Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1961)

Summary

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.

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Cast
Crew

Henry Fonda

as Self - Narrator
Judith Anderson

as 'Rebecca' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Arlen

as 'Four Feathers' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean Arthur

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

as 'Dancing Lady' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tallulah Bankhead

as Screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Barrymore

as 'Bill of Divorcement' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lionel Barrymore

as 'Duel in the Sun' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wallace Beery

as Pancho Villa (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Benchley

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joan Bennett

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

as Self (uncredited)
Russell Birdwell

as Self (uncredited)
Katherine Brown

as Self (uncredited)
Billie Burke

as Millicent Jordan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Madeleine Carroll

as 'The Prisoner of Zenda' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ronald Colman

as 'A Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Cotten

as Self (uncredited)
Joan Crawford

as Janie Barlow (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Cukor

as Self (uncredited)
Frances Dee

as 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dolores del Río

as 'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Andy Devine

as 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Melvyn Douglas

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marie Dressler

as Carlotta Vance (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gösta Ekman

as 'Intermezzo' (1938) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Madge Evans

as 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
W.C. Fields

as 'David Copperfield' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Victor Fleming

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joan Fontaine

as Self (uncredited)
Greta Garbo

as Anna Karenina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Janet Gaynor

as Self (uncredited)
Paulette Goddard

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

as 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Susan Hayward

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

as Self (voice) (uncredited)
Samuel S. Hinds

as 'Manhattan Melodrama' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock

as Self (uncredited)
Phillips Holmes

as 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leslie Howard

as Holger Brandt (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rock Hudson

as Self (uncredited)
Isabel Jewell

as 'A Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jennifer Jones

as Jennie Appleton (archive footage) (uncredited)
Raymond A. Klune

as Self (uncredited)
Vivien Leigh

as Scarlett O'Hara (archive footage) (uncredited)
Carole Lombard

as 'Nothing Sacred' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edmund Lowe

as 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fredric March

as Count Vronsky (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan Marshal

as 'Gone with the Wind) screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Louis B. Mayer

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joel McCrea

as 'Bird of Paradise' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hattie McDaniel

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

as Self (uncredited)
Adolphe Menjou

as 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Grant Mitchell

as 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Margaret Mitchell

as Self - (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hattie Noel

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

as Maxim de Winter (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan J. Pakula

as Self (uncredited)
Jean Parker

as 'Little Women' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gregory Peck

as Self (uncredited)
William Powell

as Jim Wade (archive footage) (uncredited)
David O. Selznick

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lionel Stander

as 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Margaret Sullavan

as 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Spencer Tracy

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lana Turner

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

as Self (uncredited)
Fay Wray

as King Kong' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Loretta Young

as Self - 'Rebecca' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
Clark Gable

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

Directing	Marshall Flaum	Director
Writing	Marshall Flaum	Writer
Production	Marshall Flaum	Producer
Production	Alan Landsburg	Executive Producer
Production	Bud Rifkin	Executive Producer
Production	Sascha Schneider	Associate Producer
Editing	David E. Blewitt	Editor
Editing	Graham Lee Mahin	Editor