Oral history interview with Gottfried Reinhardt, 1959

Biographical Note

Motion picture producer

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Germany; emigration to the United States; assistant to Ernst Lubitsch; early days at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; producer of "Comrade X" (1940), "The Red Badge of Courage" (1951) and "Betrayed" (1954); impressions of Max Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch, Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg and Dore Schary

Subjects

• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Distribution.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Reinhardt, Gottfried--Interviews.