Reminiscences of Delmer Lawrence Daves : oral history, 1959.

Biographical Note

Film producer and director.

Scope and Contents

Traditions and transitions in motion picture business; intimacy of early period, 1914-1927; transition from silent to sound movies; growth of big studios; influence of World War II on picture making; techniques developed; recollections of Maria Schell, Frank Sinatra.

Subjects

• Daves, Delmer, 1904-1977.
• 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 producers and directors--Interviews.
• Oral histories.

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