Oral history interview with Dore Schary, 1958

Biographical Note

Motion picture writer and producer

Scope and Contents

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"

Subjects

• 3-D films.
• Communism and motion pictures.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Schary, Dore--Interviews.
• Screenwriters--Interviews.
• United States--Social life and customs.