Oral history interview with Melvyn Douglas, 1958

Biographical Note

Actor; interviewee b. 1901, d. 1981

Scope and Contents

Arrival in Hollywood, 1931; motion picture acting vs. stage acting; commercialism, censorship, blacklisting in Hollywood; Hollywood Democratic Committee, Anti-Nazi Committee; impressions of Greta Garbo, Ernst Lubitsch. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Douglas, Melvyn--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Oral histories (literary works)