Oral history interview with Elliott Nugent, 1958

Biographical Note

Producer, director, actor, writer

Scope and Contents

Family background, early life, father and vaudeville; beginning of theatrical career, 1920s; theater life during Prohibition; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and motion picture career: transition to sound; social, intellectual and political life in Hollywood; discussion of outstanding films; impressions of Eva Tanguay, Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, Delmar Daves, Jimmie Flood, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, many others; reflections on comedy. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Authors--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• Motion picture acting.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures.
• Nugent, Elliott, 1896-1980--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Silent films.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975