Publication

1975 - , No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

English

Word Count

21,750 words, Guess

Page Count

87 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC792/.092/4
  • LCCMicrofiche PN2287.N78

Alternate 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.

Subjects

Places

People

Elliott Nugent (1899-1980)Elliott Nugent (1896-1980)

Series Statement

  • Columbia University oral history collection -- pt. 2, no. 141

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