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[Interview with Vincent Sardi, Jr. : raw footage]

Title
[Interview with Vincent Sardi, Jr. : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.
Publication
New York, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Sardi, Vincent, 1915-2007
  • Kantor, Michael, 1961-
  • Squires, Buddy
  • Ghost Light Films.
  • Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
  • Thirteen/WNET, donor.
Description
2 videocassettes (VHS) (91 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
Summary
Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Vincent Sardi, Jr. discusses how Sardi's Restaurant, founded by his father in 1927, became a home away from home to all kinds of theater people. Focusing mainly on the 1920s and '30s, Sardi speaks about the restaurant's operation and clientele; its conservative policies; the menu and its patrons' eating and drinking habits; the neighborhood and the Broadway theater district; theatergoing customs and dress; theater impressarios Sam, Lee and J. J. Shubert; the role of checkroom clerk Rene Carroll in "running" the restaurant; Broadway's criminal element; actor Maurice Evans' role in bringing business to Sardi's; its hours of operation; how the Sardis contracted with caricaturists Alex Gard and later Donald Bevan to draw portraits of their prominent restaurant patrons; an opening night on Broadway; opening night parties at the restaurant; how seating was handled; the kinds of shows produced on Broadway then, versus now; Broadway's future; restaurant patron Antionette Perry; his father's business relationship with his clients; theater critics, including a group of regulars called the Cheese Club; his relationships with lyricist Lorenz Hart and producer and director Moss Hart; transporting clients via a double decker bus to and from the theater.
Alternative Title
  • Broadway, the American musical
  • Sardi interview : Broadway film project.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Documentaries and factual works.
  • Musicals.
  • Unedited footage.
Note
  • Videocassette one: 39 min. Videocassette two: 52 min.
  • This interview is one of a group of interviews with 90 individuals used in making the documentary Broadway, the American musical. The completed production is available on NCOX 2058.
  • Credits for completed production from pbs.org: A film by Michael Kantor ; produced by Jeff Dupre, Michael Kantor and Sally Rosenthal ; written by Marc Fields, Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon, and JoAnne Young ; directed by Michael Kantor.
  • Time code on frame.
  • Contains various takes; audio continues without image in sections.
Credits (note)
  • Cameraman: Buddy Squires.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Vincent Sardi, Jr.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped at Sardi's Restaurant, 234 West 44th St. in New York, N.Y. on Jan. 16, 1997.
Biography (note)
  • Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archive news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.
Call Number
NCOX 2092
OCLC
85837306
Title
[Interview with Vincent Sardi, Jr. : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.
Imprint
New York, 1997.
Credits
Cameraman: Buddy Squires.
Performer
Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Vincent Sardi, Jr.
Event
Videotaped at Sardi's Restaurant, 234 West 44th St. in New York, N.Y. on Jan. 16, 1997.
Biography
Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archive news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.
Local Note
Gift of Broadway Film Project, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET, 2005.
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Added Author
Sardi, Vincent, 1915-2007, interviewee.
Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.
Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.
Squires, Buddy, cameraman.
Ghost Light Films.
Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
Thirteen/WNET, donor.
Research Call Number
NCOX 2092
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