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23. Interview of George P. Johnson

Topic:
African American History
Film and Television
Length:
13.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
General booking manager of the Lincoln Motion Picture Company and lifelong collector of materials on African Americans in motion pictures. Founder of the Pacific Coast News Bureau.

24. Interview of W. W. Hodkinson

Topic:
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
President of Paramount Pictures and founder of the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation. Founder of the airplane manufacturing businesses Hodkinson Aviation Corporation and Central American Aviation Corporation/Companía Nacional de Aviación.

25. Interview of Albert Maltz

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Film and Television
Length:
36 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series preserve the recollections of selected individuals in Los Angeles who were affected by the Hollywood blacklist during the Joseph R. McCarthy-J. Edgar Hoover era.
Biographical Note:
Novelist and screenwriter. One of the Hollywood Ten, who were imprisoned and blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.

28. Interview of Jack B. Tenney

Topic:
Politics and Government
Social Movements
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
U.S. senator from 1943 to 1955 and 38th district California State Assembly member from 1936 to 1942. Head of the California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities ("Tenney Committee") and leader of anti-communist investigations.

29. Interview of Sheila O'Brien

Topic:
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Costume designer and seamstress for Paramount Pictures and MGM.

30. Interview of Michael Wilson

Topic:
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Screenwriter and member of the Communist Party. Blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) for communist affiliations.

31. Interview of Donald P. Murray

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
2 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Actor, writer, and humanitarian. Co-founder of the Homeless European Land Program (HELP) community for refugee resettlement in Sardinia, Italy.

32. Interview of Fayard Nicholas

Topic:
African American History
Film and Television
Length:
60 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series African Americans in Entertainment and Media are designed to document African Americans in television, radio, theater and film and aims to better understand how they overcame bias and discrimination and were trailblazers who opened doors for other African Americans in...
Biographical Note:
Choreographer, dancer, and actor. Member, with younger brother Harold Nicholas, of the Nicolas Brothers jazz tap dance duo.

33. Interview of Glenda Wina

Topic:
African American History
Film and Television
Length:
10.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series African Americans in Entertainment and Media are designed to document African Americans in television, radio, theater and film and aims to better understand how they overcame bias and discrimination and were trailblazers who opened doors for other African Americans in...
Biographical Note:
Journalist, anchorwoman, publicist, and producer.

34. Interview of Robert Guillaume

Topic:
African American History
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series African Americans in Entertainment and Media are designed to document African Americans in television, radio, theater and film and aims to better understand how they overcame bias and discrimination and were trailblazers who opened doors for other African Americans in...

35. Interview of Reuben Cannon

Topic:
African American History
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series African Americans in Entertainment and Media are designed to document African Americans in television, radio, theater and film and aims to better understand how they overcame bias and discrimination and were trailblazers who opened doors for other African Americans in...

36. Interview of Sid Caesar

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
4.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Television comedian most well-known for Your Show of Shows and Caesar’s Hour.

37. Interview of Edward Asner

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Actor and social activist. Active in protesting the involvement of the United States in Central America in the 1980s.

38. Interview of Pat O'Neill

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
8 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Experimental filmmaker. California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) founding faculty member and associate dean.

40. Interview of Larry Gelbart

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
10 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Television writer, playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, and radio show host. Known for the TV show, M*A*S*H.