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

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

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.

Narrated by the great Gene Hackman. Love it.

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.

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

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 …

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

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

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

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.

Wonderful doc. Unexpected treat, thanks!!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The great Gene Hackman as narrator ❤

'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.

I love all of these masterpieces!

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. 🎦

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

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

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

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.

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 .

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

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

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.

Selznick needed Hitchcock more than Hitchcock needed Selznick.

Thank you great documentary Very grateful 😊

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

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.

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

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

Good documentary .

Great documentary 👌

"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"

Good but turn the volume up!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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……

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

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) ...

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 .

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

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

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.

A beautiful movie!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I knew I recognized Gene Hackman's voicem

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.

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.

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.

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 😊

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

It seems odd that Gene Hackman would be narrating this.

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.

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

Boy, Pauline Kael wouldn't like this.

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

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.)

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

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

21:03 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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

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

dommage pour les francophones !!!!!

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 😊

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!

Cant hear, cant watch ! Gave up...

Along with marvel movies.

What? Leave the horse alone

Die klankbaan is hoererend kak

“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.

Avoid these mammies.

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

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

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

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.

Selznick was 🗑️