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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... John Wayne's Cahill, U.S. Marshal (1973). His final screen appearance in a movie was in 1984's The Prey. Setting. the. Scene. My chat with Jackie Coogan took place in April 1968 while he was playing the role of Boss Finley in a production ...
... [John Henry “Jack” Coogan] was a dancer, and I'd gone onstage with him many times. MILLER: The legend is that you were dancing the shimmy onstage at the Orpheum in L.A. when Charlie Chaplin, who was in the audience, saw you and thought ...
... Addams Family. Also shown: Carolyn Jones (left) as Morticia, Ted Cassidy (third from left) as Lurch, and John Astin as Gomez. Courtesy of NBC. f. d. Afterword Jackie Coogan was married four times—first to Betty Grable.
... faded. It was an operetta in which she and John Boles were like a luminous preview of the future pairing of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. I was impressed. So when the invitation came in the spring of 1974 Gloria Swanson.
... John Getz, none of whom I'd ever heard of. I'd heard of Craig Stevens and that was about it. He asked why I was doing “a piece of crap like this”? And I shrugged. There's good and bad in everything. The ratings went sky high. It was 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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