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[Interview with Walter Matthau : raw footage]

Title
[Interview with Walter Matthau : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.
Publication
[Los Angeles,], 1997.

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Videocassette 1Moving imageRestricted use NCOX 2094 Videocassette 1Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT
Videocassette 2Moving imageRestricted use NCOX 2094 Videocassette 2Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Additional Authors
  • Matthau, Walter
  • Kantor, Michael, 1961-
  • Ghost Light Films.
  • Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
  • Thirteen/WNET, donor.
Description
2 videocassettes (VHS) (60 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
Summary
Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Oscar and Tony award winning actor Walter Matthau discusses his stage career. Topics include his first Broadway part, as an understudy then replacement, in the Anne of the thousand days, playing opposite Rex Harrison; various colleagues, including Lee J. Cobb, Marlon Brando, Edna Best, Helen Hayes and Uta Hagen; meeting playwright Neil Simon and deciding to accept the role of Oscar Madison in Simon's play The odd couple; the play's out-of-town tryouts; his views on the play and on Simon's playwriting; things that have gone wrong on stage; his reasons for leaving Broadway for Hollywood; preparing for a part in a play versus a film; how he became an actor, and his early experiences working in the Yiddish speaking theater in New York's Lower East Side; a pivotal experience onstage in Norwich, England where he was stationed during WWII, deciding to study drama at The Dramatic Workshop at the New School for Social Research under the G. I. Bill; playwright Arthur Miller; replacing actor Donald Cook under the direction of Harold Clurman in the play A shot in the dark, for which he won a Tony Award; his attendance of movies, theater and Vaudeville during the 1930s.
Alternative Title
  • Broadway, the American musical
  • Matthau : Broadway film project.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Documentaries and factual works.
  • Musicals.
  • Unedited footage.
Note
  • Videocassette one: 52 min. Videocassette two: 8 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; the audio continues without image in several intervals.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Walter Matthau.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped probably at Walter Matthau's residence in Los Angeles, California on March 10, 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 2094
OCLC
86119363
Title
[Interview with Walter Matthau : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.
Imprint
[Los Angeles,], 1997.
Performer
Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Walter Matthau.
Event
Videotaped probably at Walter Matthau's residence in Los Angeles, California on March 10, 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 the Broadway Film Project, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET, 2005.
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Added Author
Matthau, Walter, interviewee.
Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.
Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.
Ghost Light Films.
Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
Thirteen/WNET, donor.
Research Call Number
NCOX 2094
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