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Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

★ 3.3

Release Date:
Dec 31, 1961

Runtime:
0h 52m

Genres:
Documentary

Description

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.

Director: Marshall Flaum

Writer: Marshall Flaum

Stars: Henry Fonda, Judith Anderson, Richard Arlen

Cast

Henry Fonda

Self - Narrator

Judith Anderson

Judith Anderson

'Rebecca' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Arlen

'Four Feathers' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jean Arthur

'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

Fred Astaire

'Dancing Lady' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Bankhead

Screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Barrymore

'Bill of Divorcement' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore

'Duel in the Sun' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Wallace Beery

Pancho Villa (archive footage) (uncredited)

Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joan Bennett

'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ingrid Bergman

Self (uncredited)

Russell Birdwell

Self (uncredited)

Katherine Brown

Self (uncredited)

Billie Burke

Millicent Jordan (archive footage) (uncredited)

Madeleine Carroll

Madeleine Carroll

'The Prisoner of Zenda' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ronald Colman

'A Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Cotten

Self (uncredited)

Joan Crawford

Janie Barlow (archive footage) (uncredited)

George Cukor

Self (uncredited)

Frances Dee

'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dolores del Río

Dolores del Río

'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Andy Devine

'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Melvyn Douglas

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Marie Dressler

Carlotta Vance (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gösta Ekman

'Intermezzo' (1938) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Madge Evans

'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)

W.C. Fields

'David Copperfield' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Victor Fleming

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joan Fontaine

Self (uncredited)

Greta Garbo

Anna Karenina (archive footage) (uncredited)

Janet Gaynor

Self (uncredited)

Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard

'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jean Harlow

'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Susan Hayward

'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

Self (voice) (uncredited)

Samuel S. Hinds

Samuel S. Hinds

'Manhattan Melodrama' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Self (uncredited)

Phillips Holmes

Phillips Holmes

'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leslie Howard

Holger Brandt (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rock Hudson

Self (uncredited)

Isabel Jewell

'A Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jennifer Jones

Jennie Appleton (archive footage) (uncredited)

Raymond A. Klune

Self (uncredited)

Vivien Leigh

Scarlett O'Hara (archive footage) (uncredited)

Carole Lombard

'Nothing Sacred' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Edmund Lowe

'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Fredric March

Count Vronsky (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alan Marshal

'Gone with the Wind) screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joel McCrea

'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel

'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dorothy McGuire

Dorothy McGuire

Self (uncredited)

Adolphe Menjou

'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Grant Mitchell

'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

Self - (archive footage) (uncredited)

'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

Maxim de Winter (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alan J. Pakula

Self (uncredited)

Jean Parker

'Little Women' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gregory Peck

Self (uncredited)

William Powell

Jim Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)

David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lionel Stander

'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Margaret Sullavan

Margaret Sullavan

'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

Spencer Tracy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lana Turner

'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

King Vidor

Self (uncredited)

Fay Wray

King Kong' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Loretta Young

Self - 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)

Clark Gable

Actor 'Gone with the Wind' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Crew

David E. Blewitt

Graham Lee Mahin

Sascha Schneider

Associate Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer