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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... phoned Joe Kennedy, who was my financier, and he stopped production and we released it only in Europe. Talkies arrived around that time. It almost broke me, that one. BAWDEN: In The Trespasser [1929] you sang up a storm. SWANSON ...
... phoned up Johnny Carson and he was enthusiastic and he let me do it, but nothing more happened. Nobody would put up the required advance. They twice remade it live on TV, you know, with Mary Astor and Miriam Hopkins. Poor things, they ...
... phoned me up when he was starting work on Chinatown [1974]. Told me he wanted me for Noah Cross. I'd be the stern old man who had raped his own daughter, had the illegitimate child and ... And I said, “Whoa! Wait a minute!” And that was ...
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Kirk Douglas | |
Melvyn Douglas | |
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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