Chaplin, Oona O’Neill, 254, 275, 277, 413, 566, 567–68, 570–71
Chaplin, Sydney, 268
Chasen’s, 301, 629
Cheever, John, 221–22
Chevalier, Maurice, 298–99
Chinatown, story behind, 10, 32–34
Chinese, 67, 158–59, 161, 510, 609
Christmas in July, 302, 303
Churchill, Winston, 72–73, 197
Cinerama, 627
CIO. See Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Circella, Nick, 90, 91
Citizen Kane, xi, 128–34, 216, 299, 387, 389, 559, 607
City Lights, 409, 564, 565
City of nets, Mahagonny as, 8, 87
City Streets, 112
Civil Rights Congress, 621–22
Clark, Tom, 504, 609
Claudia, 311, 312
Click track, 59
Clift, Montgomery, 541–43, 604, 615
Cloutier, Suzanne, 560
Coburn, Charles, 126, 377
Cogley, John, 572
Cohan, Agnes, 188
Cohan, George M., 185–88, 189–90
Cohn, Harry, 21, 66–67, 84–85, 106, 129, 129n, 154, 191, 210–13, 215–16, 291, 318, 345n, 371–72, 383–388, 481, 513–14, 597–98, 623, 630
Cohn, Jack, 21, 481, 623
Colbert, Claudette, 20, 63, 122, 224, 300, 302, 313, 632
Cole, Jack, 208, 385
Cole, Lester, 104, 170n, 429–30, 438, 441–42, 453–54, 475–76, 479, 481, 484, 611–15
Collins, Richard, 107, 438, 455, 614
Colman, Ronald, 28, 41, 154
Color in films, 22–23, 30
Columbia Pictures, 13, 21, 62, 66–67, 108, 124, 129, 210–11, 291, 404, 522, 630
The Commandoes Strike at Dawn, 55
Committee for the First Amendment, 439–42, 461–63, 471–72, 481, 556
Communism, xi, 18n, 35, 74–76, 105, 107–09, 238–39, 271, 272, 358, 364–66, 398, 406–8, 412–14, 437, 438, 449–50, 452–60, 473–74, 498–99, 543–54, 566–81. See also Blacklisting; Hollywood Ten; House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Conference of Studio Unions (CSU), 357–60, 398–408
Confessions of a Nazi Spy, 70–71, 74, 181
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 94, 271, 359
Conlin, Jimmy, 303
Contracts, studio, 277–284, 354–55, 633–34
Coolidge, Calvin, 76, 284
Cooper, Gary, 15, 26, 28, 63, 74, 112, 177, 194, 236–40, 295, 346, 372, 430, 460, 532n, 573, 579–80, 631
Cooper, Merian C., 627
Cooper, Veronica Balle, 580
Copland, Aaron, 58
Corbaley, Kate, 23, 25
Cortez, Ricardo, 114
Cosmopolitan Films, 132
Costello, Frank, 370, 378–79, 600
Council of Motion Picture Organizations, 546
The Count of Monte Cristo, 6
Cousins, Norman, 523
Cover Girl, 198, 208, 212–15, 227, 384–385
Coward, Noel, 263–64
Cowley, Malcolm, 355, 436
Crain, Jeanne, 571
Crawford, Joan, 28, 137, 330
Cronin, A. J., 296
Crosby, Bing, 4, 32, 106, 224, 459, 626
Crossfire, 475, 484, 485–86, 493–94, 527, 536
Crouse, Russel, 506, 553
Crowther, Bosley, 78, 455–56
Crum, Bartley, 438, 446–47, 476
CSU. See Conference of Studio Unions (CSU)
Cuba, 371, 378–79
Cugat, Xavier, 205, 377
Cukor, George, 603–4
Cunningham, Alan Gordon, 535–36
Curfews, 160, 180–82, 186
Curtiz, Michael, 188–90, 195, 219
Czinner, Paul, 180
Dada poetry, 82
Dahl, Roald, 580
Dali, Salvador, 325–26
Damita, Lili, 241
Dangerous, 279
Danker, Lorena, 488, 499
Darvi, Bella, 630
Davies, Joseph, 219, 271, 450
Davies, Marion, 130, 132, 163, 318, 607–8
Davis, Bette, 19, 25, 28, 114, 124, 153–54, 172–73, 189, 194, 279–80, 448, 598, 628
Davis, John W., 284
The Day of the Locust, 10, 11–16, 201
Dead End, 115, 119
Debussy, Claude, 49
The Deer Park, 543
de Gaulle, Charles, 344
de Havilland, Olivia, 253, 280–82, 355, 448, 571, 633
Demarest, William, 303, 306
DeMille, Cecil B., 160, 505, 543, 545, 555, 574–75, 605–6, 624, 629
Depression, 19–20, 33–34, 48, 95, 158, 168, 230, 277, 300, 356
Desilu, 217
DeSylva, Buddy, 234, 236, 303, 305–7, 330, 599
Dewey, Thomas E., 371, 383, 434
DeWitt, John L., 145, 163–64
Dickstein, Samuel, 74n, 434
Didion, Joan, 10–11, 130
Dies, Martin, 74–76, 185–86, 403–4, 430, 433–35
Dies Committee on Un-American Activities, 75–76, 162, 430, 434–35. See also House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Dieterle, Charlotte, 180
Dieterle, William, 136, 140, 180, 328–29
Dietrich, Marlene, 65, 601, 633
Dietz, Howard, 151
Di Frasso, Countess, 372
Disney, Walt, 23, 42, 48–52, 55, 147, 205, 238, 343, 357, 430, 458, 555
Dmytryk, Edward, 438, 440, 440n, 475, 481, 484, 485–86, 493, 495, 610n, 611, 614–15
Döblin, Alfred, 82, 141
Dockweiler, John, 244, 245, 373–74
Doctor Faustus, xi, 391–98, 561
Documentaries, wartime, 217–18
Domergue, Faith, 176, 308
Donlevy, Brian, 300
Dos Passos, John, 346, 463–64
Double Indemnity, xi, 227–35, 329–30, 339, 599, 601, 603
Douglas, Donald, 147, 167, 168
Douglas, Lloyd, 349
Douglas, Melvyn, 75, 462n
Douglas, William O., 506
Dozier, Bill, 330, 506
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 193, 534, 584
Dracula, 287, 290
Dramatists Guild, 104, 105
Dreiser, Helen Patges Richardson, 361–62, 365, 366–67
Dreiser, Theodore, 361–67, 415, 494, 615
Drugs, 240–41, 314, 497, 500–1, 550–51, 561–64
Duel in the Sun, 56–57, 327–29, 579
Dukas, Paul, 48–49
Dunne, Irene, 122, 238
Dunne, Philip, 35–36, 441, 462, 485
Durant, Tim, 270, 273
Duvivier, Julian, 18n, 79
Earthquakes, 9–11, 102
Easter Parade, 501
Ecstasy, 16–17
Edison, Thomas Alva, 7–8, 20, 282
Egyptian Theater, 4–5
Eisenhower, Dwight, 272, 474, 573
Eisenstein, Sergei, 362
Eisler, Gerhart, 435–37, 478–79
Eisler, Hanns, 57, 414, 427, 435–37
Ellington, Duke, 561
Endore, Guy, 449–50
Engel, Carl, 44
Engels, Frank (Ohio farmer), 138–39
Epstein, Julius, 187, 191, 193–95, 195, 449–50
Epstein, Phil, 187, 191, 193–95, 195, 449–50
European Film Fund, 82, 180
Exodus, 537–38, 631
Extremes of Hollywood, 13–16
Fadiman, Clifton, 16
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 20, 40–41, 268, 505, 506
False fronts, 3, 29
Fantasia, 42, 48–52, 55
A Farewell to Arms, 113, 631
Fascism, 35, 290–91
Father of the Bride, 502–3, 615–16
Faulkner, William, xi, xiv, 13, 280, 342–46, 347, 350, 353–56, 514
Fay, James W., 413–14
FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Bureau of Inves
tigation (FBI), 70–71, 146–47, 161, 162, 406–7, 432, 460–61, 544, 545, 550, 552, 566–71, 621
Federal Theater Project (WPA), 74
Federated Motion Picture Crafts, 92
Feldman, Charles, 316–18, 318n, 348
Fenichel, Otto, 320, 322–23
Ferguson, Homer, 444–45
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 80, 81, 321, 420–21
Feuchtwanger, Marta, 81, 136
Feuermann, Emanuel, 60
Film distribution system, 282–84, 503–7
Filmmaking courses, xii
Filmmaking pioneers, 6–9, 20–27, 632
Film noir, 117, 263, 386
Fire, xvi, 10–12, 29–31
Fischer, Ruth (Elfriede Eisler), 435
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 11, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36–37, 40, 69, 77, 500, 628
Flamingo (Las Vegas), 369–70, 379–82, 416–17
Fleming, Victor, 532n, 534
Flynn, Errol, xiii, 17–18, 28, 122, 189, 194, 196–97, 198, 240–51, 253–55, 276, 279–80, 344, 374, 442, 448, 474, 563, 634
Fonda, Henry, 26, 124, 144–45, 149, 206, 302
Fontaine, Joan, 173, 193, 259, 280, 312–13, 506, 633
Ford, Glenn, 385, 386
Ford, John, 238, 259, 327, 543
Foreign Correspondent, 71–72
Foreman, Carl, 573, 614
For Whom the Bell Tolls, 143–44, 191, 196, 235–40, 531
Foster, William Z., 365–66, 566
The Fountainhead, 456, 575–81
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 361
Foy, Brian, 262–63
Frank, Bruno, 141, 142
Frankenstein films, 58, 254, 284–95, 326
Frankfurt School, 320–21, 394
Freeman, Y. Frank, 75, 109, 234, 330, 338, 481, 599, 600
French, Charles K., 6–7
French, Philip, 22n
Freud, Sigmund, 38, 68, 319–20, 321–23
Friese-Greene, William, 627
The Front Page, 171, 516
Fuchs, Daniel, 277–78
Furthman, Jules, 350
Fury, 64–66, 74–75
G. Schirmer, 44
Gabin, Jean, 18n
Gable, Clark, 23, 28, 30, 151–53, 171, 238, 346, 349
Galileo, xi, 135, 419–20, 422–29, 479–80
Gangsters in Hollywood, 371–74, 425–26
Garbo, Greta, 34, 36, 43, 45, 325, 633
Gardner, Ava, 172, 278, 321, 633
Garfield, John, 116, 153, 271, 279–80, 340–42, 462, 512, 513, 549–54
Garland, Judy, 34, 321, 441, 458, 198, 499–503
Garnett, Tay, 340–42
Garson, Greer, 184, 616
Gaslight, 531
Gaynor, Janet, 102
Geller, James, 228
General Electric, 498, 635
General Foods, 485
Gentleman’s Agreement, 452, 521–28, 571
German measles, 155–56
Germany and German refugees, 36–66, 79–85, 117, 135–42, 160, 179–84, 389–398, 419–29, 486–87, 529–30, 591–95. See also Nazism
Gershwin, George, 45, 58
Gershwin, Ira, 441, 462, 472, 500
Getty, J. Paul, 270, 603
Giannini, A. P., 167, 623
Gibney, Sheridan, 109, 449–50
Giesler, Jerry, 245–51, 274, 276, 373, 563–64
Gilda, 208, 384–87, 389
Ginsberg, Henry, 307, 330, 332
Gish, Lillian, 39, 632
The Glass Key, 335–36
Goddard, Paulette, 28, 39, 184, 225, 269, 441
God Is My Co-Pilot, 159, 344
Goetz, Edith Mayer, 256
Goetz, William, 256–57, 259–60, 262, 313, 441
Going My Way, 10, 235, 459, 626
The Gold Rush, 268, 409
Goldwyn, Samuel, 20–21, 29, 31, 54–55, 98, 185, 267, 420–21, 432, 446, 448, 481, 482, 482n, 505, 512–13, 518, 539–41, 581–82, 630
Gone With the Wind, xi–xii, xvi, 23, 25–31, 34–35, 124, 191–93, 236, 280, 312, 313, 327, 516
The Good Earth, 24, 45–48, 55–56, 158
Gorham Silver Company, 616
Gorky, Maxim, 137
Grable, Betty, xiii, 154, 259
Graham, Sheilah, 616
Granger, Farley, 620
Grant, Cary, xiii, 41, 154, 191, 224, 277, 444, 506, 531, 582, 633
The Grapes of Wrath, 518
Grauman, Sid, 4–5, 147
Grauman’s Chinese Theater, 4–5, 15, 235
The Great Dictator, 39–40, 71, 265–66, 269, 271, 273, 409, 412, 415, 565, 568
The Great McGinty, 300–1
The Great Train Robbery, 7–8
Green, William, 358, 400–1, 402
Greenbaum, Harry (Big Greenie), 373
Greene, Graham, 192, 557–58
Greenstreet, Sydney, 116, 194
Grey, Lita, 268–69
Griffith, D. W., 505
Gussow, Mel, xii, 527
Guys and Dolls, 513
Hail the Conquering Hero, 306, 307
Hambleton, T. Edward, 426, 480
Hammerstein, Oscar, 66
Hammett, Dashiell, 11, 108, 110–13, 121–22, 230, 335–36, 599, 618, 621–22
Hangmen Also Die, 181–84, 420, 427, 436
Hansen, Betty, 198, 245–47, 249–50
Harbou, Thea von, 64
Harlow, Jean, 170
Harriman, E. H., 32
Hart, Moss, 519, 527
Hathaway, Henry, 354, 558–60
Havoc, June, 462, 462n
Hawks, Howard, 115, 175–77, 211, 327, 345–52, 549
Hayes, Helen, 9, 26, 39
Hays, Will, 133, 283, 340n
Hays Office (Hollywood Production Code Administration), 40, 69–70, 71–72, 120, 123, 124–25, 228, 235, 295–96, 303, 362, 550–51, 562, 585
Hayward, Leland, 518
Hayworth, Rita, xiv, 184, 198, 206–17, 227, 382, 384–89, 441, 557
Hearst, William Randolph, 130, 132–33, 133n, 163, 203, 219, 548, 607–8
Hecht, Ben, 20, 28, 61–62, 72, 129, 131, 175, 324, 516–21, 526, 619, 628
Heifetz, Jascha, 46, 60
Hellman, Lillian, 108, 111–12, 622
Hell’s Angels, 169–72, 177
Hemingway, Ernest, 69, 236, 238, 346–50, 545–46, 549, 631
Henreid, Paul, 195, 196, 237, 243, 462, 471–72
Hepburn, Katharine, 28, 441, 506, 633
Herbst, Josephine, 12
Herrera, Enrico, 199, 204
Hersholt, Jean, 128–29
Higham, Charles, 117
The High and the Mighty, 56
High Noon, 573, 580
High Sierra, 114–16, 120
Hill, Chick, 380
Hill, Virginia, 376–81
Hilton, Conrad Nicholas, Jr., 615–17
Hilton Hotel Corporation, 615–16
Hiss, Alger, 434, 609
History/nostalgia business, 1–5, 628–29
Hitchcock, Alfred, xi, 71–72, 158, 184, 193, 280, 323–27, 426, 506, 531, 535, 617–20
Hitchcock, Alma, 619
Hitler, Adolf, 35, 36, 38, 39–40, 64, 67, 69–71, 134–36, 320, 364–65, 395, 478, 612, 625. See also Germany and German refugees
Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact, 35–36, 66, 364, 457
Hobson, Laura Z., 521–28
Hoffenstein, Samuel, 262, 362–63
Hold Back the Dawn, 63, 231
Holden, William, 149, 599, 604–7
Holländer, Friedrich, 58
Hollywood, origins of name, 5–6
Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, 35, 76
Hollywood Board of Trustees, 9
Hollywood Canteen, 148, 153–56, 628
Hollywood Historic Trust, 629
Hollywood League for Democratic Action, 66
Hollywood “premiere,” 5, 15, 34–35
Hollywood Production Code Administration. See Hays Office (Hollywood Production Code Administration)
Ho
llywood Ten, 18n, 35, 170n, 438–41, 448–50, 471, 481–86, 513, 538, 543–54, 556, 593, 608–15
Hollywood Walk of Fame, 3–4
Hollywood Waxworks Museum, 1–3
Holocaust, xii, 68, 166–67, 182, 257–58, 321–22, 415, 529, 535–38
Homosexuality, 385, 422, 493, 592, 620
Hoover, J. Edgar, 70–71, 161, 375, 406–7, 548, 566–67
Hope, Bob, 36, 37, 48, 142–43, 148, 224–27, 632
Hope, Dolores, 36, 37, 142–43
Hopper, Hedda, 132, 133, 184, 312, 473, 514, 519, 544, 544n, 566–67, 570, 587, 616
Horkheimer, Max, 320–21
Horowitz, Vladimir, 49, 60
Horror films, 284–95, 326
Houseman, John, 144, 232–33, 330–32, 335, 425–28
The House of Dr. Edwardes, 323–24, 326
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 74–76, 107, 239, 403–4, 412, 418, 431–486, 527–28, 543–54, 555, 571–81, 593, 601, 609, 614
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, 162, 165, 166
Howard, Jean, 316–17
Howard, Leslie, 118–19, 288
Howard, Sidney, 28
Howe, James Wong, 124, 212
How Green Was My Valley, 134
HUAC. See House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Hughes, Ella, 169
Hughes, Howard, 167, 168–79, 307–8, 329, 442–46, 462–63, 494–95, 498, 506–7, 582–83, 588–90
Hughes Aircraft, 308
Hughes Tool Company, 169, 171
Hugo, Victor, 625n
Human Cargo, 209
Hunt, Helen, 210–11, 386–87
Huntington, Henry, 32
Huston, John, 33, 114–17, 157, 218, 253–55, 300, 440–41, 448–49, 462–63, 471–72, 536, 549, 625, 633
Huston, Walter, 20, 116, 175, 187, 327
Hutcheson, Bill, 401, 402–3
Hutton, Betty, 303, 305, 502
Huxley, Aldous, 13, 39, 507
Hyman, Bernie, 139–40
IATSE. See International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)
Imaginary city, Hollywood as, xiv–xv, 19
Indecency charges. See Censorship
Independent producers, 299, 493, 505–7, 537–38, 541–42, 618
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 110–11
Intermezzo, 37–38, 191, 192–93, 236
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 95, 96, 269, 372, 555–56, 568
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), 88, 91–95, 103, 356–61, 398–408, 458–59, 546
International Films, 257
In the Sultan’s Power, 6
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 573
Irish Eyes Are Smiling, 258
Isherwood, Christopher, 193
Israel, 535–38
It’s All True (unfinished), 205, 216–17, 556
It’s a Wonderful Life, 505–6
Iturbi, José, 59, 205
Ivanhoe, 494, 536
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