Oral history interview with Samuel Loebel and Bella Cohen Spewack, 1958
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- Name
- Spewack, Samuel, 1899-1971 (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Spewack, Bella Cohen, 1899-1990 (Interviewee)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Samuel Loebel and Bella Cohen Spewack, 1958
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Samuel Loebel and Bella Cohen Spewack, 1958
- Abstract
- Bella Spewack's early career as writer and publicity agent; work with Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls; Samuel Spewack's beginnings as correspondent for the WORLD, 1918-1926: reporters and speakeasies, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, foreign coverage; their collaboration on plays and screenwriting; Hollywood in the 1930s. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company' s radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies" and an additional audio excerpt
- Collection Name
- Popular arts project
- Subjects
- Screenwriters; Women authors; Authors; Theater; Motion pictures; Journalism; Spewack, Samuel, 1899-1971; Spewack, Bella Cohen, 1899-1990
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1958
- Physical Description
- sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
- Note (Biographical)
- Authors, screenwriters; interviewees are married
- 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
- 11616940
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-xhc5-2970
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.