Oral history interview with Michael Anatole Litvak, 1959
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- Name
- Litvak, Anatole, 1902-1974 (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Michael Anatole Litvak, 1959
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Michael Anatole Litvak, 1959
- Abstract
- Discussion of films directed: "Mayerling," 1936, "The Woman I Love," 1938, "Tovarich," 1938, "Confessions of a Nazi Spy," 1939, "A City for Conquest," 1940, "Blues in the Night," 1941, "The Snake Pit," 1948; Hollywood: lack of intellectual life, preoccupation with movies; differences between theatre and film. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's rad io program series "Memoirs of the Movies"
- Collection Name
- Popular arts project
- Subjects
- Motion picture producers and directors; Motion pictures--Production and direction; Motion picture industry; Theater; Litvak, Anatole, 1902-1974
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1959
- Note (Biographical)
- Film director
- Note
- Interviewed by Robert and Joan Franklin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 14840098
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-34b3-jp07
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.