Oral history interview with Betty Field, 1959.

Biographical Note

Actress

Scope and Contents

Training at American Academy for Dramatic Arts; stage acting; Hollywood's hostility towards New York stage actors; role of publicity agent; films: OF MICE AND MEN, DREAM GIRL, BLUES IN THE NIGHT, PICNIC; censorship in films; role of director in theater and films; impressions of various directors, including Joshua Logan, Howard Lindsay and Lewis Milestone

Subjects

• Acting.
• Actresses--Interviews.
• Field, Betty, 1918-1973--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 pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Theater.