Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden EraUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1.4.2016 - 440 sivua James Bawden: Seeing the way people behave when they're around you, is it still fun being Cary Grant? Cary Grant: I don't like to disappoint people. Because he's a completely made-up character and I'm playing a part. It's a part I've been playing a long time, but no way am I really Cary Grant. A friend told me once, "I always wanted to be Cary Grant." And I said, "So did I."—from the book In Conversations with Classic Film Stars, retired journalists James Bawden and Ron Miller present an astonishing collection of rare interviews with the greatest celebrities of Hollywood's golden age. Conducted over the course of more than fifty years, they recount intimate conversations with some of the most famous leading men and women of the era, including Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joseph Cotten, Cary Grant, Gloria Swanson, Joan Fontaine, Loretta Young, Kirk Douglas, and many more. Each interview takes readers behind the scenes with some of cinema's most iconic stars. The actors convey unforgettable stories, from Maureen O'Hara discussing Charles Laughton's request that she change her last name, to Bob Hope candidly commenting on the presidential honors bestowed upon him. Humorous, enlightening, and poignant, Conversations with Classic Film Stars is essential reading for anyone who loves classic movies. |
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... Columbia with a [script for a] tearjerker and he yells, “A girl with a brain tumor? Swanson, yer slipping!” It eventually was sold to Warners and became Dark Victory, Bette Davis's biggest moneymaker! I went to Fox and made Music in the ...
... about town. I mean, if she really wanted to be alone, why New York at. Gloria Swanson is ready for her close-up in Sunset Blvd. (1950). Courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Ralph Bellamy, circa 1937. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures.
... president of the Drama Club in high school. I guess I always wanted to act. I started out in bit parts in. Ralph Bellamy, circa 1937. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures. Ralph Bellamy as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in TV's War and.
... Columbia. Harry Cohn [head of Columbia] loved to tweak Mayer. Both were very crude guys, but the difference is Harry knew he was crude. He'd belch in the screening room and then laugh. If a picture seemed overlong, he'd shout, “My bum ...
... Columbia. The script was sent to me and I was told what clothes to bring. The character at that stage was a stodgy Englishman. Then new scripts arrived—three—from Mary McCall, Dwight Taylor, and finally Dorothy Parker. All were ...
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Douglas Fairbanks | |
Joan Fontaine | |
Dorothy Lamour | |
Rosalind Russell | |
Jane Wyman | |
Loretta Young | |
Jane Greer | |
Bob Hope | |
Margaret Hamilton | |
Van Johnson | |
Anne Baxter | |
Joan Blondell | |
Irene Dunne | |
Keye Luke | |
Harold Russell | |
Acknowledgments | |
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