Interview Marlene Sanders In her three-hour interview, Marlene Sanders (1931-2015) speaks about growing up in Cleveland where she developed an early interest in theater. She discusses her move to New York City, where, after a series of odd jobs, she landed a job at WABD-TV. She talks about meeting Mike Wallace and being...
Interview Ethel Winant In her three-and-a-half-hour interview, Ethel Winant (1922-2003) discusses her background in theater and how she got her start in television as a volunteer for Studio One, produced by Worthington Minor. Winant talks about her shift into casting and her job with David Susskind's Talent Associates...
Interview Howard K. Smith In his three-hour interview, Howard K. Smith (1914-2002) details his time in Europe at the outbreak of World War II, first as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, later as a member of the United Press, and finally as a foreign correspondent for CBS radio. He describes covering the Nuremberg Trials, meeting...
Interview Tony Thomas In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Tony Thomas talks about growing up as the son of Danny Thomas. He recalls visiting his father on the set of Make Room for Daddy , where he learned the basics of production literally "at his father's knee." He describes the start of his career at Screen Gems,...
Interview Allison Janney In her nearly two-hour interview, Allison Janney talks about her early interests in figure skating and theater acting. She describes auditioning for a play directed by Paul Newman while at Kenyon College, and her later mentoring by Joanne Woodward, which led her to her training at the Neighborhood...
