Oral history interview with Richard Quine, 1959

Biographical Note

Actor, director

Scope and Contents

Child acting on stage, screen and radio; impressions of the major stars; move to directing; directing two reel comedies and low budget musicals with Blake Edwards; nature of comedy in film and television; directing SOLID GOLD CADILLAC, OPERATION MAD BALL, and BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE; comedy actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, and Jack Lemmon. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Comedy films.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture actors and actresses.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Quine, Richard, 1920-1989--Interviews.