Interview with Anne Bancroft [unedited version].
- Title
- Interview with Anne Bancroft [unedited version].
- Author
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Status | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound. | FormatAudio | AccessUse in library | Call number*LDC 52725 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
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- Additional authors
- Found in
- Interviews for the book "Actors talk about acting".
- Description
- 2 audio discs : digital, mono; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Bancroft, a film, TV and theater actress associated with the Method Acting school, speaks about the encouragement from her mother to act; her experience in Hollywood and TV before acting in the theater; reasons that made her come back to New York and take up the theater; her director Arthur Penn; getting the part of Gittel Mosca in "Two for the seesaw" and preparing for this role; her role Anne Sullivan in "The miracle worker;" Stanislavsky's Method and Lee Strasberg in connection with discussing Method School; difference between acting in film and on the stage; her way of preparing for a scene; acting in classics such as Moliere and Shakespeare; taking voice lessons; her lifestyle free of scandals; sincerity on the stage, and more. Throughout the interview, Bancroft's dependency on consulting psychoanalysts is revealed.
- Alternative title
- Actors talk about acting.
- Interviews for the book "Actors talk about acting".
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Call number
- *LDC 52725
- Note
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- An edited version of the same interview, conducted by Funke, New York Times editor, and Booth, educational associate and author of numerous articles on theater, for the book "Actors talk about acting" published in 1961, can be found in *LDC 52603.
- Access (note)
- Access to original item restricted.
- Source (note)
- John E Booth;
- Linking entry (note)
- Forms part of: Interviews for the book "Actors talk about acting", *L(Special) 89-13.
- Author
- Bancroft, Anne, 1931-2005, interviewee.
- Title
- Interview with Anne Bancroft [unedited version].
- Playing time
- 003749 010504
- Type of content
- spoken word
- Type of medium
- audio
- Type of carrier
- audio disc
- Performer
- Anne Bancroft, interviewee ; Lewis Funke, John Booth, interviewers.
- Event
- Recorded at Bancroft's apartment, NYC between 1959 and 1960.
- Access
- Access to original item restricted.
- Linking entry
- Forms part of: Interviews for the book "Actors talk about acting", *L(Special) 89-13.
- Local note
- Archival originals: (2 audiotape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips., 1 track mono ; 7 in.) in *LT-7 5722-5723.
- Service CD (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archive original.
- On reels with: Interview with Sidney Poitier, *LT-7 5723 (service copy in *LDC 52726); Interview with John Gielgud, reel *LT-7 5722 (service copy in *LDC 52727); and, Interview with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, *LT-7 5722 (service copy *LDC 52728).
- Source
- Gift; John E Booth; 1989.
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Funke, Lewis, 1912-1992, interviewer.
- Booth, John E. (John Erlanger), interviewer.
- Booth, John E. (John Erlanger), donor.
- Added title
- Actors talk about acting.
- Interviews for the book "Actors talk about acting".
- Found in:
- Interviews for the book "Actors talk about acting".
- Research call number
- *LDC 52725
- *LT-7 5722-5723