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INDEX
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
A
ABC, 97, 173
Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), 104
Academy Awards
actors, 79, 97, 152, 169, 175, 187, 194, 196, 203, 218, 219, 222, 224, 234, 241, 248, 253, 256, 264, 266, 270, 274, 288
actresses, 63, 93, 155, 190, 220, 294, 302
afterparty, 205
director, 135, 179, 207
honorary, 74, 196
host of, 5, 10, 218
juvenile, 190
picture, 44, 58, 80, 142, 178
screenwriter, 88, 90, 140, 147, 159, 207, 278
short subject, 75
Academy of Magical Arts, 252
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 63
Acker, Jean, 5
Actors Studio, 175, 264
Adams, Nick, 302–3
Adler, Buddy, 177, 178
Adler, Lou, 262, 293
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The, 283
Adventures of Robin Hood, The, 111
African Queen, The, 169, 207, 208, 260
Agua Caliente, 38, 144
Aguirre, Manny, 68
AIDS, 264
Alamo, The, 234
Alaska Yukon Pacific, 51
Alaskan Polar Bear Heater, 269
Alcoholics Anonymous, 125
Alexandra, Czarina, 86, 87
Alexandria Hotel, 10, 36
Algonquin Hotel, 16, 31
Algonquin Round Table, 75, 140
Alive and Kicking, 253
All in the Family, 250
All That Heaven Allows, 264
Allen, Woody, 147
Ali, Muhammad, 252
Almaden Mountain Rhine wine, 229
Altman, Robert, 90, 200, 201, 227
Ambassador Hotel, 7, 10–11, 31, 109
“America’s Sweetheart,” 63
American Gigolo, 74
American Mercury, 207
Anchors Aweigh, 288
Anderson, Margaret, 73
Andrews, Dana, 204
Andrews, Julie, 242
Anhalt, Eddie, 289, 290
Animals, the, 277
Annie Get Your Gun, 191
Apocalypse Now, 256, 258–61
Apollo 13, 10
Apollo Theater, 262
Applejack, 149
Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,” 3–4, 5, 30, 35, 54, 77
Arli, Orhan, 158
Arnaz, Desi, 193
Around the World in 80 Days, 218
Arrowsmith, 180
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 104
Asphalt Jungle, The, 200, 208
Astaire, Fred, 122, 127, 273
Asther, Niles, 60
Austin, Gene, 232
aversion therapy, 38
Awful Truth, The, 196
Axmann, Hanna, 228
B
Babes in Toyland, 44
Baby, I Don’t Care (Server), 213
Bacall, Lauren, 74, 88, 172, 220, 226
Bacon, Lloyd, 138
Bad News Bears, The, 247
Badman’s Territory, 230
Baker Hotel, 203–4
Balazs, André, 139
Ball, Lucille, 193
Ballad of Cable Hogue, The, 278
Bank Dick, The, 25
Bankhead, Tallulah, 11, 31, 71–73
Bankhead, William Brockman, 71
“Bard of the Boulevard,” 83
Barefoot Contessa, The, 182
Barker, Lex, 155
Barkleys of Broadway, The, 191
Barrymore, Diana, 6, 8
Barrymore, Drew, 6, 67, 273
Barrymore, Ethel, 6, 86–87
Barrymore, John, 6–9, 11, 14, 30, 39, 67, 77, 83–87, 109, 111, 130, 138–39, 224
Barrymore, Lionel, 6, 8, 86
Beach, Donn, 100
“Beach House, the,” 22–23
Beat the Devil, 185, 209–11
Beatles, the, 97, 220, 288
Beatty, Warren, 189, 298
Beautiful and the Damned, The, 108
Becket, 241–43
Bedford, Duchess of, 259
Beebe, Lucius, 31
Beery, Wallace, 123, 153, 232
Behan, Brendan, 66
Bel-Air, 237
Bell, Alphonzo, 220–21
Bell, Alphonzo, Jr., 221
Bella Vista, 85
Bellevue Hospital, 79
Bells of St. Mary, The, 97
Belushi, John, 139, 293
Ben-Hur, 59, 60
Benchley, Nathaniel, 170
Benchley, Robert, 31, 75–77, 78, 80, 81–82, 95, 138, 150, 170
Bennett, Joan, 42
Bergeron, Victor J., 100, 298
Berkeley, Busby, 134–35
Berlandina, Jane, 193
Berle, Milton, 195
Berlin, Irving, 123, 146
Bern, Paul, 28–30, 120, 145, 275
Bertolucci, Bernardo, 200, 201
Beverly Hills, 73
Beverly Hills Hotel, 73–74, 216, 249, 297
Beverly Hilton, 249, 298
Bickford, Charles, 217
Big Brother and the Holding Company, 277
Big Heat, The, 41, 42
Big Parade, The, 28
Big Red One, The, 270
Big Sleep, The, 67, 88, 90, 104, 106, 169
Big Trail, The, 115–16
Bill of Divorcement, A, 6
Billy Budd, 270
Billy the Kid, 55, 56, 112
Billy the Kid vs. Dracula, 83
Biltmore Hotel, 92
Bimini Baths, 144
Binghampton University, 227, 229
Biograph Films, 32
Biograph Studios, 5, 63
Birth of a Nation, The, 32, 33
bisexuality, 163–64
Bishop, Joey, 226
Biskind, Peter, 239
Black and Tan, 24
Black Dahlia murder case, 232
“Black Helmet, The,” 15
blacklist, 15
Black Velvet, 199
Blitch, Iris, 296
Blob, The, 274
“Blonde Bombshell,” 120–21
Blondie, 277
Bloody Bull, 77
Bloody Mary, 114, 297
“Bloody Sam,” 278
Blue Book, 10
Blue Dahlia, The, 88–90, 132
Blue Laws, L.A.’s, 123
Blue Martini, 42, 43
Blue Velvet, 256, 276
Boardner, Steve, 232–33
Boardner’s, 232–33
Bogart, Humphrey, 20, 30, 88, 90, 95–96, 100, 104, 118, 138, 150, 152, 169–71, 172, 189, 195, 205, 207–11, 226, 227, 228, 260
Bogdanovich, Peter, 280
Boilermaker, 246–47
Bolero, 136
Boleslavski, Richard, 86
Bolkiah, Hassanal, 221
Bond, James, 283–84, 286–87
Bond, Ward, 53
Boom!, 296
Boorman, John, 270–72
Booth, Edwina, 56–57
Born to Kill, 230
Bosworth, Patricia, 176
Bottoms, Sam, 260
bourbon, 104–7
Bourbon Milk Punch, 172
Bourbon Old-Fashioned, 150, 151
Bow, Clara, 12–14, 28, 30, 31, 144
Bowie, David, 97
“Boy Wonder,” 54
Boys in the Back Room, The (Wilson), 48
Boys Town, 223
Boys Town, 152
Brabin, Charles, 86
Brackett, Charles, 78
Brainstorm, 302
Brando, Marlon, 175, 189, 222, 224, 259
, 261, 264
Brandstatter, Eddie, 14, 145
Brent, Evelyn, 145
Bridge on the River Kwai, The, 203, 208
Bridges at Toko-Ri, The, 203
Bridges, Jeff, 234
Bright Lights, Big City, 139
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, 278
Bringing Up Baby, 196
Bristol Old Vic, 253
Britt, May, 250
Brood, The, 283
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 19
Brooks, Louise, 15–17, 35, 47, 64, 69, 77
Broome Hall, 284, 285
Brosnan, Pierce, 287
Brown Derby, 39–40, 144, 148
Brown Derby Cocktail, 40
Browne, Jackson, 262
Browning, Tod, 145
Bruce, Lenny, 262
Brunei, Sultan of, 221
Buffalo Springfield, 262, 277
Bukowski, Charles, 67, 77, 233
Bundy Drive Boys, 7, 83–84, 112, 116, 130, 224, 225
Burton, Richard, 130, 241–47, 255, 294–97
Buster Keaton Show, The, 37
Butterfield 8, 294
Butterworth, Charles, 31, 76, 81–82
Byrds, the, 262, 277
C
Cabot, Bruce, 14
Café Trocadero (the Troc), 122–24, 205
Cage, Nicholas, 189
Cagney, Jimmy, 15, 96, 120, 179–80
Caine Mutiny, The, 169, 211
Calder, Laura, 49
Calgary Stampede, 51
Caliente Club, 127
California Suite, 74
Call of the Wild, The, 154
Calvados, 149
Camelot, 242, 246, 253
Camille, 83
camp, 210
Campari & Vodka, 282
“Candy Man, The,” 250
Cannes Film Festival, 253, 261
Cannonball Run, 250
Cape Fear, 212
Capote, Truman, 209–10, 280
Capra, Frank, 119, 136, 157
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, 277
Captain Blood, 111
Captains Courageous, 152
Cardinal, The, 207
Carlin, Lynn, 248
Carpenter, Jean Poe, 121
Carradine, David, 83
Carradine, John, 7, 31, 83–85, 130
Carradine, Keith, 83
Carradine, Robert, 83
Carroll, Gordon, 279
Carson, Johnny, 252
Carver, Raymond, 48, 105
Casa Kimberley, 244
Casablanca, 20, 169
Cassavetes, John, 230, 248–49
Cassel, Seymour, 248
Cat Ballou, 270
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 294
Cavalcade of Stars, The, 194
CBS, 194, 195
Chandler, Charlotte, 41–42, 43
Chandler, Raymond, 67, 88–91
Chaney, Lon, Jr., 173–74, 217, 289
Chaney, Lon, Sr., 173
Chaplin, Charlie, 3, 16, 21, 30, 35, 36, 37, 40, 44, 46–47, 54, 55, 67, 73, 74, 95, 145, 195, 205
Chartreuse, 150
Chasen, Dave, 157–58
Chasen’s, 92, 157–58, 160, 161
Château d’Amboise, 138
Chateau Marmont, 138–39
Cheech & Chong, 262
Chelsea Hotel, 139
Chesty, 179
Chiari, Walter, 186, 187
Chicago Record Herald, 143
Chicago Sun-Times, 251
Child Is Waiting, A, 230, 248
Chinatown, 188, 207, 249
Chinese Americans, 162–65
Chocolate Martini, 265, 266, 295
Christmas in July, 147
Churchill, Marguerite, 116
Churchill, Winston, 22
Ciro’s, 123, 133, 205–6, 303
Cirrhosis-by-the-Sea, 218
Citizen Kane, 18, 21, 23, 33, 89, 140, 141–42, 159–61
Clarkson, Lana, 273
Cleopatra, 158, 241, 294–96
Clift, Montgomery, 139, 175–78, 264, 265, 291, 292, 295
Clooney, George, 273
Clover Club, 146, 153, 252
Club 18, 194
Club Seville, 146, 205
Coach Buttermaker’s Boilermaker, 246
Cobb, Robert, 40
Cobb Salad, 40
Cobra’s Fang, 100
Coburn, James, 279
Coburn, Walt, 51
Cock ’N Bull, 130–31
Cocoanut Grove, 10–11, 31, 53, 129, 144
Cocoanut Grove Cocktail, 11
Cohen, Mickey, 146, 231
Cohn, Harry, 15, 123, 127–29, 138, 141, 146, 177, 178, 251, 252
Colbert, Claudette, 119
Coleman, Dabney, 273
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 21
Colgate Comedy Hour, The, 173
Colors, 256
Columbia Pictures, 15, 117–19, 127–29, 138, 139, 141, 177–78, 196, 204, 208, 251
Columbia Records, 206
Come and Get It, 102
Comedians, The, 296
Comingore, Dorothy, 23
Communism, 200, 206, 234–36
Como, Perry, 193
Confidential, 129, 155, 157, 265
Connery, Sean, 283, 286, 287
Conspirator, 294
Contempt, 41, 222
Conversation, The, 229
Coolidge, Calvin, 22
Cooper, Alice, 277
Cooper, Gary, 115
Copa, 150–51
Coppola, Francis Ford, 200, 201, 229, 256, 258–61, 280
Coquette, 63
Corman, Roger, 258
Cosby Show, The, 250
Cosmopolitan Productions, 22
Count Basie, 288
“Count No ‘Count,” 104
Country Girl, 220
Crack-Up, The, 110
Craig, Daniel, 287
Crane, Cheryl, 155, 301
Crane, Stephen, 155, 300–301
Crane’s Scorpion Bowl, 301
Crawford, Broderick, 131, 217, 289–90
Crawford, Joan, 10, 14, 22, 93–95, 100, 110, 118
Cream, 277
Cronenberg, David, 283
Cronkite, Walter, 195
Crosby, Bing, 10, 18, 97–99, 100, 102, 122
Crossfire, 212
Crowe, Russell, 298
Cruise, Tom, 298
Cugat, Xavier, 205, 232
Curse of the Werewolf, The, 283
Curtis, Tony, 251, 252
D
D’Amore, Filomena, 226
D’Amore, Patsy, 226
Damon, Matt, 298
Dan Tana’s, 272–73, 293
Dancing Lady, 118
Daniels, Billy, 156
Darin, Bobby, 226
da Silva, Howard, 80
Davies, Marion, 14, 15–17, 18–23, 110, 141–45, 220
Davis, Bette, 92, 93
Davis, Nancy, 158
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 10, 11, 205, 250–52, 267, 268
Dawson, Gordon, 279
Day, Doris, 264
Day of the Locust (West), 48
Dead Man, 212
Deadly Companions, The, 278
Deadly Glass of Beer, The, 65–66
Dean, James, 189, 226, 256, 264, 265, 302, 304
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, 267
Dean Martin Show, The, 267
Decker, John, 6, 7
Defector, The, 175
Defiant Ones, The, 173
de Gaulle, Charles, 258
De Havilland, Olivia, 217
DeMille, Cecil B., 78–80, 83, 225
DeMille, Katherine, 225
Dentist, The, 25
Depp, Johnny, 67, 189
Designing Women, 74
Desilu, 193
Destry Rides Again, 125
Detlie, Elaine, 133
Detlie, John, 133
Devils, The, 283
Devil Thumbs a Ride, The, 230
Diamond, Neil, 26
2
Diary of a Lost Girl, 15
Dietrich, Marlene, 28, 42–43, 100, 111, 125, 162, 163–64, 221
Dillinger, 230
Dillinger, John, 231
DiMaggio, Joe, 195, 289, 293
Dirty Dozen, The, 248, 270
disclaimer, film and television, 87
Disney, Walt, 164
Divac, Vlade, 273
Divorce His-Divorce Hers, 297
Dolby Theater, 5
Doll’s house, A, 213–14
Dominguín, Luis Miguel, 185
Don Juan, 6
Don Quixote, 160
Don the Beachcomber, 99–100
Doors, the, 277
Dorchester Hotel, 242
Dorsey, Tommy, 288
Dos Passos, John, 108
Double Indemnity, 33, 88
Dougherty, Jack, 30
Dracula, 83
Dragon’s Den, 164–65
Dr. Erlich’s Magic Bullet, 207
Dressler, Marie, 118
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 6
Drown, Joseph, 220, 237
Dr. Strangelove, 200, 201
drugs, illicit, 188, 196, 197, 212, 213, 216, 227, 229, 231, 247, 256, 257, 259, 261, 274–75, 278, 292
Duck Soup, 140
“Duke, the,” 234
Dumas, Alexandre, 283
Dunaway, Faye, 249
Duquette, Felix, 193
Durocher, Leo, 268
Dwan, Allan, 136
Dylan, Bob, 278–79
E
Eagles, the, 74, 262
Earp, Wyatt, 50
Eastside Brewery, 121–22
Eastwood, Clint, 213
Easy Rider, 256
Echols, Ed, 50–51
Eddingon, Nora, 112
Edge of the City, 248
Ed Sullivan Show, The, 241–42, 243
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 235
Eisenstaedt, Alfred, 163
El Morocco, 170, 186
Elysee Hotel, 72
Embassy Club, 145, 146, 252
Emerald Bay Yacht Club, 53
Emery, John, 71
Emmy Awards, 222
“End, The,” 277
Equus, 241
Erickson, Leif, 102, 103
Esgro, Paul, 92
Esquire, 110, 291
Essanay Studios, 143
Evans, Robert, 186–88, 280–81
Everclear, 180, 181
Every Day’s a Holiday, 81
Evicted, 230
F
Faces, 248
Fairbanks, Douglas, 21, 63, 67, 73, 146
Falcon Crest, 155
Falk, Peter, 248
Fame, 230
Family Feud, 250
Fante, John, 47
Farewell My Lovely, 90
Farmer, Frances, 102–3
Farmer’s Market, 226
Farouk, King, 210
Farrow, Mia, 74, 298
Father of the Bride, 152, 294
“Fatty and Mabel,” 54
Faulkner, William, 31, 66, 88, 104–6, 150
FBI, 146, 164
Felix, Prince, 87
Fernández, Emilio “El Indio,” 223
F for Fake, 160
Field, The, 253
Fields, W. C., vii, 7, 25–27, 39, 42, 106, 125–26, 224, 232
Fighter Squadron, 264
Fishbourne, Laurence, 260