Playing to the Camera

CONTENTS Foreword / Stranley Kauffmann = ⅸ Preface / Ronald Gottesman = xiii Introduction / Leigh Woods = 1 Part 1 The Silent Performance = 15 Acting for the Films in 1912 / Charles Graham = 19 My Autobiography / Charles Chaplin = 22 The "New Art" / E. H. Sothern = 28 Screen Acting / Mae Marsh = 32 The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me / Lillian Gish = 40 Dialogue with the Actress / Louise Brooks = 46 Part 2 Finding a Voice = 53 The New Stage Fright : Talking Pichures / Louise Closser Hale = 57 Acting in Talking Pictures / Betty Compson = 65 What the Public Wants / Greta Garbo = 66 My Ten Years in the Studios / George Arliss = 69 Lorenzo Goes to Hollywood / Edward Arnold = 74 The Actor / Lionel Barrymore = 79 Part 3 European Acting = 83 Stage and Screen : The British = 85 Film Acting / Robert Donat = 89 The Film Actor / Eric Portman = 94 Mask or Face / Michael Redgrave = 98 Talking About Acting / Albert Finney and Mary Ure = 107 On Acting / Laurence Olivier = 117 Acting and Ideology : The Soviets = 119 Notes of a Soviet Actor / Nikolai K. Cherkasov = 123 Stanislavsky's System in the Cinema / Vsevolod Pudovkin = 130 Actor's Feeling and Director's Form / Michael Chekhov = 138 Continental Alternatives = 146 Some Notes on Acting / Mai Zetterling = 149 The Actor, a Witness of His Time / Jean­Louis Trintignant = 152 The Game of Truth / Marcello astroianni = 155 Conversation with the Actress / LIv Ullmann = 157 Human Masks Are Dangerous / Klaus Maria Brandauer = 165 Part 4 Hollywood Acting = 171 The Golden Age of the Studios = 173 The Actress Plays Her Part / Bette Davis = 177 A Life on Film / Mary Astor = 185 The Player : A Profile of an Art / Joan Crawford = 189 Notes on Film Acting / Hume Cronyn = 193 The Many­Splendored Actor / James Stewart = 200 Reflections on Forty Years of Make­Believe / Henry Fonda = 210 The Business of Film Acting = 220 Interview with the Actress / Gloria Swanson = 223 Dialogue on Screen Acting / Katharine Hepburn = 227 Walking the Hollywood Color Line / Sidney Poitier = 232 When Women Were in the Movies / Meryl Steep = 242 "Commercial" Isn't a Dirty Word, Any More Than "Comedy" / Jeff Daniels = 247 The Method Revisited and Matters of Style = 263 Conversation with the Actor / Jack Lemmon = 267 The Playboy Interview / Marlon Brando = 275 Dialogue with the Actor / Robert De Niro = 280 Interview with the Actor / Dustin Hoffman = 293 "The Bird Is on His Own" / Jack Nicholson = 302 "Acting Has to Be About Something Else" / Lindsay Crouse = 309 Biographies of Film Actors = 327 Select Bibliography = 347 Index = 361

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