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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... look of that sad-eyed little boy adopted by Chaplin's Little Tramp in The Kid. He was warm and friendly and often seemed to speak of the famous child star as if he had been someone else whom Coogan just happened to know. In the middle ...
... look for yourself! The ignominy of it all! No full-length mirror! No chandelier! Must I rough it? Must I? BAWDEN: The elevator stuck. SWANSON: No doubt! No doubt! Excuses! The last time I was in your Toronto, I was onstage in ...
... but the water had been heavily colored. That was considered very daring, I can tell you. I look at those pictures now and see a chubby teenager. I don't recognize her as me. BAWDEN: Did you like yourself and Rudolph Valentino in Beyond.
... Look at all those reporters in the prison scenes, veteran theater actors all: Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Regis Toomey, Ernest Truex. All highly competitive. For variety and comparison, Howard told me to talk ever so slow as a dimwit ...
... look at the finished product and it was awful. There's no modulation. We're all shouting our lines, except Greer Garson, who came in as Eleanor and she's perfect. She was the only one nominated for an Oscar. I certainly did not deserve ...
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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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