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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... producer himself. He always referred to movies as “product.” His company made the movies and exhibited them in his theaters. He invented block booking. BAWDEN: Did he make you a star? SWANSON: No, the public did. They saw something in ...
... producers knew when she left attendance would slip. So they invited me on board, but at half her salary. And I said I could guarantee that attendance would rise, not fall—because, after all, I have always set fashion and not followed it ...
... producers had a deal with Paramount, which owns the rights. Billy Wilder was furious, but it makes sense. A musical about a silent movie star! What fun! So I phoned up Johnny Carson and he was enthusiastic and he let me do it, but ...
... producer. MGM tried with Luise Rainer, who won two Oscars, but the public never warmed to her. And eventually Sam just gave up on Miss Sten. BAWDEN: The same year you made the delightful screwball comedy Hands across the Table [1935] ...
... producer Mark Hellinger's office and saw on a secretary's desk a script with a note about you. BELLAMY: It said something like, “A wonderfully comic creation, this character dumb as a doornail, clumsy, frightfully daft—perfect Ralph ...
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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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