Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and DC with George Stevens, Jr.
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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John Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Sidney Poitier, Edward R. Murrow, James Earl Jones, Steven Spielberg, Laurence Fishburne, Robert Wagner, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and George Stevens, Sr., just a few of the people we meet in Bill's interview with George Stevens, Jr. In addition to working with his father, the legendary film director George Stevens. Sr., George Stevens, Jr. was a successful producer and director in Hollywood before being lured to Washington as a member of Edward R. Murrow’s team at the United States Information Agency during the Kennedy administration. Stevens founded the American Film institute and created the Kennedy Center Honors. He ran those for 37 years, interacting with the greatest artists and performers of our time and presidents from Carter to Obama. He's captured it all in a new book, a memoir, entitled My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington. You can get your own copy here.
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| 1:01.7 | Hello, good friends. |
| 1:06.3 | Hope you're already enjoying a great Thanksgiving week with your family and friends. |
| 1:13.5 | And in that holiday spirit, I'm delighted to introduce you to Hollywood producer and Kennedy Center impresario George Stevens, Jr. George has had an incredible career. He started out working for his dad, |
| 1:22.2 | the legendary director George Stevens, who won two Academy Awards for A Place in the Sun and Giant, and went on to |
| 1:30.0 | direct such great films as The Diary of Anne Frank and the Greatest Story Ever Told. |
| 1:35.7 | George Jr. became a leading Hollywood producer, director himself, before coming to Washington |
| 1:41.5 | as deputy director of the United States Information Agency and later, |
| 1:46.4 | founder of the Kennedy Center Honors, which he directed under six presidents, from Jimmy Carter |
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