City of Nets
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Rings on Her Fingers, 144–45
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, 8–9, 87, 137, 183–84, 408–9, 416
RKO, 11–12, 25, 29, 108, 128–34, 205, 218, 282, 291, 292, 307–8, 364, 482, 484, 485, 494–95, 498, 505–7, 536, 582–83, 588–90
Roach, Hal, 220–21, 256, 269
The Road to Singapore, 48
The Robe, 349, 626, 627
Robeson, Paul, 553
Robinson, Casey, 123–25, 195
Robinson, David, 566
Robinson, Edward G., 70–71, 116, 119, 120, 235, 462n, 511–12, 519, 547–49, 631
Robson, May, 103
Rockefeller, John D., 133
Rockefeller, Nelson, 128, 133, 205–6, 217
Rogers, Ginger, 76, 238, 437, 543, 616, 633
Rogers, Lela, 437
Romm, May, 319, 321, 323
Rooney, Mickey, 19, 318, 632
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 219, 436
Roosevelt, Elliott, 175, 442–44
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 19, 33, 73, 80, 81, 89, 102, 105, 161, 164–68, 186–87, 197, 204–5, 218, 219, 272, 283, 303–5, 307, 331, 358, 383, 430, 433, 442–44, 450, 453, 516, 521, 555, 577
Roosevelt, Theodore, 32, 161
Rose, Billy, 519
Rosentiel, Lewis, 371
Ross, Lillian, 489
Rossellini, Roberto, 530–31, 534–35, 581–591, 631
Rossen, Robert, 438, 449–50
Rosten, Leo, 21
A Royal Scandal, 600–1
Rozsa, Miklos, 326, 326n
Rubinstein, Arthur, 36, 41, 42, 60, 142–43, 146, 568–69
Russell, Jane, 175–79, 633
Russell, Rosalind, 616
Ryan, Sylvester, 621–22
Ryskind, Morrie, 459
SAG. See Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
Salt, Waldo, 438, 480
Samson and Delilah, 624–25, 628
San Andreas Fault, 9–10
Sanders, George, 41, 377
San Fernando Valley/Reservoir, 31–33
Santa Ana winds, 11
Sarnoff, David, 134, 496–97
Saroyan, William, 222, 555
Satterlee, Peggy LaRue, 244–45, 246–48, 250–51
Sayre, Nora, 219n, 528, 576–77, 580
Scarface, 115, 116, 171, 175, 345
Scent of Mystery, 627
Schaefer, George J., 128, 131, 133–34
Schary, Dore, 109, 482–84, 486, 489–96, 499–503, 514, 527, 536–38, 544n, 546, 563, 590, 625
Schenck, Joseph, 21, 92–98, 208–9, 256n, 260, 261, 269, 405, 481, 483, 513
Schenck, Nicholas, 3, 21, 27, 88, 91–94, 96, 105, 134, 256n, 481, 492, 496–500, 503, 625n
Schenley’s, 371
Scherman, Harry, 523
Schickel, Richard, 50
Schoenberg, Arnold, xiv, 43–48, 55–56, 60–61, 67, 83, 84, 85, 393, 394–98, 498, 529–30, 622–23
Schulberg, Benjamin P., 27, 98, 112, 300, 362
Schulberg, Budd (Seymour), 98–100, 105–8, 187, 515, 614
Science fiction films, 573, 626
Scott, Adrian, 438, 475, 482, 484–86, 493, 495, 611, 621
Screen Actors Guild (SAG), 95, 122, 185, 290, 358–59, 402–3, 460–61, 472–73, 546–47, 634
Screen Cartoonists Guild, 359
Screen Directors Guild, 545
Screen Playwrights, 106, 108
Screen Publicists Guild, 359
Screen size and effects, 103, 624, 627
Screen Writers Guild (SWG), 104–10, 131, 140, 183, 238, 358–59, 437, 464, 470–71, 473–74, 481, 544
Seagram Distilleries, 371
The Sea Wolf, 340–41
Seitz, John F., 605
Selznick, David O., xi–xii, xvi, 8, 25–31, 34–35, 37–38, 41, 56–57, 64, 76, 112, 191–93, 236, 253–55, 280, 291, 309–15, 319–24, 327–29, 390, 426, 493, 498, 505, 518–19, 533, 561–62, 597–98, 620–21, 628, 630–31
Selznick, Howard, 26–27
Selznick, Irene Mayer, 26–27, 309–11, 314–15, 318–24, 329, 493, 582, 632
Selznick, Lewis, 21, 22, 26, 27
Selznick, Myron, 26, 30, 31, 116, 193, 319
Sergeant York, 74, 177, 196, 448
Shadow and Substance, 266, 267, 270, 275
Shapiro, Jacob (Gurrah), 370
Shaw, Artie, 321
Shaw, Irwin, 222, 449–50, 533
Shearer, Norma, 24, 172, 348
Sheean, Vincent, 71–72
Sheehan, Winfield, 208–10
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 186–87
Sheridan, Ann, 21, 126, 127, 191, 212, 472–73
Sherman, Moses Hazeltine, 6
Sherwood, Robert, 13, 118–19
Sidwertz, Morris (Little Moe Sedway), 374–75, 381
Siegel, Ben (Bugsy), xiv, 368, 369–82, 416–17
Siegel, Don, 573
Siegel, Maurice, 370
Sienkiewicz, Henry, 625
The Sign of the Cross, 624
Silberberg, Mendel, 108–10, 483
Simmel, Ernst, 320–22, 525
Simon, Norton, 631
Simon, Richard, 523, 526
Simon and Schuster, 523
Sinatra, Frank, 143, 378, 441, 513
Since You Went Away, 59, 313
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, 308
Siodmak, Curt, 185–86, 290, 293, 294
Sister Carrie, 361, 363–64, 494, 620–21
Sistrom, Joe, 230, 232, 333
Six Companies, 34
Skelton, Red, 630
Skouras, Spyros, 553–54
Smell-O-Vision, 627
Smiley, Allen, 380–81
Smith, H. A., 454–56, 460
Smith Act of 1940, 438–39
The Snake Pit, 558, 571
Sokolsky, George, 471–72, 544
Somewhere I’ll Find You, 151–53, 340
The Song of Bernadette, 83–84, 313–14, 390
Song of Russia, 272, 437, 454–59, 614
Sorrell, Herbert K., xiv, 310, 357–61, 398–408, 458
Sound in films, 22–25, 58, 59, 104, 170, 409
Spanish explorers, 9–10
Spellbound, 323–27, 329, 527
Sperling, Milton, 106, 256
Spiegel, Sam, 382
Stacher, Joseph (Doc), 379–80
Stalin, Joseph, 135, 219, 272, 364, 365, 451, 457, 612
Stanford, Leland, 7
Stanwyck, Barbara, 233, 234, 238, 302, 578
A Star Is Born, 128
State of the Union, 506
Steele, Joseph Henry, 586–89
Stein, Jules, 153–54
Steinbeck, John, 225, 258, 518
Steiner, Max, 58, 59, 196
Steuermann, Eduard, 393–94
Stevens, George, 505, 615
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 66, 108, 429, 454, 459, 486, 545–46
Stewart, Jimmy, xiv, 34, 149, 505–6, 633
Stock market crash of 1929, 403
Stokowski, Leopold, 41, 42, 49–50, 52
The Story of G. I. Joe, 562
Strange, Glenn, 294–95
Strangers on a Train, 618–20
Stravinsky, Igor, xi, xii–xiii, 38–39, 50–55, 60, 83–85, 266, 427, 507–9
Strickling, Howard, 152, 316–18, 499
Strictly Dishonorable, 297–99
Strikes, 91–93, 105, 185, 356–61, 398–408, 458–59
Stripling, Robert, 435–37, 449–51, 459, 466–70, 474, 476–79
Stromboli, 540, 584–593
Sturges, Preston, 176, 295–308, 555
Sudeikina, Vera, 39, 52
Sullivan, Ed, 566
Sunset Boulevard, 596, 601–7, 628
Swanson, Gloria, 133, 596, 597–99, 605–6
SWG. See Screen Writers Guild (SWG)
Taft, William Howard, 227
Talking films. See Sound in films
Tayama, Fred, 146–47
Taylor, Elizabeth, 536, 542, 543, 615–17, 625
Taylor, Robert, xiii, 177, 238, 402,
430, 437, 454–60
Technicolor process, 30
Television, xi, 2, 22–23, 58, 496–97, 622–24, 629, 632–33
Temple, Shirley, 19, 74
The Ten Commandments, 624
Tenney, Jack, 204, 358
Thalberg, Irving, 23–26, 45–48, 55–56, 106, 490, 497–98
Thalberg, Sylvia, 100
That Hamilton Woman, 72–73
Thau, Benny, 103, 103n, 497
Thaxter, Phyllis, 311
The Third Man, 557–58
This Gun for Hire, 144, 473
This Is Cinerama, 627
This Is The Army, 184, 189–90, 220
Thomas, J. Parnell, 403–4, 418, 430–34, 437–38, 442, 451–53, 460, 463–71, 473–75, 478, 479, 481, 571, 613–14
Thomas, Lowell, 627
Thomas, Olive, 562
Thompson, Dorothy, 436, 523
Thomson, Virgil, 58
3-D, 627
Three Comrades, 69–70
The Threepenny Opera, 138, 487
Tibbett, Lawrence, 260, 371
Tierney, Gene, 144–45, 154–56, 173–74, 212, 259, 263–65
Tiomkin, Dimitri, 56–57, 328
Todd, Mike, 383, 425
Todd-AO, 627
To Have and Have Not, 310, 347–50, 549
Toland, Gregg, 128
Tone, Franchot, 75, 124, 384n
Towne, Robert, 33
Tracy, Spencer, xiv, 19, 65, 259, 300, 506, 616
Trans World Airlines (TWA), 169, 444, 462–63
Treaty of Beverly Hills, 400
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 527
Trocadero nightclub, 210, 211, 628
Truffaut, François, 620
Truman, Harry, 256, 404, 405, 433, 442, 463, 471–72, 506, 555, 568, 569, 609, 610
Trumbo, Cleo, 610
Trumbo, Dalton, 106, 418, 429, 437–40, 442, 449–50, 453, 454, 459, 470–71, 484, 538, 548, 550, 610–13, 621, 631
Tshiang, H. T., 158
Turner, Lana, 143, 151, 172, 173, 277, 340–42, 375, 511, 633
Twentieth Century Pictures, 13
20th Century–Fox, 5, 21, 60, 88, 91–93, 108, 208–9, 256, 282–84, 313, 405, 441, 482, 484, 485, 506, 627, 630, 635
Ulbricht, Walter, 591–92
Under Capricorn, 535, 618
Understudies, 118
Unions and talent guilds, 87–97, 100–10, 185, 279, 356–61, 373, 398–408, 430, 434–35, 458, 481, 544. See also names of specific organizations
United Artists, 40, 108, 268, 413, 415–16, 505, 522, 538, 568
United Fruit, 485
United Jewish Appeal, 513–14
U.S. Justice Department, 22, 282–84, 503–7
United Studio Technicians Guild, 94
Universal Studios, 21, 23–24, 102, 108, 222, 257, 363–64
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 44, 45, 393
University of Southern California (USC), 44
Up in Arms, 512–13
Uris, Leon, 536–38
Vajda, Ernest, 103
Valentino, Rudolph, 84–85, 114, 361
Van Druten, John, 28
Van Upp, Virginia, 213–14, 385–86, 389
Vendetta, 176, 308
Verne, Jules, 383
Vidor, Charles, 385
Vidor, King, 327, 328, 579
Viertel, Berthold, 421
Viertel, Hans, 420
Viertel, Salka, 36–37, 41, 45–48, 60–61, 82, 113, 140–42, 359, 391, 393–94, 425
Vietnam War, 533
Visconti, Luchino, 339n
Vistarama, 627
Vitagraph, 103, 624
Vogel, Joseph, 537–38
Vogler, Gertrude, 211
Von Sternberg, Josef, 82, 362
Von Stroheim, Erich, 22, 229, 603, 605
Wagner Act of 1935, 108
Walburn, Raymond, 303
Wald, Jerry, 241, 441, 513, 550
Waldorf Conference (1947), 480–86, 543–54
Walker, Robert, 312–14, 620
Wallace, Henry, 238–39
Waller, Fred, 627
Wallis, Hal, 71, 121, 123–25, 186, 189, 190, 193–95, 197, 344–45, 543
Wallis, Minna, 275
Walsh, Raoul, 212, 242–43
Walsh, Richard, 357–58, 399
Walter, Bruno, 83, 85
Wanger, Walter, 18n, 18–19, 71–72, 76, 298, 441, 464, 481, 483, 498, 534, 585
War bonds, 151–53, 188
War films, xiii, 149–50, 153, 156–59, 184–90, 194, 217–22, 224, 259, 344, 473
War Labor Board, 357–58
Warner, Benjamin, 21
Warner, Harry, 21, 109–10, 185, 188, 450–51, 519, 630
Warner, Jack, xiv, 21, 25, 115, 116, 125, 147, 157, 186, 187n, 190, 193, 197, 212, 218–19, 239–41, 244–45, 271–72, 279, 281–82, 345, 349, 353–56, 371–72, 418, 430, 433, 448–53, 512–15, 528n, 571, 630
Warner Brothers Studios, 21, 24–25, 58, 60, 70–71, 76–79, 91–92, 108–10, 112–17, 120, 122, 125, 147, 157, 184–85, 188–90, 192, 208, 212–13, 241, 245, 279–84, 344, 345, 353–56, 360, 389–99, 401, 448–49, 481, 485, 494, 577, 617–20, 622, 630. See also Warner, Jack
Warnerscope, 627
War Production Board, 157–58, 174
Warren, Earl, 162–63, 373, 438
Wasserman, Lew, 281
Water supply, 10, 31–34, 166–67
Watts, Richard, 119
Watts riots (1965), 11, 30
Waxman, Franz, 58
Wayne, John, 34, 184, 238, 631
Webb, Clifton, 263–65
Webb, Del, 375
Weigel, Helene, 136, 180, 419, 429, 486–87
Weill, Kurt, 421, 519
Welles, Orson, xi, xii, 39, 55, 128–34, 194, 205–6, 215–17, 266–67, 275, 280, 299, 328, 382–89, 425, 552, 555–61, 607
Wells, H. G., 128, 194, 299
Werfel, Alma Mahler, 48, 80–85, 141, 196–97
Werfel, Franz, 80–85, 390
West, Mae, 603, 604
West, Nathanael, xvi, 10–16, 19, 20, 108, 113, 201, 322, 434, 541
Western Union, 66, 230
We Will Never Die (pageant), 519
Wexley, John, 181–83, 449–50
Whale, James, 287–88
What Makes Sammy Run?, 98–100, 105–8, 187
Whitney, Iris, 554
Whitney, John Hay, 25
Whitsett, W. P., 34
Why We Fight series, 194, 218
Wide screens, 627
Wilcox, Daeida, 5–6
Wilcox, Horace Henderson, 5–6
Wilde, Oscar, 556, 561
Wilder, Billy, xii–xiii, 62–63, 180, 227–35, 300, 328–30, 339, 438, 598–607, 616, 628
Wilder, Thornton, 9, 31, 426
Williams, Annie Laurie, 25
Williams, Esther, 458, 495, 616
Willkie, Wendell, 74, 259, 577
Wilson, 258–59
Wilson, Carey, 339–40
Wilson, Dooley, 194, 350
Wilson, Edmund, 11
Wilson, Woodrow, 161, 258–59
Winchell, Walter, 265, 430, 521, 522, 622
Windom, Barbara Goetz, 514–15
Winters, Shelley, 542–43
The Wizard of Oz, xi, 500, 625n
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 606
Wood, Jeane, 239
Wood, Sam, 124, 127, 143–44, 236–40, 459, 578
Woollcott, Alexander, 118
World’s Fair (1893, Chicago), 7
World’s Fair (1939, New York City), 23
World War II, xi–xii, 35–41, 74, 127–28, 148, 149–68, 171–72, 174–75, 180–82, 184, 215–27, 256, 281–82, 325, 334, 356, 359, 394–95, 424, 486, 523, 550. See also Pearl Harbor; War films
Writers Club, 104
Wuthering Heights, xi, 31
Wyler, William, 70, 218, 441, 462, 494, 505, 556, 601, 620, 621
Wyman, Jane, 122–23, 123n, 150, 402, 441, 461, 472–73, 633
Yankee Doodle Dandy, 185–88, 189–90, 448
Young, Elizabeth, 65
Young, Howard, 616
Zanuck, Darryl F., xii, xiv, 13, 25–26, 66, 105, 106, 124, 133, 149–51, 172, 205, 206, 212, 256–65, 319, 343, 345, 446, 484, 485, 496, 526–28, 556, 560–61, 571, 630
Zanuck, Richard, 630
Zanuck, Virginia, 258, 319
Zavitz, Lee, 29–30
Ziegfeld Follies, 206, 316, 500, 607
Zierold, Norman, 345n
Zionists, 519, 521, 535–38
Zoot suit riots, 199–205
Zorina, Vera, 196, 235–37
Zukor, Adolph, 21, 25
About the Author
OTTO FRIEDRICH (1929-1995) was a journalist and cultural historian. A contributing editor at The Saturday Evening Post and Time magazine, he was the author of fourteen books, including Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s.
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Also by Otto Friedrich
The Poor in Spirit
The Loner
Decline and Fall
The Rose Garden
Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920’s
Going Crazy
Clover: A Love Story
The End of the World: A History
Glenn Gould: A Life & Variations
The Grave of Alice B. Toklas: And Other Reports from the Past
Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet
Kingdom of Auschwitz
Blood and Iron: From Bismarck to Hitler
Copyright
Cover design by Robin Bilardello
Photographic Credits
Facing page 1, Nathanael West, Bettmann Archive. Atlanta ablaze, New York Public Library Picture Collection./page 42, Rubinstein performing, Culver Pictures Inc. Walt Disney’s Fantasia, Culver Pictures Inc. Stokowski conducting, Gjon Mili, Life Magazine © 1948 Time Inc./page 86, Willie Bioff, UPI/Bettman Newsphotos./page 148, Bob Hope, Wide World. Hedy Lamarr, Culver Pictures Inc./page 198, Errol Flynn and Betty Hansen, Wide World. Rita Hayworth, New York Public Library Picture Collection. Margarita Cansino, Culver Pictures Inc. Anti-Mexican rioting, Julian Robinson, Los Angeles Times, Courtesy of Life Picture Service./page 254, Boris Karloff as Frankenstein, Wide World. Charlie Chaplin and Oona O’Neill, Bettmann Archive. Chaplin on trial, Wide World./page 310, Herbert K. Sorrell, UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos. Leftist strike, Culver Pictures Inc. Bogart and Bacall, Wide World./page 368, Bugsy Siegel, Wide World. Bugsy Siegel and George Raft, Brown Bros./page 418, Dalton Trumbo, UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos. Bertolt Brecht, UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos. Jack Warner and J. Parnell Thomas, Martha Holmes, Life Magazine, © 1947 Time Inc./page 488, Louis B. Mayer and Lorena Danker, UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos./page 540, Bob Mitchum, Wide World. Ingrid Bergman in Bells of St. Mary’s, Culver Pictures Inc. Ingrid Bergman in Stromboli, Culver Pictures Inc./page 596, Gloria Swanson, Culver Pictures Inc.