Tag: movie director

December 13, 2020 / Vickie Lester

Episode 27 is introduced by Mabel Normand, who said, “Acting in the movies is like a cold — you get used to both after a while.”

Gifted with a glib tongue he moved quickly from never-featured actor, to production assistant, to assistant director, and rapidly ascended the dating scale (as he saw it) from the cute craft service gal who brought cucumber sushi snacks to camera at four in the afternoon, to the daughter of a…

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March 10, 2014 / Vickie Lester

A pretty girl is like a melody…

Do you think the attitude reflected toward women in Busby Berkeley’s films might have had something to do with the fact he was married six times? I’m just asking…

January 5, 2014 / Vickie Lester

He’s just a pussycat!

Is “true story” a contradiction in terms? Anyway, it’s come to my attention that the director on a BIG budget movie disappeared for four days. Phffft! Even his wife pled ignorance as to his whereabouts. His absence brought production to a halt and caused quite a stir and (not to…

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February 21, 2013 / Vickie Lester

THE INESTIMABLE: BILLY WILDER

That’s the director, lurking in the background, with his trademark owl framed spectacles. When I was a tyke my father took me to a retrospective screening at the DGA of SOME LIKE IT HOT – a then elderly Billy Wilder and Tony Curtis presided. The screening was packed and the…

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