The Man Who Made the Movies
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744 Bitter: “Who’s Feeding Nye-Clarke & Co.?” Variety, Sept. 24, 1941, 20.
744 abdominal illness . . . age sixty-one: “Winfield Sheehan, Film Producer, 61,” NYT, July 26, 1945, 19; “Death Comes to Film Chief W. R. Sheehan,” LAT, July 26, 1945, 1.
744 oversee the transition: Vrooman, FBI Report, Jan. 29, 1947, 3.
744 supplier of 85 percent: William Fox to Albert M. Greenfield, Jan. 31, 1941, AMG.
744 six hundred employees . . . large backlog: Vrooman, FBI Report, Jan. 29, 1947, 3.
744 “Mr. Fox, he was a funny man”: Angela Fox Dunn, unpublished William Fox notes #6, p. 13. AFD.
744 “He was always kidding me” . . . “all right”: Dunn, “A Man and His Camera,” 68.
745 “man mad for money”: Angela Fox Dunn, unpublished notes for Westways article. AFD.
745 reported him as dead: Marcia Winn, “Hollywood Big 5 Is Omnipotent in All Things,” CDT, Aug. 19, 1943, 2.
745 “I am not so sure”: William Fox to Angela Dunn, May 4, 1945, AFD.
745 Every year, the telegram . . . “usual panic”: Angela Fox Dunn, “A Visit with W.F.,” unpublished manuscript, 1–2. AFD.
745 “Uncle Bill paid for everything”: Angela Fox Dunn to Arnold Rogoff, Jan. 30, 1975, 4. AFD.
746 beginning in December 1948: Lew Schreiber to George Wasson, Dec. 13, 1948, “Malvina Fox,” FLC.
746 secretly paying: Angela Fox Dunn interview with the author.
746 $150-a-week salary: Lew Schreiber to George Wasson, Dec. 13, 1948. FLC.
746 buy some trinket . . . “whole four weeks”: Dunn, “A Visit With W.F.,” 3.
746 “cut off economically”: Angela Fox Dunn, Unpublished William Fox notes, no. 5, p. 1. AFD.
746 “hospital pale”: Dunn, Unpublished William Fox notes no. 5, p. 13.
746 “I huddled”: Dunn, “A Visit With W.F.,” 11.
746 “He could go on and on”: Dunn, Unpublished William Fox notes, no. 5, p. 13.
746 rarely showed any sign: Dunn, “A Visit with W.F.,” 2.
746 “Coats, dresses, suits, shoes”: Dunn, Unpublished William Fox notes, no. 5, p. 11.
747 “Would it be possible, Brother Bill . . . fifteen minutes”: Ibid., 10–11.
747 “He had ordered the curtain”: Ibid., 6.
747 “Fatigue began to show”: Ibid., 17.
747 “walking with W.F. . . . the kiss”: Angela Fox Dunn, Unpublished William Fox notes, no. 6, p. 13. AFD.
748 “He took me to the racetrack”: Ibid.
748 In 1946 . . . members for life: Frances A. Hess e-mail to the author, Apr. 11, 2010.
748 how he could still worship . . . “ ‘No!’ ”: Dunn, “A Visit with W.F.,” 15.
748 applied for a presidential pardon: “Notes on application of William Fox for pardon,” undated. Box 15, 118 Files, US-DK.
748 restore his place . . . honorable position: Lester C. Wilhelm, FBI Report, Mar. 26, 1947, 2. Box 15, 18 Files, US-DK.
748 “dynamo” . . . “highest type of morals”: Vrooman, FBI Report, Jan. 29, 1947, 1.
748 excellent tenants . . . courteously: Wilhelm, FBI Report, Mar. 26, 1947, 3.
748 neighbor in Woodmere . . . speak freely: Ibid., 4.
749 Lehman . . . thoroughly deserved: Ibid., 1.
749 three-page letter: Gerald A. Gleeson to Daniel M. Lyons, Department of Justice, May 23, 1947, 3. Box 15, 118 Files, US-DK.
749 tried to get . . . did not oppose: Ibid.
749 had been a loan: Wilhelm, FBI Report, Mar. 26, 1947, 2.
749 full and unconditional pardon: William Fox Pardon Warrant, Aug. 18, 1947. Ronald L. Rodgers, U.S. Pardon Attorney, Department of Justice, to author, e-mail attachment, Jan. 18, 2012.
749 “He was restless, tense”: Dunn, Unpublished William Fox notes, no. 5, p. 2.
749 Teacher’s Scotch: Angela Fox Dunn interview with the author.
750 “a rather mannish style” . . . never a dress: Angela Fox Dunn to the author, June 10, 2003.
750 stood stiffly . . . or paced: Angela Fox Dunn interview with the author.
750 called her every night: Vrooman, FBI Report, Jan. 29, 1947, 2.
750 using a wheelchair: Angela Fox Dunn interview with the author; Dunn to Anne Williams, Mar. 5, 1975. AFD.
750 nothing physically wrong: Angela Fox Dunn interview with the author.
750 “very much beloved” . . . “fit in nicely”: Elizabeth Kenny to William Fox, Feb. 27, 1946, EKP.
750 “many muscles . . . restored”: Ibid.
751 “Miss Fox is very easily worked up”: Valerie Harvey to William Fox, Mar. 30, 1946, EKP.
751 twice a week: William Fox to Valerie Harvey, Apr. 3, 1946, EKP.
751 return to Fox Hall: Elizabeth Kenny to Belle and Mona Fox, Sept. 9, 1946. EKP.
751 regressed . . . “sweet voice”: Mona and Belle Fox to Sister Kenny, undated, EKP.
751 appeared with her at events: Donald M. Smith, “Asks Unity on Kenny Method,” NEN, July 1, 1948; “Sister Kenny Hopes for World Chain of Clinics,” Register News (Mt. Vernon, IL) Sept. 27, 1951.
751 chain of Kenny clinics: “Sister Kenny Hopes for World Chain of Clinics.”
751 “The years would slip away”: Eva Fox to Albert M. Greenfield, undated, AMG.
751 Institute for Muscle Research: L. M. Birkhead to Albert M. Greenfield, June 29, 1950, Box 365, Folder 1, AMG.
751 Hungarian-born Nobel laureate: “The Institute for Muscle Research,” typed document, 1. Folder 1, Box 465, AMG.
751 discovered Vitamins C and P: L. M. Birkhead to Albert M. Greenfield, June 29, 1950. Folder 1, Box 465, AMG.
751 “just plain strange”: Angela Fox Dunn to Anne Williams, Mar. 5, 1975, 2, AFD.
751 doing needlepoint: Angela Fox Dunn interview with the author.
751 “they wouldn’t take that kid in the service”: Angela Fox Dunn, “The Lone Fox,” 13, unpublished manuscript, AFD.
752 Belle’s son, had cerebral palsy: Angela Fox Dunn interview with the author.
752 grew up hating Fox: Anne Williams interview with the author, Oct. 13, 2005.
752 rainy night in Milwaukee . . . Devereaux: Bill Devereaux interview with the author, Oct. 12, 2005. He sometimes spelled the name Devroe.
752 “more like a Charles Addams”: Angela Fox Dunn to Arnold Rogoff, Jan. 30, 1975, 3, AFD.
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753 in critical condition: “William Fox Dead,” MPD, May 9, 1952, 1.
753 “He was a great man”: “William Fox, Film Pioneer, Dies at 73,” LAT, May 9, 1952, A1.
753 slump-shouldered man . . . “mourn his passing”: “William Fox” ad, MPD, May 12, 1952, “William Fox” ad, FD, May 12, 8, 1952, 8.
753 No one from the motion picture industry: Angela Fox Dunn interview with the author.
754 “The only thing worth while [sic]”: “The Story of William Fox,” typed manuscript, undated, 11. HCC.
754 “He wasn’t a bad man”: Transcript, 508.
INDEX
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Aaron Fox Film Corporation, 683
Academy Awards, 266, 456–57, 702
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 457
Academy of Music, 78–79, 81, 83, 121, 144, 192, 276, 301–3, 308, 329, 370
new (1926), 370–71, 374, 408, 445, 548
Adams, Henry, 62–63
Adams, James Truslow, 136, 693
Adams, John, 63
Adams, John Quincy, 63
Adrian, Michael J., 43
Adrian (costume designer), 381
AEO recording light, 390, 441, 443
African Americans, 48–50, 162–64, 168, 221–22, 295, 299, 324
first major studio all-black film, 458–63
Air Circus, The, 468
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, 262
Aldric
h, Nelson W., 234
Aldrich, Winthrop W., 565–66, 649, 667, 669–70, 691
Alexander, Raymond Pace, 731
Alexander, Sadie, 731
Alexander the Great, 305, 319
Alfonso XIII, king of Spain, 444
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, 262
All Continent Corporation, 711–12, 714–15, 718
Alley, Yeatman C., 121
Allied Theatrical and Motion Picture Team, 234
All Quiet on the Western Front, 653
Allvine, Glendon, 526–27, 547, 659, 670
Altoona Publix theater, 694–97
Alvarado, Ann Page, 36
American Baseball League, 79–80
American College of Surgeons, 548
American District Telegraph (ADT), 31–32
American Federation of Labor, 81
American Film Institute, “Most Wanted Lost Films,” 207
American Individualism (Hoover), 495–96
American International Corporation, 574, 650
Americanization, 324–25
American Mercury, 688
American Metropolis, The (Moss), 38–39
American Museum of Natural History, 123
American Sugar Refining Company, 23
American Tobacco Company, 23, 24, 234, 285
Ancient Mariner, The, 381
Anna Karenina, 139
Annenberg, Moses, 737
Annenberg, Walter, 737
anti-Semitism, 12, 86, 326–28, 378, 590, 647–48, 707
antitrust, 95–98, 108–11, 114–16, 250, 314–15, 365, 371–72, 489–92, 496, 512–16, 520, 571–72, 601, 698
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 193
Apfel, Oscar C., 138n
Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,” 215, 315
Are You There?, 653
Arizona Express, The, 342–43
Armistice (1918), 284, 286, 312
Armour Company, 24
Arpad the Conqueror, 14, 19
Artcraft Pictures, 288
Ascher Brothers chain, 371
Asia, 248, 253
Associated Press, 533, 547
Associated Producers, 305
Astor, Caroline, 25
Astor Theatre (NYC), 308
AT&T, 5, 387–93, 396, 398, 439, 446–48, 493–94, 513, 518, 529, 540–42, 550, 556–58, 562, 567, 569, 575, 581–82, 584, 590, 592, 598, 604, 608–9, 625–27, 638, 641, 645, 649, 676–77, 685, 694, 697–98, 700, 714
Atlantic Gulf and West Indies steamship line, 509
Audion device, 389–90
Audubon Theater (NYC), 79–81, 102, 122, 160
Aussenberg, Julius, 416–17, 467
Australia, 248, 252
Austria, 248
Austria-Hungary, 11–15
Automatic Vaudeville Co., 53–54, 286–87
Babes in the Woods, 262
Bache, J. S., & Co., 618
Baker, Hettie Gray, 267, 330
Baker, Dr. Josephine, 299
Balaban & Katz theaters, 370
Balboa Amusement Producing Co., 118
Balkans, 248
Bancamerica-Blair, 597–609, 612–22, 625–35, 639, 646n
bank-affiliated securities companies, 510–11
Bankers Panic of 1907, 125
Bankers Securities, 495, 510–11, 560, 566, 639
Bankers Trust Company, 511, 551, 573, 608–9, 614, 640
Bank of America, 495
Banting, Dr. Frederick, 711
Bara, Theda, 133–50, 155, 158–59, 161, 164, 169, 175, 181, 188, 191–94, 198–211, 221, 236, 247, 251, 257–58, 263–79, 283, 312, 320, 325, 357, 381, 413, 456, 545, 654, 755
Bard, Guy K., 728, 733–34, 749
Barry, Iris, 206
Barrymore, Ethel, 181
Barrymore, John, 287–88, 322, 391–92, 426
Barrymore, Lionel, 2
Bartlett, Randolph, 169, 179–80
Baruch, Bernard, 564, 622, 647
Battle Creek Sanitarium, 338, 361
Battle of Hearts, 151
Battle of Life, The, 155
Baxter, Warner, 653
Beaverbrook, Lord, 287–88
Becker, Charles, 100–101
Becker, Murry, 726, 728
Behrman, S. N., 471
Belasco, David, 273
Belasco Theatre (Washington, DC), 203
Belgium, 248
Bell, Alexander Graham, 108
Bell, Nelson B., 323–24, 602
Bellamy, Madge, 345–47, 458, 468, 472
Belle Russe, La, 273
Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, 401–2
Bell Laboratories, 387, 439, 700
Belmar, Henry, 122n
Ben-Hur (film, 1925), 359
Ben Hur (play), 150
Berenson, Arthur, 594, 607, 617–18, 631, 650
Berenson, Lawrence, 594, 607, 650
Bergstrom, Janet, 431
Bernays, Anna Freud, 197
Bernays, Edward L., 196–99, 309, 491
Bernhardt, Sarah, 130, 287
Bernstein, David, 6, 525
Betrayal, 221
“Better Babies” series, 299
Beyfuss, Alexander, 189
Biddle, Francis, 732, 734
Big Parade, The, 378–79, 432
Big Time, 538
Big Trail, The, 654–58, 660–61
Bijou Theatre (NYC), 69
Bilbrew, A. C. H., 461n
Bilbrew Chorus, 461
Biltmore Shores (Massapequa, NY), 384
Bing, Hermann, 415
Bingham, Theodore A., 63–64, 71
Biograf theater chain, 540
Biograph Company, 87–88, 109
Biography of an Idea (Bernays), 198
Bioscope, 292
Birth of a Nation, The, 164, 168, 173–74, 180, 184, 187, 202, 221
Bismarck, Otto von, 244
Bizet, Georges, 143
Blackbirds of 1928 (Broadway musical), 461
Blackton, J. Stuart, 54, 285
Black Watch, The, 468
Blake, Larry, 439
Blanshard, Paul, 616
Blindness of Devotion, The, 165
Blindness of Divorce, The, 218, 487
Bliss, Cornelius N., Jr., 234
Bloom, Edgar S., 399, 493–94
Bloomingdale family, 311
Blue Flame, The (play), 274–76
Blumenthal, Alfred C., 367, 403–4, 410, 473, 480–81, 545, 599, 605–6, 622–23, 633, 651
Blumer, Herbert, 310
Blythe, Betty, 193, 304, 312, 381
Boardwalk Empire (HBO TV series), 715
Bogart, Humphrey, 216, 658
Bond, Dr. G. F. M., 101–3
Bondman, The, 150–51, 266–67
Borah, William E., 196
Borden, Olive, 377, 381
Borzage, Frank, 381, 450, 453–56, 457, 538, 632
Boston Herald, 202
Boston Transcript, 185
Bosworth, Inc., 288
“Bought and Not Paid For” (vaudeville sketch), 147–48
Bourgeois and Coulomb, 714
Bow, Clara, 381, 426
Box Office Attraction Company (BOA), 117–28, 150, 157
renamed Fox Film Corporation, 126–27
Boyes, Joseph W., 532, 533, 535
Boy in Blue, The, 358
Boy Scouts, 674
Brabin, Charles, 277, 278
Brady, Diamond Jim, 181
Brady, Nicholas F., 507
Brady, William A., 188
Branded Soul, A, 222
Brandeis, Louis, 699
Brass Commandments, 323
Brazil, 247
Breese, Edmund, 123
Brenon, Algernon St. John, 169–70, 175
Brenon, Helen, 177
Brenon, Herbert, 129, 138n, 148, 165–89, 192–93, 195, 203–4, 254, 258, 267, 332–33, 402, 414
Bride of Fear, The, 258
Brill, Sol, 54, 58–60, 76, 83
Britain, 185
, 244, 246, 248, 252, 265, 301, 318–19, 520
Broadhurst Theatre (NYC), 304, 408
Broadway Theatre (NYC), 187
Brockwell, Gladys, 237, 260, 293, 320–22, 454
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 202, 350
Brooks, Geraldine, 36
Broun, Heywood, 275
Brown, David A., 37, 146, 232, 336, 405, 590–91, 596–97, 609–10, 625
Browne, Porter Emerson, 133n
Brownlow, Kevin, 282
Brunet, Rene, 439
Brush, Matthew C., 574, 650
Bryan, William Jennings, 134
Buckner, Emory R., 618–19
Buffalo Courier, 119
Buffington, Joseph, 695, 697, 715, 719
Building the Pacific Railway (Sabin), 343
Bull, Charles E., 351
Burke, James Francis, 515–17, 591
Bush, W. Stephen, 382
Bushman, Francis X., 215
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The, 313, 417
Caesar, Arthur, 471
Calabasas ranch, 191
Call, The, 81
Cameo Kirby, 330
Camille, 204
Campbell, Bartley, 142
Campbell, Marcus B., 697
Canada, 252
Cantor, Eddie, 553
Capital Company, 709–16, 718, 730
Capitol Theatre (NYC), 408, 409, 412
Capra, Frank, 36
Caprice, June, 263–64, 307
Caprice of the Mountains, 264
Captain Eddie, 744
Card, James, 206
Carewe, Edwin, 330
Carleton, Will, 306
Carlos, Abraham, 152, 177, 189, 254–55, 257–58, 280–81, 292, 317–18
Carlos Film Corporation, 258
Carmen, 143–44, 156, 158, 214, 261, 456
Carmen, Jewel, 258–60
Carnegie, Andrew, 24, 25–26, 28–30, 230, 476
Carnegie Hall, 63
Carpenter, Francis, 262
Carpentier, Georges, 305
Carr, Mary, 307, 329, 450
Carthay Circle Theatre (L.A.), 379, 430, 433n, 455, 478
Caruso, Enrico, 197, 235
Case, Theodore W., 390–93, 443
Casey, John M., 157–58
Catchings, Waddill, 399
Cather, Willa, 357, 375
Catholics, 324
Cavalcade, 702
Celebrated Scandal, The, 132
censorship, 157–60, 164, 184, 187, 204–6, 240, 252, 286, 460, 679
Central Theatre (NYC), 318
Chadwick Corporation, 277
Chamberlain, Lawrence, 548
Chan, Charlie, 702
Chaney, Lon, 2, 320
Chaplin, Charlie, 145, 215, 280n, 282, 289, 320, 351–52, 359, 663
Chase, Rev. William H., 327
Chase National Bank, 510, 524, 551, 565, 574, 584, 646–49, 664–65, 667–73, 677, 682, 691, 703–5, 722, 754