Howard, Trevor, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Howard, William K.
Howards of Virginia, The
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
How to Hold Your Husband—Back, 2.1n
How to Murder Your Wife
Hudson, Rock, 2.1n, 3.1; Day and, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Hunter, Evan
husband, see couple; gender roles; men; specific films and shows
Hussey, Ruth, 2.1, 2.2
Huston, Walter, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Hutton, Robert
I’d Climb the Highest Mountain
Ideal Husband, An
I Do
“I do” marriage films, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; Made for Each Other, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10 and n; “realistic”, 2.11; Two for the Road, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and n
“I don’t” marriage films, see divorce films
Iles, Francis, Before the Fact
I’ll Be Seeing You
I’ll Cry Tomorrow, 2.1n, 2.2
illegal aliens, and n
Illicit
I’ll See You in My Dreams, itr.1, 2.1
I Love Lucy, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; pilot, 2.5, 2.6; pregnancy, 2.7n
I Love My Husband, But, 2.1, 2.2
I Love My Wife, But!
I Married a Communist
I Married a Doctor, 2.1n, 2.2n
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
I Married an Angel, 2.1n
I Married Joan, 2.1, 2.2
Imitation of Life
Impatient Years, The, 2.1, 2.2
incompatibility, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6; Ann Carver’s Profession, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9; Appointment for Love, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12; communication, 2.13; competition and, 2.14; control and, 2.15; Dodsworth, 2.16, 2.17, 2.18, 2.19, 2.20; “great man” films, 2.21; Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, 2.22, 2.23, 2.24, 2.25; musicals, 2.26, 2.27; religion and, 2.28
Incredible Shrinking Woman, The
Indecent Proposal
independent films, 2.1, 3.1
Indians, 2.1n, 2.2
infidelity and adultery, itr.1, 1.1, 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, 2.14, 2.15; Anna Karenina, 2.16, 2.17, 2.18; Beyond the Forest, 2.19; Brief Encounter, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22; clothing and, 2.23, 2.24, 2.25; disappearing mate films, 2.26; The Facts of Life, 2.27, 2.28, 2.29, 2.30; in-laws and children, 2.31; Madame Bovary, 2.32; male vs. female point of view, 2.33; My Wife’s Best Friend, 2.34, 2.35; of 1960s, 2.36, 3.1; of 1970s, 3.2; of 1980s, 3.3, 3.4; of 1990s, 3.5; of 2000s–2010s, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8n, 3.9; The Painted Veil (1934), 2.37, 2.38, 2.39, 2.40, 2.41; The Painted Veil (2006), 2.42, 2.43, 2.44; postwar, 2.45, 2.46, 2.47n; in pure marriage films, 2.48, 2.49; The Seventh Sin, 2.50, 2.51, 2.52; silent era, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 and n, 2.53; sympathy for men, 2.54; sympathy for women, 2.55; Unfaithful, 3.10; wartime, 2.56, 2.57, 2.58, 2.59
Informer, The
in-laws, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6n, 2.7, 2.8; of 1960s, 3.1, 3.2; of 1990s, 3.3; No Room for the Groom, 2.9, 2.10; postwar, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13n; Primrose Path, 2.14, 2.15, 2.16; problems, 2.17; TV sitcom, 2.18n, 2.19; see also mother-in-law
In Name Only, 2.1, 2.2
interracial marriage, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Innocent Affair, An
In the Meantime, Darling, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Invitation, 2.1n
Iranian films, 2.1; A Separation, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
I Remember Mama
Iron Curtain, The
Irreconcilable Differences
Irving, Amy
It Had to Be You
It Happened One Night, 2.1, 3.1
It’s a Gift
It’s a Great Feeling
It’s a Wonderful Life
It’s Complicated, 1.1n, 3.1, 3.2
It Should Happen to You
Iturbi, José
J. Edgar, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Jade, Claude, 2.1, 2.2
Jaffe, Rona
James, Harry
Janie
Janie Gets Married, itr.1, 2.1
Japanese films, 2.1; The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, 2.2, 2.3
Japanese War Bride, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3n
Jeffersons, the, 3.1, 3.2
“Joel and Garda Sloane” series, n
Johnson, Celia, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Johnson, Rita
Johnson, Van, 2.1 and n, 2.2, 2.3
Joker Is Wild, The
Jolie, Angelina, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2; in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Jones, Jennifer, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and n, 2.5
Jones, Toby
Jones, Tommy Lee
Joneses, The, 2.1n
Jones family series, 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3, 2.4
Josephson, Erland, 2.1, 2.2
Joslyn, Allyn, n
Jourdan, Louis, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Journal of a Crime, 2.1, 2.2 and n
Judge Hardy and Son, itr.1, itr.2 and n
Julia Misbehaves, 2.1 and n
Julie, 2.1, 2.2
Jumping the Broom
Junior Bonner
Jurado, Katy
Just Married, 2.1n
Kahn, Madeline
Kanin, Garson, 2.1, 2.2n
Kazan, Elia
Keaton, Buster, 1.1 and n, 1.2, 2.1
Keaton, Diane, 3.1, 3.2
Keaton, Michael
Keep Your Powder Dry, 2.1n
Kelly, Gene, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Kelly, Grace
Kelly, Patsy, n
Kemble-Cooper, Violet
Kendall, Elizabeth, The Runaway Bride, 3.1n
Kennedy, Phyllis, 2.1
Kerr, Deborah, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1; in Vacation from Marriage, 2.3
Kettle series, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
Keyes, Evelyn, 2.1n, 2.2
Key Largo, 2.1n
Kibbee, Guy, 2.1n, 2.2n
Kidman, Nicole
Kids Are All Right, The, 3.1, 3.2 and n, 3.3
Kilbride, Percy, 2.1, 2.2
King, Andrea, 2.1, 2.2
King and I, The, 2.1 and n
Kirkland, Jack
Kiss and Make-Up, 2.1 and n
Kiss Me Kate
kitchen, itr.1, 2.1, 3.1; modern, 3.2, 3.3 and n; of 1950s, 2.2; of Tarzan and Jane, 3.4n
Kitty Foyle, 2.1 and n
Knox, Alexander, 2.1, 2.2
Kogure, Michiyo
Korda, Alexander
Kovacs, Ernie
Kramer vs. Kramer, 3.1 and n
Krasna, Norman
Krupa, Gene
Kubrick, Stanley
Kutcher, Ashton, n
LaCava, Gregory
Ladd, Alan
Lady, The
Lady Eve, The
Lady from Shanghai, The
Lady Gambles, The
Lady Is Willing, The
Lady Wants Mink, The
Lake, Arthur, 2.1 and n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Lake, Veronica
Lamarr, Hedy, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3
Lamour, Dorothy, itr.1n, 2.1
Lancaster, Burt, itr.1, 2.1n
Lanchester, Elsa, n
Lane, Diane, 3.1; in Unfaithful, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Lane, Nathan
Lange, Hope
Langella, Frank
Langford, Frances
Lansbury, Angela
Lassie
Last Station, The, itr.1n
Last Time I Saw Paris, The
Latimore, Frank
Latin Lovers
Laughton, Charles
Laurel, Stan, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Laurel and Hardy, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2
Laurie, Piper, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3
Lean, David
Léaud, Jean-Pierre, 2.1, 2.2
Leave Her to Heaven, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Leave It to Beaver, 2.1, 2.2
Lee, Anna
Lee, Dixie, n
Leigh, Janet, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3
Leigh, Vivien
Lemmon, Jack, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2; in Phffft, 2.5
Leo, Mel
issa, n
Leoni, Téa
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, 2.1n
lesbianism, 3.1, 3.2 and n
Leslie, Joan, 2.1, 2.2; in Janie Gets Married, 2.3
Let’s Make It Legal
Letter, The, 2.1n
Letter to Three Wives, A, 2.1, 2.2
Lewis, Jerry
Lewis, Joe E.
Lewis, Sinclair, 2.1, 2.2; Babbitt, 2.3 and n; Cass Timberlane, 2.4; Dodsworth, 2.5, 2.6; Main Street, 2.7 and n, 2.8
license, marriage
Life magazine, 2.1 and n, 2.2; “Lonely Wife” article, 2.3, 2.4
Life of Emile Zola, The
Life of Riley, The
Life with Father, 2.1n, 2.2
Lincoln, Victoria, February Hill
Lindfors, Viveca, n
Lindsay, Margaret, n
Lisi, Virna
Listen, Darling
Little House on the Prairie
Little Man, What Now?
Living on Velvet
Livingston, Margaret, 2.1, 2.2
Lloyd, Harold
Lockhart, Gene, 2.1, 2.2n
Lombard, Carole, 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3, 3.1n, 3.2; in In Name Only, 2.4, 2.5; in Made for Each Other, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10
London, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5n; Blitz, 2.6n
“lonely war wife” films
Long, Long Trailer, The, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3
Long, Shelley
Long Kiss Goodnight, The, 3.1, 3.2
Long Voyage Home, The, 2.1n
lost at sea films
Lost Weekend, The, 2.1n
Louise, Anita, 2.1, 2.2
Love, 2.1n
Love Me or Leave Me
Love on a Budget, 2.1 and n, 2.2
low-budget films, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3; Blondie, 2.4, 2.5; couples, 2.6; Kettle, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9; programmers, 2.10, 2.11
Loy, Myrna, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7; aging of, 2.8; in The Best Years of Our Lives, 2.9, 2.10; in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, 2.11, 2.12; as perfect wife, 2.13; in Thin Man series, col1.1, 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, 2.17
Lubitsch, Ernst, 1.1, 1.2 and n, 3.1
Luce, Henry
Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Lukas, Paul, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Lund, John, and n
Lundigan, William
Lupino, Ida, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Lured
luxury, silent-era
lying, 2.1, 2.2n-2n
Lynch, John Carroll
Lynn, Betty
Lynn, Jeffrey, 2.1, 2.2
Lyon, Ben
Ma and Pa Kettle, 2.1, 2.2
MacDonald, Betty
MacDonald, Jeanette, n
Mack, Helen
MacMurray, Fred, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8n, 2.9; in The Egg and I, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12; in Father was a Fullback, 2.13, 2.14 and n
Mad About You
Madame Bovary, 2.1, 2.2
Madame Curie, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3n
Made for Each Other, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and n, 3.1
Madigan, Amy
Mad Men, 3.1 and n, 3.2, 3.3
magazines, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1; Life article on “Lonely Wife”, 2.5, 2.6; silent era, 1.1n, 1.2, 1.3 and n; wartime, 2.7, 2.8n
Magnificent Obsession
Magnificent Yankee, The
Main, Marjorie, 2.1, 2.2
Main Street, 2.1 and n, 2.2 and n, 2.3, 2.4
Make Room for Daddy, 2.1, 2.2
Make Way for Tomorrow, 2.1n
Make Your Own Bed, 2.1n
“Makin’ Whoopee”
Malcolm in the Middle
Male and Female, 1.1, 1.2
Male Animal, The
Malone, Dorothy
Man, Woman, Marriage
Man Called Peter, A, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Mander, Miles
Manhattan Melodrama
Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, The
Mankiewicz, Joseph
Mannequin
man-victimizes-woman plots
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
Man Who Would Be King, The, 2.1n
Man with the Golden Arm, The, 2.1n, 2.2
Marceau, Sophie, n
March, Fredric, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; in The Best Years of Our Lives, 2.5, 2.6
Marriage
marriage (term), itr.1 and n, itr.2 and n, itr.3, itr.4
Marriage by Contract
Marriage Chance, The
Marriage Cheat, The
Marriage Circle, The, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Marriage Clause, The
marriage films, itr.1–xxviii; addiction, 2.1; class differences, 2.2; couple, 2.3; effect of television on, 2.4 and n, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1; financial success of, 2.8 and n; incompatibility, 2.9; increasing social irrelevance of, 3.2, 3.3; infidelity, 2.10; “lonely war wife” films, 2.11; modern era, 3.4; murder, 2.12; of 1950s, 2.13, 2.14; of 1960s, 2.15, 3.5; of 1970s, 2.16, 3.6; of 1980s, 2.17, 3.7, 3.8; of 1990s, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12; nuclear couple, 3.13; postwar, 2.18; problems of couples, in, 2.19; programmers, 2.20, 2.21; pure, 2.22, 2.23, 2.24, 2.25; silent-era, itr.2, 1.1, 2.26, 2.27, 2.28, 2.29n; situations, 2.30; star pairings, 2.31; studio system, 2.32; and TV marriage, compared, 2.33 and n, 2.34 and n, 2.35; of 2000s–2010s, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16; wartime, 2.36; weddings, 3.17; see also specific actors, directors, eras, films, genres, studios and themes
Marriage in Transit
Marriage Is a Private Affair, itr.1 and n, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1n
Marriage License
Marriage Maker, The
Marriage Market, The
Marriage Morals
Marriage of William Ashe, The
Marriage on the Rocks
Marriage Playground, The
Marriage Ref, The, 3.1n
Marriage Whirl, The
Married?
Married Alive
Married Flapper, The
Married Flirts
Married in Hollywood
Married Life, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Married People
Married to the Mob
Married with Children
Marrying Kind, The, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Marry in Haste
marry-in-haste films, 2.1, 2.2
Marry Me
Marry the Poor Girl
Marsh, Marian, 2.1, 2.2n
Marshall, Catherine, 2.1, 2.2
Marshall, Herbert, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Marshall, Peter, 2.1, 2.2
Martin, Dean
Martinez, Olivier, 3.1, 3.2
martinis
M*A*S*H
Mason, James, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6n, 2.7n, 3.1; in Bigger Than Life, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12
Mating Season, The, 2.1 and n
Matthau, Walter
Mature, Victor, n
Maude
Maugham, Somerset, 2.1; The Painted Veil, 2.2, 2.3
Maxwell, Elsa, and n
Mayo, Virginia, 2.1, 2.2
Maytime, 2.1n
Mazursky, Paul
McAdams, Rachel, 3.1, 3.2
McCarey, Leo, n
McCormack, Patty, n
McCrea, Joel, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3n; in Primrose Path, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
McDaniel, Hattie, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3
McDormand, Frances
McGuire, Dorothy
McMillan & Wife
McNamara, Maggie
McQueen, Steve
Me, Myself, and I
media influence, postwar, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
medical films
Meet the People, 2.1n
Meighan, Thomas, 1.1, 1.2
melodrama, itr.1, 1.1n, 2.1; see also specific films and shows
men, 2.1; absence of husband during wartime, 2.2; annoying habits of husbands, 2.3; comedy duos, 2.4, 3.1; control, 2.5; gay, 3.2n, 3.3n, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7; incompatibility, 2.6; lack of communication, 2.7; leading men enlisted in World war II, 2.8, 2.9 and n, 2.10; marriage films without, 2.11; as murderers, 2.12; of 1960s, 3.8; of 1970s, 2
.13, 3.9; 1970s-80s increase in male roles, 2.14; of 1980s, 3.10, 3.11; of 1990s, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14; nuclear couple, 3.15; perfect husband, 2.15 and n; postwar, 2.16; sympathy for infidelity, 2.17; TV sitcom, 2.18; of 2000s–2010s, 3.16, 3.17; weddings, 3.18; what they want in a mate, 2.19; see also gender roles; specific actors, films, and shows
Men in White
Menjou, Adolphe, itr.1, 2.1 and n
Merrily We Go to Hell
MGM, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7n, 2.8n, 2.9
Midnight Lace, 2.1n, 2.2
Mildred Pierce, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Milland, Ray, itr.1, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3n
Minnelli, Liza
Minnelli, Vincente, 2.1, 2.2
Mirren, Helen, n
misogyny, itr.1n, 2.1
Mitchell, Grant, 2.1
Mitchum, Robert, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Moadi, Peyman, 2.1, 2.2
modern era, 3.1; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4; Divorce American Style, 3.5; feminism and, 3.6, 3.7; Heartburn, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10; increasing social irrelevance of marriage film, 3.11, 3.12; Kramer vs. Kramer, 3.13 and n; of 1960s, 3.14; of 1970s, 3.15; of 1980s, 3.16, 3.17; of 1990s, 3.18, 3.19, 3.20, 3.21; nuclear couple, 3.22; Send Me No Flowers, 3.23, 3.24, 3.25; The Story of Us, 3.26, 3.27, 3.28, 3.29; television, 3.30; of 2000s–2010s, 3.31, 3.32, 3.33; Unfaithful, 3.34, 3.35, 3.36; weddings, 3.37; see also specific actors, directors, films, genres, shows, and themes
Modern Family
money, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and n, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13n, 2.14; Depression and, 2.15n; “keeping up with the Joneses”, 2.16; murder and, 2.17, 2.18; of 1950s, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21; of 1960s, 3.1; of 1990s, 3.2; problems, 2.22; rags-to-riches films, 2.23; silent era, 1.2, 1.3; socialite, 2.24 and n, 2.25 and n; too little, 2.26, 2.27, 2.28; too much, 2.29; of 2000s–2010s, 3.3, 3.4; wife as breadwinner, 2.30 and n
Money Pit, The, 3.1n
Monogram, n
Monroe, Marilyn, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4n, 2.5n
Monroe, Rose, n
Monster-in-Law, 2.1n
Montalban, Ricardo
Montgomery, Douglass
Montgomery, Robert, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1n
Moon’s Our Home, The
Moore, Colleen, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Moore, Demi
Moore, Julianne, 3.1, 3.2n, 3.3, 3.4
Moore, Mary Tyler
Moore, Victor, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3n
Moran, Polly, n
More the Merrier, The, 2.1n
Morgan, Dennis, itr.1, 2.1; in The Very Thought of You, 2.2, 2.3
Morgan, Frank, n
Morgan, Ralph
Morley, Karen
Morris, Wayne, and n
Morse, Robert
Mortimer, Penelope
mother-in-law, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; Made for Each Other, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8; problems, 2.9, 2.10 and n, 2.11 and n, 2.12; silent era, 1.3; TV sitcom, 2.13n, 2.14; see also in-laws
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