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Julie Garfield: “I was only six and a half when he died, but my father [John Garfield] was always my hero”

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The lady pictured here is Julie Garfield. She was born in 1946 in Los Angeles; her father was […]

September 30, 2025 Actor, Actress, Film Talk

Stanley Rubin: “We designed the saloon girl in ‘River of No Return’ around the whole concept of Marilyn Monroe”

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Stanley Rubin (1917-2014) was an American screenwriter and film producer who made numerous films in the 1940s and […]

July 5, 2025 Film Talk, Producer-screenwriter

Vincent Sherman: “Since our focus was always on entertainment, we never talked about art”

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The term ‘quintessential studio director’ certainly applies to actor-turned-screenwriter and filmmaker Vincent Sherman (1906-2006), who worked at Warner […]

November 25, 2024 Director, Film Talk

Daniel Hart: “I want a film to tell me what kind of music it needs”

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Daniel Hart (b. 1976) is a prolific American film composer who began playing the violin at age three. […]

May 2, 2023 Film composer, Film Talk

Johan Heldenbergh: “When you’re in character, even your fingers define the person you are playing”

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Johan Heldenbergh (b. 1967) is a Flemish character actor who rose to fame when he played the leading […]

September 27, 2018 Actor, Film Talk

“Blackboard Jungle”: How Glenn Ford’s son Peter launched Bill Haley’s ‘Rock Around the Clock’

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“One, two, three o’clock, four o’clock rock. Five, six, seven o’clock, eight o’clock rock…” Remember this intro from […]

April 24, 2017 Film history

Peter Ford, remembering what happened to him 65 years ago: “A boy, his dog, and Charlie Chaplin”

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“It was early 1952, I was seven years old, and silent screen legend Charlie Chaplin lived around the […]

January 9, 2017 Film history

Louise Fletcher: “Rejection is just something you eat every day, like it’s your breakfast”

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Actress Louise Fletcher (b. 1934) wrote film history when she portrayed the character of an atrocious and strong-willed […]

February 15, 2016 Actress, Film Talk

Looking back: What daily life was like at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer once you entered the studio

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A lot of (auto)biographical books and historical documentaries have been made over the years, all reflecting on (the […]

November 21, 2015 Film history, Hollywood

“Now, Voyager”: Why the 1942 screen classic with Bette Davis and Paul Henreid will never age

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“Box office dynamite—that’s ‘Now, Voyager’.” Those are the first words of Naka‘s “Now Voyager” Variety film review, as […]

October 5, 2015 Film, Film history

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