Cover Girl
Coward, Noël
Cowl, Jane
Craig’s Wife
Crain, Jeanne, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3; in In the Meantime, Darling, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Crawford, Joan, itr.1, itr.2–xxvi, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8; in Mannequin, 2.9; in The Shining Hour, 2.10, 2.11; in Sudden Fear, 2.12, 2.13
Crazy, Stupid Love, 3.1n
credits, 2.1, 2.2
Crews, Laura Hope, n
Cromwell, John
Crosby, Bing, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3, 2.4 and n
Crothers, Rachel, Mary the Third, 1.1n
Crowd, The, 2.1 and n
Crowell, Josephine
Cruise, Tom
Cry “Havoc”!, 2.1n
Culp, Robert, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Cummings, Robert, 2.1, 2.2
Curtis, Jamie Lee
Curtis, Tony, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3
Dailey, Dan, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Dall, John
Dallas
Dance, Girl, Dance
Dance of Life, The
Dangerous Blondes, 2.1n
Danish films
Danner, Blythe, 2.1, 2.2
Dargis, Manohla, and n
Darin, Bobby, n–1n
Dark Corner, The
Dark Passage, 2.1n
Dark Victory, 2.1n
Darnell, Linda, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Darwell, Jane
Da Silva, Howard
Date Night
Davenport, Harry
Davies, Marion, n
Davis, Bette, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and n, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8; in Beyond the Forest, 2.9; in Deception, 2.10; in Payment on Demand, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13
Davis, Geena
Davis, Joan, 2.1, 2.2
Day, Doris, itr.1, 2.1n, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2; Hudson and, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5; in Julie, 2.3, 2.4; in Send Me No Flowers, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
Days of Wine and Roses, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Dean, James, n
Deane, Shirley
Dear Ruth, 2.1, 2.2
Dear Wife
death, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n, 2.4n; of children, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8; “I don’t” marriage films, 2.9; murder, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12; nuclear marriage, 3.1; suicide, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15, 2.16
De Carlo, Yvonne, 2.1, 2.2
December Bride
deception, 2.1, 2.2
Deception
Dee, Frances
Dee, Sandra, n
Deep End, The, 2.1n
DeFore, Don, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
de Havilland, Olivia, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n, 2.4; Flynn and, 2.5, 2.6
DeMille, Cecil B., 1.1, 1.2 and n, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1; marriage films, 1.4, 1.5
democratization, of lonely war wife
De Niro, Robert, 2.1, 3.1 and n
Dennis the Menace
Depression, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8n, 3.1
de Roche, Charles, 1.1
Designing Woman
Desilu
Desk Set
DeVito, Danny
Dexter, Elliott, 1.1
Dharma and Greg
Dial M for Murder
dialogue, itr.1 and n, itr.2 and n; bickering, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4; comedy, itr.3 and n; misogynistic, itr.4n; of 1960s, 3.5; television, 2.10; therapy, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
Diary of a Mad Housewife, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
DiCaprio, Leonardo, 3.1, 3.2
Dick Van Dyke Show, The
Dietrich, Marlene, 2.1, 3.1
Dinner at Eight
disappearing mate films
disappointment, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1
Disorderly Orderly, The
Divorce American Style, 3.1, 3.2
divorce films, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 1.2n, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1; Chicken Every Sunday, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12; children in, 2.13; Divorce American Style, 3.2; flashback format, 2.14; foreign, 2.15; The Marrying Kind, 2.16, 2.17, 2.18, 2.19, 2.20; of 1960s, 3.3, 3.4; of 1970s, 3.5 and n, 3.6; of 1980s, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9; of 1990s, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12; Payment on Demand, 2.21, 2.22, 2.23; postwar, 2.24, 2.25; silent era, 1.3, 1.4n; The War of the Roses, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15
Dix, Richard
doctors, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2; mad, 2.3
Doctor Takes a Wife, The
Dodd, Claire
Dodge City
Dodsworth, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1
dogs, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and n
domesticity, 2.1, 2.2; little homemakers in late 1940s–early 1950s, 2.3n, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Donahue, Elinor
Donat, Robert
Donen, Stanley
Donna Reed Show, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1
Don’t Change Your Husband, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Double Indemnity
doubt
Douglas, Kirk, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Douglas, Melvyn, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
Douglas, Michael, 3.1, 3.2; in The War of the Roses, 3.3, 3.4
Douglas, Paul, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Dowling, Doris
Down to Earth
Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, itr.1, 2.1
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Dragonwyck
drama, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 2.2; see also specific films and shows
Dreiser, Theodore, Sister Carrie
Drescher, Fran, n
Dressler, Marie, 2.1n, 2.2n
drug addiction, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1
Drums Along the Mohawk
DuBarry Was a Lady
Duff, Howard, 2.1, 2.2
du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2
Dunne, Irene, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 and n, 2.9; in The Awful Truth, 2.10, 2.11, 3.1, 3.2n; in Over 21, 2.12, 2.13; in Penny Serenade, 2.14 and n, 2.15, 2.16
Durante, Jimmy
Durbin, Deanna, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Dynasty, 3.1
earthquakes
East Side, West Side, 2.1, 2.2
Eastwood, Clint, 3.1, 3.2
Easy to Wed
Eddy, Nelson, n
editing, 2.1; silent era, 1.1; time frames, 2.2
Egg and I, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Eleanor and Franklin
Elephant Walk
Eliot, T. S., 2.1, 2.2
Ellison, James
elopement, 2.1, 2.2
Embraceable You, 2.1n
Emerson, Faye, 2.1, 2.2
Enoch Arden theme
Ephron, Nora, 3.1; Heartburn, 3.2
equality
Esmond, Carl
European sophistication, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2
Everybody Loves Raymond, 2.1n, 3.1
Everything I Have is Yours, 2.1, 2.2
evil, 2.1, 2.2; children, 2.3 and n
Ex-Lady
Experiment Perilous
Exploits of Elaine, The, 2.1n
Eyes Wide Shut
Eyman, Scott, Empire of Dreams, 1.1n
Fabares, Shelley
Faces, 3.1, 3.2 and n
Facts of Life, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.
Falling in Love, 3.1, 3.2 and n
family, 2.1 and n, 3.1; problems, 2.2, 2.3; serial film, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and n; TV sitcom, 2.7, 3.2; of 2000s–2010s, 3.3, 3.4; see also children; in-laws; mother-in-law
Family Honeymoon
Family Man, The
Family Ties
Fancy Pants, 2.1, 2.2
“farce” comedy
Far From Heaven
Fargo
Farhadi, Sarina
Fast and Furious, 2.1n
Fast and Loose, 2.1n
Fast Company, 2.1n
Fatal Attraction
Father Knows Best, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1
Father of the Bride (1950), 3.1n, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Father of the Bride (1991), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Father’s Little Dividend
Father Takes a Wife, itr.1, 2.1
Father Was a Ful
lback, 2.1, 2.2
Fatty and Mabel’s Married Life
Faye, Alice
feminist films, 2.1; of 1960s, 3.1; of 1970s, 3.2
Femme Infidèle, La
Fibber McGee and Molly
Field, Betty
Fields, Gracie
Fields, W.C., 2.1, 2.2n
Fig Leaves
film noir, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4n, 3.1
Finch, Peter
Finney, Albert, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
First Wives Club, The
Fisher, Eddie, n
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, “Babylon Revisited”
flappers, 1.1, 2.1
Flapper Wives
flashback, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 and n, 2.10, 3.1; divorce films, 2.11; war films, 2.12
Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary, 2.1, 2.2
Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, The, 2.1, 2.2
Flesh and the Devil
Flynn, Errol, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1; de Havilland and, 2.6, 2.7
Follow the Fleet
Fonda, Henry, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1n; in Yours, Mine and Ours, 3.2
Fonda, Jane, 2.1n, 3.1, 3.2n
Fontaine, Joan, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; in From This Day Forward, 2.5; in Rebecca, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8; in Suspicion, 2.9, 2.10
For Better, for Worse, 1.1, 1.2
Forbidden Street, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Ford, Glenn, 2.1, 3.1
Ford, John, itr.1, 2.1
Foreign Correspondent, 2.1n
foreign films, 2.1, 3.1; British, 2.2, 2.3; Iranian, 2.4; Japanese, 2.5; of 1960s–70s, 3.2, 3.3; postwar, 2.6, 2.7; problems in, 2.8; Swedish, 2.9
Forever, Darling, 2.1, 2.2 and n
For the Love of Ivy
Fountainhead, The
Four Poster, The, 3.1 and n, 3.2, 3.3
Four Seasons, The
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Fox Film, n
Francis, Kay, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Franz, Dennis
Frawley, William
French films, 2.1; Bed and Board, 2.2, 2.3
Friday Night Lights, 2.1n, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and n, 3.5
From the Terrace
From This Day Forward
Frozen River, 2.1n
Fuller Brush Girl, The
Full of Life, 2.1, 2.2
fur coat
furniture, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Gable, Clark, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 2.1 and n, 2.2, 2.3n, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.1
Gabor, Eva, 2.1, 2.2
Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 2.1, 2.2
Galsworthy, John
gambling
Gang’s All Here, The
gangsters, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 3.1
Garbo, Greta, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n, 3.1; in Anna Karenina, 2.4, 2.5; laughing, 2.6 and n; in The Painted Veil, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10; in Wild Orchids, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7
Gardner, Ava, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n
Garfield, John, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Garland, Judy, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Garner, James, 2.1n, 3.1
Garr, Teri
Garson, Greer, itr.1, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; in Mrs. Miniver, itr.2, 2.5n, 2.6, 2.7; Pidgeon and, 2.8 and n, 2.9, 2.10n; in That Forsyte Woman, 2.11
Gaslight, 2.1 and n, 2.2, 2.3
Gay Divorce, The
Gaynor, Janet, 2.1; in Sunrise, 2.2, 2.3
Gaynor, Mitzi, 2.1, 2.2
Gellar, Sarah Michelle, n
gender roles, 2.1; absence of husband, 2.2; bride-on-a-journey films, 2.3; class differences and, 2.4; communication, 2.5; competition, 2.6; control, 2.7; couple, 2.8; gay and lesbian, 3.1n, 3.2n, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7; incompatibility and, 2.9; infidelity and, 2.10; “lonely war wife” films, 2.11; murder, 2.12; of 1950s, 2.13; of 1960s, 2.14, 3.8; of 1970s, 2.15, 3.9; 1970s–80s increase in male roles, 2.16; of 1980s, 3.10, 3.11; of 1990s, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14; nuclear couple, 3.15; perfect mate, 2.17, 2.18; postwar, 2.19; problem of couples, 2.20; reversed, 2.21; star pairings, 2.22; “three choices” format, 2.23; TV sitcoms, 2.24; of 2000s–2010s, 3.16, 3.17; wartime, 2.25; weddings, 3.18; what men and women wanted in a mate, 2.26; see also men; women
Gene Krupa Story, The
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 2.1n
George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The
Gere, Richard, 3.1; in Unfaithful, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Ghost
Giant
Gift of Love, The, 2.1n
Gilbert, John, n
Gilda, 2.1n, 3.1
GI war loans
glamour, 2.1; silent era, 1.1; star cameo, 2.2n-8n; see also star system; studio system
Gleason, Russell
Godfather, The
gold digger, 2.1n, 2.2
Gone with the Wind, 2.1 and n, 2.2
Good Earth, The, 2.1, 2.2 and n
Gordon, Ruth, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n
Gorgeous Hussy
Gorham, Ethel, So Your Husband’s Gone, 2.1, 2.2
Gosling, Ryan, 3.1n, 3.2, 3.3
gothic murder plots
Gould, Elliot, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Government Information Manual for the Motion Picture Industry
Grable, Betty, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Graham, Katharine
Grahame, Gloria
Granger, Farley, 3.1, 3.2
Grant, Cary, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and n, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12; in The Awful Truth, 2.13, 2.14, 3.1, 3.2n; in In Name Only, 2.15, 2.16; in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, 2.17, 2.18n, 2.19; in My Favorite Wife, 2.20, 2.21; in Penny Serenade, 2.22 and n, 2.23, 2.24; in Suspicion, 2.25, 2.26
Granville, Bonita
Grapes of Wrath, The, 2.1n
Gray, Billy
Great Dictator, The, 2.1n
Great Lie, The
“great man” films
Great White Hope, The
Great Ziegfeld, The, 2.1n, 2.2
Greed, 2.1n
Green Acres
Greenstreet, Sydney
Griffith, D. W.
Griffiths, Rachel
Growing Pains
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Guest Wife, 2.1n
Guide for the Married Man, The
Guinness, Alec, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Gun Runners, The, 2.1n
H. M. Pulham, Esq.
Hackman, Gene
Haines, William
Hale, Alan, 2.1, 2.2
Hall Pass
Hamilton, Margaret
Hammer, Armie, 3.1, 3.2
Hanging Tree, The
Happily Divorced, 3.1n
happiness, itr.1, itr.2 and n, 1.1n, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2; illusion of, 2.3; modern era, 3.1
Happy Days
Happy Ending, The
Harding, Ann
Hardwicke, Sir Cedric
Hardy, Oliver, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Hardy series, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7n, 2.8, 2.9
Hardys Ride High, The, 2.1n
Harlow, Jean, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Harold Teen, 2.1n
Harrelson, Woody
Harris, Mark, n
Harrison, Rex, 2.1, 2.2; in The Four Poster, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Hartley, Mariette, n
Hart to Hart
Harvey, Forrester
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?, 2.1 and n
Haskell, Molly
hasty-marriage films, 2.1, 2.2
Hatami, Leila, 2.1, 2.2
Haver, June
Haver, Phyllis, 1.1, 1.2
Havrilesky, Heather, 3.1n, 3.2
Hawks, Howard
Hayakawa, Sessue, 1.1, 1.2
Hayes, Ira Hamilton
Haynes, Todd
Hayward, Susan, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3, 2.4
Hayworth, Rita, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5n, 3.1
Hearst, William Randolph, n
Heartburn, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4n
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
He Did and He Didn’t, 1.1
Heflin, Va
n, 2.1, 2.2n
Held, Anna, 2.1n, 2.2
Hellman, Lillian, 2.1, 2.2n
He Married His Wife
Hemingway, Ernest, To Have and Have Not
Henie, Sonja
Henreid, Paul
Henry Aldrich series
Hepburn, Audrey, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Hepburn, Katharine, 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3, 3.1n; in Adam’s Rib, 2.4, 2.5 and n, 2.6 and n, 2.7; aging of, 2.8; in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 3.2; in The Sea of Grass, 2.9; Tracy and, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13 and n, 2.14, 2.15 and n, 2.16, 2.17, 2.18, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22, 3.3; in Undercurrent, 2.23; in Without Love, 2.24, 2.25, 2.26, 2.27 and n, 2.28n; in Woman of the Year, 2.29, 2.30
Herrmann, Edward
Hersholt, Jean
Heston, Charlton
hippiedom, 3.1, 3.2
Hired Wife
Hitchcock, Alfred, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1n
Hobart, Rose
Hodiak, John, 2.1, 2.2
Hoffman, Dustin
Holden, William, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Holliday, Judy, 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1; in Full of Life, 2.8; in Phffft, 2.9
Holm, Celeste, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Homecoming
homefront films, 2.1; “lonely war wife” films, 2.2; “marry-in-haste” films, 2.3, 2.4; postwar, 2.5; sisterhood, 2.6; see also war films
Homeland
Homestretch, The
homosexuality, 3.1n, 3.2n, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
Honeymooners, The
Honeymoon for Three, 2.1n
Honeymoon in Vegas
Honeysuckle Rose
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hope, Bob, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; in The Facts of Life, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
Hope Springs, 3.1, 3.2
Hopkins, Miriam
horror films, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3, 3.1; of 1960s, 3.2
Horton, Edward Everett
Hot Water
Houghton, Katharine
House Un-American Activities Committee, 2.1n, 2.2
housing, postwar, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and n
Howard, Kathleen
Howard, Leslie, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
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