Famous Players-Lasky
Fan magazines
Fanny Foley Herself
Father Takes a Wife
Faulkner, William
Faversham, William
Faye, Alice
Feldman, Charles
Ferber, Edna
Ferguson, Perry
Fidler, Jimmy
Fields, W. C.
The Fight for Life
Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated (FBO)
Film Daily
Film palace. See “picture palaces” “Final production authority,”
Fineman, B. P.
First National
The First Rebel. See Allegheny Uprising
Fisher, Kenneth L.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fitzmaurice, George
Five Came Back
Flight From Glory
“Fly Away Home,”
Flying Down to Rio
Follow the Fleet
Fonda, Henry
Fontaine, Joan
Forty-Second Street
Four Daughters
The Four Feathers
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Ford, John
Foreign box office
Foreign Power Company
Fort, Garrett
Foster, Norman
Four Jacks and a Jill
Fowler, Roy Alexander
Fox Film Corporation. See Twentieth Century-Fox
Fox Movietone News
Frank Ross-Norman Krasna Productions
Franklin-Blank Productions
Franklin, Harold B.
Freckles
Frederick, Pauline
Freeland, Thornton
Friends and Lovers
Gable, Clark
Gahagan, Helen
Gallup, George. See also Audience Research Institute
The Gang's All Here
Gangster genre
Garbo, Greta
Garnett, Tay
The Gay Diplomat
The Gay Divorce
The Gay Divorcée
General Electric Company
Genre. See names of individual genres
Gershwin, George
Gershwin, Ira
Gilbert, John
Girl Crazy
Girl From Mexico
Girl of the Rio
“give-away” nights
Glade, Coe
Gloria Productions, Incorporated
Goetz, Harry
Goetz, William
Goldwyn, Samuel
Gone With the Wind
Good Housekeeping
Gordon, Don
Gordon, Max
Gosden, Freeman. See Amos ‘n’ Andy
Gower Street studio. See RKO Studio
Graham, Martha
Graham, Sheilah
Grainger, Dorothy
Grand Hotel
Grand National Pictures
Grant, Cary: Bringing Up Baby; Gunga Din; and Harry Edington; Holiday; nonexclusive contract; Once Upon a Honeymoon; Suspicion; Sylvia Scarlett
Grass
Grauman's Chinese Theater
Grauman, Sid
Green Hell
Green, Lawrence
Griffith, D. W.
“grooming” talent
Guiol, Fred
Gunga Din
Haggard, H. Rider
Haight, George
Haldane of the Secret Service
Half Rogue
Hall, John
Hamilton, William
Hamlet
Hammerstein, Oscar
Hanbury, Ralph
Happy Days
Harbach, Otto
Harbin, Vernon
Harding, Ann
Hardwicke, Cedric
Harris, Jed
Harrison, Joan
Hart, Moss
Hart, William S.
Hawks, Howard
Hawks, William
Hayakawa, Sessue
Hays Office
Hays, Will
Hayward, Leland
Hayward, Louis
Head of Production; B. B. Kahane; B. P. Schulberg at Paramount; Charles Koerner; Charles Rogers at Pathe and Universal; Darryl Zanuck at Twentieth Century-Fox; David Selznick; Edwin King, FBO; Hal Wallis at Warner Bros.; Harry Edington; Irving Thalberg at MGM; Joseph Breen; Merian C. Cooper; Pandro Berman; Samuel Briskin; William LeBaron
Hearst, William Randolph
Heart of Darkness
Hecht, Ben
Hell and High Water
Hempstead, David
Hepburn, Katharine: Academy Award; Alice Adams; “box office poison,”; Bringing Up Baby; contract negotiations; contract termination; debut; disenchantment with RKO; and George Stevens; The Little Minister; Little Women; public disenchantment with; signing; Spitfire; Stage Door; Sylvia Scarlett; as top star; waning reputation; A Woman Rebels
Herbert, A. P.
Herman, Al
Hertz, John
Herzbrun, Henry
High Flyers
Hit the Deck
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hitting a New High
Hively, George
Hodges, Douglas
Hold ‘Em Jail
Holden, Lancing C.
Holiday
Hollywood on the Air
Hollywood Reporter
Holmes, Phillips
Holmes, Taylor
Holt, Tim
Hook, Line and Sinker
Hoover, Herbert
Hopkins, Miriam
Hopper, DeWolf
Hopper, Hedda
Horror films
Horton, Edward Everett
Houdini, Harry
Houdini Picture Corporation
Howard, Leslie
Howard, Sidney
Howe, G. B.
Hoyt, Harry
Hughes, Howard
Hugo, Victor
Hull, Cordell
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hunt, J. Roy
Hunt Stromberg Productions
Hurst, Fannie
Idiot's Delight
I Dream Too Much
Iles, Francis. See Cox, Anthony Berkeley
Imperator-Radio Pictures
Independent producers
Independent Theatre Owners Association
The Informer
Institute of Public Opinion
“intermediates,”
Intermezzo
International Pictures
Irene
Irving Trust Company
Italian Superpower Corporation
It's a Gift
It's All True
Ivanhoe
Jaffe, Sam
Jalna
Jamaica Inn
The Jazz Singer
Joan of Arc
Joan of Paris
John, Graham
Johnson, William
Jolson, Al
Jones, Robert Edmond
Jordan, Dorothy
Journal-American
Joy of Living
Julius Caesar
Kahane, Benjamin Bertram (B. B.): at Columbia; and contract negotiations; cost-cutting; and David Selznick; and FBO; Flying Down to Rio; and Katharine Hepburn; and Lou Brock; and Merian Cooper; and Pandro Berman; as president of RKO Studios; as president of production; as production head; as RKO general counsel
Kalmar, Bert
Kalmus, Herbert
Kanin, Garson
Kaufman, Edward
Kaufman, George S.
Keene, Tom
Keith, B. F.
Keith-Albee-Orpheum
Kennedy, Edgar
Kennedy, Joseph P.: FBO; Pathe; and Queen Kelly; Robertson-Cole; rumored FBO merger; sound conversion
Kennedy, Rose
Kent, Sidney
Kentucky Kernels
Kern, Jerome
King, Edwin
King Kong
King Solomon's Mines
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Kipling, Rudyard
Kismet
Kitty Foyle
Koerner, Charles
Kramer, Stanley
Krasna, Norman
Kreutzberg, Harold
Kyser, Kay
Labor unions
La Cava, Gregory
La Cucaracha
Laddie
The Lady Consents
A Lady to Love
Laemmle, Carl
Laemmle, Junior
Lang, Fritz
Lasky, Jesse
The Last Days of Pompeii
The Last of the Mohicans
Latin American market
Laughton, Charles
Law of the Underworld
LeBaron, William; and coming of sound; FBO; as head of production; at Paramount; playwright; Rio Rita
Lederer, Francis
Leeds, Andrea
Legal Department
Legion of Decency. See Catholic Legion of Decency
Lehman Brothers
Lessing, Gunther
Lesser, Sol
Let's Try Again
Letty Lynton
Levy, Jules
Lewton, Val
Liberty Films
Lieber, Perry
Life
The Life of the Party
The Lights of New York
Lindi, Aroldo
Literary properties
Little Caesar
The Little Foxes
Little Men
The Little Minister
Little Women
Lloyd, Harold
Loew's, Inc.
Lombard, Carole
Look Magazine
Look Who's Laughing
Lord, Robert
Lorentz, Pare
Los Angeles Times
The Lost Patrol
The Lost Squadron
Love Affair
The Love Parade
Lubitsch, Ernst
Lubitsch touch
Luce, Claire
Luce, Henry
Lucky Partners
Lusty, Lou
MacArthur, Charles
Macgowan, Kenneth
Mackaill, Dorothy
Mackenzie, Compton
The Mad Miss Manton
Madison Square Garden
The Magnificent Ambersons
Majestic Pictures
Makeup and Hair Stylists Department
Mallard, William
Mamoulian, Rouben
Man of Two Words
A Man to Remember
Man Without a World
Management. See corporate president; executive producer for B films; head of production
Mankiewicz, Herman
March, Fredric
March of Time
Marcus, Lee: on Katharine Hepburn; liaison between studio and home office; as president of RKO Pathe Pictures; as producer at Twentieth Century Fox; quits RKO; supervision of B pictures; as vice president, FBO
Markert, Russell
Marx Brothers
Mary of Scotland
Mascot Pictures Corporation
Massey, Raymond
Maugham, Somerset
Max Gordon Plays and Pictures
Mayer, Louis B.
Maynard, Ken
The Mayor of 44th Street
McCarey, Leo
McCausland, A. H.
McCrea, Joel
McDonough, Joseph R. (Mac): appointment to board; and B. B. Kahane; B films; budgeting; conflicts with Pandro Berman; corporate president; forced resignation from RKO; as general manager RKO; and George Schaefer; and Ginger Rogers; and Howard Hawks; and Katharine Hepburn; management shake-up; and Merian C. Cooper; and Radio City Music Hall; resigns VP title; RKO studios; They Knew What They Wanted
McGaffey, Elizabeth (Bessie)
McLaglen, Victor
McLaughlin, Irene Castle
Meira, Manuel Olimpio
Melodrama
Melody Cruise
Mercury Productions Company
Meredith, Burgess
Messinger, Lillie
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM): A picture budgets; Astaire-Rogers; borrowing George Fitzmaurice from; David Selznick; Depression-era profits; Ernst Lubitsch; Floyd Odlum; Fox merger rumors; George Cukor; Hunchback of Notre Dame rights; Katharine Hepburn; Lou Ostrow; as “major” studio; offer to buy Gunga Din; offer to buy King Kong; Pandro Berman; “Realife” process; Sam Wood; sound; and stars; theater acquisition; unit production; widescreen
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Miller, Earl
Mitchell, Langdon
Mitchell, Margaret
Mitchell, Silberberg, and Knupp
Monogram Pictures
Monte Carlo
Montgomery, Douglass
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Moore, Grace
Moorehead, Agnes
Morley, Christopher
Morley, Karen
Morning Glory
The Mortal Storm
Moss, Jack
Mother Carey's Chickens
Motion Picture Herald
Motion Picture News
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA). See also Hays Office Movie palace. See “picture palaces”
Movietone
Movietone sound newsreels
Mr. and Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Mulhall, Jack
Muni, Paul
Murder on the Blackboard
Murdock, J. P.
Murfin, Jane
Murray, John
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
Music Department
Music for Madame
Musicals
Musuraca, Nicholas
Mutiny on the Bounty
My Favorite Wife
My Man Godfrey
National Board of Review
National Broadcasting Company (NBC): David Sarnoff; Merlin Aylesworth; NBC studio; radio-movie symbiosis; “Red” and “Blue” networks; Rockefeller Center
The NBC Revue of 1934. See Radio City Revels
National Electric Light Association
Neagle, Anna
Neely bill
Negri, Pola
Nero Wolfe series
The New Deal
New Faces of 1937
Newman, Alfred
Newsreel
Newsweek
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
The New York Times
The New Yorker
Nichols, Dudley
Nicholls, Jr., George
Ninotchka
Niven, David
Nizer, Louis
Nolan, J. J.: assistant secretary of RKO; Citizen Kane; production schedule; rehiring; resignation; studio commitments; “VP in charge of RKO studios,”; waste prevention
Nugent, Frank S.
Nurse Edith Cavell
Oakie, Jack
Obliging Young Lady
O'Brien, Edmund
O'Brien, George
O'Brien, Willis
O'Connor, John J.
O'Day, Dawn. See Shirley, Anne Odlum, Floyd B.: Atlas investment trust; declines purchase of RCA stock; and George Schaefer; and Joseph Breen; postpones purchase of RCA stock; RKO management shake-up; RKO performance; underwriting RKO shares; willingness to sell interest in RKO
Office of Inter-American Affairs
O'Flaherty, Liam
Ogilvy, David
Of Human Bondage
O'Hara, Maureen
Oliver, Edna May
Olivier, Lawrence
Once Upon a Honeymoon
One Hour With You
One Man's Journey
One Night of Love
Orpheum theaters
Oscar. See also Academy Award
O'Shea, Daniel T.
Ostrow, Lou
The Other Man
Ouspenskaya, Maria
Pan, Hermes
Pantages Theater
Parachute Battalion
Paramount: David Selznick; Depression-era profits; Ernst Lubitsch; Floyd Odlum investment; George Cukor; George Schaefer; Jesse Lasky; Leo Spitz; “major” studio; Merian C. Cooper; Radio-Keith-Orpheum (Canada) Ltd.; receivership; reorganization; sound conversion; studio lot; theateracquisition; upper management; widescreen; William LeBaron
Parker, Jean
Parkyakarkus
Parsons, Louella
Pascal, Gabriel
Passage from Bordeaux
Pathe Film Company: facilities; Joseph Kennedy; Pathe News; RKO merger; RKO Pathe Pictures, Incorporated
Penner, Joe
The Perfect Crime
Perkins, Grace
Perry Mason series
The Peter B. Kyne Story
Peterson, Edgar
The Petrified Forest
The Phantom of Crestwood
Photophone
Piazza, Ben
Pichel, Irving
Pickford, Mary
“picture palaces,”
Pin-Up Girl
Pioneer Pictures
Pitts, Zasu
Pittsburgh Calcium Light & Film Company
The Play's The Thing Productions
The Plow That Broke the Plains
Plunkett, Walter
Polglase, Van Nest
Pommer, Erich
Pons, Lily
Porter, Cole
Portrait of a Rebel
Potter, H. C.
Poverty row
Powell, Eleanor
Powell, William
Power, Tyrone
Powers, Pat
Pre-editing
Preminger, Otto
Prison pictures
The Prisoner of Zenda
Proctor theaters
Producers Department
Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)
Production Code Administration (PCA)
Production Department
Production head/Production chief. See Head of Production
Profit participation
“programmers,”
Property Department
The Public Enemy
Publicity Department
Pyramid Pictures Corporations
Quality Street
Queen Kelly
Quigley, Martin
Radio
Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Revels
Radio Corporation of America (RCA): antitrust suit; David Sarnoff; Depression-era losses; J. R. McDonough; merger; Photophone; profits; radio-film symbiosis; RKO reorganization; RKO stock buyout; Rockefeller Center; sound on film; television; underwriting RKO
The Radio Flash
Radio-Keith- Orpheum Corporation: bankruptcy relief; birthday; board of directors; corporate profits; cost-cutting; creditors; financing; “great purge,”; management instability; merger rumors; net losses; Pathe merger; recapitalization; reorganization; stockholders; subsidiary merger; theater acquisition. See also corporate president; Radio City Music Hall; RKO Pathe Pictures, Incorporated; RKO Radio Pictures; Rockefeller Center; receivership
Radio-Keith-Orpheum (Canada) Ltd.
Rainbow on the River
Rainbow Parade
Ramsaye, Terry
Ranger the dog
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