Two Kids for a Nickel radio program, 1958

Scope and Contents

"Two Kids for a Nickel" is an episode of the "Memoirs of the Movies" series, produced by Group W of the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in collaboration with Columbia University's Oral History Research Office. The theme of this episode is the films, characteristics, and equipment of the nickelodeon theater. The episode is hosted by Johnny Mack Brown and features the recollections of Cecil B. DeMille, King Vidor, Adolph Zukor, Broncho Billy Anderson, Albert Hackett, Jack Shaindlin, and Don Malkames

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Interviews
• Motion picture acting.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures.
• Motion picture theaters--United States
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Screenwriters--Interviews.
• Silent films
• Silent films--Musical accompaniment