Oral history interview with Sidney Lumet, 1959.

Biographical Note

Actor, director

Scope and Contents

Child actor; "Dead End" and "My Heart's in the Highlands" 1930s; family background, Yiddish theatre; film director: "Twelve Angry Men," 1957, "Stage Struck," 1958; differences between motion pictures and theater; effects of rising costs of production and distribution; Hollywood star system and casting of movies

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011--Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Distribution.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Theater.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1980