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.