Oral history interview with Nunnally Johnson, 1959.

Biographical Note

Screenwriter, producer, director

Scope and Contents

Early writing experience for newspapers and magazines; first impressions of the film industry; social castes of Hollywood and New York; Darryl Zanuck and 20th Century Fox; political climate of Hollywood; motion picture code and film censorship; discussion of films: "A Bedtime Story," "The House of Rothschild," "The Grapes of Wrath"

Subjects

• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Johnson, Nunnally--Interviews.
• Journalism.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Censorship.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Screenwriters--Interviews.