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In his one-and-a-half-hour interview, Edgar J. Scherick (1924-2002) speaks of his early years and education, getting drafted into the Air Corps as a meteorologist during World War II, and getting...

In her two-hour interview, Sally Field discusses her early career in acting. She recalls starring in Gidget and The Flying Nun for producer Harry Ackerman. She describes her struggle to...

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Sol Saks (1910-2011) talks about his early years breaking into radio writing in Chicago and Los Angeles. He gives his impressions of such radio personalities as...

In his three-hour interview, E. Roger Muir (1918-2008) discusses his early television producing experiences for NBC, including bringing The Perry Como Show from radio to television. He details directing NBC...

In his six-hour interview, Tad Mosel (1922-2008) talks about his early years growing up in the Great Depression and his experience in World War II. He describes his education at...

In his three-hour interview, Ray Forrest (1916-1999) recalls how he became television's very first news anchor, announcer, personality, and political commentator in 1939. He discusses how he got his start...

In his two-hour interview, Stanford Tischler (1921-2014) talks about his early start in the business as an apprentice sound effects editor at RKO Studios. He speaks in detail about the...

In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Paul Monash (1917-2003) speaks about his writing career that began in the 1950s and included such acclaimed series as Playhouse 90. He discusses in great detail...

In her nearly two-hour interview, Eileen Fulton (1933-2025) talks about growing up in North Carolina, moving to New York, and studying under Sanford Meisner. She discusses being cast as "Lisa...

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Lyle “Skitch” Henderson (1918-2005) talks about his early years, and working as a musical director with such luminaries as Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, and...

In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Henry Colman (1923-2012) talks of his start in television as an assistant to the director on Kraft Television Theater. He discusses his work on other programs...

In his nearly three-hour interview, Daniel Schorr (1916-2010) talks about his early years and education, where he began his career as a print journalist. He details his transition to radio...

In her two-and-a-half-hour interview, Susan Lucci talks about her early life and her drive to pursue acting. She describes her audition to play "Erica Kane" on Agnes Nixon's then-new daytime...

In her three-hour interview, Judith Light talks about her early years and her training at Carnegie Mellon. She describes being cast as "Karen Wolek" on the daytime drama One Life...

In his two-hour interview, Tony Danza talks about his early life and his career as a professional boxer before getting into acting. He describes being cast in the feature film...

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Jonathan Harris (1914-2002) talks about his early career on the New York stage and his first appearances on television. He recalls appearing on various classic anthology...

In her three-hour interview, Geraldine Laybourne talks about her early interests in education and visual media for children. She chronicles her role (and that of her husband Kit Laybourne) in...

In his two-hour interview, Lew Schneider talks about his first interest in performing as part of the "Mask and Wig Club" at the University of Pennsylvania. He chronicles his experiences...

In her two-hour interview, Susan Whiting talks of her interest in mathematics and economics and becoming one of the first members of Nielsen Research's management training program. She describes what...

In his four-hour interview, Chet Simmons (1928-2010) speaks about his early interest in following sports, on radio and in print. He notes his work selling time to small radio stations...