Peter Bogdanovich did a little bit of everything in Hollywood. He was a writer, an actor, a film historian, a director — I think he even got coffee sometimes.
His acclaimed movies include The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What’s Up Doc, and a host of others.
And along the way he met a number of Hollywood legends, the people he calls the original movie stars. People like John Wayne, Orson Welles, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart.
In 2004, Bogdanovich published a book of his recollections of dealing with those movie stars, a book he called Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors. And that’s when I met him.
So here now, from 2004, Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich died in 2022 at age 82.
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