Interview Roy Huggins In his five-hour interview, Roy Huggins (1914-2002) talks about his early years as a novelist and member of the Communist Party. He recalls getting into screenwriting at Columbia Pictures with films like Hangman's Knot , and subsequently being blacklisted. He describes testifying in front of the...
Interview Cybill Shepherd In her two-hour interview, Cybill Shepherd describes her childhood growing up in Memphis, TN and discusses her early modeling career. She talks about her first film role in The Last Picture Show and working with director Peter Bogdanovich, and touches on other film roles (in The Heartbreak Kid and...
Interview Elma Farnsworth In her seven-hour interview, Elma Farnsworth (1908-2006) discusses her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's first television invention - the image dissector tube - and the excitement of seeing its first moving image. She describes how Philo toiled to create the first electronic television, while RCA and...
Interview Angela Lansbury In her three-and-a-half-hour interview, Angela Lansbury (1925-2022) recalls growing up in England before immigrating to New York during the London Blitz, and beginning her early motion picture career at MGM with films including Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray . She discusses her many...
Interview John Rich In his seven-hour interview, John Rich (1925-2012) talks about getting his start in television -- as a stage manager for NBC's The Colgate Comedy Hour -- and describes his big break in directing -- on The Ezio Pinza Show . He discusses numerous shows he directed throughout his career, including I...
