Oral history interview with Dore Schary, 1958
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- Name
- Schary, Dore (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Dore Schary, 1958
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Dore Schary, 1958
- Abstract
- Early life in New Jersey and New York; career in Hollywood from 1932: screenwriting, B picture production, head of production at Radio Keith Orphium, later at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; resignation from Metro, 1956; involvement in Screen Writer's Guild, political views and activities, Communists in Hollywood and the Un-American Affairs Committee; social and intellectual life in Hollywood; 3-D phenomenon; state of comedy; impact of the agent on motion pictures; impressions of various films and personalities. 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; 3-D films; Communism and motion pictures; United States Social life and customs; Schary, Dore
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1958
- Physical Description
- sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
- Note (Biographical)
- Motion picture writer and producer
- Note
- Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 11617316
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-asq4-n323
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.