"Damn good actress"

[Vertigo2]

I wonder who is being referenced when during the promos for some of those " behind the scene" shorts or actor tributes, a familiar voice ( and who he is he as well?) says "damn good actress". Anybody know?

[slaytonf]

And we might never know, because that opening collage of sound bites has been replaced with one that ends with a lady (still anonymous) commenting she "loved every minute of it."

[JamesJazGuitar]

Who the guy was (is), was discussed here about a year ago and he was named.

 

So one can check the archives.

[Jezebel38]

Sydney Guilaroff - here's a prior thread:

 

http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8552594

[ding19410922]

Now, THAT is a question for Mssrs. Osborne or Mankiewicz at the Festival

[slaytonf]

Ok, but who is the lady saying, "Loved every minute of it."?

[atcmviewer]

Another question: where do these "TCM Word of Mouth" segments get the material from? Are these excerpts of documentaries, past interviews, and the likes? Wouldn't there be rights clearance issues if they get material from all these different sources? It's hard enough to get clearances for movies already.

 

And if they are from documentaries, then what are the documentaries? I've seen many of these Word of Mouth segments and have not been able to identify even one.

[lzcutter]

>Another question: where do these "TCM Word of Mouth" segments get the material from?

 

The majority of the material for *Word of Mouth* comes from the Turner Archive Project, a large video oral history project that began back in the early 1990s. George Feltenstein and Roger Mayer thought it was important to interview actors, directors, writers as well as crew members and studio staff about the films and the studio system.

 

In the beginning years, the project was funded by Ted Turner. Every year, about 25 people are chosen to be interviewed for the project. The interviews are videotaped and are said to be extensive.

 

When Turner merged his media empire with Time-Warner in the mid to late 1990s, the Turner Archive Project was transferred to the care of Warner Brothers Home Video.

 

George Feltenstein, an exec at WBHV, has kept the project going since then, though these days, the focus is more on the studios that cover the Warners film library, RKO, pre-1986 MGM and Warners.

 

TCM has access to those interviews and culls them for use in *Word of Mouth* and other interstitials.

 

The material is also culled for Original Programming documentaries that TCM produces.

 

In addition, other filmmakers access the interviews for use in the *Making of* documentaries that WB produces for their home entertainment market, ie DVDs and Blu-Rays.

 

I believe other studios can license the interviews as well for their *Making of* documentaries.

 

The complete interviews, as far as I know, are not online.

[DownGoesFrazier]

So it sounds as if many of the "word of mouth" segments were done in the '90s. Since many of the actors appearing are no longer alive, that is not surprising.