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As I am : an autobiography
An autobiography that includes her love affair with Gary Cooper, her marriage with Roald Dahl, her recovery from three strokes, and her stage and film career.
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Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film
Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film is the first study dedicated to understanding the work of female Method actors on film.
While Method acting on film has typically been associated with the explosive machismo of actors like Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro, this book explores an alternate tradition within the Method—the work that women from the Actors Studio did in Hollywood. Covering the period from the end of the Second World War until the 1970s, this study shows how the women associated with the Actors Studio increasingly used Method acting in ways that were compatible with their burgeoning feminist political commitments and developed a style of feminist Method acting. The book examines the complex intersection of Method acting, sexuality, and gender by analyzing performances such as Kim Hunter’s in A Streetcar Named Desire, Julie Harris’s in The Member of the Wedding, Shelley Winters’s in The Big Knife, Geraldine Page’s in Sweet Bird of Youth, and Jane Fonda’s in Coming Home. Challenging the longstanding assumption that Method acting’s approaches were harmful to women and incompatible with feminism, this book argues that some of Hollywood’s most interesting female actors, and leading feminists, emerged from the Actors Studio in the period between the 1950s and the 1970s.
Written for students and scholars of Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, and Gender Studies, Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film reshapes the way we think of a central strain in American screen acting, and in doing so, allows women a new stake in that tradition.
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'Private Screenings: Patricia O'Neal,' airing Monday on TCM
The Oscar-winner sits for a short but compelling interview on \"Private Screenings,\" premiering Monday on Turner Classic Movies. Host Robert Osborne draws juicy insights from the 78-year-old actress that will delight movie buffs. Years later, [Patricia Neal] became friends with [Gary Cooper]'s daughter and widow. \"That's what life is made of,\" Neal says. She credits [Roald Dahl], author of \"James and the Giant Peach,\" with helping her through the recovery. Together, they endured the agony of losing a daughter to measles and nearly losing a son who was hit by a taxi. Neal later overcame her fury at the philandering Dahl for divorcing her.
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Q: I read an item in your column about the movie \"On Borrowed Time.\" That was one of my favorites too, but I was under the impression it was called \"Death Takes a Holiday.\" I must have seen that one too, but confused the titles. Can you tell me about \"Death Takes a Holiday\"? Q: Whenever the conversation turns to reality shows I remember a show from the 1970s in which in-home TV cameras recorded days in the lives of a family in California (where else?) for all the viewing public to see. I can't remember the family's name, but it seems that the show had the same name - like \"The Bradleys\" or \"The Robertsons.\" The whole thing was an experiment in which the family voluntarily participated. After the show ended, so did whatever had held the family together up to that point. I recall reading that the parents had divorced, and I believe at least one of the sons ran into trouble with the law. I know I'm not imagining this, but no one I've mentioned it to remembers the show. Can you fill in the details for them (and for me)? Thanks! There were two follow-up documentaries: 1983's \"An American Family: 10 Years Later\" and 2003's \"Lance Loud! A Death in an American Family,\" which detailed his death from AIDS and Hepatitis C in 2001.
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