Assorted Famous People and Celebrities Film Clips
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Clare Boothe: The Woman Behind The Women (Stage Magazine, 1938)
On the eve of the release of Clare Boothe's (Clare Boothe Luce 1903 – 1987) play, "The Women" (to be released September 12, 2008) it is altogether fitting and proper that we should remember that witty woman and the account that she made of herself for the editors of "The Stage" shortly after the play opened to rave reviews in 1936:"Of course, writing plays wasn't exactly a flash of genius. I mean I am shewed in spots...But inspiration or calculation, it was frightfully lucky that I hit on writing plays, wasn't it? And it was so wonderfully fortunate that quite a lot of people that I'd met socially on Park Avenue, at very exclusive parties, people like cowboys, cooks, manicurists, nurses, hat-check girls, fitters, exchorines, declasses countesses, Westport intellectuals, Hollywood producers Southern girls and radical columnists, gave me such lovely material to write about."
| Noël Coward (The Stage, 1933)
Noël Coward (1899 – 1973) "was simply the best all-rounder of the theatrical, literary and musical worlds of the 20th century. He invented the concept of celebrity and was the essence of chic in the Jazz Age of the 20s and 30s. His debonair looks and stylishly groomed appearance made him the icon of 'the Bright Young Things' that inhabited the world of The Ivy , The Savoy and The Ritz. No one is totally sure when and why it happened but following his success in the 1930s he was called 'The Master', a nickname of honor that indicated the level of his talent and achievement in so many of the entertainment arts." -so say the old salts at NoelCoward.net, and they should know because they have a good deal more time to think about him than we do.
The attached article was no doubt written by one of his many groupies for a swank American theater magazine following the successful New York premiere of his play "Design for Living": "'Private Lives' was written hastily in a Shanghai hotel room. 'Design for Living' was done in six months on a freighter in South America...He is full of creative plans - plays, music, lyrics. In the early days he wrote them off flippantly, showing how smart he was, never rewriting, never scraping down his ideas, just popping them into the theater." *Watch a 1955 Clip of Noël Coward Performing 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'*
| Lillian Hellman (Stage, 1939)
This one page uncredited profile of Lillian Hellman (1905 – 1984) was accompanied by a rare photo of the thirty-four year old American playwright upon the opening of her play, "The Little Foxes":"Four seaons ago when 'The Children's Hour' was produced, that labeling which is the destiny of every important new playwright began. "Second Ibsen"..."American Strindberg"..."1934 Chekhov"...the rumors ran. In this finest example of Miss Hellman's highly individual contribution to the current theatre, the Ibsen heritage seems most likely to win out."
|   | Profile of Robert Benchley (Stage Magazine, 1934)
"New Yorker" theater critic, columnist, actor and Algonquin wit Robert Benchley (1889 – 1945) was interviewed for "Stage" magazine and photographed by theater shutter-bug Ben Pinchot:"Mr. Benchley, who looks exactly like the Gluyas Williams' cartoons of him, sits all day in the delightful, cluttered gloom of his rooms at the Royalton, and reads hi papers. He likes that. Sometimes he writes digests of the news which "The New Yorker" calls "The Wayward Press" and signs them Guy Fawkes for some quaint reason..." *Watch a Clip from Benchley's Oscar Winning Short 'How to Sleep'*
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