Oral history interview with Reginald Denham, 1959

Biographical Note

Actor, writer, director

Scope and Contents

British theater; director: HEARTBREAK HOUSE, 1923; NO MAN'S LAND, 1924; MOON AND SIXPENCE, 1925; arrival in New York, 1929; JEW SUSS, 1930, LADIES IN RETIREMENT, 1940; working for Paramount Pictures in London; experiences in Hollywood; discussion of importance of comic relief in drama, differences in directing plays and films; recollections of George Bernard Shaw, C.B. Dillingham and Lee Shubert. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Denham, Reginald, 1894-1983--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Theater--Great Britain.
• Theatrical producers and directors--Interviews.