Rebel and architect : oral history transcript / Zelma Wilson ; interviewed by Marlene L. Laskey. Completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.

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Rebel and architect : oral history transcript / Zelma Wilson ; interviewed by Marlene L. Laskey. Completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214979885

Wilson discusses her family background; various schools of 20th century architecture, particularly the International school; work with Richard Neutra, Robert E. Alexander, and others; women architects; sexism in the profession; years spent in France; career in Southern California; her husband, screenwriter Michael Wilson, and his film The Bridge on the River Kwai; blacklisting.

Transcript: 1 v. (xii, 425 leaves) : port. ; 29 cm.

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Wilson, Michael, 1914-1978

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Wilson was born in McAlester, OK, July 1, 1914; graduated from UC Berkeley, 1936, and taught English and wrote short stories before going to Hollywood in 1940; early work consisted of William Boyd westerns; joined the Marines in WWII; became a contract writer with Liberty Film, 1945, working on such pictures as It's a wonderful life; named an unfriendly witness by the House Un-American Activities Committee and blacklisted; worked on Herbert Biberman's independent production, Salt of the earth (1...

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