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Jezebel (play; O. Davis)
Johnston, Eric
Jones, Jennifer
Jordan, Bobby
Kael, Pauline
Kalem Company
Kanin, Michael and Fay
Kantor, MacKinlay: Andersonville; Glory for Me; vs. Goldwyn
Kaufman, George S.: Merrily We Roll Along; A Night at the Opera
Kaufman, Stanley
Kazan, Elia
Kelly, Gene
Kennedy, Robert
Kenyon, Doris
Kern, Eugene
Kinberg, Jud
King, Henry: Jesse James
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kingsley, Sidney: Dead End (see also under Dead End [film; WW]); Detective Story; on the HUAC; Men in White
Kleiner, Harry
Knopf, Edwin
Knox, Alexander
Kober, Arthur
Koch, Howard
Koenig, Lester
Kohn, John
Kohner, Paul
Koppes, Clayton R.
Korda, Alexander
Kotto, Yaphet
Kraly, Hans
Kyne, Peter B.: The Three Godfathers
La Cava, Gregory
Laemmle, Carl, Jr. (“Junior”; WW's cousin)
Laemmle, Carl, Sr. (WW's cousin): arrival in America; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; nepotism by; star system introduced by; Universal Pictures founded by; WW's early association with; WW's gratitude toward
La Farge, Oliver; Laughing Boy
Lake, Stuart N.; Vinegarroon
Lamarr, Hedy
Lang, Fritz: The Return of Jesse James
Langlois, Henri
Langsner, Clara
Lansbury, Angela
La Plante, Laura
Lardner, Ring, Jr.
Lasky, Jesse
Laughing Boy (novel; La Farge)
Laughing Boy (script; WW and J. Huston)
Laughton, Charles
Laurents, Arthur
Lawrence, Jock
Lawson, John Howard
Law West of the Pecos, The (Lloyd)
Lay, Beirne: I Wanted Wings; Strategic Air Command; Twelve O'Clock High
Lazy Lightning (WW)
Leaming, Barbara
Lederer, Francis
Leehner, John R.
Leenhardt, Roger
Left Bank, The (Rice)
Lehman, Ernest
Leigh, Vivien
Lennart, Isobel
Le Saint, Edward J.: The Three Godfathers
lesbian theme
Letter, The (film, 1929; Limur)
Letter, The (film, 1940; WW): critical reception of; Bette Davis in; ending; expressionism of; Gaudio's camera work on; Leslie murders her lover; Leslie's character; Leslie's confession to her husband; Leslie's death; Leslie's lace; Maugham's play adapted for; melodrama in; moon image/symbolism in; opening shot; Oscars for; release date; start of filming
Letter, The (play; Maugham)
Lewis, Sinclair: Arrowsmith; Babbitt; Dodsworth; It Can't Happen Here; Main Street
Liberation of L. B. Jones, The (WW); Bumpas's death; casting; composition/framing; critical reception/failure of; darkness/pessimism of; ending; funeral scene; genesis of; Jones's murder; on liberalism of; lighting; opening shot; on pacifism vs. violence; plot; racism theme; as revolutionary/ powerful; shooting locations; social space in; Steve's character
Liberation of Lord Byron Jones, The (Jesse Hill Ford)
Liberty Films
Lindsay, Margaret
Lingeman, Richard
Literary Guild Book Club
Litinov, Maxim
Little Foxes, The (film; WW): Alexandra rejects Regina; casting; composition/framing; critical reception of; Bette Davis in; deep focus used in; dinner party scene; ending; Giddens death scene; Hellman on; Hellman's play adapted for ; Horace's heart attack/Regina's reaction; Horace's moral speech to Regina; house as setting for; the Hubbards as materialistic/self-interested; introductory character sketches; kitchen scene; mirrored shots; opening shots; outdoor scenes; pessimism of; plot; positive characters gathered, scene of; pro-union sympathies in; realism of; Regina's defeat; Regina's evil power; Regina's failed marriage; revivals of; script revisions; seasonal setting; shaving scene; social issues in; staircase scenes; style of; title's source; Toland's camera work on; wrap date; Zan and David's relationship
Little Foxes, The (play; Hellman)
Litvak, Anatole; Confessions of a Nazi Spy; The Snake Pit
Llewellyn, Richard: How Green Was My Valley
Lloyd, Everett: The Law West of the Pecos
Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles Examiner
Lost Horizon (film; Capra)
Lost Horizon (novel; Hilton)
Louise, Anita
Love, Phyllis
Love in the Afternoon (B. Wilder)
Love Trap, The (WW)
Loy, Myrna
loyalty oaths
Lubin, Ronald
Luce, Henry
Lugosi, Bela
Lumet, Sidney
MacArthur, Charles
MacEwen, Walter
MacLaine, Shirley
Magnificent Seven, The (Sturges)
Mailer, Norman: The Naked and the Dead
Main, Marjorie
Main Street (Lewis)
Majors, Lee
malignancy/malice theme
Maltz, Albert
Mandell, Danny
Mankiewicz, Joseph
Mann, Stanley
Mannix, Eddie
March, Fredric
Marion, Frances
Marked Men (John Ford)
Marshall, George C.
Marshall, Herbert
Martin, Mary
Martin du Gard, Roger
Marx, Arthur
Maté, Rudolph
Maugham, W. Somerset: The Letter
Mayer, Louis B.
Mayo, Virginia
McCarey, Leo: Going My Way
McCarthy, Frank
McCarthy, Todd
McCarthy era
McCrary, Tex
McCrea, Joel; in Come and Get It, ; in Dead End; in Foreign Correspondent; in These Three
McDowall, Roddy
McGuire, Dorothy
McMahon, Horace
Mellett, Lowell
Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
Memphis Belle (B-17)
Memphis Belle (film; WW)
Men in White (Kingsley)
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare)
Merrily We Roll Along (G. S. Kaufman and Hart)
MGM
Middleton, Robert
Mielziner, Jo
Milestone, Lewis: All Quiet on the Western Front; Of Mice and Men
Millar, Stuart
Miller, Arthur: All My Sons; The Crucible
Mirisch, Harold
Mirisch, Walter
Miss Julie (Strindberg)
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
Mizoguchi, Kenji
Moby Dick (film; J. Huston)
Moby Dick (novel; Melville)
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Monogram Pictures
moon, symbolism of
Morgan, Robert C.
Moross, Jerome
Moss, Carlton
Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals
Mourning Becomes Electra (O'Neill)
Mrs. Miniver (film; WW); bomb-shelter scene; Carol's death; casting; church scene/vicar's speech; on classes distinctions; composition/framing; destruction/death in; elegiac tone of; ending; flower show scenes; marriage idealized in; Mrs. Miniver encounters downed Nazi pilot; Oscars won for; as a propaganda film; realism of; the rose's symbolism in; script; set design; staircase scenes; Struther's stories adapted for; success of; on U.S.-British relations; World War II as context for
Mrs. Miniver (stories; Struther)
Mulhouse (France)
Mundy, Meg
Muni, Paul
Murfin, Jane
Mussolini, Benito
mustang (two-reel) westerns. See also specific films
My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer)
Nathan, Robert: The Bishop's Wife,
Nation
National Recovery Administration
National Youth Administration
Nazism
Negro Soldier, The (WW)
New Deal
Newman, Alfred
New York Times
Ney, Richard
Niblo, Fred: Ben-Hur
Nichols, Dudley
Night at the Opera (G. S. Kaufman)
“A Night Piece” (Wordsworth)
Nine Lives (WW)
Ninety-First Bomb Group
Niven, David
Nixon, Richard
“No Magic Wand” (WW)
No Other Man (film; Capra)
No Other Man (novel; Noyes)
Norris, Frank
Novarro, Ramon
Noyes, Alfred: No Other Man
Nye, Gerald P.
Oberon, Merle
Odets, Clifford
O'Donnell, Cathy (WW's sister-in-law)
Office of War information (OWI)
Of Mice and Men (film; Milestone)
Olivier, Laurence: in Carrie; in Hamlet; in Henry V; in Venus Observed; in Wuthering Heights
One Big Happy Family (Stevens)
O'Neill, Eugene; Desire under the Elms; Mourning Becomes Electra
On Trial (Rice)
Operation Strangle. See also Thunderbolt
Ornitz, Samuel
Othello (Shakespeare)
O'Toole, Peter
Owen, Reginald
OWI (Office of War information)
Ozu, Yasujiro
Paine, Thomas
Paramount
Parker, Dorothy
Parker, Eleanor
Pascal, Ernest
Patton (Schaffner)
Pearl Harbor
Peck, Gregory
Peeping Tom (Powell)
Pells, Richard H.
Pendleton, Austin
Perkins, Anthony
Peters, Margot
Petrified Forest, The (Sherwood)
Phyllis Was a Fortress (WW)
Pickford, Mary
Pidgeon, Walter
Pitts, ZaSu
Place in the Sun, A (Stevens)
Planer, Franz
pluralists
Poitier, Sidney
Potter, Henry
Powell, Michael: Peeping Tom
Private Lives (film; Franklin)
Private Lives (play; Coward)
Production Code
Psycho (Hitchcock)
Punsley, Bernard
Quakers. See also Friendly Persuasion
Quine, Richard
radical politics vs. capitalism
R.A.F.-A.A.F. (WW)
Rathbone, Basil
Rattigan, Terrence
Reagan, Ronald
realism. See also specific films
Red River (H. Hawks)
Reed, Tom
Reid, Carl Benton
Reisz, Karel
Return of Jesse James, The (Lang)
Rice, Elmer: The Adding Machine; background of; Cock Robin; Counsellor-at-Law; The Grand Tour; The Left Bank; On Trial; Street Scene; The Subway; on theater; We the People; writing career/styles of
Richardson, Ralph
Ripley, Clements: Jezebel
RKO
Road Back, The
Robbins, Jerome
Robinson, George
Robson, Flora
Rodgers, Richard: The Sound of Music
Rogers, Will
Rollyson, Carl
Roman Holiday (WW); HUAC's influence on; opening credits; plot; political problems surrounding; script
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: on abuse of power; on Britain; death of; on the economy (see also New Deal); “Four Freedoms” speech; meeting with Churchill; on Mrs. Miniver; optimism generated by his second term; reaction to Memphis Belle; slum commission appointed by
Roosevelt (Franklin Delano) administration
Rorty, James
Rosenblatt, Freda
“Rose's Turn”
Ross, Herb
Rossellini, Roberto
Rosson, Richard
Roughead, William: Bad Companions
Russell, Harold
Russell, Rosalind
Saboteur (Hitchcock)
Salt Water
Sarris, Andrew: The American Cinema; on The Collector; on Come and Get It; on The Liberation of L. B. Jones; on WW
Schaffer, Peter
Schaffner, Franklin J.: Patton
Schatz, Thomas
Schlosberg, Richard
Schorer, Mark
Scott, Adrian
Scott, George C.
Screen Directors’ Guild (SDG)
Screen Writers’ Guild
Search, The (Zinnemann)
Selassie, Haile
Selznick, David; on Carrie; Gone with the Wind produced by; on These Three
sepia printing
Sergeant York (H. Hawks)
Seven Arts Productions
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock)
Shakedown, The (WW)
Shakespeare, William: The Merchant of Venice; Othello
Shane (Stevens)
Sharif, Omar
Sharp, Mordaunt: The Green Bay Tree
Shearer, Norma
Sheriff, R. C.
Sherman, Richard
Sherman, Vincent
Sherwood, Robert; The Best Years of Our Lives script; The Bishop's Wife script; Oscar won by; The Petrified Forest
Sidney, Sylvia
Siegel, Donald: The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Silliphant, Stirling
Simmons, Jean
Sinatra, Frank
Sister Carrie (Dreiser). See also Carrie
Sistrom, Joseph
Skall, William
Slocombe, Douglas
Slotkin, Richard
Snake Pit, The (Litvak)
Sound of Music, The (film; Wise)
Sound of Music, The (play; Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Spaatz, Carl A.
Spielberg, Steven
Stagecoach (John Ford)
Stamp, Terence
Stark, Ray
star system
“Steel” (WW and J. Huston)
Steiger, Rod
Stein, Jules
Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
Sten, Anna
Sternberg, Josef Von: An American Tragedy
Stevens, George; at Liberty Films (see also Liberty Films); One Big Happy Family; A Place in the Sun; post-Dachau films by; Shane
Stevens, George, Jr.
Stewart, Donald Ogden
Stewart, Jimmy
Strasberg, Lee
Strategic Air Command (Lay and Bartlett)
Street Scene (film; Vidor)
Street Scene (play; Rice)
Streisand, Barbra
Strindberg, Johan August: Miss Julie
Stroheim, Erich Von
Strong, Michael
Struther, Jan: Mrs. Miniver
Sturges, John: Bad Day at Black Rock; The Great Escape; The Magnificent Seven; Thunderbolt
Styne, Jule
suburbia, rise of
Subway, The (Rice)
Sullavan, Margaret (WW's first wife)
Summerville, Slim
Sunderland, Nan
Surtees, Robert
Swerling, Jo
Swink, Robert
Sydney, George
Tallichet, Margaret (“Talli”; WW's second wife)
Tannenbaum, Harold
Taylor, Elizabeth
Technicolor
Technorama
Ten Commandments, The (DeMille)
&nb
sp; Thalberg, Irving; The Good Earth
That Certain Woman (Goulding)
These Three (WW); casting; composition/framing; courtroom scene; critical reception/success of; ending; graduation scene; Hellman's Children's Hour adapted for; house as setting for; indoor/outdoor scenes; isolation of heroines in; Joe's inadvertent stay in Martha's room; Joe's proposal to Karen; Lily's entrance; Martha and Karen's relationship; Martha and Karen's relationship with Joe; Mary's entrance; Mary's lies; music; opening shot; plot; political context for; “quality of mercy” speech in; remake of; social issues in; on society vs. nature; on society vs. the individual; staging of confrontation; staircase scenes; style; title; Toland's camera work on; WW's contract/salary for; WW's disappointment with
They Knew What They Wanted (Howard)
This Is the Army (Berlin)
Thomas, J. Parnell
Thomson, David
Thorpe, Franklyn
Three Godfathers (film, 1948; John Ford)
Three Godfathers, The (film, 1916; Le Saint)
Three Godfathers, The (film, 1936; Boleslawski)
Three Godfathers, The (novel; Kyne)
Thunderbolt (WW and Sturges)
Till the End of Time (Dmytryk)
Tiomkin, Dmitri
To Each His Own (Leisen)
Toland, Gregg: The Best Years of Our Lives filmed by; Come and Get It filmed by; Dead End filmed by; deep-focus technique used by; early association with WW; The Little Foxes filmed by; reputation of; These Three filmed by; The Westerner filmed by; Wuthering Heights filmed by
Tom Brown of Culver (WW)
“Tom Brown's School Days”
Townsend, Jimmy
Tracy, Spencer
Trevor, Claire
Truman, Harry S.
Trumbo, Dalton
Tunberg, Karl
Twelfth Air Force. See also Thunderbolt
Twelve O'Clock High (Bartlett and Lay)
Unfinished Woman, An (Hellman)
Union Pacific (DeMille)
union's right to organize
United Artists
Universal Pictures. See also Hell's Heroes
Uris, Leon
Van Every, Dale
Variety
Venus Observed (Fry)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Vidal, Gore
Vidor, King: Street Scene
Vietnam War
Vinegarroon (Lake)
Virginia City (Curtiz)
Vista-Vision
Von Sternberg, Josef. See Sternberg, Josef Von
Von Stroheim, Erich. See Stroheim, Erich Von
Wagner housing bill
Wallace, Henry
Wallace, Lew: Ben-Hur
Wallis, Hal
Wanger, Walter
war films. See also Memphis Belle; Mrs. Miniver; Thunderbolt
Warner, Harry