Tag: behind the camera

January 23, 2018 / Vickie Lester

My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England – I was going to play all the sweet roles…

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers. Ida Lupino Is it any wonder she turned to directing? In an era, I might add, when that was a nearly impossible career choice for a woman. Have times changed? Not much. The…

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May 14, 2015 / Vickie Lester

“You can see from the way he uses actors that he sees them as animated props. He casts his films very, very carefully and he knows perfectly well in advance that all the actors that he chooses are perfectly capable of playing the parts he gives them, without any special directorial effort on his part. He gets some sort of a charge out of directing the leading ladies, I think, but that’s something else.” James Mason on Hitchcock