Overview

Norman Corwin is a Bostonian who at 17 started on a course that led him ultimately into almost all of the media. After ten years as a newspaperman, he then moved into radio and served as a writer-director-producer for CBS in the heyday of that network's glory.

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...leaves the reader hungry for more... Dga News ...fascinating...Bell...is thorough and persistent in his inquiries without being obtrusive, drawing out the articulate poet on his favorite subject... Past Times ...a series of cogent and informative interviews conducted in 1987 by Douglas Bell of Norman Corwin-the medium's greatest writer and director of the radio drama. Los Angeles Times arts editor emeritus, Charles Champlin, praises this oral history and its subject lavishly and astutely...This oral history is a valuable addition to the writing about the medium's greatest scribe. Communication Booknotes Quarterly ...you simply owe it to yourself to have it in your library. Book Review

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Douglas Bell, born in Illinois, has worked in Hollywood since 1983. He began this project in 1986 under the auspices of David Shepard, then DGA Special Projects Officer. After conducting four oral histories for the DGA, he has transcribed and translated a book-length interview with Samuel Fuller which had been conducted by Cahiers du Cinema and published in French as It Etait une Fois...Samuel Fuller. Bell has been employed as a historian since 1989 by the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills.

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