B

Bacall, Lauren, 20 , 42 , 45 -47, 46,61 -62

Backus, Jim, 290

Baer, Max, 375 -376

Bailly, Auguste, 51

Balderston, John, 224 , 231

Ball, Lucille, 98

Balzac, Honoré de, 105 , 258

Bancroft, George, 361

Bankhead, Tallulah, 329

Barry, Philip, 123 , 344

Barrymore, John, 258

Barzman, Ben, 333

Basehart, Richard, 239 , 357

Bates, H. E., 148

Beatty, Warren, 303 , 375

Beck, George, 346

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 208

Behrman, S. N., 224

Bel Geddes, Barbara, 141 -142

Bellamy, Ralph, 63 -64, 259

Bell and Howell, 237

Bellini, Giovanni, 202

Bemelmans, Ludwig, 224

Bennett, Constance, 117 , 118

Benny, Jack, 116 , 286

Bergen, Edgar, 113 , 118 -119, 128

Bergman, Ingmar, 310

Bergman, Ingrid, 139 , 147 , 149 -150, 230

Bergner, Elisabeth, 212

Berlin, Irving, 150

Berman, Pandro, 52 , 54 , 57 , 58 , 96

Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste (King Charles XIV John), 320

Bernhardt, Sarah, 116

Bernstein, Leonard, 73 , 74 , 151

Bernstein, Walter, 158 , 171 , 185 -186

Berry, Jack, 141 -142

Bessie, Alvah, 186 -187, 322

Biberman, Herbert, 322

Bickford, Charles, 190

Bischoff, Sam, 346

Biskind, Peter, 7

Bjork, Anita, 240

Blacklist, 2 -4, 47 -50, 51 , 130 , 142 -149, 150 , 152 , 158 -160, 178 -188, 360 -361

Blaustein, Julian, 314 -315, 320 , 323

Blees, Robert, 345

Block, Libbie, 141

"The Blue Danube," 211 , 215

Bodenheim, Maxwell, 169

Boehm, Sidney, 50

Bogart, Humphrey, 9 , 18 , 20 , 23 , 24 , 41 -42, 45 -47, 46, 61 , 69 , 194,200 , 263 -264, 315 , 358 , 375 , 379 -380

Bogdanovich, Peter, 245

Boland, Bridget, 230

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 320

Bond, Ward, 353

Boone, Pat, 243 -244

Borgnine, Ernest, 62 , 254 , 319 -320

Borneman, Ernest, 2

Bosworth, Patricia, 286

Boyer, Charles, 217 , 218 , 230 -231, 256 , 316

Brackett, Charles, 111 , 203 , 204 , 205 , 224 , 226 -229, 232 -233, 236 -239, 239,240 -244, 245

Brackett, Elizabeth, 227

Brackett, Leigh, 8 , 9 , 19;

interview, 15 -26;

introduction, 15 ;

filmography, 16 ;

working with Howard Hawks, 17 -23;

working with William Faulkner, 17 -18;

on Jules Furthman, 17 ;

The Big Sleep,17 -18, 20 , 23 -24;

on Raymond Chandler, 18 , 23 -25;

on Humphrey Bogart, 18 ;

El Dorado, 20 , 21 , 22 ;

on John Wayne, 20 -22;

Rio Bravo, 20 , 21 , 22 ;

Rio Lobo, 21 -22;

on Westerns, 22 -23;

working with Robert. Altman, 23 -25;

The Long Goodbye,23 - 25 ;

on Elliott Gould, 23 , 25

Bradbury, Ray, 61

Brady, Scott, 347

Brahms, Johannes, 208

Brand, Millen, 136 -137

Brando, Marlon, 11 , 57 , 147 , 254 , 275. 281 , 292 , 293 -301, 296,306 -308, 320 , 325 -326

Brando, Marion, Sr., 293

Brecht, Bertolt, 143 , 224 , 257

Breen, Joseph (the Breen Office), 229 , 242 , 319 -320

Breen, Richard, 236 -239, 239

Bregman, Martin, 327 -328

Brenman-Gibson, Margaret, 67

Brennan, Walter, 21

Brentano, Lowell, 344

Brice, Fanny, 117

Bridges, Harry, 187

Bright, John, 178

Briskin, Sam, 317

Broidy, Steve, 347

Bromfield, John, 266

Bronston, Samuel, 11 , 331 , 334 , 348 , 359 , 362 , 367 , 369,370 , 375 , 379

Brooks, Richard, 2 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 31, 46 ;

interview, 27 -72;

introduction, 27 -32;

filmography, 32 -33;

early career (newspapers and radio), 33 -38;

family background, 35 -36;

on Sinclair Lewis, 35 , 58 -60;

coming to California, 36 ;

writing radio scripts, 36 -38;

Universal films (White Savage, Men of Texas, Don Winlow of the Coast Guard), 38 -40;

Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater, 38 -39;

The Brick Foxhole (novel) and Crossfire (film), 41 -42, 59 ;

on Humphrey Bogart (and Lauren Bacall), 41 -42, 45 -47, 69 ;

on Mark Hellinger, 41 -44;

Ernest Hemingway and The Killers,42 -43;

working with John Huston, 42 -47, 50 , 61 -62, 66 ;

Key Largo, 43 -47, 64 ;

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the blacklist, 4445, 47 -50;

working at MGM, 49 -58;

on script collaboration, 50 -51;

F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Last Time I Saw Paris,50 , 51 ;

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,51 , 52 , 53 ;

Blackboard Jungle,51 , 52 -53;

The Catered Affair,51 , 63 ;

Something of Value,54 -57;

on Winston Churchill, 55 -57;

The Brothers Karamazov,57 -58;

Elmer Gantry,58 -60, 64 ;

Lord Jim, 60 -61, 64 ;

on Truman Capote, 61 -62;

In Cold Blood,61 -62;

The Happy Ending,62 , 64 ;

autobiographical films, 62 -64;

The Professionals,63 -64;

script training and approach, 64 -70;

on Clifford Odets, 66 -67;

on humanism in movies, 67 -70;

"The David Susskind Show," 68 ;

on Frank Capra, 68 -70;

on Gary Cooper, 68 -69;

writing technique and philosophy, 70 -72

Browder, Earl, 166 -167

Brown, Clarence, 126 -127, 171 -173, 176

Brown, David, 354 -356

Brown, Nacio Herb, 82 , 87

Browne, Roscoe Lee, 22

Brynner, Yul, 57 , 150

Buchman, Sidney, 13 , 349

Buñuel, Luis, 262

Burdick, Eugene, 297

Burg, Hansi, 213 -214

Burnett, W. R., 2 , 157 , 175 -177

Burr, Raymond, 264