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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... never imagined my childhood obsession with movies would result in an adult career as a newspaper TV critic. —James Bawden To my wife, Darla, who shares my love of classic movies; and my loyal siblings: Barbara Childers of Colleyville ...
... never received a degree. In 1935, when Coogan was twenty, he barely survived a horrendous car crash near San Diego that killed his father and his good friend the child actor Junior Durkin. With his acting career stalled, Coogan enlisted ...
... to be sorry about. I had as complete a life as any boy could have had. I was never bitter about it. MILLER: I know you had a terrible ordeal in 1935 with the auto crash. COOGAN: My father, my best friend, and two of my.
... Never, sir! Never! Now you may begin your questions. Don't look so scared. I assure you I do not have a freshly killed corpse floating head down in the bathtub! BAWDEN: Why are you back in Toronto for one night? SWANSON: To appear on ...
... never replied. I'm sure she got it; I dropped it off at her apartment block. We could have worked together. BAWDEN: You once sang a song from Sunset Boulevard, the musical, on The Tonight Show, but nothing more came of it. SWANSON: I ...
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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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