Salvador Dalí(1904-1989)

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)andL'âge d'or (1930)withLuis 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 withWalt Disney andAlfred Hitchcock,for whom he wrote the dream sequence ofSpellbound (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 figureAndré Breton since nicknamed Dalí "Avida Dollars" (anagram).