Maria Corday Interview
Maria Corday was interviewed about her role in MAN WITHOUT A STAR and here's what she said about working with Kirk Douglas and Richard Boone:
“In ‘Man Without A Star,’ my option had just been picked up. Kirk Douglas has mellowed extremely since then. Early on in the film I played a whore—. There were two scenes at a dancehall. All the guys were leaning on the bar. All of us girls took a poll as to which butt was best. We picked Richard Boone’s. We told him, ‘'We pick you’' and Kirk heard. It made him so angry at me!
Publicity wanted a photo of Kirk grabbing me by the necklace—he grabbed it and almost choked me! When I said something he stated, ‘I'’m not acting! You should take this business more seriously. I don’t like your attitude and your kidding around.’ I said, ‘Go screw yourself, I just got renewed!’ How dare he tell me I can'’t kid around!
Kirk also treated little King Vidor, the director, badly. Whatever King said, he had to defer to Kirk. In the ‘70s— 13 or 14 years later, I met Kirk and now he’'s the sweetest man in the world!”
Here's the link if anyone wishes to read the rest of her interview and what she said about working with Audie Murphy and others:
http://www.westernclippings.com/interview/maracorday_interview.shtml
Edited to correct punctuation. share