Category: Rudy Behlmer's works

Behind the Scenes: The Making of...

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hollywood/NY/London/Toronto, Samuel French : 1990 (c.1982)

Seller ID: 28072

Condition: Near Fine

[slight bumping to bottom right corner, with resulting minor bending at lower corners of the first half of the book, plus a short diagonal crease at the bottom corner of the front cover; otherwise nice and clean and virtually as new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Deeply-researched, erudite, and heartfelt "making of" essays about fifteen great American films -- not necessarily "the best," as the author admits, but just a selection of "the audience's most cherished American sound feature films released between late 1931 and 1952" -- and, he's not shy about admitting, his own personal favorites as...
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Casablanca Photo Book

By: Behlmer, Rudy

Price: $25.00

Publisher: (n.p.), Turner Entertainment Co. & Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. : [2008]

Seller ID: 28059

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [essentially as-new, with just a tiny bit of surface rubbing to the covers]. (B&W photographs) A cute little 48-page hardcover booklet, largely photographic, with an abbreviated history of the classic film's production and release. Originally issued as an element of the Ultimate Collector's Edition DVD box set of the film (which explains why it's DVD-package size); there's some tiny print on the rear cover stating that it's "for promotional use only [and] not intended for individual resale." What are the odds that I'll be sued, I wonder?
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Shoot the Rehearsal!: Behind the Scenes with Assistant Director Reggie Callow

By: Behlmer, Rudy

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Lanham MD/Toronto/Plymouth (UK), The Scarecrow Press, Inc. : 2010

Seller ID: 28061

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[nice clean as-new book, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB An extended oral history interview, conducted by film historian Rudy Behlmer, with Ridgeway (Reggie) Callow, one of Hollywood's veteran assistant directors, who worked in Hollywood from the early 1930s through the mid-1970s. His filmography includes such classics as GONE WITH THE WIND, REBECCA, THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, and dozens of others. As Behlmer explains in his introduction, Callow's reminiscences present a unique perspective on classic studio-era fil...
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Hollywood's Hollywood: The Movies About the Movies

By: Behlmer, Rudy, and Tony Thomas

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Secacus NJ, The Citadel Press : (c.1975)

Seller ID: 28062

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[modest shelfwear to bottom edge (bumping and slight cracking to lower corners), otherwise a nice clean book; the jacket has suffered some chipping along the top edge, notably at the spine extremities, and a long diagonal tear in the rear panel has been neatly tape-mended]. (B&W photographs) A comprehensive survey of "the many films which have dealt with the motion picture colony, its inhabitants, myths, scandals, mysteries, melodramas, musicals, romances and even Westerns about the making of Westerns." It's interesting to have a look at the final chapter, "Prevues of Coming Attractions," an...
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Henry Hathaway: A Directors Guild of America Oral History

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Lanham MD/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc. : 2001

Seller ID: 28056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dj

[a nice clean as-new book, slightly blemished by modest bumping to the lower corners and a couple of minor scuff marks on the top edge of the text block; the jacket is flawless]. (Filmmakers, No. 84) Series A comprehensive interview with the noted director of LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER, THE DARK CORNER, KISS OF DEATH, CALL NORTHSIDE 777, and numerous other classic and near-classic films. The interview sessions were conducted in the early 1970s by Polly Platt, under the auspices of The American Film Institute's oral history program, but the project was put on hiatus in 1973 due to a lengthy ill...
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Inside Warner Bros. (1935-1951)

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Viking : 1985

Seller ID: 28060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket is lightly rubbed, with a vertical wrinkle at the bottom of the front panel, some minor wear along the top edge, and a tiny closed tear at the top of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) A fascinating compilation of memos and other correspondence from the Warner Bros. files -- primary documents that "recapture the conception, the second thoughts, the inspirations, doubts, conflicts, and triumphs that produced some of the most popular films ever made," including CASABLANCA, THE MALTESE FALCON, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, MILDRED PIERCE, THE ADVE...
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Inside Warner Bros. (1935-1951)

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster (A Fireside Book) : 1987 (c.1985)

Seller ID: 28067

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[nice, as-new copy, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) A fascinating compilation of memos and other correspondence from the Warner Bros. files -- primary documents that "recapture the conception, the second thoughts, the inspirations, doubts, conflicts, and triumphs that produced some of the most popular films ever made," including CASABLANCA, THE MALTESE FALCON, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, MILDRED PIERCE, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, THE BIG SLEEP, THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, etc. Intelligently edited and annotated by one of our pre-eminent film historians, who had a ...
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Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck: The Golden Years at Twentieth Century-Fox

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Grover Press : 1993

Seller ID: 28071

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean book, with no discernible wear; the jacket shows only some extremely light wear along the top edge (effectively concealed inside a new mylar protector)]. (B&W photographs) In this brilliantly-edited and annotated selection of Hollywood studio memos, film historian Rudy Behlmer does for 20th Century-Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck what he had done for the equally legendary producer David O. Selznick more than twenty years earlier. Zanuck, although not as prodigiously wordy as Selznick had been, was also a helluva memo-writer, and among all the studio heads of Hollywood's Golden A...
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Memo from David O. Selznick

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press : 1972

Seller ID: 28057

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean book, the only blemish being a small scuff mark on the top edge of the text block; the jacket is in much nicer condition than usually seen on this title, with only some minor wear along the top edge, a small closed tear at the top front hinge, and some wrinkling/creasing near the top of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) An endlessly fascinating read-through of the correspondence files of the legendary producer of GONE WITH THE WIND and other classics (and an occasional non-classic) -- albeit, as editor Behlmer explains in his foreword, presenting "a rather one-sided case, with n...
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Memo from David O. Selznick

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan : 1973 (c.1972)

Seller ID: 28068

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, just slightly bumped at the top of the spine but otherwise unblemished; the jacket is very lightly rubbed, with some minor wrinkling at the spine ends and an infinitesimal closed tear at the bottom of the front panel; it was also slightly mis-folded onto the book at the front foldover, with a resulting vertical wrinkle/crease along the left edge of the front flap]. (B&W photographs) An endlessly fascinating read-through of the correspondence files of the legendary producer of GONE WITH THE WIND and other classics (and an occasional non-classic) -- albeit, as editor Behlmer e...
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Memo from David O. Selznick

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press, Inc. : 1981 (c.1972)

Seller ID: 28069

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[minor wear only to book, but there is a small hole punched in the front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) An endlessly fascinating read-through of the correspondence files of the legendary producer of GONE WITH THE WIND and other classics (and an occasional non-classic) -- albeit, as editor Behlmer explains in his foreword, presenting "a rather one-sided case, with no opportunity for the several victims of Selznick's unhappiness or, in some instances, wrath, to offer rebuttals or countercharges." The selection of memos -- from among two thousand file boxes of Selznick's papers -- was a monu...
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Memo from David O. Selznick

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library : 2000 (c.1972)

Seller ID: 28070

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[a bit of wear at base of spine, very slight wrinkle at top right corner of front cover, light age-toning to edges of text block]. (Modern Library: The Movies) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) An endlessly fascinating read-through of the correspondence files of the legendary producer of GONE WITH THE WIND and other classics (and an occasional non-classic) -- albeit, as editor Behlmer explains in his foreword, presenting "a rather one-sided case, with no opportunity for the several victims of Selznick's unhappiness or, in some instances, wrath, to offer rebuttals or countercharges." The sele...
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W.S. Van Dyke's Journal: White Shadows in the South Seas (1927-1928), and Other Van Dyke on Van Dyke

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Lanham MD/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc. : (c.1996)

Seller ID: 28058

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[as-new, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) A fascinating little volume, the centerpiece of which -- the so-called "journal" -- is actually an edited version of a four lengthy letters, sent over the course of several months from the Tahiti location of WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS by its eventual director, W.S. "Woody" Van Dyke II, to his then girlfriend (and sometime script supervisor) Josephine Chippo, back in Los Angeles. The letters -- about equally divided between on-location reportage and pining-for-you expressions of his devotion -- were discovered ...
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The Sea Hawk

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.; screenplay by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Madison WI, The University of Wisconsin Press : 1982

Seller ID: 28063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[a nice clean as-new book, with no wear whatsoever; the jacket would also be Fine but for a long vertical crease in the front flap]. (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series) Series (B&W photographs) Another entry in this outstanding series of published screenplays of classic Warner Bros. films, this one presenting the full script for (in the words of the editor) "a first-rate swashbuckling adventure film that is literate, lavish, and imaginative." Editor Behlmer's typically erudite introduction presents a well-documented and very readable account of the film's conception and production, whi...
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The Sea Hawk

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.; screenplay by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Madison WI, The University of Wisconsin Press : 1982

Seller ID: 28064

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[a nice clean as-new book, in flawless condition]. (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Another entry in this outstanding series of published screenplays of classic Warner Bros. films, this one presenting the full script for (in the words of the editor) "a first-rate swashbuckling adventure film that is literate, lavish, and imaginative." Editor Behlmer's typically erudite introduction presents a well-documented and very readable account of the film's conception and production, which also touches briefly on the already well-established swashbuckling tr...
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The Adventures of Robin Hood

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.; screenplay by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Madison WI, The University of Wisconsin Press : 1979

Seller ID: 28066

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[nice bright copy, as-new book, without even a hint of wear]. (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Typically excellent entry in this screenplay series, with an erudite introduction by noted scholar Rudy Behlmer, containing not only copious details about this production, but background on the Robin Hood legend and a brief discussion of other film treatments of same -- a topic about which, it should be noted, Mr. Behlmer was extremely knowledgeable. This, of course, is (as far as I'm concerned) the definitive Robin Hood movie, with Errol Flynn and a perfec...
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The Adventures of Robin Hood [SIGNED (see notes)]

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.; screenplay by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Madison WI, The University of Wisconsin Press : 1979

Seller ID: 28065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean book (except for the misplaced inscription; see notes), with no discernible shelfwear; the jacket shows just a touch of wear at the corners of the front panel]. (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series) Series (B&W photographs) Typically excellent entry in this screenplay series, with an erudite introduction by noted scholar Rudy Behlmer, containing not only copious details about this production, but background on the Robin Hood legend and a brief discussion of other film treatments of same -- a topic about which, it should be noted, Mr. Behlmer was extremely knowledgeable. This...
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The Films of Errol Flynn

By: Thomas, Tony, Rudy Behlmer, and Clifford McCarty

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Secacus NJ, The Citadel Press : 1975 (c.1969)

Seller ID: 28073

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[a nice clean copy, no discernible wear to the book; the jacket is slightly rubbed and lightly soiled along the front hinge, and has a tiny puncture wound near the upper left corner of the front panel, but still has a bright and fresh appearance; a nicer copy you are not likely to find]. (B&W photographs) A relatively early entry in the long-running "Films of" book series, which follows the formula -- biographical front material, followed by a chronological film-by-film rundown of the subject's career -- but is also an exemplary volume in the series. This is largely because it eschews the "f...
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Category: Rudy Behlmer's works