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[Interview with Walter Matthau raw footage]

Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Academy 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.

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