B
Bacall, Lauren, 20 , 42 , 45 -47, 46,61 -62
Backus, Jim, 290
Baer, Max, 375 -376
Bailly, Auguste, 51
Ball, Lucille, 98
Bancroft, George, 361
Bankhead, Tallulah, 329
Barrymore, John, 258
Barzman, Ben, 333
Bates, H. E., 148
Beck, George, 346
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 208
Behrman, S. N., 224
Bel Geddes, Barbara, 141 -142
Bell and Howell, 237
Bellini, Giovanni, 202
Bemelmans, Ludwig, 224
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
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
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
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 ;
on John Wayne, 20 -22;
Rio Lobo, 21 -22;
on Westerns, 22 -23;
working with Robert. Altman, 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
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 ;
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;
Something of Value,54 -57;
on Winston Churchill, 55 -57;
The Brothers Karamazov,57 -58;
on Truman Capote, 61 -62;
In Cold Blood,61 -62;
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
Browne, Roscoe Lee, 22
Buñuel, Luis, 262
Burdick, Eugene, 297
Burg, Hansi, 213 -214
Burnett, W. R., 2 , 157 , 175 -177
Burr, Raymond, 264