Join us for this month’s installment of our Coffee with a Curator series featuring Elliot King, Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Washington and Lee University. In conjunction with our special exhibition Dalí in America, the talk will explore Salvador Dalí’s contribution to Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic film, Spellbound.
For decades, the film’s celebrated dream sequence has been surrounded by rumor, confusion and competing claims. Drawing on early working scripts for Spellbound and producer David O. Selznick’s papers at the Harry Ransom Center, this lecture revisits one of cinema’s most famous encounters between Surrealism and Hollywood, revealing how Hollywood dreamed Surrealism—with and without Dalí.
Organized by The Dali Museum
