Entry into theatrical work as youth in Vienna; first film experience; invitation to direct at 20th Century Fox, and early films there; making of "Laura", "Exodus", "Royal Scandal", "The Moon is Blue", "The Man With The Golden Arm", "Advice and Consent", "Saint Joan", "Such Good Friends"; social commentary in film; technical and philosophical approach to filmmaking; film schools and apprenticeships; reminiscences of various film industry figures
Motion picture producers and directors; Motion pictures--Production and direction; Motion picture actors and actresses; United States Social life and customs; Preminger, Otto; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1971
Physical Description
76 pages
Note (Biographical)
Moving-picture director
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
Interviewed by Charles Higham on September 14, 1971