Guide to the Paul Radin oral history
OH 4
Finding aid prepared by D.Tambo, 2015 August 25.
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-9010
Phone: (805) 893-3062
Email: special@library.ucsb.edu; URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections
2015 September 8
Title: Paul Radin oral history
Identifier/Call Number: OH 4
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.99 linear feet
(2 document boxes, 19 audiocassettes)
Date: 1999
Abstract: The collection contains background material (including a six page typescript autiobiography), as well as tapes and transcripts
from 1999 interviews on Radin’s role as a producer in the film industry.
Physical Location: Del Sur
Language of Materials: The collection is in English.
creator:
Radin, Paul B., 1913-2001
creator:
Russell, David, (David E.)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Acquisition Information
UCSB Oral History Program, 1999.
Processing Information
Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff.
Scope and Content
Paul Radin was born Sept 15, 1913 in New York. He died Oct. 18, 2001 in Santa Barbara, CA.
The collection contains background material (including a six page typescript autiobiography), as well as tapes and transcripts
from 1999 interviews on Radin’s role as a producer in the film industry, responsible for movies such as
Born Free, and recollections of film stars such as Charles Chaplin (for whom he wrote the advertising campaign for
Monsieur Verdoux), Charles Laughton, Heddy Lamar, Humphrey Bogart, and Yul Brynner.
Interviewer: David E. Russell, [1999]. Interviewees: Paul Radin
Use Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Paul Radin oral history, OH 4. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiocassettes
Interviews
Motion picture producers and directors
Oral history
Transcripts
Background/Research Materials
Box 1
Autobiography – Six page typescript; Material on movies and actors he worked with; Obit
undated
Box 1
Early tape-by-by transcripts
undated
Later edited versions, entitled
Paul Radin – A Memoir, Paul Radin and David E. Russell, Performing Arts Archive Series (Santa Barbara: UCSB Oral History )
2000
Item A18897/CS
Tape 1: Overview interview
1999 June 24
Item A18898/CS
Tape 2A: Overview
1999 June 24
Item A18899/CS
Tape 2B: Overview
1999 June 24
Item A18900/CS
Tape 3: Overview
1999 July 1
Item A18901/CS
Tape 4: Overview
1999 July 1
Item A18908/CS-A18909/CS
Tapes 11-12
1999 August 10
Item A18910/CS-A18911/CS
Review Tapes A-B
1999 September 10
Item A18912/CS
Interview
1999 September 24
