Oral history interview with Delbert Mann, 1959.

Biographical Note

Director and producer

Scope and Contents

High School and college theater experiences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville; US Air Corps World War II; Yale Drama School 1945-47; stage manager summer theater, Wellesley College 1947-8; director Town Theater, Columbia, SC 1947-49; director National Broadcasting Company 1949-55: Philco playhouse and other programs; films including "Marty," 1955, "Separate Tables," 1958, and "Middle of the Night," 1959; association with Hecht, Hill and Lancaster from 1955; camera techniques, television and film: problems of outdoor and location shooting, differences from studio work; promotional work for movies, talk shows; jurisdictional dispute between East Coast directors and Screen Directors Guild 1959; reminiscences of Fred Coe, Paddy Chayevsky, Joe La Shelle, Kim Novak, others

Subjects

• Cinematography.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Mann, Delbert, 1920-2007--Interviews.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Television--Production and direction.
• Theater--Production and direction.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975