Irwin Corey: It was in 1943 that I had the screen test. It was me and Elizabeth Taylor. She was auditioning for National Velvet. I was being reviewed to do some comedy relief work in movies, but they didn't know what to do with me or how to use me. In fact, my first movie wasn't until much later with Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jayne Wyman and Leslie Nielsen. All the papers said I was the only funny...
Monday, August 12, 2013
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Peter Bonerz: This guy John Korty did two 16mm independent films in San Francisco that were highly acclaimed. Small films, almost European. He started as a documentarian and did Civil Rights stuff in Washington. He saw the [Committee] show and said, “I’m interested in the possibility of maybe working with you...
Monday, August 5, 2013
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Frankie Man: Will Jordan was a good friend of mine. Many years ago someone taught me how to imitate Will Jordan. I put it into my act where I looked and sounded exactly like Will Jordan. He told me a story once about being outside Hanson's Drugstore. The story is there were two comedians having a fistfight. Will...
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