Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Samuel Loebel and Bella Cohen Spewack, 1958
Creator: | Spewack, Samuel, 1899-1971 | Project: | Popular arts project. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteAuthors, screenwriters; interviewees are married
Scope and ContentsBella Spewack's early career as writer and publicity agent; work with Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls; Samuel Spewack's beginnings as correspondent for the WORLD, 1918-1926: reporters and speakeasies, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, foreign coverage; their collaboration on plays and screenwriting; Hollywood in the 1930s. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies" and an additional audio excerpt
Subjects- Authors--Interviews.
- Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
- Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
- Interviews.
- Journalism.
- Motion pictures.
- Oral histories (literary works)
- Screenwriters--Interviews.
- Spewack, Bella Cohen, 1899-1990, interviewee.
- Spewack, Bella Cohen, 1899-1990--Interviews.
- Spewack, Samuel, 1899-1971--Interviews.
- Theater.
- Women authors--Interviews.
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