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Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master (Screen Classics)

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by Sragow, Michael


  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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