Playing to the Camera. Film Actors Discuss Their Craft

Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.)



Author:
Title:Playing to the Camera. Film Actors Discuss Their Craft
Place:New Haven and London
Publisher:Yale University Press
Year:1998
Pages:xiv, 370
ISBN:0-300-06983-9 (cloth), 0-300-07051-9 (pbk.)
Index:yes
Bibliography: yes
Illustrations: yes
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Playing to the Camera. Film Actors Discuss Their Craft

Articles
ix Stanley Kauffmann, Foreword
98 Michael Redgrave, Mask or Face
xiii Ronald Gottesman, Preface
107 Louis Marcorelles, Albert Finney and Mary Ure Talking About Acting
1 Leigh Woods, Introduction
117 Laurence Olivier, On Acting
19 , Charles Graham Acting for the Films in 1912
123 Nikolai K. Cherkasov, Notes of a Soviet Actor
22 Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography
130 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Stanislavsky's Sytem in the Cinema
28 E.H. Sothern, The "New Art"
138 Michael Checkhov, Actor's Feeling and Director's Form
32 Mae Marsh, Screen Acting
149 Mai Zetterling, Some Notes on Acting
40 Lillian Gish, The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me
152 Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Actor, a Witness of His Time
46 John Kobal, Louise Brooks Dialogue with the Actress
155 Marcello Mastroianni, The Game of Truth
57 Louise Closser Hale, The New Stage Fright. Talking Pictures
157 , Conversation with the Actress
65 Betty Compson, Acting in Talking Pictures
165 Wilfredo Cancio Isla, Human Masks Are Dangerous
66 Greta Garbo, What the Public Wants
177 Bette Davis, The Actress Plays Her Part
69 George Arliss, My Ten Years in the Studios
185 Mary Astor, A Life on Film
74 Edward Arnold, Lorenzo Goes to Hollywood
189 Joan Crawford, The Player. A Profile of an Art
79 Lionel Barrymore, The Actor
193 Hume Cronyn, Notes on Film Acting
89 Robert Donat, Film Acting
200 Neil P. Hurley, James Stewart The Many-Splendored Actor
94 Eric Portman, The Film Actor
210 Curtis Lee Hanson, Reflections on Forty Years of Make-Believe
223 John Kobal, Gloria Swanson Interview with the Actress
227 John Kobal, Katharine Hepburn Dialogue on Screen Acting
232 Sidney Poitier, Walking the Hollywood Color Line
242 Meryl Streep, When Women Were in the Movies
247 Leigh Woods, Jeff Daniels "Commercial" Isn't a Dirty Word, Any More Than "Comedy"
267 Roy Newquist, Jack Lemmon Conversation with the Actor
275 Lawrence Grobel, Marlon Brando The Playboy Interview
280 , Robert De Niro Dialogue with the Actor
293 , Dustin Hoffman Interview with the Actor
302 Beverly Walker, Jack Nicholson "The Bird Is on His Own"
309 Leigh Woods, Lindsay Crouse "Acting Has to Be About Something Else"

Author:Stanley Kauffmann
Title:Foreword
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:ix-xi
Illustrations:  no
Author:Michael Redgrave
Title:Mask or Face
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:98-107
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Ronald Gottesman
Title:Preface
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:xiii-xiv
Illustrations:  no
Author:Louis Marcorelles
Title:Albert Finney and Mary Ure Talking About Acting
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:107-116
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Albert Finney
Mary Ure
Author:Leigh Woods
Title:Introduction
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:1-13
Illustrations:  no
Author:Laurence Olivier
Title:On Acting
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:117-118
Illustrations:  yes
Author:
Title:Charles Graham Acting for the Films in 1912
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:19-21
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Charles Graham
Author:Nikolai K. Cherkasov
Title:Notes of a Soviet Actor
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:123-129
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Charles Chaplin
Title:My Autobiography
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:22-28
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Vsevolod Pudovkin
Title:Stanislavsky's Sytem in the Cinema
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:130-138
Illustrations:  yes
Author:E.H. Sothern
Title:The "New Art"
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:28-32
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Michael Checkhov
Title:Actor's Feeling and Director's Form
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:138-145
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Mae Marsh
Title:Screen Acting
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:32-40
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Mai Zetterling
Title:Some Notes on Acting
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:149-152
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Lillian Gish
Title:The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:40-45
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Jean-Louis Trintignant
Title:The Actor, a Witness of His Time
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:152-154
Illustrations:  yes
Author:John Kobal
Title:Louise Brooks Dialogue with the Actress
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:46-52
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Marcello Mastroianni
Title:The Game of Truth
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:155-157
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Louise Closser Hale
Title:The New Stage Fright. Talking Pictures
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:57-65
Illustrations:  yes
Author:
Title:Conversation with the Actress
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:157-165
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Liv Ullmann
Author:Betty Compson
Title:Acting in Talking Pictures
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:65-66
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Wilfredo Cancio Isla
Title:Human Masks Are Dangerous
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:165-169
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Klaus Maria Brandauer
Author:Greta Garbo
Title:What the Public Wants
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:66-68
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Bette Davis
Title:The Actress Plays Her Part
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:177-185
Illustrations:  yes
Author:George Arliss
Title:My Ten Years in the Studios
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:69-74
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Mary Astor
Title:A Life on Film
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:185-188
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Edward Arnold
Title:Lorenzo Goes to Hollywood
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:74-78
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Joan Crawford
Title:The Player. A Profile of an Art
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:189-193
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Lionel Barrymore
Title:The Actor
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:79-82
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Hume Cronyn
Title:Notes on Film Acting
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:193-200
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Robert Donat
Title:Film Acting
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:89-93
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Neil P. Hurley
Title:James Stewart The Many-Splendored Actor
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:200-209
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: James Stewart
Author:Eric Portman
Title:The Film Actor
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:94-98
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Curtis Lee Hanson
Title:Reflections on Forty Years of Make-Believe
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:210-219
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Henry Fonda
Author:John Kobal
Title:Gloria Swanson Interview with the Actress
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:223-227
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Gloria Swanson
Author:John Kobal
Title:Katharine Hepburn Dialogue on Screen Acting
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:227-232
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Katharine Hepburn
Author:Sidney Poitier
Title:Walking the Hollywood Color Line
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:232-241
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Meryl Streep
Title:When Women Were in the Movies
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:242-247
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Leigh Woods
Title:Jeff Daniels "Commercial" Isn't a Dirty Word, Any More Than "Comedy"
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:247-262
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Jeff Daniels
Author:Roy Newquist
Title:Jack Lemmon Conversation with the Actor
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:267-275
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Jack Lemmon
Author:Lawrence Grobel
Title:Marlon Brando The Playboy Interview
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:275-279
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Marlon Brando
Author:
Title:Robert De Niro Dialogue with the Actor
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:280-293
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Robert De Niro
Author:
Title:Dustin Hoffman Interview with the Actor
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:293-302
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Dustin Hoffman
Author:Beverly Walker
Title:Jack Nicholson "The Bird Is on His Own"
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:302-309
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Jack Nicholson
Author:Leigh Woods
Title:Lindsay Crouse "Acting Has to Be About Something Else"
in:Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998
Pp:309-326
Illustrations:  yes
Interview with: Lindsay Crouse