Oral history interview with Carl Foreman, 1959
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- Name
- Foreman, Carl (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Carl Foreman, 1959
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Carl Foreman, 1959
- Abstract
- University of Illinois; year in Hollywood, 1933; impressions of Hollywood as a struggling writer; return to Hollywood in 1938 and 1940; influence of making films in the army during World War II; forming an independent film company with Stanley Kramer; blacklisted during McCarthy era; views on American Communist Party; making "High Noon"; life in England; influence of television on the film industry ; present view of Hollywood. 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
- Screenwriters; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures--Censorship; Internal security--United States; Motion pictures and television; Foreman, Carl; Communist Party of the United States of America
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1959
- Note (Biographical)
- Movie writer, producer; interviewee b. 1914, d. 1984
- 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
- 13004961
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-tfp2-cs09
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.