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In honor of the James Agee Centennial Year (1909 - 2009) we are pleased to offer downloadable, unedited versions of the archival recordings of the people we interviewed for our first film, AGEE: A Sovereign Prince of the English Language. AGEE was nominated for an Academy Award in 1981.
All interviews were recorded between 1975 and 1978.
Our first offering is an interview with poet Robert Fitzgerald, Agee's close friend who edited The Short Prose of James Agee and wrote a wonderful remembrance of James Agee for that book. His interview can be accessed here
As the year goes on we will regularly add to the collection interviews with the following people:
Father James Harold Flye, James Agee's childhood mentor and lifelong friend.
Oliver Hodge, a fellow student at St. Andrew's school in Monteagle, TN.
Paula Tyler, James Agee's aunt, his mother's younger sister.
Olivia Saunders Wood, James Agee's first wife.
Alma Neuman, James Agee's second wife.
Mia Fritsch Agee, James Agee's third wife.
Robert Saudek, Agee's roommate at Harvard. Saudek collaborated with Agee on the Abraham Lincoln series for Omnibus Television in 1954.
Dwight Macdonald, a friend of Agee'ssnce prep school days and a colleague at Fortune Magazine.
John Huston, film director, friend, and co-writer with Agee on the film The African Queen .
President Jimmy Carter, a fellow reader of James Agee's work. Carter's favorite book was Let us Now Praise Famous Men.
Elizabeth Tingle, one of the sharecropper children from the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Her name in the book was Margaret Ricketts.
Ellie Mae Burroughs, whose name in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was Allie Mae Gudger. Her photograph hangs in the Museum of Modern Art's collection.
The James Agee Film project has recorded a great many wonderful interviews for its productions, and we are planning to release the interviews in their entirety in the hope that interested film viewers will learn more about the subject of each of the films, as well as something about the process of the film's production. If you are particularly interested in hearing any specific interviews, please contact us at
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