| For your listening convenience, here are
major sections of the first broadcast:
1)
Show Intro; Who was Stanley Kramer?; Part one of our
conversation with Karen Sharpe Kramer-his origins and
inspirations; clips from some of his greatest films.
2)
Tony Curtis on working with director Kramer; Oscar-winning
screenwriter Abby Mann on his first meeting with Kramer and
impressions of his character; comic genius Jonathan Winters
details his startling first contact with Stanley and their work
together on It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
3)
Karen Sharpe on Stanley Kramer as one of the original
independent filmakers and one of the most picketed directors in
Hollywood; testing public limits on racial content; Tony Curtis
on working with Sidney Poitier in the emotionally charged
Defiant Ones and its groundbreaking racial equality in credits;
Abby Mann on Kramer's integrity, loyalty to his cast, writers
and crew, his generosity; Cinemusic: Dimitri Tiomkin score
excerpt from High Noon.
4)
Current Releases from Fox: three noir classics: Oscar-winner
House on 92nd Street; Somewhere in the Night, written by
Oscar-winner Joseph Manciewicz; Whirlpool, reuniting Otto
Preminger and Gene Tierney; closing credits.
Or, you can listen to the entire
half-hour broadcast with one click:
DVD
Classics Corner on the Air - Featuring a Tribute to Stanley
Kramer--Part 1
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For your listening convenience, here are
major sections of the second broadcast:
1)
Show intro; Karen Sharpe Kramer discusses Stanley's innovative
casting in On the Beach (with Fred Astaire clip); Inherit the
Wind (with Gene Kelly clip); High Noon (with clips of Grace
Kelly and Katy Jurado.)
2)
Clip from Ship of Fools; screenwriter Abby Mann talks about
working on the set with Kramer and Tracy; Jonathan Winters on
Kramer as writer/director; anecdote about Kramer showing film in
Russia; Tony Curtis on The Defiant Ones (with clip).
3)
Karen on Stanley's brilliant marketing techniques and career
while still having a family life; Jonathan Winters on his
friendship with the very private Kramer; Tony Curtis on The
Defiant Ones, being cast against type and a surprising Oscar
story.
4)
Jonathan Winters on being cast in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad
World (with clip); Karen on Stanley first breaking the dreaded
Hollywood Black List quite brazenly; Abby Mann on Kramer's sad
decline into old age and Karen's support and devotion; closing
comments by Karen; and Spencer Tracy's final scene in his final
film: Kramer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
6)
Current releases: Ben Hur four-dvd box set from Warner Home
Video...lots of extras!
5)
Cinemusic--opening credits from Ship of Fools by Ernest Gold;
Stanley Kramer on dvd; show close and credits.
Or, you can listen to the entire
half-hour broadcast with one click:
DVD
Classics Corner on the Air - Featuring a Tribute to Stanley
Kramer--Part 2
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