Clara was turning into box office gold. ibid.
‘Wings was a massive success.’ ibid.
Clara’s personal life was becoming increasingly stressful. ibid.
There would be no more movies [fifty-seven] … Clara Bow was twenty-eight years old. ibid.
In 1943 Clara took an overdose. ibid.
100,662. Clara was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia. ibid.
Throughout his lifetime Marlon Brando made hundreds of hours of private audio recordings none of which have been heard by the public until now. Listen to Me Marlon, 2015
Actors are not going be real, they’re going to be inside a computer. ibid.
Do it like it’s never been done before … Get people to stop chewing – the truth will do that. ibid.
I wanted to make pictures that were meaningful to me. ibid.
Mutiny on the Bounty was perhaps my very worse experience in making a motion picture. ibid.
I didn’t make any great movies … There is no art … It’s all bullshit. ibid.
If I am not my brother’s keeper, who am I? ibid.
The 1985 Academy Awards for Over Acting … The Bafta championships, here is Sir Richard Attenborough looking very emotional as ever … Spitting Image s2e9, ITV 1985
Thank God for Actors Award 1991. Spitting Image s10e6, ITV 1991
Sadly, David Niven cannot be with us tonight but he has sent his fridge. Monty Python’s Flying Circus s3e13: Grandstand, film awards, BBC 1973
‘My name is Hannah and I’m auditioning for the role of JonBenet Ramsey.’ Casting JonBenet, child auditions, 2017
‘For me it’s the pearls that make who Patsy was.’ (Murder & Actor) ibid. lady auditions
‘And everyone pointed their finger at Patsy.’ (Murder & Actor) ibid.
‘It feels like a legacy thing for Patsy actually.’ (Murder & Actor) ibid.
New York City: a Mecca for actors from all over America. Yet only a tiny percentage of them make a living from their acting. I was here to find out about this subculture. Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends: Off Off Broadway, BBC 1999
‘When you look back at his life you see nothing but contradiction.’ Reputations s4e5: John Wayne: The Unquiet American, Oliver Stone, BBC 1998
It was Ford who rescued Wayne from the B-movie treadmill. ibid.
‘He drank like a fish.’ ibid. Harry Jackson, friend
Wayne would always be deeply insecure about his failure to serve. ibid.
‘He loved women.’ ibid. Harry Jackson
Wayne threw him and his film [The Alamo] into the Republican cause. ibid.
Wayne’s right-wing opinions were becoming increasingly extreme. He defended the taking of Indian land and attacked the civil rights movement. ibid.
Heath was the most alive human, and if it wasn’t on the edge, it didn’t interest him. I Am Heath Ledger, Ben Harper musician, Sky Arts 2018
It was just obvious; he just had this great swagger about him. ibid. Steve Alexander agent
The cameras were a part of him. ibid. best friend
He wanted fame, and then when he got it he didn’t want it. ibid. friend
Heath was a one-man force of nature. ibid. Ben Harper
Heath Ledger left this world on January 22 2008. He was 28 years old. ibid.
I only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away. Heath Ledger
Over the past few years black film-makers and actors have featured heavily in the annual awards ceremonies. Breaking box office records along the way. Black Hollywood: They’ve Got to Have Us I, BBC 2018
These are artists revolutionizing cinema in ways that really matter to us all. ibid.
Black film-makers finally won themselves the space to speak. ibid.
Gone With the Wind: Many actors were straitjacketed by the writing of the time. But Hattie McDaniel stood out. ibid.
‘My name is Harry Belafonte and I’ve been around a long time.’ ibid.
The ‘Hays Code’ explicitly forbade the depiction of sexual relationships between ‘the white and black races’. ibid.
‘My name is Earl Cameron and I’ve been an actor from the age of … it’s a long time ago.’ ibid.
Carmen Jones: Budget: $750,000; Box Office $9.8 million; Equivalent Today: $87.5 million. ibid.
Five decades ago, at the height of the civil rights movement, America’s most beloved actor was a black man. His name is Sidney Poitier … To Sir With Love (1967). ibid.
Spike Lee: nothing has ever been the same since. ibid.
Black Panther [2010] has shown that a film can be both all-black and all-successful. Black Hollywood: They’ve Got to Have Us II: Black Film is Not a Genre
Do the Right Thing (1989): hip-hop score was is itself revolution but the movie was much more than a soundtrack. ibid.
Stereotypical Casting: ‘I was auditioning, auditioning, auditioning, and now suddenly it’s like Thug #1’ ibid. Laurence Fishburne
Pam Grier: Foxy Brown (1974) … ‘And I got my black belt in bar stool.’ ibid.
Even white directors came up against age-old obstacles when attempting to tell the black story. ibid.
Ray: Budget $40 million; Box Office $124.7 million. ibid.
Most black actors found themselves as the only non-white person on set playing a very minor roll. ibid.
The game changer: True star power is found in Denzel Washington. ibid.
Black Panther (2018): The biggest entertainment franchise of recent times. ibid.
The next generation of black British actors bagged leading roles in a succession of Hollywood blockbusters. Black Hollywood: They’ve Got to Have Us III: Have Us
The exodus of black British talent to the US began in the ’90s. ibid.
It wouldn’t be until 1989 that a black women would direct a Hollywood movie. ibid.
Get Out raked in over $250 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest selling horror movies of all time. ibid.
September 17 1971 Nixon: Jane Fonda. What in the world is the matter with Jane Fonda? I feel sorry for Henry Fonda who is a nice man. Jane Fonda in Five Acts, Nixon’ tapes, Sky Atlantic 2018
When you grow up in the industry and you see er what the people are really like behind their masks, you know you’re not too encouraged to become an actor. ibid. Jane
She’s lost out there as his [Henry] daughter. ibid. brother Peter
I was Miss Army Recruiter in 1959. ibid. Jane
I am a woman. I am gonna be damaged. I am gonna be crushed. ibid.
Anyone can change and become fierce. ibid.
This is the unlikely story of a boy called Archie Leach who endured a truly traumatic childhood in a suburb in Bristol in the early 1900s. And yet Archibald Alec Leach against all the odds ended up here in Hollywood. He changed his name to Carry Grant. Alan Yentob, Imagine … Becoming Cary Grant, BBC 2018
All my life I’ve been searching for peace of mind. I wanted to rid myself of all my hypocrisies. ibid. Grant
Everybody wants to be Carry Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. ibid. reported quote
I came home from school one day and mother was gone. ibid. autobiography
He went to Hollywood on his own. ibid. film historian
I would still be seeking fulfilment and serenity thirty years later. ibid. Grant