Preferred Citation: McGilligan, Patrick. Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0z09n7m0/


 

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Kael, Pauline, 18 , 140 -141

Kahane, Benjamin B., 323

Kanin, Garson, 2 , 7 , 8 , 10 , 43 , 90, 109 ,220 ;

interview, 89 -112;

introduction, 89 -91;

filmography, 91 -92;

Ruth Gordon's solo credits, 93 ;

early career and upbringing, 93 -94;

interest in theater, 94 -95;

working for George Abbott, 95 ;

coming to Hollywood, 95 ;

working for Sam Goldwyn, 95 -96;

directing at RKO, 96 -97;

and RKO screenwriters, 97 -98;

on his mentor, Thornton Wilder, 98 -99;

writing scripts during World War II, 99 -100;

Born Yesterday,100 -102;

on Hollywood screenwriters, 100 ;

on tapping into the unconscious (Hemingway, Cather, Wilder, Maugham, Balzac), 102 -105;

collaborating with Ruth Gordon, 105 -110;

A Double Life,89 , 105 ;

Hepburn-Tracy films (Adam's Rib, Pat and Mike ), 89 , 97 , 106 , 108 -110;

working with directors (especially George Cukor), 108 -109;

solo writing, 109 -110;

Broadway vs. Hollywood, 110 -112

Kanin, Michael, 94 , 108

Kantor, MacKinlay, 324 , 329

Karloff, Boris, 259 , 262

Karlson, Phil, 193

Kastner, Elliott, 23

Katz, Ephraim, 11 , 13 , 336

Katz, Sam, 119 , 278

Katzman, Sam, 265 -266, 314

Kaufman, George S., 106 , 107


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Kaye, Danny, 45

Kaye, Nora, 154

Kazan, Elia, 41 , 49 , 51 , 134 , 147 , 160 , 185 -187, 288 , 289 , 319 , 323 -324, 358

Keats, John, 162

Keel, Howard, 125 , 127

Kelly, Gene, 9 , 73 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 -81, 81,82 , 84 , 286

Kelly, Grace, 139 , 324

Kennedy, Pres. John F., 158 , 291

Kenyatta, Jomo, 55

Kerr, Deborah, 150 , 309 , 319

Kidd, Michael, 170

King, Frank and Maurice (brothers), 331 , 346 -347, 349 -350, 363 , 364 , 371

King, Henry, 234 , 354 , 356

King, Hugh, 17

King, Stephen, 263

Kingsley, Dorothy, 8 , 10 , 43 , 115, 124 ;

interview, 113 -128;

introduction, 113 -114;

filmography, 114 -116;

family background, 116 -117;

coming to Hollywood, 117 ;

early radio career, 117 -119;

working for Edgar Bergen, 118 -119;

working at MGM, 119 -128;

women writers at MGM, 119 -120;

MGM directors, 121 -122;

gravitating to musical comedy, 123 -125;

writing for Esther Williams, 114 , 119 , 120 , 122 , 123 , 125 , 126 ;

Angels in the Outfield,125 -127;

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,127 ;

Frank Sinatra and Pal Joey,127 -128;

favorite films, 128 ;

working habits, 128

Kingsley, Sidney, 374

Kingsley, Walter J., 113 , 116 -117

Kiser, Terry, 302

Klein, Melanie, 281

Klimt, Gustav, 217

Knight, Christopher, 375

Knopf, Alfred, 269

Koch, Howard, 38

Kohner, Paul, 232

Kolowrat, Count Alexander, 201 , 210 -211, 217

Korda, Alexander, 10 , 203 , 204 , 210 -211, 212 , 219 -220, 227

Korda, Vincent, 210 -211

Korda, Zoltan, 210 -211

Koster, Henry, 320

Krahl, Hilda, 204 , 239 -240

Kramer, Arthur, 326

Kramer, Stanley, 134 -135, 178 , 191 , 281 , 310 , 316 , 322 -324, 328

Krasna, Norman, 6 , 106 , 370

Krim, Arthur B., 351 , 373 , 375

Kurnitz, Harry, 143 -144, 145


 

Preferred Citation: McGilligan, Patrick. Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0z09n7m0/