Jackson, Donald L., 594–95
Jacobowsky and the Colonel, 84
Jane Eyre, 55, 280
Jannings, Emil, 102
Japan and Japanese, 142–47, 158, 159–67, 359, 424, 514. See also Pearl Harbor
Jarrico, Paul, 465, 614
Jazz Age, 137
The Jazz Singer, 24–25, 104, 170, 409
Jews, 67–69, 348–51, 438, 494, 512–13, 518. See also Anti-Semitism
Joan of Arc, 533–34, 584
Johnny Belinda, 473
Johnson, Edwin C., 590–91
Johnson, Jack, 275
Johnson, Nunnally, 112, 343, 518
Johnson, Van, 632
Johnston, Eric, 340n, 446–47, 463, 469–70, 481–83, 485–86, 590
Johnston Office, 340, 352, 363–64, 409–11, 509. See also Hays Office (Hollywood Production Code Administration)
Jones, Dorothy B., 572
Jones, Jennifer, 57, 83, 263, 311–14, 327–29, 390, 533, 549, 620–21, 630–31
Joseph and His Brothers, 390
J. P. Morgan, 485
Juarez, 74–75, 114
Judson, Edward C., 209–11, 215
Kahan, Ben, 398
Kahn, Gordon, 438, 446, 449–50, 481, 545
Kallman, Chester, 508–9
Kanin, Garson, 151, 497
Karloff, Boris, 26, 254, 284–85, 288–293, 299
Katz, Charles, 438, 447
Kaufman, George S., 441
Kaye, Danny, 462, 462n, 463, 472, 512–13
Kazan, Elia, 452, 527–28
Keaton, Buster, 565
Kelly, Gene, 213, 214, 402, 441, 462, 463, 501, 545, 604, 616
Kempton, Murray, 432n, 464n
Kennedy, Joseph P., 29, 371, 518
Kenny, Robert, 438–40, 446–48
Kent, Sidney, 88
Kern, Jerome, 213, 598
Keyes, Evelyn, 462
Kidnapped, 260–61
Kinetoscope, 7
King, Sherwood, 384
The King of Kings, 574–75, 624
Kingsley, Sidney, 115, 621
Kings Row, 123–28, 191, 238, 448
Kitt, Eartha, 561
Kitty Foyle, 76, 124, 470
Klemperer, Otto, 60–61, 83
Knef, Hildegard, 553–54
Knopf, Alfred, 112, 228–30, 232, 338–39, 391
Knox, Frank, 455
Knute Rockne-All American, xiii, 76–79, 122
Koch, Howard, 194–95, 219, 438, 440, 446, 449–50
Koerner, Charles, 291, 493–94
Kohner, Paul, 82, 114
Korda, Alexander, 39, 72–73, 556–57
Korda, Michael, 72–73
Korean War, xi, 533, 610, 615, 621
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 58, 83, 124
Krasna, Norman, 64–68
Krock, Arthur, 227
Ladd, Alan, 143–44, 234, 330–32, 334–37
Ladd, Sue Carol, 335, 336
The Lady from Shanghai, 387–89
Laemmle, Carl, 21, 23–24, 287, 290, 299
Laemmle, Carl, Jr., 222, 287
Laemmle, Rosabelle, 100
Lake, Veronica, 174, 302
La Marr, Barbara, 18
Lamarr, Hedy, xii, 16–19, 148, 151, 154, 190, 464, 624
Lamour, Dorothy, 151, 212
Lancaster, Burt, 541, 543
Lanchester, Elsa, 290, 422
Landru, Henri Désiré, 266–67
Lang, Fritz, 63–66, 116, 136, 180, 181–84, 230, 573–74
Langford, Frances, 224–25
Lansky, Meyer, 369–71, 374, 375, 377, 378–79, 381–82
Lardner, Ring, Jr., 99, 429, 438–41, 449–50, 475–76, 480–82, 484, 485, 528, 571, 611–14
Lasky, Jesse L., 147, 299, 345n, 629
Lassie Come Home, 490
The Last Tycoon, 24, 40, 628
Las Vegas, 33, 97, 152, 369–70, 374–82, 416–17, 425–26
Laughton, Charles, 419–29, 480
Laura, 262–65
Laurents, Arthur, 222, 565
Lavery, Emmet, 449–50
Lawson, John Howard, 18n, 104–5, 107, 108, 267, 365, 367, 429, 433, 438, 449–50, 459, 463–70, 610, 611, 621
Leaming, Barbara, xii
LeBaron, William, 300
Lederer, Charles, 27, 608
Lee, Canada, 552–53
Leech, John L., 75, 185
Leigh, Vivien, 31, 34, 40–41, 193
Le Roy, Doris, 25
Le Roy, Mervyn, 25, 147, 578, 625n, 625–26, 634
Leslie, Joan, 187, 187n
Levant, Oscar, 60–61, 553
Levene, Sam, 494n, 513
Lewis, Sinclair, 99, 266, 492
Lewton, Val, 291–92
Liberty Films, 505–6
The Life of an American Fireman, 7–8
Life of Emile Zola, 71n
Limelight, 564–71
Lindbergh, Charles, 73, 171–72, 192
Lindeloff, Lawrence P., 359, 406
Lindsay, Howard, 506, 553
Lindstrom, Petter, 532–33, 582, 583, 585–86, 589, 590
Lindstrom, Pia, 38
Lingeman, Richard, 158–59
Lippmann, Walter, 159–60, 163
Little Caesar, 118, 625n
The Little Sister, 87, 338
Litvak, Anatole, 558
Location shooting, 158, 341–42, 387–88
Lockheed, 147, 167, 168
Loew, Marcus, 5, 93
Loew’s, Inc., 3, 5, 21, 27, 88, 108, 134, 282–84, 496, 506, 507
Lombard, Carole, 26, 151–53
Loo, Beverly Jane, 158n
Loo, Richard, 158, 158n
Loos, Anita, 98, 608
Lord, Robert, 71
Lorre, Peter, 116, 158, 180, 194, 196–97, 243, 421, 545
Los Angeles, origins of name, 9–10
Los Angeles Merchants and Manufacturers Association (M&M), 101
Losey, Joseph, 426, 427
The Lost Weekend, 599–600, 606
Louis, Jean, 385
Lowry, Malcolm, 633
Loy, Myrna, 316, 441
Loyalty oaths, 544–49
Lubitsch, Ernst, 36, 43, 63, 82, 573–74, 600–1
Luce, Clare Boothe, 261–62
Luce, Henry, 521
Luciano, Lucky, 91, 370, 378–79
Lugosi, Bela, 287, 288
Lumière brothers, 7, 627
Lundberg, Ferdinand, 559
Lupino, Ida, 120, 124
MacArthur, Charles, 9, 27, 61–62, 516
MacArthur, Douglas, 164
Macbeth, 388, 552, 556, 557
MacDonald, Jeanette, 220, 316, 625
MacGowan, Kenneth, 258
MacGuffin, 324, 324n, 522–23
MacLeish, Archibald, 441
MacLiammóir, Micheál, 216, 558, 559
MacMurray, Fred, 233–35, 604
MacPhail, Angus, 324n
Madame DuBarry, 36, 573–74
Madame Tussaud’s Hollywood Wax Museum, 1–3
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 13
Magnani, Anna, 535
Mahagonny, as city of nets, 8, 87. See also The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Mahin, John Lee, 390
Mailer, Bea, 539, 542
Mailer, Norman, 539–43
Malaquais, Jean, 539–41
The Maltese Falcon, xi, 112–17, 190, 194, 350, 448, 545, 622
Maltz, Albert, 195, 438, 449–50, 464–65, 473–74, 513, 538, 611
Mamoulian, Rouben, 212, 264–65
Mandl, Fritz, 17–18
Mankiewicz, Herman J., 103n, 129–34, 497, 516
Mankiewicz, Joseph, 64–65, 69–70, 300, 321, 498, 545, 625n
Mann, Erika, 396
Mann, Golo, 81
Mann, Heinrich, 80–82, 140–42, 391–92, 591–93
Mann, Katia, 395, 397, 591, 592
Mann, Nelly Kroeger, 80, 81, 141, 142, 391–92
Mann, Thomas, xi, 38, 80, 82, 85, 140–42, 320, 346, 3
89–98, 412, 461–62, 591, 593–95
Mann Act, 275–76, 566
Mannix, Eddie, 64, 106, 109, 152, 398, 404, 429–30, 441–42, 446, 482, 484, 491
Mann’s Chinese Theaters, 4–5, 15
Mantz, Paul, 220–21
March, Fredric, 75–76, 300, 441
Marcuse, Herbert, 391
Marcuse, Ludwig, 141, 391
Margolis, Ben, 438
Marijuana, 561–64
Marquand, John, 158
Marshall, George (director), 331
Marshall, George (general), 218, 256, 272
Marx, Chico, 12, 96, 129, 459
Marx, Groucho, 12, 61–62, 68, 129, 224, 441, 459, 536
Marx, Harpo, 12, 61–62, 96, 129, 459
Marx, Sam, 102–3, 342
Marxism, 135–36, 138
Massey, Raymond, 579
Mature, Victor, 215–16, 624
May, Joe, 62, 598
Mayer, Louis B., 18, 19, 21–28, 68–70, 91–92, 96, 98n, 107, 129–30, 133–34, 138, 157–58, 177, 193, 272, 307, 315–19, 321, 345n, 390, 430, 432, 442, 453–56, 458, 481, 482, 485, 488, 489–92, 495–500, 536, 541, 550, 571, 606–7, 622, 624–26, 629–30. See also Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M-G-M)
Mayer, Maggie Shenburg (Mrs. L. B. Mayer), 315–19, 499
McCarey, Leo, 235, 459, 506
McCarthy, Joseph, 404, 432
McCarthyism, 404
McCrea, Joel, 72, 302
McDowell, John, 458
McGranery, James, 568–71
McIntyre, Andrew, 153
McNutt, Paul V., 446
The Measures Taken, 436, 477–79
Mehring, Walter, 82, 141
Mellett, Lowell, 304–5
Mencken, H. L., 363, 364
Menjou, Adolphe, 459–60, 543
Menzies, William Cameron, 29, 124
Methot, Mayo, 120–21, 195, 353
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M-G-M), 3, 5, 22–31, 36–37, 39, 57–59, 64, 69, 88, 91–94, 96, 102–3, 106, 108–10, 122, 129–30, 133–34, 140, 151–53, 193, 264, 282–84, 307, 342–43, 390, 401–2, 404, 423, 441–42, 453–54, 470–71, 482, 482n, 484, 485, 489–92, 629–30. See also Mayer, Louis B.; Thalberg, Irving
Metropolis, 64
Metropolitan Theater, 4–5
Mexicans/Chicanos, 33, 67, 199–205
Meyer, Johnny, 442–44
Mickey Mouse, 23, 48–49
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 58, 280
Milhaud, Darius, 58
Milland, Ray, 599
Miller, Ann, 499, 632
Miller, Arthur, 452
Mineta, Norman, 165–66
Minnelli, Vincente, 500–1
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, 295–96, 302–7
Miranda, Carmen, 205
Mission to Moscow, 219, 219n, 272, 450–51
Miss Lonelyhearts/Advice to the Lovelorn, 13, 113, 541
Mitchum, Robert, 540, 561–64
Mix, Tom, 367
Mocambo nightclub, 172, 628, 634
Modern Times, 269, 273, 409
Mojave Desert, 32, 369–70
Monsieur Verdoux, 267, 273, 277, 408–16, 564–65
Montgomery, Robert, 36, 95, 149, 402, 506
The Moon Is Down, 258, 518
Morgan, Dennis, 124, 191
Morgenthau, Henry, 151
Morgenthau, Mrs. Henry, 17
Mother Courage, 135, 487
Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, 238–39, 459, 578
Motion Picture Association, 340n, 446
Motion Picture Industry Council (MPIC), 546
Motion Picture Producers Association, 75, 92–93, 98, 406, 469–70, 590
Motion Pictures Patents Company, 8
Motion Picture Technicians Committee, 94
Moving-picture process, 7–8, 627
Mrs. Miniver, 70, 455
Muir, Florabel, 92, 245, 381
Mulholland, William, 31–33
Muni, Paul, 46, 116, 158, 519
Murder Inc., 90, 373
Murphy, Frank, 275, 609
Murphy, George, 402, 616
Music and musicians, xi–xiii, 2–3, 36, 38–39, 41, 42, 43–62, 83–85, 142–43, 144, 146, 156, 196, 321, 326, 326n, 383, 393, 394–98, 427, 436–37, 498, 507–9, 529–30, 556, 561, 622–23
Musso and Frank’s, 301, 629
Mussolini, Benito, 66–67, 167, 210, 530
Muybridge, Eadweard, 7
Naish, J. Carroll, 285
The Naked and the Dead, 539–43
National Can, 485
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), 94, 105, 108, 360–61, 403
National Lawyers Guild, 438–39
Naturama, 627
Nazism, 17–18, 35, 43–48, 63–71, 79–85, 135–42, 181–82, 184, 258, 261–62, 272–73, 320, 321–22, 382, 519–20, 525, 529–30, 593. See also Germany and German refugees
Neal, Patricia, 579–80, 621
Negri, Pola, 36, 603–4
Neilan, Marshall, 169, 177
Nelson, Harmon, 172–73
Neutra, Richard, 578
New Deal, 33–34, 105, 283, 403–4, 433, 437, 442–43, 555, 609. See also Roosevelt, Franklin D.
New York Film Critics Award, 530
New York Philharmonic, 142–43, 146
New York Trust, 485
Nichols, Dudley, 237–39
Nicholson, Jack, 33
Night at the Opera, 129
Ninotchka, xi, 19, 63, 229, 328–29, 571, 600
Nitti, Frank, 90–92, 97
Niven, David, 40–41, 189, 240
Nixon, Richard M., 1, 341, 404, 434, 436, 481, 551, 570–72, 594, 609
NLRB. See National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Nobel Prize, 38, 344, 355
Norma Productions, 541–42
Northern Pursuit, 344, 474
Notorious, 531
Nye, Gerald, 73–74
Ober, Harold, 353
Oberammergau Passion Play, 21–22, 624
Oberon, Merle, 26
O’Brien, Pat, 77, 79
Obringer, R. J., 355–56
O’Connor, Frank, 575
Odets, Clifford, 429, 436, 449–50, 550, 553, 611
Odlum, Floyd, 134, 217, 494
O’Hara, John, 628
Oil discovery (1892), 6
Olivier, Laurence, 26, 31, 34, 40–41, 620
Only Angels Have Wings, 211
Open City, 530–31, 535, 581
Oppenheimer, Jules, 338
Ornitz, Samuel, 438, 474, 611
Othello, 557, 558–61
Otis, Harrison Gray, 32, 100–1
Ott, Fred, 7
The Outlaw, 177–79, 329, 445, 589
Owens River Valley, 32, 166–67
OWI Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP), 303–7
The Ox-Bow Incident, 149, 206
Pachuco (zoot suit) riots, 199–205
Paisan, 530–31, 581
Paley, Dorothy, 319, 329
Pan American Airways, 444, 445, 485
The Paradine Case, 426, 618
Paramount Studios, xii–xiii, 10, 21, 25, 62–63, 90, 91, 102, 108, 134, 146, 194, 217, 231, 234, 235, 279, 282–84, 299, 306–7, 330–38, 350, 362–63, 505, 506, 516–21, 627
Parker, Dorothy, 13, 66, 75, 100, 108, 599
Parks, Larry, 438, 440
Parsons, Louella, 36, 131–33, 209, 389, 589, 608, 616
Pascal, Ernest, 107
Pathé, 29
Pearl Harbor, 70, 142–47, 156–57, 159–65, 167–68, 220, 272–73, 492
Peck, Gregory, 57, 312, 325–27, 328, 527, 544–45, 571, 625
Pelican Productions, 425–26
Pépé le Moko, 18n
Perelman, S. J., 12, 230–31
Perkins, Maxwell, 236, 238
Petrified Forest, 118–19
The Philadelphia Story, 76
Pichel, Irving, 438
Pickford, Jack, 562
Pickford, Mary, 100, 268, 505, 562, 603
> Pidgeon, Walter, 402
Pierce, Jack, 288–89, 294–95
Pinkerton, Allan, 110
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, 110–13
Pin-up girls, 178, 179, 384
Pius XII, Pope, 626
The Players, 301–2, 307
Play It as It Lays, 10–11
Poe, Edgar Allan, 290
Pons, Lily, 26
Porter, Cole, 383
Porter, Edwin S., 7–8
Post, C. W., 298, 299
The Postman Always Rings Twice, 228, 338–42
Postum Cereal Company, 299
Powell, Dick, 302, 402
Powell, Eleanor, 156–57, 300
Power, Tyrone, xiv, 36, 126, 149, 259, 558
The Power and the Glory, 299–301
Preminger, Ingo, 536–38
Preminger, Otto, 149–50, 259–65, 484, 600–1, 631
Pressburger, Arnold, 181–83
Preston, Robert, 124, 184
Previn, André, 57–59
Production Code. See Hays Office (Hollywood Production Code Administration)
Prohibition, 119, 370–71
Pruette, Lorine, 577
Psychiatry/psychoanalysis, 68, 319–27, 500–1, 518
Pulitzer Prize, 506
Queen Mary, 36, 37, 616–17
Quinn, Anthony, 206
Quo Vadis, 536, 625, 626, 628
Rachel and the Stranger, 564
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 49, 60
Racketeers, 87–98
Raft, George, 26, 115–16, 119–20, 190–91, 234, 368, 372, 377, 603
Railroads, 6, 7, 32, 100–1, 144, 161, 374
Rainbow Productions, 506
Rainer, Luise, 158
Rains, Claude, 126, 194, 195, 197
Rake’s Progress, xi, 507–9
Rand, Ayn, 359, 456–58, 573–81
Random House, 344, 355
Rankin, John, 412, 430, 433, 435, 462n, 473, 521, 522
Rapf, Harry, 100, 490–92
Rapf, Maurice, 100, 106
Raphaelson, Samson, 104, 108
Rathbone, Basil, 28, 41
Rathvon, Peter, 481, 484, 493–95
Ratoff, Gregory, 556
Raye, Martha, 415
Reagan, Maureen, 122, 150
Reagan, Nancy Davis, 634
Reagan, Ronald, xii–xiv, 1–2, 76–79, 122–28, 150, 184, 191, 220–21, 238, 281, 402–3, 430, 441, 460–61, 472–73, 496, 546–47, 555, 633–35
Real estate boom, 100–1
Rebecca, 41, 76, 193, 236, 280
Reed, Carol, 557–58
Reed, Rex, xiii, 123n
Reinhardt, Gottfried, 139–40, 222–23
Reinhardt, Max, 58, 83, 175, 222–23, 260, 266, 271, 280
Religious epics, 349, 536–38, 574–75, 624–28, 631
Remarque, Erich Maria, 69
Renoir, Jean, 79
Republic Films, 104, 556, 623–24
Revier, Harry, 629
Reynolds, Debbie, 616
Reynolds Tobacco Company, 434
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