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[Interview with Hume Cronyn : raw footage]

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  • "Broadway, the American musical"
  • "Cronyn"

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  • "Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Canadian/American stage, film and television actor Hume Cronyn discusses long and distinquished career in the American theater. Cronyn speaks about Broadway during the 1930s; attending burlesque and vaudeville performances; flubbing his first professional stage acting role; acting while at McGill University and studies at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts; the importance of Alfred Hitchcock and George Abbott to his career; his work at the Lakewood Theatre Company in Skowhegan, Maine under the direction of Sam Bird; performing with his wife Jessica Tandy in the two-character plays The four poster and The gin game; Elia Kazan as an actor; being directed by Harold Clurman in the play Retreat to pleasure for the Group Theatre; his friend John Gielgud's performance as Hamlet; his role in the thriller Mr. Big, directed by George S. Kaufman, which included a risky stunt; his forays into theatrical producing of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams; directing Tandy in Williams', Portrait of a Madonna; Tandy's work in England with notable Shakespearean actors; Kazan's naming of names during the McCarthy era; the difficulty for up and coming dramatic actors today to gain experience with few straight plays being produced; the necessities of taking risks in order to be a performer; the possibility of a play changing a person's life; Broadway during his heday in comparison with now; his dresser Malcolm Wells; how his childhood loneliness lead him to acting."

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  • "Documentaries and factual works"
  • "Interviews"
  • "Musicals"
  • "Unedited footage"

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  • "[Interview with Hume Cronyn : raw footage]"

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