Oral history interview with Leo Calvin Rosten, 1959

Biographical Note

Author, movie script writer

Scope and Contents

Hollywood in the late 1930s: how movies are made, what influences their content, what kinds of people make movies, specifics about the movie making process; political climate in Hollywood; influence of pressure groups; anti-semitism and racism; employment practices; recollections of Harry and Jack Warner; comparison of major studios. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Authors--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Politics in motion pictures.
• Pressure groups.
• Rosten, Leo, 1908-1997--Interviews.
• Screenwriters--Interviews.
• United States--Social life and customs.