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Inside the Actors Studio.

Title
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.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Actors Studio, c1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Lipton, James
  • Grant, Lee, 1927-
  • White, Joshua
  • Badalamenti, Angelo
  • Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.)
  • Bravo Cable Network.
  • Betelgeuse Productions.
  • In the Moment Productions, Ltd.
  • Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.), donor.
Description
1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
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
Inside the Actors Studio
Alternative Title
Inside the Actors Studio : The craft of theater and film
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Talk shows.
  • Television.
Note
  • Originally broadcast on the Bravo Network.
  • Credits and title from video.
  • "Betelgeuse Productions" and "In the Moment Productions, Ltd." --credits at end of video.
Credits (note)
  • Original music by Angelo Badalamenti.
Event (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
NCOX 1668
OCLC
213372704
Title
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
New York, N.Y. : Actors Studio, c1997.
Series
Inside the Actors Studio
Credits
Original music by Angelo Badalamenti.
Performer
Host: James Lipton.
Event
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.
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Added Author
Lipton, James, interviewer.
Lipton, James, producer.
Grant, Lee, 1927- interviewee.
White, Joshua, producer.
White, Joshua, director.
Badalamenti, Angelo, composer.
Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.)
Bravo Cable Network.
Betelgeuse Productions.
In the Moment Productions, Ltd.
Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.), donor.
Research Call Number
NCOX 1668
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