Playing to the camera film actors discuss their craft /

Other Authors: Cardullo, Bert.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1998]
Physical Description: xiv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Acting for the films in 1912 / Charles Graham
  • My autobiography / Charles Chaplin
  • The "new art" / E.H. Sothern
  • Screen acting / Mae Marsh
  • The movies, Mr. Griffith, and me / Lillian Gish
  • Dialogue with the actress / Louise Brooks
  • The new stage fright : talking pictures / Louise Closer Hale
  • Acting in talking pictures / Betty Compson
  • What the public wants / Greta Garbo
  • My ten years in the studios / George Arliss
  • Lorenzo goes to Hollywood / Edward Arnold
  • The actor / Lionel Barrymore
  • Film acting / Robert Donat
  • The film actor / Eric Portman
  • Mask or face / Michael Redgrave
  • Talking about acting / Albert Finney & Mary Ure
  • On acting / Laurence Olivier
  • Notes of a Soviet actor / Nikolai K. Cherkasov
  • Stanislavsky's system in the cinema / Vsevolod Pudovkin
  • Actor's feeling and director's form / Michael Chekhov
  • Some notes on acting / Mai Zetterling
  • The actor, a witness of his time / Jean-Louis Trintignant
  • The game of truth / Marcello Mastroianni
  • Conversation with the actress / Liv Ullmann
  • Human masks are dangerous / Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • The actress plays her part / Bette Davis
  • A life on film / Mary Astor
  • The player : a profile of an art / Joan Crawford
  • Notes on film acting / Hume Cronyn
  • The many-splendored actor / James Stewart
  • Reflections on forty years of make-believe / Henry Fonda
  • Interview with the actress / Gloria Swanson
  • Dialogue on screen acting / Katharine Hepburn
  • Walking the Hollywood color line / Sidney Poitier
  • When women were in the movies / Meryl Streep
  • "Commercial" isn't a dirty word, any more than "comedy" / Jeff Daniels
  • Conversation with the actor / Jack Lemmon
  • The Playboy interview / Marlon Brando
  • Dialogue with the actor / Robert De Niro
  • Interview with the actor / Dustin Hoffman
  • "The bird is on his own" / Jack Nicholson
  • "Acting has to be about something else" / Lindsay Crouse.