Don Ameche
Don Ameche
Don Ameche was an American actor and voice artist with a career spanning almost 60 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 May 1908
CityKenosha, WI
CountryUnited States of America
bette books boy children lives love wrote
There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.
screen
The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
cherish god good miss
God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.
perhaps route
I never 'went Hollywood.' Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn't go the route of Hollywood parties.
half hell petrified ran rough saloon scared time
My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.
mainly theater whatever work york
By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.
camera cut directors guys learned learning listening movies seeing watching work
In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.
close directors five mind outside time work
There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.