Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Carl Foreman, 1959Biographical NoteMovie writer, producer; interviewee b. 1914, d. 1984
Scope and ContentsUniversity of Illinois; year in Hollywood, 1933; impressions of Hollywood as a struggling writer; return to Hollywood in 1938 and 1940; influence of making films in the army during World War II; forming an independent film company with Stanley Kramer; blacklisted during McCarthy era; views on American Communist Party; making "High Noon"; life in England; influence of television on the film industry; present view of Hollywood. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"
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