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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... 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 of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth in the round at Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California ...
... Setting. the. Scene. Gloria Swanson had always been a movie puzzle to me. Sure, I'd seen her in Sunset Blvd. Who hadn't? But when it came to the hundred or so silent movies she'd made, beginning in 1915, I simply drew a blank. Where was I ...
... Setting. the. Scene. If I had to name an actor's actor, I'd certainly pick Ralph Bellamy. I became a fan early ... set of a TV movie, 1978's The Clone Master, at Paramount in Hollywood, and we talked at length. He invited me to call him ...
... Setting. the. Scene. I grew up with a special appreciation of Rory Calhoun because he spent much of his youth in my hometown, Santa Cruz, California, and went to some of the same schools before he dropped out. I remember digging his clip ...
... stage and radio actor went on to become a leading man in scores of important films, including a number of renowned ... Setting. the. Scene. The first time Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons was shown on Canadian TV in 1960, I stayed ...
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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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