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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

Josef von Stroheim: “My father [Erich von Stroheim] only pretended to be very difficult to handle”

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Almost a century ago, the silent screen’s most mythical ‘cinema artist,’ as he considered himself, began his Hollywood […]

December 15, 2017 Film Talk, Sound editor

John Landis: “I’m always taking great pride in the fact that—I hope—I don’t have a style of my own”

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As an eighteen-year-old, John Landis (b. 1950) got a job in the mailroom at 20th Century Fox, only […]

September 6, 2017 Dir-prod-scr, 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

“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

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

Joan Leslie: “At one point, I was beginning to look more like a secure, mature American woman”

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Former screen actress Joan Leslie, one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age and highly popular […]

October 16, 2015 Actress, Film Talk

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

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

October 5, 2015 Film, Film history

Sydney Pollack: “I like to do character driven stories about people and relationships”

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Film director Sydney Pollack was one of America’s most celebrated filmmakers of his generation. Multiple Academy Award winner […]

December 17, 2014 Director-producer, Film Talk
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