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INDEX
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Aachen, 344
Abbott, Bud, 103
Academy Awards, 24, 69–70, 76, 77, 81, 117–18, 179n, 189, 203–6, 211, 238, 286–88, 290, 379n
Capra and, 24, 40–41, 52, 69–70, 205, 288, 435–37
Ford and, 2, 18, 52, 70, 72, 126, 174, 205, 288, 324–25, 407, 408, 441
Huston and, 288, 443
Stevens and, 288, 290, 443
Wyler and, 33, 52, 69–70, 72, 118, 123, 125–26, 203–5, 435–36, 442
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 40, 174, 183–84, 264, 421
Capra and, 7, 40, 46, 110
Research Council of, 46, 71, 215, 216
Across the Pacific, 127–29, 186
Adak, 170, 186–91, 222–23, 241
Address Unknown (Taylor), 39, 40
Adventure for Two, 178
Africa, see North Africa
Africa Freed!, 243, 248–49
African Americans:
Ford and, 314n
as movie characters, 304
The Negro Soldier, 134–36, 234, 303–8
racism and, 134, 136, 304
soldiers, 304
African Queen, The, 443
Agee, James, 32, 125, 138, 173, 218, 232–33, 265, 287, 289, 298, 383–84, 407, 412, 436
Aherne, Brian, 34
Air Force, 129, 203, 294
Alaska, 170
Aleutian Islands, 223–24
Huston in, 170, 186–91, 265, 269
Report from the Aleutians, 191–92, 222–27, 241, 264, 265, 284, 288, 333, 411, 413
Alexander Nevsky, 264
Algeria, 173, 197–98, 214, 231, 232, 238, 242
Algiers, 179–80, 197–98, 215, 237–39
Alice Adams, 21, 81, 373
Allgood, Sara, 105
All Quiet on the Western Front, 21, 22, 64–65, 87, 259
“Aloha Means Goodbye” (Carson), 127
Alsop, Stewart, 7
Ambler, Eric, 170, 253–54, 265–70, 279, 280
America First, 89–90, 93–95
American Cinematographer, 151–52
American Revolution, 1, 24–25, 53, 382
American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), 401, 443
American Veterans Committee, 428
Amsterdam News, 307
Anchors Aweigh, 405
Anderson, Marian, 306
Anderson, Maxwell, 259–61, 293
Valley Forge, 24–25, 28
Andrews, Dana, 108, 209, 427, 429, 434
Angels with Dirty Faces, 163
Animeshk, 239
Annie Oakley, 21–22
Anschluss, 15
Anti-Nazi League, see Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
Araner, 55–56, 72, 168, 272, 324
Arise, My Love, 68, 76
Arizona, USS, 207
Armistead, Mark, 318
Army Emergency Relief, 214, 298
Army Hour, 245
Army-Navy Screen Magazine, 234
Army Photographic Center, 192
Army Pictorial Service (APS), 253, 255, 283, 311, 329, 368, 386, 410, 412–13, 425
Army Training Film program, 215
Arnim, Hans-Jürgen von, 262
Arnold, H. H., 244, 388
Arsenic and Old Lace, 8, 110–12, 216, 278–79, 329
Arthur, Jean, 41, 166, 167, 193–95, 416
Association of Motion Picture Producers, 40
Astor, Mary, 123, 124, 127
Atlantic Monthly, 7
At the Front in North Africa, 215, 232–34
Attu, 170, 187, 188, 190–91, 223–26
August, Joseph, 356
Augusta, USS, 314, 316, 318
Austria, 29, 164
Anschluss, 15
Awful Truth, The, 79–80
B-17s (Flying Fortresses), 176, 188, 199, 201–2, 219–21, 246, 266, 430, 434–35
Jersey Bounce, 201–3, 219
Memphis Belle, see Memphis Belle
B-24s, 188–90, 220
B-25s, 110, 137–38
Background to Danger, 170, 253
Back to Bataan, 357
Balaban, Barney, 90
Bankhead, Tallulah, 118
Baptism of Fire, 288
Barkley, Alben, 43–44
Bartlett, Sy, 111, 123, 127, 139
Barton, USS, 356
Bastogne, 349
Bataan, 141, 149, 299–300, 352
Battle of Britain, The, 164
Battle of China, The, 164, 308, 330
Battle of Midway, The, 144, 145–59, 160, 172–75, 179, 180, 182, 184, 205, 206, 209, 222, 224, 275, 282, 301
Battle of Russia, The, 164, 264–65, 278, 288
Battle of San Pietro, The, 279–83, 322, 331–34, 382–85, 399–400, 407, 411
Battle of the Bulge, 346
Belfast, HMS, 312
Belgium, 343–44, 346, 349, 368
Ben-Hur, 442
Bergen-Belsen, 367–68
Bergman, Ingrid, 417
Berlin, 29, 369, 276
Berlin, Irving, 245
Berman, Pandro, 22, 39
Bernds, Edward, 25, 42
Best Years of Our Lives, The, 390, 391–96, 417, 425–38, 441, 442
Biscuit Eater, The, 303
Bishop’s Wife, The, 390
Blanc, Mel, 235
Blanke, Henry, 32
Blood on the Sun, 277
Bogart, Humphrey, 62, 86, 124, 127, 128, 186, 270, 385
Bogdanovich, Peter, 72, 151
Bohnen, Eli, 375
Bolton, Jack, 155
Bomber’s Moon, 226
Bond, Ward, 109
Bône, 179–80
Borzage, Frank, 48, 109
Boyer, Charles, 59, 137
Bradley, Omar, 254, 314, 322, 340
Braun, Eva, 376
Breen, Joseph I., 16, 88, 428–29
Breen Office, 194, 296
Bremen, 202
Bridges, Lloyd, 389
Briskin, Sam, 380, 382, 389, 416, 424, 437
Britain, 175–76
Germany and, 45, 56, 68, 76, 81, 92, 97, 105, 121, 247–48, 252
Know Your Ally—Britain, 302–3
London, see London
Royal Air Force, 176, 220, 248, 346, 367
Tunisian Victory and, 243, 247–52, 254, 255
British Army Film Unit, 243, 248, 262, 268, 316
British films:
Africa Freed!, 243, 248–49
Desert Victory, 232–33, 236, 268, 288, 289
British War Office, 250, 254
British War Relief, 81
Broadway Bill, 422
Brooklyn Eagle, 306
Buchman, Sidney, 41, 42, 166, 263
Buck, Jules, 265, 267–69, 279, 280
Bulkeley, John, 299, 302, 318–19, 352–54, 356
Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP), 162–63, 166, 175, 206, 211, 225, 2
26, 335
Bureau of Public Relations, 217, 243, 333, 383, 388, 410–13
Burma, 222, 273–74, 326
Burnett, W. R., 85, 170n
Bury the Dead, 169
Cagney, James, 62, 137, 163, 277
Cagney, William, 389
Cairo, 197
Cairo Conference, 278
California, 241, 243, 288
Canutt, Yakima, 342
Capa, Robert, 266, 291
Capra, Ann, 110
Capra, Frank, 7–9, 11, 18, 23–28, 40–41, 45–46, 55, 59, 65, 69–70, 77–79, 82, 110–16, 119, 129, 130–34, 137, 139–44, 145, 158, 161, 163, 166, 169, 181, 191–92, 205, 211, 218, 233–34, 261–63, 276, 278–79, 284, 288, 311, 325, 326, 328–31, 344, 349, 366–68, 379, 401, 402, 414–16, 419–22, 428, 429, 439–41, 444
Academy Awards and, 24, 40–41, 52, 69–70, 205, 288, 435–37
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and, 7, 40, 46, 110
Africa Freed! and, 248–49
Allied landing in France and, 302
at Anti-Nazi League rally, 28–29
Arsenic and Old Lace, 8, 110–12, 216, 278–79, 329
B-25 bomber film and, 137–38
Columbia left by, 46, 49, 79, 166
Communism and, 275–76, 441
death of, 442
discharge from army service, 380, 381
Distinguished Service Medal awarded to, 381
entry into army, 8, 110–12
Eve of Battle, 317
financial difficulties of, 77, 111, 278, 329
The Flying Irishman and, 328
Ford and, 442
Frank Capra Productions, 46, 65
Here is Germany, 379
Hey, Soldier! and, 234
Huston’s Italy assignment and, 252–53, 265, 266, 269, 281, 282, 331–32
It Happened One Night, 24, 130–31
It’s a Wonderful Life, 414, 416–17, 419, 422–25, 435–37, 439, 441
Knight and, 142–44, 163, 164
Know Your Allies, see Know Your Allies
Know Your Enemies, see Know Your Enemies
Lend-Lease Act and, 308–9
Liberty Films, 345, 380–82, 389–90, 402, 414, 416, 417, 419–22, 424, 444
Liberty Films sold by, 437, 439
in London, 247–54, 257, 263, 276, 292
Lost Horizon, 161–62
Marshall and, 113–14, 133, 381
Meet John Doe, 46, 65–68, 69, 76–79, 183, 211, 216, 423
Mellett and, 114–15, 144, 184, 205, 210, 218, 264
Moss and, 303, 307–8
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 24, 26, 28, 65
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 41–46, 52, 65, 77, 94, 110, 132, 166, 183, 423
Mussolini and, 25, 67
The Negro Soldier, 134–36, 234, 303–8
On to Tokyo, 380
politics of, 8, 274, 277, 422
Private SNAFU cartoon series, 234–36, 308
Roosevelt and, 28, 441
Roosevelt speech drafted by, 114–15
Schlossberg and, 111–13, 133
Screen Directors Guild and, 26, 40, 79, 110, 408
Stevens and, 164–65, 167, 195, 345, 347, 418
Truman Committee and, 216
Tunisian Victory and, 236–43, 247–52, 254, 255, 278, 283, 288, 289, 298, 305, 381
Two Down and One to Go!, 380
Why We Fight, see Why We Fight
You Can’t Take It With You, 24, 26–27, 40–41
Your Job in Germany, 378–79
Capra, Frank, Jr., 329
Capra, John, 27
Capra, Lucille, 24, 27, 112, 115–16, 132–34, 139, 140, 183, 242, 247, 251–55, 329
Capra, Tommy, 247
Capri, 348
Carey, Harry, 44
Carlotta of Mexico, 33, 34
Carson, Robert, 127
Carver, George Washington, 306
Casablanca, 231–32, 236
Casablanca, 130, 286, 290, 417
Casablanca Conference, 185
Caserta, 266, 348
Catholic World, 139
Cerf, Bennett, 261
Chamberlain, Neville, 47, 48, 59
Chaplin, Charlie, 38, 67, 89, 93
Chayefsky, Paddy, 347
Chennault, Claire, 241n
Chennault, Jack, 241–42
Chiang Kai-Shek, 278
Children’s Hour, The, 33
China, 182, 222, 273, 274, 326
The Battle of China, 164, 308, 330
Japan and, 162, 189
Know Your Ally—China, 303
Chodorov, Jerome, 169, 200
Choltitz, Dietrich von, 341
Churchill, Winston, 59, 60, 122, 178, 185, 254, 278, 317, 376
Citadel, The, 46
Citizen Kane, 77, 262, 431
Civilian Conservation Corps, 113
Clampett, Bob, 235
Claridge’s, 176, 179, 199, 200, 248, 250, 319
Clark, Bennett, 90, 93, 94
Clark, D. Worth, 97, 98
Clothier, William, 169, 177, 199, 219, 221, 246, 293, 317–18
Cobb, Humphrey, 22–23
Coburn, Charles, 194
Cohn, Harry, 24–25, 28, 44, 49, 79, 155, 161, 167, 194, 195, 424
Colbert, Claudette, 59, 68, 131
Collier’s, 25, 91, 338
Colman, Ronald, 166, 167
Columbia Pictures, 23–24, 40, 65, 81, 137, 161, 194–95, 345, 402
Capra’s departure from, 46, 49, 79, 166
Stevens’ contract with, 49, 79, 166, 167, 193
Committee for the First Amendment, 441
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 59
Communism, 16, 17, 19–20, 26, 27, 41, 42, 50, 54, 61–63, 132–33, 169, 226, 265, 275, 441
Capra and, 275–76, 441
Ford and, 274, 275
House Un-American Activities Committee and, 16, 41, 62, 276n, 441
Huston and, 171, 191
McCarthyism and, 275
Communist Party USA (CPUSA), 191
concentration camps, 374, 401
Bergen-Belsen, 367–68
Dachau, 23, 369–77, 415, 421, 444
Dora, 367
Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps, 400, 402–3
Stevens and, 23, 367, 369–77, 400, 402–3, 415, 418, 421, 444
Confessions of a Nazi Spy, 36, 37–38, 82, 382
Connelly, Marc, 135, 423, 424
Cooper, Gary, 25, 28, 41, 60, 65, 66, 73, 76–77, 84, 88, 275
Cooper, Merian C., 56, 401
Corregidor, 142, 149
Costello, Lou, 103
Coutances, 338
Coward, Noel, 296
Crisp, Donald, 154, 156, 157
Cronin, A. J., 46
Cronkite, Walter, 203
Crowther, Bosley, 88, 218, 407
Cue, 297
Cukor, George, 69–70
Curtiz, Michael, 290
Czechoslovakia, 34, 59, 164
Dachau, 23, 369–77, 415, 421, 444
Daily Telegraph, 189
Daily Worker, 54
Darwell, Jane, 154, 156, 157, 172
Davenport, Harry, 108, 206
Davis, Bette, 33, 34, 51, 60, 69, 73, 117–19, 125, 168
Wyler and, 31, 33, 51, 60–61, 118–19, 426, 429, 442
Davis, Elmer, 207, 217, 226
D-Day, 310–19, 324, 444
Dead End, 33, 427
December 7th, 107–9, 126, 147, 155, 191, 206–10, 216, 271, 288, 306, 324–25, 355, 408, 409
de Gaulle, Charles, 185, 340, 341
de Havilland, Olivia, 125, 258, 385
Huston and, 123, 125, 129, 137, 170–71, 192, 284, 385
DeMille, Cecil B., 441
Desert Training Center, 241
Desert Victory, 232–33, 236, 268, 288, 289
De Sica, Vittorio, 421
Desire Under the Elms, 32
Detective Story, 442
Diary of Anne Frank, The,
444
Diary of a Sergeant, 425–26
Dies, Martin, 16, 62, 213
Dies Committee, 16, 19, 62–63, 133
Dieterle, William, 34, 35, 85
Directors Guild of America, 442
Disney, Walt, 275
Disney Studios, 164, 182, 235, 276
Dive Bomber, 300
Divide and Conquer, 164
Dodsworth, 33
Donovan, William “Wild Bill,” 3, 104, 106–8, 145, 152, 173, 174, 207, 216, 272, 273, 311, 319, 326, 348, 442
Doolittle, James, 110
Doolittle raid, 110, 145, 146
Dora, 367
Downey, Sheridan, 96
Drake, Alfred, 426
Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, 85–86
Dreiser, Theodore, An American Tragedy, 401, 443
Drums Along the Mohawk, 53, 152
Duel in the Sun, 415
Duff, Warren, 163
Duggan, Pat, 394
DUKWs, 313
Dunne, Irene, 79–80
Dunne, Philip, 59, 62, 74–76, 105, 107
Each Dawn I Die, 163
Eagle Squadron, 176
Eaker, Ira, 199–200, 220, 221, 257, 258, 260–61, 348, 389, 415
Eareckson, William, 190
E-boats, 318
Egypt, 233, 237, 261
Cairo Conference in, 278
Eichorn, David, 375
Eifler, Carl, 273
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 262, 312, 339, 344, 347, 366, 379, 390
Eisenstein, Sergei, 264
El Alamein, 233
Elbe, 368, 369
Elizabeth, Queen, The Queen Mother, 220, 260
Emerald Bay Yacht Club, 326–27
Emergency Peace Campaign, 84
Engel, Samuel, 108–9, 155
England, see Britain
Epstein, Joseph, 130
Epstein, Julius, 130
Escape, 120
Evans, Vincent, 202
Eve of Battle, 317
Faichney, James, 283, 284
Farber, Manny, 289, 384
Farm (Field Photo Memorial Home), 326–27, 409
Fascism, 17, 20, 23, 26, 27, 35, 39, 41, 42, 63, 66, 67, 77, 177, 274, 276, 336
Prelude to War and, 182, 218
Faulkner, William, 170n
FBI, 194, 276
Feldman, Charles, 167, 293, 344, 414
Ferguson, Otis, 44–45
Fetchit, Stepin, 214
Fidler, Jimmie, 50
Field Photo Memorial Home (the Farm), 326–27, 490
Field Photo Unit, 56–57, 72, 106–9, 179–81, 188, 206, 208, 215, 216, 222, 271, 273, 275, 288, 301, 311, 324, 325, 400–401, 403, 408
at Allied landing in France, 313–19
Battle of Midway and, 145, 151, 153, 155
They Were Expendable and, 355, 356
Fighting Seabees, The, 273, 357
FilmIndia, 23
Finkel, Abem, 86
1st Marine Division, 391
Fitzgerald, Barry, 328
Fitzgerald, Geraldine, 74
Fitzgerald, Marietta, 192, 241, 284
Flaherty, Robert, 192
Flanner, Janet, 163