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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... studio system held sway. In the golden age of the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s, movie stars were groomed carefully by the studios. Some actors had already established public personas if they came from Broadway, radio, or the music ...
... studio finally figured out the groove it deemed right for an actor, that often meant the actor was typecast, perhaps having to risk suspension for a chance to rise out of that studio-determined persona. In our chats with these stars ...
... studio to give Swanson a new showcase and helped finance her ill-fated final silent film, the notorious Queen Kelly (1928), directed by Erich von Stroheim. It was a financial fiasco, savaged by censors and barely seen anywhere as ...
... studio. Failure to do so would result in dismissal. But Jack showed up, and one night jumped in a frigid swimming pool a dozen times as ordered by the director. Then they told him there was no film in the camera and to go home. I hated ...
... studio. It was the cheapest and located in Gower Gulch. And yes, he had sweeties among the chorines, but so did Mayer. I did a couple of quickies that made piles of dough and I asked for double the salary for my next one and he closed ...
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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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