The Studs Terkel interviews : film and theater / Studs Terkel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Spectator

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entertainers--Interviews.

Entertainers.

Entertainers--Biography.

Dramatists--Interviews.

Dramatists.

Dramatists--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Theatrical producers and directors--Interviews.

Theatrical producers and directors.

Genre:

collective biographies.

interviews.

Biographies.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xv, 364 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2008, ©1999.

Summary:

Collects the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian's remarkable conversations with some of the greatest luminaries of film and theatre. Originally published under the title The Spectator, this "knowledgeable and perceptive" (Library Journal) look at show business presents the actors, directors, playwrights, dancers, lyricists, and others who created the dramatic works of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Overture

Prologue: morning, noon, and night (with Jack Kirkland)

Act One. Beginnings. In the wings (with Francois Truffaut). Buster Keaton. Lillian Gish. King Vidor. Vittorio De Sica

Say it with music. Eubie Blake. Agnes DeMille. Carol Channing (and Talluah Bankhead)

Hard Times. Arthur Miller. Eva LeGallienne. Hiram (Chub) Sherman. E.Y. (Yip) Harburg. Harold Clurman.

Chicago Boom-Boom. James Cagney

War. War movies. On seeing The Deer Hunter. Pauline Kael

O Death. Lila Kedrova. Reflections on The Last Mile and Watch on the Rhine. John Randolph on Alfred Lunt

Kindness of strangers. Tennessee Williams (and Claudia Cassidy). Geraldine Page. Marlon Brando

Act Two. Ways of seeing. Federico Fellini (and Marcello Mastroianni and Alain Cuny). Rene Clair. Satyajit Ray (and Ravi Shankar)

Ways of doing. Francoise Rosay. Ruth Gordon. Simone Signoret

Ways of seeing II. Ian McKellan. Jonathan Miller

A touch of Shaw. Sybil Thorndike. Robert Morley

Bert and Sam: Brecht and Beckett. Kenneth Tynan (and Peter Hall). Lotte Lenya (and Arnold Sundgaard). Joan Littlewood. Alan Schneider. Gilbert Moses (and Joe Lattimore). Rick Cluchey. E.G. Marshall

Act Three. Solo flight. Ruth Draper. Emlyn Williams. Hal Holbrook

Out of the shadows. Moms Mabley. Lorraine Hansberry. James Baldwin. August Wilson (and Clifford Burke)

Success. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Uta Hagen

Winners and losers. William Saroyan (and Bill Veeck). Jose Quintero. Jose Quintero and Jason Robards. E.G. Marshall. Edward Albee

The Clowns. Marcel marceau. Jacques Tati. Zero Mostel (and Eugene Ionesco)

Epilogue. Burr Tillstrom.

Notes:

"Originally published as The spectator"--Title page verso

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

9781595583598

1595583599

OCLC:

181139940