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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

Kathleen Hughes: “Marilyn Monroe was so fantastic, I couldn’t believe Fox had dropped her”

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Former screen and television actress Kathleen Hughes (b. 1928) got noticed in 1953 as a blonde bombshell who […]

January 14, 2025 Actress, Film Talk

“All About Eve”: Screen classic with Bette Davis and Anne Baxter resonates with audiences to this day

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“All About Eve” (1950), written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, was on BBC just recently on a […]

December 25, 2024 Film

Bruce Davison: “Tell a story as cleanly and as purely as you possibly can. Everything else is lettuce on your sandwich”

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Stage and screen actor Bruce Davison (b. 1946) has been one of the busiest and most sought-after character […]

August 15, 2019 Actor, Film Talk

Dean Tavoularis: “Everything that Coppola fought against and fought for made ‘The Godfather’ a screen classic”

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Does the name Dean Tavoularis ring a bell? If it doesn’t, you’ve certainly admired his work over the […]

April 19, 2018 Film Talk, Production designer

Film history: Focus on veteran film director Jean Negulesco, his secretary, and Marilyn Monroe

Cover of Jean Negulesco's autobiography "Things I Did and Things I Think I Did: A Hollywood Memoir" (1984)
Cover of Jean Negulesco’s autobiography “Things I Did and Things I Think I Did: A Hollywood Memoir” (1984)
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe

In August 2000, I met with actress Sheree North (1932-2005) in Hollywood for an interview about her career […]

October 26, 2016 Film history

Roman Coppola: “Music and film were particularly important to our family life”

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Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Roman Coppola is undoubtedly an all-round craftsman who is very productive behind the screen: as […]

March 4, 2016 Director-screenwriter, Film Talk

William Wellman, Jr.: “Directors like my father brought their life experiences to the screen”

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Irene Mayer Selznick, daughter of studio mogul Louis B. Mayer and wife of independent Hollywood producer David O. […]

January 8, 2016 Film director, Film Talk

Marisa Pavan: “When you get a part and finally you are recognized, it is the most joyful moment you can have as an actress”

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Marisa Pavan, born in Cagliari, Sardinia, as Marisa Luisa Pierangeli on June 19, 1932, was a celebrated screen […]

February 13, 2015 Actress, Film Talk

Ann Rutherford: “My golden years were platinum years”

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It was wonderful to see how much former screen star Ann Rutherford, a.k.a. Polly Benedict in the much-beloved […]

February 5, 2015 Actress, Film Talk

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