November 19, 2014, Filed Under: FilmMildred Blount: “Milliner to the Stars!” and designer of hats for “Gone With The Wind” Much behind-the-scenes work on Gone With The Wind and the people who performed that work continues to remain largely unknown outside the production sites of the 1939 film. The story of an African American milliner was recently brought to my attention through an email query—had I heard about the woman… read more
November 14, 2014, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingUndergraduates review music production records for “Rebecca” to understand business side of Hollywood film scores James Buhler is an Associate Professor in Music Theory and the Director of the Center for American Music at The University of Texas at Austin. Below, he writes about using materials from the Ransom Center’s David O. Selznick collection to teach students in his Signature Course “Introduction to Music and… read more
November 7, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Mystery Solved at the Harry Ransom Center As a graduate intern, I have the opportunity to respond to a variety of research queries about the collections. Recently, I helped solve a mystery laid by two differing editions of John le Carré’s 1974 thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Le Carré’s biographer, Adam Sisman, was trying to get to… read more
