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Movie Anecdotes Praise for Movie Anecdotes "Hay is a generous storyteller. . .he has gathered the oral tradition of the Hollywood tribe with both love and cunning." The Los Angeles Times "Amusing, critieal tales—tall and true. Hay is a pro at unearthing acerbie or outrageous sayings or events; his topical arrangement is smooth and his delivery fluid." Booklist "Enjoyable. . . .Light, browse-able entertainment." Kirkus Reviews Born in Budapest and educated at Oxford, Peter Hay has taught at several universities in Canada and the United States. He is founding artistic director of First Stage in Hollywood and is the author of seven books including Theatrical Anecdotes, Broadway Anecdotes, and the forthcoming MGM: When the Lion Roared. KEY TO ILLUSTRATION 1. John Huston 7. Katharine Hepburn 13. Jack Nicholson 2. Humphrey Bogart 8. Bette Davis 14. Meryl Streep 3. Lauren Bacall 9. Clark Gable 15. Robert De Niro 4. Alfred Hitchcock 10. Joan Crawford 16. Dustin Hoffman 5. Marlon Brando 11.E11.Bonzo 17. Sidney Poitier 6. Spencer Tracy 12. Ronald Reagan 18. Orson Welles Cover illustration by Victor Juhasz Cover design by Lenny Levitslty MOVIE ANECDOTES Peter Hay OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS New York Oxford Oxford University Press Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Petaling Jaya Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1990 by Peter Hay First published in 1990 by Oxford University Press, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1991 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any mean: electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hay, Peter. Movie anecdotes / Peter Hay. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Motion picture industry—California—Los Angeles-—Anecdotes. 2. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) —Social life and customs—Anecdotes. I. Title. PN1993.5. U651138 1990 384'. 8'0979494—dczo 89-49252 ISBN 0-19-504594-7 ISBN 0-19-504595-5 (PBK.) 2 4 6 8 1 0 9 7 5 31i Printed in the United States of America For David Ambrose and Paul Jarrico, good writers on and off the screen, and my good friends in and out of Hollywood: with constant admiration and my lasting affection. This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments s A compiler of anecdote books has almost as many people to thank as a winner on Oscar night. Some of you may not remember even how you have helped—by an encouraging word, lending or mentioning a book, giv- ing a lead—or just by being a friend at a time when I really needed one: Laurence and David Ambrose, Polly and Janos Bak, Lia Benedetti, Dennis Boutsikaris, Yurek Bogajewicz, Alan Brock, Raphael Bunuel, Didi Conn, Michael Donaldson, Marris and Rudi Fehr, Sidney Field, Syd Field, Hermine Fuerst-Garcia, Jacqueline Green, Nick de Grunwald, Richard Hatton, Leonora and David Hays, Patricia and Richard Herd, Jeffrey Hen- derson, Endre Hiiles, Paul Jarrico, John and Donna Wong Juliani, Charles Kahlenberg, Joshua Karton, Barbara Keegan, Eva and Paul Kolozsvary, Kitty and Steve Kovacs, Dana Kraft, Miles Kreuger, Robert Lewin, Edward Maeder, Jenny Magid, Marcella Meharg, Elizabeth and Alan Mandell, Elisa- beth Marton, Simon Mayo, Peter Medak, Julia Johnson Migenes, Virginia Morris, Hilda Mortimer, Cora and Oliver Muirhead, John Neshi, Eva Nemeth, Margaret Oberman, Ed O'Neill, Ethan (John) Phillips, Susan Roether, Deac Rossell, Don Rubin, Catherine Rusoff, John Sarantos, Marsie v i i i Acknowledgments Sharlatt, Roberta Sherry, David Shire, Howard Suber, Eve Siegel Tettemer, James F. Skaggs, Carol Sorgenfrei, Barbara Steele, Loren Stephens, June and Michael Szasz, Adam Szocs, Alex Uttermann, April Webster, John York, Vilmos Zsigmond. My special thanks to Richard Kahlenberg for several suggestions and constant support; to Carol Channing, Judith Crist, and Sir John Gielgud for kind comments on my previous collections of theatrical anecdotes; to many friends and associates over the years at First Stage, the Sundance Institute, and the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. I owe a great deal to conversations with knowledgeable bookstore owners, and to libraries, in par- ticular: University of Southern California (especially Anthony Anderson), University of California at Los Angeles, the Los Angeles City Public Li- brary (the Central branch and the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood branch), the Glendalc and Pasadena Library System, and the American Film Institute Library. It is a pleasure to acknowledge—the third time around—the essential guidance of the staff of Oxford University Press in New York, especially my editor Sheldon Meyer, and Leona Capeless, Stephanie Sakson-Ford, Joellyn Ausanka, Vera Plummer, Laura Brown, Jeffrey Seroy, David Sartory, and others responsible for turning out such fine books. Richard Sansom at OUP in Oxford has also been most helpful. Finally, my heartfelt thanks to my wife Dorthea Atwater, for her love and support—and for her expertise in preparing the index; and to my mother Eva Hay, for her lifelong encouragement, and for giving me the feeling that life is like an epic movie. Every reasonable effort has been made to contact copyright holders to se- cure permission to include in this volume passages from works not in the public domain, and any omission brought to the publisher's attention will be remedied in subsequent editions. Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following works: Bardot, Deneuve and Fonda by Roger Vadim; reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster. Copyright © 1986 by Roger Vadim. Blessings in Disguise by Alec Guinness; reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Copyright © 1985 by Alec Guinness. A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht; reprinted by kind permission of Donald I. Fine, Inc.; special thanks to Roger Vergnes. Copyright © 1954 Ben Hecht. Don't Get Me Wrong—I Love Hollywood by Sidney Skolsky; reprinted by Acknowledgments i x permission of Arthur Pine Associates. Copyright © 1975 by Sidney Skolsky. Hello Hollywood! by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr. Reprinted by permis- sion of Doubleday, a division of Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Publish- ing Group, Inc. Copyright © 1962 by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr. A Hundred Different Lives by Raymond Massey; reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Co., and McClelland and Stewart Limited. Copyright © 1979 by Raymond Massey. The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame by Fred A. Bernstein; reprinted by per- mission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Pub- lishing Group, Inc. Copyright © 1986 by Fred Bernstein. Ladies Man by Paul Henreid and Julius Fast; reprinted by permission of St. Martin's Press, Inc., New York. Copyright © 1984 by Paul Hen- reid and Julius Fast. A Life by Elia Kazan; reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Copyright © 1988 by Elia Kazan. One Reel a Week by Fred J. Balshofer and Arthur C. Miller; reprinted by permission of the Regents of the University of California and the University of California Press. Copyright © 1967 by the Regents of the University of California. On the Set of Fellini Satyricon by Eileen Lanouette Hughes; reprinted by permission of William Morrow & Co. Copyright © 1971 by the Author. The Parade's Gone By ... by Kevin Brownlow; reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Copyright © 1968 by Kevin Brownlow. Walt by Charles Shows; reprinted by kind permission of the Author. Copy- right © 1979 by Charles Shows. When the Shooting Stops . . . The Cutting Begins by Ralph Rosenblum and Robert Karen; reprinted by permission of Ralph Rosenblum and Robert Karen. Copyright © 1979 by Ralph Rosenblum and Robert Karen.

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