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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... movies while the so-called studio system held sway. In the golden age of the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s, movie stars were groomed carefully by the studios. Some actors had already established public personas if they came from ...
... movies or in smaller parts in A movies, a reliable way to discover if they had the appeal to become leading actors. Actors ... movie theaters, the rising influence of powerful talent agencies, and the growing strength of the craft unions ...
... movies, including Elvis Presley's Girl Happy (1965) and 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 ...
... movie debut at eighteen months of age in an unbilled part in a picture called Skinner's Baby. I was still an infant. My dad [John Henry “Jack” Coogan] was a dancer, and I'd gone onstage with him many times. MILLER: The legend is that ...
... movie star still living in her own glittering past. Swanson had a stormy love life, which included an adulterous affair with Joseph Kennedy, father of the future president. Kennedy bought a movie studio to give Swanson a new showcase ...
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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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