INTERVIEWER There’s a passage in one of your books in which you and Auden are on a train, and you’re savagely attacking religion, and he says: “Be careful, my dear,… Read more “Art may spill over from creating a world of language into the dangerous and forbidden task of trying to create a human being.” →
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,… Read more 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… →
On Marilyn Monroe: Jack Lemmon — I liked her very much and I got along great with her. She had a lot of problems, she was basically an unhappy girl.… Read more Jack Lemmon talks about Marilyn Monroe — Some Like it Hot →
A.O. Scott of the New York Times makes a glowing Christmas pick: . In a second I’ll tell you why this particular film fills me with a sense of Christmas… Read more The Shop Around the Corner…at Christmas →
Even if you’re fighting with your beloved, the point is never to lose connection. Sometimes, even in heated debate, the Mr. and I find we’re still touching, and there’s not… Read more A little unsolicited advice on love… with Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn →
There are so many stories in Hollywood of his wit and humor – and there’s one mythic tale (and I’ve never seen the footage, so I’d have to say it… Read more The lighter side of Alfred Hitchcock →
This was a racy (for the time) movie previous to the Hayes Code wherein a single bumpkin gal is kept by a divorced attorney who transforms her into an elegant… Read more “I’m no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.” Clark Gable →
