Oral history interview with Edward Dmytryk, 1959.

Biographical Note

Director

Scope and Contents

Career as cutter, observations on cutting and directing, directing as a skill, difficulties of dialogue; writing for film, observations on writers; attitudes towards "Crossfire"; myths of Hollywood and Hollywood parties; Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, "The Young Lions"; creativity and its relation to political opinion; personal political evolution, view of life, the Communist Party, the McCarthy era in Hollywood

Subjects

• Dmytryk, Edward--Interviews.
• 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.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Politics in motion pictures.