Mahin, John Lee, Sr., 177
Mahin, Timothy, 390
Main, Marjorie, 258
Maine, 128
“Making of a Screen Character, The” (Cooke), 49
Making of “The Wizard of Oz,” The (Harmetz), 288, 503
Maloney, Russell, 312, 313
Mamma’s Affair (Butler), 86
Mamma’s Affair (film), 86–9
Mamoulian, Rouben, 361, 364, 365, 367–8
Manchurian Candidate, 79
Man from Painted Post, The, 11, 52, 53, 54, 55
Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 71, 151, 194, 220, 238, 264, 425, 427
Mann, Anthony, 150, 505
Mann, William J., 237, 320–1
Mannequin, 238
Mannix, Eddie, 223–4, 254, 258, 318, 357, 360, 367, 378, 382, 385, 402, 416, 420
Mantrap, 7, 111–17, 136–7, 138, 145, 159, 209, 258, 320, 502
Mantz, Paul, 268, 416
March, Fredric, 186, 361, 362, 364, 367, 368, 370–1
March, Joseph Moncure, 111
Marchant, Jay, 377–8
Maren, Jerry, 304, 306
Mariner, 247, 248
Marion, Frances, 143–4, 232, 437
Markey, Enid, 44
Mark of Zorro, The, 86, 351
Marmont, Percy, 112, 115
Marquand, John, 381, 385
Marshall, Tully, 162
Martin, Marcella, 329
Marx Brothers, 167, 429
Marx, Chico, 167
Marx, Groucho, 167, 575
Marx, Gummo, 167
Marx, Harpo, 167
Marx, Marion, 389
Marx, Minnie, 167
Marx, Sam “Frenchie,” 167
Marx, Samuel, 91–2
Marx, Zeppo, 167, 388, 389, 434
Mary, Princess of England, 72
Mary, Queen of England, 72
M*A*S*H, 272
Mason, Daniel Gregory, 59
Mason, Shirley, 108–9
Massin, Dona, 308
Masterpiece Theatre, 49
Matina, Mike and Ike, 306
Matrimaniac, The, 53
Matter of Life and Death, A, 289
Maugham, Somerset, 371
Mayer, Louis B., 38, 75, 91, 103, 143–4, 176, 182, 191, 209, 211, 217–18, 220, 235, 241, 285–6, 356–7, 405, 434
Maytime (Romberg), 60
McBride, Joseph, 92–3
McCall, Mary, 436
McCambridge, Mercedes, 490
McCampbell, Barbara Hawks, 386–7, 496–7
McCarey, Leo, 358, 434
McCarthy, Kevin, 450, 479–80
McCarthy, Todd, 33, 257, 501
McCarthyism, 427
McCormick, Elsie, 130
McCoy, Charles “Kid,” 50
McCrea, Joel, 146, 403, 404–5
McDaniel, Hattie, 327, 345, 346, 474
McDaniel, Sam, 242
McGilligan, Patrick, 320
McGuinness, James Kevin, 429, 434, 436
McKenzie, Fay, 251–2, 354
McLaglen, Victor, 386
McMillan, John, 493
McNaughton, Charles, 213
McNeil, Bee, 382
McNicholas, Archbishop John T., 241
McNutt, Patterson, 429
McPherson, Virginia, 441
McQueen, Butterfly, 327, 333, 345–6
McWilliams, Carey, 11, 18
Meese, Ed, 306
Meet Me in St. Louis, 443
Menasco, Al, 388
Mencken, H. L., 176
Mendes, Lothar, 145
Men of Boys Town, 240
Menzies, William Cameron, 323, 326, 334, 337, 341, 344, 345, 350, 378, 484–5
Mercer, Beryl, 160–1, 162
Mercer, Johnny, 393
Meredith, Burgess, 449
Merivale, Philip, 439
Merkel, Una, 204
Methodist Church, 11–12, 19, 387
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 3, 22, 26, 37, 38, 77, 91, 102, 103, 104, 138, 144, 169, 199, 203, 205, 232–3, 235–7, 319, 336–7; publicity department of, 4, 9, 14, 192, 205, 265, 272, 314, 442; VF’s beginnings with, 175, 176–7, 324; VF’s longterm contract with, 357–8, 360, 436–45
Metternich, Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, 273
Meyerson, Harold, 292
MGM Studio News, 282, 289
Mickey Mouse, 143–44, 173
Midnight, 114
Midnight Romance, 90
Midshipman Easy, 218
Milestone, Lewis, 51, 59, 159, 356–7, 396
Miller, Johnny, 185–6
Miller, Patsy Ruth, 118–19, 165–6, 257, 359, 390, 458–9
Min and Bill, 232
Minnelli, Liza, 312
Minnelli, Vincente, 126
Missouri, 11–14, 15, 17, 20
Missy Poo, 233, 317
Mitchell, Billy, 401, 410
Mitchell, Margaret, 318, 323, 327, 328–9, 343–4, 383
Mitchell, Thomas, 440
Mitchum, Robert, 241, 488
Mix, Tom, 147, 194
Modern Musketeer, 11
Mogambo, 185, 499–500
Mollycoddle, The, 4, 48, 83–4, 95, 102, 205
Mong, William V., 213
Montalban, Ricardo, 395
Montgomery, Robert, 178
Moore, Colleen, 38
Moraga Spit and Polish Club, 3, 388–91, 422–3
Morgan, Byron, 100
Morgan, Frank, 101, 200, 272–3, 282–3, 288, 296, 398, 401, 444
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 168
Morley, Karen, 431
Morrill, Joan Marsh, 257
Morris, Arletta Fleming, 15, 17, 20, 22, 106, 425–6
Morris, Newell, 106, 160, 392
Morris, Ralph, 426
Motion Picture, 136, 142, 143
Motion Picture Academy, 120
Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPA), 63, 407, 428–34, 436, 443–4, 478
Motion Picture Association, 349
Motion Picture Patents Company “the Trust,” 30
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Production Code of, 9, 161, 181, 202, 203, 210, 241, 349, 365, 370
Motion Picture Relief Fund, 338
Moving Picture World, 59, 106
Mrs. Miniver, 441
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 354
Muccino, Gabriele, 397
Mulligan, Richard, 353–4
Muni, Paul, 234, 251
Munson, Edward, 410
Munson, Ona, 340
Murdock, J. J., 241
Murnau, F. W., 134, 226
Murphy, George, 433
Murray, Mae, 204
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 120–1, 457
Mutiny on the Bounty, 240, 504
My Favorite Husband, 433
My Favorite Year, 107
Myrick, Susan, 318, 328–9, 338, 341, 345, 346
Mystery of the Leaping Fish, 46
My Story (Bergman), 449, 463, 446
My Valet, 44
Nabokov, Vladimir, 367, 371
Naish, J. Carrol, 468
Nanuk, 180, 211
Nardone, Olga, 306, 308
Nathan, George Jean, 450
National Archives, 63, 67
National Legion of Decency, 241, 468, 472, 488
National Velvet, 380
Navajo Indians, 28
Navy, U.S., 67, 73, 74, 359, 401
NBC, 230, 313, 352
Negri, Pola, 94
Neilan, Marshall “Mickey,” 24, 30, 34–5, 36–9, 92; VF and, 29, 31–2, 38, 60, 68
Nelson, Barry, 408, 412–13, 416
Newman, Joseph, 272
New Republic, 212, 243, 431
New York, N.Y., 41, 57–60, 65, 68, 166–8; Broadway theater in, 41, 43, 44, 46, 59, 60, 81, 86, 87, 94, 139, 178, 225, 446–56; film industry in, 40, 44, 58, 82, 101, 167–8
New Yorker, 43, 130, 313
New York Journal American, 450
New York Times, 3, 45, 72,
83, 85, 91, 94, 105, 107, 128, 228–9, 268, 293, 319, 380, 381, 382, 397, 416, 421, 450
Niblo, Fred, 86, 181
Nichols, Anne, 139, 140, 141
Niedermeyer, Emily, 166–7, 388
Night and the City, 495
Night at the Opera, A, 429
Night Nurse, 181
Nikrent, Joe, 25
Nixon, Marni, 464
Nixon, Richard M., 427, 433
No Country for Old Men, 150
Normand, Mabel, 25, 60
Notes on a Cowardly Lion (Lahr), 295
Nothing Sacred, 244
Notorius, 363, 448
Nugent, Frank S., 293
Nut, The, 47, 86
O’Brien, Pat, 200, 241
Odets, Clifford, 277
O’Donoughue, Micky, 81, 82
Office of War Information (OWI), 417–21; Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP) of, 417, 419–21, 422
Off with Their Heads (Marion), 143
Of Mice and Men, 356, 395, 396
O’Hara, Maureen, 362
Oil! (Sinclair), 29
oil industry, 21–2, 29, 77, 89, 182
Oklahoma Territory, 12, 21, 62, 78
Oldfield, Barney, 3, 25
Old Homestead, 82
Oliver Twist, 409
Olivier, Laurence, 239, 331, 335–6, 352, 457, 476, 490
O’Neill, Eugene, 178
O’Neill, Henry, 399
One Man Tango (Quinn), 174
Only Angels Have Wings, 265–7, 391
On the Waterfront, 5
Oppenheimer, George, 444
Oppenheimer, Gregg, 433
Oppenheimer, Jess, 433
Oretha F. Spinney, 247
Osborn, Paul, 376, 382–3
O’Shea, Oscar, 248
O’Toole, Peter, 100, 107
Our Daily Bread, 431
Our Little Fairy, 169
Oursler, Fulton, 176
Outcast of the Islands, 106
Overbaugh, Roy, 32, 35, 36, 361
Owens, Jesse, 359
Paar, Jack, 295, 304–5, 433
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan, 44, 73
Page, Geraldine, 499
Pallette, Eugene, 112–13, 152, 153
Palmer, Christopher, 368–9
Paperno, Dmitry, 281
Paramore, Edward, 151
Paramount/Famous Players-Lasky, 32, 90–8, 104–7, 123, 128, 130, 134–5, 324
Paramount Studios, 6, 24–6, 32, 49, 52, 81, 241, 283, 348, 353, 358, 359, 360, 395, 410
Paris Peace Conference, 4, 65–6, 70–3
Parker, David, 314
Parker, Flora, 208
Parker, Gilbert, 90
Parker, Jean, 389
Parker, John T., Jr., 411
Parlo, Dita, 227
Parsons, Louella, 42, 162, 199, 359, 382, 412, 416, 441, 475
Parsons, Wilfrid, 210
Pascal, Gabriel, 452, 456
Passion, 130
Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, 458
Pasternak, Joe, 444
Patriot Cache, 401
Patti, Adelina, 278
Pearson, William Earl, 166
Peck, Gregory, 163, 313, 375, 385, 485
Peckinpah, Sam, 381, 439
Pellegrini, Margaret, 304, 308
Pendleton, Nat, 222
Penrod, 38
Perkins, Gil, 369, 372
Pershing, John J. “Black Jack,” 70, 71–2
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Twain), 470
Peter Pan (Barrie), 290
Peter Pan (Brenon), 94
Peterson, Dorothy, 212
Peyton, Isaac M., 29
Philadelphia Story, The, 197
Photoplay, 45, 94, 95, 104, 177, 415
Pickfair, 170, 342
Pickford, Jack, 76, 110
Pickford, Mary, 29, 38, 49, 289, 302; Fairbanks and, 43, 60, 73, 75, 76, 169–70, 173; producing of, 43, 49, 73
Place in the Sun, A, 380
Plainsman, 195
Plant, Philip Morgan, 160
Plastic Age, The, 149
Plato, 370
Please Don’t Shoot My Dog (Cooper), 215
Plisetskaya, Maya, 281
Plunkett, Walter, 325
Poincaré, Raymond, 70
Polanski, Roman, 409
Pollack, Sydney, 8
Pomeroy, Roy, 145, 158
Poor Little Rich Girl, The, 289
Postman Always Rings Twice, The, 363
Powell, Michael, 246, 289
Powell, William, 145, 221, 222, 223, 262, 391
Power, Tyrone, 43, 359
Power and the Glory, The, 239
Praskins, Leonard, 211
Prelutsky, Burt, 216
Preminger, Otto, 408
President Hoover, 207
Preston, Robert, 353–4
Pride and Prejudice, 441
Prisoner of Zenda, The, 322
Private Izzy Murphy, 141
Prizefighter and the Lady, The, 203
Production Code Administration, 210, 409, 411, 417
Prohibition, 118, 176, 177
Quicherat, Jules, 470
Quigley, Martin, 468, 469
Quinn, Anthony, 174
Raabe, Meinhardt, 307, 308–9
racism, 346–7, 352, 417, 449
Raft, George, 377
Rainer, Luise, 234, 274, 275, 277–8, 280
Raintree County, 153
Ralston, Esther, 109–10, 117–18
Rapf, Harry, 5
Rapf, Maurice, 5
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 284, 356, 357, 375, 376, 378, 381–3, 385
Raymond, Gene, 183, 185, 191
Reaching for the Moon, 52–3, 55, 76, 90, 169
Reader’s Digest, 186–90
Ream, Sue, 444
Reckless, 220–3, 257, 283, 311, 324, 358
Red Dust, 3, 8, 9, 116, 132, 177, 180–96, 200, 201, 210, 500; Gable in, 6, 181–92, 194, 196, 262, 324, 440, 499, 505
Red Hot Romance, 82, 89–90
Red Pony, The (Steinbeck), 356, 357, 375, 395–6
Red River, 168, 195, 263
Reed, Carol, 106
Reed, Helen, 76
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