Popular Arts Project
By: Elliott Nugent
Series: Columbia University oral history collection -- pt. 2, no. 141
Published: 1975
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Actors; Biography; Correspondence
Other titles: Popular Arts Project; Nugent, Elliott
Description: Producer, director, actor, writer. Topics include: family background, early life, father and vaudeville; beginning of theatrical career, 1920s; theater life during Prohibition; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and motion picture career: transition to sound; social, intellectual and political life in Hollywood; discussion of outstanding films; impressions of Eva Tanguay, Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, Delmar Daves, Jimmie Flood, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, many others; reflections on comedy.
Notes: Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University in 1958.

Includes index.

Microfiche of typescript. Glen Rock, N. J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1975. -- 1 sheet ; 11 x 15 cm. -- (Columbia University oral history collection ; pt. 2, no. 141)