Oral history interview with Rouben Mamoulian, 1958

Biographical Note

Stage and motion picture director; interviewee d.1987

Scope and Contents

Director in London, 1919; directing opera in Rochester, New York; interviews with George Eastman; Theatre Guild in New York, N.Y.; films: APPLAUSE, QUEEN CHRISTINA, BECKY SHARP; stage productions of PORGY AND BESS and CAROUSEL; move from major studios to more individualized production units; impressions of Eugene O'Neill, Greta Garbo. 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.
• Mamoulian, Rouben--Interviews.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Theater--Production and direction.
• Theatrical producers and directors--Interviews.