American Masters Online sat down with CARY GRANT: A CLASS APART filmmaker Robert Trachtenberg to discuss Grant and the documentary. Why do you think the public remains so fascinated by Cary Grant? He transcends his era in the same way his frequent co-star Irene Dunne ...
A sampling of witticisms, one liners, and knock-out dialogue from Cary Grant, the characters he played, and some of his best known co-stars. SYLVIA SCARLETT Sylvia Scarlett: You've got the mind of a pig. Jimmy Monkley: It's a pig's world. BRINGING UP BABY David Huxley: ...
Robert Trachtenberg, director of Cary Grant: A Class Apart, chooses his lists of "essential" Grant films. SYLVIA SCARLETT (1935) Co-Star: Katharine Hepburn Director: George Cukor His breakthrough role for which George Cukor said, "He finally felt the ground under his feet." THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937) ...
Originally published in The New Yorker magazine, July 14th, 1975 By Pauline Kael. American Masters thanks The New Yorker for their kind permission to reprint this classic essay. "You can be had," Mae West said to Cary Grant in "She Done Him Wrong," which opened ...
American Masters interviewed JAMES DEAN: SENSE MEMORIES filmmaker Gail Levin on making a film about the actor's life and career. American Masters: What got you interested in this project? What drew you to James Dean? Gail Levin: Interestingly enough, there is a sort of circular ...
Excerpted from photographer Dennis Stock's book, "James Dean: 50 years Ago." 1955 "...When I look back at Los Angeles in the early fifties, and specifically Sunset Boulevard, it reminds me of the board game in which you try to move clockwise and upward, past designated ...
