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When you wish upon a star: Audrey Hepburn's early years in her native Elsene, near Brussels

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2015/06/01/when-you-wish-upon-a-star-audrey-hepburns-early-years-in-her-native-elsene-near-brussels/

When you wish upon a star: Audrey Hepburn’s early years in her native Elsene, near Brussels

Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929, as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, in Elsene near Brussels. Her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (1889–1980), was of Austrian and British descent, while her moth…

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FILM TALK Online film journal16h ago

Brenda Vaccaro: "Actors can bring so much that you never even thought about"

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2015/04/20/brenda-vaccaro-actors-can-bring-so-much-that-you-never-even-thought-about/

Brenda Vaccaro: “Actors can bring so much that you never even thought about”

Screen, stage, and television actress Brenda Vaccaro (b. 1939), a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner, as well as a Tony Award and Academy Award nominee, was an instrumental and leading figure who s…

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FILM TALK Online film journal17h ago

Marisa Pavan: "When you get a part and finally you are recognized, it is the most joyful moment you can have as an actress"

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2015/02/13/marisa-pavan-when-you-get-a-part-and-finally-you-are-recognized-it-is-the-most-joyful-moment-you-can-have-as-an-actress/

Marisa Pavan: “When you get a part and finally you are recognized, it is the most joyful moment you can have as an actress”

Marisa Pavan, born in Cagliari, Sardinia, as Marisa Luisa Pierangeli on June 19, 1932, was a celebrated screen actress in leading and supporting roles during the 1950s, who made a very successful t…

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FILM TALK Online film journal17h ago

Ann Rutherford: "My golden years were platinum years"

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2015/02/05/ann-rutherford-my-golden-years-were-platinum-years/

Ann Rutherford: “My golden years were platinum years”

It was wonderful to see how much former screen star Ann Rutherford, a.k.a. Polly Benedict in the much-beloved “Andy Hardy” series and familiar as Careen O’Hara, Scarlett’s younger sister in “Gone W…

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FILM TALK Online film journal17h ago

Laura Harring: "Film means something, you can make a difference with a film"

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2015/02/03/laura-harring-film-means-something-you-can-make-a-difference-with-a-film/

Laura Harring: “Film means something, you can make a difference with a film”

“These sort of interviews remind me of Cannes. You go from table to table, and you’re just talking the whole time. This is good. I like it,” Laura Harring says when she arrived at my table, while s…

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FILM TALK Online film journal19h ago

Luise Rainer: “Whatever I was able to give or do in my work came from inside out”

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2014/12/31/luise-rainer-1910-2014-whatever-i-was-able-to-give-or-do-in-my-work-came-from-inside-out/

Luise Rainer: “Whatever I was able to give or do in my work, came from inside out”

Screen legend Luise Rainer passed away on December 30, 2014, at her London home, at age 104, just two weeks shy of her 105th birthday. Unbelievable as it is, so was she. I met her twice for an inte…

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Jacqueline Bisset: “Show business is business but I think it’s soul business”

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2014/12/17/jacqueline-bisset-show-business-is-business-but-i-think-its-soul-business/

Jacqueline Bisset: “Show business is business, but to me, it’s soul business”

As the leading lady in François Truffaut’s film classic “Day for Night” (1973), Jacqueline Bisset portrayed the star of a film being made in the Victorine studios in Nice, with Truffaut as its dire…

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FILM TALK Online film journal3d ago

Leslie Caron: "I think actors today are very accomplished"

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2014/12/14/leslie-caron-i-think-actors-today-are-very-accomplished/

Leslie Caron: “I think actors today are very accomplished”

Despite an international career in films on both sides of the Atlantic, which started in the early 1950s, Leslie Caron is still regarded as one of the best screen actresses of the delightful MGM mu…

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FILM TALK Online film journal3d ago

Cora Sue Collins: “It’s fun to be a housewife from Phoenix”

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2014/12/13/cora-sue-collins-its-fun-to-be-a-housewife-from-phoenix/

Cora Sue Collins: “It’s fun to be a housewife from Phoenix”

In the 1930s, several child actors and actresses worked in Hollywood, including Jackie Cooper, Freddie Bartholomew, and Johnny Sheffield. At the same time, two of them, Shirley Temple and Jane With…

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FILM TALK Online film journal3d ago

Elke Sommer: “The talent that accumulaties here from all over the world, is absolutely incredible”

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2014/12/07/elke-sommer-the-talent-that-accumulates-here-from-all-over-the-world-is-absolutely-incredible/

Elke Sommer: “The talent that accumulates here from all over the world, is absolutely incredible”

The era when several European and foreign-language actors and actresses became household names in the U.S, has long been gone, although there are still a few exceptions. But if you consider Pola Ne…

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