⭐Actors on Actors: Christopher Plummer on Julie Andrews

"Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine."- Christopher Plummer on Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (1965) 

Back in 1965, a younger and less experienced Plummer would refer to her as “Miss Disney” (and even “Ms. Wonderful”), a light, slightly teasing nod to her polished, wholesome image. But over time, that teasing gave way to genuine admiration. You can really see the shift in the way he spoke about her in later years; there was clear respect for both her talent and who she was.

They stayed close for years, right up until his passing in 2021. Watching them in interviews, you’d swear you were seeing an old married couple, bickering, laughing, completely at ease. He loved to tease her, but it was always wrapped in real admiration for her talent, her poise, and that unmistakable presence she had both on and off screen.

⭐Actors on Actors: Glenn Ford on Rita Hayworth

"She was the most beautiful, glorious creature then. Film posters cried, 'There was never a woman like Gilda' - and they were right. There has never been anyone in the history of movies that had such a magical presence on film. She was delightful and sexy, and she moved with such grace and glamour. We had worked together when we were both coming up in the business, and then she had zoomed to the top... I can remember when we were at Camp Pendleton [the Marine Corps base near San Diego], and every young Marine there had her picture pinned up in every locker and on every wall. I would see her in those very sexy pinup poses in slinky lingerie and think how different her image seemed from the very shy [woman] | knew..." — Glenn Ford on friend and frequent co-star Rita Hayworth

 

 

⭐Actors on Actors: Joan Blondell on Clark Gable

"It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious humor, he had great compassion, he was always a fine old teddy bear. In no way was he conscious of his good looks, as were most other men in pictures at that time. Clark was very unactorly."-- Joan Blondell on her Adventure (1945) co-star Clark Gable

⭐Actors on Actors: Merle Oberon on Jean Harlow

"I was really frightfully snubbed. I won't mention names, but I was coldly treated by some of the stars. The one person who was really nice to me and from whom I least expected it - I don't know why, now that I know her - was Jean Harlow. She came clear across the room to meet me and said something very gracious about admiring my work and wanting to know more of me."-- Merle Oberon [on her early days in Hollywood]

 

 

⭐Actors on Actors: Michael Caine on Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and Jean Gabin

"The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho."-- Michael Caine 

 

⭐Actors on Actors: Cary Grant on James Stewart

 “I think the reason Jimmy stood out from the other actors was that he had the ability to talk naturally. He knew that in conversation, people do often interrupt one another and that it’s not always so easy to get a thought out. It took a little while for the sound men to get used to him, but he had an enormous impact. Some years later, Marlon Brando came out and did the same things all over again. But what people forget is that Jimmy did it first. And he affected all of us, really.”-- Cary Grant talking about James Stewart 

 

⭐Actors on Actors: Humphrey Bogart on Bette Davis

 “Even when I was carrying a gun, Bette scared the bejesus out of me.” 

Bette Davis in The Letter (1940)

⭐Actors on Actors: Myrna Loy on Joan Crawford

 “When you made a friend in Joan you had a friend for life”-Myrna Loy

 

 

⭐Actors on Actors: Spencer Tracy on Jean Harlow

 “A square shooter if there ever was one.” — Spencer Tracy 

 

 

 

⭐Actors on Actors: Bette Davis on Spencer Tracy

 I wish I could have worked with Spencer again when we were both big stars. We worked well together and we shared the same birthday, April 5th. I considered having the same birthday a very important sign. Of all of the male actors I worked with, Spencer Tracy appealed the most to me. I saw everything in him that Hepburn saw in him.

 

— Bette Davis, co-star in 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, 1932.

 

🫶Love Nostalgia- Humphrey Bogart’s loveletter to Lauren Bacall

Slim darling, you came along and into my arms and into my heart and all the real true love I have is yours – and now I’m afraid you won’t understand and that you’ll become impatient and that I’ll lose you – but even if that happened, I wouldn’t stop loving you for you are my last love and all the rest of my life I shall love you and watch you and be ready to help you should you ever need help. All the nice things......

 

 I do each day would be so much sweeter and so much gayer if you were with me. I find myself saying a hundred times a day, ‘If Slim could only see that’ or ‘I wish Slim could hear this.’ I want to make a new life with you – I want all the friends I’ve lost to meet you and know you and love you as I do – and live again with you, for the past years have been terribly tough, damn near drove me crazy. You’ll soon be here, Baby, and when you come you’ll bring everything that’s important to me in this world with you. ——Humphrey Bogart’s letter to Lauren Bacall