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INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Abbott and Costello
abortion, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Academy Awards, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4n, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7n, 2.8, 2.9 and n, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
According to Jim
Adams, Edie
Adam’s Rib, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3 and n, 2.4 and n, 2.5, 2.6
addiction, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and n, 2.5, 2.6 and n, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.1, 3.2; Bigger Than Life, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14; celebrity, 2.15; Days of Wine and Roses, 2.16, 2.17; of 1950s, 2.18, 2.19
Adrian, 1.1, 1.2
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The, 2.1, 2.2 and n
advertising, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3n, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11; of 1950s, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15; politics and, 2.16 and n; Rosie the Riveter, 2.17n; television, 2.18, 2.19
Affairs of Anatol, The
Affairs of Annabel, The
“affirm, question, reaffirm, and resolve” pattern, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1
African Queen, The
After the Thin Man, col1.1
aging, 2.1n; stars, 2.2, 2.3
Aherne, Brian, n
Albert, Eddie, 2.1n, 2.2
alcoholism, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and n., 2.4, 2.5n, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2
Alda, Alan, 3.1, 3.2
Alexander, Jane
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
alimony
Allbritton, Louise, and n
Allen, Fred, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Allen, Gracie, n
Allen, Woody, n
All in the Family, 3.1, 3.2
Allotment Wives
All This and Heaven Too, 2.1n
Allyson, June, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Altman, Robert
ambivalence
Ameche, Don, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3
American Beauty
American Film Institute
amnesia
Anderson, Judith, 2.1, 2.2
Andrews, Dana, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; in The Best Years of Our Lives, 2.5, 2.6; in The Forbidden Street, 2.7, 2.8
And So They Were Married
Andy Hardy series, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7n, 2.8, 2.9
Angel Face
Angel Street, 2.1n
Anna and the King of Siam, 2.1 and n
Annabel Takes a Tour
Anna Karenina (1935), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
Anna Karenina (l948)
Ann Carver’s Profession, 2.1, 2.2
Annie Get Your Gun, 2.1n
Annie Hall, itr.1n
Ann-Margret
antitrust laws
Apache, 2.1n
Apartment for Peggy, itr.1, 2.1
appliances
Appointment for Love, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
April Showers
Arbuckle, Fatty, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Arden, Eve, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Ardrey, Robert
Arnaz, Desi, 2.1, 2.2; Ball and, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9; in I Love Lucy, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12; in The Long, Long Trailer, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15
Arnaz, Desi, Jr., 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Arnaz, Lucie
Arnold, Edward, 2.1, 2.2
art deco
Arthur, Jean, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5n; in The Impatient Years, 2.6, 2.7
As Husbands Go
“Asian doll” motif, and n
Asta (dog), and n; see also Skippy (dog)
Astaire, Fred, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4n; in The Barkleys of Broadway, 2.5; Rogers and, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10 and n, 2.11n, 2.12, 2.13
Asther, Nils, 1.1, 1.2
Astor, Mary, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
audience, itr.1–xxvii, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n, 2.4, 3.1; home-front, 2.5, 2.6; infidelity films and, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9; of 1960s, 3.2; of 1970s–80s, 2.10, 3.3; postwar, 2.11; pure marriage films and, 2.12, 2.13; silent era, 1.1; television, 2.14; “values”, itr.2–xxvi
Aumont, Jean-Pierre, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Awful Truth, The, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2n
Axelrod, George
B. F.’s Daughter, 2.1n
Babbitt, 2.1 and n
Bacall, Lauren, 2.1n, 2.2n, 2.3n, 2.4, 2.5
Baccaloni, Salvatore
Bachelor Father
Back Door to Heaven
Backus, Jim
Bad for Each Other
Bad Seed, The, 2.1n
Bainter, Fay, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Baker, Diane
Ball, Lucille, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5n, 2.6n, 2.7, 2.8; Arnaz and, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15; comic timing of, 2.16; in The Facts of Life, 2.17, 2.18, 2.19, 2.20; film career of, 2.21, 2.22 and n, 2.23 and n, 2.24, 2.25n, 2.26 and n, 3.1; in I Love Lucy, 2.27, 2.28, 2.29; in The Long, Long Trailer, 2.30, 2.31, 2.32; post-divorce TV show, 2.33n; pregnancy of, 2.34n, 2.35; in Yours, Mine and Ours, 3.2
Balsam, Martin
Bancroft, Anne
Banderas, Antonio
Band Wagon, The, 2.1n
Bank Dick, The
Bankhead, Tallulah, 1.1, 1.2
Barefoot in the Park
Bari, Lynn, n
Barkleys of Broadway, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Barry, Philip
Barry (J. F.) and Sargent (E.W.), Building Theater Patronage: Management and Merchandising
Barrymore, Drew
Barrymore, Ethel, 2.1, 2.2
Bartholomew, Freddie
Bates, Florence
Battle Circus
Battle of the Sexes, The (1928)
Baxter, Anne, 2.1, 2.2
Bayat, Sareh
Bayes, Nora, n
beauty, marrying for
Beauty for the Asking
Bed and Board, 2.
1, 2.2, 2.3
Beery, Wallace
Bell, Thomas, All Brides Are Beautiful
Bella Donna
Belushi, John, n
Benchley, Robert
Bening, Annette, 3.1, 3.2
Bennett, Belle, 1.1, 1.2
Bennett, Constance, 2.1, 2.2
Bennett, Joan, 2.1n, 2.2n
Bennett, Tony
Berghauer, Hiroko
Bergman, Ingmar, 2.1, 2.2n, 3.1, 3.2
Bergman, Ingrid, 2.1, 3.1; in Gaslight, 2.2, 2.3
Berkeley, Anthony
Berkeley, Busby
Best Foot Forward
Best of Everything, The
Best Years of Our Lives, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Betsy’s Wedding, 3.1, 3.2
Betz, Carl
Beyond the Forest
B films, and n
bickering, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4; nuclear couple, 3.5; shorts, 2.10, 2.11 and n
Bickersons, The
Bigamist, The, 2.1n
bigamy, 2.1, 2.2n
Bigger Than Life, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Big Hangover, The
Big Sleep, The, 2.1n
Big Street, The, 2.1, 3.1
Big Town Czar
Billingsley, Barbara
Bingham, John, Five Roundabouts to Heaven
biopics, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Birdcage, The
Bishops’ Wife, The, 3.1n
Bisset, Jacqueline, n
Bitter Sweet, 2.1n
Black Widow
Blondell, Joan, n
Blondie
Blondie series, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1n; titles, 2.9
Blood and Sand
Blossoms in the Dust, 2.1, 2.2n
Blue Dahlia, The
Blue Skies, 2.1, 2.2
Blue Valentine, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Boardman, Eleanor, 1.1, 2.1
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
Bogart, Humphrey, 2.1n, 2.2n, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Boleslawski, Richard
Bondi, Beulah, itr.1, 2.1n, 2.2n, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Boom Town, itr.1, 2.1n
Borden, Olive
Borgen
Born to Be Bad
Borzage, Frank, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3
Bowman, Lee, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
box office, 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1; of 1960s, 3.2; of 1970s, 3.3; postwar, 2.8; returns, 2.9 and n; star pairings and, 2.10; wartime, 2.11 and n, 2.12
Boyer, Charles, 2.1, 2.2; in Appointment for Love, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5; in Gaslight, 2.6, 2.7
Bracken, Eddie, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Brazzi, Rossano
Breaking Point, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Brent, George, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and n, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
Breuer, Bessie, Memory of Love
Bridal Suite
Bride of Frankenstein, The, 2.1n
bride-on-a-journey films
Bridesmaids
Bride Walks Out, The, 2.1n, 2.2n
Bride Wars
Bride Wore Boots, The, 2.1 and n
Brief Encounter, 2.1 and n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2n
Briskin, Sam, itr.1, itr.2
Brissac, Virginia, 2.1
British films, 2.1; Brief Encounter, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2n; The Captain’s Paradise, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7; in The Passionate Friends, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10; The Pumpkin Eater, 3.3; Vacation from Marriage, 2.11 and n, 2.12
Britton, Connie, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Brooks, Hazel
Brophy, Edward, 2.1
Brosnan, Pierce, 3.1, 3.2
Brown, Blair, n
Bryan, Jane, 2.1, 2.2
Buck, Pearl S., The Good Earth
“buddy” films, n
Bullock, Sandra, n
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
’burbs, The
Burke, Billie, n
Burlesque
Burnett, Carol
Burns and Allen
Burstyn, Ellen, 3.1, 3.2
Burton, Richard, 2.1n, 2.2n, 3.1
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 2.1n
But the Flesh Is Weak
Bye Bye Birdie
Byington, Spring, 2.1, 2.2
Cage, Nicolas
Cagney, Jimmy
Caine, Michael, n
Caldwell, Erskine
Calhern, Louis, 2.1, 2.2
cameo, star, n-8n
Campbell, Joseph, The Power of Myth
Cannon, Dyan, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Capra, Frank, itr.1, itr.2
Captain’s Paradise, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
car, driving a
career, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and n, 2.4; competition, 2.5; control, 2.6; of 1980s–90s, 3.1, 3.2; postwar, 2.7; of 2000s–2010s, 3.3
Carefree, 2.1n
Carell, Steve, n
Carey, Macdonald, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Carrie
Carroll, Joan, 2.1, 2.2
Carroll, Madeleine, itr.1, 3.1
Carroll, Nancy
Carson, Jack, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n
Casablanca
Cassavetes, John, 3.1, 3.2
Cass Timberlane, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
casting, 2.1, 2.2
Castle, Irene, 2.1, 2.2n
Castle, Vernon, n
Caulfield, Joan, 2.1, 2.2
Cause for Alarm, 2.1, 2.2
cautionary-tale approach, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2; silent-era, 1.2, 1.3
CBS
Celeste and Jesse Forever
censorship, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
Chabrol, Claude, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2
Chance at Heaven
Chandler, Kyle, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Chapin, Lauren
Charlie Chan in Egypt, 2.1n
Chatterton, Ruth, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheat, The (1915), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and n, 1.4, 2.1
Cheat, The (1923), 1.1, 1.2
Cheat, The (1932), 1.1, 1.2
Cherlin, Andrew J., Marriage-Go-Round, 3.1n
Chicken Every Sunday, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
children, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13; as actors, 2.14n; in divorce films, 2.15; dying, 2.16, 2.17, 2.18, 2.19; evil, 2.20 and n; of 1950s, 2.21, 2.22, 2.23, 2.24, 2.25; of 1960s, 3.1, 3.2; of 1970s, 3.3, 3.4; of 1980s, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7; of 1990s, 3.8; postwar, 2.26; postwar baby boom, 2.27; problems, 2.28 and n, 2.29 and n, 2.30 and n, 2.31 and n, 2.32; silent era, 1.1, 1.2; TV sitcom, 2.33, 2.34, 2.35, 2.36; of 2000s–2010s, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13; wartime, 2.37, 2.38, 2.39, 2.40, 2.41
China, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
China Sky
Christie, Julie
Christmas Holiday
Citizen Kane, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1 and n
Civil War films, 2.1, 2.2
Clark, Dane, 2.1, 2.2
Clarkson, Patricia, 3.1, 3.2
Clash by Night, 2.1n
class differences, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1; American-British, 2.4; Cass Timberlane, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9; Our Betters, 2.10; The Shining Hour, 2.11, 2.12; TV sitcom, 2.13; Vivacious Lady, 2.14, 2.15, 2.16; war and, 2.17, 2.18 and n, 2.19; The Way We Were, 2.20; Woman of the Year, 2.21, 2.22
Claudia, 2.1n
Claudia and David
Clayburgh, Jill
Clayton, Jack
Cleopatra, 2.1n
Clive, Colin, n
Clock, The, 2.1, 3.1n
Close, Glenn
Close to My Heart
close-ups
clothing, 1.1, 2.1 and n, 2.2n, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5; Asian style of, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 and n; fur coat, 2.9; infidelity and, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12; murder and, 2.13; silent era, 1.2; wedding dress, 3.1n–9n
Clouds Over Europe
Cobra
Coburn, Charles, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5n, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8n, 2.9, 2.10
code of images, and n
Coen brothers
Colbert, Claudette, itr.1, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1; in The Egg and I, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11; in Since You Went Away, 2.12
Colman, Ronald, 2.1, 2.2
color, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1
Columbia Pictures, 2.1, 2.2
Come Back, Little Sheba, 2.1n
comedy, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6; bickering, 2.7; class differences, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10; divorce films, 2.11; “farce”, 1.1; incompatibility, 2.12, 2.13; in-laws, 2.14; low-budget films, 2.15, 2.16 and n, 2.17; male comedy duos, 2.18, 3.1; of 1960s, 3.2, 3.3; of 1980s, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6; nuclear marriage, 3.7; “Oops!” films, 2.19; postwar, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22; programmer films, 2.23; radio, 2.24; romantic, itr.4, itr.5, itr.6, itr.7, 1.2 and n, 1.3, 1.4, 2.25 and n, 2.26, 2.27, 2.28, 2.29, 3.8; screwball, itr.8, itr.9n, itr.10, 2.30n, 2.31, 2.32, 2.33, 2.34n, 2.35n, 3.9; silent era, 1.5 and n, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8; slapstick, itr.11, 1.9, 2.36, 2.37, 2.38; TV sitcoms, 2.39; two-reelers, 1.10; of 2000s–2010s, 3.10, 3.11; wartime, 2.40n; without-love marriage, 2.41; “yoo-hoo” films, 2.42; see also romantic comedy; situation comedies; specific films and shows
comics, 2.1 and n; Blondie series based on, 2.2
communication, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1; deception, 2.3; lack of, 2.4
Communism, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3
competition, 2.1, 2.2; “great man” films, 2.3; in musicals, 2.4; of 1960s, 3.1; religion and, 2.5
confession, n-2n
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Confidentially Connie
Conflict
Connery, Sean, n
Conspirator, 2.1, 2.2
consumerism, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1; of 1950s, 2.2
Conte, Richard
Continental Divide, 2.1n
control, 2.1, 2.2
Coontz, Stephanie, Marriage: A History
Cooper, Chris, 3.1, 3.2
Cooper, Gary
Cooper, Gladys
Cooper, Jackie
Corey, Wendell, n
Corn is Green, The
Corrina, Corrina
Cosby Show, The
Cosmopolitan
Cotton, Joseph, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Country Girl, The, 2.1n
couple, 2.1; addiction, 2.2; Astaire/Rogers, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and n, 2.8n, 2.9; Ball/Arnaz, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15, 2.16; bickering, 2.17, 2.18, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22, 2.23, 2.24, 2.25, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4; Blondie films, 2.26, 2.27, 2.28, 2.29; bride-on-a-journey films, 2.30; “buddy” films, 2.31n, class differences, 2.32; communication, 2.33; competition, 2.34; control, 2.35; Day/Hudson, 3.5, 3.6; de Havilland/Flynn, 2.36, 2.37; disappearing mate films, 2.38; disappointment, 2.39; Garson/Pidgeon, 2.40 and n, 2.41, 2.42n; gay, 3.7n, 3.8n, 3.9n, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12; hasty wedding during wartime, 2.43, 2.44; Hepburn/Tracy, 2.45, 2.46, 2.47, 2.48 and n, 2.49 and n, 2.50, 2.51, 2.52, 2.53, 2.54, 2.55, 2.56, 3.13; husband returns home from war, 2.57; incompatibility, 2.58; infidelity, 2.59; in-laws and children, 2.60; Kettle films, 2.61, 2.62, 2.63, 2.64, 2.65, 2.66; Laurel and Hardy, 2.67, 2.68, 2.69; lesbian, 3.14, 3.15 and n; low-budget acting couples, 2.70; Loy/Powell, col1.1, 2.71, 2.72, 2.73, 2.74; male comedy duos, 2.75, 3.16; money and, 2.76; murder, 2.77; of 1950s, 2.78; of 1960s, 3.17; of 1970s, 3.18; of 1980s, 3.19, 3.20; of 1990s, 3.21, 3.22, 3.23; nuclear, 3.24; perfect mate, 2.79, 2.80, 3.25; Pete Smith Specialties, 2.81 and n; postwar, 2.82; problems of, 2.83; programmer films, 2.84; pseudo-married, 2.85; sexless, 2.86; shorts, 2.87 and n; situations, 2.88; star pairings, 2.89; Tarzan and Jane, 2.90, 2.91, 2.92, 2.93n; Thin Man films, 2.94, 2.95, 2.96, 2.97; “three choices” format, 2.98; of 2000s–2010s, 3.26, 3.27; wartime, 2.99; weddings, 3.28; what men and women wanted in a mate, 2.100; Woodward/Newman, 2.101, 2.102, 2.103; see also specific actors, couples, films, and shows
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