudolph Herman Behlmer (October 13, 1926 – September 27, 2019) was an American film historian and writer. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, he was an expert in the history and evolution of the motion picture industry.
Biography
Behlmer began his career with KLAC-TV in Hollywood as a stage manager.{{cite web|title=The Early Betty White 1947–1973|url=http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/04/the-early-betty-white.html|work=WFMU's Beware of the Blog|publisher=WFMU|accessdate=September 9, 2010|date=April 4, 2010}} At the beginning of the 1960s, Behlmer started researching and writing articles and books on various aspects of film history. His first major success was Memo from David O. Selznick (1972), on the producer of Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca) (1940). It was followed by many other books about the Golden Age of Hollywood as well as numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, and home video and film music record booklets. He died on September 27, 2019, at the age of 92.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/rudy-behlmer-dies-dead-film-historian-1203352056/|title=Film Historian and Author Rudy Behlmer Dies at 92|first1=Jon|last1=Burlingame|date=September 27, 2019}}
Bibliography
- Jungle Tales of the Cinema (1960)
- The Films of Errol Flynn (1969), with Tony Thomas and Clifford McCarty
- Memo from David O. Selznick (1972)
- Hollywood's Hollywood: The Movies About the Movies (1975)
- America's Favorite Movies: Behind the Scenes (1982)
- Inside Warner Brothers (1935-1981) (1985)
- Behind the Scenes: The Making Of... (1990)
- W. S. Van Dyke's Journal: White Shadows in the South Seas (1927-1928) (1996), edited and annotated
- Henry Hathaway (2001)
- Shoot the Rehearsal! Behind the Scenes with Assistant Director Reggie Callow (2010)
Audio commentaries
- Adventures of Don Juan (1948), with director Vincent Sherman
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- The Black Pirate (1926)
- The Black Swan (1942), with actress Maureen O'Hara
- Captain from Castile (1947), with film historians Jon Burlingame and Nick Redman
- Casablanca (1942)
- Chang (1927)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Gunga Din (1939)
- How the West Was Won (1962), with filmmaker David Strohmaier, director of Cinerama Inc., John Sittig, music historian Jon Burlingame and stuntman Loren Janes
- The Invisible Man (1933)
- Laura (1944)
- Notorious (1946)
- Singin' in the Rain (1942), with actors Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Cyd Charisse and Kathleen Freeman, co-director Stanley Donen, screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green and filmmaker Baz Luhrmann
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), with actor Karl Malden and film historian Jeff Young
- Twelve O'Clock High (1949), with film historians Jon Burlingame and Nick Redman
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), with director Richard Fleischer
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0066935|Rudy Behlmer}}
- [http://catalog.oscars.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=72253 Rudy Behlmer papers], Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Category:American film historians
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:Writers from San Francisco
Category:20th-century American historians
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American male writers