Vivien Liegh, Kenneth Tynan & Samuel Goldwyn with Edward R.

[mteal]

Thanks to Larry French for the tip on this, a late 50's interview with Vivien Liegh, Kenneth Tynan, and Samuel Goldwyn, in which Liegh talks glowingly of Orson Welles and of Ambersons in particular:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG0x68lP ... re=related

[Roger Ryan]

I like how Tynan asks rhetorically whether Cecil B. DeMille's films will still be watched in 50 years time like CITIZEN KANE. Here we are 54 years later and I think it's safe to say that a number of DeMille's efforts still have an audience and get elaborate Blu-ray releases, but CITIZEN KANE maintains its prominence.

[mteal]

DeMille's movies are rarely counted among the great films of all-time, though. Most of them seem like dated kitsch now. I like the banter at the beginning of the BREAK OF HEARTS radio pgm, where Welles ribs DeMille about wanting to take his job. Even with It being audio only, you get the impression that DeMille doesn't appreciate the ribbing much. Interesting also in the Murrow show to see Tynan defending Welles along with Liegh. Tynan would later buy into Houseman's assertion that Welles wrote none of the CK screenplay.