This made my morning! This woman is a badass and I want to read her book. She had me at phone case. Just a bunch of random thoughts:
• I keep a constant drip of Wodehouse audiobooks on, and someone JUST got bitten in the leg by a child. Love seeing it dramatized so effectively!
•Seems like the KKK showed up in Sherlock Holmes as a secret society of random murderers, was that was a prevailing misconception of the time? Unfortunate.
• I’m reading a bio of Martha Graham and Rouben Mamoulian just got her to teach dance at the Eastman School in the 20s, love the kismet of seeing his name in this random context.
Holy shit this was such a fun, informative interview! I LOVE The Best Days of Our Lives and him in it but really never gave him much of a thought otherwise and now I'm excited to put your top picks on my watch list. I get so excited learning stuff from really learned early Hollywood movie people as a novice little old movie hobbyist. Thanks so much for this great conversation Millie!
I have only seen the Judy Garland version of A Star is Born and I have what's perhaps an unpopular opinion about this franchise......we've now remade a movie at least 3 times where a man is so bereft at being less successesful than his wife that he simply must die. I dunno, just irks me---but I'm open to arguments in favor of the movies, I mean the talent chops alone in all of them does speak volumes.
Your comment reminds me of a few anecdotes from the recent 50 Oscar Nights book. 1) Marlee Matlin getting shit on by William Hurt after winning her best actress Oscar; 2) Sally Field being told by then-boyfriend Burt Reynolds that she would never win; 3) Meryl Streep getting shit on by one of the producers of Sophie's Choice because she didn't thank him during her best actress speech (she dropped her speech notes while walking up to accept).
Maybe all these versions of ASIB keep getting made because everyone knows these dudes suck, yet they can't stop talking about themselves. Or something. Art reflecting life?
(I never thought that in the Streisand/Kristofferson version that he ended his own life but just died because he was drunk, but maybe I'm remembering wrong)
Also, listen, I'm just remembering that Alfred Hitchcock's Marney is probably my top problematic fave so don't think I'm all high and mighty with my Star is Born discourse. 😂
This made my morning! This woman is a badass and I want to read her book. She had me at phone case. Just a bunch of random thoughts:
• I keep a constant drip of Wodehouse audiobooks on, and someone JUST got bitten in the leg by a child. Love seeing it dramatized so effectively!
•Seems like the KKK showed up in Sherlock Holmes as a secret society of random murderers, was that was a prevailing misconception of the time? Unfortunate.
• I’m reading a bio of Martha Graham and Rouben Mamoulian just got her to teach dance at the Eastman School in the 20s, love the kismet of seeing his name in this random context.
Keep ruling, Millie!!! Thank you for your service
Holy shit this was such a fun, informative interview! I LOVE The Best Days of Our Lives and him in it but really never gave him much of a thought otherwise and now I'm excited to put your top picks on my watch list. I get so excited learning stuff from really learned early Hollywood movie people as a novice little old movie hobbyist. Thanks so much for this great conversation Millie!
I have only seen the Judy Garland version of A Star is Born and I have what's perhaps an unpopular opinion about this franchise......we've now remade a movie at least 3 times where a man is so bereft at being less successesful than his wife that he simply must die. I dunno, just irks me---but I'm open to arguments in favor of the movies, I mean the talent chops alone in all of them does speak volumes.
Your comment reminds me of a few anecdotes from the recent 50 Oscar Nights book. 1) Marlee Matlin getting shit on by William Hurt after winning her best actress Oscar; 2) Sally Field being told by then-boyfriend Burt Reynolds that she would never win; 3) Meryl Streep getting shit on by one of the producers of Sophie's Choice because she didn't thank him during her best actress speech (she dropped her speech notes while walking up to accept).
Maybe all these versions of ASIB keep getting made because everyone knows these dudes suck, yet they can't stop talking about themselves. Or something. Art reflecting life?
(I never thought that in the Streisand/Kristofferson version that he ended his own life but just died because he was drunk, but maybe I'm remembering wrong)
I never flipped it and looked at it that way, that's actually a really interesting take! And that book sounds really interesting (and infuriating).
Also, listen, I'm just remembering that Alfred Hitchcock's Marney is probably my top problematic fave so don't think I'm all high and mighty with my Star is Born discourse. 😂
Loved this interview! I just added so many Freddie March movies to my watchlist on letterboxed!
This was a lovely interview and quite a great read. Somehow I’m very well acquainted with Freddie March. Put me down for a couple copies too.