San Francisco Film Society Oral History Project Interview with ...

MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Yeah. There were also some of the tributes, and Rex Harrison was the
MC.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Right.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Was he difficult?
CLAUDE JARMAN: No. I didn’t find him difficult. He was a pretty gracious guy. All these people
were—I can’t think of anyone who was not honored, to be honored. They enjoyed that opportunity to
see themselves on film; I mean, we had great people that year, when you get right down to it. We had
some wonderful films: the de Sica film, Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Uncle Vanya, Sunday Bloody
Sunday—
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Murmur of the Heart.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Murmur of the Heart, right.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: You had Merle Oberon.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Well, that was a very interesting story.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Oh, good. Tell.
CLAUDE JARMAN: That was a very, very interesting story. She had made a film with Robert Walters,
who was married to—
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Audrey Hepburn.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Correct. I got a call from the mayor, and he said, “Merle Oberon’s got this
film”—I don’t know how he got involved—“that she wants to show on Opening Night. She thinks it
would be a great Opening-Night film.” I said, “OK, We’ll go down and take a look at it.” And we went
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