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Meet the Staff: Webmaster Daniel Zmud
Meet the Staff is a Q&A series on Cultural Compass that highlights the work, experience, and lives of staff at the Harry Ransom Center. Daniel Zmud, who joined the Ransom Center in 2001, manages...
View Article“Nothing can match the serene, silent images of Ingrid Bergman’s first...
Mantaray Film’s recently released documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words reveals the legendary actress through her own movies, letters and diaries, including footage that Bergman shot herself....
View ArticleBiography sheds light on William Cameron Menzies, the first production designer
While researching his recent book William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come, author James Curtis visited the Ransom Center to seek insight about Menzies’s career. Menzies worked with producer...
View ArticleHattie McDaniel’s landmark Academy Awards win
The 12th Academy Awards ceremony was held on February 29, 1940, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, with Bob Hope hosting. Gone With The Wind was nominated for 13 awards and won for Outstanding...
View ArticleBeyond the steel center: Incoming fellow Leslie A. Przybylek to research film...
Leslie A. Przybylek, Curator of History at Senator John Heinz History Center, is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the recipient of a 2016–2017 Robert De Niro Fellowship from the Ransom Center in...
View ArticleFellows Find: David O. Selznick constructs a “natural beauty”
Producer of movies and star identities David O. Selznick (1902–1965) was not only a producer of celebrated films such as A Star Is Born (1937), Gone with the Wind (1939), and Since You Went Away...
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