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Awards Chatter

Russ Tamblyn

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

At the TCM Classic Film Festival, one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood's Golden Age reflects on working as a kid alongside the likes of Cecil B. DeMille and Spencer Tracy; employing his tumbling background to dance in musicals like 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' and 'West Side Story'; and why, shortly after his Oscar nom for 'Peyton Place,' he "dropped out" of the biz, and then later returned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:08.8

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0:13.4

From Emmy-nominated writer and director Lee Sung-jin, and starring nominees,

0:17.5

lead actor Steven Young, and lead actress Ali Wong, Roger Ebert.com calls Steven Young

0:22.9

one of the best actors of his generation.

0:25.2

And the Atlantic raves, Ali Wong has never been funnier or more heartbreaking.

0:30.2

Beef, the year's best limited series, is all the rage.

0:43.4

Hi everyone and thank you for tuning into the 489th episode of The Hollywood Reporter's

0:47.5

Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is one of the

0:51.9

last surviving stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, much of which he spent under contract

0:56.9

to the greatest studio of all, MGM. He made his name as a child actor in films like 1950s

1:03.7

Father of the Bride and 1951's Father's Little Dividend, displayed his dancing chops on screen

1:09.6

for the first time at 19 in 1954's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, became an Oscar nominee at

1:16.2

just 23 for his supporting turn in 1957's Paid in Place, saying in dance as the leader of the

1:22.8

Jets in an eventual Best Picture Oscar winner, 1961's West Side Story, gave a dramatic turn on both

1:29.7

incarnations of David Lynch's TV classic Twin Peaks from 1990 to 1991, and then again in 2017.

1:38.2

Continued acting well into the 21st century opposite the likes of Ryan Gosling in 2011's Drive,

1:44.4

and under the direction of Quentin Tarantino in 2012's Django Unchained, and the list goes on.

1:51.6

I'm talking, of course, about the great Russ, or as he was known at the start of his career, Rusty

1:57.3

Tamplin. Over the course of our conversation at the wonderful TCM classic film festival in Hollywood,

2:03.9

the 88-year-old denied disgust how he broke into the business and held his own alongside the

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