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Index
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Aalberg, John
Abbott, George
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abel, David
Academy Award
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Accounting Department
Acting Department
Action/Adventure films
Address Unknown
Advertising
Advertising Department
The Affairs of Annabel
After Tonight
Alcott, Louisa May
Alger, George W.
Alice Adams
Allegheny Uprising
Allen, Gracie
All Quiet on the Western Front
Allvine, Glendon
Alperson, Edward
Ambassador Hotel
Ameche, Don
The American Way
Amos ‘n’ Andy
Anderson, Maxwell
Andy Hardy series
The Animal Kingdom
Animated shorts
Anna Karenina
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Windy Poplars
A Pictures
Applause
Ardrey, Robert
Argosy magazine
Argosy Pictures
Arlen, Richard
Armour, Reg
Arms and the Man
Armstrong, Robert
Arnold, Edward
Art deco style
Art Department
Art direction
Arthur, Jean
Astaire, Adele
Astaire, Fred: Astaire-Rogers formula; Astaire-Rogers partnership at RKO, end of; as auteur; The Barkleys of Broadway; Carefree; collaboration with music department; contract negotiations; A Damsel in Distress; declining reputation; disinterest in teaming with Rogers; displeasure with RKO instability; emergence as top star; Flying Down to Rio; Follow the Fleet; The Gay Divorcée; and Irving Berlin; and leading ladies; leaves RKO; and Leland Hayward; Lubitsch's desire to work with; profit participation; and radio; Radio City Revels; Roberta; Shall We Dance; signs with RKO; The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle; Swing Time; Top Hat
Astor Theater
A. T. & T.
Atlas Corporation
Audience Research Institute. See also Gallup, George
August, Joseph
Autry, Gene
The Awful Truth
Aylesworth, Merlin Hall: as chairman of board; concern over A and B pictures; conflict with Selznick; as corporate president; leaves the company; and the Legion of Decency; and NBC; and Radio City Music Hall; radio-film harmony; and RKO reorganization; and television; and theater operations; working with Kahane and Cooper
B Pictures
Bachelor Mother
Bachrach, Ernest
Baker, Graham
Balaban and Katz theater chain
Balio, Tino
Ball, Lucille
Ball of Fire
Bank holiday
Bank of America
Bankers Trust Company
Bankruptcy. See also receivership
Banks, Leslie
Baravalle, Victor
The Barkleys of Broadway
Barry, Harold
Barrymore, Ethel
Barrymore, John
Bauer, Leda
Baxter, Anne
Beau Idea
The Beachcomber
Becky Sharp
Before the Fact
Behind the Headlines
Benedict, Howard
Benjamin Franklin
Bennett, Constance
Bennett, Joan
Benny, Jack
Berggren, P. J.
Berle, Milton
Berlin, Irving
Berman, Henry
Berman, Pandro S.: as associate producer; and David Selznick; and Fred Astaire; and George Schaefer; and George Stevens; and Ginger Rogers; and Gunga Din; and Hunchback of Notre Dame; and Katharine Hepburn; leaves RKO; and lending stars; and Mary of Scotland; as production head; resigns as production head; and Room Service; and Stage Door; steps in for Cooper; and Technicolor; as unit producer
Berns, Mel
Berst, J. A.
The Best Years of Our Lives
Big Broadcast of 1936
The Big Trail
A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
A Bill of Divorcement (1940)
Bill, Raymond
Billy the Kid
Bird of Paradise
Birth of a Nation
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Blackface
Blane, Sally
Blind buying/selling
Block booking
Blore, Eric
Blumberg, Nate
Boles, John
Bombardier
Bondy, Judge William
Borden, Olive
Boretz, Allan
Bowman, Patric
“box-office poison” campaign
Boyd, William
Boyer, Charles
Boys Town
Brady, Alice
Brandt, Harry
Brandt, Jerrold T.
Breakfast for Two
Break of Hearts
Breen, Bobby
Breen, Joseph: as head of production; Production Code Administration
The Bride Walks Out
Bring ‘Em Back Alive
Bringing Up Baby
Briskin, Samuel
Broadway
Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody of 1936
Broadway Melody of 1940
Broadway Theater
Brock, Lou
Broderick, Helen
Bronder, Lucia
Brown, Harry Joe
Brown, Hiram
Brown, Katharine
Brown, Tom
Buck, Frank
Bulldog Drummond series
Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward
Burns, George
Business Week
Butler, David
Cabanne, Christy
Cagney, James
Call Out the Marines
Camera Department
Camera FX Department
Canutt, Yakima
Capitol Theater
Capra, Frank
Carefree
Carey, Harry
Carthay Circle Theater
Cartoons
Casablanca
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Casting Department
Castle, Edgerton
Catholic Legion of Decency
C.B.C. Film Corporation
Censorship. See also Production Code Administration
Chandler, Chick
Chaney, Lon
Chang
Chaplin, Charlie
Charlie Chan series
Charteris, Leslie
Chartier, Roy
Check and Double Check
Cheesman, Ted
Chemical National Bank
Chester Bennett Productions
Christensen, Andrew
Christopher Strong
Cimarron
Citizen Kane
Clark, Carroll
Clark, William H.
Clearances
Clip Joint
Cobb, Gerard
The Cocoanuts
Cohen, Maury
Cohn, Harry
Cohn, Jack
Colbert, Claudette
Coldeway, Anthony
Cole, Rufus
Collier's
Collins, Ray
Collis, Maurice
Colman, Ronald
Color film. See also Technicolor
Colorado Public Utilities Commission
Columbia: B. B. Kahane; B pictures; cost consciousness; Depression-era stability; Disney; Harry Cohn; Howard Hawks; Jack Cohn; Katharine Hepburn loan; major studio; Samuel Briskin; Sid Rogell
Comedies
Commitments Department
The Common Law
Compson, Betty
Condemned Women
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Connelly, Myles
The Conquerors
Conrad, Joseph
Consent decree of 1940
Consolidated Film Industries (CFI)
Construction Department
Cooper, Merian C.: and David Selznick; as head of production; illness; and King Kong; leaves RKO; and Pioneer Pictures; as producer; steps down
Coordinating Committee on National Defense
Cormack, Bartlett
Corporate president
Correll, Charles. See Amos ‘n’ Andy
Corrigan, Lloyd
Cortez, Ricardo
Cortez, Stanley
Cost overages
Costello, Dolores
Costume Department
Cotten, Joseph
The Covered Wagon
Cowan, William
J.
Coward, Noel
Cox, Anthony Berkeley
Cracked Nuts
Cram, Mildred
Cramer, Claire
Crawford, Joan
Crime films
The Criminal Code
Creelman, James
Croce, Arlene
Cromwell, John
Cronjager, Edward
Cukor, George
Custer, Bob
Daily Mirror
A Damsel in Distress
Dance, Girl, Dance
Dance Hall
Dance numbers
The Dancing Masters
Dancing Pirate
Danger Lights
Daniels, Bebe
Darnell, Linda
Daves, Delmer
David Copperfield
Davies, Marion
Davis, Bette
Day, Laraine
Dee, Frances
Del Rio, Dolores
DeMille, Cecil B.
Denham, Carl
Departments. See names of individual departments
Depinet, Ned E.
Depression
Derr, E. B.
DeSylva, Buddy
The Devil and Miss Jones
Dieterle, William
Dietrich, Marlene
Dinner at Eight
Directors Department
Disney, Roy
Disney, Walt
Distribution
Distribution division
Distribution exchanges
Divestiture
Dix, Richard
Dixiana
Dmytryk, Edward
Don Juan
Donovan, Frank R.
Double features
Dove, Billie
Down to Their Last Yacht
Drake Hotel
Drama films
Dreiser, Theodore
Dressler, Marie
Duna, Steffi
Dunn, Linwood
Dunne, Irene
Earhart, Amelia
The Echo
Eddy, Nelson
Edington, Harry: concedes decisions to Schaefer; as head of production; “in name only,”; and Orson Welles; Suspicion; “washing up” his contract
Editorial Department
Eglington, Bill
“Eight major” studios
Eilers, Sally
Electrical Department
Electrical Research Products. See A. T. & T.
Ellison, James
Enchanted April
Enzinger, George
Equity Pictures
Ermolieff, Joseph
Errol, Leon
Espy, Reeves
Estabrook, Howard
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Executive producer for B films
Exhibition
Exhibitors Herald and Motion Picture World
Exploitation films
Fadiman, William
Fairbanks, Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas