The opening of The Scoundrel, written and directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and starring Noël Coward. Alexander Woollcott makes an extremely rare film appearance at the beginning of the scene:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
Archives for December 10, 2012
TT: Almanac
“I have become convinced that movie people and politicians spring from the same DNA. They are both unpredictable, sometimes glamorous, usually in crisis (imagined or otherwise), addicted to power, anxious to please, always on stage, hooked on applause, enticed by publicity, always reading from scripts written by someone else, constantly taking the public pulse, never really certain, except publicly.”
Jack Valenti (quoted in Burton Paretti, The Leading Man: Hollywood and the Presidential Image)