Oral history interview with Gottfried Reinhardt, 1959
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- Name
- Reinhardt, Gottfried (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Gottfried Reinhardt, 1959
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Gottfried Reinhardt, 1959
- Abstract
- Childhood in Germany; emigration to the United States; assistant to Ernst Lubitsch; early days at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; producer of "Comrade X" (1940), "The Red Badge of Courage" (1951) and "Betrayed" (1954); impressions of Max Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch, Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg and Dore Schary. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio progr am series "Memoirs of the Movies"
- Collection Name
- Popular arts project
- Subjects
- Motion picture producers and directors; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures--Distribution; Motion pictures--Production and direction; Reinhardt, Gottfried; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
- Note (Biographical)
- Motion picture producer
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7091899
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-x5av-cp77
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.