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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... took place in each actor's life after we talked. All the interviews included in this book were conducted face-to-face; we have not included press conferences that we attended with the stars. In a few cases, both of us had done separate ...
... took place in April 1968 while he was playing the role of Boss Finley in a production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth in the round at Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California. I joined him in his dressing room and we ...
... took it personally and developed ulcers. But his quality came from his astigmatism. He was blind as a bat. He would not have survived sound with that effeminate voice and mannerisms. BAWDEN: Director Alan Dwan, born right here in ...
... took some of Leo's characteristics and interpolated them into his character. For days we'd sit around swapping stories and Cary, who is so disciplined, finally went to Cohn and said if Harry let him go he'd do two pictures for free. The ...
... They even built a small woods on a soundstage, and the special effects when Lon turns into the wolf took days of stop-action work. I asked Maria Ouspenskaya [the great Russian actress] why she was doing dreck like this.
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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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