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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

Jean Simmons: “Spencer Tracy told me, ‘Know your lines, kid, and get on with it.’ And that’s what I did”

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British-born actress Jean Simmons (1929-2010) was a celebrated star for several decades, and on both sides of the […]

February 17, 2025 Actress

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

Audrey Totter: “My life away from the camera was a very happy one, a life of complete normalcy”

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Film and television actress Audrey Totter (1917-2013) had a relatively short-lived film career, but created several memorable movie […]

June 16, 2024 Actress, Film Talk

Edward Dmytryk: “Directing is an art. It’s like you can paint or you can’t paint”

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Edward Dmytryk was a renowned film director of several screen classics, including “Murder, My Sweet” (1944), “Crossfire” (1947), […]

July 17, 2020 Director, Film Talk

Mamie Van Doren: “Talking about Marilyn Monroe is strange. To me, she’s a person; to most people, she’s an idea”

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In the 1950s and 1960s, former screen actress Mamie Van Doren (b. 1931) was, along with Marilyn Monroe […]

July 28, 2017 Actress, Film Talk

Betty Lasky: “My father [Jesse L. Lasky] was co-founder of Paramount, yet now he’s a forgotten film mogul”

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This old black and white still from Betty Lasky’s family album was taken by her mother Bessie, ca. […]

April 25, 2017 Film pioneer, 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

Richard Fleischer: “Orson Welles changed everything for everybody”

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When I first read film director Richard Fleischer’s autobiography, ‘Just Tell Me When to Cry: A Memoir’ (published […]

December 12, 2014 Film director, Film Talk
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