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

CLAUDE JARMAN: Is this the year that Albert—?
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Yeah. And then Syufy gave an interview about how, “Albert never ran
the thing, never was the programmer; I always supervised him,” and I thought, wait a minute.
CLAUDE JARMAN: No, that wasn’t true.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: No, I didn’t think so. And that Heat was an embarrassment; he told him
not to program it.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Well, the problem was that Albert thought that he could get support from the
mayor, and it wasn’t going to happen. I was his best friend, but I don’t think he realized that until it was
too late. Back to Rita Hayworth. There were people hanging on the walls because they wanted to see
her. She was still very glamorous. It was very interesting because she was drinking on the day when she
had her tribute. And when it came time, she was right out there on stage. I think she was going through a
hard time during that period. But she brought it off—she was a movie star, you know, a real movie star.
And people loved her.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: It was one of the longer tributes, too, wasn’t it?
CLAUDE JARMAN: Oh God, yes.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Nearly eight hours, is what it said in one of the press reports. Howard
Hawks was about seven hours. That was another one that kind of threw the whole schedule off, didn’t it?
CLAUDE JARMAN: Well, yes, because you run into a 7:00 screening. If it starts at one and runs eight
hours, then everything else gets set back. So a lot of that stuff was kind of out of hand during that period.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: And that led to a showdown.
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