Salvador Dalí(1904-1989)
- Writer
- Art Department
- Actor
Surrealist-turned-catholic painter Dalí worked on various movies as
well. While a member of the French surrealist group, he co-wrote
Un chien andalou (1929) and L'Age d'Or (1930) with Luis Buñuel. The latter may have marked the
beginning of a long-lasting quarrel with the surrealists when Dalí did
not agree on Buñuel's anti-clericalism. While Dalí's painting style
became increasingly conventional, he worked on projects with Walt Disney
and Alfred Hitchcock, for whom he wrote the dream sequence of Spellbound (1945). Plans on
a movie with the Marx Brothers were dropped. The money Dalí earned in
Hollywood and elsewhere, along with his racism and his fascination for
Europe's fascist dictators, put an end to his relations with the (at
that time mostly trotskyist) surrealists, whose leading figure André Breton
since nicknamed Dalí "Avida Dollars" (anagram).
