Bush, Pauline, 35
Bushell, Anthony, 321, 332–3
Butler, Rachel Barton, 86
Butler, Samuel, 132
Byron, Dora, 380
Byron, Walter, 142
Cabanne, Christy, 44
Caen, Herb, 307
Cagney, James, 167, 233, 338, 377
Cain, James, M., 179
Caldwell, Erskine, 394
Caldwell, June, 224, 414
California, 29–38; citrus belt in, 4–5, 11–12, 14–23; 1880s land boom in, 12, 14–15
California, University of, 297; at Berkeley, 149, 164, 169; at Los Angeles, 164, 451
Call of the Canyon, The, 95, 96–8
Callow, Ridgeway, 326
Cameron, James, 505
Campanale, Ben, 389
Camp Lewis, 55–6
Camp Merritt, 63
Cantwell, John J., 241
Canutt, Yakima, 319, 333, 341–2, 344, 346
Capa, Robert, 459
Capra, Frank, 221, 315, 350–1, 354, 412, 421, 443, 504
Captains Courageous (film), 10, 25, 101, 110, 149–50, 177, 180, 224, 235–6, 238, 240–56, 271, 272, 283, 375, 396; Tracy in, 6, 240, 243, 248, 250–3, 254, 258, 269, 356
Captains Courageous (Kipling), 235, 236, 241–2
Carey, Gary, 45
Carey, Leonard, 202
Carle, Teet, 4, 314
Carmichael, Hoagy, 386, 393
Carné, Marcel, 274
Carnera, Primo, 203
Carradine, John, 246, 247, 249
Carradine, Keith, 249
Carroll, Harrison, 335
Carroll, Lewis, 79, 283
Carroll, Mickey, 309
Carroll, Nancy, 140, 145
Case, Frank, 47
Caselotti, Adriana, 292
Castle, Vernon and Irene, 81
Ceiling Zero (film), 92, 258, 265
Ceiling Zero (Wead), 258
Champ, The, 217–18
Chan, Jackie, 43
Chaney, Lon, 118, 210
Chang, 58
Chaplin, Charlie, 43, 46, 73, 75, 76, 84, 86, 102, 117, 131, 207
Chatfield, William, 360
Cheadle, Don, 246
Cherokee, Indians, 12, 231, 392
Child of the Century, A (Hecht), 322–3
Children of Divorce, 117, 128, 131
Ching Wah Lee, 233–4
Churchill, Marlborough, 61
Cimarron, 59
Cinderella Man, 205
Citadel, 361
Citizen Kane, 62
City Lights, 76
Civil War, U.S., 12, 13, 40, 82, 310, 503
Claim Jumper, The, 37
Clair, René, 7, 274, 506
Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild (Stenn), 117–18
Clark, James L., 379
Clemenceau, Georges, 70
Clements, Kendrick A., 66
Cleopatra, 71
Clifford, Kathleen, 78, 80–2, 89, 131, 295
Clifford, Madame, 81
Clift, Montgomery, 263
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 333
Clyde, Elizabeth “Bessie” Pringle Brunson Fauntleroy Bowman, 359
Clyde, William, 359
Code of the Sea, 98, 100–2
Cody, Buffalo Bill, 402–3
Coen brothers, 150
Coghlan, Frank, Jr., 349
Cohan, George M., 68
Cohn, Harry, 170, 393
Cold War, 408
Cole, Alice, 226
College, 110
Collison, Wilson, 180–1
Colman, Ronald, 142, 146, 180, 199
Colton, Jack, 91–2
Columbia Pictures, 76, 170, 395, 462
Columbia University, 57–61, 67, 164, 176, 221, 359; U.S. School of Military Cinematography at, 58–60
Columbo, Russ, 146, 148
Combat America, 404
Comden, Betty, 209
Committee on Public Information, 64, 68, 71
Common Clay, 160–2, 222
Communist Party, 407, 430
Confederate Army, 12, 40, 342, 344, 352, 402
Congress, U.S., 268, 420, 433
Conlon, Cammie King, 347–8
Connelly, Marc, 224, 240, 243–4, 376
Connolly, Bobby, 308
Conrad, Joseph, 100, 106–9
Conway, Jack, 37, 38, 91–2, 182, 248, 272, 329, 357
Cooke, Alistair, 49
Cool Million, A (West), 95
Cooper, Gary, 8, 125, 144–8, 153–8, 235, 257, 271, 385, 429, 451; Clara Bow and, 128–9, 131, 135, 146, 158, 165, 166; death of, 155, 158; VF’s influence on screen persona of, 5–6, 129, 145–6, 150, 225, 503; VF’s relationship with, 40, 146, 225; in The Virginian, 6, 146–58; in Wolf Song, 145–48
Cooper, Jackie, 211, 214, 215–18
Cooper, Rocky, 146, 257
Coppola, Francis Ford, 67, 282
Corey, Jeff, 383, 477–8
Corliss, Richard, 409
Cosgrove, Jack, 257
Cotten, Joseph, 485, 498
Cotton, Charles, 28–9, 62, 180, 207, 230–2, 340
Cotton, Charles, Jr., 205, 464
Cotton, C. N., 28–29, 32
Coué, Emile, 94–5
Coulouris, George, 479
Coulouris, George, Jr., 479
Coward, Noël, 452
Cradle Snatchers, The, 139
Crane, Fred, 326
Crane, Mack, 199
Crawford, Broderick, 490, 498
Crawford, F. Marion, 197
Crawford, Joan, 181, 221, 358–9, 361
Creative Producer, The (Lewis), 153–4
Cripps, Thomas, 345
Crisp, Donald, 183, 364, 429
Cromwell, John, 145, 322, 358
Crosby, Bing, 241, 393, 434, 448, 451, 471
Crowd, The, 64
Crowd Roars, The, 39, 272, 317
Crowther, Bosley, 319, 325, 332, 421, 438, 488, 490
Crump, Owen, 353
Cruze, James, 82
Cryer, George E., 425
Cugat, Xavier, 439
Cukor, George, 159, 237, 249, 286, 310, 358, 364, 371, 446; Gone With the Wind work of, 317–21, 328, 330–3, 336, 340, 345, 348, 350
Curtis, Billy, 306
Curtis, Patrick, 559
Cutter, Kirtland, 256
Dalton, Dorothy, 94–5
Damita, Lili, 142
Dance of Life, The, 145, 193
Daniels, Bebe, 204
Danko, Betty, 300–1
Darby, Ken, 309
Dark Secrets, 82, 94–5
Dark Victory, 153
Dasent, George Webbe, 314
Dassin, Jules, 403, 435, 495–6
Dasté, Jean, 227
Davenport, Harry, 345
Davenport, Kenneth, 47
David, Saul, 8, 506
Davies, Marion, 3, 143
Davis, Bette, 432, 441
Davis, Clyde Brion, 436–37, 442
Dawn, Jack, 286
Day, Beth, 9
Day, Laraine, 363
Deacon, Ira, 18, 21
Deacon, Lizzie Evaleen “Eva” Hartman Fleming, 11–17, 18–23, 24, 27, 31, 105–6, 256, 266, 495, 497–8; character and personality of, 20, 77, 89; marriages of, 11–12, 18; VF’s letters to, 55, 57, 60–1, 66–7, 89; VF’s relationship with, 20, 76, 89, 387–8
Deacon, Sidney Roger, 18–22, 62, 77, 89, 182, 401
Dean, Man Mountain, 223
DeFore, Don, 413–14
DeHaven, Carter, 208
DeHaven, Gloria, 208
DeHaven, Marjorie (Lockwood), 208–9
de Havilland, Olivia, 7, 8, 352; in Gone With the Wind, 317, 321–2, 323, 327, 329–31, 338–9, 343, 346, 440
Del Rio, Dolores, 131
del Toro, Guillermo, 501
del Valle, Jaime, 206, 358
DeMille, Cecil B., 63, 93, 148, 168, 193, 195, 427
DeMille, Katherine, 174
Dempsey, Michael, 332–3
Denn
ing, Richard, 433
Derr, Hume, 178, 185
De Ruiz, Nick, 109
de Toth, André, 199
Deutsch, Adolph, 257
Devil at 4 O’Clock, The, 240
Devil’s Cargo, The, 92, 104, 145
Devine, Andy, 228, 338, 388, 390
Devine, Dorothy “Doagie,” 389–90
Devine, Tad, 389–90
DeVoe, Daisy, 204
Didion, Joan, 405
Dietrich, Marlene, 59
Dietz, Howard, 221
DiLeo, John, 263
Dillon, Josephine, 182
Directors Guild, 348, 350–1, 427–8
Disney, Walt, 143–4, 213, 214–15, 284–5, 368, 429
Dix, Richard, 95–6
Dolphin, 401, 444
Donat, Robert, 360–1
Doncoeur, Father Paul, 468, 469–72, 475, 478, 496
Donen, Stanley, 79, 209
Don Q, Son of Zorro, 86
Dorsey, Jimmy, 142
Dos Passos, John, 67
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 427
Douglas, Kirk, 408–9, 505
Douglas, Lloyd C., 485
Douglas, Melvyn, 244, 426
Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation, 49, 52–4
Downey, Robert, Jr., 100
Down to Earth, 52, 53, 54, 78
Doyle, Major, 304
Dracula’s Daughter, 267
Dresser, Louise, 109–10
Dressler, Marie, 76, 143, 232
Dreyer, Carl, 458
Dreyfuss, Richard, 421
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 4, 276, 360, 361–75, 479; Bergman in, 7, 361–7, 370–4; sexuality in, 4, 7, 364–6, 370–1; Tracy in, 361, 363, 366–73
Drury, James, 150
Dubin, Al, 291
Duccini, Ruth, 308
Duchin, Eddy, 230
Duel in the Sun, 163, 475
Dull, Orville, 414
Dumbrille, Douglas, 217
Duncan, Bud, 37
Dunne, Finley Peter, 427
Dunne, Irene, 358, 405, 411–12, 415–17, 419–21
Dunne, Philip, 427–8
Dupont, E. A., 134
DuPont, Patty, 113, 137
Durante, Jimmy, 177, 258, 386
Durbin, Deanna, 305
Duvivier, Julien, 274–9
Dwan, Allan, 24, 30, 34, 35, 36, 44, 46–51, 58, 76, 169; Fairbanks and, 46–7, 49, 50–1, 53, 86; VF and, 31–2, 39–40, 99, 168
Easiest Way, The, 182
Easy Living, 433
Ebsen, Buddy, 294
Eckman, Gene, 377, 379–82, 384
Eckman, Harold, 377
Eddy, Nelson, 275
Edens, Roger, 291
Edison Company, 30, 35, 58
Edmonds, Walter D., 224, 227
Edmondson, Bill, 192
Edward, Alan, 198
Edwards, Blake, 353–4
Edwards, Harry, 190
Ed Wynn’s Son (Wynn), 391
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 72
Eisenstein, Sergei, 422
Ellis, Olin O., 57, 58, 64
Elser, Frank B., 224
Emerson, John, 44–5, 48, 49–50, 52, 54, 77, 86–7, 89, 90, 92, 99, 232
Emmy, 216
Empty Hands, 92, 102–4, 109, 145
Erickson, Leif, 480
Eskimo, 180, 211
Essanay Studios, 37
Estabrook, Howard, 151, 155
E.T., 293
Evan Almighty, 80
Exodus, 408
Eyman, Scott, 205
Face in the Crowd, A, 39
Fairbanks, Beth Sully, 42, 47–8
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 41, 42, 46, 47
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr., 24, 30, 41–55, 89, 119, 143, 148, 211; childhood and adolescence of, 5, 41, 43; comic physicality of, 43, 44, 45–6, 48–51, 53, 73, 75–6, 78–80; death and burial of, 42, 351–2, 353; D. W. Griffith and, 42–6, 49, 52, 73, 75; early stage acting of, 41–3; family background of, 41, 43; famous smile of, 80, 84; film producing of, 43, 73, 75–8; influence of, 43, 72; Mary Pickford and, 43, 60, 73, 75, 76, 169–70, 173; physical appearance of, 41, 43; screen persona of, 4–5, 9, 11, 40, 42, 46–7, 48, 49–50; VF as cinematographer for, 47–8, 50–2, 55, 58, 72; VF’s directing of, 4–5, 9, 42, 48–9, 77–86, 113, 144, 170–3, 295, 296–7, 329; VF’s relationship with, 5, 40, 41, 42, 47, 48–9, 50–1, 55, 60, 62–3, 73, 77, 92, 99, 131–2, 169–73, 174–5, 351–2, 491
Fairbanks, Ella Marsh, 41
Fairbanks, John, 41
Fairbanks, John, Jr., 41, 42
Fairbanks, Robert, 41, 42
Falzon, Christopher, 370
Farmer Takes a Wife, The, 224–7, 228–9, 230, 231, 252, 333, 341
Farnum, Dustin, 44
Farrar, Geraldine, 89
Farrell, Charles, 120–1, 128
Farrow, Alfred, 12
Farrow, John, 148
Farrow, Neoma Fleming, 12–13
Faulkner, William, 375
Faye, Alice, 336
Faye, Julia, 168
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 429, 430–3, 434, 444
Feldman, Charles K., 392
Ferguson, Otis, 212–13, 215, 253–4
Fergusson, Harvey, 148
Ferrer, José, 467, 478–9, 491
Feyder, Jacques, 181, 182, 274
Fidler, Jimmie, 277–8, 416, 483
Fields, Dorothy, 291
Films, development of: action and adventure, 5, 8, 11, 24, 25, 42, 43, 48, 49, 51; adaptation of novels, 10, 95–8, 100, 104–9, 149–50; animation, 5, 143–4, 173, 284–5; auteur theory, 501, 506; beginning of sound era, 8, 9, 10, 37, 142, 145; “buddy films,” The Virginian,
Films, development of: (cont.) 148–58, Captains Courageous, 240–53, Test Pilot, 256–70; censorship, 9, 161, 181, 210, 241, 349, 365, 370, 417–21; comic-book superhero, 43, 53; documentary, 58, 356–7; editing, 35; eroticism and sexuality, 4, 6, 7, 9–10, 180–1, 186–90, 364–6, 370–1, 505; golden age, 4, 9, 501; independent, 10, 30, 52–3; industry politics and, 10, 35; lighting in, 30, 34, 52, 80, 97, 294; military training, 4, 57, 58, 59; musical, 51, 220–3, 282–316; newsreel, 37, 61, 71, 260; patents on technology, 30, 35; realism, 7–8, 9; special effects, 5, 9, 45, 123, 243, 303, 310; triple-billing, 44; Western, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 30, 33–7, 52, 59, 76, 83–5, 95–8, 105, 109, 146–58, 193; World War I, 59, 91, 109
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 38, 41, 178, 179, 323–4, 340, 358
Fitzmaurice, George, 95
Fleming, Clara West Strouse, 27–8, 29, 31, 61
Fleming, John, 12
Fleming, Lucile “Lu” Irana Nieder-meyer Rosson, 166–9, 235; character and personality of, 257; childhood and adolescence of, 166–7; cooking of, 167, 169, 387; death of, 498; first marriage of, 131, 136, 138, 139, 159–60, 167, 168–9, 192; VF’s relationship with, 3, 17, 61, 136, 169, 192–5, 199, 205, 206–7, 208, 219, 256, 257, 274, 316–17, 392, 423, 454, 483, 492; Marx Brothers as neighbors, 167; nickname of, 392–93, widowhood of, 496–8
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