American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • Billie Dixon interviewed by Herbert Feinstein

    Mr. Feinstein interviews actress Billie Dixon, who performed Jean Harlow in Michael McClure’s play The Beard. Recorded September 1, 1967 in the green room at the Encore Theater, San Francisco, California. They discuss her and her cohorts’ arrests for “lewd conduct in a public place” during her performance in The Beard.

  • Carol Doda interviewed by Herbert Feinstein

    Herbert Feinstein talks with Carol Doda, former topless queen of North Beach, who is starring as Miss Sadie Thompson in a play based on W. Somerset Maugham’s short story “Rain.” Doda discusses her past (including silicone injections) and her future plans for non-topless nightclub work.

  • Yvonne Donjay interviewed by Herbert Feinstein

    Herbert Feinstein interviews Yvonne Donjay, one of the foremost topless dancers in San Francisco. Donjay discusses her Persian background, aspirations for becoming a serious actress, and the hangups of her trade.

  • Kashiko Kawakita / interviewed by Herbert Feinstein.

    Herbert Feinstein interviews Japanese film importer, producer and curator Kashiko Kawakita (1908-1993) in Venice, Italy during the time of the 1968 Venice Film Festival. Kawakita heads Towa Trading, which produces low-budget art films, and runs a number of art film houses in Japan as well. They discuss some of the Japanese films featured at the…

  • Rita Morrison interviewed by Herbert Feinstein

    Dr. Herbert Feinstein talks with Rita Morrison, the Los Angeles producer of Chaim Soutine, a short film based on the life and works of the Lithuanian-French Jewish painter. The film won the Lion d’Or for best documentary at the 29th Venice Film Festival.

  • Lotte Eisner interviewed by Herbert Feinstein

    Prof. Herbert Feinstein talks with Lotte Eisner (1896-1983), curator of the Cinematheque of Paris, about the arts, methods and politics of collecting and preserving film classics at the Cinematheque, whose state subsidy was recently abolished by Andre Malraux. Eisner was restored to her job after a public scandal raised by filmmakers Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut,…

  • Lenore Kandel and Stephen Vincent; introduced by Dave Gitty

    POETS THEATRE / Lenore Kandel and Stephen Vincent read their own work. Miss Kandel also reads a statement of poetics and Mr. Vincent reads a selection from a novel by Babatunde Lawal, a young Nigerian author. Recorded as part of the weekly poetry series at the Straight Theater in San Francisco. David Gitin is the…

  • From Coconut Grove / Kenneth Anger and Susan Sontag.

    John Cott, host of the Coconut Grove show on KPFA, and co-hosts Tom Luddy and Juris Svendsen interview Kenneth Anger about his latest film, “Lucifer Rising.” At the time of the interview, Anger had not yet begun shooting Lucifer Rising; he discusses his vision for the film as a sequel to “Scorpio Rising”, talks about…

  • New writers forum.

    Series record for the New Writers Forum. pt.1. Brother Antoninus, Kenneth Rexroth, George Hitchkock, Laura Ulewicz (2 reels : 102 min.) — pt.2. Robert Duncan, Ebbe Borregaard, Joanne Kyger, George Stanley (2 reels : 110 min.) — pt.3. Sister Mary Norbert, Janine Pmy-Vega, William Anderson, J.W. Hackett (2 reels : 109 min.) — pt.4. missing…

  • Women and sometimes men / Harriet Gill interviewed by Lou Hartman

    Lou Hartman talks with Harriet Gill, psychiatric social woker at Langley Porter Clinic, on the personal problems of identity confronted by persons in their 50’s and 60’s, and the difference in nature and degree between the way men and women face old age. The title of the program refers to the book “Women and sometimes…