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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... story of how they made their great films. We sincerely believe that the stars of Hollywood's golden era were a different breed. Most came into movies while the so-called studio system held sway. In the golden age of the 1930s, 1940s ...
... stories, like Tom Sawyer [1930] and Huckleberry Finn [1931]. Then the roles stopped coming so regularly. How did you feel when you realized you weren't as “hot” as you'd been as a little boy? COOGAN: There was nothing to be sorry about ...
... story and you are interrupting me. I was going to tell you when I met the warden of Alcatraz and I offered to send my bean sprouts diet guaranteed to cure criminality out of the most dastardly mass murderer. I visited the prison ...
... story line around and we couldn't use the original title, Rain. And Queen Kelly with its brothel scenes—really! I finally phoned Joe Kennedy, who was my financier, and he stopped production and we released it only in Europe. Talkies ...
... stories about his voice are bogus. He had a lovely light Irish tenor. But the dialogue they'd given him in his first talkie was just plain stupid: “I love you” said over and over again. It was the way he overacted in silent style that ...
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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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