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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

 

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