San Francisco Film Society Oral History Project Interview with ...
San Francisco Film Society Oral History Project Interview with ...
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CLAUDE JARMAN: I heard he was staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel. I wrote a letter and delivered it.<br />
I was down there and delivered it to the hotel. And, before I got back, there was a message on the<br />
machine, “This is Orson Welles. I cannot come to lunch today, or ever. I cannot come to lunch today, or<br />
ever.”<br />
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Oh, that’s funny.<br />
CLAUDE JARMAN: I said, “OK, I give up.” And then, of course, that’s when we tried to get—<br />
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Joan Crawford?<br />
CLAUDE JARMAN: Crawford and Ginger Rogers and Bing Crosby. I told you—<br />
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Yes, you told me Bing Crosby. Oh, Alfred Hitchcock was another one<br />
that you—<br />
CLAUDE JARMAN: Hitchcock, right. They just weren’t interested, or didn’t know how to do it.<br />
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: One other notable film from 1974 was Spirit of the Beehive.<br />
CLAUDE JARMAN: Who was that?<br />
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: That was Carlos Saura.<br />
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: And Lancelot du Lac, the Bresson film.<br />
CLAUDE JARMAN: Frankly, I don’t remember.<br />
MARGARITA LANDAZURI: Phantom of the Liberty was shown, a Buñuel film again. OK, let’s go<br />
on to ’75. We talked a little about this already: creative ways to bring down the deficit, such as hitting up<br />
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