"What audacity!" exclaimed actor Robert Wagner when he heard about the authors' adolescent exploits in nabbing interviews with Hollywood celebrities. In 1978, Fantle and Johnson, St. Paul teenagers, boarded a plane to meet with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. They had written the stars requesting interviews--and to their amazement, both agreed. Over the years, more than 250 other stars also agreed--Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, George Burns, Rod Steiger, Milton Berle, Frank Capra and Hoagy Carmichael, to name a few. Published for the first time and with…mehr
"What audacity!" exclaimed actor Robert Wagner when he heard about the authors' adolescent exploits in nabbing interviews with Hollywood celebrities. In 1978, Fantle and Johnson, St. Paul teenagers, boarded a plane to meet with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. They had written the stars requesting interviews--and to their amazement, both agreed. Over the years, more than 250 other stars also agreed--Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, George Burns, Rod Steiger, Milton Berle, Frank Capra and Hoagy Carmichael, to name a few. Published for the first time and with exclusive photos, this selection of 75 interviews chronicles the authors' 40-year quest for insights and anecdotes from iconic 20th century artists.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
David Fantle has been interviewing, writing and speaking about Hollywood's Golden Age stars for 40 years. His work has appeared in media outlets worldwide. He is an adjunct professor of film and pop culture at Marquette University and lives in Milwaukee. Tom Johnson was a senior editor at Netflix and has written movie reviews and features for E! Online, Moviefone and People magazine, among other publications. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Table of Contents Foreword by Robert Wagner delete Preface: Origin Story delete Vaudeville Was Not a Place! Will Ahern and Eddie Parks It Ain't Easy Being Green Eddie Albert Alphabet Soup Steve Allen Read All About Him Ed Asner That Nimble Tread Fred Astaire Having (Less Than) a Ball with Lucy Lucille Ball What's the Buzz? Rona Barrett The Biggest in the Business Milton Berle Dog Day Afternoon Jacqueline Bisset Blanc's Slate Mel Blanc The Importance of Being Ernest Ernest Borgnine Comedy in Three Acts George Burns Measuring Up James Cagney What Makes Sammy Run? Sammy Cahn The-Great-Minneapolis-Kidnap-Caper Frank Capra Stardust and Residuals Hoagy Carmichael The Gamine Leslie Caron Jacked! Jack Carter "Beautiful Dynamite" Cyd Charisse "Mannix": The Last Interview Mike Connors Festering Jackie Coogan Fred and Ed (and Johnny) Fred de Cordova and Ed McMahon Angie Angie Dickinson Testy(monial) Sparring with Stanley Donen You Must Remember This Julius Epstein Common and Preferred Peter Falk With a Song in Her Heart Kathryn Grayson Man Tan George Hamilton This One's for the Birds Tippi Hedren Holy Moses!-Heston on High Charlton Heston All the Best Lines Al Hirschfeld On the Road with "Old Ski Nose" Bob Hope "To the Greats Without a Microphone" George Jessel "How Do You Like Them Apples?" Shirley Jones and Rod Steiger The Real McCoy DeForest Kelley Passing Time with Gene Kelly The Last of the Great Anchormen Ted Knight Clock Watching with Martin Landau The Art of Perfect Timing Burton Lane Janet and Tony and the Art of Crowd Control Janet Leigh and deleteTony Curtis Mum's the Word Mervyn LeRoy Jerry-Rigged Jerry Lewis "Great Songs, Drudge Assignments, It Never Mattered" deleteJay Livingston and Ray Evans Nice and Easy Does It Every Time Karl Malden The "Toy King" Louis Marx Frankly Speaking Billy May Baked AlaskäVirginia Mayo Tops in Taps Ann Miller MGM's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Vincente Minnelli TV's Funniest Shrink Bob Newhart The Great American Flyers The Nicholas Brothers Fred Astaire's Silent Partner Hermes Pan Of Mockingbirds and Maniacs Gregory Peck Maledictions in a Minor Chord André Previn Unsinkable Debbie Reynolds The Merchant of Venom, Defanged Don Rickles Behind the Tinsel Mickey Rooney The Also-Ran Benny Rubin A Delicate Balance Eva Marie Saint The Pen Is Mightier Than the Clarinet Artie Shaw By George! George Sidney The Untouchable Robert Stack A Long Meander with RJ Robert Wagner Benchwarmer Eli Wallach A Friend of Dorothy Charles Walters Lullabies and Nightmares Harry Warren A Short Take on The Three Stooges: Jules White In the Swim with Neptune's Daughter Esther Williams His Favorite Things Robert Wise Afterword: A View from the Terrace delete Index delete
Table of Contents Foreword by Robert Wagner delete Preface: Origin Story delete Vaudeville Was Not a Place! Will Ahern and Eddie Parks It Ain't Easy Being Green Eddie Albert Alphabet Soup Steve Allen Read All About Him Ed Asner That Nimble Tread Fred Astaire Having (Less Than) a Ball with Lucy Lucille Ball What's the Buzz? Rona Barrett The Biggest in the Business Milton Berle Dog Day Afternoon Jacqueline Bisset Blanc's Slate Mel Blanc The Importance of Being Ernest Ernest Borgnine Comedy in Three Acts George Burns Measuring Up James Cagney What Makes Sammy Run? Sammy Cahn The-Great-Minneapolis-Kidnap-Caper Frank Capra Stardust and Residuals Hoagy Carmichael The Gamine Leslie Caron Jacked! Jack Carter "Beautiful Dynamite" Cyd Charisse "Mannix": The Last Interview Mike Connors Festering Jackie Coogan Fred and Ed (and Johnny) Fred de Cordova and Ed McMahon Angie Angie Dickinson Testy(monial) Sparring with Stanley Donen You Must Remember This Julius Epstein Common and Preferred Peter Falk With a Song in Her Heart Kathryn Grayson Man Tan George Hamilton This One's for the Birds Tippi Hedren Holy Moses!-Heston on High Charlton Heston All the Best Lines Al Hirschfeld On the Road with "Old Ski Nose" Bob Hope "To the Greats Without a Microphone" George Jessel "How Do You Like Them Apples?" Shirley Jones and Rod Steiger The Real McCoy DeForest Kelley Passing Time with Gene Kelly The Last of the Great Anchormen Ted Knight Clock Watching with Martin Landau The Art of Perfect Timing Burton Lane Janet and Tony and the Art of Crowd Control Janet Leigh and deleteTony Curtis Mum's the Word Mervyn LeRoy Jerry-Rigged Jerry Lewis "Great Songs, Drudge Assignments, It Never Mattered" deleteJay Livingston and Ray Evans Nice and Easy Does It Every Time Karl Malden The "Toy King" Louis Marx Frankly Speaking Billy May Baked AlaskäVirginia Mayo Tops in Taps Ann Miller MGM's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Vincente Minnelli TV's Funniest Shrink Bob Newhart The Great American Flyers The Nicholas Brothers Fred Astaire's Silent Partner Hermes Pan Of Mockingbirds and Maniacs Gregory Peck Maledictions in a Minor Chord André Previn Unsinkable Debbie Reynolds The Merchant of Venom, Defanged Don Rickles Behind the Tinsel Mickey Rooney The Also-Ran Benny Rubin A Delicate Balance Eva Marie Saint The Pen Is Mightier Than the Clarinet Artie Shaw By George! George Sidney The Untouchable Robert Stack A Long Meander with RJ Robert Wagner Benchwarmer Eli Wallach A Friend of Dorothy Charles Walters Lullabies and Nightmares Harry Warren A Short Take on The Three Stooges: Jules White In the Swim with Neptune's Daughter Esther Williams His Favorite Things Robert Wise Afterword: A View from the Terrace delete Index delete
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