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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

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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

 

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