Rudy Behlmer

Known for ActingBorn 1926-10-13Died 2019-09-27San 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Celebrating Dumbo

Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale

Tarzan: Silver Screen King of the Jungle

Backstory: 'All About Eve'

Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?

RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”

The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked

The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature

King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast."

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

A House of Secrets: Exploring 'Dragonwyck'

The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

Cinerama Adventure

Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic

Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

William Powell: A True Gentleman

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

Jezebel: Legend of the South

Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon

Welcome to Sherwood! The Story of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'

The Making of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'

Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of

You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'

Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition

Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born

Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic

Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul

A Streetcar in Hollywood

A Streetcar on Broadway

The Dick Cavett Show

Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie

Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!

Becoming John Ford

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic

The Universe According to Universal

Hollywood Without Make-Up

Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet

Censorship and Desire

Killer Instincts: Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino at Twentieth Century Fox