Varconi, Victor. It’s Not Enough to Be Hungarian. Denver: Graphic Impressions, 1976.
Vertrees, Alan David. Selznick’s Vision: “Gone With the Wind” and Hollywood Filmmaking. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
Vickers, Hugh. Vivien Leigh. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988.
Vidor, King. A Tree Is a Tree. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1953.
Von Sternberg, Josef. Fun in a Chinese Laundry. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
Von Tempski, Armine. Hula: A Romance of Hawaii. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1927.
Walker, Alexander. Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987.
Ward, Larry Wayne. The Motion Picture Goes to War: The U.S. Government Film Effort During World War I. Ann Arbor: UMI Research, 1985.
Watts, Jill. Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambitions, White Hollywood. New York: Amistad, 2005.
Weales, Gerald. Canned Goods as Caviar: American Film Comedies of the 1930s. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Weddle, David. “If They Move . . . Kill ’Em!”: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah. New York: Grove, 1994.
Weld, John. September Song. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1998.
Wellman, William. A Short Time for Insanity. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1974.
Whiteman, Harold B., Jr., ed. Letters from the Paris Peace Conference. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1965.
Wilson, Robert, ed. The Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1971.
Winters, Ralph. Some Cutting Remarks. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2001.
Wister, Owen. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains. New York: Macmillan, 1902.
Wister, Owen, and Kirk La Shelle. The Virginian: A Play in Four Acts. New York, 1904.
Worsley, Wallace. From Oz to E.T.: Wally Worsley’s Half-Century in Hollywood. Edited by Charles Ziarko. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1997.
Wranovics, John. Chaplin and Agee: The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the Lost Screenplay. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Wright, Harold Bell. A Son of His Father. New York: D. Appleton, 1925.
Wyman, Walker. Witching for Water, Oil, Pipes, and Precious Minerals. River Falls: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977.
Wynn, Keenan. Ed Wynn’s Son. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959.
BROADCAST PROGRAMS
The Bells of St. Mary’s. Screen Guild Theater. CBS Radio, Oct. 6, 1947.
Bob Hope Swan Show. NBC Radio, Feb. 15, 1949.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Hollywood—with Jack Paar. NBC TV, May 14, 1967.
“The Hand of Providence.” Gulf Screen Guild Theater. CBS Radio, April 16, 1939.
Kay Kyser and his orchestra at the Atlanta Junior League costume ball. Special broadcast. NBC Radio, Dec. 14, 1939.
DOCUMENTARIES
Driskel, Dana. An American Film Company. Mountain View Productions, 2003.
Heeley, David. The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn. WNET, 1986.
Hinton, David. The Making of a Legend: “Gone With the Wind.” Selznick Properties, Ltd., and Turner Entertainment, 1998.
Jones, Peter, director. Glorious Technicolor. Peter Jones Productions and Turner Classic Movies, 1998.
Index
Abe Lincoln in Illinois, 261–2
Abie’s Irish Rose (film), 139–42, 168, 502
Abie’s Irish Rose (Nichols), 139, 141
Abrams, Morris, 177, 197, 204
Academy Awards, 6, 59, 134, 226, 232, 258, 268–9, 274, 285, 351, 352, 354, 360, 361, 369, 380, 499
Acord, Art, 37
Action is the Word (Fleming), 14, 17, 22, 24–6, 32, 33–6, 42, 44, 55–6, 61–4, 70, 174, 180, 488
Adair, Augustus D., 352
Adam Had Four Sons, 363
Adler, Larry, 449
Admirable Crichton, The (Barrie), 102
Adolphson, Edvin, 363
Adventure (1925), 92, 104–5, 171, 241
Adventure (1946), 301, 436–43
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 285–86
Adventures of Robin Hood, 270
Adventures with D.W. Griffith (Brown), 40
African Queen, The, 442
Agee, James, 402, 422
Aitken, Harry, 44
Akeley, Carl, 61, 180
Alexander, Sunny, 339
Alice In Wonderland (Carroll), 283
Allan, Ted, 223
Allen, Fred, 575
Allen, Woody, 167, 171–2
All Quiet on the Western Front, 59, 162, 257, 463
All the King’s Men, 490
Altman, Robert, 125
Always, 421
Amadeus, 504
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley, 38, 60
America, 210
American Academy of Dramatic Arts, 236, 359
American Cinema, The (Sarris), 501
American Expeditionary Force (AEF), 70; Ninety-first “Wild West” Division of, 55–7; 116th Depot Brigade of, 55; 251st Aero Squadron of, 57–8
American Film Manufacturing Company (Flying A), 29–32, 33–6
Americano, The, 48
American Protective League (APL), 62–3
American Venus, The, 109
Anderson, Alan, 449–50
Anderson, Hesper, 450, 468, 486
Anderson, Maxwell, 446–9, 453, 456–8, 460–8, 482–3, 485–7
Andersonville (Kantor), 402
Andre, Tom, 368
Angels with Dirty Faces, 241
Anna Ascends, 82, 94
Anne of the Thousand Days (play), 485
Anne of the Thousand Days (film), 486
Anointed (Davis), 436–7, 442
Anthony, Earle C., 26–7
anticommunism, 63, 407–8, 425–35
anti-Semitism, 38, 59, 210, 348–9, 392–3, 430, 433–4
Any Number Can Play, 494
Appel, Arthur, 308
Arizona, 76, 170
Arlen, Harold, 285, 291, 292, 311–12, 313
Arlen, Richard, 125, 146, 149–50, 153, 154–5, 156–8
Arling, Art, 344
Army, U.S.: Corps of Engineers of, 61; First Volunteer Cavalry of, 119–21; Medical Corps of, 59; Military Intelligence Division of, 61–2, 68; Officers’ Training Corps of, 55–6; Signal Corps of, 4, 54, 56–7, 61, 67, 68, 71, 75, 76, 79, 164, 440, 505; VF’s service in, 4, 11, 22, 55–74
Army Air Corps, 93, 267–8
Army Air Forces, 404–5, 410, 416
Army War College, 59, 64
Arnaz, Desi, 395
Arnold, Henry H. “Hap,” 267–8, 404
Around the World in Eighty Days (film), 504
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne), 171
Around the World in Eighty Minutes, 5, 144, 170–3
Artcraft Pictures, 49, 52
Arthur, Jean, 266
Asher, Irving, 126
Astaire, Fred, 51, 53, 271
Astor, Mary, 92, 118, 119, 120–2, 126–7, 169, 183, 186–92, 316, 440, 499
Atalante, L’, 227
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, 11
Atkinson, Brooks, 227, 450
Atlanta, Battle of (1864), 13, 328–9
Atwill, Lionel, 279–80
Austin Powers, 504
Awakening, The, 142, 143
Ayers, Agnes, 90–1
Ayres, Lew, 137, 160, 161–2
Bacall, Lauren, 391–2, 393, 454
Bachmann, Lawrence, 272
Badger, Clarence, 111, 135
Bad Habits of 1926, 178
Bad Man, The, 363
Baer, Dorothy, 205
Baer, Max, 205
Bakewell, William, 342
Balderston, John L., 322
Baldridge, Bert, 97
Ball, Lucille, 358, 433
Ballad and the Source, The (Lehmann), 452, 454–5
Bancroft, George, 128
Bankhead, Tallulah, 191
Banky, Vilma, 142, 146
Bard, Ben, 143
Barnum, P. T., 61
Barrett, Dorothy, 280
Barrie, J. M., 102, 290
Barry, Philip, 197, 220
Barrymore, John, 126, 177, 247, 353–4, 361, 364, 366
Barrymore, Lionel, 212, 213, 246, 250, 255, 258, 410, 422
Bartholomew, Elizabeth, 250, 254
Bartholomew, Freddie, 236, 240, 243–5, 247, 249–50, 254, 258, 437
Barton, Bruce, 132
Basquette, Lina, 38
Bataan, 359
Baum, L. Frank, 283, 284, 290, 303–4, 313–14
Baumeister, Bruce, 429, 431–2
Baxter, Warner, 162–3
“Bear, The” (Faulkner), 375
Beaton, Cecil, 131
Beatty, Warren, 406–7
Beau Geste, 107
Beavers, Louise, 202
Becker, Charles, 304, 306
Beery, Noah, 108, 128
Beery, Wallace, 83, 84, 85, 93, 104, 214, 216, 217–18, 233, 258, 363, 377
Begley, Ed, 405
Behind the Front, 91, 109
Behrman, S. N., 220
Bell, Donald J., 62
Bell, Monta, 102
Bell, Rex, 166
Bell, Ulric, 420
Bello, Marino, 192, 204
Bellow, Saul, 269
Bells of St. Mary’s, The, 448, 451, 471, 488
Benham, Edith, 68
Ben-Hur, 504
Bennett, Belle, 132
Bennett, Charles, 214
Bennett, Constance, 159, 160, 161, 162, 204, 421
Bennett, Joan, 160, 358, 452, 493
Bennett, Richard, 160
Benny, Jack, 449
Bercovici, Konrad, 95
Berg, Phil, 325
Bergman, Ingrid, 426, 446–88, 495; in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 7, 361–7, 370–4; in Joan of Arc, 458, 465–88, 502; in Joan of Lorraine, 447–56, 465–6, 467; VF’s affair with, 7, 274, 278, 316, 355, 363, 374, 454–6, 458–63, 472–3, 475–7, 483, 486, 491–92
Berkeley, Busby, 311
Berlin, Irving, 142, 165, 169, 292
Berman, Pandro S., 176, 446–7
Bern, Paul, 191, 205, 221
Bernheim, Alain, 486
Berquist, Lillian R., 420
Best Years of Our Lives, The, 402, 447
Betty of Greystone, 50
Betz, Charles F., 65
Bickford, Charles, 225–6
Big House, The, 232
Big Jim McLain, 271
Big Parade, 141
Big Sleep, The, 391, 441
Biograph Studios, 36
Birth of a Nation, 66, 504, 505
Black Pirate, The, 86, 211
Blair, Joan, 165
Blandick, Clara, 177, 287
Blind Goddess, The, 109–10
Blocksom, Yvonne Kobe, 13, 14, 20, 22, 27, 77, 135, 284, 388, 392, 495, 497; on VF, 95, 105–6, 132, 160, 164, 165, 169, 207, 219, 271
Blondell, Joan, 442
Bloomsburg Fair, 20
Bloomsburg, Pa., 13
Blue, Monte, 40
Blue Angel, The, 134
Bluett, Lennie, 346–7
Bogart, Humphrey, 239, 391, 442, 454
Bogdanovich, Peter, 31–2, 93–4
Bohnen, Roman, 478, 495
Bois, Curt, 279
Bolger, Ray, 282–3, 286, 287, 294, 295–6, 297, 308
Bombshell (film), 3–4, 5, 9–10, 114, 118, 138, 144, 177, 199–206, 207, 209, 210, 222–3; Harlow in, 182–3, 185, 190–2, 200, 201, 203–6, 223, 226, 296, 505
Bombshell (Francke and Crane), 1992
Bond, Ward, 178, 387, 403, 408, 425, 428, 498
Bonnie and Clyde, 97
Boom Town, 77, 357, 377, 395
Boone, Peter, 312
Boone, Richard, 312
Booth, John Wilkes, 227–8
Booth, Junius Brutus, 227
Booth, Margaret, 143, 209
Borgato, Agostino, 137
Borzage, Frank, 226, 358
Boswell, Hugh, 190
Bow, Clara, 7, 8, 9, 110–18, 126–7, 145–6, 165–6, 181, 199, 200, 204, 320, 487; Gary Cooper and, 128–9, 131, 135, 146, 158, 165, 166; Hula and, 136–38; illness and death of, 158; as the “It” girl, 111, 115; Mantrap and, 110–15; VF’s affair with, 111, 114, 116–18, 124–6, 131, 132, 135–8, 146, 158, 165, 166, 194, 199, 363, 491
Bowers, Scotty, 237
Bowman, Helene Rosson, 168, 169, 206, 209, 358–60, 385–6, 393, 433, 493, 497–8
Bowman, Hunter, 358–9
Bowman, Lee, 358–60, 385–6, 393, 433, 493, 496, 497–8
Bowman, Lee, Jr., 386, 393, 433
Bowman, Luther Lee, 359
Bowman, Pringle, 359, 360
Boyer, Charles, 358, 364, 458, 478
Boys Town, 240, 269, 285, 376
Brackett, Charles, 427
Bradshaw, Jon, 220
Brady, Alice, 94
Brand, Max, 359
Bray, Odetta, 195
Breaking the Sound Barrier, 262
Breen, Joseph, 210, 241, 274, 370, 411
Breeze, Vance, 388, 390
Bremer, Lucille, 443
Brenon, Herbert, 94, 138, 496
Bresler, Jerry, 381
Brewer, Roy, 428
Brian, Mary, 149, 153, 158
Briggs, Donald, 244
Bringing Up Baby, 309
Briskin, Sam, 443, 453
Broadway After Dark, 102
Broken Wing, The (Dickey), 87
Bronson, Betty, 94
Brook, Clive, 136, 137
Brooks, Louise, 8, 283, 320
Brooks, Rand, 327, 330, 342–3, 355, 477
Brooks, Richard, 107, 108
Brown, Clarence, 8, 375, 381–4, 404, 416, 430, 502
Brown, Nacio Herb, 291
Brown, John Mason, 479
Brown, Karl, 40
Brown, Kay, 447
Brown, Rowland, 182
Browning, Todd, 232
Brownlow, Kevin, 37, 40, 61, 92, 136, 283, 320, 502
Bruce, George, 429–31, 432, 443
Bruce, Nigel, 213
Brulatour, Jules, 62
Bryant, John A., 494
Buck, Pearl, 232
Buckhorn, Pa., 13
Budwig, Gilbert, 93
Buffalo Bill, 402–03, 405
Bujold, Genevieve, 486
Bullock, Judge Georgia, 208
Buñuel, Luis, 110, 135
Burke, Billie, 296, 303
Burke, Edwin, 224
Burlesque (Watters and Hopkins), 145, 193, 221
Burton, Charlotte, 31–2, 35
Burton, Richard, 486
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