Name
Douglas, Melvyn (Interviewee)
Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with Melvyn Douglas, 1958
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Melvyn Douglas, 1958
Abstract
Arrival in Hollywood, 1931; motion picture acting vs. stage acting; commercialism, censorship, blacklisting in Hollywood; Hollywood Democratic Committee, Anti-Nazi Committee; impressions of Greta Garbo, Ernst Lubitsch. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"
Collection Name
Popular arts project
Subjects
Actors; Motion picture industry; Douglas, Melvyn
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1958
Physical Description
29 pages
Note (Biographical)
Actor; interviewee b. 1901, d. 1981
Note
Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
12915253
Also In
Oral History Archives at Columbia
Time-Based Media
Time-Based Media
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-pf06-xs09
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.