Oral history interview with Kenneth MacKenna, 1958.

Biographical Note

Story and scenario editor

Scope and Contents

Story and scenario editor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1937; changing status and functions of Hollywood writers; effect of Screen Writers Guild, large agencies, tax laws, flat-deal salaries, Motion Picture Production Code and the Legion of Decency; transforming novels into screenplays: "Ben Hur"; "Some Came Running"; "From Here to Eternity"; "Tea and Sympathy"; "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

Subjects

• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• MacKenna, Kenneth, 1899-1962--Interviews.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• Motion picture authorship.
• Motion pictures--Censorship.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Screenwriters--Interviews.