Oral Histories
Interview of Frances Inglis
Director of the UCLA Committee on Fine Arts Production.
- Subtitle:
- Director of Fine Arts Productions
- Series:
- Interviews not in a series, part one
- Topic:
- UCLA and University of California HistoryUCLA Performing Arts Staff
- Biographical Note:
- Director of the UCLA Committee on Fine Arts Production.
- Interviewee:
- Inglis, Frances
- Supporting Documents:
- Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
- Abstract:
- Attends Stanford University; father's business failure forces Inglis into the workplace; employment with the Joyce-Selznick agency and the Hawks-Volck Corporation; hired as assistant to David O. Selznick; serves as assistant to the chair of the Hollywood Victory Committee; becomes Samuel Goldwyn's secretary; hired as executive director of the Screen Writers Guild; accepts position as director of fine arts productions at UCLA; Dean William W. Melnitz's decision to establish the Theatre Group; Abbott Kaplan; booking film and dance programs; lack of outside funding sources; Franklin D. Murphy's support of the arts; John Houseman; Blanche Witherspoon; conceiving Design for Sharing; engaging artists to conduct workshops; Department of Fine Arts Productions staff and salaries; sexism at UCLA; increasing costs of bringing artists to campus; the Department of Fine Arts Productions after Inglis's departure; Pebbles Wadsworth; activities after retiring.