American Decades
"Ivan Moffat: The Making of Giant"
Interview
By: Ivan Moffat
Date: 2000
Source: "Ivan Moffat: The Making of Giant." Interview by Martin Pitts. American Legends. September 11, 2000. Available online at http://americanlegends.com/Interviews/dean_moffat.htm; website home page: http://americanlegends.com/ (accessed February 26, 2003).
About the Author: Ivan Moffat (1918–2002) was born in Cuba. He studied at the London College of Economics and served in the Army during World War II. He was also part of the documentary film unit that covered the Allies' efforts in Europe. Moffat was nominated for an Academy Award with Fred Guiol for the screen adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Giant (1956). His other screenwriting credits included: Black Sunday, The Wayward Bus, and Tender is the...
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1950's The Arts Primary Sources
- Isamu Noguchi's Sculpture
- Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara
- Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy
- Pianist Glenn Gould
- Art and Life of Lee Krasner
- "On a Book Entitled Lolita"
- "Choreography and the Dance"
- Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy
- "Why I Wrote The Crucible"
- Maria Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
- As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
- "Ivan Moffat: The Making of Giant"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
