Oral history interview with Jack Lemmon, 1959
- Name
- Lemmon, Jack (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Jack Lemmon, 1959
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Jack Lemmon, 1959
- Abstract
- Discussion of films: "It Should Happen to You,"1953, "Mr. Roberts," 1955, "Some Like it Hot," 1959; acting on stage versus film; styles of comedy; comparison of directors John Ford, Joshua Logan, Billy Wilder, Richard Quine, and Mervyn LeRoy; impressions of Harry Cohn and Jimmy Cagney. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoi rs of the Movies"
- Collection Name
- Popular arts project
- Subjects
- Actors; Comedy films; Acting; Theater; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures--Production and direction; Lemmon, Jack
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1959
- Note (Biographical)
- Actor
- Note
- Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13005821
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-e99j-y530
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.