by Mark Harris
Fleming, Victor, 52, 275
Florida, 242, 243, 288
Flying Fortresses, see B-17s
Flying Irishman, The, 328
Flying Tigers, 56
Flying Tigers, 357
Flying Yorkshireman, The, 328
Flynn, Errol, 336, 385
Flynn, John C., 93–94
Fonda, Henry, 53, 54, 70, 74, 154, 156, 157
Ford, Barbara, 105, 168, 408
Ford, Dan, 56, 57
Ford, John, 1–4, 7–9, 11, 18–20, 21, 22, 28, 52–53, 63, 70–72, 76, 104–10, 119, 126, 137, 168, 170, 173–76, 205, 210, 211, 219, 238, 271–75, 278, 288, 293, 301, 324–25, 339, 366, 395, 407–9, 420, 440–43
Academy Awards and, 2, 18, 52, 70, 72, 126, 174, 205, 288, 324–25, 407, 408, 441
at Allied landing in France, 301, 309, 310–19
at Anti-Nazi League rally, 19, 20
The Battle of Midway, 144, 145–59, 160, 172–75, 179, 180, 182, 184, 205, 206, 209, 222, 224, 275, 282, 301
boat of (Araner), 55–56, 72, 168, 272, 324
Bulkeley and, 302, 318–19
Capra and, 442
Communism and, 274, 275
death of, 442
December 7th and, 107–9, 126, 147, 207–10, 216, 271, 288, 324–25, 355, 408, 409
Doolittle raid filmed by, 110, 145, 146
Farm (Field Photo Memorial Home) established by, 326–27, 409
Field Photo Unit of, see Field Photo Unit
The Grapes of Wrath, 53–55, 63, 70, 76, 78, 98, 153, 154, 440
How Green Was My Valley, 2, 73–76, 105, 106, 126, 152–54
Jews and, 274–75
leg broken by, 360, 400
in London, 174–77, 319, 325
The Long Voyage Home, 56, 63–65, 174
Mellett and, 174–75, 205
military honors desired by, 325, 408
and Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, 275
Naval Volunteer Photographic Unit and, 2, 3
navy commission of, 55–56, 72
navy induction of, 104–5
in North Africa, 179–80, 216
Olivier and, 178–79
OSS assignment of, 273–74
politics of, 274–75
requests transfer from Naval Reserve to active duty, 1–3
return from war, 400–401
Sex Hygiene, 71–72
Stagecoach, 18, 49, 52–53, 63, 153, 174, 272, 357
Stevens and, 311
They Were Expendable, 299–302, 318–19, 325–27, 352–61, 395, 405–7
Truman Committee and, 216
War Department and, 105, 107, 325–26
Wayne and, 52, 55, 63, 109, 272–73, 356–60
Wyler and, 177
Zanuck and, 327
Ford, Mary, 1–3, 56, 105, 109, 126, 146, 151, 168, 272, 274, 316, 319
Ford, Michael Patrick “Pat,” 105, 168, 274, 357, 408
Foreign Correspondent, 48
Foreman, Carl, 276–78
Forrestal, James, 207, 352–53
For Whom the Bell Tolls, 275
Four Sons, 21
Fox, see 20th Century Fox
France, 57, 58–59, 61, 164, 167, 368
Allied landing and aftermath in, 261–64, 290–91, 301, 309, 310–23
liberation of, 261
Mulhouse, 348–51, 361
Paris, see Paris
Stevens in, 338–44
Wyler in, 347–51
Franco, Francisco, 25, 131
Frank Capra Productions, 46, 65
Freleng, Friz, 235
Fudd, Elmer, 235
Funny Girl, 442
Furthman, Jules, 67
Gabin, Jean, 59
Gable, Clark, 131
Gallagher, Tag, 208
Garbo, Greta, 59, 101
Garfield, John, 168
Garson, Greer, 119, 123, 204
Gaslight, 417
Gay, George, 150
Geisel, Theodor S., 234–36, 277, 308, 329–30, 378–79
George VI, King, 220, 260
Germany, 29, 60, 67–68, 92, 97, 141, 161, 164, 181, 183
Aachen, 344
Austria and, 15, 29, 164
in Battle of the Bulge, 346
Berlin, 29, 369, 376
Britain and, 45, 56, 68, 76, 81, 92, 97, 105, 121, 247–48, 252
citizenry of, 378–79
concentration camps of, see concentration camps
Czechoslovakia and, 34, 59, 164
France and, 57, 58–59, 61, 164
Here is Germany, 379
Italy and, 267
Know Your Enemy—Germany, 308, 329–30, 335, 379
Kristallnacht and, 29, 30
The Nazi Plan, 377, 400, 403–4
The Nazis Strike, 164
Nordhausen, 367–68
North Africa and, 180
Norway and, 64
Nuremberg Trials and, 376–77, 400–404
Poland and, 37, 43, 59, 164
postwar occupation of, 379
Prelude to War and, 182
Russia and, 87, 265
Stevens in, 344–47, 366–77, 401–2
Torgau, 368–69
Wilhelmshaven, 202–3, 205, 219, 220, 297
Wyler in bombing mission over, 201–3, 219–21, 245–46, 430, 434
Your Job in Germany, 378–79
Gilbert, W. S., 335
Gillette, Melvin, 238–39, 266–67, 269, 333
Glazer, Benjamin, 76
Glory for Me (Kantor), 392–95
Goebbels, Joseph, 38, 138, 141
Goering, Hermann, 121, 292, 376, 404
Going My Way, 328, 380
Goldwyn, Samuel, 34–35, 41, 46, 49, 59, 60, 109, 126, 205, 420, 425
The Best Years of Our Lives and, 392–96, 425, 430, 435
Wyler and, 72–73, 169, 245, 258, 298, 365, 389, 390
Gone with the Wind, 33, 35, 52, 73, 205, 382
Goodbye, Mr. Chips, 275
Good Earth, The, 330
Good Housekeeping, 423
Goodrich, Frances, 308, 328, 423
Goulden, Joseph, 397
Grable, Betty, 197
Grand Illusion, 19
Granger, Farley, 425
Grant, Cary, 8, 23, 79–81, 166, 167, 193
Grant, USS, 191
Grapes of Wrath, The, 53–55, 63, 70, 76, 78, 98, 153, 154, 440
Great Dictator, The, 38, 67, 89, 93
“Greatest Gift, The” (Stern), 422–23
Greene, Graham, 27, 53
Green Pastures, The, 135, 423
Greenstreet, Sidney, 127, 128
Grobel, Lawrence, 192
Grogan, Stanley, 217
Grosseto, 363
Gunga Din, 23, 38, 39, 81, 262, 343
Guthrie, Woody, 54
Hackett, Albert, 308, 328, 423
Halifax, Lord, 178
Hammett, Dashiell, 124, 127
Hansen, Edmund, 57
Harper’s Bazaar, 412
Hart, Moss, 27, 298
Harvey, 382
Havens, James, 356
Hawaii, 329
Hawks, Howard, 82
Air Force, 129, 203, 294
Sergeant York, 73, 83–89, 93–94, 97, 103, 123
Hays, Will, 44
Hays Office, 91
Hayward, Louis, 289
Hecht, Ben, 34–35
Heiress, The, 442
Heisler, Stuart, 303, 305, 306
Heller, Bob, 236
Hellinger, Mark, 331
Hellman, Lillian, 33, 73, 118, 126, 135, 138, 364
Helm, Henriette, 350–51
Hemingway, Ernest, 275, 331, 338, 341
Hemingway, Leicester, 349–51
Henry V (Shakespeare), 178–79, 312
Hepburn, Katharine, 5–6, 8, 21, 81, 165, 168, 418
Here is Germany, 379
Herman, Jan, 219, 365
Hersey, John, 410
Hersholt, Jean
, 421
Hess, Rudolf, 403, 404
High Noon, 276n
High Sierra, 85–86, 124
Hirohito, Emperor, 131, 160, 276–78, 335
Prelude to War and, 182
Tanaka plan and, 330
Hiroshima, 387, 396
Hitchcock, Alfred, 48, 69–70, 125, 398, 416
Hitler, Adolf, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 23, 25, 28, 36, 37, 38, 46, 67–68, 79, 84, 85, 87n, 88, 89, 92, 93, 95, 97, 98, 103, 120, 123, 131, 141, 160, 176, 181, 215, 235, 328, 332, 344, 350, 369, 378, 379, 380
Juárez and, 34, 35
Nuremberg Trials and, 403, 404
Paris and, 339, 340
Prelude to War and, 182
Stevens at Berchtesgaden retreat of, 376
suicide of, 375, 376
Tunisian Victory and, 255
Hitler Lives, 379n
Hodson, James, 248, 251, 255–56
Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, 16, 19, 29, 88
Capra and, 28–29
Ford and, 19, 20
“Quarantine Hitler” rally of, 28–29
Hollywood Canteen, 168, 274, 408
Hollywood Community Chest, 50–51
Hollywood Reporter, 91–92, 102, 206, 211, 351, 436
Hollywood Victory Caravan, 137
Holman, Rufus, 210–11, 217
Home Again Special, 391–92
Hoover, J. Edgar, 115, 194
Hope, Bob, 118, 204, 250
Hornet, USS, 110, 147–50
House Divided, A, 32
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 16, 41, 62, 276n, 441
Howe, James Wong, 188, 222
Howell, Miriam, 394
How Green Was My Valley, 2, 73–76, 105, 106, 126, 152–54
Hughes, Francis Massie, 147
Hughes, Langston, 307
Huston, John, 4, 5, 11, 18, 30–36, 37, 73, 82, 85–86, 123, 124, 127, 170, 191–92, 271, 283–85, 288, 293, 322, 339, 380, 404, 409–10, 420, 440, 441, 443
Academy Awards and, 288, 443
Across the Pacific, 127–29
in Aleutian Islands, 170, 186–91, 265, 269
Ambler and, 253–54, 265–69, 280
B-25 bomber film and, 137–38
The Battle of San Pietro, 279–83, 322, 331–34, 382–85, 399–400, 407, 411
on bomber missions, 189–90
Capra and, 252–53
death of, 443
de Havilland and, 123, 125, 129, 137, 170–71, 192, 284, 385
discharge from army service, 409
divorce of, 385
in driving accidents, 32
financial difficulties of, 331
Fitzgerald and, 192, 241, 284
infidelities and romances of, 123, 192, 249, 284
investigation into suspected Communist ties of, 171, 191
in Italy, 252–53, 265–70, 279–80, 282–83, 332
Juárez, 33–36, 85
Know Your Enemy—Japan and, 334–37, 387–88
Let There Be Light (originally The Returning Psychoneurotic), 386–87, 396–400, 409–13, 443
Liberty Films and, 414
Lilly and, 284, 334
in London, 247–53, 257
The Maltese Falcon, 4, 86, 123–25, 127, 331
Report from the Aleutians, 191–92, 222–27, 241, 264, 265, 284, 288, 333, 411, 413
Scott’s breakdown and hospitalization and, 284, 385–86
Sergeant York and, 86–87, 123
Signal Corps joined by, 5, 127–29
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 127, 170, 293, 410, 440, 443
Tunisian Victory and, 241–43, 248–51, 254, 281, 288
Wyler’s friendship with, 30–34, 442
Huston, Lesley Black, 30, 123, 125, 129, 170, 192, 284
divorce of, 385
Huston, Walter, 31, 32, 33, 108, 182, 191–92, 206, 209, 223, 288
Iceland, 107
I’m an American!, 78
India, 273
Informer, The, 18–19, 52, 63
Intelligence Documentary Photographic Project, 274
In This Our Life, 123, 125, 128
In Time to Come, 5
In Which We Serve, 296
IRA, 18
Iran, 261, 309
I Remember Mama, 443
Italy, 161, 164, 197, 284
The Battle of San Pietro, 279–83, 322, 331–34, 382–85, 399–400, 407, 411
Germany and, 267
Huston in, 252–53, 265–70, 279–80, 282–83, 332
Operation Avalanche and, 253
Prelude to War and, 182
Rome, 317
San Pietro, 267–70, 279–83, 322
Wyler in, 298, 348, 351, 361
It Happened One Night, 24, 130–31
It’s a Wonderful Life, 414, 416–17, 419, 422–25, 435–37, 439, 441
Ivens, Joris, 276–77
I Wake Up Screaming, 197
I Wanted Wings, 200
Jackson, Robert, 377
Jaffe, Sam, 23
Japan, 102, 134, 135, 164, 181, 183
Aleutian Islands and, see Aleutian Islands
anti-Asian racism and, 127–28, 160–61, 206–7, 276, 277, 330, 335–37
atom bombs dropped on, 387, 396
Bataan and, 141, 149, 299–300, 352
Battle of Midway, see Midway, Battle of
China and, 162, 189
Doolittle raid and, 110, 145, 146
end of war in, 387–88
Know Your Enemy—Japan, 163, 234, 276–78, 308, 328, 334–37, 380, 387–88
Objective, Burma! and, 336
On to Tokyo, 380
Pearl Harbor attack by, see Pearl Harbor
Prelude to War and, 182
The Purple Heart and, 335
Shintoism in, 160, 335, 387
Japanese Americans, 160
December 7th and, 206–10, 271
internment camps and, 127, 162, 208
Little Tokyo, U.S.A. and, 162, 206
Jews:
Ford and, 274–75
in Germany, 37
in Hollywood, 15–16, 37–38, 50, 88–89, 91
Jersey Bounce, 201–3, 219
Jezebel, 33, 60, 118
Joan of Lorraine, 417
Johnson, Nunnally, 54
Jones, Chuck, 235, 236
Jones, Jennifer, 415
Journey into Fear, 253
Juárez, 33–36, 85
Juárez, Benito, 33–34
Juno Beach, 312
Justice Department, 41, 78, 90
Justin, John, 76
Kachins, 274
Kanin, Garson, 347
Kantor, Mackinlay, 392
Glory for Me, 392–95
Kaufman, George S., 27
Kazan, Elia, 440
Kazin, Alfred, 265
Keighley, William, 349
Keitel, Wilhelm, 403
Keep ’Em Flying, 210n
Kellogg, Ray, 273, 301, 403
Kelly, Bob, 353n
Kelly, Gene, 405
Kennedy, Joseph P., 44
Kiel, 221
Killers, The, 331
Kingsley, Sidney, 33, 192
Kipling, Rudyard, 23
Kiska, 170, 186, 187, 189–91, 223–26
Kitty Foyle, 69
Knight, Eric, 142–44, 163, 164, 177, 183, 185, 218, 264, 328
Know Your Allies, 133, 163, 302–3
Know Your Ally—Britain, 302–3
Know Your Ally—China, 303
Know Your Ally—Russia, 303
Know Your Enemies, 133, 161, 208, 276, 302
Know Your Enemy—Germany, 308, 329–30, 335, 379
Know Your Enemy—Japan, 163, 234, 276–78, 308, 328, 334–47, 380, 387–88
Knox, Frank, 104
Koch, Howard, 5, 86
Koenig, Lester, 260, 361–62, 364
Kohner, Lupita, 49
Kohner, Paul, 49
Korda, Alexander, 46, 76, 93, 176
Kristallnacht, 29, 3
0
“Kukan”: The Battle Cry of China, 189
Kuter, L. S., 295
Ladd, Alan, 204
Ladies’ Home Journal, 78
Lady for a Day, 441
Laemmle, Carl, 31, 49
La Guardia, Fiorello, 88, 140
Lahr, Bert, 137
Lake, Veronica, 258
Lamarr, Hedy, 258
Landon, Alf, 26
Langford, Frances, 250
Lardner, David, 233
Lasky, Jesse, 83–84
Laurel and Hardy, 137, 373
Lay, Beirne, 200–201, 203, 221, 247, 260
Leaf, Munro, 235–36
League of American Writers, 191
League of Nations, 5
Leahy, William, 158
Lean, David, 296, 421
Leclerc, Philippe, 339, 341
Leech, John, 62
Leighton, Charles, 219
Lend-Lease Act, 76, 91
Russia and, 308–9
Let There Be Light (originally The Returning Psychoneurotic), 386–87, 396–400, 409–13, 443
Letter, The, 51, 69, 118
Levinson, Nathan, 76
Liberty Films, 345, 380–82, 389–90, 402, 414, 416, 417, 419–22, 424, 437, 444
sold to Paramount, 437, 439
Libya, 233
Life, 266, 322, 410, 412
Lilly, Doris, 284, 334
Lindbergh, Anne, 95
Lindbergh, Charles, 91, 94–96, 104, 235
Lippmann, Walter, 245
Little Foxes, The, 60, 73, 75, 118–19, 125, 126, 134, 429, 431
Little Tokyo, U.S.A., 162, 206
Litvak, Anatole, 4, 37, 137, 141, 231, 232, 243, 264, 305, 308, 380
Llewellyn, Richard, 73–74
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 44
Lombard, Carole, 80, 118
London, 247–48
Capra in, 247–54, 257, 263, 276, 292
Ford in, 174–77, 319, 325
Huston in, 247–53, 257
Stevens in, 257, 261, 262, 290–92, 309, 347
Wyler in, 176–78, 199–204, 257, 258
London Can Take It, 76
London Charter, 376
Long Voyage Home, The, 56, 63–65, 174
Look, 124
Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 32
Los Angeles Herald Express, 205
Los Angeles Times, 387, 420
Lost Horizon, 161–62
Louis, Joe, 135, 304, 305
Loy, Myrna, 427, 432
Lubitsch, Ernst, 118
Luce, Henry, 54
Lund, John, 379
Lupino, Ida, 74
Luxembourg, 343, 346, 349
Lynn, Leni, 249
MacArthur, Charles, 34–35, 299, 302, 353, 387–88
MacDonald, Jeanette, 204
MacKenzie, Aeneas, 33–34
Mackenzie, Jack, Jr., 109, 147–52, 408
MacLeish, Archibald, 140
Madame Curie, 286
Madsen, Axel, 200
Majae al Bab, 180
Malraux, André, 350
Maltese Falcon, The, 4, 86, 123–25, 127, 331
Manchuria, 164, 181
Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 6, 80
Mann, Thomas, 15, 16–17