Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Kenneth MacKenna, 1958
Creator: | MacKenna, Kenneth, 1899-1962 | Project: | Popular arts project. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | transcript: 44 pages sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteStory and scenario editor
Scope and ContentsStory and scenario editor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1937; changing status and functions of Hollywood writers; effect of Screen Writers Guild, large agencies, tax laws, flat-deal salaries, Motion Picture Production Code and the Legion of Decency; transforming novels into screenplays: "Ben Hur"; "Some Came Running"; "From Here to Eternity"; "Tea and Sympathy"; "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"
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