George Stevens Jr. Looks Back on His Famous Director Dad – and His Own Work in Film (Guest Blog)
thewrap.com“My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington,” Stevens Jr. experienced other pivotal moments supporting his famous father on films.
He found a script called “Shane,” and recalls how his father recast the 1953 tearjerking Western in 10 minutes to win over a reluctant studio executive.Stevens Jr.
had a spectacular career of his own, working with journalist Edward R. Murrow in Washington, co-creating the annual Kennedy Center Honors and perhaps most importantly, serving as the founding director of the American Film Institute. (His stories about dealing with AFI Lifetime Achievement honoree Orson Welles back in 1975 are classic.) His is a bicoastal story that encompasses relationships with everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Cary Grant to Katharine Hepburn.
He had met virtually every notable by the time he moved to the nation’s capital. But none had the charisma of the president he soon befriended. “To see John F.
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