Oral history interview with Kenneth MacKenna, 1958
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- Name
- MacKenna, Kenneth, 1899-1962 (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Kenneth MacKenna, 1958
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Kenneth MacKenna, 1958
- Abstract
- Story and scenario editor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1937; changing status and functions of Hollywood writers; effect of Screen Writers Guild, large agencies, tax laws, flat-deal salaries, Motion Picture Production Code and the Legion of Decency; transforming novels into screenplays: "Ben Hur"; "Some Came Running"; "From Here to Eternity"; "Tea and Sympathy"; "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Audio is comp rised 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 pictures; Motion pictures--Censorship; Motion picture authorship; MacKenna, Kenneth, 1899-1962; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1958
- Physical Description
- 44 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Story and scenario editor
- Note
- Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 14840477
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-fhv5-dg10
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.