Oral history interview with Samson Raphaelson, 1959.

Biographical Note

Author, playwright; interviewee d.1983

Scope and Contents

Lower East Side New York City and Chicago; stage and film versions of THE JAZZ SINGER; YOUNG LOVE; move to Hollywood, 1929; scriptwriter; life in Hollywood; major motion picture studios; relations with producers, agents, directors, actors; censorship; impressions of Al Jolson, George Jessel, Harry Cohn, Ernst Lubitsch, Myron Selznick, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, and others

Subjects

• Authors--Interviews.
• Dramatists--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Motion picture actors and actresses.
• Motion picture authorship.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion picture producers and directors.
• Motion pictures--Censorship.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983--Interviews.