Hollywood: The Selznick Years

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.

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))