Erasmus Hall High School, 188
Escape (Vance), 843, 850–51
Escape to Burma (1955), 885
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, 166
Etting, Ruth, 128, 195, 291
Evangeline (1929), 237
Evening Herald Examiner, 362, 385, 536
Everglades Cafe, 59–60, 61
Ever in My Heart (1933), 360, 364, 368, 369, 370, 373–75, 373, 385, 391, 395, 725, 872
Every Day’s a Holiday (1937), 724
Excelsior Handicap, 658
Executive Suite (1954), 884
Ex-Lady (1933), 410
Ex-mistress (Macy), 236
Ex-Mrs. Bradford, The (1936), 769
extras, 184
“Face on the Drug Store Floor, The,” 102
Fascism, 856
Facts and Follies (short films), 215
Fair and Warmer (Hopwood), 47
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 212, 238, 289, 299, 501, 507, 562, 566, 580, 710, 855
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr., 129, 177, 190, 237, 275, 412, 439, 703, 849
Faith, 308, 315
Falling Star (1938), 737
Famous Players-Lasky, 83, 214, 258, 282, 513, 621, 741
Fantasia (1940), 854
Faragoh, Francis, 547
Fareham, Lord Lee of, 671
Farley, James, 566
Farmer, Frances, 697, 722, 766, 767, 769
“Farmer in the Dell,” 224
Farmer Takes a Wife, The (1935), 487, 542
Farnum, Dorothy, 398
Farnum, William, 428
Farrell, Glenda, 405
Farrow, John, 376
Faulkner, William, 428, 546–47
Faust (Goethe), 346
Faust, Frederick Schiller, see Brand, Max
Fay, Dion Anthony, 328, 568, 569, 586, 650, 651, 652, 655, 656, 674, 680, 683, 686, 687, 688, 689, 690, 690, 691–93, 692, 707, 722, 725–27, 726, 735, 740, 760, 761, 796, 797–99, 798
adoption of, 326–27, 342
custody fight over, 456, 463, 680, 682, 683, 686, 687–93, 740
father’s attempted kidnapping of, 473–75, 485
and father’s drinking and irrationality, 343, 392, 406, 423–25, 432, 725
father’s relationship with, 326–27, 342, 432, 457, 680, 686
father’s visitations with, 448–49, 457, 740
Marwyck Ranch and, 568, 569, 650, 651, 652, 656
mother’s relationship with, 330, 347, 470, 707, 725, 726–27, 760, 779, 834–35, 851
and parents’ separation, 444, 445, 586
at Raenford Military School, 727, 740, 798
Taylor and, 508, 797–98, 798
Fay, Frank, 53, 93, 101–3, 102, 115, 131, 132, 137, 140, 149, 151–52, 156, 245, 246–47, 248, 252, 254, 259, 260–61, 261–63, 270, 279, 289–90, 293, 296, 297, 298, 307, 309–10, 309, 326, 335, 345, 357, 368, 384, 391, 392, 400, 405–7, 409, 415, 416–17, 421, 422, 423–24, 425, 431, 433, 440, 441, 444, 445, 450, 451, 452, 453–54, 454, 455, 456–57, 462, 463, 465, 467–68, 470, 471–72, 485, 487, 492, 497, 506, 517, 519, 520, 548, 577, 586, 600, 601, 603, 609, 646, 659, 673, 674, 680, 683, 687–89, 690–93, 690, 692, 697, 718, 725, 740, 759, 789, 841
audience control of, 127
background of, 112–13
Barbara Stanwyck and, see Stanwyck, Barbara, relationship with Frank Fay
Benny influenced by, 837–38
boxing career as dream of, 278
in Bright Lights, 157, 210
classical training of, 113
cruelty of, 111–12
in The Devil Was Sick, 206–7
Dion and, 326–27, 342, 423–24, 432, 457, 680, 686
in Dirigible, 227
dislike of Hollywood, 251
drinking of, 109–10, 119, 189, 226, 228, 251–52, 262, 266, 268, 271, 294, 327, 328, 342, 343, 348, 361, 362, 364, 367, 376, 378, 380, 392, 423, 468, 603, 688
drunk driving arrest of, 251–52, 252
on Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour, 360
A Fool’s Advice, 269–70, 272, 275–77, 291, 295, 327, 329–30, 342–44, 403, 408, 430
in God’s Gift to Women, 242–43
irrational behavior of, 378–79, 380–81, 392–93, 406, 432
marriages of, 110, 464
as master of ceremonies, 105–6, 133, 143, 210, 292, 342, 343, 403
in Matrimonial Bed, 188
money and, 295
in move to Hollywood, 129–31
narcissism of, 112
in plan to kidnap Dion, 473–75
religiousness of, 123, 290, 379
in request to Cohn to hire Stanwyck, 143–44, 250–51, 605
in Royal Gelatin Hour, 473
Runyon and, 110
in Show of Shows, 154–55
stage persona of, 104–6, 125–26, 127–28
in Stars Over Broadway, 449, 460
in Tattle Tales, 347–48, 349, 358–61, 361, 362–63, 606
in Under a Texas Moon, 138–39, 139, 178–79
vaudeville touring by, 376, 378
Warner contract of, 143, 176, 200–201, 243, 249, 275
xenophobia of, 107
Fay, Larry, 40, 42
Fay, Marie, 112–13
Fay, Will “Pop,” 279, 363, 367, 368
Faye, Alice, 470, 471, 643, 724, 830
Fayette (horse), 760
Fazenda, Louise, 414
Feature Productions Inc., 129
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 517, 738
Federal Reserve Board, 118, 349
Federal Surplus Relief Administration, 450
Federated Motion Picture Crafts, 631, 641–42, 643, 644–45
Feeney, John, 527
Female, 358–59, 360
Ferber, Edna, 258, 273, 281–84, 285, 289, 298, 448, 543, 649, 764, 833
Ferber, Julia Neumann, 283
Ferguson, Helen, 412–14, 414, 549, 759, 800
Ferguson, Hilda, 50
Fergusson, Harvey, 737
Ferris, Walter, 660
Field, Betty, 766
Fields, W. C., 34, 466, 701, 704
File on Thelma Jordan, The (1950), 882
Filley, Nebr., 846
Final Edition, The (1932), 266
Find Your Man (1924), 336
Finishing School (Jesse), 660
Firebird (1934), 397
Fire over England (1937), 671
“First Annual Outing of the Ziegfeld Chorus Girls,” 54
First Auto, The, 336
First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Volunteers, 4
First National Exhibitors Circuit, 129
First National Pictures, 114, 133–34, 148, 150, 157, 160, 180, 187, 254, 258, 273, 291, 299, 304, 329, 335, 353–54, 355, 415, 537, 606, 606, 643
see also Warner Bros.
Fisher, George, 608
Fiske, Mrs., 339
Fitch, Clyde, 70
Fitzgerald, Barry, 528, 528
Fitzgerald, Edith, 182, 486
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 87, 258, 530, 660, 685
Fitzmaurice, George, 134, 135–38, 136, 137–38, 145, 146, 166, 169
Five O’Clock Girl, The (1928), 387
Flagg, James Montgomery, 52
Flaherty, Robert, 513
Flame Within, The (1935), 661
Flatbush, N.Y., 11, 11, 188
Flavin, Martin, 287
Flaws, Ethel, 482
Flaws, Robert, 482
Fleischmann, Harry, 799–800
Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour, The, 360, 376, 425, 467
Fleishhacker, Herbert, 761
Fleming, Victor, 562, 799, 811, 843
Flesh (1932), 546
Flesh and Fantasy (1943), 878–79
Flesh and the Devil (1926), 67, 503, 587
Flight (1929), 158, 161, 166, 168, 267
Flight Command (1940), 832
Florey, Robert, 411–12
Flynn, Errol, 449, 679, 681, 832, 837
F.O.B. Detroit, see Reaching for the Sun (1941)
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br /> Fokine, Michel, 35
Folies Bergère dinner theater, 72
Follies, see Ziegfeld Follies
Follies-Scope, 50
Follow the Fleet (1936), 649
Fonda, Henry, 487, 507, 542–43, 594, 727, 727, 728, 729, 729, 730, 738, 828, 832
Fontanne, Lynn, 92, 357
Fool’s Advice, A (1932), 269–70, 272, 275–76, 277, 291, 295, 327, 329, 330, 403, 408, 430, 449
footlights, 69
Forbes, Ralph, 288
Forbidden (1932), 244, 246–48, 249–50, 253, 255, 256, 258–67, 265, 266, 267, 269, 275, 279, 283, 284, 307, 314, 411, 689, 708, 732, 870–71
Ford, Harrison, 851
Ford, Henry, 53, 305
Ford, James W., 195, 521
Ford, John, 140, 412, 440, 459, 462–63, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526–29, 531, 532–36, 538–39, 538, 540, 560, 582, 594, 618, 746–47, 753–54
Ford Motor Company, 177
Ford River Rouge plant, 182
Ford Television Show, The (1956), 899
Foreign Correspondent (1940), 859–60
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 648, 648
Forsaking All Others (1934), 501, 503, 512
Forsaking All Others (Roberts and Cavett), 631
Forster, Dorothy, 492
For the Love of Mike (1927), 160
Fortitude (Walpole), 31, 489
45 Minutes in Hollywood, 425
Forty Guns (1957), 886
42nd Street (1933), 349, 395, 761
42nd Street Special, 349, 350
Forty-Second Street, 190
Foster, Lewis R., 770
Foster, Norman, 545
Foster, Preston, 331, 334, 350, 447–48, 462, 525, 533, 534, 539, 763–64
Foster, Stephen, 329
Four Devils (1928), 462
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), 618
Four’s a Crowd (1938), 712
Fowler, Gene, 289, 457, 498
Fowley, Douglas, 596
Fox (apartment house), 655
Fox Film Corporation, see Fox Studios
Fox Studios, 124, 140, 144, 147–48, 182, 253, 262, 329, 334, 343, 354, 357, 389, 424, 436, 439, 487, 493, 601, 602
Foy, Eddie, 102, 294
Francis, Kay, 187, 291, 369, 386, 396, 424, 449, 661, 694, 695, 713, 720
Frank Fay’s Fables, 343
“Frankie and Junie,” 376
Franklin, Sidney, 562, 845
Frantz, Dalies, 788
Fraser, Phyllis, 636–37
Frawley, Bill, 47, 853
Frederick, Pauline, 68, 185, 239, 404
free dancing, 30
Free Soul, A (1931), 251
French Foreign Legion, 230
Freud, Sigmund, 684
Freund, Karl, 556, 696, 787
Friede, Donald, 428
Friedland, Anatol, 63, 65, 66, 294
Frink, Carol, 461
Frisco, Joe, 124
Froeschel, George, 845
Frohman Amusement Corporation, 41
“Frolicking Gods,” 35
Froman, Jane, 449
From Now On (Hamilton and Foster), 545
Front Page, The (1931), 261, 438
Fulton Theatre, 46, 72
Furies, The (1950), 882
Furthman, Jules, 783
Gabin, Jean, 852
Gable, Clark, 289, 329, 331, 341, 353, 357, 395, 396, 420, 435, 436, 471, 478, 484, 497, 499, 503, 510, 512, 513, 519, 562, 565, 571, 577, 586, 593, 627, 641, 643, 648, 652, 653, 660, 682, 685, 698, 712, 714, 736, 799, 800, 802, 827, 832, 841, 848, 848, 850, 853
Lombard and, 569–70, 570, 594, 609, 650, 725, 732–33, 758, 787, 835, 837
in Night Nurse, 238–40, 239, 248
sex appeal of, 478, 479
Taylor and, 479, 480, 665–66, 754, 799
Gabriel, Gilbert, 52
gagmen, 184
Gahagan, Helen, 729
Gainsborough Pictures, 659
Gale, Zona, 613
Gallagher, see Platinum Blonde (1931)
Gallant Lady (1933), 715, 718–19, 725
Gallery of Women (Dreiser), 180
Galveston, Tex., 627–28
Gambarelli, Maria, 591
Gamblers, The, see Mexicali Rose (1929)
Gambling Lady (1934), 386–91, 387, 391, 393, 397, 402, 543, 843, 872
Gandhi, Mahatma, 293
gangster pictures, 231
gangsters, 60, 67
Garber, Lyra, 397
Garbo, Greta, 67, 157, 191, 197, 205, 316, 328, 338, 385, 387, 413, 416, 420, 479, 502, 503, 505, 562, 578, 603, 640, 641, 643, 661, 665, 681, 701, 711, 712, 714, 720, 770, 782, 847
in Camille, 501, 551–60, 556, 558, 565, 571, 572–73, 699
Garden of the Moon (1938), 694
Gardiner, Reginald, 682
Garfield, John, 764, 774–75
Garfield, Jules, 722, 766
Garland, Judy, 629, 666, 667, 682, 697
Garner, John Nance, 306, 341, 521
Garson, Greer, 824–26, 826, 845
Garsson, Murray W., 375
gas rationing, 25
Gatley, Dorothy Walton, see Harding, Ann
Gatley, George Grant, 715
Gaumont-British, 659
Gautier, Marguerite, 552, 553, 554
Gaxton, William, 359
Gay Caballero, The (1932), 179
Gay Desperado, The (1936), 582
Gay Divorce (Broadway show), 359
Gaynor, Janet, 329, 396, 439, 480, 487, 518, 541, 549, 597, 598, 599, 607, 608, 628, 647, 665, 699, 783
Gay Paree (1925–1926), 51, 52–55, 53, 54, 61, 372, 864–65
Gay Sisters, The (1942), 878
General Died at Dawn, The (1936), 773
General Motors (GM), 640
Gentleman from Montana, The (Foster), 770, 771
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928), 80
George, Gladys, 580
George VI, King of England, 671
George White’s Scandals (Broadway revue), 40, 51, 52, 389
Germany, 24, 230, 723, 738, 827, 843, 850, 854, 855
Germany, Nazi, 684, 696, 723, 736, 738
anti-Semitism in, 370–71, 684, 696
book burning in, 684
Gershwin, George, 80, 431, 705, 770
Gershwin, Ira, 431
Gertie (horse), 657
Gest, Morris, 624
G.E. True Theater (1961), 901
Giannini, A. H., 562
Giannini, A. P., 307
Gibbons, Cedric, 177, 562, 648
Gibney, Sheridan, 386
Gibson, Russ, 565
Gift o’ Gab (1917), 412
Gil, Jeffrey, 297
Gilbert, Billy, 501, 667
Gilbert, John “Jack,” 67, 191–93, 212, 275, 493, 494, 601, 604, 624
Gilded Lily, The (1935), 431, 432, 819
Gillmore, Margalo, 53
Gilmore Field, 851, 852, 853
Ginsberg, Mr., 124
Girl from Missouri, The (1934), 510
Girl from Trieste, The (Molnár), 646
Girl in Every Port, A (1928), 549
Gish, Dorothy, 185
Gish, Lillian, 67, 387, 624, 728
Give and Take, see Stand Up and Fight (1939)
Glasmon, Kubec, 232
Glazer, Benjamin, 587
Gleason, James, 383, 856
Globe Theatre, 48
Glorianna, 25–26, 126
Gluskin, Lud, 595
G-Men (1935), 449
Goddard, Paulette, 758, 763
Godless Girl, The (1929), 741, 805
God’s Gift to Women (1931), 206–7, 242–43, 262
Goebbels, Joseph, 684
Goetz, Edith Mayer, 355, 837
Goetz, William, 354, 355, 545
Going Some (1920), 414
Goldberg, Rube, 52
Gold Diggers (1933), 395
Gold Diggers, The (Hopwood), 47, 395
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936), 594
Go
lden Boy (1939), 765, 766–67, 768, 769, 771, 775–81, 778, 780, 781, 782, 787, 789, 790, 794, 831, 838, 857, 876
Golden Boy (Odets), 722, 757, 764–66, 766, 767–69, 768, 771, 773, 774–75, 776, 816
Golden Broom (horse), 657
Goldeneye (horse), 687
Golden Spike Days (Omaha, Nebr.), 781, 785
Goldfish, Samuel, l, 741
Goldwyn, Samuel, 83, 124, 129, 287, 414, 425, 439, 448, 539, 543, 562, 573–74, 579–81, 582, 583–84, 585, 586, 621, 622–23, 624–25, 628, 629–30, 631, 635–36, 663, 689–90, 703, 828
Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, 129, 343, 543, 579, 580, 581, 596, 597, 601, 615, 638, 745, 804
Goldwyn Studio, 631, 663
Gomez and Winona, 346
Gone With the Wind (1939), 712, 731, 736, 784, 786, 802, 843, 844, 849
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 504, 545
Goodby, Mr. Chips (1939), 553, 825
Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (Hilton), 553, 660
Good Earth, The (1937), 417, 421, 553, 699, 704, 705, 705, 706, 731, 787
Good Fairy, The (play), 319
Goodman, Alfred, 52
Goodman, Benny, 485, 504, 592, 595
Good News of 1938 (radio show), 697
Goodrich, Frances, 486, 512
Good Samaritan Hospital, 648, 700
Goodyear Theatre (1958), 899
Goosson, Stephen, 317, 320
Gordon, Gavin, 318
Gordon, Leon, 510
Gorgeous Hussy, The (1936), 501–7, 505, 553, 610, 783
Gorin, Charles Igor, 667
Gottschalk, Louis, 622
Goudal, Jetta, 656
Goulding, Edmund, 412, 647, 713, 855
Gower Gulch, 144
Grable, Betty, 462, 784
Graham, Betty Jane, 241
Graham, Martha, 287, 472
Graham, Sheilah, 565, 784
Grand Hotel (1932), 298, 395, 603, 713
Grand Old Girl (1935), 431
Grand Passion (Hurst), see Back Street
Grand Street Follies, The, 155
Granlund, Nils Thor “Granny” (NTG), 38–40, 39, 46, 48, 54
Granny’s Trade (horse), 657
Grant, Cary, 384, 389, 446, 481, 609, 678, 679, 698, 701, 710, 832, 854
Grant, Ulysses S., 5
Granville, Bernard “Bunny,” 533
Granville, Bonita, 533–34, 629
Grauman, Sid, 133
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, 228, 497, 536, 553, 597, 598, 608, 647, 666, 853
Graves, Ralph, 159, 166, 167, 171, 227
Great Depression, 182, 242, 349, 350–51, 352, 395
Great Guy (1936), 581
Great Man’s Lady, The (1942), 878
Great Train Robbery (1903), 139
Great Ziegfeld (1936), 485, 564, 699
Green, Alfred, 237, 289, 340, 397
Green, James “Cannonball,” 776, 777
Green, Mitzi, 591, 629
Greene, John Charles, see Fay, Dion Anthony
Greene, Vivian, 327
Greene, W. Howard, 607
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