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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... 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 are forgotten today. COOGAN: They made some crazy stuff. When I got ...
... play himself in the movie], who'd given me my first bursts of stardom. And C. B. insisted on calling me “young ... playing my former husband here. Who wouldn't be confused? BAWDEN: I understand Bill Holden was a last-minute addition ...
... played Madame Von Bohlen and I was told my costars would be Kate Jackson, Edward Albert, and John Getz, none of whom I'd ... play myself,” so they allowed me to rewrite all my lines. Director Jack Smight kidded me and said on the set ...
... played many memorable roles, he is probably best remembered as the screen's most convincing portrayer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, playing the president on Broadway in Sunrise at Campobello, then in the film version, and in the TV ...
... plays at night, and in the day we'd be learning a new play for the next week. We played in all kinds of theaters, and for me it was the chance to understand modulation, stillness, how to listen, which is the actor's most important work ...
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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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