American Women — Film and television

  • Whatever became of : Evelyn Keyes / interviewed by Richard Lamparski.

    Richard Lamparski interviews motion picture star Evelyn Keyes (1916-2008). The star of Gone with the Wind and The Jolson Story tells how Harry Cohn tried to dictate her personal life, what Hollywood was like during the Blacklist, and about some parts she didn’t get.

  • Interview with “The Woman’s Film” maker / Louise Alaimo ; interviewed by Portia Shapiro.

    Portia Shapiro of KPFA talks with Louise Alaimo about “The Woman’s Film,” an exploration by members of San Francisco Newsreel of the economic and psychological oppression of poor women. This program includes excerpts from the soundtrack of “The Woman’s Film,” which illustrate these women’s feelings about their oppression and the consciousness of women’s liberation that…

  • Barbara Loden : director / introduced by Albert Johnson.

    Barbara Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980), writer, director and producer of the film “Wanda” (1970) discusses women in the film industry before a San Francisco Film Festival audience. Some of the questions asked by the audience are about Loden’s filmmaking process, the film’s political message, and why she chose to set the…

  • Women Filmmakers / produced by Charles Senger and Portia Shapiro.

    This program is a review of six independent films produced by women filmmakers which were shown at the San Francisco Art Institute on July 15 under the auspices of the Canyon Cinematheque. The program includes a critique by Charles Senger, mixed with the soundtrack of the films, interviews with filmmakers at the showing and an…

  • Lynn Carlin interviewed by Claire Clouzot

    Claire Clouzot talks with Lynn Carlin, the female lead of John Cassavettes film “Faces” at the San Francisco Film Festival, October 1968. She talks about Faces being her first film role, about the roles she’s been offered since, and “Faces”‘status as an American independent film. The recording cuts off abruptly.

  • Bette Davis at the San Francisco Film Festival, 1969

    Bette Davis (1908 – 1989) appears before a live audience at the 1969 San Francisco International Film Festival in a question-and-answer session moderated by Festival director Albert Johnson, as part of a tribute to Davis on November 1, 1969 held at the Masonic Auditorium. Davis delivers her famous “What a dump!” line at the beginning…

  • Julie Newmar interviewed by Herbert Feinstein

    Julie Newmar is interviewed by Herbert Feinstein on the set of Mackenna’s Gold, Columbia pictures 8/21/67. Miss Newmar won the Antoinette Perry Award for her role as a fertile Swedish girl, on Broadway, in The Marriage-Go-Round. She plays Hesh-ke, a silent Indian maiden (no lines) in Carl Foreman’s new epic of the West. Gregory Peck,…

  • 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,…