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Additional authors

1. Lipton, James
2. Grant, Lee, 1927-
3. White, Joshua
4. Badalamenti, Angelo
5. Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.)
6. Bravo Cable Network.
7. Betelgeuse Productions.
8. In the Moment Productions, Ltd.
9. Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.), donor.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. James Lipton hosts an evening of discussion with theatre, film and television actor/director Lee Grant. Grant speaks of her upbringing in New York City and her childhood involvement in the performing arts; her drama studies with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse; her breakthrough role as a shoplifter in the stage play Detective story, which she repeated in the movie version; being blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s, during which time she began teaching drama and became politically active in the actors' labor union, Actors' Equity, and worked on stage and in television; and her role on the T.V. serial Peyton Place. Grant speaks about her return to motion pictures in such films as In the heat of the night in 1967, starring Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier; the 1970 film The landlord, in which she plays a matronly W.A.S.P. who becomes involved with blacks living in a ghetto section of Brooklyn; Shampoo (1975), in which she stars with Warren Beatty; and in the 1976 film Voyage of the damned, about an ill-fated ship of Jewish German passengers attempting to flee the Nazis in the 1930s. Grant also speaks about the technique of acting comedy, and her work as a director of motion pictures. A brief question and answer session with Grant and the Actors Studio master's degree students concludes the program.

Series statement

1. Inside the Actors Studio

Alternative title

1. Inside the Actors Studio : The craft of theater and film

Subject

1. Voyage of the damned (Motion picture)
2. Actresses > Interviews
3. Kingsley, Sidney, 1906-1995 > Detective story
4. Motion pictures > Production and direction
5. Peyton Place (Television program)
6. In the heat of the night (Motion picture)
7. Television
8. Talk shows
9. Interviews
10. Detective story (Motion picture)
11. Grant, Lee, 1927- > Interviews
12. Motion picture producers and directors > Interviews
13. Blacklisting of entertainers
14. Shampoo (Motion picture)

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Talk shows.
3. Television.

Call number

1. NCOX 1668

Note

1. Originally broadcast on the Bravo Network.
2. Credits and title from video.
3. "Betelgeuse Productions" and "In the Moment Productions, Ltd." --credits at end of video.

Credits (note)

1. Original music by Angelo Badalamenti.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped at the John L. Tishman Theater of The New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y. on Oct. 2, 1995. First broadcast on March 12, 1997.

Title

1. Inside the Actors Studio. Lee Grant [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network ; executive producer, James Lipton ; directed and produced by Joshua White ; written by James Lipton.

Imprint

1. New York, N.Y. : Actors Studio, c1997.

Series

1. Inside the Actors Studio

Credits

1. Original music by Angelo Badalamenti.

Performer

1. Host: James Lipton.

Event

1. Videotaped at the John L. Tishman Theater of The New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y. on Oct. 2, 1995. First broadcast on March 12, 1997.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Lipton, James, interviewer.
2. Lipton, James, producer.
3. Grant, Lee, 1927- interviewee.
4. White, Joshua, producer.
5. White, Joshua, director.
6. Badalamenti, Angelo, composer.
7. Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.)
8. Bravo Cable Network.
9. Betelgeuse Productions.
10. In the Moment Productions, Ltd.
11. Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 1668