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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... Garbo sent the script back without comment, so to fix her he added a nasty line about her that stayed in. They had to paint lines on my face, you know, and I insisted on an extravagant wardrobe. I don't think Billy truly likes women. Oh ...
... really is French but she's unknown outside her homeland, and it all predictably failed. The moral is this: one must spend money to make it. And neither Claudette nor I come cheap. BAWDEN: Didn't you once write a note to Greta Garbo?
... Garbo? SWANSON: You've done your homework! Yes! I invited her to the League of Former Movie Stars. I'm the president! She'd moved to New York City after the war and people were always seeing her walking about town. I mean, if she really ...
... Garbo and Dietrich. C. B. DeMille had Franciscka Gaal, Universal had Elisabeth Bergner. There was Gwilli Andre. Warners had Lil Dagover. Sam Goldwyn's choice was Anna Sten, fairly beautiful, a grand actress. But she had no heart, she ...
... Garbo, Irene Dunne, and Joan Crawford. In the 1940s, Douglas became deeply involved in liberal causes and Democratic Party politics. He was married to former stage and screen star Helen Gahagan (She, 1935), who became a member of the ...
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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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