Oral history interview with Michael Anatole Litvak, 1959

Biographical Note

Film director

Scope and Contents

Discussion of films directed: "Mayerling," 1936, "The Woman I Love," 1938, "Tovarich," 1938, "Confessions of a Nazi Spy," 1939, "A City for Conquest," 1940, "Blues in the Night," 1941, "The Snake Pit," 1948; Hollywood: lack of intellectual life, preoccupation with movies; differences between theatre and film. 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.
• Litvak, Anatole, 1902-1974--Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Theater.