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Chiang Kai-shek, Madame 185
Chicago 123, 192, 208, 210, 280, 325, 335, 351
Chile 136
Chimes at Midnight (film) 322
Chimney Sweep (radio) 340
Chirello, George ‘Shorty’ 166, 194, 359, 396, 420
Cimino, Michael 30
Cinedia 150–1
Circus, The (film) 379
Citizen Kane (film) xi, xiii, xvii, 10, 28, 29, 31, 36, 37, 41, 46, 48, 88, 89, 96, 109, 123, 126, 135, 149, 165, 167, 191, 197, 198, 212, 213, 224, 267, 268, 272, 276, 282, 313, 367, 385, 392, 394, 397, 403, 417, 421, 426, 435; awards for 76, 122; cost of 117; Los Angeles premiere 3; success of 3–6
Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons 10, 409
Civil Rights Statute 341
Clark, Don 243
Clark, Tom 327, 341
Clemente, José 234
Clifton’s Cafeteria (Los Angeles) 250
Clurman, Harold 320
Clyde, Vander see Barclift, Nelson
Cochran, Charles B. 321–2, 404
Cockburn, Claud 236
Cocteau, Jean 288, 345, 421–2
Cohn, Harry 197, 198, 212, 223, 290, 291, 299, 336, 347, 348, 349, 350, 355, 356, 360, 361–2, 365, 369, 372, 382, 386, 377, 402, 409, 439
Colbert, Claudette 224, 337
Cold War 251, 408, 410
Collier, William 207
Colliers’ Magazine 194, 195, 198
Collins, Ray 29, 38, 309, 367
Colombia 136
Colt, Alvin 288, 305
Columbia Pictures 93, 197, 290, 348, 350, 357, 360, 377, 402
Columbia (Tennessee) 327
Comédie-Française 404
Comedia Balletica 288
Commonwealth Pictures 442
Communism 219, 235–6, 259, 410, 413
Communist International 184
Communist Party of America 10, 178
Compton, Dick 207, 209, 210
Compton’s Agency 201, 203–4, 206
Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) 411, 412
Conried, Hans 49, 51
Cooper, Gary 13, 172
Cooper, Stephen 379
Copland, Aaron 208
Corey, Don 358
Cornell, Katharine 122, 165, 311
Coronet Theatre (Los Angeles) 321
Corrêa, Horacina 129
Cortez, Stanley 35–6, 37, 38, 40, 48, 52, 139, 320
Corwin, Norman 47, 260, 344, 420
Costa, Rui 69
Costello, Dolores 26, 37, 88, 111
Cotten, Joseph 17, 27, 28, 48, 49, 50, 90, 91, 104, 106, 108, 111, 161, 172, 194, 258, 367
Cotten, Lenore 258
Coulouris, George 367
Cover Girl (film) 197, 198
Coward, Noël 149, 204, 277; Middle East Diary 237
Cradle Will Rock, The (musical) 10, 283
Craig, Gordon 212
Cranston, Geneva 187, 226, 235, 258
Craxton, William 300
Crime Doctor’s Warning, The (film) 350
Critic, The 300
Cromwell, John 413
Crosby, Bing 314
Crosby, Floyd 33–4
Crowther, Bosley 138, 422, 438, 440
Crummles, Vincent 295
Cuban Love Song (film) 71
Cultural Front, The (Denning) 30
Culver City 91
Curtiz, Michael 403
Cyrano de Bergerac (film) 207, 345, 405, 418
D’Agostino, Albert 49
Daily News 137, 304, 314
Daily Telegraph 38, 421, 440
Daily Worker 323, 329
Damaged Goods (film) 26
Danger on the Air (film) 35
Daniell, Henry 168
Daniels, Walter 93, 120, 136
Daniels, William 58–9
Danton’s Death 397
Danton’s Death (play) 178
Date with Destiny see The Stranger
Davies, Marion 222, 383, 397
Davison, Robert 288
De Gaulle, Charles 185
De Moraes, Vinicius 98
Dead of Night (film) 348
Decca 265
Del Rio, Dolores 31–2, 34, 46, 48, 49, 50, 113, 194, 196, 406, 444
DeMille, Cecil B. 17
Denning, Michael 9–10, 30
Denver Post 412
Dewey, Thomas E. 213, 215, 216, 332
Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The (radio) 242
Diary of a Doctor (film) 402
Diary of Welles Group Activities 114
Dickens, Charles 191
Dies Committee 412
Dieterle, William 5
Dietrich, Marlene 197, 199
Disney, Walt 189, 242–3
Dixon, Campbell 38, 421, 440
Doane, Warren 415
Doctor Faustus, film 161–2; Unit 891 production 191
Dolivet, Louis 183–6, 201, 211, 220, 223–4, 238, 252, 284, 409
Don Quixote (film) 418
Donne, John 207
Don’t Catch Me (film) 243, 379
Douglas, Melvyn 412
Down to Earth (film) 443
Dr Faustus (Marlowe) 265, 385, 418
Dracula (radio play) 28, 168
Drake, Herb 17, 41, 49, 57, 60, 63, 66, 80, 82, 83, 93, 97, 99, 101, 104, 106, 122, 123, 128, 137, 138, 140, 163
Dreiser, Theodore 185
Dreyer, Carl Theodor 360
Drunkard, The (W.H. Smith) 312
Dublin 258
Duffield, Brainerd 289, 389, 394, 397, 404, 432
Dumas, Alexandre, Diary of a Doctor 402
Dumbarton Oaks Conference 227, 238
Dunning, Decla 267
Durante, Jimmy 307
Eagle Squadron (film) 36
Ecuador 136
Edinburgh International Festival 393, 418, 419
Edwards, Hilton 183, 431
Ehrenburg, Ilya 239
Einstein, Albert 185
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 209, 240
Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich 5, 133, 190, 245–6
Elhirst, Ruth 201
Eliot, Bruce, Magic 281
Ellington, Duke 11–12, 324
Elliott, Bruce 413; Magic as a Hobby 192
Ellis, Anita 362
Elmhirst, William 201
Emerson University 424
Emily Brady (D.O. Stewart) 218–19, 307
Enfield, Cy 92, 107
Epstein, Jacob 403
Evans, Maurice 315, 396
Ewald, Carl 54
Exiled Writers’ Committee 44
Famous Artists Agency 382
Fanfare 301
Fante, John 9, 12; Love Story 379
Fanto, George 133, 134, 219
Farber, Jerry 431
Farewell to Arms, A (radio play) 47
Farley, Morgan 397
Fast, Howard, Citizen Thomas Paine 218
Fay, Frank 412
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 175, 178, 235–6, 254, 255, 329, 333, 334, 413
Federal Theatre Project 10, 43–4, 53, 301
Feigay, Paul 265, 290
Feldman, Charles K. 382, 383, 418–19, 420, 436, 437
Ferguson, Perry 268
Ferrer, José 405
Feydeau, Georges 203
Fields, W.C. 200
Fier, Jack 359, 360, 361
Fifth Avenue (film) 25
Figuereido, Dr Assis 61, 73, 76, 120
films/movies see named films eg Citizen Kane
Finian’s Rainbow (musical) 311
Fitzgerald, Geraldine 69, 258
Five Kings (Shakespeare: Wars of the Roses cycle) 106, 147, 294, 297, 322, 387, 397, 442
Fix, Dick 297, 298, 301, 304, 308
Flaherty, Robert xvi, 9, 33, 132
Fleck, Freddie 108
Fleet’s In, The (film) 86, 87
Fleischer Cartoon Studio 59
Flesh and the Devil (film) 291
Fletcher, Louise 47
Florence 212
Flynn, Errol 358
Fo, Dario 202
Follow the Boys (film) 198–200, 382
Fontaine, Joan 162, 164, 165–6; No Bed of Roses 165
Ford, John 36, 383
Fortaleza 130–5, 369
Foster, Norman 12–13, 31, 32, 34, 39, 43, 45, 46, 49, 104, 106
Four Men on a Raft (film) 93, 121–2, 134, 135, 137, 147, 369, 443
Franco, General Francisco 202
Fraser, Mrs Edna 324–5
Free World Association of Hollywood 211
Free World Forum 242
Free World magazine 185, 186, 211, 214, 220, 229, 238, 245, 252–3, 260, 284, 335, 340, 408
Freedley, Vinton 382, 391
Freeman, Don 301
Friele, Berent 97–8, 123
Gallagher, Bret 286
Gance, Abel 418
Garland, Judy 223, 443
Garland, Robert 303
Garner, Peggy Ann 168
Garson, Greer 189
Gate Theatre (Dublin) 388, 431
Gessner, Robert 31
Ghiaroni, Professor 70
Gibbs, Wolcott 304, 305, 306
Gielgud, John 311
Gilda (film) 349
Gilder, Rosamond 391
Gilks, Al 31, 33
Girl of the Rio (film) 71
Glamour magazine 253
Goddard, Paulette 345
Goetz, William ‘Bill’ 162, 163, 164, 224, 267, 268, 269
Goldbogen, Avrom Hirsch see Mike Todd
Goldwyn, Samuel 5, 142, 412
Golgotha (film) 418
Gone with the Wind (film) 161
Gonzaga, Adhear 150–1
Good Neighbor Family (documentary) 64
Good, Ray 293
Goodall, Gladys 390, 391
Gordon, William 49, 142, 145, 146
Grafton, Sam 239
Grand Detour (Illinois) 22
Grant, Cary 31
Great Dictator, The (film) 17, 68
Great McCoy: His Wonder Show of 1936, The (vaudeville) 191
Green Goddess, The 312
Greenberg, Josh 151
Greene, Harry 75
Greene, William ‘Duke’ 61, 64–5, 75
Griffith, D.W. 17
Group, The (film) 382
Guatemala 229–30
Guild, Nancy 415
Guthrie, Woody 336
Haig Corporation 267
Hall, Robert 244–5, 247, 250
Hamlet (Shakespeare) 23–4, 232, 315; film 421, 422–3, 424, 427, 428, 431, 438, 441
Hammerstein, Oscar, II 208, 324
Hammond, John 10
Hammond, Percy 308, 384
Happy Prince, The (Wilde) 48, 314, 345
Haran, Shifra 49, 100, 143, 144, 194
Harburg, F.Y. 343
Harrington, Oliver 323, 326, 329, 338, 341; Why I Left America 328
Harris, Jed 4, 148
Harrison, Rex 322
Hart, Lorenz 307
Hastings, Ross 124, 128
Havilland, Olivia de 342–3
Hawkins, William 304
Hawks, Howard 36
Hays Code Administration Office 5, 48, 266, 345, 418
Hayworth, Rita 48, 50, 196–7, 221, 243, 255, 258, 267, 277, 290, 291, 347, 349–50, 356, 382; and Black Dahlia letter 378–9; breakdown of marriage to Welles 222–5, 256–7, 285, 443–4; marriage to Welles 198, 201; and The Lady from Shanghai 357, 358–9, 361, 362, 367, 368, 375, 380
He Who Gets Slapped (theatre play) 27
Healy, Mary 289, 291, 301, 313
Hearst Newspapers 128
Hearst, William Randolph 3, 6, 222, 337, 383, 397
Heart of Darkness, The (Conrad), film 427; radio 243
Heartbreak House (film) 397, 442
Hearts of Age 134
Heaven’s Gate (film) 30
Hecht, Ben 13, 307, 383
Heifetz, Jascha 423
Hello Americans (radio series) 81, 98, 157–8, 159–60, 343
Hempstead, David 13, 16
Henry IV Parts One and Two (Shakespeare) 294, 300
Henry V (Shakespeare) (film) 300, 391
Hepburn, Katharine 300, 408
Herald Tribune 139, 216, 329, 439
Herbert, Lolita 315
Herlie, Eileen 405
Herrmann, Bernard 21, 34, 47, 55, 108–11, 161, 163, 208, 257, 268, 272, 273, 344, 362, 386, 414, 416, 417, 419
Higham, Charles 34, 349
Highland Park News 169, 225
Hill, Roger ‘Skipper’ 4, 47, 160, 248
Himber, Richard 193
Hirschfeld, Al 301
His Honour the Mayor (radio play) 3
Hitch-Hiker, The (radio) 47, 155
Hitchcock, Alfred 162, 276, 398
Hollywood 7, 18, 23, 28, 59, 78, 84, 85, 122, 123, 127, 130, 131, 132, 137, 139, 140, 148, 150, 161, 179, 198, 199, 211, 224, 245, 246, 249, 258, 265, 267, 268, 299, 310, 332, 356, 359, 360, 376, 382, 392, 400, 425, 437, 442, 444; industrial unrest 409–13
Hollywood Independent Citizens’ Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions 342–3
Hollywood Reporter 136, 148, 168, 198, 410, 411, 412
Hollywood Ten 413
Holt, Tim 25, 28, 40, 88, 111, 124
Honey Pot, The (film) 382
Hoover, J. Edgar 333
Hopkins, Harry 53, 54, 72
Hopper, Hedda 212, 213, 277, 425
Horne, Lena 166, 343
Horse Eats Hat (radio) 191, 195, 312
Hot Mikado (musical) 281
Houdini, Harry 192
House, Billy 269
House of Un-American Activities Committee 184, 408, 412
Household, Geoffrey, Rogue Male 75
Houseman, John 162, 163, 199, 321, 332, 383, 404
Houston, Mary 325
How Green Was My Valley (film) 388
Hughes, Langston 327
Hull, Cordell 44, 185
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (film) 170, 282
Huston, John 25, 267, 412
Huston, Walter 21, 47, 172, 218
Hutton, Betty 86
Huxley, Aldous 162
Hymans, Jerome 442
Hypnotic Influence 192
Hypnotic Rigid Test 192
Hypnotism on Animals 192
I-AA see Office of Inter-American Affairs
Ibert, Jacques 418
Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill) 311
If I Die Before I Wake see Lady from Shanghai, The (film)
I.F. Stone’s Weekly 236
Il Tempo 421, 424
Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde) 311
Independent Voters’ Committee for Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt 213, 218
Information Please (radio quiz) 160
Inglewood 111
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators (IASTE) 411, 412
International Brotherhood of Magicians 191
International Free World Association 184–5
Intolerance (film) 269
Ipacema Beach 147
Isaacs, Hermine Rich 348
Italian Straw Hat, An see Horse Eats Hat
It’s All True (film) xiii, xv, xvi, 8–12, 31, 45, 46, 52, 53, 55, 112, 159, 196, 324, 357, 369, 379, 442; briefing and preparation for filming in Brazil 57–60; Carnival sequence 57–67, 74–5, 85, 442–3; chôros in 100–1; and death of Jacaré 120–2; favelas 141; funding for 141–3; ideas on what the film was about 101–3; and the jangadeiros 81–4, 92, 103, 114, 134–5, 141; post-Carnival filming 91–101; problems and frictions on 113–17, 122, 131–8; RKO dinner party for 128–9; and the samba 70–1, 79, 81; versions of 143–7
It’s a Wonderful Life (film) 17
Ivan the Terrible (film) 190, 245–6
Ivens, Joris 34
Izvestia 236
Jacaré see Meiro, Mandel Olimpio (‘Jacaré’)
Jack Benny Show (radio series) 231
Jaglom, Henry xv
Jam Session (aka The Story
of Jazz) (film) 8, 9, 11–12
Jane Eyre (film) 161–9, 213, 224, 231, 268
Joan of Arc (film) 360
Joan of Paris (film) 162
Johnson, Hiram Warren 261
Joseph, Ray 136
Journey into Fear (film) xiii, 6, 12, 13–17, 31, 46, 48, 49–55, 79, 93–4, 103, 104–5, 117, 125–6, 135, 160–1, 165, 168, 269, 270
Juárez, Benito 155
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) 31, 205, 321, 387
Jumbo 308
Jump for Joy 11
Just William (film) 388
Kahn, Gordon 408
Kamp, David 150
Kanin, Garsin 5
Kaper, Bronislaw 268, 272–3
Kauffimann, Stanley 322
Kazan, Elia 106, 266, 320
Keller, Helen 255
Kellner, Sandór Laszlo 189–90
Kelly, Gene 197
Kennedy, Joseph 5, 44
Kenosha School Board 10
Kent, Amalia 29
Keys of the Kingdom, The (film) 189
King Lear (Shakespeare) 265, 292, 382, 383, 392; radio production 344
King, R. Sherwood, The Adventurer 351; Between Murders 351; If I Die Before I Wake 349, 351; The Outlaws of the Air 351
Kirk, Mark-Lee 34, 49
Kiss Me, Kate (musical) 306, 321
Koch, Howard 172
Koerner, Charles W. 77, 79, 86, 86–7, 88, 93, 107, 111, 118, 120, 124–5, 126, 142, 148–9, 161
Korda, Alexander 140, 189, 190, 200, 267, 290, 299, 322, 340, 344, 345–6, 404–5, 411, 414, 415, 418
Korea 258, 259
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang 109
Krupa, Gene 142
Ku Klux Klan 327
Kurtz, Efrem 419
La Cava, Gregory 25
Laage, Barbara 405
Lady in the Dark (film) 288
Lady Esther Show, The (radio series) 32, 38, 44, 47, 48, 54, 55, 155, 202
Lady from Shanghai, The (film) xiii, 347, 349–51, 382, 386, 397, 402, 403, 404, 409, 410, 412, 439; and the censor 355; delays and costs 358–61; dialogue 353–5; end result 364–81; illness and death on set of 358–9; location shooting 356–8; plot of 351–3; production of 355–6, 361–4
Lady Hamilton (film) 190
Lady Killer, The (film) 8
Lady Windermere’s Fan (Wilde) 311
Lampedusa, Giuseppe 19
Lanchester, Elsa 105
Lasky, Betty 4
Lassie Come Home (film) 388
Laster, Al 333
Laughton, Charles 29, 52, 105, 167, 190, 205, 282, 283, 284, 315, 316–21, 404, 405
Laurence, Larry 289, 295
Lawrence, Gertrude 312
Lawrence, Viola 355, 361, 369, 377, 382, 386
Lawton, Charles ‘Buddy’, Junior 355, 356, 358
Le Sang d’un Poète 288
Lea Radios 259
Leaming, Barbara 277, 283, 285, 320, 361, 443
Lear, Les 333
Lear Radios 257, 290
Lear, William 257, 260
Lederer, Charles 222, 397
Lee, Canada 172
Leigh, Vivien 345, 396
Leighter, Jackson 194, 236, 243, 315