Oral history interview with Jean Negulesco, 1959.

Biographical Note

Artist, director

Scope and Contents

Gradual move into motion picture directing from painting; making shorts at Warner Brothers; ballet shorts CAPRICCIO ESPAGNOLE and GAIETE PARISIENNE; Holywood attitude towards art films; experience as a film director; commitment to making a film, chemistry between actors, problems of comedy, agents and their effect on films through the actors

Subjects

• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Negulesco, Jean--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Painters--Interviews.
• Painting.
• Short films.