There is this exciting, glamorous world about things that I love - entertainment, movie stars, etc.” So I was always interested in it, and I was specifically really always interested in the ’63 Oscars, the year that Crawford was in collusion to take the Academy Award from Davis.
It was like, “OK, well, maybe one day I can get out there. That was the one night of the year when all of the glittering movie stars got together, and I used to love that night because, as a child, it was a way to dream for me.
As you can read below, our conversation touches on the roots of Murphy’s personal fascination with the Oscars how Murphy wound up interviewing Davis when he was just 21 the great effort and expense to which he and his backers went to recreate a 54-year-old Oscar night and the list goes on.Īre the Oscars something that you’ve always been interested in, or did they just happen to be a theme that runs throughout this story?įor me, growing up in Indiana with cornfields and churches, I was always very intrigued by the Academy Awards - they were a big event.
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