Hollywood: The Selznick Years
33 %|Dec 31, 1961|Documentary
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.
Featured Crew
Marshall Flaum
Director
Marshall Flaum
Writer
Marshall Flaum
Producer
Alan Landsburg
Executive Producer
Bud Rifkin
Executive Producer
Sascha Schneider
Associate Producer
David E. Blewitt
Editor
Graham Lee Mahin
Editor
Cast
Henry Fonda
Self - Narrator
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
Screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Barrymore
'Bill of Divorcement' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lionel Barrymore
'Duel in the Sun' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wallace Beery
Pancho Villa (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
'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
'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
'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
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Samuel S. Hinds
'Manhattan Melodrama' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock
Self (uncredited)
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)
Louis B. Mayer
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joel McCrea
'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hattie McDaniel
'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dorothy McGuire
Self (uncredited)
Adolphe Menjou
'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Grant Mitchell
'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Margaret Mitchell
Self - (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hattie Noel
'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
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
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lionel Stander
'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
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)