Gloria Swanson appears as the guest in excerpts from a 1957 episode of This Is Your Life, hosted by Ralph Edwards:
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Almanac: Sidney Lumet on critics and cinematic “style”
“Critics talk about style as something apart from the movie because they need the style to be obvious. The reason they need it to be obvious is that they don’t really see. If the movie looks like a Ford or Coca-Cola commercial, they think that’s style. And it is. It’s trying to sell you something you don’t need and is stylistically geared to that goal.”
Sidney Lumet, Making Movies