by Mark Bailey
Strassberg, Paula, 292
Straw Dogs, 278
Streetcar Named Desire, A, 222, 224
Strickling, Howard, 119, 146, 153, 154
Strictly Dishonorable (Sturges), 147
Sturges, Preston, 33, 132–33, 147–49, 150–51, 152
Sudden Fear, 93, 222
Suddenly Last Summer, 175, 294
“Suitcase of Death,” 51
Sullivan, Ed, 241–42, 243
Sullivan’s Travels, 132–33, 147
Sun Also Rises, The, 111, 184–88
Sunset Boulevard, 34, 62, 203
Suspicion, 196
Sutherland, Eddie, 15, 16, 46–47, 64–65
Swanson, Gloria, 14, 30, 36, 145
“Sweater Girl,” 155
Sweet Smell of Success, 103
Swooners, 182
Sylvester, Robert, 208
syrup, simple, x
T
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, 288
Tales of Tomorrow, 173–74
Taliesin Fellow, 227
Talking Heads, 277
Talmadge, Constance, 18, 32, 109
Talmadge, Natalie, 39
Talmadge, Norma, 18, 145
Taming of the Shrew, The, 296
Tao of Steve, The, 274
Tarantino, Quentin, 230
Tarnished Angels, The, 264
Tarzan, 72–74
Taurog, Norman, 135
Taylor, Elizabeth, 20, 74, 158, 175–77, 221, 241–45, 265, 266, 294–97
Taylor, James, 262, 263
Tea & Applejack, 149
Temple, Shirley, 158, 190
Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald), 108
Tess of the Storm Country, 63
Thalberg, Irving, 28–30, 54–58, 60–61, 86, 87, 108, 110, 123, 137, 153
That Midnight Kiss, 191
“The Document,” 94
Them, 277
There’s One Born Every Minute, 294
They Live by Night, 227
They Won’t Forget, 155
Thief of Baghdad, The, 162
Thieves Like Us, 227
Thin Man, The, 90
Third Man, The, 159
This Gun for Hire, 132
This Is the Army, 81
This Side of Paradise, 108
This Sporting Life, 253
Thomas, Dylan, 242
Thompson, Jim, 67, 280
Thompson, Kay, 82
Thompson, Morton, 217
Three Comrades, 108
Three Musketeers, The, 283, 285
Thurber James, 75
Tierney, Gene, 224, 225
Tierney, Lawrence, 230–31
Tiki bar, 99–100
Time, 204
Tito, Marshal, 201
To Be or Not to Be, 136
To Catch a Thief, 196
Todd, Mike, 294, 295–96
To Have and Have Not, 104, 106
Toll of the Sea, The, 162
Tom Collins, 85
Tombstone, 212
Tommy, 283, 285
Tonight Show, The, 258
Tony Soma’s, 75
Too Late Blues, 248
Too Much, Too Soon, 111
Toots Shor’s, 194–95
Topping, Dan, 156
Topping, Henry “Bob,” 156
Torn, Rip, 256–58
Tornado, The, 179
“Torpedo Juice,” 180, 181
Touch of Evil, 159
Towering Inferno, The, 274
“Tracy Squad,” 153–54
Tracy, Spencer, 118, 152–54, 170, 180, 205
Trader Horn, 56–58
Trader Vic’s, 100, 298–301
Tramp Shining, A, 253
Travolta, John, 273
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The, 169
“Treasurer’s Report, The,” 75
Treetops, 176
Trocadero, 153, 154
tropical drinks, 99–101
Troubadour, The, 262–63, 272
True Grit, 234
Trumbo, Dalton, 47
Tufts, Sonny, 130
Turner, Lana, 155–57, 189, 193, 237, 300–301
Twentieth Century, 136
Twentieth Century-Fox, 104, 105–6, 184–88, 190, 219
Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, The, 283
Typhoon Olga, 260
U
UCLA, 98, 220
Undercurrent, 212
Unforgiven, 253
United Artists, 63, 189
Universal Studios, 54, 83, 98, 125–26, 173, 294
University of Southern California (USC), 84, 115, 234, 278
Up the River, 152
V
Valentine, Elmer, 276, 293
Valentino, Rudolph, 5, 10, 14, 28, 36, 67
Vallée, Rudy, 9
Van Doren, Mamie, 274–75
Van Dyke, Woody, 56–58
Vanderhyde, Dr., 228
Van Halen, 277
Vanity Fair, 13, 75
Vatican, the, 296
vehicular manslaughter, 203
Veiller, Anthony, 209
Vélez, Lupe, 28
Velvet Cow, 225
Velvet Underground, 277
Vendome Restaurant, 40, 122
Vendome Special Sling, 123, 124
Venom, 201, 202
Vesper Martini, 286–87
Victor Hugo’s, 137
Victoria, Queen, 87
Vidor, King, 29, 55–56, 85, 145
Vieira, Mark, 87
Viertel, Peter, 185–88, 209
Vietnam War, 234, 258–61
Villa Capri, 226, 288, 303
Villa Nova, 293
V.I.P.s, The, 296
Viva Zapata!, 224
vodka, 114
Vogue Theater, 66, 67
“Voice, the,” 288
Voice of Frank Sinatra, The, 288
von Sternberg, Josef, 42, 62, 162
von Stroheim, Erich, 62
Voyage (Hayden), 201
W
Wadsworth, Jessie, 130
Wagner, Robert, 221
Waits, Tom, 262
Waldorf-Astoria, 112
Wallach, Eli, 178, 291
Walsh, Raoul, 8, 32, 33, 111–13, 115–16, 162
Wanderer (Hayden), 201
Wanted Dead or Alive, 274
War, 277
War of the Worlds, The, 159, 160
Warner, Jack, 36, 112, 114, 194
Warner Bros, 7, 61, 104, 106, 111–12, 169, 189, 207, 208, 235, 303
Washington, George, 149
Wasserman, Lew, 272–73
Watergate, 74
Wayne, John, 52, 78, 115, 116, 175, 179, 189, 234–37, 270, 273
Way Out West, 44
Way We Were, The, 74
We Can’t Go Home Again, 229
Wedding March, The, 62
Weddle, David, 28
Weissmuller, Johnny, 52, 72–74
Welch, Suey, 232
Welles, Orson, 18, 21, 33, 67, 127, 128, 141–42, 143, 150, 159–61, 208, 235, 252
Wellington (lion cub), 113
Wellman, William, 122, 154
Wenders, Wim, 227
West Side Story, 302
West, Mae, 125–26, 196
West, Nathanael, 47, 48, 66
Westerner, The, 278
Weston, Doug, 262–63
We Were Strangers, 208
Weyl, Carl, 145
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 93, 94, 95
What! No Beer?, 38
What’s Up, Doc?, 280
When Knighthood Was in Flower, 18
Whiskey a Go Go, 275, 276–77, 293
White, Loray, 250–52
“White Christmas,” 97
White Heat, 111
White Hunter, Black Heart, 185
Whiteman, Paul, 98–99
Whitney, John Hay “Jock,” 72, 96
Whitney, Payne, 72
Who, the, 277, 285
Who Knows?, 201
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woo
lf?, 241, 294, 296
Wild Bunch, The, 203, 278, 279
Wilde, Oscar, 147
Wilder, Billy, 32–33, 34, 62, 78, 150, 203, 204
Wilding, Michael, 176, 265
Wild Is the Wind, 224
Wild One, The, 217
Wilkerson, Billy, 122–24, 205
Williams, Paul R., 92
Williams, Tennessee, 244, 259
Will Mastin Trio, 205, 250
Wilonsky, Robert, 139
Wilson, Edmund “Bunny,” 48, 110
Willson, Henry, 265–66
Winfrey, Oprah, 220
Winters, Shelley, 139
Wizard of Oz, The, 140, 190
Wolf Man, The, 173
Woman of the Year, 152
Woman Under the Influence, A, 249
Women, The, 93
Women in Love, 283
Wong, Anna May, 162–64
Wong, Tyrus, 164
Wood, Ed, 247
Wood, Natalie, 139, 302–4
Woods, James, 273
Woollcott, Alexander, 31
World War II, 100, 117, 127, 200, 201, 218, 222, 247, 270, 271
Wray, Fay, 62
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 227
Writers Guild, 66
“Wrong Door Raid,” 289–90
Wurlitizer, Rudy, 279
Y
You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man, 25
Young Lions, The, 175, 267
Young Men’s Purity Total Abstinence and Snooker Pool Association, The (TYMPTASPA), 52–53
Young Men’s Purity Total Abstinence and Yachting Association, 53
Young, Audrey, 32
Young, Felix, 123, 193
Young, Loretta, 10, 154
You’re in the Navy Now, 270
Z
Zanuck, Darryl F., 73, 96, 123, 183, 184–88, 219
Ziegfeld Follies, 64, 127
Zinnemann, Fred, 177–78
Zoetrope Studios, 229
Zombie, 100, 101
Zombies, the, 277
Zorba the Greek, 224
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