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premiere of, 288–89
preparations for, 280–81, 283
and war-crimes trials, 415–16
Trümpy, Berthe, 25
Tucholsky, Kurt, 67
Gripsholm Castle, 147
Twardowski, Hans Heinrich von, 547n83
Two Neckties (revue), 156, 157
Tynan, Kenneth, 451–52, 471, 473, 481–82, 491, 499, 507
Ucicky, Gustav, 69, 70
Udet, Ernst:
and Avalanche, 115, 117
and Fanck, 140, 142
and Leni, 111–12, 326–27
and Marlene’s Aunt Jolly (Felsing), 117, 237
and Piz Palü, 106
and S.O.S. Iceberg, 142, 143
and World War I, 121, 151
Ufa Film Company, 112
and The Blue Angel, 153, 154, 155
and The Great Leap, 106
and The Holy Mountain, 95
and Manon Lescaut, 67–68
ownership of, 65
and postwar films, 426
and sound film, 154, 161–62
and Triumph of the Will, 277–78
Uhlans (cavalry regiment), 4
Ultraphon studio, 191
United States:
Anti-Nazi League in, 314
censorship in, 362
economy of, 204, 232, 235
entry into World War II, 336, 350, 360
propaganda films, 360–61
radio in, 569n20
Universal Pictures, 138–40, 145, 148, 168, 353
USO (United Service Organizations), 362–67, 370–71, 373–76
Vajda, Ladislav, 106, 130
Valentino, Rudolph, 183
Valetti, Rosa, 75, 157
van Gogh, Vincent, 242
Vanity Fair, 523
Veidt, Conrad, 75, 76, 77
Venice Biennale, 137
Victory of Faith (film), 152, 264, 270–75, 276, 415, 416–17, 515
Viertel, Berthold, 130
Viertel, Peter, 425
Viertel, Salka, 233, 425
Vigny, Benno, Amy Jolly, 180
Visconti, Luchino, 426, 427, 428, 545n32
Vogel, Ady, 425
Vollmoeller, Karl, 27–28, 80, 155
von der Hyde, Horst Alexander, 240
von Losch family, 31, 38, 41, 42
Von Mund zu Mund (“From Mouth to Mouth”) (musical production), 62
Wachsmann, Franz, 233, 542n71
Wagner, Josef, 572n21
Wagner, Winifred, 150
Waldoff, Claire, 62, 77
Wallace, Peggy Ann, 513
Wallburg, Otto, 72
Wallenberg, Captain, 413
Wandervogel movement, 17
Wanger, Walter, 181, 545n41
Warhol, Andy, 511
Wäscher, Aribert, 330
Wassman, Hans, 62
Wayne, John, 349
Way of All Flesh, The (film), 154
Wedekind, Frank, Pandora’s Box, 58
Weigel, Helene, 472
Weihmayr, Franz, 267, 268, 280
Weill, Kurt, 532n38
Weimar Republic, 20, 22, 57, 61, 69, 79, 83, 147, 161, 171, 258, 475
Weintraub Syncopators, 163
Weissmuller, Johnny, 315
Welles, Orson, 457, 487, 506
Welsh, Mary, see Hemingway, Mary Welsh,
Werfel, Franz, 355
West, Mae, 247
Westfront (film), 121
West Wall (film), 330
White Frenzy, The (film), 119, 124–25, 127, 131, 140
White Hell of Piz Palü, The (film), 106–11, 113, 116, 120, 130, 139, 263
White Water (short film), 556n86
Widmark, Richard, 469
Wieman, Mathias, 115, 127, 335
Wiesinger, Paula, 537n120
Wigman, Mary, 19, 23–26, 80, 529n18
Wilder, Billy, 390–95, 398, 409, 454–55, 498, 504, 510
Wilding, Michael, 401, 506
Wilhelm I, Kaiser, 33
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 12, 22, 33, 36, 42, 45
Will, Elisabeth, 399, 468–69
death of, 488
see also Dietrich, Elisabeth Ottilie
Williams, Tennessee, 452
Windsor, Duchess of, 506
Windt, Herbert, 306, 328
Winterstein, Eduard von, 162–63
With the Berlin SA to Nuremberg (film), 262
Witness for the Prosecution (film), 458–60
Wolfe, Thomas, You Can’t Go Home Again, 301–2
Woman in the Moon (film), 111
Woman One Longs For, The (film), 77–78, 297
Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, The (film), 127, 519–20
World War I:
“aristocracy of the trenches,” 286
in Berlin, 11, 22, 34–38, 41–43
combat pilots, 283–84
high spirits in, 34–35
and Marlene, 30, 34–38, 41–43, 48
and postwar period, 22–24, 45–46, 53–54, 59–60, 76–77, 86–87, 122
social changes in, 45
U.S. entry into, 235
veterans in film industry, 120–22
World War II, 319–27
Allied victories in, 340–41, 367, 370, 419
Battle of the Bulge, 375
in Berlin, 339, 353
censorship in, 362
and Hitler, 257, 313, 315, 319–23, 326–27, 331, 334, 335, 336, 367
and Marlene, 351–52, 361, 362–76, 382–83, 474
onset of, 257
Pearl Harbor bombing, 336, 350
postwar period, 380–81
prelude to, 249–51, 252, 256, 257
U.S. entry into, 336, 350,
360
U.S. radio broadcasts in, 372–73
war films in, 291, 320–25
Wüst, Ida, 72
Wyman, Jane, 400
“You Do Something to Me” (song), 364
“You Go to My Head” (song), 364
Youth Movement, 17–18
Zambona, Jutta, 248, 250, 354, 560n6
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 62
Zielke, Ilse, 342
Zielke, Willy, 290, 291, 341–42, 435, 559n40, 559n41
Zille, Heinrich, 99
Zuckmayer, Carl, 75, 106, 155–56, 289, 354
Zukor, Adolph, 236
Zweig, Stefan, The World of Yesterday, 54–55
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