By filmmaker Marilyn Mellowes, director of American Masters: Julia Child! America’s Favorite Chef. Scooping up a potato pancake, patting chickens, coaxing a reluctant soufflé, or rescuing a curdled sauce, Julia Child was never afraid of making mistakes. "Remember, if you are alone in the kitchen, ...
For nearly sixty years, Alwin Nikolais was modern dance’s pioneer of multimedia. Among his best known performances are "Masks, Props, and Mobiles" (1953), "Totem" (1960), and "Count Down" (1979). Nikolais would often present his dancers in constrictive spaces and costumes with complicated sound and sets, ...
Ella Fitzgerald's early life Ella Fitzgerald's first dream was to be a dancer. Growing up in New York, she was inspired by "Snake Hips" Tucker, studying his serpentine moves and practicing them constantly with friends. Then, one fateful night at the Apollo Theater in 1934, ...
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 ...
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 ...
On December 10, 1938, David O. Selznick burned down Atlanta. On the back of his Culver City studio, Selznick had begun filming what would be his and Hollywood’s greatest triumph, GONE WITH THE WIND. Selznick was just thirty-six years old and already a legend. He ...
For nearly sixty years, Alwin Nikolais was modern dance’s pioneer of multimedia. Among his best known performances are "Masks, Props, and Mobiles" (1953), "Totem" (1960), and "Count Down" (1979). Nikolais would often present his dancers in constrictive spaces and costumes with complicated sound and sets, ...
