Authors: Otto Friedrich
Oberammergau Passion Play, 21â22, 624
Oberon, Merle, 26
O'Brien, Pat, 77, 79
Obringer, R. J., 355â56
O'Connor, Frank, 575
Odets, Clifford, 429, 436, 449â50, 550, 553, 611
Odlum, Floyd, 134, 217, 494
O'Hara, John, 628
Oil discovery (1892), 6
Olivier, Laurence, 26, 31, 34, 40â41, 620
Only Angels Have Wings
, 211
Open City
, 530â31, 535, 581
Oppenheimer, Jules, 338
Ornitz, Samuel, 438, 474, 611
Othello
, 557, 558â61
Otis, Harrison Gray, 32, 100â1
Ott, Fred, 7
The Outlaw
, 177â79, 329, 445, 589
Owens River Valley, 32, 166â67
OWI Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP), 303â7
The Ox-Bow Incident
, 149, 206
Â
Pachuco
(zoot suit) riots, 199â205
Paisan
, 530â31, 581
Paley, Dorothy, 319, 329
Pan American Airways, 444, 445, 485
The Paradine Case
, 426, 618
Paramount Studios, xiiâxiii, 10, 21, 25, 62â63, 90, 91, 102, 108, 134, 146, 194, 217, 231, 234, 235, 279, 282â84, 299, 306â7, 330â38, 350, 362â63, 505, 506, 516â21, 627
Parker, Dorothy, 13, 66, 75, 100, 108, 599
Parks, Larry, 438, 440
Parsons, Louella, 36, 131â33, 209, 389, 589, 608, 616
Pascal, Ernest, 107
Pathé, 29
Pearl Harbor, 70, 142â47, 156â57, 159â65, 167â68, 220, 272â73, 492
Peck, Gregory, 57, 312, 325â27, 328, 527, 544â45, 571, 625
Pelican Productions, 425â26
Pépé le Moko
, 18n
Perelman, S. J., 12, 230â31
Perkins, Maxwell, 236, 238
Petrified Forest
, 118â19
The Philadelphia Story
, 76
Pichel, Irving, 438
Pickford, Jack, 562
Pickford, Mary, 100, 268, 505, 562, 603
Pidgeon, Walter, 402
Pierce, Jack, 288â89, 294â95
Pinkerton, Allan, 110
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, 110â13
Pin-up girls, 178, 179, 384
Pius XII, Pope, 626
The Players, 301â2, 307
Play It as It Lays
, 10â11
Poe, Edgar Allan, 290
Pons, Lily, 26
Porter, Cole, 383
Porter, Edwin S., 7â8
Post, C. W., 298, 299
The Postman Always Rings Twice
, 228, 338â42
Postum Cereal Company, 299
Powell, Dick, 302, 402
Powell, Eleanor, 156â57, 300
Power, Tyrone, xiv, 36, 126, 149, 259, 558
The Power and the Glory
, 299â301
Preminger, Ingo, 536â38
Preminger, Otto, 149â50, 259â65, 484, 600â1, 631
Pressburger, Arnold, 181â83
Preston, Robert, 124, 184
Previn, André, 57â59
Production Code.
See
Hays Office (Hollywood Production Code Administration)
Prohibition, 119, 370â71
Pruette, Lorine, 577
Psychiatry/psychoanalysis, 68, 319â27, 500â1, 518
Pulitzer Prize, 506
Â
Queen Mary
, 36, 37, 616â17
Quinn, Anthony, 206
Quo Vadis
, 536, 625, 626, 628
Â
Rachel and the Stranger
, 564
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 49, 60
Racketeers, 87â98
Raft, George, 26, 115â16, 119â20, 190â91, 234,
368
, 372, 377, 603
Railroads, 6, 7, 32, 100â1, 144, 161, 374
Rainbow Productions, 506
Rainer, Luise, 158
Rains, Claude, 126, 194, 195, 197
Rake's Progress
, xi, 507â9
Rand, Ayn, 359, 456â58, 573â81
Random House, 344, 355
Rankin, John, 412, 430, 433, 435, 462n, 473, 521, 522
Rapf, Harry, 100, 490â92
Rapf, Maurice, 100, 106
Raphaelson, Samson, 104, 108
Rathbone, Basil, 28, 41
Rathvon, Peter, 481, 484, 493â95
Ratoff, Gregory, 556
Raye, Martha, 415
Reagan, Maureen, 122, 150
Reagan, Nancy Davis, 634
Reagan, Ronald, xiiâxiv, 1â2, 76â79, 122â28, 150, 184, 191, 220â21, 238, 281, 402â3, 430, 441, 460â61, 472â73, 496, 546â47, 555, 633â35
Real estate boom, 100â1
Rebecca
,
41
, 76, 193, 236, 280
Reed, Carol, 557â58
Reed, Rex, xiii, 123n
Reinhardt, Gottfried, 139â40, 222â23
Reinhardt, Max, 58, 83, 175, 222â23, 260, 266, 271, 280
Religious epics, 349, 536â38, 574â75, 624â28, 631
Remarque, Erich Maria, 69
Renoir, Jean, 79
Republic Films, 104, 556, 623â24
Revier, Harry, 629
Reynolds, Debbie, 616
Reynolds Tobacco Company, 434
Rings on Her Fingers
, 144â45
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
, 8â9, 87, 137, 183â84, 408â9, 416
RKO, 11â12, 25, 29, 108, 128â34, 205, 218, 282, 291, 292, 307â8, 364, 482, 484, 485, 494â95, 498, 505â7, 536, 582â83, 588â90
Roach, Hal, 220â21, 256, 269
The Road to Singapore
, 48
The Robe
, 349, 626, 627
Robeson, Paul, 553
Robinson, Casey, 123â25, 195
Robinson, David, 566
Robinson, Edward G., 70â71, 116, 119, 120, 235, 462n, 511â12, 519, 547â49, 631
Robson, May, 103
Rockefeller, John D., 133
Rockefeller, Nelson, 128, 133, 205â6, 217
Rogers, Ginger, 76, 238, 437, 543, 616, 633
Rogers, Lela, 437
Romm, May, 319, 321, 323
Rooney, Mickey, 19, 318, 632
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 219, 436
Roosevelt, Elliott, 175, 442â44
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 19, 33, 73, 80, 81, 89, 102, 105, 161, 164â68, 186â87, 197, 204â5, 218, 219, 272, 283, 303â5, 307, 331, 358, 383, 430, 433, 442â44, 450, 453, 516, 521, 555, 577
Roosevelt, Theodore, 32, 161
Rose, Billy, 519
Rosentiel, Lewis, 371
Ross, Lillian, 489
Rossellini, Roberto, 530â31, 534â35, 581â591, 631
Rossen, Robert, 438, 449â50
Rosten, Leo, 21
A Royal Scandal
, 600â1
Rozsa, Miklos, 326, 326n
Rubinstein, Arthur, 36, 41,
42
, 60, 142â43, 146, 568â69
Russell, Jane, 175â79, 633
Russell, Rosalind, 616
Ryan, Sylvester, 621â22
Ryskind, Morrie, 459
Â
SAG.
See
Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
Salt, Waldo, 438, 480
Samson and Delilah
, 624â25, 628
San Andreas Fault, 9â10
Sanders, George, 41, 377
San Fernando Valley/Reservoir, 31â33
Santa Ana winds, 11
Sarnoff, David, 134, 496â97
Saroyan, William, 222, 555
Satterlee, Peggy LaRue, 244â45, 246â48, 250â51
Sayre, Nora, 219n, 528, 576â77, 580
Scarface
, 115, 116, 171, 175, 345
Scent of Mystery
, 627
Schaefer, George J., 128, 131, 133â34
Schary, Dore, 109, 482â84, 486, 489â96, 499â503, 514, 527, 536â38, 544n, 546, 563, 590, 625
Schenck, Joseph, 21, 92â98, 208â9, 256n, 260, 261, 269, 405, 481, 483, 513
Schenck, Nicholas, 3, 21, 27, 88, 91â94, 96, 105, 134, 256n, 481, 492, 496â500, 503, 625n
Schenley's, 371
Scherman, Harry, 523
Schickel, Richard, 50
Schoenberg, Arnold, xiv, 43â48, 55â56, 60â61, 67, 83, 84, 85, 393, 394â98, 498, 529â30, 622â23
Schulberg, Benjamin P., 27, 98, 112, 300, 362
Schulberg, Budd (Seymour), 98â100, 105â8, 187, 515, 614
Science fiction films, 573, 626
Scott, Adrian, 438, 475, 482, 484â86, 493, 495, 611, 621
Screen Actors Guild (SAG), 95, 122, 185, 290, 358â59, 402â3, 460â61, 472â73, 546â47, 634
Screen Cartoonists Guild, 359
Screen Directors Guild, 545
Screen Playwrights, 106, 108
Screen Publicists Guild, 359
Screen size and effects, 103, 624, 627
Screen Writers Guild (SWG), 104â10, 131, 140, 183, 238, 358â59, 437, 464, 470â71, 473â74, 481, 544
Seagram Distilleries, 371
The Sea Wolf
, 340â41
Seitz, John F., 605
Selznick, David O., xiâxii,
xvi
, 8, 25â31, 34â35, 37â38, 41, 56â57, 64, 76, 112, 191â93, 236, 253â55, 280, 291, 309â15, 319â24, 327â29, 390, 426, 493, 498, 505, 518â19, 533, 561â62, 597â98, 620â21, 628, 630â31
Selznick, Howard, 26â27
Selznick, Irene Mayer, 26â27, 309â11, 314â15, 318â24, 329, 493, 582, 632
Selznick, Lewis, 21, 22, 26, 27
Selznick, Myron, 26, 30, 31, 116, 193, 319
Sergeant York
, 74, 177, 196, 448
Shadow and Substance
, 266, 267, 270, 275
Shapiro, Jacob (Gurrah), 370
Shaw, Artie, 321
Shaw, Irwin, 222, 449â50, 533
Shearer, Norma, 24, 172, 348
Sheean, Vincent, 71â72
Sheehan, Winfield, 208â10
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 186â87
Sheridan, Ann, 21, 126, 127, 191, 212, 472â73
Sherman, Moses Hazeltine, 6
Sherwood, Robert, 13, 118â19
Sidwertz, Morris (Little Moe Sedway), 374â75, 381
Siegel, Ben (Bugsy), xiv,
368
, 369â82, 416â17
Siegel, Don, 573
Siegel, Maurice, 370
Sienkiewicz, Henry, 625
The Sign of the Cross
, 624
Silberberg, Mendel, 108â10, 483
Simmel, Ernst, 320â22, 525
Simon, Norton, 631
Simon, Richard, 523, 526
Simon and Schuster, 523
Sinatra, Frank, 143, 378, 441, 513
Since You Went Away
, 59, 313
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
, 308
Siodmak, Curt, 185â86, 290, 293, 294
Sister Carrie
, 361, 363â64, 494, 620â21
Sistrom, Joe, 230, 232, 333
Six Companies, 34
Skelton, Red, 630
Skouras, Spyros, 553â54
Smell-O-Vision, 627
Smiley, Allen, 380â81
Smith, H. A., 454â56, 460
Smith Act of 1940, 438â39
The Snake Pit
, 558, 571
Sokolsky, George, 471â72, 544
Somewhere I'll Find You
, 151â53, 340
The Song of Bernadette
, 83â84, 313â14, 390
Song of Russia
, 272, 437, 454â59, 614
Sorrell, Herbert K., xiv,
310
, 357â61, 398â408, 458
Sound in films, 22â25, 58, 59, 104, 170, 409
Spanish explorers, 9â10
Spellbound
, 323â27, 329, 527
Sperling, Milton, 106, 256
Spiegel, Sam, 382
Stacher, Joseph (Doc), 379â80
Stalin, Joseph, 135, 219, 272, 364, 365, 451, 457, 612
Stanford, Leland, 7
Stanwyck, Barbara, 233, 234, 238, 302, 578
A Star Is Born
, 128
State of the Union
, 506
Steele, Joseph Henry, 586â89
Stein, Jules, 153â54
Steinbeck, John, 225, 258, 518
Steiner, Max, 58, 59, 196
Steuermann, Eduard, 393â94
Stevens, George, 505, 615
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 66, 108, 429, 454, 459, 486, 545â46
Stewart, Jimmy, xiv, 34, 149, 505â6, 633
Stock market crash of 1929, 403
Stokowski, Leopold, 41,
42
, 49â50, 52
The Story of G. I. Joe
, 562
Strange, Glenn, 294â95
Strangers on a Train
, 618â20
Stravinsky, Igor, xi, xiiâxiii, 38â39, 50â55, 60, 83â85, 266, 427, 507â9
Strickling, Howard, 152, 316â18, 499
Strictly Dishonorable
, 297â99
Strikes, 91â93, 105, 185, 356â61, 398â408, 458â59
Stripling, Robert, 435â37, 449â51, 459, 466â70, 474, 476â79
Stromboli
,
540
, 584â593
Sturges, Preston, 176, 295â308, 555
Sudeikina, Vera, 39, 52
Sullivan, Ed, 566
Sunset Boulevard
,
596
, 601â7, 628
Swanson, Gloria, 133,
596
, 597â99, 605â6
SWG.
See
Screen Writers Guild (SWG)
Â
Taft, William Howard, 227
Talking films.
See
Sound in films
Tayama, Fred, 146â47
Taylor, Elizabeth, 536, 542, 543, 615â17, 625
Taylor, Robert, xiii, 177, 238, 402, 430, 437, 454â60
Technicolor process, 30
Television, xi, 2, 22â23, 58, 496â97, 622â24, 629, 632â33
Temple, Shirley, 19, 74
The Ten Commandments
, 624
Tenney, Jack, 204, 358
Thalberg, Irving, 23â26, 45â48, 55â56, 106, 490, 497â98
Thalberg, Sylvia, 100
That Hamilton Woman
, 72â73
Thau, Benny, 103, 103n, 497
Thaxter, Phyllis, 311
The Third Man
, 557â58
This Gun for Hire
, 144, 473
This Is Cinerama
, 627
This Is The Army
, 184, 189â90, 220
Thomas, J. Parnell, 403â4,
418
, 430â34, 437â38, 442, 451â53, 460, 463â71, 473â75, 478, 479, 481, 571, 613â14
Thomas, Lowell, 627
Thomas, Olive, 562
Thompson, Dorothy, 436, 523
Thomson, Virgil, 58
3-D, 627
Three Comrades
, 69â70
The Threepenny Opera
, 138, 487
Tibbett, Lawrence, 260, 371