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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... didn't feel right about filming, he just wouldn't film and I'd go play ball. MILLER: After The Kid, you did a lot of famous juvenile parts in films like Peck's Bad Boy and Oliver Twist, but you also did a lot of popular pictures that ...
... didn't. She was never nominated again and she died of cancer in 1965. I was told Bette [Davis, who was nominated for All about Eve] and I had almost tied in votes, and Judy had squeaked forward with only a few more votes to take it ...
... Didn't they want you to take over from Katharine Hepburn on Broadway in Coco? SWANSON: Oh, yes! I went to a matinee and saw Kate swanning about and thought she was just awful. Imagine a woman who loves to dress in men's slacks cast as a ...
... didn't work. He had what's called animal magnetism. Anyway, after filming completed, I'm down in a shady bar swilling down illegal liquor and in comes Clark. He told me he figured he only had a couple of years in the biz before he was ...
... of the gang. She sat with the crew between takes. No movie star airs for her. She always played jokes on all of us, like placing a squawk cushion on my wheelchair seat. One day she comes to me and asked why Freddie MacMurray didn't make.
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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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