Oral history interview with David Oliver Selznick, 1958.

Biographical Note

Producer

Scope and Contents

Recollections of his father, Lewis J. Selznick; producing early Western films; impressions of Irving Thalberg and Louis B. Mayer; the old versus the new Hollywood; impact of television and advertising; censorship, movie criticism, comedy; "A Star is Born"

Subjects

• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion picture plays--History and criticism.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Censorship.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Selznick, David O., 1902-1965--Interviews.
• Western films.