Oral history interview with Hal Brent Wallis, 1958

Biographical Note

Moving-picture producer

Scope and Contents

Early career as theater manager; Warner Brothers from the 1920s; changes in economic and contractual arrangements in motion-picture industry; western, comedy and gangster movies; advent of sound; censorship; important movies; impressions of Ernst Lubitsch. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture industry--Finance.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Censorship.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Wallis, Hal B., 1899-1986--Interviews.