Oral Histories
Interview of Sylvia Jarrico
Wife of screenwriter and film producer Paul Jarrico, who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
- Series:
- Hollywood Blacklist
- Topic:
- Communist PartySocial MovementsFilm and Television
- Biographical Note:
- Wife of screenwriter and film producer Paul Jarrico, who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
- Interviewee:
- Jarrico, Sylvia
- Persons Present:
- Jarrico and Ceplair
- Place Conducted:
- not known
- Supporting Documents:
- Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Interviewer Background and Preparation:
- The interview was conducted by Larry Ceplair, UCLA Oral History Program; B.A., Economics, UCLA; Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Coauthor, The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960.Ceplair prepared for the interview by consulting sources he had collected while writing The Inquisition in Hollywood and materials in the library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Processing of Interview:
- The transcript is a verbatim transcription of the recording. It was transcribed by a professional transcribing agency using a list of proper names and specialized terminology supplied by the interviewer. The interviewee did not review the transcript, and therefore some proper names may remain unverified.
- Length:
- 182 pages
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
- 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.