Movies studios are now attempting to make film go the way of the dinosaur. Because of the lower cost and relative ease of digital projection, the studios are sending a "convert to digital or die" message to theaters everywhere. They have announced that they will completely cease shipping r...

Well, I got a chance to read the second article quicker than I thought. I loved the part about comedy and how her comedy was different from Joan Blondell's, and how each comedian, or any actor really, was an individual, the people pick up on that person's character traits if they like them. I agree...

http://i1361.photobucket.com/albums/r665/hbenthow/Glenda%20Farrell/13482386_zpsdcd5f970.jpg Rudy Valee, Sterling Holloway, Humphrey Bogart, and Glenda Farrell - circa 1940. A few more parts of Glenda Farrell's 1959 Columbia Center for Oral History interview. More on comedy. Q: Did you do lots of co...

I did see your marvelous interview with Glenda, thanks so much for posting it. I've been in and out lately on the boards, very busy here, so just because I don't write doesn't mean I'm not reading and relishing everything. She seems to have been as common sense a person as there ever was in Hollywo...

Oh you've hit so many favorites on this list, hbenthow! Golly, You KNOW I love Glenda. I can't even tell you how great I think she is. I'm the same way about her. In fact, she's my favorite actress. By the way, did you see the parts of her 1959 interview that I posted in your thread about her a few...

Glenda Farrell. One of the best comediennes of all time. After reading her 1959 CCOH interview, I've gained an even greater appreciation for her. She was very professional, and had interesting intellectual views of her craft. Mischa Auer. A great character actor with a lot of presence. He was great ...

Here's a line that I'm surprised hasn't made it onto this thread yet. "As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill, as G...

Out of all the book adaptions I have seen, I consider The Night of the Hunter one of the very best. It's extremely faithful to the book, with the plot and characters unchanged and the dialogue mostly word for word (or at least very close). Charles Laughton not only kept his movie faithful to the tex...

That's a great interview. I agree with Jane Greer about Robert Mitchum. Despite all the talk about him being lazy and always just being himself, I've always seen him as a great actor. He's somewhat like Cary Grant, in that he was always had his own persona, yet was able to make that persona fit many...

Glenda and Tommy Farrell with Glenda's then-boyfriend Robert Riskin.

I thought it would be interesting to create a thread about the thoughts of various classic actors, directors, and other show-business people on various subjects. The concept for this thread is that anyone can post the opinions of any classic director, actor, or other such person involved in film-ma...

They don't have an online ordering system or regular order forms. Instead, to order a transcript, you send them a piece of paper with the name of the project (such as the Popular Arts Project), the title of the particular transcript you wish to order, and your address, and enclose a check for the co...

It's only possible to purchase them sight unseen. There's no way to preview them online. The web page for each interview does have a brief synopsis of what's covered in it, though. If you'd like to see some samples of the one I bought, I could show you a few parts of it. (I've already posted a few b...

Is anyone here familiar with the The Columbia Center for Oral History? I happened across their website a while back, and discovered a collection of in-depth interviews of various people involved in some way or another with popular arts, including a great deal of actors, directors, and other people i...

Here's another plus with B movies - better roles for character actors. I agree. A lot of character actors (Alan Jenkins, Glenda Farrell, etc) got more of the spotlight in the B's than they did in the A's. I am enjoying the Nick Carter films right now, speaking of B's, and they are good, snappy pace...