General Index
Italic numbers indicate references to photographs .
A
Abbott, George, 95 , 96 , 98
"Adieu, mein kleiner Garde Offizier" ("Goodbye, My Little Grenadier"), 202 , 215
Adler, Buddy, 150 , 205 , 317 , 320
Adler, Ellen, 147
Adler, Stella, 147
Agee, James, 348
Akins, Zoë, 119 -120
Albers, Hans, 202 , 213 -214, 217
Aldrich, Robert, 254
Alexander, William, 157 , 165
Allen, Dede, 301 , 302
Allenberg, Bert, 318
Altman, Robert, 9 , 15 , 23 -25, 292
American Business Consultants, 49
American Film Institute, 193
Anderson, Maxwell, 44
Andrews, Ralph, 310
Angeli, Pier, 281 , 284
Annabella, 40 , 214
Anouilh, Jean, 224
Ardrey, Robert, 98 -99
Aristotle, 258
Arlen, Michael, 224 , 229
Arthur, Robert Alan, 274
Astaire, Fred, 80 , 81 -82, 86
Aswell, Edward, 35
Atkinson, Brooks, 286
Author's League of America, 104 -105
Autry, Gene, 351
Ayres, Lew, 263
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
C
Caan, James, 21
Cagney, James, 67 , 69
Cahiers du Cinéma,334 , 348 -349
Cain, James M., 198 -199
Caldwell, Erskine, 184
Calhern, Louis, 176
Campbell, Alan, 69
Capote, Truman, 9 , 30 , 61 -62
Capra, Frank, 7 , 29 , 67 , 68 -70, 111 , 155 , 236 , 313 , 375
"Caprice Espagnole," 232
Carlson, Richard, 265
Carroll, Jill, 371
Carson, Robert, 69
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 192
Caruso, Enrico, 35
Castle, William, 364
Cather, Willa, 35 , 103
Catholic Legion of Decency, 59
Cavett, Frank, 344
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 372
Ceplair, Larry, 3 , 4 , 44 , 142 -143
Chandler, Raymond, 9 , 18 , 23 -25, 199 , 372
Chaney, Lon, 259 , 259,264
Chaney, Lon, Sr., 264
Chanslor, Roy, 351 -352, 359
Chaplin, Charlie, 4 , 7 , 143 , 144 , 310
Charles XIII (king of Sweden), 320
Chavez, Cesar, 200
Chayefsky, Paddy, 30 , 50 , 62 , 151
Chodorov, Jerome, 278
Christophers Award, 367
Churchill, Winston, 55 -56
Ciment, Michel, 193
Clift, Montgomery, 11 , 61 , 130 , 139 , 285 -286, 293 , 309 , 318 -320
Cocks, Jay, 24
Cocteau, Jean, 219
Cohan, George M., 116
Cohn, Harry, 12 , 127 , 309 -310, 317 -320, 322 , 323 , 324 -325, 349 , 367
Cole, Lester, 322
Collins, Joan, 240 -242, 244 , 303
Colman, Ronald, 105 -106
Comden, Betty and Adolph Green, 6 , 9 , 43 , 74 , 77 ;
interview, 73 -88;
introduction, 73 -74;
filmography, 74 -75;
early career, 75 -76;
coming to Hollywood, 76 ;
working at MGM, 76 -85;
working with Gene Kelly, 73 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 -81, 82 , 84 ;
working with Stanley Donen, 73 , 78 , 79 , 80 -81, 82 , 84 ;
working with Vincente Minnelli, 76 , 78 , 80 ;
on Arthur Freed (the Freed unit), 73 , 76 -78, 79 , 80 , 82 , 83 -84, 87 ;
Singin' in the Rain,73 , 78 , 81 -83, 84 , 86 -87;
Band Wagon, 73 , 80 , 84 , 86 , 88 ;
It's Always Fair Weather,73 , 83 , 84 , 88 ;
the autobiographical strain, 87 -88
Committee for the First Amendment, 44 -45, 47
Communist Party (Hollywood section), 144 -145, 166 -167, 178 -179, 185 -188, 322
Congressional Record,300
Conrad, Joseph, 9 , 30
Conway, Tom, 261
Cooper, Dennis, 363
Cooper, Dorothy, 120
Cooper, Gary, 68 -69, 119 , 360
Copland, Aaron, 167
Corda, Maria, 211
Corliss, Richard, 13 , 18
Corneille, Pierre, 89
Cosby, Bill, 67
Costigan, James, 303
Cotten, Joseph, 230 , 238
Coward, Noel, 76 , 215 , 221 , 223 , 320
Cox, Wally, 325
Crain, Jeanne, 135 , 235 -236
Crawford, Broderick, 101
Crawford, Joan, 318 , 351 -354, 352, 356 , 358
Cronyn, Hume, 139
Crouse, Russel, 106
Crowther, Bosley, 197
Cugat, Xavier, 119
Cukor, George, 8 , 9 , 10 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 68 , 97 , 108 -109, 110 , 230 -231, 234 , 235 -236
Cummings, Jack, 50 , 119 , 121 , 123
Cummings, Robert, 357 , 373 -374
Cunningham, John W., 178
Curtis, Tony, 254
Curtiz, Michael, 210 -211, 212
D
Dahl, Arlene, 243
Dalrymple, Jean, 316
Dalton, Audrey, 238
Daly, Tyne, 129
Daniell, Tina, 73
Darvi, Bella, 325
Dassin, Jules, 48 , 333
Daves, Delmer, 50
Davies, Marion, 228
Davies, Valentine, 344
Davis, Bette, 62 , 71 , 323
Day, Frances, 256
Dean, James, 9 , 11 , 275 , 286 , 289 -292, 303 , 306 -308, 307,358 -359
De Carlo, Yvonne, 204 , 232 , 254
Dee, Frances, 261
De Havilland, Olivia, 137 , 219
Del Ruth, Roy, 121
De Mille, Cecil B., 50 , 58 , 368 -369
Derek, John, 315
Deutsch, Helen, 51 , 120
De Vries, Peter, 278
Dial, 163
Diamond, I. A. L., 108 , 111
Dickens, Charles, 104
Dickinson, Emily, 163
Dickinson, Thorold, 230
Dieterle, William, 331 , 343 -344, 346 -347, 348 , 360 -361, 362 -363, 371
Dietz, Howard, 87 , 88
Dillinger, John, 347 -348
Directors Guild of America, 50
Dix, Richard, 156
Dmytryk, Edward, 142 , 322 , 327
Doctorow, E. L., 242
Donen, Stanley, 9 , 73 , 78 , 79 , 80 -81, 82 , 84 , 95 , 127
Donovan, Arlene, 327 , 328
"Don't Ask Me Why" ("Frag' nicht warum"), 202 , 215
Dorraine, Lucy, 211
Dorsey, Tommy, 346
Dostoevski, Fyodor, 9 , 29 , 34 , 50 , 51
Douglas, Kirk, 127 , 197 -200, 198, 239
Douglas, Melvyn, 227,229
Dovzhenko, Alexander, 164
Dowling, Allan, 263
Dozier, Bill, 197
Dramatists Guild, 109 , 111 -112
Dreiser, Theodore, 270
Dressier, Marie, 232
Dreyfuss, Richard, 345
Dudley, Jane, 166
Duff, Warren, 197 -198, 200
Duggan, Pat, 378
Dunne, Irene, 230
Durbin, Deanna, 228 , 314
D'Usseau, Arnaud, 183 , 333 , 359
E
Eastwood, Clint, 44
Edens, Roger, 77 -78, 79
Edwards, Vince, 362
Eggerth, Marta, 218
Eisenhower, Pres. Dwight D., 126 , 309
Emery, Gilbert, 41
Encyclopedia Brittanica,110
Engels, Friedrich, 187
Englund, George, 293 -301, 296
Englund, Steven, 3 , 4 , 44 , 142 -143
Epstein, Julius J. and Philip G., 50 , 272
Ericson, John, 284
Esquire, 35 , 58 , 274 , 344
Esterhazy, Countess, 218 -219
Ettinger, Eve, 315
Evans, Gene, 263
Evans, Madge, 256
Evans, Ross, 235
Evelyn, Judith, 230
F
Fabray, Nanette, 88
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 221
Falk, Peter, 189
Farber, Manny, 348
Farr, Jamie, 52
Farrell, James T., 375
Faubus, Gov. Orval, 55
Faulkner, William, 9 , 17 -18, 171 -173, 174 , 175 , 184 , 267
Fearing, Kenneth, 169
Fehr, Rudi, 259
Feiffer, Jules, 74
Fein, Rudolf Walther, 213
Feist, Felix, 263
Feldman, Charles, 232
Fenton, Frank, 198
Feuchtwanger, Leon, 346
Field, Sally, 275
Fields, Joseph, 278 -279
Fields, Marian, 279
Figaro, Le, 219
Film and Photo League (branch of Worker's Relief League), 165
Fischer, Dennis, 246
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 50 , 51 , 270
Flaherty, Robert, 158
Fleming, Rhonda, 200
"Flight of the Bumble Bee," 232
Flinn, Tom, 193
Florey, Robert, 262
Fonda, Henry, 68
Fontaine, Joan, 356
Ford, Glenn, 53
Ford, John, 7 , 22 , 100 , 111 , 353 , 372
Forman, Milos, 242
Forst, Willi, 202 -203, 212 , 214 , 215 , 216 , 218 -219
Forster, Rudolf, 212
Forster, Susie, 272
Forsyth, Frank, 263
Fosse, Bob, 125
Foster, Susanna, 262
Foy, Bryan, 279
"Frag' nicht warum" ("Don't Ask Me Why"), 202 , 215
Francis, Freddie, 263
Frank, Frederic M., 368
Franklin, Sidney, 261
Frankovich, Mike J., 326 , 327
Fredericks, Larry, 302
Frederick the Great, 218
Freed, Arthur (the Freed unit), 9 , 73 , 76 -78, 79 , 80 , 82 , 83 -84, 87 , 118 , 119 , 150 , 151 , 230
Freeman, Y. Frank, 58 , 293
Frenke, Eugene, 370
Freud, Sigmund, 156 , 356
Friedrich, Otto, 1
Froelich, Carl, 213 , 214
Froeschel, George, 261
Frontier Films, 157 , 164 -169, 184 , 191
Fulbright, Sen. William, 300
Furthman, Jules, 17
G
Gabel, Martin, 134 , 143 , 292
Gabin, Jean, 376
Gable, Clark, 118 , 203 , 213 , 228
Gallop's Audience Research, 197
Garbo, Greta, 58 , 68 , 74 , 137 , 172 , 173 , 203 , 225 , 226 , 227, 244
Gardner, Ava, 42 , 137 , 254 , 318 , 337 , 379
Gardner Herb, 151
Garland Beverly, 266
Garland, Judy, 78 , 119 , 151
Garson, Greer, 221
Gassner, John, 5
Gaynor, Janet, 69
Genet, Jean, 160 , 189 -190
George, George W., 292
Gershwin, George, 45 , 76
Gershwin, Ira, 45 , 48 , 76
Gibbons, Cedric, 57
Gibson, Charles Dana ("Gibson girl" creator), 241
Gibson, Henry, 25
Gilbert, John, 58 , 82
Gilbert and Sullivan, 76
Ginsberg, Henry, 278 , 290
Gish, Lillian, 190
Glad, Gladys, 44
Gloria Jean, 314
Goebbels, (Paul) Joseph, 214
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 209
Goldberg, Whoopi, 55 , 91
Golden, Leo (pseudonym), 361 -362
Goldwyn, Sam, 91 , 95 -96, 367 , 377 -378
"Goodbye, My Little Grenadier" ("Adieu mein kleiner Garde Offizier"), 202 , 215
Goodman, Benny, 346
Goodman, David Zelag, 297
Goodman Theatre, 331 , 343 -344
Goodrich, Frances (and Albert Hackett), 127 , 224
Gordon, Bernard, 183 , 333 -334
Gordon, Billy, 244
Gordon, Ruth, 10 , 89 -91, 99 , 104 , 105 -110, 109,220 . See also Kanin, Garson
Gould, Elliott, 23 , 25 , 25
Goulding, Edmund, 243
Graham, Martha, 166
Graham, Sheilah, 200
Grant, Cary, 130 , 139 , 324
Grant, Lee, 189
Grayson, Kathryn, 228
Green, Adolph and Betty Comden. See Comden, Betty and Adolph Green
Green, Johnny, 83
Greenberg, Joel, 201
Greene, Lorne, 364
Greer, Jane, 197 -200
Greshler, Abby, 291
Greville, Edmond T., 240
Griffith, D. W., 4 , 201
Grobel, Lawrence, 147 , 190
Group Theatre, 66 , 158 , 185
Guffey, Burnett, 309
H
Hackett, Albert (and Frances Goodrich), 127 , 224
Hagen, Jean, 176
Haid, Liane, 215
Haig, Alexander, 113
Haines, Roberta, 318
Halevy, Julian (a.k.a. Julian Zimet), 333
Hall, Alexander, 229
Hall, Jon, 29 , 38 , 39 , 40
Hall, Oakley M., 327 -328
Hamilton, Edmond, 15
Hamilton, Patrick, 230 -231
Hammett, Dashiell, 18 , 199 , 263 , 372 , 374
Hanff, Helene, 313
Hanlon, Alma, 113 , 116 -117
Harmon, Sidney, 158 , 180 , 331 , 360 -362, 375 , 380
Harris, Jed, 310 , 315 -316
Harrison, Rex, 324
Hart, Moss, 106 , 107
Hartl, Karl, 265
Harvey, Lillian, 216 , 244
Hathaway, Henry, 234 , 237
Hawks, Howard, 7 , 9 , 15 , 17 , 18 -23, 19, 228
Hayden, Sterling, 25 , 176 , 352,353
Haydn, Franz Joseph, 208
Hayes, Alfred, 279 -280, 281 , 282
Hayes, Helen, 149
Hayton, Lennie, 83
Hayward, Susan, 350
Hecht, Ben, 17 , 100 , 139 , 181 , 203 , 224 , 228 , 332
Hecht, Harold (Hecht-Hill-Lancaster), 170 , 190 , 254
Heflin, Van, 350 -351
Hellinger, Mark, 29 , 41 -44, 47 -48, 50 , 62
Hellman, Jerome, 306
Hemingway, Ernest, 17 , 42 , 43 , 103 , 141 , 270 , 372
Henderson, Capt. Ian, 54 , 55
Henie, Sonja, 221 , 236
Henreid, Paul, 262
Hepburn, Audrey, 190
Hepburn, Katharine, 10 , 89 , 108 -110, 109,148 , 315
Henandez, Juano, 172 , 174
Heston, Charlton, 359 , 379
Heymann, Warner, 215
Heywood, Anne, 263
Hill, George Roy, 325
Hiller, Arthur, 326
Hilton, James, 224
Hitchcock, Alfred, 7 , 10 , 100 , 130 , 138 -139, 226 , 245
Hitler, Adolf, 8 , 11 , 202 , 212 -214, 217 -218, 255 , 257 -258
Hoffenstein, Samuel, 223 , 224
Hoffman, Dustin, 346
Hogarth, William, 188
Holden, William, 101,327
Hollander, Friedrich, 215 , 256
Holliday, Judy, 10 , 73 , 76 , 84 , 90 , 101,109
Holliner, Mann, 36
Hood, Richard B., 47
Hope, Bob, 117 -118
Hopkins, Arthur, 98 -99
Hopkins, Miriam, 203 , 219 -220
Hopper, Dennis, 11 , 274 , 275 , 285 , 291 , 292 , 293
Hornblow, Arthur, 120 , 176 -177, 229 , 230 -231
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 2 , 4 , 10 , 44 , 47 -50, 67 , 142 , 144 , 147 , 158 -160, 185 -188, 322
Howard, Sidney, 100
Hubley, Faith, 158
Hudson, Rock, 54
Hughes, Howard, 140 -141, 197 , 367
Humphrey, William, 327
Hundred Hussars, 215
Hunnicutt, Arthur, 21
Hunter, Evan, 53
Hunter, Kim, 349
Hurwitz, Leo, 158 , 165 -167, 169 , 186 -188
Huston, John, 6 , 29 , 42 -47, 46, 50 , 61 -62, 66 , 143 , 157 , 176 -177, 190 -191, 263 -264
Huston, Walter, 177 , 256
Hutton, Brian G., 23
Hyman, Bernie, 223 -224
I
Imperial Ballet, 203
Inge, William, 322
J
Jackson, Rep. Donald, 185 -186
Jack the Ripper, 273
Jaffe, Sam, 176
Jagger, Dean, 349
James, Harry, 119
Jannings, Emil, 255
Jaray, Hans, 218
Jarman, Claude, Jr., 174
Johnson, Nunnally, 6
Jones, Carolyn, 266
Jones, James, 309 , 316 -317, 319
Jurgens, Curt, 191
K
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
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
L
Ladd, Alan, 295
La Marr, Barbara, 222
Lamarr, Hedy (Hedy Mandl), 221 -222, 228 , 229 -230
Lamour, Dorothy, 256
Lancaster, Burt, 42 , 59 , 63 , 190 , 252 -254, 319,319 -320, 326
Lang, Fritz, 7 , 212 , 217 , 218 , 246 , 316
Lang, Walter, 122
Langman, Larry, 13
Lardner, Ring, Jr., 322
Lastfogel, Abe, 127
Laurents, Arthur, 2 , 4 , 8 , 10 , 37 , 43 , 132;
interview, 129 -156;
introduction, 129 -131;
filmography, 131 -133;
early ambition, 133 ;
radio writing, 133 -134;
Home of the Brave,134 -136;
coming to Hollywood, 136 ;
Anatole Litvak and The Snake Pit,136 -137;
Alfred Hitchcock and Rope,138 -139;
Max Ophuls and Caught,140 -142;
the HUAC witchhunt, 142 -147;
traveling in Europe, 146 -147;
Summertime (The Time of the Cuckoo),147 -148;
Anatole Litvak and Anastasia,148 -150;
Otto Preminger and Bonjour Tristesse,150 -151;
Gypsy and West Side Story151 ;
The Way We Were,151 -153;
The Turning Point,152 -154;
unproduced scripts, 154 -155;
"emotional reality," 155 -156;
future projects, 156
Laven, Arnold, 331
Lawrence, Gertrude, 203 , 219 -220, 221
Lawrence, Marc, 176
Lawson, John Howard, 144 , 322 , 361
Lazar, Irving "Swifty," 141 , 145 -146, 150
Leakey, Louis S. B., 54 -55, 56
Leakey, Mary, 54
Lean, David, 10 , 130 , 147 -148
Lederer, Charles, 228
Lederer, William J., 297
Lee, Bernard, 263
Lehar, Franz, 202
Leigh, Vivien, 228
LeMary, Alan, 190
Lengyel, Melchior, 203 , 225
Lennart, Isobel, 120 , 124
Lennen and Mitchell, 36
Leonard, Robert Z., 230
Lerner, Alan [Jay], 77
Lerner, Irving, 158 , 179 , 188 , 331 , 332 , 359 -363, 375
LeRoy, Mervyn, 151
Levant, Oscar, 88
Levin, Henry, 243
Lewis, Sinclair, 9 , 29 , 30 , 35 , 51 , 58 -59, 60 , 270
Lewis, Thomas, 123
Lewton, Val, 173 , 260 -261, 380 -381
Liedtke, Harry, 202
Life magazine, 366 , 376
Lillie, Bea, 285 -286
Lindeman, Mitch, 191
Lindsay, Howard, 106
Litvak, Anatole, 10 , 136 -137, 138 , 148 -150
Loesser, Frank, 125
Loew family, 274
Loew, Arthur, Jr., 277 -278, 282 , 286 , 290 , 303
Loew, Arthur, Sr., 277 , 279 -281, 283
Loew, Marcus, 277 , 279
Logan, Joshua, 278 , 322 , 324
Lollobrigida, Gina, 61
Loos, Anita, 224 , 278
Lord, Robert, 315
Loren, Sophia, 359
Lorre, Peter, 217 , 262 , 373 -374
Los Angeles Examiner,196
Losey, Joseph, 193 , 333
Lovecraft, H. P., 368
Lovejoy, Frank, 193 , 358
Lubitsch, Ernst, 9 , 203 , 204 , 213 , 225 -229, 245
Lucas, George, 9
Lugosi, Bela, 260
Lukas, Paul, 379
Lumet, Sidney, 171 , 327 -328
Lund, John, 233
Lupino, Ida, 193
Lyons, Leonard, 89
M
MacAdams, William, 228
MacArthur, Charles, 17 , 100 , 203 , 224
MacGowan, Jack, 263
Mackendrick, Alexander, 324
MacKenzie, Aenas, 357
MacLaine, Shirley, 154 , 240
Maddow, Ben (David Wolff), 2 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 10 , 159, 332 , 333 , 334 , 359 -61;
interview, 157 -192;
introduction, 157 -160;
filmography as "David Wolff," 160 -161;
filmography as Ben Maddow, 161 -162;
passion for poetry, 162 -164;
social consciousness, 164 ;
early interest in film, 164 ;
writing documentaries, 165 -169;
poetry and scriptwriting, 165 ;
Frontier Films' internal schism, 166 -169;
Native Land,167 -169;
World War II and Signal Corps documentaries, 169 -170;
coming to Hollywood, 170 ;
writing a novel, 170 ;
first script credits, 170 -171;
William Faulkner and Intruder in the Dust,171 -174;
working with Clarence Brown, 171 -173;
writers at MGM, 173 -174;
The Asphalt Jungle,175 -177;
working with John Huston, 157 , 176 -177, 190 -191;
the blacklist, 178 -188;
working with Philip Yordan, 179 -184;
cooperative HUAC testimony, 185 -188;
on Elia Kazan, 185 -186;
opinion of Hollywood Communists, 185 -188;
on directing, 188 -190;
credits after the blacklist, 190 -191;
writing photography books, 191 -192
Maddow, Frieda, 166 , 170
Mainwaring, Daniel (Geoffrey Homes), 4 , 8 , 194;
interview, 193 -200;
introduction, 193 -194;
filmography as "Geoffrey Homes," 195 ;
filmography as Daniel Mainwaring, 196 ;
early career, 196 -197;
writing mystery novels, 197 ;
filming of Out of the Past (based on his novel Build My Gallows High ), 197 -200
Malleson, Miles, 263
Maltin, Leonard, 73
Maltz, Albert, 44 , 174 , 186 -187, 322
Mamoulian, Rouben, 313
Mandl, Fritz, 221 -222
Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 50 , 180 -181, 344 , 363
Mann, Anthony, 7 , 183 , 331 , 332 , 356 -359, 362 , 370 , 371 -372, 381
Mann, Thomas, 143 , 257 , 346
Mannix, Eddie, 52 , 226 , 228
Mantle, Burns, 331
Mao Tse-Tung, 190 , 191
March, Fredric, 69
Marcus, Raymond T., 265
Margaret Herrick Library, 310
Martin, Dean, 21
Martin, Paul, 217
Martin, Steve, 262
Marton, Andrew, 265
Marvin, Lee, 63 , 64
Marx Brothers, 42
Marx, Karl, 144 , 146 , 155 , 156 , 166 -167, 187
Mason, James, 140,244
Matson, Harold, 269
Mature, Victor, 357 -358, 375 -376
Maugham, W. Somerset, 55 , 104 , 105
Mauldin, Bill, 282 -283
May, Joe, 212 , 257
May, Mia, 212
Mayer, Carl, 213
Mayer, Louis B., 8 , 10 , 49 , 50 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 56 , 65 -66, 121 , 172 -173, 203 , 204 , 220 -222, 225 , 228 , 230 , 364
Mayer, Roger, 56
McBride, Joseph, 17
McCambridge, Mercedes, 351 -353, 352
McCarthy, Joseph/McCarthyism, 50 , 146 , 158 , 204 , 316 , 322 -324, 333 , 334
McDowall, Roddy, 285
McElwaine, Guy, 327
McIntire, John, 176
McKenna, Siobhan, 369
McPartland, John, 376
McQueen, Steve, 346
Meltzer, Lewis, 313
Mencken, H. L., 58
Mercouri, Melina, 48
Mercury Theatre, 38 -39, 141
Meredith, Burgess, 229
Messler, Oskar, 214
Meyers, Sidney, 166 , 168
Midler, Bette, 156
Milestone, Lewis, 7 , 143 , 237
Miller, Alice Duer, 224
Miller, Arthur, 57
Mineo, Sal, 307
Minnelli, Vincente, 9 , 77 , 78 , 80 , 229 , 230 , 231
Mirisch, Harold, 325
Mitchum, Robert, 21 , 197 -200, 198, 349
Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 107 , 209
Moll, Elick, 322
Monks, John, 315
Monroe, Marilyn, 57 , 68 , 176 , 237 , 238,286
Montalban, Ricardo, 50
Montez, Maria, 29 , 38 , 39 , 40
Morris, Chester, 347
Morrow, Vic, 53
Moscov, George V., 347
Motion Picture Daily,13
Motion Picture Production Code, 229
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 202 , 208 , 211
Murat, Jean, 214
Murphy, Audie, 190
N
National Endowment for the Arts, 193
National Geographic,39 -40
National Socialist Chamber of German Writers, 255 -256
Navasky, Victor, 3 , 4 , 142 , 160 , 185
Neal, Patricia, 243
Negulesco, Jean, 143 , 234 , 239
Nelson, John, 374
Nesbit, Evelyn, 240 -242
Newman, Paul, 11 , 43 , 52 , 275 , 301 -303, 302
New School for Social Research (Studio Theatre), 343
New Yorker, 97
New York Times,13 , 87 , 197
New York World-Telegram,28
Nichols, Dudley, 5 , 6
Nicholson, Jack, 375
Niven, David, 150 , 379
Normandie, 203 , 221 -222
North, Edmund H., 314
Northwestern University, 193
Novak, Kim, 324
Novelli, Valerio Giorgio, 327
O
Oberon, Merle, 229
O'Brien, Edmond, 193
O'Connor, Donald, 81
Odets, Clifford, 41 , 66 -67, 303 , 305 , 313
Offenbach, Jacques, 257
O'Hara, John, 89
Okada, Eiji, 298
Olivier, Laurence, 228
Olson, James, 301
O'Neill, Eugene, 65 , 345
Ophuls, Max, 10 , 129 -130, 140 -142
Ornitz, Sam, 322
O'Rourke, Frank, 354
Orwell, George, 34
Osborn, Paul, 186 , 224
Ouspenskaya, Madame, 259
P
Pacino, Al, 327 -328, 346
Pal, George, 370 , 373 , 380
Parker, Cecil, 263
Parker, Dorothy, 69 , 235
Parker, Eleanor, 137
Parsons, Estelle, 302
Partos, Frank, 136 -137
Pasternak, Joe, 51 , 121 , 123 , 228 , 231 , 314
Pater, Walter, 89
Patterson, John, 193
Paxton, John, 41
Peck, Gregory, 354 -356, 380
Perkins, Anthony, 303
Peters, Jean, 237
Philadelphia Record,28
Picasso, Pablo, 164
Pickford, Mary, 277 , 322 -323
Pine and Thomas, 197 , 198
Poe, Edgar Allan, 183
Poe, James, 50 , 51
Poitier, Sidney, 27 , 54 , 67
Pollack, Sydney, 43 , 151
Polonsky, Abraham, 141
Pommer, Erich, 10 , 202 , 216 -217, 218 , 246 , 255
Porten, Henny, 214 , 216
Porter, Cole, 10 , 76 , 84 , 125
Potts, Nell, 301
Powell, William, 221 , 229
Power, Tyrone, 40 , 214
Pramjo, Kukrit, 299
Pratt, Judson, 298
Preminger, Ingo, 322
Preminger, Otto, 10 , 130 , 150 -151, 235
Previn, Andre, 84
Price, Vincent, 230 , 257
Production Code, 229
Puttnam, David, 50
Q
Quine, Richard, 324
R
Racine, Jean, 89
Raft, George, 42
Rainer, Luise, 221 , 223 , 230 , 313
Rains, Claude, 259
Ralston, Vera Hruba, 263 , 361
Ransohoff, Martin, 326 -327, 328 -329
Raphaelson, Samson, 226
Rapper, Irving, 331
Rawlinson, A. R., 230
Ray, Aldo, 318 , 357
Ray, Nicholas, 7 , 182 , 286 -290, 292 , 307 -308, 315 , 331 , 332 , 351 -354, 356 -359, 362 , 367 -368, 370 , 371 -372, 380
Reagan, Nancy (Davis), 177 , 263
Reagan, Ronald, 170 , 263
Red Channels,49
Red Cross, 314
Redford, Robert, 130 , 151 -152, 153, 326
Reed, Carol, 252
Reed, Donna, 309 , 318 -321, 321
Reik, Theodor, 145
Reiner, Carl, 262
Reinhardt, Gottfried, 142 , 346
Reinhardt, Max, 212 , 225 , 346
Reinhardt, Wolfgang, 142 , 346
Reis, Irving, 322
Reisch, Walter, 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 43 , 123 , 205,239 , 255 ;
interview, 201 -245;
filmography in Europe, 206 -207;
filmography in U.S., 207 -208;
early career in Austria, 208 -211;
on Alexander Korda and Michael Curtiz, 210 -211;
on Count Kolowrat, 201 , 210 -211, 217 ;
first film script, 211 ;
approach to writing silent scenarios, 211 -212;
working in Berlin, 212 -218;
on Hans Albers, 213 -214;
working with director Carl Froelich, 214 ;
working with director Geza von Bolvary, 215 ;
writing song lyrics, 215 -216;
Erich Pommer and UFA, 216 -217;
F.P. 1 Does Not Answer (F.P. 1 antwortet nicht),217 ;
working with Gustav Ucicky, 217 -218;
return to Vienna and working with Willi Forst, 218 -219;
working for Korda in England, 219 -220;
coming to Hollywood, 220 -223;
boat trip with Louis B. Mayer, 220 -222;
discovery of Hedy Lamarr, 221 -222;
script collaboration at MGM, 223 -225;
Ernst Lubitsch and Ninotchka,225 -227;
on Charles Brackett, 203 , 204 , 205 , 226 -229, 232 -233, 236 -239, 240 -244, 245 ;
Comrade X, 228 ;
That Uncertain Feeling,228 -229;
The Heavenly Body,229 -230;
George Cukor and Gaslight,230 -232;
directing Song of Scheherazade,231 -232;
The Mating Season,232 -233;
adapting to Darryl Zanuck and Twentieth Century-Fox, 233 -235;
The Model and the Marriage Broker,235 -236;
Niagara, 236 -238;
Titanic, 237 -239;
return to directing in Germany, 239 -240;
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing,240 -242;
Jules Verne and Journey to the Center of the Earth,243 -244;
approach to and philosophy of scriptwriting, 244 -245
Remarque, Erich Maria, 257
Resnais, Alain, 74
Revuers, The, 73 , 76 , 85
Reynolds, Debbie, 81,239
Richards, Sylvia, 316
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 204 , 240
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 202 , 204 , 232
Ritt, Martin, 171 , 376
Ritter, Thelma, 232 -233, 235 -236, 238 -239
Rivkin, Allen, 263
Robbins, Jerome, 142 , 145 , 151
Roberts, Marguerite, 120
Robespierre, Maximilien, 357
Robinson, Edward G., 45 -47
Robson, Mark, 372 , 375 -376, 377 -379
Rochlin, Margy, 274
Rogers, Ginger, 141 , 243
Rogers, Will, 117
Romance, Viviane, 51
Romanoff, Mike, 241
Rooney, Mickey, 119
Roosevelt, Pres. Franklin D., 48 , 164
Rose, William, 191
Rosenberg, Aaron, 325 -326
Rosenberg, Ruby, 266 -267
Rosenman, Leonard, 286
Ross, Herb, 154
Rossellini, Roberto, 252
Ruhmann, Heinz, 255
Rukeyser, Muriel, 169
Russell, Harold, 314
Russell, Rosalind, 151 , 285
Ryan, Robert, 41 , 140,141 -142, 357
Rydell, Mark, 22 , 23 -24
S
Sabu, 29 , 38 , 39 , 40
Sagan, Françoise, 130 , 150 -151
St. Cyr, Lili, 337
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,34
Salinger, Conrad, 83
Sarafian, Richard, 328
Saxon, John, 190
Schary, Dore, 52 , 57 , 125 , 200
Schenck, Joseph, 49 , 221
Schenck, Marvin, 49
Schenck, Nicholas, 49 , 221 , 225
Schermer, Jules, 175
Schiller, Friedrich von, 209
Schmidt-Gentner, Willy, 215
Schneer, Charles H., 265 -266
Schneider, Hortense, 257
Schnitzler, Arthur, 202
Schreiber, Lew, 205 , 244
Schubert, Franz, 202 , 208 , 218 -219
Schulberg, Ad, 220
Schulberg, B. P., 220
Schulberg, Budd, 147 , 220 , 272
Schulman, Irving, 286 -287, 288
Schwartz, Arthur, 87 , 88
Schwartz, Nancy Lynn, 3 , 4 , 5
Schweizer, Richard, 364
Scott, Adrian, 41 , 48 , 144 , 322
Scott, Allan, 315
Screen Writers Guild, 5 , 13 , 144 , 205 , 310 , 323
Seberg, Jean, 150
Selznick, David O., 44 , 230 , 251 , 314 -315, 324 , 356
Selznick, Irene, 137 , 143 , 324
Selznick, Myron, 17
Sennett, Mack, 252
Shakespeare, William, 10 , 151 , 162 -163, 209 , 264 , 334 , 344 , 379
Shanley, John Patrick, 155
Shaw, Artie, 346
Sheldon, Sidney, 328
Shelley, Percy, 162
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 89
Sherwood, Robert, 100 , 125
Shirley, Ann, 48 , 144
Shuftan, Eugene (né Eugen Schüfftan), 251 -252
Shurlock, Geoffrey, 229 , 319 -320
Sidney, George, 122 , 125 , 127 -128
Siegel, Don, 193
Siegel, Sol, 363 , 370
Signal Corps Photographic Unit, 278 , 314
Simenon, Georges, 350
Simmons, Jean, 30 , 64
Simon, Michel, 51
Simon, Simone, 337
Sims, Ginnie, 272
Sinatra, Frank, 10 , 127 -128, 309 , 318 -320
Siodmak, Curt, 7 , 8 , 11 , 217 , 248, 253 , 271 ;
interview, 246 -273;
introduction, 246 -247;
filmography, 247 -250;
on Robert Siodmak, 246 -247, 251 -255, 261 -262, 264 ;
Menschen am Sonntag,251 -252;
"sibling rivalry," 252 -254, 261 , 264 ;
working for UFA, 254 -255;
F.P. 1 Doesn't Answer,255 ;
leaving Germany in 1933, 256 ;
arriving in Hollywood, 257 ;
German refugees in Hollywood, 257 ;
horror specialist, 257 -258;
Invisible Man series, 257 -258;
The Wolf Man,258 -259;
Frankenstein series, 260 ;
I Walked with a Zombie,260 ;
The Beast with Five Fingers,262 -263;
Donovan's Brain,263 -264;
turning director, 264 -267;
writing science fiction novels, 267 -268;
attitude and approach towards scriptwriting, 269 -273;
works in progress, 273
Siodmak, Henrietta, 246 -247, 256 -257
Siodmak, Robert, 7 , 10 , 217 , 246 -247, 251 -255, 253,261 -262, 264
Sirk, Douglas, 7
Sisk, Bob, 96 -97
Skelton, Red, 119 , 122
Skerrit, Tom, 154
Skofic, Drago Milko, 61 -62
Skouras, Spyros, 376
Small, Edward, 350
Smith, Oliver, 77 -78
Somers, Edith, 243
Sondheim, Stephen, 150 , 151 , 156
"Song of India," 232
Sparks, Robert, 200
Sperling, Milton, 183 , 331 , 332 , 333 -336, 358 , 366 , 374 , 379
Spewack, Bella and Samuel, 224
Spiegel, Sam, 141 , 147 , 232
Spielberg, Steven, 303
Spigelgass, Leonard, 174
Stanfill, Dennis, 328 -329
Stanwyck, Barbara, 239
Stark, Eric John (fictional hero), 15
Stark, Ray, 43 , 151 -152, 156
Stars and Stripes,282
Steiger, Rod, 375 , 380
Stein, Gertrude, 89
Steinbeck, John, 288
Steinberg, Cobbett, 1
Steiner, Ralph, 165
Stempel, Tom, 5
Stern, Marilee, 275
Stern, Stewart, 2 , 6 , 8 , 9 , 11 , 43 , 276, 284 , 302 ;
interview, 274 -308;
introduction, 274 -276;
filmography, 276 -277;
family connections, 277 -279;
on Joe Fields, 278 -279;
Fred Zinnemann and Teresa,279 -285;
on the Loews, 277 -279, 281 -283, 286 , 290 , 303 ;
on psychodynamics of characters, 280 -281;
on Montgomery
Stern, Stewart
Clift, 285 -286;
Nicholas Ray and Rebel Without a Cause,286 -293;
Rebel script credits, 286 -288;
James Dean's death, 290 -291;
"Tiger on a Kite," 293 -295;
working with George Englund, 293 -301;
on Marion Brando, 275 , 281 , 292 , 293 -301, 306 -308;
The Ugly American,293 -300;
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, 301 -303;
Dennis Hopper and The Last Movie,303 -305;
writer's block and retreating from Hollywood, 305 -306;
affinity with anti-heros, 306 -308
Stevens, George, 7 , 102 , 375
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 224
Stewart, James, 68 , 139 , 324
Stolz, Robert, 215
Stone, Oliver, 262
Stradling, Harry, 219
Strand, Paul, 165 , 167 , 169
Strauss, Johann, 202 , 208 , 211 , 223
Streep, Meryl, 118
Streisand, Barbra, 130 , 152 , 153
Strick, Joseph, 158 , 160 , 188 -190
Strickling, Howard, 221 -222
Sturges, John, 50
Sturges, Preston, 6 , 7 , 41 , 108
Sunday, Billy, 59
Susskind, David, 68 -69
Swires, Steve, 15
T
Talman, William, 193
Tamblyn, Russ, 352
Tamiroff, Akim, 325
Taradash, Daniel, 2 , 7 , 8 , 11 , 67 , 68 , 123 , 311, 321 , 328 ;
interview, 309 -329;
introduction, 309 -310;
filmography, 310 -312;
early career and background, 312 -313;
Golden Boy,313 ;
World War II, 314 ;
Knock on Any Door,315 ;
Jed Harris and Broadway, 315 -316;
Fritz Lang and Rancho Notorious,316 ;
Fred Zinnemann and From Here to Eternity,316 -320;
casting of Eternity,318 -319;
Désirée,320 ;
William Inge and Picnic,320 -321;
directing an anti-McCarthyist film, 322 -324;
Bell, Book and Candle,324 ;
Harry Cohn's death, 324 -325;
Hawaii, 325 ;
Marlon Brando and Morituri,325 -326;
Castle Keep,326 -327;
series of disappointments, 327 -329
Tavernier, Bertrand, 334
Taylor, Don, 266
Taylor, Elizabeth, 52 , 53 -54, 291 , 300
Taylor, Eric, 261
Taylor, Robert, 346
Tennessee Valley Authority, 186
Thalberg, Irving, 221 -222, 261
Tharp, Twyla, 85
Thau, Benny, 52 , 221 -222
Thaw-White case (Harry K. Thaw), 204 , 240 -242
Thiele, Wilhelm, 217
Thomas, Bill (Pine and Thomas), 196
Thomas, Bob, 327
Thompson, Dorothy, 60
Thomson, David, 309 , 332
Tierney, Gene, 233
Tierney, Lawrence, 347 , 365
Time magazine, 265 , 326 , 360
Tolstoy, Count Leo, 34
Tors, Ivan, 264 -265
Tourneur, Jacques, 197 -200
Tourneur, Maurice, 117
Tracy, Spencer, 10 , 89 , 100 , 106 , 108 -109, 109,376
Truffaut, François, 252 , 348 -349
Trumbo, Dalton, 4 , 96 -97, 142 -143, 151 , 322 , 325 , 363
Tucker, Mel, 300
Turner, Lana, 51
Turner, Ted, 113
Twain, Mark, 110
Twist, John, 97 -98
"Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time," 202
U
Ucicky, Gustav, 213 , 217 -218
UFA (Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft), 202 , 213 , 216 -217, 218 , 251 , 254 -255
Ulmer, Edgar G., 251
"Unfinished Symphony," 218 -219
Uris, Leon, 286 -287
V
Van Doren, Mark, 162 -163
Van Druten, John, 224 , 230 -231, 324 , 344 -345
Van Dyke, Willard, 158 , 167 , 169
Van Eyck, Peter, 263
van Pallandt, Nina, 25
Variety, 13 , 334 -335
Veiller, Anthony, 43
Verne, Jules, 204 -205, 243 -244, 246 -247
Vidal, Gore, 30 , 50 , 62
Vidor, King, 7 , 228
Viertel, Peter, 61
Viertel, Salka, 143 , 144
Vizzard, Jack, 242
Vogel, Joseph, 57
von Bolvary, Geza, 215
von Hofmannsthal, Hugo, 202
von Menzel, Adolf, 218
von Sternberg, Josef, 17
W
Waggner, George, 38 , 259 , 260 , 270
Wagner, Robert, 238
Walbrook, Anton, 230
Wald, Jerry, 68 , 205 , 356 , 376
Walesa, Lech, 310 , 328
Wallace, Henry, 48
Wallach, Eli, 319
Wallis, Hal, 331
Walsh, Raoul, 7 , 98
Walters, Charles, 122 , 191
Wanger, Walter, 229 , 348 , 350 -351, 357 , 364 , 370
Warner, Harry, 366
Warner, Jack, 182 , 354
Wasserman, Lew, 351 -354
Wayne, John, 20 -22, 353
Webb, Clifton, 234 , 237 -238, 243 -244
Webb, Richard, 198
Wechsler, Lazar, 280
Welles, Orson, 4 , 6 , 29 , 38 -39, 141 , 348
Wellman, William, 7 , 69
Welsch, Howard, 316
Werner, Oskar, 214
Wessely, Paula, 203 , 219 , 225 , 244
West, Claudine, 224
Weston, Edward, 192
White, Stanford (Thaw-White case), 204 , 240 -242
Whitman, Walt, 34 , 162
Whitmore, James, 176
Wicki, Bernhard, 325
Wiene, Robert, 213
Wilbur, Dr. Cornelia, 280
Wilcox, Fred M., 191
Wilde, Oscar, 235
Wilder, Billy, 6 , 108 , 111 , 120 , 202 , 203 , 204 , 216 , 218 , 225 -229, 232 , 245 , 251 , 254 -255
Wilder, Thornton, 98 -99, 103
William Morris Agency, 127 , 185
Williams, Esther, 10 , 114 , 119 , 120 , 122 , 123 , 125 , 126,236
Williams, Tennessee, 9 , 45 , 51 , 52 , 61 , 270 , 295
Williams, Warren, 259
Wilson, Michael, 363
Winters, Shelley, 189
Wister, Owen, 22
Woche magazine, 251
Wohl, Burton, 21
Wood, Natalie, 291 , 307
Woodcock, Johnny, 22
Woodward, Joanne, 11 , 301 -303
Woolf, Manny, 256
Wray, Fay, 256
Wrixon, Maris, 259
Wyler, Robert, 374
Wyler, William, 170 , 180 , 314 , 323 -324, 374 -375
Wyngard, Diana, 230
Y
Yablans, Frank, 328 -329
Yates, George Worthington, 265 -266
Yates, Herbert, 263 , 350 , 351 , 361 -362
Yordan, Philip, 4 , 6 , 8 , 9 , 11 , 157 -158, 179 -184, 337, 369 , 377 ;
interview, 330 -381;
introduction, 330 -338;
filmography, 338 -340;
"anti-filmography," 341 -343;
coming to Hollywood, 343 -344;
acting and writing background, 344 -346;
middle-class Chicago roots, 345 ;
on William Dieterle and The Devil and Daniel Webster,331 , 343 -344, 346 -347, 348 , 360 -361, 362 -363, 371 ;
the King brothers and Monogram, 346 -350;
writing habits, 350 -352;
Johnny Guitar,351 -354;
The Bravados,354 -356;
Nicholas Ray vs. Anthony Mann, 356 -359;
"surrogate writing," 359 -364;
on Ben Maddow, 332 -334, 359 -361;
the blacklist, 360 -361;
on Irving Lerner, 331 , 332 , 359 -363, 375 ;
on Sidney Harmon, 331 , 360 -362, 375 , 380 ;
an Oscar for Broken Lance,363 -364;
Dillinger's Oscar nomination, 364 ;
genre versatility, 364 -371;
Sam Bronston and working in Europe, 367 -370;
recent credits, 370 -371;
self-appraisal, 371 -377;
on George Pal, 373 -374;
favorite films, 374 -377;
Detective Story,374 -375;
Studs Lonigan,375 ;
King of Kings,330 , 366 , 367 -369, 372 ;
The Harder They Fall,330 , 375 -376, 379 ;
Edge of Doom,377 -378;
challenges and gratification, 380 -381
Young, Loretta, 123
Z
Zanuck, Darryl F., 10 , 204 , 210 , 233 -239, 240 -241, 243 -244, 320 , 325 , 331 , 333 , 335 , 344 , 362 , 364 , 376
Zanuck, Richard, 325 , 354
Ziegfield, Florenz, 116
Zinnemann, Fred, 68 , 251 , 281 -285, 284,309 , 317 -320, 325
Zola, Emile, 343
Zukor, Adolph, 274 , 277 , 278