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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... face, you know, and I insisted on an extravagant wardrobe. I don't think Billy truly likes women. Oh, we had great clashes on that set. BAWDEN: But you were back at Paramount. SWANSON: That's when the lines got blurred. And Billy added.
... Paramount contractor but he wasn't as young as the character Joe was supposed to be. Bill was thirty-four by then. The shoot was fast and economical. We used a real house but not actually on Sunset Boulevard. I got second billing ...
... Paramount] who tried to legitimize the business by building those gorgeous palaces and promoting movies that the family could see or ones appealing to women. He really was promoting consumerism, although I doubt he knew it. Mr. Zukor ...
... Paramount built him up as the sheik, but the papers made fun of his masculinity. He took it personally and developed ulcers. But his quality came from his astigmatism. He was blind as a bat. He would not have survived sound with that ...
... 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.
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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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