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Marian Marsh
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Peter Lorre
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 [on Charles Laughton] I had great difficulty managing Laughton; so did Alexander Korda. [on Gary Cooper] One of the nicest human beings I have ever met.
I care nothing about the story, only how it is photographed and presented.
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.
The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.
[on the director`s role] ". . . the determining influence, and the only influence, despotically exercised or not, which accounts for the worth of what is seen on the screen."
`Shadow is mystery and light is clarity. Shadow conceals - light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal and in what degrees to do this is all there is to art.`
"Nothing has ever been invented that is more cumbersome to make than the motion picture."
Trivia
Directed 3 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Emil Jannings, George Bancroft and Marlene Dietrich. Jannings won for his performance in The Last Command (1928).
Interviewed in Peter Bogdanovich`s "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh." NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Is portrayed by Hans Werner Meyer in Marlene (2000)
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 1041-1051. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
He maintained such a tyrannical, imperious personality when shooting films that Robert Mitchum threatened to throw him off a pier when they were shooting Macao (1952).
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