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

CLAUDE JARMAN: I think he was very honored by it, and it went very well. It was one of our better
afternoons.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Did he have some good stories to tell?
CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes he did. It was very low-key and it went very well. We had Bergman’s film,
Scenes From a Marriage. 25 Fireman’s Street—the source for that was George Gund. We had
Truman Capote.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: And that was also a first, wasn’t it, for a screenwriter?
CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes t was. He was very moved, he really was. We showed Trilogy in its entirety,
which was his autobiographical project.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Oh, based on the trilogy of short stories including “A Christmas
Memory”?
CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes. And it was the first tribute to a screenwriter that we had done. He was a real
character. We showed Trilogy at 11:00 and his tribute was at 1:00. I didn’t know he wrote Beat the
Devil.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Oh, yeah. He had some great stories to tell about the making of that film.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Yes.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Let’s see what else we had.
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Well, you had the Jeanne Moreau tribute that year.
CLAUDE JARMAN: Oh, yes. She loved coming to San Francisco. She just absolutely had a ball. She
had a suite at the Mark, and I think she spent four or five days. She said it was great.
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