Greta Gerwig explains how Carole Lombard and Katharine Hepburn inspired "Barbie’" 

28 Films That Inspired Barbie: The Wizard of Oz, The Godfather, Saturday Night Fever, Singing In the Rain, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Heaven Can Wait, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 2001: A Space Odyssey, All That Jazz, His Girl Friday, Mon Oncle, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), A Matter of Life and Death, The Earrings of Madame de..., The Red Shoes, Oklahoma!, Splash, An American in Paris, Wings of Desire, Grease, The Ladies Man, and the Ship Sails On, Rear Window, The Truman Show, Gold Diggers of 1935, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Modern Times, The Philadelphia Story Additional Movies Mentioned: Bringing Up Baby, Carole Lombard films, Rio Bravo, Red River, Dr. Strangelove

Greta Gerwig is such an inspiration to film fans and aspiring filmmakers. I agree with her completely about the great Katharine Hepburn. She really was such a trailblazing woman and one of the greatest actresses ever. And of course, Carole Lombard was also amazing. Greta is spot-on about Howard Hawks, he really understood dialogue so well and was a master of so many genres. He was equally adept at making comedy masterpieces like Bringing Up Baby, Ball of Fire, and Twentieth Century as he was at making some of the greatest adventure films of the classic era such as Red River, Rio Bravo, and Only Angels Have Wings. Hawks truly was one of the finest filmmakers of any era. Greta Gerwig is an encyclopedia of cinema knowledge, and that love of it really shows itself in her films. Thanks for the interview, TCM/Ben!

Greta Gerwig is so awesome! Great interview Ben. I could listen to you two talk about movies for hours.

Wow I see her genius in all it’s glory now. She’s very inspired and that is inspiring to witness

I"m a TCM fan. I'm a classic film fan. I'm a Greta Gerwig fan! Give this woman a chance and her due! She's got some scathingly brilliant ideas and "Barbie" is one of them! I hope she does great things throughout her career! She's young, brilliant and hungry -- a great combination!

Greta is such a loving, giving cinephile and it shows in her work. Saw Barbie last night and loved it. Big, beautiful, bright moviemaking that balances camp and a journey of self discovery.

Katharine Hepburn had this to say in 1979 (the year she made The Corn is Green for television) to Morley Safer, and it speaks today: "I'm disgusted with the movies. Disgusted. Because they're kidding themselves into saying it's a sort of intellectual pastime. Bunk. It's 42nd street filth. Filth being sold for too much. And now its respectable to go and see them. And the critics, I think, have lost their minds."

Such a FUN movie 😃 and Margot Robbie is so beautiful & such PERFECT casting!💖 My all-time FAVORITE Barbie doll is Teresa. She’s absolutely breathtaking!💖 I also love Barbie nemesis, Raquelle.😂 I really hope we see them in the sequel!!😃 🎶come on Barbie let’s go party🎶😃

Out of all those films mentioned ive seen 18 of them i love Philadephia Story and Cukor is one of my fav and Hawks is such a great writer i can see the fast paced dialogue inspiration that Greta gets from Hawks. Greta is such a smart writer and director.

So thoughtful... both of you. Very good interview.

Greta is talking my language, so guess I've got to see Barbie for those Easter eggs🎉

Was SO sad this was a reupload -- was hoping we'd get more of Greta

This episode is fantastic, tcm fan would like to illustrate great grace to tcm and Greta Gerwig

Love Carole Lombard in TO BE OR NOT TO BE and MY MAN GODFREY.

Uh Greta, Don Lockwood meets Debbie Reynolds' character in her car as Don is trying to escape his rabid fanbase at the premiere. They banter, argue, and it ends with Don accidently slamming the door on his coat jacket, ripping it in half and her laughing at him for it.

Character driven Dialog: hello , Ken ! Hello, Barbie! The Main influence was Cleo 5 to 7. An old french movie, where WE See a Woman só Young And beautiful faces and think about death for te First time. Better than Barbie because Agnes Varda didn T want us to buy dolls

CORECT INTERESANT INTERVIU SI PLACUT .

Barbie is a must-see for any fan of cinema. It is a wonder.

The end; and i mean the last approximately ten minutes or so of said film - was rather impressive. But it was unfortunately too little too late to save what was sadly mostly a farce if not an embarrassment.

When did young Americans start talikng like that? With respect,a whole generation now do a whining jerkey upward inflection. Sound awful. They could take a leaf from the older stars mentioned here. In Greta's case she goes in and out of that sort of speech.

Great inspirations, but inspiration only counts for so much. Nickelback may be inspired by Mozart, but that doesn't make their music good.

Great Gerwig's voice is annoying.

If she says that Carole Lombard and Katherine Hepburn inspired the movie "Barbie" then that is an insult to Lombard and Hepburn's acting ability, true talent, and careers. Those actresses should not be related to the "Barbie" movie in any way or compared to any "movie" they make now. Those women had character and respect for themselves and others. The class and gracefulness of women in films now, has gone out of the window!

Barbie... What a complete waste of time

Ben Mankiewicz has ruined TCM.