![]() John Ford and Howard Hawks let him visit their sets, allowing him to soak up invaluable directing tips. ![]() The mass-media fascination with Hollywood filmmakers was also still years away, so when Bogdanovich stopped by a director’s house, he could stay as long as he wanted. Bogdanovich once strolled into the Universal commissary and found it deserted, except for Spencer Tracy, sitting alone, having a cup of coffee. ![]() ![]() Bogdanovich remembers being at the Whisky-A-Go-Go in 1964, just after it opened, when it was such a hip hangout that you’d see beatniks with goatees and surfer girls in tight capri pants at one end of the crowded room, Shelley Winters, Sal Mineo and Dean Martin at the other. Long before he became a star director in the New Hollywood, Bogdanovich was an actor turned journalist who’d been writing admiring museum monographs and Esquire pieces about the aging lions of the Old Hollywood.Įven though he was poor as a church mouse, it was a great time to be in L.A. Peter Bogdanovich moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 1964, driving cross-country from New York with his wife, Polly Platt, in a battered ’52 Ford convertible.
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