Rudy Behlmer
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 (1968)
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
- Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen (2010)
- RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World” (2008)
- Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (2003)
- The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006)
- Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
- A Streetcar on Broadway (2006)
- The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
- Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet (2006)
- A Streetcar in Hollywood (2006)
- In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic (2008)
- Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie (1991)
- Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008)
- Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation (2012)
- Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (2000)
- The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (1999)
- Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster (2008)
- Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of (2012)
- Cinerama Adventure (2002)