Conversation with James Day; Mai Zetterling

KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.) · April 8, 1970

This is the first in a series of four weekly programs under the title "A Conversation with James Day." Guest for the first program is Mai Zetterling, who abandoned her career as an actress to become a director in the early 1960s. She discusses the development of her film careers and the reasons she turned to directing and comments on the explicitness in terms of language and nudity prevalent in today's films. Miss Zetterling is 45 and was born in Stockholm. She broke in as an actress in Sweden on the stage in 1941, and made her first film, "Frenzy," in 1943. Her first English language film was "Frieda" in 1947. As a director she is best known for the films "Night Games" (1966), "Loving couples" (1964), and "The War Game" (1962). James Day is the president of NET. This interview was conducted in October 1968 and was produced by KQED, San Francisco. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)