by J. R. Jones
Ryan, Larry (uncle), 3, 19
Ryan, Lisa (daughter), xii, 194, 232–33, 249, 255, 256, 270, 277–79; childhood and education of, 119, 136, 149, 162, 184, 196, 204, 209, 225, 264; on Jessica Ryan, 124, 260; on RR’s career, 169, 195, 225, 228–29, 230, 247; on RR’s personal life, 148, 169, 174, 213, 222, 247, 260, 266
Ryan, Mabel Bushnell (mother), 1, 3, 7, 9, 37, 165, 210
Ryan, Thomas (uncle), 3, 7, 19
Ryan, Timothy Aloysius (father), 3, 9, 11, 12, 17, 210; business career of, 7, 10; political career of, 2, 5, 7; and sanitary district tunnel disaster, xii, 1, 13–16
Ryan, Timothy Cadwalader (son), 109, 112, 126, 163, 194, 212, 231, 232, 255, 264, 278, 279; childhood of, 54, 68, 98, 136, 149, 162, 198; education of, 110, 184, 196, 205, 209, 218; relationship with RR, 215–16, 220
Ryan, Timothy E. (great-uncle), 2, 3
Ryan Company, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11–12, 19; and sanitary district tunnel disaster, xii, 13–16
Saks, Gene, 142
Samuel Goldwyn Studio, 89, 124
SANE. See National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE)
Sarafian, Richard, 264
Schaefer, George, 35, 36
Schaffner, Franklin, 173
Schary, Dore, 127, 131, 145–47, 163, 173–75, 217, 229, 279; and Crossfire, 56, 57, 59, 60; and Howard Hughes, 82, 83, 86; and HUAC, 70, 71, 73, 74; and RKO Radio Pictures, 55, 77, 78, 89, 95
Schenck, Nicholas, 146, 163
Schildkraut, Joseph, 31, 33, 121
Schweitzer, Albert, 170
Scorsese, Martin, ix, 93
Scott, Adrian, 56, 59, 60, 70, 78, 114; and the Hollywood Ten, 71, 73, 74, 81, 96, 114
Scott, Martha, 245, 252
Scott, Randolph, 38, 54, 62, 176
Screen Actors Guild, 37
Screen Writers Guild, 44, 127
Secret Agents, The, 217, 224, 245
Secret Fury, The, 102, 114
Security Pictures, Inc., 158, 166, 175–76, 177
Seeger, Pete, 211, 213
Selznick, David O., 56, 86, 108
Selznick, Irene, 108
Set-Up, The (film), 77, 86, 89–94, 93, 136, 161, 280; impact of, 99, 133
Set-Up, The (poem), 16, 78, 89–90
Shaw, Robert, 218, 228
Shenandoah, 274
Simon, Paul, 233, 252
Sinatra, Frank, 77, 162
Sister Kenny, 45, 56
Sky’s the Limit, The, 40, 43
Smith, Solomon “Smith,” xi, 99, 100, 203
Smith, Williana, xi, 99, 100, 155, 199, 204
Snows of Kilimanjaro, The, 189–92, 192n, 268
Society of Friends, 27–28
Sokoloff, Lisa, 119
Sokoloff, Vladimir, 25, 28, 51, 119
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 212
Spartacus, 186
Spock, Benjamin, 213, 233
Spottswood, Marie, 144–45, 149–50, 166, 167, 280
Stack, Robert, 152, 153, 154
Stamp, Terence, 200, 211, 258
Stanley, Kim, 257
Stanwyck, Barbara, 120–24, 123, 150
Steiger, Rod, 159, 264–65
Stevenson, Adlai, 130–33, 162, 222, 276
Stevenson, Robert, 97
Stewart, James, 45, 127–29, 157
Stiller, Jerry, 142
Stockwell, Dean, 78, 78n, 95, 227
Strasberg, Lee, 31, 32, 187
Street with No Name, The, 151
Streisand, Barbra, 274
Strode, Woody, 219, 220
Students for a Democratic Society, 254
Sturges, John, 148, 151
Sturges, Preston, 87
Surtees, Robert, 84–85
Susann, Jacqueline, 256
Sutherland, Donald, 224, 274
Swanson, Gloria, 6
Tall Men, The, 155, 253
Talman, William, 97
Taylor, Rod, 172
Teller, Edward, 171
Tender Comrade, 43–44, 58, 73, 99
Texas Rangers Ride Again, The, 30
Thomas, J. Parnell, 72, 73
Tiger at the Gates, x, 163–65, 246
Time of Your Life, The, 31
Tito, Josip Broz, 214
Toporow, Roman, 64, 66
Tourneur, Jacques, ix, 63, 75, 103
Tracy, Spencer, 39, 157, 175, 205; and Bad Day at Black Rock, 145, 147–48, 151, 271; influence on RR, 21, 147
Trail Street, 54
Trintignant, Jean-Louis, 262
Truman, Harry S., 51, 56, 94–95, 101–102, 162, 171
Trumbo, Dalton, 43, 44, 73, 186, 274–75
Twentieth Century Fox, 121, 134, 136, 151, 155, 157, 159, 163, 196; and Gentleman’s Agreement, 59, 80
UCLA Extension, Professional Theatre Group of the, 187–88
Ulene, Priscilla, 198
Ulysses, 16, 225
United Artists, 92–94, 157–58, 173, 176, 180, 186, 253
United World Federalists, xi, 79, 127, 171–72, 188, 250
Universal-International Pictures, 125
Universal Pictures, 50, 81, 163
Ustinov, Peter, 199–201, 201
Vanguard Pictures, 56
Vendetta, 83, 87
Vietnam War, 222–23, 231, 233–34
Voice of America, 101
Vose, Donald, 271
Wald, Jerry, 120, 126
Wallace, Henry, 94, 131
Wallach, Eli, 251
Wallis, Hal, 138
Wallsten, Robert, 31, 88, 166, 210, 244, 254
Walsh, Raoul, 155
Wanger, Walter, 74
Warner, Jack, 72, 158–59, 218
Warner Bros., 38, 72, 84, 120, 185, 190, 218
Waterhole, The. See Inferno
Wayne, John, xiii, 111–13, 175, 204–205, 214, 229
Welles, Orson, 33, 35
Whitmore, James, 197
Widmark, Richard, 81, 128, 134
Wild Bunch, The, xii, 75n, 234, 235–39, 237, 243, 249–51, 280
Wilder, Billy, 63
Wilder, Thornton, 34, 100, 245
Williams, Elmer Lynn, 12, 15, 20
Wilson, Scott, 264–65
Winner, Michael, 221, 222, 253
Winters, Shelley, 183–84
Wise, Robert, ix, 90–92, 103, 180–83, 273
Woman on Pier 13, The (working title: I Married a Communist), 96–97, 99, 102, 181
Woman on the Beach, The (working title: Desirable Woman), 51–53, 54, 55, 58, 159, 184, 239
work experience of RR, 8, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20
Wyler, William, 71
Yordan, Philip, 192–93, 218, 221, 228, 229, 256, 272–73; and Security Pictures, 158–59, 165, 166, 167, 168, 176–77
Young, James R., 40
Young, Robert, 58
Zanuck, Darryl F., 59, 81, 134–35, 152, 203
Zeller, Max, 178
Zinnemann, Fred, ix, 83–85, 90
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ORIGINATING EDITOR: Jeanine Basinger
Anthony Mann
by Jeanine Basinger
It’s the Pictures That Got Small
Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television
by Christine Becker
The South Korean Film Renaissance
Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs
by Jinhee Choi
The Art of Comedy
The Films of Frank Tashlin
by Ethan de Seife
The Films of Samuel Fuller
If You Die, I’ll Kill You!
by Lisa Dombrowski
Kazan Revisited
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The Lives of Robert Ryan
by J.R. Jones
Physical Evidence
Selected Film Criticism
by Kent Jones
The New Entrepreneurs
An Institutional History of
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y Jon Kraszewski
Action Speaks Louder
Violence, Spectacle,
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by Eric Lichtenfeld
Hollywood Ambitions
Celebrity in the Movie Age
by Marsha Orgeron
Brutal Intimacy
Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema
by Tim Palmer
The Cinema of Errol Morris
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Soul Searching
Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington
to the Rise of Blaxploitation
by Christopher Sieving
Paul on Mazursky
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A Splurch in the Kisser
The Movies of Blake Edwards
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J.R. JONES is the film editor for the Chicago Reader, where his work has appeared since 1996 and won multiple awards from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. His writing has also appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, New York Press, Kenyon Review, Noir City, and Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000, edited by Peter Guralnick. J.R. Jones lives in Chicago.