Research Catalog
[Interviews with Arthur Miller and Garson Kanin]
- Title
- [Interviews with Arthur Miller and Garson Kanin] [videorecording] / City University Television, The Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts (CASTA) [present]
- Publication
- New York, 1989.
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (112 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Four separate interviews, two with Arthur Miller and two with Garson Kanin.
- Arthur Miller talks about the process by which ideas come together for a play, his attempt to mimic in writing people's non-sequential thinking as in his play Death of a salesman which takes place in 24 hours but which shows past and present events concurrently, the need for conflict in a play, the decline of theater in New York City because of expensive real estate and good actors going to Hollywood, the need for subsidized theater in the United States, and how the personal conflicts of his characters reflect larger social conflicts.
- Garson Kanin discusses his early career assisting George Abbott, his Hollywood work for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and RKO Pictures, his writing and directing Born yesterday, the last-minute cast change of Judy Holliday in the play and movie, and his belief that young playwrights' best hope is in regional theater.
- Series Statement
- CUNY Spotlight
- Subjects
- Abbott, George, 1887-1995 > Friends and associates
- Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005 > Sources
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005 > Death of a salesman
- Theater > Economic aspects > New York (State) > New York
- Kanin, Garson, 1912-1999 > Born yesterday
- RKO Pictures (1978-1987)
- Regional theaters
- Interviews
- Dramatists, American > Interviews
- Holliday, Judy
- Motion picture producers and directors > Interviews
- Kanin, Garson, 1912-1999 > Interviews
- Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005 > Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Note
- Part of the series, CUNY Spotlight, broadcast on CUNY-TV, sponsored by the City University of New York.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y.
- Call Number
- NCOW 96
- OCLC
- NYPG98-F346
- Title
- [Interviews with Arthur Miller and Garson Kanin] [videorecording] / City University Television, The Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts (CASTA) [present]
- Imprint
- New York, 1989.
- Series
- CUNY Spotlight
- Performer
- Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.
- Event
- Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y.
- Local Subject
- Regional theaters.
- Added Author
- Kanin, Garson, 1912-1999, interviewee.Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005.Wilson, Edwin, 1927- interviewer.City University of New York.
- Research Call Number
- NCOW 96