General Index
A
Abbott, George, 49
Abenal, Sheldon, 192
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 13
Ace, Goodman, 53 -54
Ace, Jane, 54
Actors Studio, 304 , 305
Adler, Buddy, 66 , 69
Ali, Muhammed, 226 -27
Alcoa-Goodyear Theater,333
Aldrich, Dick, 50 , 51
Allen, Fred, 66
Allen, Gene, 101
Allen, Irwin, 190 , 269 , 360 -61
Allen, Jay Presson:
interview, 18 -42;
introduction, 15 -17;
filmography, 17 -18;
background of, 7 , 14 , 15 -16, 18 -19;
denied credit for Funny Lady,318 -19, 324 ;
early writing career of, 19 -22;
on elements of scripts, 35 -36;
goes to Hollywood, 24 -26;
on hypnosis for writer's block, 37 -40;
impressions of directors by, 27 -35;
marriage of, 22 -23;
on producing, 34 ;
on production rewrites, 40 -42;
on turning plays into screenplays, 26 -27;
writing regimen of, 36 -37
Allen, Lewis Maitland, 15 , 21 -22
Allen, Nancy, 152
Allen, Woody, 108 -9, 382
Altman, Robert, 10 , 224 -26
American Film Company, 271
American Film Institute's Catalog of Feature Films (1921-1930, 1961-1970), 13
American International Pictures (AIP), 387
American Laboratory Theatre, 120
Anderson, Maxwell, 184 , 303
Anderson, Phyllis, 303 , 304
Anderson, Richard, 284
Anderson, Robert, 298 , 302 -3
Anderson, Sherwood, 303
Andrews, Dana, 265
Andrews, Julie, 112 , 395
Arkoff, Sam, 168 , 243
Arnaud, Georges, 146
Arnold, Jack, 239
Ashby, Hal, 396
Asherman, Howard, 157
Asseyev, Tamara, 290
Astaire, Fred, 357 , 359
Atkinson, Brooks, 122
Attenborough, Richard, 321
Aubrey, Jim, 29 , 340
Aulin, Ewa, 384 -85
Aurthur, Robert Alan, 99
Avakian, Aram, 389 -90
Avco, 191 .
See also Embassy Pictures
Axelrod, George:
interview, 45 -84;
introduction, 43 -45;
filmography, 45 -46;
background of, 3 , 5 , 7 -8, 14 , 44 -46, 48 -49;
on becoming a writer, 51 -53;
comedies of, 43 -44, 62 -63;
on directing, 76 -79;
on his drinking, 80 , 82 -83;
on Hollywood, 58 -59, 68 -70;
on living in London, 79 -80;
on Marilyn Monroe, 64 -65;
on state of
comedy, 47 -48;
on writing comedy, 55 -57;
on writing screenplays, 59 -60, 71 -75, 80 -82;
on writing for television, 56 -57
Axelrod, Herman (father), 48
Axelrod, Betty (mother, née Carpenter), 48
B
Bacall, Lauren, 70
Badham, John, 148
Baldwin, James, 357
Ball, John, 346
Ball, Lucille, 178
Bancroft, Anne, 123 -24, 344
Barcelona Film Festival (1988), 86
Barclay, George, 343 , 344
Barker, Pat, 293
Barrymore, Dolores Costello, 198
Barry, Philip, 179
Bartel, Paul, 169
Barth, John, 389
Barthelmess, Richard, 48
Bartholomew, Freddie, 198
Baum, Martin, 345 , 349 , 362
Beard, Peter, 374
the Beatles, 383 -84, 390 , 392
Beatty, Warren, 108 , 315
Beaumont, Binky, 50
Beaumont, Charles, 241
Begelman, David, 108
Behn, Noel, 147
Behrman, S. N. ("Sam"), 303 , 308
Belafonte, Harry, 97
Benjamin, Robert S., 99 , 317
Benny, Jack, 54
Bercovicci, Leonardo, 93
Beresford, Bruce, 130 -31, 134
Bergman, Ingmar, 282
Bergman, Ingrid, 307
Berman, Pandro, 278
Bernstein, Walter:
interview, 88 -113;
introduction 85 -87;
filmography, 87 -88;
background of, 2 -5, 8 , 14 , 85 -86;
as blacklistee, 85 , 86 , 94 -95, 98 ;
on directing, 111 -12;
on doing comedy, 108 ;
early writing career of, 88 -94;
on Hollywood, 112 -13;
moves back to New York, 103 -4;
screenwriting experiences of, 98 -110, 219 ;
work on Robin Hood series by, 96 -97
Berwick, Donald, 234
Biberman, Herbert, 206
Birch, Paul, 162
Birdwell, Russell, 198
Bishop, Elizabeth, 132
blacklist, Hollywood:
accreditation omissions during, 13 ;
Bernstein's experience during, 8 , 85 , 86 , 94 -95, 98 ;
Lardner, Jr.'s, experience during, 9 , 193 -94;
professional relations after the, 97 ;
used as subject for The Front,85
Blackmur, R. P., 125
Blees, Bob, 243
Blocker, Dan, 377
Bloom, Claire, 348 , 349 -50
Bluhdorn, Charles, 318
Boetticher, Budd, 178 -79
Bogarde, Dirk, 102
Bogart, Humphrey, 201
Bogart, Paul, 351
Borgnine, Ernest, 141 , 227 , 360
Borowsky, Marvin, 279
Bottoms, Timothy, 396
Boudin, Leonard, 98
Boxleitner, Bruce, 368
Boyle, Peter, 147
Bradbury, Ray, 229 , 230 , 237
Brady, Bill, 50
Brand, Joshua, 247
Brando, Marlon, 136 , 304 -5, 377 -78, 384 -85
Brasfield, Rod, 52 -53, 55
Braunsberg, Andrew, 150 , 396
Brecht, Bertolt, 209 , 213 , 214
Breen, Joseph, 59
Breen Office, 59 , 62 -63
Brenman-Gibson, Margaret, 37
Brest, Marty, 148 , 150
Brian, David, 162
Bridges, Jeff, 323
Brodkin, Herb, 94
Bronson, Charles, 271 , 319
Brooks, Mel, 149
Brooks, Richard, 274
Broun, Heywood, 196
Brown, David, 41 , 223 , 314 , 315 , 322
Browne, Tara, 383
Brown, Ned, 335 , 336
Bruce, Lenny, 372
Bruckheimer, Jerry, 150
Brynner, Yul, 94 , 99
Buchman, Beatrice, 206
Buchman, Sidney, 206
Buckley, Lord, 162
Burgess, Anthony, 393
Burns, David, 306
Burr, Courtney, 58
Burroughs, William S., 397 -98
Burstyn, Ellen, 124
Burton, Richard, 385
Butler, Hugo, 212 , 218
C
Caesar, Sid, 102
Cagney, James, 201
California State Un-American Activities Committee, 212
Calley, John, 32 , 34 , 379 -80, 395 -96
Campbell, Alan, 199
Campbell, Bobby, 160
Canby, Vincent, 294
Cantinflas, 241
Cantor, Jay, 291
Capote, Truman, 16 , 44 , 72 , 125 , 330 , 352
Capra, Frank, 11 , 308 , 311 -13
Capucine, 102
Carson, Jack, 61 -62
Carson, Robert, 199
Cassavettes, John, 219
Catholic Legion of Decency, 43 , 186
Chamberlain, Neville, 207
Chamberlain, Richard, 357 -59
Champion, Gower, 269
Chandler, Jeff, 188 , 238
Chandler, Raymond, 350 -51
Chase, Borden, 179
Chayefsky, Paddy, 54 , 55 , 274 , 303 , 304 , 365
Cheever, John, 93
Chekhov, Michael, 120 , 132
Chodorov, Jerome, 91
Clark, Bob, 251
Clark, Dane, 280
Cleese, John, 392
Clift, Montgomery, 304 -5
Cobb, Lee J., 363
Coe, Fred, 22 , 121 , 304 , 306
Cohen, Bobby, 54
Cohn, Harry, 62 , 69 , 91 -92, 266 , 336
Cole, Jack, 65
Cole, Lester, 214 , 215
Collier, Buster, 48
Collier, John, 83
Collins, Richard, 216
Colman, Ronald, 343
Communist Party (Hollywood section), 10 , 205 -9
Condon, Richard, 44 , 73 -74
Connery, Sean, 23 , 107
Connors, Mike, 337
Cooper, Frank, 336
Cooper, Gary, 67 , 70 , 210 , 261 -62
Cooper, Merian, 199 , 205
Cooper, Michael, 383 , 393
Coppola, Francis Ford, 172 , 322 , 323 -24
Corey, Wendell, 182
Corliss, Richard, 13
Corman, Roger, 9 , 10 , 157 , 159 -72, 229 , 243 -44
Corwin, Norman, 92
Costello, Lou, 147
Cotten, Joe, 70
Courtenay, Tom, 380
Coward, Noël, 281 , 305
Cox, William R., 237 , 238
Crawford, Broderick, 92
Crawford, Joan, 307 , 334 , 340
Creley, Jack, 379
Crosby, John, 259
Crouse, Russel, 303
Crowther, Bosley, 342
Cukor, George, 7 , 8 , 11 ;
Allen on, 16 , 28 -20;
Bernstein on, 97 , 100 -103;
Lardner, Jr., on, 199 ;
Schulman on, 298 , 308 , 310 -11, 313 , 315
Curtis, Tony, 112
Curtiz, Michael, 8 , 101 -2, 218 -19
D
Daladier, Edouard, 207
Daly, Tyne, 365
Dassin, Jules, 86
Dauphin, Claude, 168
Daves, Delmer, 10 , 261 -62
Davis, Bette, 201
Day, Doris, 175 , 181
Daykarhanova, Tamara, 115 , 119 -20
DeCarlo, Yvonne, 238
Decker, Cindy, 394
De Laurentiis, Dino, 146 , 168 , 385
De Mornay, Rebecca, 123
DeNiro, Robert, 293 -94
Dennis, Patrick, 221
De Palma, Brian, 32
Derleth, August, 230
Dern, Bruce, 157 -58, 167
De Sica, Vittorio, 101 -2, 219 , 282
Deutsch, Steve, 249
Devane, William, 111
de Wilde, Brandon, 265 , 288
Diamond, I.A.L. ("Izzy"), 60
Dickens, Charles, 120
Dickerson, Beach, 163
Dickinson, Angie, 112
Dictionary of Literary Biography,15
Dine, Jim, 383
Disney, 191
Dmytryk, Edward, 9 , 86 , 187
Dodd, Martha, 221
Dodd, William E., Jr., 221
Dodge, David, 181
Donatello Award, 16
Donner, Richard, 251
Doob, Oscar, 334
Douglas, Kirk, 265
Douglas, Melvyn, 288
Douglas, Paul, 306
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 243
Dramatists Guild, 303
Dratler, Jay, 221
Drury, Allen, 264 -65
Duke, Bill, 357
Dulles v. Kent,194
Dulong, Tiana, 331
Dunaway, Faye, 357 , 396
Dunne, Philip, 216
Durham, Richard, 226
Durrell, Lawrence, 188 -89
Duvall, Robert, 115 , 127 -29, 131 , 134 , 340
E
Eastwood, Clint, 364 -65
Ebb, Fred, 27
Eckstein, George, 245
Edgar Allen Poe Award, 184
Edgar, Bill, 139
Edwards, Blake, 47 -48, 70 , 71
Eggar, Samantha, 381
Eliot, T. S., 132
Embassy Pictures, 191 , 321
Epstein, Julius J., 5
Este, William, 56
Evans, Bob, 320
Ewell, Tommy, 58
F
Fadiman, Clifton, 201
Fadiman, William, 201
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 71 , 340
Falk, Peter, 147
Falsey, John, 247
Fapp, Daniel, 77
Faulkner, William, 8 , 11 , 117 , 132 , 274 , 282 , 285 -87, 373
Fawcett, Farrah, 273
Feldman, Charles, 59 , 102 , 382
Ferber, Edna, 313
Fernandez, Emilio, 141
Ferrer, Mel, 50
Feuer, Cy, 26
the Fictioneers, 237
Field, Sally, 288 , 291 , 294
Fields, Freddie, 148
The Film Encyclopedia,14
Filmgroup Company, 163
Finney, Albert, 380
Finney, Jack, 230 , 336
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 96 , 196
Flaum, Marshall, 139
Fleischer, Richard, 364
Flynn, Errol, 236 , 280
Flynt, Larry, 396 -97
Focus on Film interview (Mayes), 259
Fonda, Henry, 104 , 264
Fonda, Jane, 168 -69, 288 , 293 -94, 373 , 385
Fonda, Peter, 157 , 167 , 387 -88
Fontaine, Joan, 93
Foote, Albert Horton: 274 ;
interview, 117 -34;
introduction, 114 -16;
filmography, 116 ;
on adaptation, 125 ;
background of, 8 , 14 , 114 ;
on directing, 126 -27;
on Robert Duvall, 127 -28;
on Hollywood, 124 -25;
literary influences, 132 ;
on Method acting, 119 -21;
on parents, 118 -19;
on screenwriting experiences, 127 -34;
on sense of place, 117 -18;
on Bessie Smith project, 134
Foote, Lillian (wife), 114
Ford, Daniel, 271
Ford, Glenn, 313
Ford, Jesse Hill, 352 -53
Ford, John, 242
Foreman, Carl, 379
Fort, Charles, 252
Fosse, Bob, 7 , 16 , 27 -28
Foster, Norman, 93
Fowles, John, 381
Fox, James, 380 , 383
Fox, Robin, 383
Foy, Bryan, 200
Franciosa, Anthony, 284
Francis, Anne, 340
Francis, Arlene, 70
Frankenheimer, John, 44 , 71 , 73 -75, 146 -47
Frank, Harriet, Jr.:
interview, 277 -97;
introduction, 274 -76;
filmography, 276 -77;
background of, 2 , 4 , 10 -11, 14 , 274 -82;
on collaboration with Ravetch, 281 , 283 ;
on William Faulkner, 285 ;
on the Junior Writing Program, 278 -80;
on meeting with Ravetch, 279 ;
on her mother, 277 -78;
on movie violence, 292 ;
on Martin Ritt, 283 -290;
screenwriting experiences of, 282 -94;
on short stories, 280 ;
teamed with Ravetch, 274 ;
on writing process, 294 -97
Franklin, Carl, 357
Franklin, Pamela, 248 -49
Frank, Milo, 343
Fraser, Robert, 383
Freeman, Leonard, 340
Freeman, Y. Frank, 99 -100
Friedkin, William, 9 , 144 -47, 316
Fryer, Bobby, 28 , 29 -30
Fuchs, Tom, 139
G
Gable, Clark, 190
Gale, Bob, 247
Gallico, Paul, 359
Garfield, Brian, 269
Garland, Beverly, 162
Garner, James, 100 , 189
Garris, Mick, 247
Gault, William Campbell, 237 , 238
Gaynor, Janet, 199
Gazzara, Ben, 248 , 263
George, Grace, 50
George, Peter, 376 , 379
Gerber, Gail, 392
Gere, Richard, 300
Gerosi, Marcello, 101
Gerstad, Johnny, 58
Gibbs, Christopher, 383
Gielgud, John, 380
Gish, Lillian, 121 , 122 -24
Godard, Jean-Luc, 373
Godfrey, Arthur, 53
Golan, Menahem, 172 , 364
Goldberg, Bob, 54
Goldberg, Whoopi, 373 , 398 -99
Golden Spur Award, 230
Golding, William, 236
Goldstone, James, 364
Goldwyn, Sam, 69 , 208
Gordon, Ruth, 79
Goring, Colin, 259
Gould, Elliott, 224 , 226
Gould, Jack, 344
Graham, Gwethalyn, 208
Grant, Cary, 103 , 181
Grant, Lee, 98
Grauerholz, James, 397
Green, Henry, 372
Green, Walon:
interview, 139 -56;
introduction, 135 -38;
filmography, 138 -39;
background of, 8 -9, 14 , 135 -37;
on the beatniks, 164 ;
denied credit for Barbarella,168 ;
early writing career of, 137 -40;
on William Friedkin, 144 -47;
screenwriting experiences of, 144 -54;
on script doctoring, 151 -52;
on violence, 155 ;
on Theodore H. White, 139 ;
on writing process, 154 -56;
on writing for television, 153
Greene, Clarence, 337
Greene, Graham, 7
Grey, Joel, 27
Gries, Tom, 226 , 226 -27
Griffith, Charles B.: interview, 159 -73;
introduction, 157 -58;
filmography, 158 -59;
background of, 5 , 9 , 157 -58;
on Roger Corman, 159 -72;
on directing, 162 , 170 -71;
on violence in horror movies, 173
Group Theatre, 94
A Guide to American Screenwriters: The Sound Era, 1929-1982 (Langman), 13
Guillermin, John, 361 , 364
Guinness, Alec, 221
Guthrie, Tyrone, 97
H
Hackett, Albert, 12
Hackman, Gene, 358 , 360
Haley, Jack, Jr., 136
Hammerstein, Oscar, 49 -50, 303
Harmon, Mark, 256
Harrison, Joan, 242 , 243 , 338
Harrison, Rex, 221
Harris, Thomas, 155
Hart, Lorenz ("Larry"), 48
Hart, Moss, 200
Harvey, Laurence, 73
Hathaway, Henry, 9 , 10 , 175 , 186 , 260 , 262
Hayden, Sterling, 100 , 379
Hayes, John Michael:
interview, 177 -92;
introduction, 174 -76;
filmography, 177 ;
on absence from screen, 190 -91;
on adaptation, 181 ;
background of, 9 , 14 , 174 -76;
on censorship, 181 ;
comeback with Peyton Place,184 ;
early influences on, 179 ;
early screenwriting of, 178 -79;
on Hitchcock, 179 -84, 187 ;
on Hollywood, 190 ;
journalism career of, 177 -78;
post-screenwriting career of, 190 -92;
on Rear Window sequel, 192 ;
screenwriting experiences of, 186 -90;
on script doctoring, 188 -89
Hayes, Mel, 180 , 191
Hays Office, 59
Hays, Will H., 59
Hayward, Leland, 49 , 53
Haze, Jonathan, 160 , 162 , 165
Hearst, William Randolph, 198
Hecht, Ben, 200 , 328
Hecht, Harold, 68 , 91
Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, 67
Hedren, Tippi, 23
Hellinger, Mark, 94 , 338
Hellman, Lillian, 23 , 128 , 188 , 208
Hemingway, Ernest, 51 , 270
Henry, Buck, 385
Hepburn, Audrey, 44 , 70 , 72 , 76 , 77 , 189
Hepburn, Katherine, 7 , 28 -30, 201 -3
Hershey, Barbara, 153 n
Hersholt, Jean, 201
Heston, Charlton, 268
HICCASP, 211
Higham, Charles, 309
Hiller, Arthur, 339
Hill, Jim, 67 -68
Hine, Al, 44
Hitchcock, Alfred, 7 , 9 , 15 -16, 23 -25, 174 -84, 187 , 242 , 338 -39
Hitchcock, Alma, 24
Hitler, Adolf, 197 -98, 207
Hobel, Mary-Ann, 130
Hobel, Philip S., 130
Hoffenberg, Mason, 372 , 375
Hoffman, Dustin, 108 , 294
Holden, William, 135 , 141 , 357 -59
Holliday, Judy, 61
Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, 206
Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions (HICCASP), 211
Hollywood Nineteen, 208 n
Hollywood Ten, 10 , 193 , 206 , 210 -14, 217
Hopkins, Bo, 141
Hopper, Dennis, 11 , 386 -88, 396 -97
Hough, John, 249
Houghton, Buck, 242
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 85 , 98 , 208 .
See also blacklist, Hollywood
Howard, Ron, 171 , 357
Howard, Sidney, 200
Hubbard, Allan, 131
Hubley, Faith, 85
Hull, Henry, 236
Hunter, Ian McLellan, 96 , 200 -201, 219 -20
Hunter, Jeffrey, 260 , 261
Hurwitz, Leo, 85 , 90
Huston, Anjelica, 300
Huston, John, 201 , 220 , 272 , 283 , 381
I
Ibsen, Henrik, 281
Inge, William, 44 , 63 , 274 , 286 , 303
Ingster, Boris, 209
Irish, William, 179
Irving, Amy, 246
Isherwood, Christopher, 26 -27, 72
J
Jackson, Anne, 79
Jackson, Pat, 219
Jaffe, Stanley, 316 , 318
James, Henry, 156
Jarre, Maurice, 149
Jarrico, Paul, 202
Jenkins, Dan, 109
Jewison, Norman, 222 , 346 , 347 -48, 363 , 373 , 380
Jilinsky, Andrius, 120
John Birch Society, 340
Johnson, Ben, 141
Johnson, Chester Allen, 331
Johnson, Nunnally, 274
Jones, James Earl, 378 , 390
Jones, Jennifer, 357 , 359
Joyce, James, 118
Jurow, Marty, 72
K
Kahn, Gordon, 208 -9
Kahn, Roger, 194 , 223
Kander, John, 27
Kanin, Garson, 202 -3, 306 , 313
Kanin, Michael, 201
Karloff, Boris, 96
Karlson, Phil, 335
Katzenberg, Jeff, 113
Kaufman, George S., 200
Kaye, Danny, 70
Kazan, Elia (Gadge), 86 , 217 , 304 , 305 , 307
Kazan, Molly, 304
Keach, Stacy, 355 , 390
Keitel, Harvey, 149
Keith, Robert, 335 -36
Kelly, Grace, 96 , 175 , 179 -80, 182 -83, 190
Kennedy, Kathleen, 247
Kenny, Robert, 214
Kent, Rockwell, 194
Kent v. Dulles,194
Kerr, Walter, 71
Kershner, Irvin, 152
Kestern, Steve, 389
Keye, Daniel, 349
King, Alan, 31 , 32
King, Stephen, 230
Kirschner, David, 250
Koch, Howard, 345
Koenig, Lester, 89 -90
Kohn, John, 381
Kotcheff, Ted, 383
Krim, Arthur B., 99 , 269
Kristofferson, Kris, 110
Kroll, Lucy, 129 -30
Kubrick, Stanley, 11 , 372 , 376 -79, 388 , 393 -96
Kurnitz, Harry, 70
Kurosawa, Akira, 143 , 268
Kuttner, Hank, 237
L
Ladd, Alan, 130
Ladd, Alan, Jr., 291 , 294
Lancaster, Burt, 92 , 93 , 106 , 271
Landon, Hal, 269
Langdon, Harry, 204
Lang, Fritz, 209 -10
Lang, Jennings, 111
Lange, Hope, 65
Langman, Larry, 13
Lardner, Frances (wife, née Chaney), 212 , 218
Lardner, Ring, 9
Lardner, Ring, Jr.:
interview, 196 -228;
introduction, 193 -95;
filmography, 195 -96;
on Muhammad Ali, 226 -27;
background of, 2 , 5 , 9 -10, 11 , 14 , 96 ;
on the Communist Party and politics, 205 -9, 227 -28;
early political interests of, 196 -98;
goes to Hollywood, 198 -202;
on Hollywood during the 1960s, 222 -27;
on the Hollywood Ten, 210 -14, 217 ;
imprisonment during blacklist years, 193 -94, 215 -17;
on Fritz Lang, 209 -10;
Laurel Award given to, 274 ;
on Otto Preminger, 220 -21;
on uncredited work, 218 -20
Lardner, Silvia (wife, née Schulman), 200
Larkin, John, 209
Lasker, Lawrence, 148
Lastfogel, Abe, 307 , 315
Laughton, Charles, 264
Law, John Phillip, 168
Lawrence, D. H., 285
Layton, Joe, 134
Lazar, Irving ("Swifty), 59 , 97 -98
League of American Writers, 207
Lear, Norman, 57 , 320 -21
Lee, Bruce, 331 , 351 -52
Lee, Harper, 8 ,125
Lee, Spike, 353 , 357
Legion of Decency, 6 , 63
Lehman, Ernest, 54 , 67 , 68
Lemmon, Jack, 61 ,100
Lennon, John, 383
Leonard, Bert, 337 , 340
Leonard, Elmore, 274 , 286
Leonard, Herbert, 343
Lester, Richard, 373 , 390
Levathes, Peter, 314
Levine, Joseph E., 191 , 354
Lewis, Jeff, 154
Lewis, Jerry, 57
Lewis, Robert Q., 53 -54
Lewis, Sinclair, 20 , 196
Lewton, Val, 235 , 236
Lieber, Fritz, 230
Lieberson, Sandy, 383
Lindsay, Howard, 303
Litvinoff, Si, 394
Lloyd, Norman, 242 , 338
Locke, John, 342
Logan, Josh, 63 -65, 72
Logue, Christopher, 150
Lombard, Carole, 200
Loomis, Gloria, 86
Lord, Sterling, 394
Loren, Sophia, 101
Lorre, Peter, 167 -68
Losey, Joseph, 218
Lovecraft, H. P., 235
Loy, Myrna, 31
Lubin, Ronald, 353
Lucas, George, 322
Ludlum, Robert, 237 -38
Lumet, Sidney, 7 , 8 , 16 , 30 -33,41 ,93 , 96 ,98 , 104 -6, 112
M
MacArthur, Charles, 196
McCarey, Leo, 66 -67
McCartney, Paul, 390
MacDonald, Ross, 273
McDowall, Roddy, 63 , 79
McGee, Mark Thomas, 157
McGrath, Joseph, 373 , 381 , 390 , 392
MacGraw, Ali, 31 ,317 , 320
McGuire, Dennis, 389
McHale, Tom, 223
McKellen, lan, 300 , 326
Mackendrick, Alexander, 373
MacLaine, Shirley, 79 , 182 , 189
McMurtry, Larry, 274
MacPhail, Angus, 184
McQueen, Steve, 146 , 149 , 288 , 315 , 357 -58, 360 -61,380
Machen, Arthur, 235
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 145
Magnani, Anna, 307 , 310 -11, 314
Maharis, George, 339
Mahin, John Lee, 204 , 274
Malkovich, John, 126
Maltz, Albert, 209
Mamet, David, 34 , 41 -42
Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 203 , 204 , 274
Mann, Anthony, 312 -13
Mann, Danny, 189
Mann, Delbert, 288
Mann, Stanley, 381
Manoff, Arnold, 95 , 98
Mansfield, Jayne, 72 -73
Manuel, A1, 239
Marais, Eugene, 144 -45
March, Fredric, 199 , 200 , 218
Marquand, Christian, 384 -85
Marshall, Frank, 247
Martin, Dean, 57 , 103
Martin, Mary, 313
Martin, Steve, 300
Maslansky, Paul, 168
Masterson, Peter, 123
Matheson, Ali (daughter), 231
Matheson, Chris (son), 230 -31
Matheson, Richard:
interview, 234 -56;
introduction, 229 -32;
filmography, 232 -33;
background of, 10 ,14 , 229 -32, 234 -36;
on Roger Corman, 243 -44;
early writing career of, 236 -39;
and fantasy genre, 235 -36, 253 ;
on horror genre, 249 ;
metaphysical beliefs of, 253 -54;
on Edgar Allen Poe films, 244 -45;
on pulp writing, 237 -38;
screenwriting experiences of, 349 -52;
on Rod Serling, 241 -42;
as Logan Swanson (pen name), 243 ;
on writing process, 252 -56;
on writing for television, 241
Matheson, Richard Christian (son), 230
Matheson, Tina (daughter), 231
Matthau, Charlie, 352
Matthau, Walter, 79 ,112 , 352
Matthieson, Peter, 144
Mayer, Louis B., 201 , 203
Mayes, Wendell:
interview, 259 -73;
introduction, 257 ;
filmography, 257 -59;
background of, 10 , 257 ;
on Gary Cooper, 261 -62;
on Custer project, 267 -68;
on John Huston, 272 ;
on the movie business, 272 -73;
on Otto Preminger, 262 -66;
screenwriting experiences of, 259 -72;
on Jack Warner, 266 -67;
on John Wayne, 265 ;
on Billy Wilder, 259 , 272
Medavoy, Mike, 113 ,152
Meisner, Sandy, 127
Meltzer, Lewis, 241
Meredith, Burgess, 220
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 2 , 4 , 201 , 203 , 205 , 278 -80, 380
Mifune, Toshiro, 268
Mikhalkov, Nikita, 282
Milch, David, 153
Milestone, Lewis, 103
Milland, Ray, 252
Miller, Arthur, 304 , 310
Miller, Dick, 160
Miller, Frank, 151 -52
Milligan, Spike, 392
Mills, Hayley, 384
Mills, John, 384
Minnelli, Vincente, 43 , 66 , 288
Mirisch, Walter, 345
Mitchum, Robert, 260
Modine, Matthew, 300 , 326
Moinár, Ferenc, 281
Monaco, James V, 135
Monroe, Marilyn, 8 , 44 , 48 , 64 -65, 86 , 103 , 314 -15
Moore, Marianne, 132
Moore, Roger, 100
Morrow, William, 223
Morse, Robert, 380
Motion Picture Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, 206
Mulligan, Robert, 125 , 127 -29, 315
Murch, Walter, 252
Murphy, Eddie, 134
Murphy, Gerald, 147
Murray, Don, 260 , 264
Music Corporation of America (MCA), 53
N
Neal, Patricia, 265 , 288
Neame, Ronald, 358 , 364
Nelson, Ed, 161
Nelson, Ralph, 349 -50, 364
New Dramatists, 303
Newman, Paul, 41 , 136 ,284 ,286 , 288 , 303 , 305 , 357 -61
Newmar, Julie, 340
New York Times film reviews, 13
Nichols, Dudley, 100 ,179 , 274
Nichols, Mike, 348 n, 373 , 395 -96
Nicholson, Jack, 148 -49, 154 , 164 , 323 , 373 , 386 -87
Nicholson, Jim, 243
Nilsson, Harry, 373 , 384 , 398
Niven, David, 70 , 241
Nixon, Richard, 212
Norman, Marc, 361
North, Sheree, 260
Nouri, Michael, 153 n
Novak, Kim, 336
Nugent, Elliott, 58 , 61
O
Oates, Warren, 141 , 147 ,154 , 347 -48
O'Brien, Edmond, 141 , 306
O'Brien, Robert H., 343
O'Connor, Flannery, 117 , 118 , 132
O'Connor, Harvey, 98
O'Connor, Jesse, 98
O'Connor, John J., 230
O'Dell, Dennis, 393
Odets, Clifford, 94 , 298 , 305
O'Donoghue, Michael, 373
Offner, Mortimer, 199
O'Hara, John, 389
O'Hara, Maureen, 188
Oldenburg, Claes, 383
Olivier, Laurence, 221
O'Morrison, Kevin, 94
O'Neill, Jim, 100
Oppenheimer, George, 200
O'Shea, Daniel, 200
O'Toole, Peter, 355
Ouspenskaya, Maria, 120
P
Pacino, Al, 30 , 108 , 294
Page, Geraldine, 22 , 115 , 121 , 123 -24
Pagnol, Marcel, 282
Pakula, Alan J., 125 , 129 , 315
Palance, Jack, 112
Parker, Dorothy, 196 , 199
Parkes, Walter, 148
Parrish, Robert, 381
Patella, Ednamarie, 331
Pearl, Minnie, 52
Peck, Gregory, 115 , 126 , 128 , 245
Peckinpah, Sam, 8 , 139 , 141 -44, 222 , 238 , 361 -63, 380
Peerce, Larry, 316
Penn, Arthur, 106 , 306 , 389
Percival, Harold W., 230 , 254
Perenchio, Jerry, 320 -21
Perry, Frank, 384
Peterson, Wolfgang, 255
Pickens, Slim, 377 -79
Picker, David, 319 , 384
Pinchot, Rosamond, 119
Pindyke, Frannie, 53
Pino, Tony, 147
Pinter, Harold, 283
Poe, Edgar Allan, 230
Poitier, Sidney, 219 , 344 , 345 -49
Polanski, Roman, 155
Pollack, Sidney, 363
Polonsky, Abe, 95
Ponti, Carlo, 97 -98
Porter, Katherine Anne, 132 -33
Post, Ted, 270 , 271
Pound, Ezra, 132
Powell, Dick, 10 , 76 , 260 -61
Power, Tyrone, 99
Powers, Marsha, 20
Preminger, Ingo, 223
Preminger, Otto, 10 , 129 , 194 , 216 , 219 -21, 262 -66, 269 , 373
Pressman, Lawrence, 139
Price, Reynolds, 118 ,132
Price, Vincent, 167 -68, 244
Production Code, 6 , 43 , 59 , 63
Proust, Marcel, 283
Puttnam, David, 394
Q
Quine, Richard, 76 , 77 , 266
Quinn, Aidan, 151
Quinn, Tony, 100 -101
R
Raab, Max, 389
Rabe, David, 32
Rafelson, Bob, 148
Ramsey, Anne, 355
Ransahoff, Martin, 222 , 379 -80
Rapf, Maurice, 90 , 199 , 205
Raphaelson, Samson, 184 , 274
Rathbone, Basil, 167
Ravetch, Irving:
interview, 277 -97;
introduction, 274 -76;
filmography, 276 -77;
background of, 2 ,4 ,10 -11,14 , 274 -82;
on collaboration with Harriet Frank, Jr., 281 , 285 ;
on William Faulkner, 285 ;
influences on, 281 -82;
on Junior Writing Program, 278 -80;
meeting with Harriet Frank, Jr., 270 ;
on movie violence, 292 ;
on his parents, 278 ;
on Martin Ritt, 283 -85, 286 , 287 -96;
screenwriting experiences of, 282 -94;
on screenwriting as literature, 282 -83;
on westerns, 280 ;
on writing process, 294 -97
Ray, Aldo, 252
Reagan, Ronald, 211
Redford, Robert, 41 , 47
Reed, Oliver, 172
Reeve, Christopher, 250
Reeves, Michael, 165
Remick, Lee, 262 , 284
Remington, William, 90
Revill, Clive, 249
Reynolds, Burt, 110
Reynolds, Debbie, 66
Rhineheimer, Howard, 50
Richardson, Tony, 149 , 373 , 380
Richler, Mordecai, 383
Riesner, Dean, 365
Rilla, Wolf, 343 , 344
Riskin, Robert, 274
Ritchie, Michael, 109 -11
Ritter, John, 230 , 250
Ritter, Thelma, 181
Ritt, Martin, 8 , 11 ;
Bernstein on, 85 , 86 , 93 -94, 98 , 104 -5, 112 ;
Frank and Ravetch on, 274 , 276 , 283 -91;
Matheson on, 231 ;
Schulman on, 304 ;
Silliphant on, 357
Rivers, Larry, 383
Robbins, Harold, 108
Roberts, Kenneth, 235
Robertson, Cliff, 349 -50
Robinson, Edward G., 311 , 380
Robson, Mark, 9 , 61 -62, 185 ,187 , 190 , 235 , 266
Roddenberry, Gene, 144
Rodgers, Richard, 48
the Rolling Stones, 383
Rooney, Mickey, 70 , 71 , 76
Roos, Fred, 323
Rosenblum, Ralph, 316
Rossellini, Roberto, 307 , 311
Rossen, Bob, 91 -92
Ross, Fred, 298
Roth, Philip, 11 , 317
Rothschild, Baron, 397
Rouse, Russell, 337
Rusoff, Lou, 160
Russell, Charles, 94
Russell, John, 242
Ryan, Robert, 97 , 135 , 141
Rydell, Mark, 288
S
Salt, Waldo, 214 , 226
Sanchez, Jaime, 141
Saroyan, William, 51
Savage, Les, 237
Schatzberg, Jerry, 373 , 396
Scheider, Roy, 146
Schell, Maria, 261 , 313
Schell, Max, 320
Schermer, Jules, 242
Schlesinger, John, 111
Schnee, Charles, 179
Schneider, Bert, 387
Schreiber, Lew, 216
Schulberg, Budd, 90 , 91 , 199 , 200 , 203 , 205 , 216 -17
Schulman, Arnold:
interview, 301 -21;
introduction, 298 -300;
filmography, 300 -301;
background of, 3 , 11 , 14 , 298 -300;
on Frank Capra, 311 -12;
on Francis Ford Coppola, 322 -24;
on George Cukor, 309 -11;
denied credit for Tucker,324 ;
early writing career of, 301 -3;
on Hollywood, 313 , 325 ;
on live television, 303 -4;
on Marilyn
Monroe, 314 -15;
on Method acting, 304 ;
on the New Dramatists, 303 ;
on regret, 306 ;
screenwriting experiences of, 303 -27;
on script doctoring, 322 ;
on the seventies, 319
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 148 , 154 , 365
Scott, George C., 355 , 378
Screen Actors Guild (SAG), 206 , 211
Screenwriters Guild, 199 , 201 , 206
screenwriters (of the 1960s): backgrounds of, 2 , 3 -4;
common complaints of, 47 ;
compiling filmography for, 13 -14;
impact of changing times on, 5 -6;
lack of female, 4 , 25 -26;
use of real dialogue by, 62 , 63 -64
Sears, Fred F., 162
Seaton, George, 216
Seaver, Richard, 376
Seeley, Clinton, 124
Seidler, David, 324
Self, Colin, 383
Sellers, Arlene, 291 , 293
Sellers, Peter, 71 , 372 , 377 -79, 382 , 390 , 392 -93, 396
Seiznick, David O., 9 , 139 -40, 193 , 198 -200, 218
Seiznick International, 198
Serling, Rod, 241 -42
Seymour, Jane, 250
Shaw, George Bernard, 281
Shaw, Irwin, 93
Shaw, Robert, 268
Shea, Joe, 198
Sherman, George, 188
Sherwood, Robert, 184
Shilts, Randy, 11 , 298 , 325
Shulman, Max, 66 , 318
Sickner, Roy N., 139 , 140
Sidney, Sylvia, 306
Siegel, Don, 335 , 363 -64
Silliphant, Dayle (daughter), 331
Silliphant, Loren (son), 331 , 354
Silliphant, Stirling:
interview, 331 -71;
introduction, 328 -31;
filmography, 332 -33;
on adaptation, 342 -43;
on Irwin Allen, 360 -61;
background of, 3 , 11 , 14 , 269 , 328 -31;
on Buddhism, 354 , 370 ;
on disaster films, 357 -61;
on guest stars, 339 -40;
on Alfred Hitchcock, 338 ;
on learning the craft, 333 -36;
on Bruce Lee, 351 ;
on Oscar night, 348 -49;
on Sam Peckinpah, 362 -63;
on producing, 336 ;
on race in film, 344 , 347 , 348 , 353 , 356 -57;
on Don Siegel, 335 -36;
on spec scripts, 363 ;
on the writing craft, 368 -71;
on writing for features, 343 -68;
on writing for television, 337 -43
Silliphant, Stirling, Jr., 331
Simmons, Richard Alan, 240
Simon, Michel, 106
Simon, Neil ("Doc"), 57 , 307
Simpson, Don, 150
Simpson, O. J., 357
Sinatra, Frank, 73 , 79
Singleton, John, 357
Sinise, Gary, 114 , 125 -26
Siodmak, Curt, 9
Siskel, Gene, 78
Skouras, Spyros, 314 , 329
Smith, Bessie, 134
Smith, Bud, 144
Smith, Maggie, 28 , 29
Smith, Pete, 66
Sokolsky, George, 95
Soloviova, Vera, 120
Sondheim, Stephen, 303
Sorrell, Herbert, 210
Sorvino, Paul, 147
Southern, Terry:
interview, 376 -99;
introduction, 372 -75;
filmography, 375 -76;
background of, 11 -12, 14 , 168 , 222 , 372 -74;
On the British film boom, 381 -84;
on the development of Blue Movie,394 -95;
on Robert Fraser's gallery, 383 ;
on Stanley Kubrick, 376 -77, 379 , 393 -95;
on screenwriting experiences, 376 -93;
on unproduced projects, 393 -98;
on the writing of Easy Rider,386 -88
Spanish Civil War, 205
Spark, Muriel, 22
Sperling, Milton, 210
Spiegel, Sam, 94 , 128
Spielberg, Steven, 10 , 230 , 240 , 245 -46
Spoto, Donald, 175
Spottiswoode, Roger, 326
Stallone, Sylvester, 170 , 366 -67
Stamp, Terence, 381
Stander, Lionel, 218
Stanislavski method of acting, 120 -21
Stanley, Kim, 127
Stark, Ray, 318
Starr, Ringo (Richard Starkey), 384 , 390 , 391 , 393 ,395
Steele, Barbara, 168
Steiger, Rod, 304 , 345 -49, 380
Steinbeck, John, 8 , 263
Stein, Gertrude, 118
Stern, Bert, 389
Stern, Jacques, 397 -98
Stevens, Gavin, 387
Stevens, George, 202 , 203 -4
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 206
Stewart, James, 62 , 103 , 181 -82, 262 , 263
Stone, Oliver, 151
Strand, Paul, 90
Strasberg, Lee, 298 , 305 , 312 , 314
Straus, Roger, 334
Stuart, Mel, 136 , 139
Sturges, John, 308
Sturges, Preston, 179 , 274
Suso, Henry, 165
Sutherland, Donald, 224 , 226
Swanson, Logan (pseud. Richard Matheson), 243
Sware, Jeannot, 250
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 198
Swope, Herbert, Jr., 198
Sylvester, Robert, 333
T
Tandy, Jessica, 124
Tanen, Ned, 113
Tashlin, Frank, 43 , 66
Tate, Sharon, 222
Taylor, Peter, 132
Taylor, Robert, 278
Taylor, Rod, 267
Taylor, Sam, 57
Tennant, H. M., 50
Thomas, Norman, 197
Thompson, Dorothy, 202
Thompson, Jim, 237
Thom, Robert, 169
Thomson, David, 44
Thurber, Jim, 67 , 69
Toland, Gregg, 93
Tomlin, Lily, 300 , 326
Tone, Franchot, 265
Torn, Rip, 373 , 380 , 387 -88, 398 -99
Tourneur, Jacques, 236 , 245 , 335 , 364
Towne, Robert, 163
Tracy, Spencer, 202 , 203
Travers, Robert, 263
Trevor, Jack, 182
Tristan, Dorothy, 390
Trocchi, Alexander, 372 , 376
Truffaut, Francois, 174 ,183
Truman, Harry, 211 , 212
Trumbo, Dalton, 98 , 212
Tryon, Tom, 220 , 221
Turner, Lana, 185 ,262
Tynan, Kenneth, 372 , 383
U
United Electrical Workers Union, 212
U.S. Communist Party. See Communist Party
V
Vadim, Roger, 168 , 373 , 385
Van Druten, John, 72
Van Fleet, Jo, 122
Van Wagenen, Sterling, 124
Varsi, Diane, 185 , 260
Vassiliev, Sergius, 119
Verhoeven, Paul, 152 , 154 , 155
Verne, Jules, 230
Vidal, Gore, 70 , 221
Vidor, Charles, 102
Viertel, Peter, 90
Vogel, David, 247
Vorhaus, Bernard, 201
W
Wagner Labor Relations Act, 206
Wagner, Robert, 357
Wald, Jerry, 62 , 200 , 283 , 285
Wallace, Henry, 211
Wallach, Eli, 335 -36
Wallis, Hal, 11 , 298 , 307 , 309
Walt Disney Productions, 191
Wambaugh, Joe, 355
Wanger, Walter, 90
Warner, Jack, 266 -67
Washburn, Derek, 149
Wayne, John, 262 , 265 -66, 292 , 377
Weaver, Dennis, 245 -46
Weaver, Fritz, 250
Webb, Clifton, 220 , 221
Webb, Robert, 260
Webster, Ferris, 75
Weinstein, Hannah, 96 , 219 -20
Weisbart, David, 267
Weld, Tuesday, 79 , 340
Welland, Colin, 111 , 113 , 218
Welles, Mel, 161 , 164 -65, 168 , 170 -71
Welles, Orson, 284 , 382
Wellman, William, 199
Welty, Eudora, 118 , 132
West, Nathanael, 396
Westlake, Donald E., 237 , 269
Wexler, Haskell, 348 , 380
Wexley, John, 209
Wheeler, Hugh, 28 , 29 -30
Whitehead, Bob, 21 -22
White, Theodore H., 139
Wigan, Gareth, 130 , 382
Wilde, Cornel, 124
Wilder, Billy, 5 , 10 , 43 , 58 -61, 65 , 70 , 259 , 272 , 274
Wilder, Thornton, 96 , 184
William Morris (agency), 307
Williams, Grant, 239
Williams, Robin, 398
Williams, Treat, 33
Willis, Gordon, 390
Wind Dancer Productions, 134
Winetsky, Alex, 293
Winner, Michael, 319
Winters, Shelley, 358
Wise, Robert, 235
Wolberg, Lewis, 37 -39
Wolff, Frank, 166
Wolper, David L., 8 , 135 -36, 139 , 356
Woltman, Frederic, 95
Wood, Natalie, 315
Woodward, Joanne, 284
Woolcott, Alexander, 196
Woolrich, Cornell, 179
Writers Guild of America—West, 13
Writers Guild of America (WGA), 4 , 171
Wyler, William, 9 , 89 , 175 , 186 -89, 352 -53, 364
Wyndham, John, 343
Wynn, Keenan, 58
Y
Yates, Peter, 373
Yulin, Harris, 390
Z
Zanuck, Darryl, 69 , 209 , 216
Zanuck, Richard, 41 , 79 , 223
Zemeckis, Bob, 247
Zinnemann, Fred, 268 -69
Zugsmith, Albert, 240 -41