Barr, Alva, 332
Barrett, Rona, 446
Barry, Philip, 166, 172
Barrymore, John, 123, 153
Barton, Ralph, 26
Bautzer, Greg, 223–24, 290, 403, 408–9, 459
Beat the Devil, 317
Beauty and the Billionaire, The (Moore), 464–65, 464n
Beauty standards, 64
Beck, Myer, 222
Bed of Roses, 286
Beery, Wallace, 207
Bel Air Country Club, 159
Bel Air rental house (1942), 230–31
Bel Air rental house (1961), 437–38
Bel Geddes, Barbara, 286, 300–303
Bello, Marino, 84, 87, 119
Bells of Saint Mary, The, 303
Bergman, Ingrid, 303–7
Caught, 300–303
Gaslight, 303, 307
Hughes and, 304–5, 306–7, 312–13
Joan of Arc, 304
movie career of, 303–7, 312–16, 419
Notorious, 419
Stromboli, 305–7, 312–16, 316n
Berman, Pandro, 163, 166
Bern, Paul, 51, 91, 119, 122, 128–30, 134
Better America Foundation, 347
Better Business Bureau, 354
Beutel, Jack, 235–36, 238, 239
Beverly Hills Emergency Hospital, 263
Beverly Hills Hotel, 209, 306, 310, 358, 360, 361, 370, 393, 418–19, 421, 428, 432–33, 436, 444, 446, 450
Beverly Wilshire Hotel, 307, 308–9
Beyond the Rainbow, 17
Bichloride of mercury, 20
Bicycle Thief, The, 317
Bigamist, The, 355–56
Big Shot, The, 206
Big Steal, The, 333–34
Bikinis, 384–85
Bill of Divorcement, A, 150, 151–54, 163, 165
Biltmore Hotel, 74–75
Binoculars, 136
Biograph Company, 12
Birdwell, Russell, 188–91
background of, 189–90
biographical sketch, xi–xii
hiring as publicist, 190–91, 265
Russell and The Outlaw, 191, 194, 196, 199, 220–22, 224, 235–36, 237, 259–60, 387
Birth of a Nation, The, 13, 14, 22
Black, Caroline, 55–57
Black Pirate, The, 70, 115
Blandford, Gene, 245
Blonde Venus, 336
Blondie of the Follies, 114–15
Blood and Sand, 267
Blot, The, 70–71
Blue, Ben, 341, 342
Blueprint for Murder, A, 365
Boardman, Eleanor, 30–32, 30n, 33
Bodeen, DeWitt, 66n
Bogart, Humphrey, 126, 206, 319, 322, 339, 347, 403, 404
Bohny, Lillian, 14–15, 16–17. See also Dove, Billie
Bombardment of Ellwood, 221
Bombshell, 132–33, 134
“Boner,” 170, 170n
Booth, Shirley, 371–72
Boston Ritz-Carlton, 160, 439
Bow, Clara, 4, 17, 63, 87, 99–89
Bowers, Scotty, 148–49
Boyer, Charles, 123, 158
Bracken, Eddie, 249
Braille Institute, 443
Brando, Marlon, 332, 363, 365, 377
Brandstatter, Eddie, 93
Brandt, Harry, 165–66, 175
Bras, 196
Brazzi, Rossano, 404
Bread, Love, and Dreams, 317
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 449
Break of Hearts, 158, 162
Breen, Joseph, 181, 197–99, 238, 258, 305–7, 383–89
Brewster, Owen, 276–77
Bringing Up Baby, 147, 164, 165
Broccoli, Albert “Cubby,” 112, 207, 450
Broeske, Pat H., 429n, 443
Brooks, Paul, 253
Brown, Peter Harry, 429n, 443
Brownlow, Kevin, 12n
Buckingham, Tom, 105
Burgess, Carter, 423
Burke, Billie, 68, 154
Burnett, W. R., 281–82, 408
Burton, Richard, 66, 441, 442
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 450
Caddo Company, 47, 94, 99, 101–2, 113–14
Caddo Parish, Louisiana, 26–27, 252
Cafe Montmartre, 93–94
Cagney, Bill, 262
Cagney, James, 120, 262
Cahuenga Peak, 180–81
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 29
California Pictures (Cal-Pix), 249, 251
Callas, Maria, 465
Callaway, Kitty, 30
Callow, Reggie, 76
Cameron, Barbara Lapp, 456
Cancer, 246, 394
Capone, Al, 108
Capra, Frank, 120
Captain from Castile, 271, 362–63, 365, 367
Carbon monoxide poisoning, 138
Carl Byoir and Associates, 349
Carter (night watchman), 215
Carter, Jack, 445
Casablanca, 303, 339
Cassavetes, John, 363
Castleman, Eli B., 379
Castleman, Marion V., 379
Castleman lawsuit, 380–81
Catholic Legion of Decency, 237–38, 277–78, 314
Caught, 300–303
Cavell, Stanley, 147
Censors (censorship), 25–26, 63
Cock of the Air, 105–6, 108–9
The French Line, 385–89
Kitty Foyle, 181
The Miracle, 316n
The Outlaw, 197–99, 237–38, 257–59
Pre-Code Era, 63
The Racket, 47–48
Scarface, 108–10
Stromboli, 313–16, 316n
Supreme Court and, 316n
Central Casting, 84, 85
Chandler, Charlotte, 173
Chandler, Helen, 154
Chaney, Lon, 69
Chaplin, Charlie, 17, 31
China, 32, 33
Chinese Theatre, 90–91
Chouinard, Gerald “Jeff,” (aka Mike Conrad), 310, 360–61, 414–15
Christian Science, 140
Christine, Virginia, 255
Christmas in July, 234
Christopher Strong, 154–55
Christy, Jack, 289
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 416–17
Ciro’s (nightclub), 216–17, 331
Citizen Kane, 197
Civil Aeronautics Agency, 245
Civil War, 40, 203
Clark County District Court, 457
Clash by Night, 349
Classical Hollywood Era, 9–10
Cleopatra, 377
Cleveland Rams, 256–57
Clifton, Elmer, 325
Cline, William, 245
Clive, Colin, 154
Clover Club, 112
Coburn, Charles, 322
Cock of the Air, 97, 104–7, 108–9
Cockrell, Alston, Jr., 42
Cocoanut Grove, 3–4, 93, 310
Cohn, Harry, 320, 376
Colbert, Claudette, 249
Collins, Jackie, 465
Collins, LeRoy, 390
Colman, Ronald, 272, 362
Colony Club, 112
Columba. See Vendetta
Columbia Pictures, 120, 198, 307, 320, 376
Columbia University, 199
Come Back, Little Sheba, 371–72, 376, 397, 458
Committee for the First Amendment, 322, 347
Communism, 283, 321–24, 343, 347, 348–54
Confidential (magazine), 394, 400
Conlin, Hal, 34–35, 37
Connery, Sean, 450
Conqueror, The, 391, 392–93, 394
Contract girls, 211, 287–91, 419–22
Cook, Judy, 273, 275–76
Cooper, Gary, 269, 286, 362
Cooper, Merian C., 152n
Cosmopolitan (magazine), 265–66
Costello, Frank, 354
Cotten, Joseph, 365–66, 377
Courtland, Jerome “Cojo,” 307, 309
Cramer, H
enry A., 378–79
Cramer, Stuart, III, 397–98, 406–7, 416–18, 446, 457
Crane, Norman F., 379
Crawford, Joan, 70, 73, 123, 126
Cronyn, Hume, 322
Crosby, Bing, 303–4
Crossfire, 282–83
Crowd Roars, The, 125
Cuba, 107, 402
Cukor, George, 147, 150–52, 157, 166, 172, 303
homophobia and, 151
Culpepper, Jack, 110–11
Curtis, James, 148
Dade County Juvenile Council, 314
Damon, Ralph, 422–23
D’Arcy, Alex, 208
Daredevil, The, 457
Darnell, Linda, xiii, 267, 267n, 270–71, 274, 402
Darvi, Bella, 377
Da Silva, Howard, 322, 323
Davenport, Russell, 158
Davies, Marion, 74–75, 76, 104, 114–15
Davis, Bette, 175–78, 319
biographical sketch, xi
Hughes and, 176–77, 178, 466
Jezebel, 176, 178
movie career of, 175–76, 178, 319
Nelson (first husband) and, 176, 177–78
Davis, Glenn, 358–59, 360, 374–75, 451, 456
Davis, Richard, 353
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 400
Dean, George, 454
Dean, James, 332
De Carlo, Yvonne, xiii, 254, 257
De Cicco, Pat, 112, 175
biographical sketch, xi
Domergue and, 207–8, 216
Hughes’s estate and, 408–9
“talent scout” for Hughes, 139, 207–8, 225
Todd and, 112, 138, 139, 207, 210, 318
Vanderbilt and, 209–10, 225
Dee, Patte, 414
Deep Are the Roots, 301
De Havilland, Olivia, xi, 178–79
Del Mar Beach Club, 205
DeMille, Cecil B., 23
Depinet, Ned, 162
DePould, Elspeth Lapp, 456
Desert Inn, 357–58, 440–49
De Sica, Vittorio, 304, 317, 351
Dial, Elizabeth Patterson, 41–42, 252–53
Dietrich, Marlene, 73, 147, 154, 336
Dietrich, Noah
background of, 45
Hell’s Angels, 53–54
hiring of, 45
Hughes, Sr., and, 30
Hughes’s affairs, 59
Hughes’s breakdown, 210
Hughes’s estate and Moore, 455, 458, 460–62
Hughes’s finances, 422–23, 424–25
Hughes’s interest in Hollywood, 58, 98–99
Hughes’s marriage to Ella, 40, 49, 58, 59
Hughes’s strange behaviors, 250
Peters and Hughes, 417, 418
on RKO board, 287, 388
Rogers and Hughes, 183
Russell and Hughes, 191
Scarface and Hughes, 195
Dinkins, O. Theodore, Jr., 455–56
Dinner at Eight, 133–34
Disney, Walt, 391
Divorce laws, 32, 77–78
Dmytryk, Edward, 283
Docks of New York, 47
Dodger Stadium, 427
Doherty, Thomas, 385n
Domergue, Adabelle, 214, 243–44
Domergue, Faith, 205–8
age of, 205n
arrival in Hollywood, 205–6
background of, 205
biographical sketch, x
Hughes and, 182n, 205–8, 211–17, 225, 226–31, 235, 242–44, 245, 253, 261, 274–75, 280–82, 290, 328–30, 431
movie career of, 249–50, 253, 261, 280–81, 282, 300, 328–30
Stauffer and, 253, 281–82
Vendetta, 249–50, 261, 280–81, 291, 300, 328–30
Domergue, Leo, 214
Donati, William, 139, 149n, 323
Donen, Stanley, 370–71
Dor, Karin, 449
Dove, Billie, 63–70. See also Bohny, Lillian
The Age for Love, 97, 100–104, 115
age of, 65–66, 65n
background of, 67–68
beauty of, 63–65
biographical sketch, ix
Blondie of the Follies, 114–15
Cock of the Air, 97, 104–7, 108–9
Hughes and, 74–79, 93–94, 97–98, 100–103, 104, 107–8, 113–14, 182
The Lady Who Dared, 97, 102
movie career of, 63, 69–74, 95–98, 100–107, 114–15
stage names, 63–64, 67
Willat and, 65, 66, 69–70, 74, 76–77, 79n, 94, 97, 115
Dove, Charles, 94
Duel at Silver Creek, The, 330
Duff, Howard, 328, 347–48, 350, 356
Duggan, Shirle, 346
Duhan, Barney, 204
Durkin, William Lloyd, 263
Dvorak, Ann, xi, 124–27, 126n, 322
Dwan, Allan, 134–35
Earrings of Madame de . . ., The, 303
Edison, Thomas, 15
Edmonds, Andy, 139
Einfeld, Charles, 300
Eldridge, Florence, 163
El Rancho Las Vegas, 450
Embassy Club, 93
Emerson, John, 117
Empire, 456–57
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 24
Engel, Joe, 68–69
Enterprise Studios, 300, 301–2
Entwistle, Peggy, 151–52
Equitable Life Insurance Company, 422
Evans, Vicky, 331–32
Everybody’s Acting, 47, 49
Fairbanks, Douglas, 66, 70, 117
Fairchild, Sherman, 210
Farrow, John, 330, 334
Fast and Furious franchise, 333
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 225, 273–76, 321–24, 347–48, 350, 357, 360–61
Federal Trade Commission, 354
Feeder, Bill, 7
Feldman, Charlie, 209, 320, 327
Felt, Richard, 245
Felton, Earl, 343–44
Fenton, Leslie, 126–27
Fenwick, 159–60, 166, 168, 170
Ferber, Edna, 160
Ferrer, Mel, 281–82, 338
Feuerman, Louis, 379
Fidler, Jimmie, 236–37, 349–50
Fielding, Benjamin, 278
Fighting Heart, The, 69
Filmakers, the, 325–28
Film Daily, 346, 349
Fires of Impulse, 135
First National Pictures, 70, 94, 96–97, 102, 103, 107. See also Warner Bros.
Fisher, Wayne, 464
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 8, 75, 117–18
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 75
Fitzpatrick, Mary, 94
Flaming Youth, 70
Flapper, The, 19, 72n
Flappers, 19–20, 72, 86
Fleming, Victor, 133
Flesh and the Devil, 4
Floyd Bennett Field, 168–69
Flying Leathernecks, The, 392
Flynn, Captain Carl, 312, 461
Flynn, Errol, 148–49n, 179, 225, 274
Fokker, Anthony, 50
Fonda, Henry, 176
Fontaine, Joan, 330, 355–56
Ford, John, 69, 147, 159–60
Ford, Mary, 159
Ford, Robin, 331
Forever Amber, 271
Forrest, Sally, 325–26, 327–28, 351
Fortune (magazine), 158
42nd Street, 111
Fowler, Raymond D., 35, 429n, 453–54, 458
Francis, Kay, 150–51, 175–76
Frankenstein, 154
Freedom of Information Act, 347
Freese, Paul, 459
Fregonese, Hugo, 282
French Line, The, 383–89
From Here to Eternity, 400
Front Page, The, 99–100
Frye, Jack, 422
Fudger, Eva K., 48
Fuller, Samuel, 367–70
Full Service (Bowers), 148–49
Furthman, Jules, 197–98, 235, 244, 336
Gable, Clark, 129, 131, 132, 136
Gallagher. See
Platinum Blonde
Gallagher, Carol, 222–23
Ganley, Gail, 435–36
Garbo, Greta, 4, 63–64, 153, 153n, 158
Gardner, Ava
arrival in Hollywood, 204, 210–11
background of, 203–4
The Barefoot Contessa, 402–4
biographical sketch, x
Ghosts on the Loose, 232–33
From Here to Eternity, 400
Hughes and, 141, 232, 233–34, 242–43, 245, 254–55, 399–404
bronze bell incident, 248, 255
marriage proposals, 247–49
The Killers, 255–56, 399
movie career of, 219–20, 232–33, 246, 255–56, 275, 364, 399–400, 402–4
My Forbidden Past, 399
Rooney and, 211, 218–20, 232, 234, 246, 248
Show Boat, 399–400
Sinatra and, 399, 400–401
Gardner, Jonas, 203
Gardner, Molly, 203, 246
Garfield, John “Julie,” 347–48, 350
Garland, Judy, 165, 211, 402
Garrett, Pat, 194, 239
Gaslight, 303, 307
Gaslighting, 228
Gaudio, Tony, 87–88
Gay, Bill, 376, 434–35, 445
Gay Divorcee, The, 180
Gaynor, Janet, 190–91
Gaynor, Mitzi, 371
Geary Theater, 236
Gender politics, 5, 8–9, 239–40
General Tire and Rubber Company, 407
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 117, 118, 380–81, 386, 393
Gerber, Albert, 238
Ghosts on the Loose, 232–33
Gibson, Margaret, 21
Giesler, Jerry, 331–33
Gilbert, John, 63
Gilda, 384
Gillis, Joe, 361
Gimme, 31
Girl Crazy, 110, 111
Girls, The: Sappho Goes to Hollywood (McLellan), 153n
Gish, Dorothy, 12
Gish, Lillian, 12
Glenwood Cemetery, 452
Gloria’s Romance, 24
Goff, Lloyd, 322
Going My Way, 303
Gold Diggers of 1933, 111
Golden Boy, 348
Goldthwaite, Martha, 273, 275–76
Goldwyn, Samuel, 22–23, 383–84
Goldwyn Pictures, 23, 29, 30
Golf, 39, 45
Gone with the Wind, 57, 190–91, 197, 221, 303
Goring, Marius, 404
Goulding, Edmund, 46–47, 51
Grable, Betty, 239, 346
Graham, Sheilah, 7, 293, 364, 370–71, 398, 416–17, 427
Grahame, Gloria, 282
Grainger, J. E., 384–85, 386, 388
Grand Hotel, 123
Grant, Cary, 283
gay rumors, 148–49
Hepburn and, 147, 158–59, 166, 172
Holiday, 147, 166
Hughes and, 254, 270–71, 286–87, 455
The Philadelphia Story, 172
Sylvia Scarlett, 158–59
Grapes of Wrath, The, 282
Graves, Ralph, 43–44
Great Depression, 88, 100, 132, 164
Great McGinty, The, 234
Green, Levis, 192
Greenspun, Hank, 442
Greer, Howard, 385
Greer, Jane, 333, 334
Griffith, David Ware “D.W.”, 12–13, 22
Griffith Park, 41
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