Oral history interview with Carl Foreman, 1959.

Biographical Note

Movie writer, producer; interviewee b. 1914, d. 1984

Scope and Contents

University of Illinois; year in Hollywood, 1933; impressions of Hollywood as a struggling writer; return to Hollywood in 1938 and 1940; influence of making films in the army during World War II; forming an independent film company with Stanley Kramer; blacklisted during McCarthy era; views on American Communist Party; making "High Noon"; life in England; influence of television on the film industry; present view of Hollywood

Subjects

• Communist Party of the United States of America.
• Foreman, Carl--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Censorship.
• Motion pictures and television.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Screenwriters--Interviews.