Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master (Screen Classics)

by Sragow, Michael

  Reed, Robert, 77, 353

  Reed, Theodore, 76–8, 86, 353

  Reeves, George, 326

  Reid, Wallace, 32–3, 36, 95, 100, 168

  Reinhardt, Gottfried, 274–5, 278

  Reinhardt, Max, 274, 275

  Reisch, Walter, 274, 279

  Remarkable Andrew, The, 407

  Remier, 64

  Remington, Frederic, 84

  Renaldo, Tito, 439

  Renegades, 162–4

  Renick, Ruth, 83, 84–5

  Renoir, Jean, 274, 447

  Reunion in France, 403

  Revel, Harry, 291

  Revere, Anne, 379–80, 382, 383

  Revnes, Maurice, 443–4

  Reynolds, Gene, 39, 40, 250, 272–3, 284, 376

  Reynolds, Smith, 220

  Richman, Harry, 165–6

  Rickenbacker, Eddie, 352

  Riders to the Sea (Synge), 102

  Ridley, Levon Helm, 262

  Right Stuff, The, 262, 464

  Rio Bravo, 266

  Riskin, Everett, 405, 406–7, 408, 412, 415, 421, 422

  Riskin, Ralph, 407, 412, 415, 416, 422

  Riskin, Robert, 178, 412, 417, 420

  RKO, 241, 343, 426, 447, 472

  Road to Rome (Sherwood), 171

  Roaring Road, The, 33, 100

  Robe, The, 385, 485–6

  Roberts, Casey, 495

  Roberts, Ruth, 451, 459, 462, 470, 473

  Robertson, John S., 361

  Robin Hood, 30, 46, 86

  Robinson, Edward G., 251

  Robson, May, 221, 222

  Rogers, Charles “Buddy,” 125–6, 140, 141, 146, 155

  Rogers, Howard Emmett, 429, 443–4

  Rogers, Katharine M., 303–4

  Rogers, Lela, 431

  Rogers, Mildred, 443–4

  Rogers, Will, 231–2, 353

  Roland, Gilbert, 124–5

  Roland, Ruth, 143

  Roman Catholic Church, 210, 237, 240–1, 392, 405, 468–72

  Roman Holiday, 408

  Romanoff, Mike, 493–4

  Romantic Comedy in Hollywood (Harvey), 203, 329

  Romay, Lina, 439–40

  Romberg, Sigmund, 60

  Rome Haul (Edmonds), 224, 227

  Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 151

  Rooney, Mickey, 222, 246, 247, 248, 250, 254–5, 302

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 73, 374, 401, 425; New Deal of, 417, 426, 430

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 48, 61, 119–23, 150, 232, 242, 243, 426

  Root, Wells, 390

  Rosenfeld, Megan, 306

  Rosenstein, Arthur, 247

  Ross, Frank, 485

  Ross, Rex, 498

  Rossellini, Roberto, 446, 452, 465, 491

  Rosson, Arthur, 166–9; death of, 195; film career of, 167–9, 194, 195; Lu Rosson and, 131, 136, 138, 139, 159–60, 167, 168–9, 192–3, 195, 197, 358

  Rosson, Arthur, Jr., 195

  Rosson, Arthur, Sr., 168

  Rosson, Ethel, 168

  Rosson, Gladys, 168

  Rosson, Harold “Hal,” 7, 168, 188, 193, 206, 247, 249, 294, 303, 326, 380, 387

  Rosson, Helene, 168

  Rosson, Helene Rochefort, 168

  Rosson, Richard, 168, 195, 378

  Rough House Rosie, 129

  Rough Riders, The, 92, 96, 119–28, 150, 502

  Royal Air Force (RAF), 404, 406

  Royal Wedding, 79

  Ruggles, Wesley, 59, 60

  Rushdie, Salman, 293

  Russell, John, 106, 107

  Russell, Rosalind, 220, 223

  Rutherford, Ann, 330

  Ruttenberg, Joseph, 364, 369, 373

  Ryerson, Florence, 288

  Ryskind, Morrie, 429, 434

  Sabotage, 106

  Sacco, Mildred, 308

  Saint Joan (Shaw), 447, 449, 452, 456

  Sale, Charles “Chic,” 215

  Salter, James, 269

  Saltzman, Barbara Freed, 444

  Samuels, Charles, 324–5

  San Dimas, Calif., 11, 15–22, 63, 239, 271, 386, 403, 425, 433, 499, 502

  Sands of Iwo Jima, 30

  San Francisco, 234, 240

  San Francisco, Calif., 29, 101, 207

  Santa Fe Railroad, 12, 28, 50–1, 380

  Saroyan, William, 403–5

  Sarris, Andrew, 501, 502

  Saturday Evening Post, 155–8, 403, 477

  Saunders, John Monk, 126

  Savage, Martin, 366

  Savage, Robert, 124

  Saville, Eleanor, 6

  Saville, Victor, 361, 362, 365, 368, 369–70, 374

  Scarface, 178, 181

  Schary, Dore, 426

  Schatz, Thomas, 503

  Schenck, Joseph, 87, 211

  Schenck, Nicholas, 144, 209, 254, 285, 357

  Scheuer, Philip K., 217

  Schickel, Richard, 33, 41, 42, 310

  Schindler, Ambrose, 297–8

  Schmidt, Eddie, 325, 367

  Schoedsack, Ernest B., 58, 59

  Schoenbaum, Charles Edgar, 195

  Schulberg, B. P., 5, 119, 130, 133, 134, 137, 145, 159–60, 162

  Schulberg, Budd, 5, 38, 137, 235–6

  Scorsese, Martin, 334

  Screen Playwrights, 427–9

  Screen Romances, 335

  Screen Writers Guild (SWG), 427–8, 430, 436

  Sea of Grass, The, 383

  Secret Agent, The (Conrad), 106

  Secret Six, The, 232

  Seelye, John, 242, 246

  Selby, Norman, 50

  Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion (Coué), 94–5

  Selznick, Daniel, 241

  Selznick, David O., 3, 38, 40, 159, 163, 220–2, 244, 310, 393, 433–4, 505; Gone With the Wind production and, 317–27, 333–8, 340–1, 343–5, 348–52, 354–5, 361–2, 377, 378

  Selznick, Myron, 321, 325, 341

  Selznick International, 244

  Semon, Larry, 289

  Sennett, Mack, 39, 44, 46

  Sequoia, 379

  Seventh Heaven, 135

  Sewell, Blanche, 143, 310

  Seymour, Charles, 68

  Shadow of the Wing, 404–5

  Shakespeare, William, 44–5, 484

  Shannon, Effie, 86, 87–8

  Sharp, Henry, 170

  Shaw, George Bernard, 447, 449, 452, 485

  Shay, Sheila, 95

  Shearer, Andrew, 103

  Shearer, Athole, 92, 102, 118, 169, 386, 391

  Shearer, Douglas, 175, 252, 267, 309, 387

  Shearer, Edith, 102, 103

  Shearer, Norma, 7, 9, 131, 145, 175, 181; VF and, 91, 92, 102–4, 118, 254

  Sheehan, Winfield, 225, 228–9, 241, 427

  Sheffield, John, 9

  Shepard, Sam, 262

  Shepherd of the Hills, The (Wright), 105

  Sherman, William Tecumseh, 13, 328–9, 336

  Sherwood, Robert E., 171, 179

  Shocking Miss Pilgrim, The: A Writer in Early Hollywood (Maas), 149

  “Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The” (Hemingway), 230, 385

  Shotwell, James T., 67, 71

  Show Business at War, 404

  Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick (Thomson), 324

  Side Show of Life, The, 109

  Sidney, George, 11, 201, 239, 349, 362, 425, 468

  Sierra Pictures, 456–7, 483, 484, 491, 497

  Signal Hill oil fields, 29, 77, 89

  Simms, Ginny, 352

  Sinbad, 60, 221

  Sinclair, Mary Craig, 176

  Sinclair, Upton, 29, 176, 177

  Singer, Leo, 304

  Singin’ in the Rain, 209

  Sintzenich, Harold “Hal,” 58, 59–60

  Skelly, Hal, 145

  Skelton, Red, 312

  Slocum, Osceola, 257, 271, 340, 385, 388

  Slocum, Robbie, 257

  Slow Fade to Black (Cripps), 345

  “Smartest Chap in Town, The,” 81

  Smash-Up, 433r />
  Smigel, Robert, 87

  Smith, C. Aubrey, 204–5, 364

  Smith, Soapy, 357

  Smith, Will, 246

  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 284–5, 292, 313

  S.O.B., 353–4

  Solt, Andrew (documentarian), 4

  Solt, Andrew (screenwriter), 4, 5, 463, 466–67, 470, 471, 476, 485

  Some Like It Hot, 114

  Somewhere I’ll Find You, 404

  Song of Bernadette, The, 452, 463, 468

  Son of His Father, A, 92, 105, 106

  Soules, Charles, 25

  Southern California Country (McWilliams), 11

  South Mountain Road (Anderson), 486

  Spartacus, 408–9, 505

  Spellbound, 361, 448

  Spellman, Martin, 261

  Spielberg, Steven, 8, 293, 315, 421, 501, 504

  Spoto, Donald, 473–4

  Stacey, Eric, 326

  Stagecoach, 9, 71, 330, 354

  Stalin, Joseph, 280–1

  Stallings, Laurence, 464–5, 476, 480, 495

  Stallone, Sylvester, 100

  Stanwyck, Barbara, 145, 181, 389

  Star Is Born, A (1937), 244

  Star Is Born, A (1954), 301, 319

  Starke, Pauline, 92, 104–5

  Starling, Edmund W., 68–9

  Steele, Joseph, 426, 453, 454–5, 457–60, 473, 487

  Steinbeck, John, 356–7, 394–6, 397, 403, 451, 458

  Steinbeck, Thom, 357

  Steinke, Hans, 223

  Stella Dallas, 109, 132

  Stenn, David, 117–18, 205, 358

  Stephenson, Henry, 221

  Stevens, George, 443, 453

  Stevens, George, Jr., 286

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 210–15, 360, 370–1

  Stewart, Donald Ogden, 185, 197–8, 320

  Stewart, James, 225, 324, 454

  Stewart-Hardway, Donna, 302–3

  St. Johns, Adela Rogers, 114, 131, 329, 406, 488, 496

  St. Johns, Bill, 406, 496

  Stokes, Maribess, 432

  Stone, Lewis, 198, 215

  Stout, Archie, 97

  Stranger, 180, 247, 401

  Strauss, Johann, Jr., 273–4, 276–80, 333

  Strauss, Johann, Sr., 273

  Strayer, Frank, 129

  Streetcar Named Desire, A, 332

  Streisand, Barbra, 292

  Strenuous Life, The (Roosevelt), 242

  Strickling, Howard, 14, 207, 221, 237–8, 264–5, 352, 376–7

  Stromberg, Hunt, 181, 182, 192, 197, 201–2, 210–12

  Strudwick, Shepperd, 469, 478, 485, 490

  Struss, Karl, 367–8

  stunt doubles, 51, 297–98, 300–1, 319, 346, 369, 372

  Sturges, Preston, 505

  Sullivan, Ed, 260–1, 275, 318, 335, 352

  Sullivan, Victoria, 15

  Summersville, Mo., 11–13

  Sunrise, 226

  Sutherland, Eddie, 8, 91

  Swanson, Gloria, 94, 104, 204

  Swartz, Arthur J. “Bud,” 405–6

  Swearingen, Carolyn Evaleen Deacon, 18, 19, 20, 21, 425

  Swearingen, Rodger, 21, 26, 170, 392, 489

  Sweet, Blanche, 38

  Swensen, Clarence, 305, 306

  Swindell, Larry, 399

  Sydney, Basil, 90

  Synge, J. M., 102

  Take One (LeRoy), 305–6

  Take Two (Dunne), 427

  Talmadge, Constance “Dutch,” 82, 86–9, 92

  Talmadge, Norma, 87, 143

  Talmadge, Richard, 51

  Taming of the Shrew, The, 169–70

  Tamiroff, Akim, 396

  Tarzan Escapes, 285–6

  Taurog, Norman, 285, 376, 429, 444

  Taylor, Robert, 272, 388, 389, 390

  Tazewell, Charles, 338

  Technicolor, 284–5, 288, 289, 294, 314, 326, 328, 334, 347, 403

  Tellegen, Lou, 89

  Temple, Shirley, 285, 291, 429, 498

  Ten Commandments, 195

  Tendler, Lew, 82

  Terry, Robert, 206

  Test Pilot, 25, 58, 92, 110, 113, 175, 256–70, 317, 492, 500; Gable and Tracy in, 6, 10, 258–65, 267–9, 356, 413, 440

  Tetzlaff, Ted (cinematographer), 25

  Tetzlaff, Ted “Terrible Teddy” (auto racer), 25, 60

  Thalberg, Irving, 91–2, 103, 176–7, 220, 232–6, 238, 274–5, 285

  Thanhouser Film Corporation, 58

  That Flannigan Girl (Miller), 118–19

  That’s Right, You’re Wrong, 352

  Thau, Benny, 254, 399–400

  Thérèse Raquin (Zola), 181

  They Gave Him a Gun, 235

  Thief of Bagdad, 131, 171

  Thin Man, The, 222, 262, 428

  This Island Earth, 272

  This Was Hollywood (Day), 9

  Thomas, Dan, 50–1

  Thompson, Keene, 120, 151

  Thomson, David, 324

  Thomson, Fred, 143

  Thorpe, Harris, 58

  Thorpe, Richard, 39, 272, 285–7, 293–4

  Three Musketeers, The, 86, 169

  Three Stooges, 200, 279

  Tilley, Vesta, 81

  Tillstrom, Burr, 87

  Time, 237, 315, 490

  Ting-Hsui Tu, 232

  Tiomkin, Dimitri, 274, 275

  Titanic, 505

  Tobacco Road (Caldwell), 394

  Tobin, John W., 122

  To Have and Have Not, 391–2, 487

  Toland, Gregg, 364

  Tolkien, J. R. R., 314

  Tone, Franchot, 204–5, 220–3, 236

  Tongues of Flame, 109

  Too Hot to Handle, 272, 275, 317

  Topper, 410, 421

  Topsy-Turvy, 366

  Torchia, Emily, 9, 442

  Torrence, Ernest, 109, 110, 112–13

  Tortilla Flat, 101, 241, 394–400, 402, 403

  Toscanini, Arturo, 278

  To the Last Man, 95–6

  Totter, Audrey, 438

  Tourneur, Maurice, 210, 289

  Tovey, Arthur, 344

  Towne, Robert, 19, 408

  Tracy, John, 237, 357, 386, 493

  Tracy, Lee, 200, 209

  Tracy, Louise Treadwell, 237, 357, 493

  Tracy, Spencer, 5–8, 235, 236–41; Academy Awards of, 6, 240, 258, 269; alcoholism of, 237–9, 265, 367; background and education of, 236; Boom Town and, 357; Captains Courageous and, 236–48, 250–51, 252–56; death of, 237; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and, 361–74; A Guy Named Joe and, 401–22; Hepburn and, 237, 383, 413, 415; The Red Pony and, 356–57; Test Pilot and, 260, 262–69; Tortilla Flat and, 394–99; screen persona of, 6, 10, 40, 250; VF’s relationship with, 6, 10, 40, 238–9, 250, 372–3, 386, 412, 437, 493–4; The Yearling and, 375–84