by J. R. Jones
Dirty Game, The. See Secret Agents, The
Dmytryk Edward, 29–30, 35–36, 40–41, 43, 51n, 103, 228; and Crossfire, 56, 58, 59, 60, 70, 114; and the Hollywood Ten, 71, 73, 74, 81, 96, 114–15
Dodd, Thomas J., 197–98
Domergue, Faith, 83, 87
Don Quixote, 262
Donehue, Vincent, 173
Donovan, Timothy, 42
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 110–11, 133, 201
Douglas, Kirk, 92–94, 186, 214
Douglas, Melvyn, 110–11, 201
Douglas, Paul, 120–23
Drazevic, Ratso, 214
Dunne, Amanda, 75–76, 277
Dunne, Philip, 71, 75, 76, 94, 197, 205, 221, 266, 277
Duvall, Robert, 216, 253, 273
Dylan, Bob, 232–33
Ebony, 186
education, RR’s interest in, 114, 149
education of RR, 8, 11, 16, 17
Edwards, James, 161
Einfeld, Charlie, 87–88
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 133, 170–71
Eliot, T.S., 141, 187–88
Emery, John, 142
Enterprise Studio, 87–88, 96
Escape to Burma, 150
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, 6
Ethical Culture Fieldston School, 109, 144, 147, 149
Evans, Evans. See Frankenheimer, Evans
Executive Action, xiii, 274–77, 278, 280
Exodus, 186
Fabray, Nanette, 28, 206, 209
Fairbanks, Douglas, 8, 21, 155
Farmer’s Daughter, The, 71, 81
Farrow, John, 267
Farrow, Mia, 267, 277
Federal Theatre Project, 33, 101
Fellig, Arthur “Weegee,” 92
Feminine Mystique, The, 242
film noir, ix, 181, 262
Finney, Albert, 230
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 172
Fitzgerald, Geraldine, 162, 257–58, 260, 261
Flaherty, Robert, 84
Fleming, Rhonda, 134–5
Flying Leathernecks, 111–13, 118, 120, 161
Flynn, John, 273
Fonda, Henry, 162, 217, 218, 234, 245, 246
Fontaine, Joan, 97, 99–100, 249
Ford, John, 112
Ford’s Theatre, 234
Francis, Anne, 147
Frankenheimer, Evans, 270, 277
Frankenheimer, John, 189–92, 268–72, 277
Free Southern Theatre, 212
Friedan, Betty, 216, 242
Front Page, The, x, 39, 245–49, 252, 256, 260
Fuller, Samuel, ix, xiii, 116, 152–54
Gable, Clark, 21, 155, 157, 163
Gangway for Tomorrow, 43
Garfunkel, Art, 233, 252
Garner, James, 226
Garson, Greer, 136
Gavin, James M., 204
Geer, Will, 142, 232, 275–76
Gentleman’s Agreement, 59, 80–81
Gerard, Bryson, 116–17, 130, 137–38, 143
Ginsberg, Allen, 233
God’s Little Acre (film), x, 136, 158, 166–69, 170, 172, 173, 176, 280
God’s Little Acre (novel), 166–68
Golden Gloves, 29–30, 40, 58, 91
Goldwyn, Samuel, 74
Gomez, Thomas, 81
Goodrich, Frances. See Hackett, Frances
Goodrich Grahame, Gloria, 58, 73, 79, 86, 181
Grainger, Edmund, 111, 118
Granet, Bert, 63–65, 67, 68
Granger, Stewart, 214–15
Grant, Cary, 77, 94, 163
Great Gatsby, The (film), 277
Great Gatsby, The (TV play), 172–73
Greer, Jane, 62
Grodin, Charles, 252
Gross, Jack, 53, 97
Group Theatre, 25, 31, 109
Guardino, Harry, 216
Gunn, Moses, 270
Guthrie, Woody, 211, 232, 244
Gwenn, Edmund, 81
Haas, Chuck, 130, 137–38, 162
Hackett, Albert, 210, 218, 274
Hackett, Buddy, 168–69, 262
Hackett, Frances Goodrich, 210, 218
Hamill, Pete, 262, 279
Hamlet, 10, 23, 140
Harmon, Andy, 110, 162, 178
Harmon, Elizabeth, 108–10, 113, 144, 280
Harmon, Sidney, 187, 218, 228; and Oakwood School, 108–10, 113, 119, 125, 130, 137–38, 142, 144, 150; and Security Pictures, 157–58, 159, 165, 166, 168, 176–77
Harrison, Toya, 162
Hayes, George “Gabby,” 54, 62
Hayes, Helen, 249, 252
Hays, Lee, 211
Hayward, Leland, 205
Hayworth, Rita, 218
health of RR, 48, 51; alcoholism, xi, 20, 150–51, 155–57, 211, 259–60, 265; cancer treatment, 253–54, 255–56, 259, 277–78
Hecht, Ben, x, 38, 245, 247–48
Heflin, Van, 83–84
Hepburn, Katharine, x, 34, 193–96, 205, 206, 227, 258
Hersh, Seymour, 234–35, 246
Her Twelve Men, 136, 138, 139
Hitler’s Children, 40
Holden, William, 236, 239
Holliday, Judy, 216
Hollywood blacklist, 73–74, 114–15, 142, 181, 186, 189, 210, 245. See also Hollywood Ten
Hollywood Fights Back, 72
Hollywood Nineteen. See Hollywood Ten
Hollywood Reporter, 71
Hollywood for SANE. See National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE)
Hollywood Ten, 71, 73, 114–15, 186
homes of RR: in California, 29, 37, 47, 75, 76, 184–85, 205, 209; in Chicago, 5, 7, 11; the Dakota Building, 216, 263, 264, 266, 277; on East Coast, 208, 216, 239–40, 266
Horizons West, 125–26
Hour of the Gun (working title: The Law and Tombstone), 75n, 226
Houseman, Joan, 75–76, 136
Houseman, John, 75, 101, 136, 139, 229, 234, 245, 254, 280; and Coriolanus, x, 142–43, 275; and Murder in the Cathedral, 187–88; and Name, Age and Occupation, 33, 35; and On Dangerous Ground, 103, 104
House of Bamboo, x, 116, 151–54, 153
House Un-American Activities Committee, 56, 70, 72, 82, 111, 114–15, 245
Hubley, Season, 264–65
Hudson, Rock, 126
Hughes, Howard, 39, 86–89, 92–95, 111, 115–16; relationship with RR, 86, 96–97, 135, 165; and RKO Radio Pictures, 82–83, 102–103, 117, 138, 150, 159
Humphrey, Hubert, 234, 238, 240
Hunt, Marsha, 29, 188–89, 204
Hunter, Jeffrey, 159, 193, 210–11
Huston, John, 55, 70n, 71, 94
Iceman Cometh, The (film), 268–72, 271, 273, 274, 280
Iceman Cometh, The (play), 227
Ice Palace, 185–87, 190, 193
images of RR, 4, 9, 17, 36, 42, 44, 49, 54, 57, 65, 77, 80, 85, 93, 107, 122, 123, 126, 139, 153, 160, 163, 167, 170, 182, 194, 195, 201, 225, 237, 249, 271, 276, 278
I Married a Communist. See The Woman on Pier 13
Indrisano, Johnny, 91
Inferno (working title: The Waterhole), 75, 134–36, 139
Inheritance, The, 211, 213
investments of RR, 21, 28, 136
Iron Major, The, 42
It’s All True, 35
Jarrico, Paul, 127
John Birch Society, 204
Johnson, Lamont, 107–108, 166, 185, 270
Johnson, Lyndon, 222, 234, 235
Johnston, Eric, 73, 81
Kaufman, Millard, 145–48, 151
Kazan, Elia, 81, 245
Keach, Stacy, 257–59, 261, 270
Kefauver, Estes, 115, 130
Kelly, Ed, 7, 12, 15, 19–20
Kelly, Paul, 58
Kennedy, Harold J., ix, 68, 163–65, 246–47, 256, 260
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 207
Kennedy, John F., xiii, 132, 197, 207–208, 213, 215
Kennedy, Robert F., 238, 239n
Killens, John Oliver, 181
King, Jr., Martin Luther, 212, 238
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p; King of Kings, 192–93, 208, 210, 255
Kiss for Cinderella, A, 31
Klugman, Jack, 142
Knauer, Siegfried, 98, 108
Koerner, Charles, 35, 36, 38, 53, 55, 56
Korvin, Charles, 65–67, 75
Kramer, Stanley, 115, 183, 197
Krasna, Norman, 120, 126
Krotona Institute of Theosophy, 205
Ladd, Alan, 94
Lampell, Millard, 210, 211, 213, 244–45, 252, 264, 265; on RR’s personality, xi, 150–51, 216, 218, 232–33, 266
Lampell, Ramona, 244–45, 263, 264, 265
Lancaster, Burt, 212, 219, 221, 252–53, 274, 275, 277, 278
Landon, Michael, 169, 172
Lane, Mark, 274
Lang, Fritz, ix, 121, 123
Laurents, Arthur, 87–88
Lauter, Ed, 264–65, 276
Law and Tombstone, The. See Hour of the Gun
Lawman, 252–53
Lawson, John Howard, 73
Lee, Canada, 90
Leigh, Janet, 84, 85, 127–29, 197
Lennon, John, 266, 277
Levene, Sam, 57, 58
Lewis, Edward, 274, 275
Lewis, John, 183
Lewton, Val, 52, 53
Lincoln, Abraham: RR’s performances as, 159, 213–14, 217–18
Lincoln’s Doctor’s Dog, 159
Lindsay, Howard, 206
Lindsay, John, 223
Locke, Katharine, 32–33
Logan, Joshua, 206–207
Lolly-Madonna XXX (working title: The Lolly Madonna War), 262, 264–65, 270, 276
Lonelyhearts, 124
Long Day’s Journey into Night, x, 227, 228, 230, 256–61, 266
Longest Day, The, 203–204, 224
Lord, Jack, 169, 172
Lorentz, Pare, ix, 33, 34, 35, 36, 53
Losey, Joseph, ix, 78, 95, 96, 100, 102–103, 110, 175
Louis, Joe, 133
Louise, Tina, 168–69, 172, 176
Love Machine, The, 256
Lowell, Robert, 235
Loy, Myrna, 72, 173–75, 279
Loyola Academy, 8
Lukas, Paul, 66
Lundigan, William, 134
Lupino, Ida, xii, 105, 107, 117
MacArthur, Charles, x, 38, 247–48, 252
MacArthur, Douglas, 141
Maddow, Ben, 158–59, 167
Mad with Much Heart (novel), 103–104
Mad with Much Heart (film). See On Dangerous Ground
Mainwaring, Daniel, 96
Mann, Anthony, ix, xiii, 129, 158, 160–61, 168
Mann, Daniel, 138–39
Mansfield, Irving, 256
Man without a Country, The, 267–86
March, Fredric, 234, 269, 270, 272
March, Joseph Moncure, 16, 78, 89–90, 142
March on Washington, 212
Margo, 40, 43
Marine Raiders, 44, 45, 46, 159
Marshall, George, 63, 66
Marvin, Lee, xiii, 147, 197, 219–21, 223–25, 230, 269–72
Mason, James, 88
Max Reinhardt School of the Theater, 22, 98, 206
May, Rollo, 242
Mayer, Louis B., 55, 108, 127
Mazurki, Mike, 41, 42
McCallum, David, 201
McCambridge, Mercedes, 131, 197
McCarthy, Eugene, xi, 232, 233–35, 238, 239n, 240
McGiver, John, 246, 248, 253, 279
McGovern, George, 240, 262
McHugh, Frank, 39
Meeker, Ralph, 128–29
Melville, Herman, 16, 18, 199–200
Men in War, 158, 159–63, 160, 163, 165–66, 168, 176
Mercury Theatre, 33
Metzger, Mike, 198–99
MGM, 55, 127, 147, 157, 163, 247, 262, 264, 273; and Act of Violence, 77, 83, 126; and Bad Day at Black Rock, 146–47
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, 23
military service of RR, x, 37, 42, 45, 46–52
Miller, Arthur, 251
Miller, David, 275
Minute to Pray, A Second to Die, A, 228
Miss Lonelyhearts, 173–74
Mitchell, Cameron, 31, 152, 155
Mitchell, Millard, 128
Mitchum, Robert, xiii, 51n, 77, 86, 97, 116, 228, 245; and Crossfire, 58, 60, 69
Moby Dick (film), 157
Moby-Dick (novel), 16
Monroe, Marilyn, 121–23, 122, 134, 184
Morrow, Vic, 161, 168, 172
Morse, Wayne, 233
Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, 81, 105, 111
Motion Pictures Producers’ Association, 72–74, 81
Mott, Lucretia, 27
Mr. President, 205–208, 209, 210, 248, 249
Murder in the Cathedral, x, 187–88, 193
Murphy, George, 223
Naked Spur, The, 127–29, 135, 138, 161, 280
Name, Age and Occupation, 33–34, 35–37, 36
Nash, Patrick, 19
National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), xi, 169–71, 204, 221, 238, 250; Hollywood for SANE, 186, 197; internal schisms of, 197–98, 233–34; and presidential politics, 197–98, 233–34; RR’s involvement in, xi, 171, 186, 197, 212–13
Naughton, James, 150, 257–61, 263
Neal, Annie (grandmother-in-law), 25–27, 28
Neville, John, 201, 227–28, 230
Newman, Paul, 233, 235
Nixon, Richard, 111, 118, 133, 151, 240, 250, 254
Nottingham Repertory Theatre, 227–28, 229–31
Oakwood School, xi, 157, 162, 280; administration of, 129–30, 143; conflicts among parents, 125, 136–38; founding of, 108–10, 113–14, 116–17, 118–119; and Marie Spottswood, 144–45, 149, 166, 280
Oberon, Merle, 64–68, 65, 74–75, 124, 134, 217
O’Brien, Pat, 38, 39, 42, 44, 45, 78, 159
Odds against Tomorrow, xi, 180–84, 182, 186, 211, 273
Odets, Clifford, 31, 32, 71, 78, 120
Odlum, Floyd, 74, 82
Office of War Information, 37, 38, 43
OK Corral, gunfight at, 26, 226
On Dangerous Ground (working title: Mad with Much Heart), xii, 107, 117, 120, 138, 142, 164, 181, 280; production of, 103–108
O’Neill, Eugene, x, 10, 18, 175, 227, 257, 268–69
Ono, Yoko, 266
Ophuls, Max, ix, 87–88
O’Sullivan, Maureen, 267, 274, 277–78
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 213, 276
Othello, 228, 230–31
Our Town, 245, 246
Outfit, The, 273–74, 280
Outlaw, The, 83, 97
Paramount Pictures, 30, 37, 38, 40, 63, 138, 157, 163
Parsons, Harriet, 124
Parsons, Louella, 75, 124
Pasadena Playhouse, 21, 22
Paul, Alice, 28
Paxton, John, 56, 57, 60, 70
Pearl Harbor, attack on, 34, 37, 38
Peck, Gregory, 78n, 81, 84, 157, 189
Peckinpah, Sam, xiii, 222, 235–36, 238–39
Persoff, Nehemiah, 161, 176
personality of RR, ix, xii, xiii, 6, 107–8; Catholic faith, 107–108, 173–74, 187–88; depressions, xi, 150–51, 247, 277; experience of fame, 68, 143, 211–12, 266–67; movies, interest in, 6, 8; outdoors, interest in, 11, 199; pool, interest in, 211–12; privacy, ix, xi, xii, 39, 157, 179; seafaring, interest in, 18, 201–202; Shakespeare, interest in, 10, 17, 127, 139, 142, 195–96, 230–31; writing, interest in, 8, 16, 17, 20
personal relationships of RR: with brother, 5, 151, 279; with children, 149, 154, 215–16, 235, 266, 267; with father, 7–8, 10, 11, 17, 18–19; with mother, 7–8, 18–19, 21; with wife, xiii, 22, 25, 28, 99, 179, 241–42, 261, 263, 265–66
Pine, Phillip, 160
Plumstead Playhouse, 245–46, 252, 256
politics of RR, x, xiii; antinuclear activism, 151, 169–71, 197–98, 212–13, 215 (see also National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy [SANE]); antiwar activism, 222–23, 231, 233–34; civil libert
ies activism, 71, 72–73, 77; civil rights activism, 58–59, 70, 212; Democratic Party politics, 94–95, 223, 262; McCarthy presidential campaign, xi, 232–35, 238–40; pacifist philosophy, 249–52; Stevenson presidential campaigns, 131–33, 162
Polonsky, Abraham, 87, 181–82
Preminger, Otto, 186
Production Code Administration, 53, 56, 105, 138, 152, 168
Professionals, The, xii, 218–19, 220–22, 236, 239, 243, 272
Progressive Citizens of America, 72, 127
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 58
Proud Ones, The, 75, 159
Quinn, Anthony, 126, 197, 212
Racket, The, 115–16, 124, 138, 181
Radio-Keith-Orpheum, 35, 55, 83, 150, 159
Rainer, Louise, 31
Randall, Tony, 34, 233, 235
Rankin, John E., 73
Rathvon, N. Peter, 35, 55, 59, 74, 83, 87–88, 89
Ray, Aldo, 160–61, 165, 168, 169, 262
Ray, Nicholas, ix, xii, 100–101, 103, 112–13, 192–93, 255
Reagan, Ronald, 227, 255
Reason Why, The, 251–52
Rebel without a Cause, 105, 192, 255
Red Badge of Courage, The, 70
Red Channels, 115, 189, 210
Reinhardt, Max, ix, 22, 23–25, 28, 53, 88, 120, 229
Reinhardt, Wolfgang, 87
Renoir, Dido, 55, 98, 154, 264, 265
Renoir, Jean, ix, 51–53, 54, 55, 58–59, 103; friendship with Jessica Ryan, 55, 98, 154, 227; friendship with RR, 239, 264, 265
Return of the Bad Men, 62
Rivkin, Allen, 94, 131
RKO Radio Pictures, ix, 37, 39, 60–61, 74, 80, 86–87, 120, 157; and Howard Hughes, 82, 89, 95, 102, 126–27, 159; and Name, Age and Occupation, 33, 35, 36
Robards, Jason, 216, 226–27, 269, 279
Robertson, Cliff, 268
Robson, Mark, 55, 92
Rockefeller, Nelson, 11
Rogell, Sid, 89, 97, 103
Rogers, Ginger, 43–44, 87
Rogers, Paul, 227
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 30
Rose, Billy, 31, 32
Ross, Katharine, 211
Rush to Judgment, 274
Russell, Jane, 83, 97, 116, 155, 274
Russell, Rosalind, 45, 56, 132
Ryan, Cheyney (son), 99, 109, 194, 232, 264; childhood of, 81, 136, 149, 162, 184–85; education of, 184, 196, 205, 209; on Jessica Ryan, 30, 97, 178–79; political activism and public service of, 215, 218, 231, 234–35, 240, 254–55; relationship with RR, 211–12, 215–16, 265, 266, 277–79; on RR’s career, 96, 124, 142–43, 148, 174, 216, 250, 272, 275; on RR’s personal life 52, 62, 151, 156, 199, 210, 213; on RR’s politics, 30, 97, 133, 151, 240, 245
Ryan, Jessica Cadwalader (wife), 27, 86, 92, 197, 205, 228, 229, 230, 262; acting of, 22, 25, 47, 98; alcoholism and breakdown of, xi, 178–79, 259–60; America—Dream or Nightmare?, 241, 250–51; conflicts with RR, 32, 75, 124, 165; courtship by RR, 22–23, 25; death and burial, 263–64; feminism of, 27–28, 178–79, 241–44; and health of RR, 150, 253–54, 256, 259; images of, 26, 49, 80, 109, 126, 194, 195; Man Who Asked Why, The, 50–51; marriage to RR, 28, 32, 45, 54, 68, 178–79, 261, 266; and Oakwood School administration, 125, 130, 137–38, 149, 166, 280; and Oakwood School founding, 108–10, 113–14, 117, 118–19; personality of, xi, xiii, 63, 75–76, 98–99, 108, 157, 184, 244; and politics of RR, 77, 94, 162, 130–32, 223; Quaker philosophy of, 27, 30, 62; relationship with Dido and Jean Renoir, 55, 98, 154, 227, 154–55, 265; Woman—The Mythless American, 241, 242–43; writing of, xiii, 31, 47–48, 54, 98, 166, 198