Hitchcock, Selznick & The End of Hollywood (1998)

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Documentary about the golden era of Hollywood in the 1930s & 1940s (1998)

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  • @carolynkingsley4421
    @carolynkingsley44218 ай бұрын

    This remains my favorite era of Hollywood. I can never get enough of these films. this one is very good, well made.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Since they worked from silents to television, what era over a half century?

  • @poetcomic1
    @poetcomic18 ай бұрын

    I never noticed that but Raymond Burr looked a LOT like Selznick in Rear Window.

  • @christinacolazzo9885
    @christinacolazzo9885Ай бұрын

    I loved " Portrait of Jenny " great Era full of classic masterpieces! Today's. Movies I can barely watch once. But the classics I can view over an over again and always in awe.

  • @Hazi64
    @Hazi647 ай бұрын

    Wow, just watched Wuthering Heights and Gone with the Wind. Having a sad time and two movies I love. Watch them once every few years. Not to mention Wizard of Oz. Also Rebecca another favourite of mine. Any remakes pale by comparison to the Alfred Hitchcock. Oh dear, love my old movies. As my kids would say mum loves her grey movies.

  • @lindadeal3344
    @lindadeal33447 ай бұрын

    I loved "Portrait of Jennie" another great movie was "Enchanted Cottage" and it was magical!

  • @jackryan9183
    @jackryan91837 ай бұрын

    Narrated by the great Gene Hackman. Love it.

  • @paulakpacente
    @paulakpacente5 ай бұрын

    I can NEVER stop watching old "classic" movies and TV shows. We have over 1200 of them on disc, and IMO todays' movies and TV shows can't hold a candle to "The Golden Age" of both mediums. Thank you for this presentation.

  • @truecynic1270
    @truecynic12708 ай бұрын

    Just LOVED ALL these involved and incredibly intelligent people......the directors, the actors, the producers ........unequalled creativity and PASSION........even those who disagreed or deviated or who disrespected........The ENTIRE ERA

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    As Queen of Hollywood Myrna Loy put it in her memoirs, regardless of personal foibles they CARED about their industry.

  • @kathleenmckeithen118
    @kathleenmckeithen1188 ай бұрын

    This is an excellent documentary. Thank you for posting it!!!

  • @BRinMilwaukee
    @BRinMilwaukee7 ай бұрын

    Wonderful doc. Unexpected treat, thanks!!

  • @tothelighthouse9843
    @tothelighthouse98438 ай бұрын

    Took me til 1:29 to realize the narrator is Gene Gene The Acting Machine. One of my alltime faves, & one of the alltime greats: Gene Hackman.

  • @eshaibraheem4218

    @eshaibraheem4218

    7 ай бұрын

    Took me longer!

  • @tothelighthouse9843

    @tothelighthouse9843

    7 ай бұрын

    @@eshaibraheem4218 After I watched this video, I spent the whole afternoon wanting to watch 'The Conversation' & 'Reds' & 'The Royal Tenenbaums'. Probably my 3 favourite Hackman films, but it's so hard to choose. I love him & miss that we're not going to get new performances from him.

  • @BRinMilwaukee

    @BRinMilwaukee

    7 ай бұрын

    I didn't realize it until the end credits, tbh. And he's one of my favorites.

  • @eshaibraheem4218

    @eshaibraheem4218

    7 ай бұрын

    @tothelighthouse9843 I LOVED The Conversation; never been able to find it anywhere, to see it again. I can still see Hackman sitting on that chair, playing his saxophone. He was brilliant.

  • @tothelighthouse9843

    @tothelighthouse9843

    7 ай бұрын

    @@eshaibraheem4218 I haven't seen it in probably 10 yrs, but it's forever stuck in my head. Hackman takes the character from a man at the top of his game as the film opens, to a man completely disintegrated by the finale. Not a false unsubtle note in the whole performance. I really miss Hackman on screen. Coppola's best solo screenplay too.

  • @baylorsailor
    @baylorsailor7 ай бұрын

    Alfred Hitchcock was a one of a kind man. Selznick was lucky to have him working for him.

  • @cassandradelvegablanco5299

    @cassandradelvegablanco5299

    6 ай бұрын

    He ruined Tippi hedrons career because he couldn't force her to go to bed with him.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    She only had a career because of him, Eva Marie Saint said Hedren was vulnerable because she was new to movie stardom, Hitchcock was notoriously controlling but worked with same actors repeatedly - Saint wanted to 🌟 in Marnie & would have been SO much better>television commercial actress. Saw Hedren in '60's television episode with Jeffrey Hunter recently (whose movie career also died), Chaplin hired Hedren but only for supporting role playing another frosty blonde.

  • @ValerieGriner
    @ValerieGriner3 ай бұрын

    Gone With the Wind is my favorite movie of ALL TIME!

  • @Shineon83
    @Shineon836 ай бұрын

    Excellent doc! ….However, I’ve always wanted to learn more about Alma Hitchcock ( Alfred’s wife )….A brilliant writer; a marvelous wit - and, just so enigmatic …

  • @ricardocantoral7672

    @ricardocantoral7672

    6 ай бұрын

    She definitely is worthy of her own documentary.

  • @garyneilson3075

    @garyneilson3075

    6 ай бұрын

    Me too, one of those neglected genius'?

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Their daughter Pat wrote sweet book about their lives together.

  • @carmencollor1224
    @carmencollor12246 ай бұрын

    Excellent documentary. Such a pity the sound is so bad.

  • @cw-ji8vs

    @cw-ji8vs

    3 ай бұрын

    Indeed. I gave up rewinding. Thank you for mentioning. I'm not alone!

  • @arthuroldale-ki2ev

    @arthuroldale-ki2ev

    Ай бұрын

    I thought it was me, yes, such a shame, I missed a lot of the dialogue. still , it was worth watching.

  • @christinepaige2575
    @christinepaige25757 ай бұрын

    Irene Selznick was beautiful. _Beautiful!_ But that fact never seems to be acknowledged. Drives me crazy.

  • @sandradee1579

    @sandradee1579

    4 ай бұрын

    Irene Selznick & Edie Goetz were both Louis Mayer's daughters. Edie was most well known as a Hollywood socialite & threw the best lavish parties. What Edie wants Edie Goetz was the phrase 😂

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    While Selznick was the son-in-law also rises.

  • @bedazelvintage8457
    @bedazelvintage84578 ай бұрын

    I love all of these masterpieces!

  • @ttintagel
    @ttintagel7 ай бұрын

    I'll never understand why so many people talk about the relationship between Selznick and Jones without mentioning a word about Robert Walker.

  • @bloodgrss

    @bloodgrss

    7 ай бұрын

    Because he had nothing to do with their artistry...

  • @ttintagel

    @ttintagel

    4 ай бұрын

    @@bloodgrss Notice I didn't say, "So many people talk about Selznick's and Jones's artistry."

  • @bloodgrss

    @bloodgrss

    4 ай бұрын

    As few still talk about the trontribution of the mentally troubled but marvelous Robert@ttintagel

  • @elaineteeter9485

    @elaineteeter9485

    3 ай бұрын

    Selznick was a notorious skirt-chaser and Irene finally had enough of his philandering and dumped him. He went after Jennifer Jones, in spite of her being married to Robert Walker and their having two sons together. The day after she won the Academy Award for "Song of Bernadette," she filed for divorce from Robert, which devastated him. Selznick made her a star and her husband and sons fell by the wayside. Cold ambition...

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Because he was troubled individual who came to tragic end.

  • @Rubytheblueeyedwolf
    @Rubytheblueeyedwolf6 ай бұрын

    The great Gene Hackman as narrator ❤

  • @chuckmadden2251
    @chuckmadden22517 ай бұрын

    David Selznick's prophetic statement at the end proved to be correct.

  • @PepitaBlue2

    @PepitaBlue2

    26 күн бұрын

    I want that statement in writing. I think I'm going to make a poster out of it. Boy was he right!

  • @Kuulei265
    @Kuulei2654 ай бұрын

    The dearth of good movies these days is testament to times changing and not for good. How many people do you hear say they are going out to see a movie? I love the “classics” for sure. I think the Actors and Actresses were better back then.

  • @coyotesayswhat
    @coyotesayswhat8 ай бұрын

    Portrait of Jenny has always been my favorite film of all time I don't know about it being a disaster

  • @coyotesayswhat

    @coyotesayswhat

    8 ай бұрын

    A director are you the Michael Epstein I met in Woodstock New York

  • @AlexandraK1

    @AlexandraK1

    7 ай бұрын

    I loved it too.

  • @cturtleSSI

    @cturtleSSI

    7 ай бұрын

    Jenny is called a disaster here because it was unsuccessful at the time. Later audiences and critics have found it to be a lovely film - me included! 💚

  • @arnesahlen2704
    @arnesahlen27046 ай бұрын

    'Notorious' camera-descending scene: Bergman's dress design deserves its own award!👏 V-back catches the eye at start of the descent; then the V-front serves as a sort of Coda to the scene.

  • @alexdavies7394
    @alexdavies73945 ай бұрын

    Selznick needed Hitchcock more than Hitchcock needed Selznick.

  • @sandradee1579

    @sandradee1579

    4 ай бұрын

    Double edged sword. A Director can't make a movie without the financial backing of a Producer & a Producer can't make a movie without a good Director? The bean counter usually prevails $$. No money. No movie.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Not for GWTW he didn't & Selznick would farm Hitchcock out if he didn't have anything for him, Hitchcock had lots of fallow periods without Selznick or studio behind him, why do you think he got into television & publishing?

  • @westcoastgirl
    @westcoastgirl8 ай бұрын

    These people were motion pictures. They invented the craft , popularized and defined it . Wow . Brilliant classics like Rebecca , Gone with the wind , they are Hollywood history .

  • @josebenito15
    @josebenito158 ай бұрын

    Wonderful documentary. Hichtcock wasn't born to make his films under the influence of any iconic Hollywood Producer but David O'Selznick gave him the opportunity to move to Hollywood and become of a Cinema Legend. O'Selznick will always be remembered as the GWTW Producer. 🎦

  • @DelvingEye

    @DelvingEye

    8 ай бұрын

    David O. Selznick, not O'Selznick. He wasn't Irish fgs. Far from it!

  • @josebenito15

    @josebenito15

    8 ай бұрын

    @@DelvingEye Thanks so much for that correction. Definitely, He was desperately trying to embellish his name.. After all, This is Hollywood!! 🌟

  • @carolannemckenzie3849

    @carolannemckenzie3849

    8 ай бұрын

    He actually added the O to differentiate himself from an uncle by the same name. He always said it stood for nothing. Regardless, he produced some great American movies 😁

  • @akrenwinkle

    @akrenwinkle

    8 ай бұрын

    I'm resisting urge to insert Paddy O'Furniture joke here.

  • @HighKeyProductions

    @HighKeyProductions

    7 ай бұрын

    That joke was later used in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, written by Ernest Lehman. Cary Grant's character is called Roger O. Thornhill. Eva Marie Saint asks him what the O stands for. He replies, "Nothing".@@carolannemckenzie3849

  • @krimskrams
    @krimskrams6 ай бұрын

    after that rear window thorwald / Selznick comparison as a possible revenge, I couldn't stop laughing. he really does look a bit like him!

  • @madamex812
    @madamex8127 ай бұрын

    I wish films , film stars and hollywood were still like this..we dont have stars anyone we have personalities...

  • @capoislamort100

    @capoislamort100

    7 ай бұрын

    You must be out of your mind to think that.

  • @akschmidt2085

    @akschmidt2085

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@capoislamort100pppssst. Let grandma dream, you know she has dementia!"

  • @akschmidt2085

    @akschmidt2085

    7 ай бұрын

    The industry was full of the most awful seggs and child @buse and everyone knew but no one cared, but suuuurrrre let's wax nostalgic about how great and upstanding folks used to be 😂

  • @deniserhodes2374

    @deniserhodes2374

    7 ай бұрын

    Very true. We have "personalities" unfortunately, our "personalities" do not. They are, for the most part, petulant, spoiled brats with no work ethic. 😢

  • @mattkaustickomments

    @mattkaustickomments

    7 ай бұрын

    @@akschmidt2085Exactly, all kinds of crime and vice that was almost totally covered up.

  • @andrewforbes1433
    @andrewforbes14337 ай бұрын

    “[Hitchcock] commanded the attention of all England. He was their Griffith, their Chaplin.” I’m pretty sure Chaplin was England’s Chaplin.

  • @louistracy6964

    @louistracy6964

    6 ай бұрын

    We'll take it, but Chaplin is Hollywood.

  • @andrewforbes1433

    @andrewforbes1433

    6 ай бұрын

    @@louistracy6964 Chaplin and Hitchcock got their starts in England and subsequently became stars in Hollywood. I'm not sure that any great distinction is warranted in terms of nationality. It's a bizarre bit of narration.

  • @classiclife7204
    @classiclife72047 ай бұрын

    Fascinating. It's hard to sympathize with Selznick at the end because he was SUCH a jerk. But one thing is true: a certain version of Hollywood - by my reckoning, the second version - seemed to die at some point right after the War. (The first version was the Silent Era.) It's also true that the "third version" of Hollywood, the time of Hitchcock's greatness, died after the Production was abolished in 1965-66. Both men outlived their individual "Hollywoods", and in the latter years for each, both seemed out of time, out of touch. Life passes us by while we're still living.

  • @danielgregg2530

    @danielgregg2530

    6 ай бұрын

    You mean our times pass away from us while we are still living. It's as bad a feature of aging as there is.

  • @ricardocantoral7672

    @ricardocantoral7672

    5 ай бұрын

    Hitchcock was never out of touch. His last two movies showed he adapted to changing trends.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Hitchcock wanted to do movie called Kaleidoscope, would have pushed envelope beyond Psycho, studio refused to support him (Universal famously cheap & it shows).

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Selznick made the classics he did BECAUSE he was a jerk!

  • @chrisreeves9764
    @chrisreeves97646 ай бұрын

    Can you imagine the current crop of "stars" being directed by Hitchcock? They might burst into tears but would probably be in a great film.

  • @arthuroldale-ki2ev
    @arthuroldale-ki2evАй бұрын

    I used to watch all these films, with my Mother in the 50s/60s, we seem to live in such sad times now.

  • @judithlungen6958
    @judithlungen69587 ай бұрын

    Thank you great documentary Very grateful 😊

  • @tomfrost1997
    @tomfrost19977 ай бұрын

    Selznick wasn’t a mogul of Hollywood. He is Hollywood❗️

  • @justthink5854
    @justthink58548 ай бұрын

    Portrait of Jenny is anything but a disaster. It's magic and a classic. watch it and see.

  • @sulevisydanmaa9981

    @sulevisydanmaa9981

    8 ай бұрын

    @justthink5854 THAT S RITE : Naw Yawk, 4 once, as a supernatural, spiritual, enthralling urban mirage - bordering on the metaphysical, manifesting LOUDLY against the blatant, everyday, ultra-materialistic rat race so common no matter wherevvuhhh u look nor whenevvuhhh one happens to be existing in it. Much alike as in Mark Helprin s otherworldly FERRY tales ... Lots of film noir expressionism in Dieterle s various shades of ...ghastly normality... A truly sensitive minor masterpiece.

  • @leeprier6503

    @leeprier6503

    8 ай бұрын

    I loved it too

  • @BillyAlabama

    @BillyAlabama

    8 ай бұрын

    Jenny is absolutely marvelous!

  • @leecollins6344

    @leecollins6344

    7 ай бұрын

    I agree. It is very artistic and different film.

  • @janicearant6407

    @janicearant6407

    7 ай бұрын

    I’ve watched it several times and will watch it again.

  • @carolynstewart8465
    @carolynstewart84657 ай бұрын

    Portrait of Jennie is a beautiful movie! Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton were perfect for their roles!

  • @claudetteholloway1126

    @claudetteholloway1126

    7 ай бұрын

    It's COTTEN.

  • @ronnieadamson6998
    @ronnieadamson69987 ай бұрын

    Excellent doco. I am not sure that his assessment of Hollywood near the end of his life does not ring true. Hollywood only makes movies now that no-one is interested in with the exception of a few brave independent directors - Tarantino, Ripley Scott etc.

  • @maguffintop2596

    @maguffintop2596

    6 ай бұрын

    Apparently market analysis is not necessary when THEY decide what the people will like. Glad it’s finally going down in flames, like the shot opening this doc. PS: Scott’s ladt film just flopped hard.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Scott is old & Tarantino unoriginal video store historical revisionist.

  • @akschmidt2085
    @akschmidt20857 ай бұрын

    "He commanded the attention of all England. He was their Griffith. Their Chaplin." Oh... oh honey... you thought Chaplin was American, didn't you, aaaw bless"

  • @mildredpierce3400
    @mildredpierce34002 ай бұрын

    Bogdanovich imitating Hitch about the "R" made of smoke....too f'n funny

  • @JoannaJStroz
    @JoannaJStroz6 ай бұрын

    ❤Thank you for sharing the story Of the master and his friends.

  • @davidleary5639
    @davidleary56398 ай бұрын

    Good documentary .

  • @giteducalme
    @giteducalme8 ай бұрын

    Great documentary 👌

  • @thomaslucia3059
    @thomaslucia30593 ай бұрын

    WOW! What a surprise to see Paula Cohen! We went to high school together 🙂

  • @ernestkatehis5779
    @ernestkatehis57797 ай бұрын

    I agree with 1 of the comments potriat of jennie is a great film and the 1st time I saw it 50 years ago on the Late Late show when U could all these great flicks on a dinky BW TV.

  • @athieliagriffin7957
    @athieliagriffin79577 ай бұрын

    Good but turn the volume up!

  • @missmaggie2620
    @missmaggie26206 ай бұрын

    Absolutely fascinating. Hitchcock was a genius no doubt about it. He put up with idiots & he worked around everything that was thrown his way. Nobody wanted to back Hitch with Psycho & Alma backed Hitch & they put up their home.

  • @josephpowell6926
    @josephpowell69266 ай бұрын

    Marcella Rabwin has been waiting decades to spill this tea...

  • @Tmanaz480
    @Tmanaz4806 ай бұрын

    Selznick's depressions sound like the inevitable crashes of an amphetemine abuser, even though presented here as purely psychological.

  • @kittenlady3193
    @kittenlady31934 ай бұрын

    Very informative, really enjoyed it. However, here and there the sound of some of the interviewed had too much base and it was difficult understanding what was said. Even so, thank you.

  • @sulevisydanmaa9981
    @sulevisydanmaa99818 ай бұрын

    A MEMO FROM ...the top(dog) micromanagerial perfectionist, & NOT in terms of J.Jones only. High standards can be a nuisance if "a man doesn t know his limitations". Narcissism is a road to ruin; excessive ambition is its other mold (both meanings) ...

  • @JoeScottish
    @JoeScottish7 ай бұрын

    Hitchcock was England's Chaplin?......em, you do know Chaplin was also English? 😆😆

  • @7777voyles
    @7777voyles10 күн бұрын

    Very intriguing

  • @johnthompson9513
    @johnthompson95137 ай бұрын

    Hitchcock was a brother Maison loved his image of the all seeing eye

  • @violetsprings470
    @violetsprings4707 ай бұрын

    A beautiful movie!

  • @Kimllg88
    @Kimllg88Ай бұрын

    The French call him Le Maitre.. he wrote the grammar of film. Learned it at UFA Studioa, Berlin

  • @cliftonbowers6376
    @cliftonbowers63768 ай бұрын

    Old Hollywood only very few of us are left..😮

  • @Mark-fv8vt
    @Mark-fv8vtАй бұрын

    Question: 19:20 - What film scene is Hitchcock drawing here?

  • @Spiderman7Bob7
    @Spiderman7Bob73 ай бұрын

    This documentary is wonderful . Somehow I 'm not interested all that much about David Selznick as I am about the great Alfred Hitchcock . I still remember how Selznick broke up the marriage of Jennifer Jones and Robert Walker . How Jennifer Jones could have married that ugly David Selzneck I'll never understand . Anyway enough of that ! I am really into Aldred Hitchcock's films . I am almost got all of them that's available on DVD . Now I never thought I would be interested in his Britch films before he came to America , buy since I am collecting Hitchcock , I've got to have those too . Most of the silents and early Britch 'talkies' have been beautifully restored and their amazing . Years ago all you could get was those awful 'public domain' prints that worth the money , but that's changing now . The Kino Lorber had put out beautiful restored versions of these oldies and their in Blu-ray also . Believe it r not I've only watched half of this doc so far , but I just had to take the time to write this comment . Thanks for reading .

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Hitchcock began in Germany, their silent films influenced many.

  • @ChubbyChecker182
    @ChubbyChecker1825 ай бұрын

    Really interesting documentary, i had no idea that Hirchock was basically being restrained in those ealy Hollywood years

  • @ricardocantoral7672
    @ricardocantoral76727 ай бұрын

    Irving Thalberg said no civil war picture every made a dime. Even geniuses can be wrong.

  • @HighKeyProductions

    @HighKeyProductions

    7 ай бұрын

    Did he really say that? That's weird. Because when Thalberg was around, D W Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915) was by far the most successful film in Hollywood history. It stayed that way until GWTW.

  • @ricardocantoral7672

    @ricardocantoral7672

    6 ай бұрын

    ​​@@HighKeyProductions Birth had more to do with The Klan than it did with the civil war. Yet on the other hand, it's possible he made that Civil War movie statement because he felt burned out.

  • @lamontcranston3177
    @lamontcranston31777 ай бұрын

    I would love to see an end to statements declaring the end of things.

  • @mojo500100
    @mojo5001006 ай бұрын

    Thanks for posting this, very interesting. Selznick was no better or worse than other producers-the business wasn’t (and still isn’t) made up of self-sacrificing do-gooders. He could be alternately charming and dictatorial. His movies included some stinkers, some hits, and one that reached the pinnacle. It’s sad that he let Irene go after she stuck with him during the difficult times. But that’s Hollywood……

  • @justinpino8115
    @justinpino81157 ай бұрын

    I wish my ancestors were Russian Jews. They seem to be the smartest people in the world

  • @claudetteholloway1126

    @claudetteholloway1126

    7 ай бұрын

    Mine were...

  • @mousemd
    @mousemd7 ай бұрын

    I was fortunate enough to be able to get a hold of a copy of Rebecca. Nice. Scary to think of what would become of the new wife

  • @VasantInamdar
    @VasantInamdar4 ай бұрын

    There was no mention of Farewell to arms . Selznick coproduced Third man with Alexander Korda

  • @mauriceortiz8817
    @mauriceortiz88176 ай бұрын

    I knew I recognized Gene Hackman's voicem

  • @veritas6335
    @veritas63357 ай бұрын

    FAR too many ads, which end up making this otherwise interesting documentary almost unwatchable. Boo!

  • @avidreader1527

    @avidreader1527

    7 ай бұрын

    It's KZread's doing , they want people to get KZread Premium .

  • @MartinSage
    @MartinSage7 ай бұрын

    I LOVED "Dual in the Sun" absolutely LOVED IT! Jennifer + Peck we're fun together. David O Selznick.....you did Good....making 20+million from a 6million production ain't bad 😊

  • @claudetteholloway1126

    @claudetteholloway1126

    7 ай бұрын

    It's DUEL.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Lust in the Dust.

  • @solicitr666
    @solicitr6666 ай бұрын

    "Rope" may have been a commercial disappointment, but the subsequent critical assessment is uniformly very high

  • @eamestv
    @eamestv7 ай бұрын

    Very good and informative. GWTW was and is one of the greatest movies ever made, (in my opinion) but trying to top a masterpiece is like giving 'Pearl to swine'.Just make great movies as you do. Time will judge.

  • @mousemd
    @mousemd7 ай бұрын

    Not sure what role Alfred played in Hitchcock Presents? At least he was successful on TV 📺

  • @leesheppard6043

    @leesheppard6043

    2 ай бұрын

    His name sold the series.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    His crew filmed Psycho, Hitchcock 1st 1 man media empire, published fiction as well.

  • @veritas6335
    @veritas63357 ай бұрын

    It seems odd that Gene Hackman would be narrating this.

  • @claudetteholloway1126

    @claudetteholloway1126

    7 ай бұрын

    Why??? Very smart man..

  • @TheRealPynkPanther
    @TheRealPynkPanther8 ай бұрын

    21:03 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @newhorizon4066
    @newhorizon40666 ай бұрын

    I have always thought "turning on the gas" made GWTW epic. No CGI needed, no battle scenes required (instead just have extras lie down en masse in "injured" make up in the train station in the aftermath.)

  • @mojo500100

    @mojo500100

    6 ай бұрын

    Good point! Plus, Selznick saved a bundle by padding the crowded area with mannequins--many of the extra actors, placed in between, were directed to gently nudge the mannequins to simulate movement. From a distance, it was imperceptible. Clever!

  • @orpheus9037
    @orpheus90376 ай бұрын

    Wonderful documentary, giving exceptional insight into Hitchcock's films in his early Hollywood years. Had no idea Selznick was such a thorn in his side. Still, there's no question Selznick challenged and ultimately shaped Hitchcock in some formative ways. Rebecca is probably one of the best looking and sleekest black and white films ever made, its lush, eerie romanticism likely as much the doing of Selznick as Hitchcock. And though Hitchcock's British film are terrific - The Lady Vanishes being one of my favorites - none came close to the visual splendors of Hitchcock's later American films. One certainly sees Selznick's influential sense of visual grandeur in later Hitchcock films like North by Northwest, Vertigo and The Birds. Selznick, in my opinion, certainly influenced, if not taught Hitchcock the value of cinematic beauty.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Hitchcock was influenced by German expressionism & was visual artist from his own silent pictures on (famously used glass ceiling to watch suspected killer pacing anxiously while telling his story).

  • @paulaharrisbaca4851
    @paulaharrisbaca48514 ай бұрын

    David O Selznick is in many ways like Orson Welles after his enormous successes like Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons so early in his career. What do you do after that? Strange and sad. You eat, you drink, you gamble, you are a sex addict, anything to capture the excitement and the endorphins of the glory days!

  • @garylefevers
    @garylefevers6 ай бұрын

    Maybe I am strange, but every time I think of G.W.T.W. I think of the character of Daisy Adair in Dead Like Me. Goes without saying but I will anyway, classic movie and excellent t.v. show.

  • @dominiquedelattre8729
    @dominiquedelattre872920 күн бұрын

    dommage pour les francophones !!!!!

  • @lindahughes2289
    @lindahughes22896 ай бұрын

    Cant hear, cant watch ! Gave up...

  • @lisica8458
    @lisica84586 ай бұрын

    Another achievement of Selznick's was to bring Ingrid Bergman to the U.S.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Yes, but she established herself learning English in plays & on loan-outs to other studios, even Selznick's Hollywood debut was remake of Swedish hit.

  • @stephaniestanley8041
    @stephaniestanley80418 ай бұрын

    ❤ David was a great producer, a charming persona, but was not a very good man.

  • @seethevolcane

    @seethevolcane

    8 ай бұрын

    You said it > he was crude.

  • @stephaniestanley8041

    @stephaniestanley8041

    8 ай бұрын

    @@seethevolcane his smile and boyish charm was his cover

  • @seethevolcane

    @seethevolcane

    8 ай бұрын

    Odd. I've never read anywhere about his "charm," boyish or otherwise.@@stephaniestanley8041

  • @exaudi33

    @exaudi33

    8 ай бұрын

    Nevertheless, I'd take D.O.S. anytime over today's puerile suits and their mindless blockbusters.

  • @seethevolcane

    @seethevolcane

    8 ай бұрын

    Good point. But there are no suits today! Only diapers.@@exaudi33

  • @johnevans9751
    @johnevans97516 ай бұрын

    Cukor was fired at Gable's insistence. In Clark's early days and Hollywood struggles, he had allowed George to 'service' him for money. The 'King' didn't want to be reminded

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Those are called agents (Paul Rudnick joke from Jeffrey).

  • @TQCX9
    @TQCX97 ай бұрын

    Thanks youtube ,Michael Fostein , Hitchcock , David Selznik … that was an excellent story

  • @markadams7597
    @markadams75978 ай бұрын

    Interesting documentary. Thanks for posting. This flick could've told the same story in 35 minutes, it ranges towards pedantic. (It needs Hitch or Selznick to streamline this story!) And what about Hitch's emergence in to TV, his retirement, and death? (This flick doesn't tell it all.) Mostly the commercial breaks, every 7 minutes, are irritating! Greedy u-tube.

  • @ricardocantoral7672

    @ricardocantoral7672

    7 ай бұрын

    35 minutes? I sincerely doubt that. If anything, this should have been much longer. Two or three hours.

  • @BillyLapTop

    @BillyLapTop

    7 ай бұрын

    I have KZread Premium and never see any advertisements, so the pacing of the content I watch is never broken up. As for 35 minutes and retirement and death of the main protagonists, if you look at the title of this presentation, this documentary was framed perfectly within the construct of Selznick and Hitchcock's time together. The length and content of the documentary was meant for an intelligent analysis by the viewer and not for those with attention deficit. As for Selznick's decline and demise at the end of the film, it was a footnote compared to Hitchcock's ascension and we know from there, the rest of the story.

  • @veritas6335
    @veritas63357 ай бұрын

    Rebecca was Hitchcock's best film -of all time. Overshadowed these days by his more glamorous films of the fifties and the trashy Psycho and The Birds, which was dumb, but by far his best.

  • @carlorizzo827

    @carlorizzo827

    7 ай бұрын

    I vote for Notorious🔥

  • @ricardocantoral7672

    @ricardocantoral7672

    5 ай бұрын

    Rebecca is a fine film but that is not Hitchcock's best film. His best is Vertigo, Notorious, North by Northwest, The Wrong Man, Strangers on a Train, The Lady Vanishes, Psycho, and The Birds. Those last two films were certainly not trashy, what an absurd comment. The Birds was easily Hitchcock's last great movie. I see it beyond mere horror or shock, it's about the wrath of God.

  • @carlorizzo827

    @carlorizzo827

    5 ай бұрын

    Guffaw 30 years ago for a friend I made a cassette of Bernard Hermann's scores. After embezzling, Janet Leigh's fugitive by car music, from Psycho: my friend liked having it on in her own car as she drove around

  • @2msvalkyrie529

    @2msvalkyrie529

    5 ай бұрын

    Dial M For Murder. ?

  • @carlorizzo827

    @carlorizzo827

    5 ай бұрын

    @@ricardocantoral7672 i must agree, none are trashy to me. But honestly, there's greatness in all!! Very recently i saw for the 1st time on TCM The Paradine Case. OMFG!!! Alida Valli!🔥A so young Belmondo!🔥Floored!

  • @laurac8659
    @laurac86597 ай бұрын

    And yet he wasn’t true to the book Gone With the Wind.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    How could he be, it went on for years? He burnt down Atlanta & won 1st Negro Oscar!

  • @mousemd
    @mousemd7 ай бұрын

    Gone With The Wind? More like Gone Up In Flames 🔥

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Went With the Wind.

  • @ronthornton3466
    @ronthornton34668 ай бұрын

    Along with marvel movies.

  • @MartinSage
    @MartinSage7 ай бұрын

    Except for the Dali Sequence, I found "Spellbound " an utter BORE! Along with "Suspicion" and it's hurried, silly ending Hitchcock's two movies with "S" titles were simply described in one 4 letter word starting with S and ending with T 😊

  • @carmencollor1224

    @carmencollor1224

    6 ай бұрын

    I concur!!! Can't stand Spellbound. And Peck's acting in this film is outrageously bad!

  • @ricardocantoral7672

    @ricardocantoral7672

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@carmencollor1224 I always found Peck to be a stiff. He did alright in certain movies but I think he was one of the most wooden of the Golden Age actors.

  • @carmencollor1224

    @carmencollor1224

    6 ай бұрын

    @@ricardocantoral7672 right? Handsome, no doubt, but with just a handful of expressions, and that was it.

  • @ricardocantoral7672

    @ricardocantoral7672

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@carmencollor1224 I love doing Peck impressions! 😂

  • @frikkiethirion8053
    @frikkiethirion80537 ай бұрын

    Die klankbaan is hoererend kak

  • @lanceash
    @lanceash6 ай бұрын

    Boy, Pauline Kael wouldn't like this.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Who & who cares?

  • @lanceash

    @lanceash

    3 күн бұрын

    @@unowen-nh9ov Do some research, pal.

  • @thebiscuitrose
    @thebiscuitrose6 ай бұрын

    What? Leave the horse alone

  • @irisheyes5890
    @irisheyes58906 ай бұрын

    “Louis was a lier, cheat and a fraud” and one of the richest men of his time. “If you can’t get it by straight ligament means then finagle it ; those were family traditions.” That’s why we shouldn’t have brought them to our country.

  • @christinepaige2575
    @christinepaige25757 ай бұрын

    I wish Hitchcock had never made “Psycho”; it was trash, and shockingly indicative of his deterioration as filmmaker.

  • @robinlove9406

    @robinlove9406

    7 ай бұрын

    no one cares; get over yourself!

  • @ricardocantoral7672

    @ricardocantoral7672

    7 ай бұрын

    Wrong, that was one of his best. The Birds was also fantastic and that was his last masterpiece.

  • @christinepaige2575

    @christinepaige2575

    7 ай бұрын

    @@ricardocantoral7672 We will have to agree to disagree about that. Imo, Hitchcock went from crafting subtle psychological thrillers to cranking out crude, gory fright-fests. Sad. We can be grateful that there are many more of the former than the latter in his body of work.

  • @jameshogan6142

    @jameshogan6142

    6 ай бұрын

    Frenzy ten years after Psycho was much along the same lines.@@christinepaige2575

  • @jerrywatt6813

    @jerrywatt6813

    6 ай бұрын

    Millions disagree sorry 😊

  • @chirelle.alanalooney8609
    @chirelle.alanalooney86096 ай бұрын

    I have NEVER had the feeling, that Cary Grant ever had any real Love, for any of his Leading Ladies that he played opposit of. He Never showed any Real Desire for any of them. I felt that he was GAY, and I think that I am Right on that point.

  • @maguffintop2596

    @maguffintop2596

    6 ай бұрын

    Tell that to Sophia Loren.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    What you "feel' is irrelevant, ask his wives & daughter, he didn't have to marry again after becoming a father,

  • @mckavitt13
    @mckavitt137 ай бұрын

    I dislike Hitchcock, the man, mostly...funny as he could be. There, I’ve said it.

  • @veritas6335

    @veritas6335

    7 ай бұрын

    We'll alert the media.

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    His wife & daughter tolerated him, in fact they worked together for years & latter write lovely book about their family life together.

  • @andrewwerner2061
    @andrewwerner20617 ай бұрын

    😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😠😠😠😠 don't like David o Selznick don't care if he put out good movies or not

  • @theresaschmidt1183

    @theresaschmidt1183

    7 ай бұрын

    It's possible to appreciate art without liking the artist!

  • @personaking7844

    @personaking7844

    7 ай бұрын

    He left his Jewish wife for a gentile...

  • @andrewwerner2061

    @andrewwerner2061

    7 ай бұрын

    @@theresaschmidt1183 for him I won't like anything he s done I've read 3 books on robert walker

  • @andrewwerner2061

    @andrewwerner2061

    7 ай бұрын

    Or anything Jennifer jones has done I won't like

  • @unowen-nh9ov

    @unowen-nh9ov

    3 күн бұрын

    Knew them well, did you?

  • @personaking7844
    @personaking78447 ай бұрын

    Selznick was 🗑️

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