Interview Elinor Donahue In her three-and-a-half-hour interview, Elinor Donahue talks about growing up as a performer in radio and vaudeville, and outlines her early film career in the films Mister Big and The Unfinished Dance. She describes appearing in early experimental television for Klaus Landsberg (under hot lights...
Interview Tucker Cawley In his two-hour interview, Tucker Cawley talks about breaking into the entertainment industry in Los Angeles in a series of entry-level positions before being hired on the writing staff of the series Everybody Loves Raymond. For Everybody Loves Raymond , he describes the way in which ideas were...
Interview Ken Corday In his nearly two-and-a-half-hour interview, Ken Corday talks about his parents, Ted and Betty Corday, who, along with Irna Philips and Allan Chase, created Days of Our Lives which premiered in 1965. He describes the premise of the show and explains his initial involvement with the soap opera - as...
Interview Erika Slezak In her two-hour interview, actress Erika Slezak talks about her early years and describes her father, screen star Walter Slezak, and her grandfather, a famous opera singer. She discusses her own training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, shares early stage experiences, and speaks in great...
Interview Sheila Nevins In her two-hour interview, Sheila Nevins describes her early experience in documentary filmmaking for PBS' The Great American Dream Machine and CBS' Who's Who and details her hiring at HBO in the late 1970s. She talks of the state of the network during its early years and defines her role as...
