Lady of the Law, The (1919), 41
Lady of the Tropics (1939), 782–83, 783, 789, 831–32, 843
Laemmle, Carl, 114, 288, 416
Laemmle, Carl, Jr., 114, 209, 288, 424
Lafayette Escadrille, 654
Lafayette Flying Corps, 230, 608
Laguna Beach, 732
LaHiff, Billy, 58, 126
LaHiff’s Tavern, 58
Lamarr, Hedy, 761, 782, 783, 789, 832
Lambert, Eddie, 272
Lamour, Dorothy, 724
Lamplight (horse), 657
Lancaster, Nancy, 655
Landi, Elissa, 376
Landon, Alf M., 521, 566
Lane, Allan, 211
Lanes Cove, 4–6, 5
Lanesville, Mass., 4–11
Lanfield, Sidney, 140, 436, 714
Langdon, Harry, 133, 160, 267
Langham, Rhea, 758
Langner, Lawrence, 776
Lantz, Walter, 719
La Plante, Laura, 207, 350
Lardner, Ring, 359
Lardner, Ring, Jr., 599–600
La Reina Theatre, 726
La Rocque, Rod, 134, 135, 138
Larrimore, Francine, 75
Lasky, Jesse, 72, 253, 258, 282, 425, 562, 582, 693, 741
Last Days of Pompeii, The (1935), 448
Last Flight, The (1931), 354
Last Gangster, The (1937), 598
Last Mile, The (Wexley), 238
Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The (Lonsdale), 55
Latonia Championship, 656
Laughton, Charles, 855
Laurel, Stan, 251, 446, 701
Laurel and Hardy, 446, 590
Laurie, Joe, 289
Lawrence, Gertrude, 80, 824, 850
Lawrence, Vincent, 126
Lawson, John Howard, 356, 385, 827
Lay Down Your Arms (von Suttner), 684
League of Nations, 850
Learned Lady, The (Akins), 554
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 229
Lederer, Charles, 647, 660
Lederer, Francis, 723, 764
Lederer, Pepi, 81
Lee, Dixie, 498
Lee, Robert E., 5
Le Gallienne, Eva, 80, 573, 740
Legion of Decency, 400
Legs Diamond, 40
Lehár, Franz, 194
Lehr, Abe, 579, 584
Leigh, Vivien, 671, 763, 843–49, 844, 846, 849, 853
Leisen, Mitchell, 801, 802, 804–7, 811, 812, 813–15, 814, 816–18, 819, 820–21, 820, 822, 823
LeMaire, George, 51
Leonard, Robert Z., 412, 699
LeRoy, Mervyn, 238, 395, 449, 647, 737, 760, 843, 845, 850, 853
Lessing, Charles, 645
Lester, Vicki, 728
LeSueur, Lucille, 44–45, 48
Letter, The (1929), 662
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Zweig), 831
Letters, The (1973), 904
Letty Lynton (1932), 316, 503
Levant, Oscar, 92–93, 94, 97, 101, 104, 107, 108, 115, 120
Levene, Sam, 727, 730, 738, 768, 831
Lever Brothers, 116, 537
Levy, Benn, 434
Levy, Nancy Bernard, 362–63
Lewin, Al, 802, 821
Lewis, David, 558, 562, 712, 713
Lewis, Edith, 397
Lewis, John L., 421
Lewis, Robert, 722, 766
Lewis, Sinclair, 213, 217, 258, 405, 537, 538
Lewis, Ted, 155
Lewton, Val, 471
Libeled Lady (1936), 594, 660
Liberty, 87
Liberty Theatre, 25
Lichtman, Al, 124, 582
Life of Emile Zola, The (1937), 641, 700, 703, 704
Life of John Doe, The, see Meet John Doe (1941)
Life of the Party, The (1930), 336
Light in August (Faulkner), 546
lighting, 69, 135, 166–68
Lightner, Winnie, 51, 52
Lightnin’ (1930), 568
Liliom (Molnár), 587
Lillie, Beatrice, 291
Lina Basquette Featurettes, 114
Lincoln, Abraham, 5
Lincoln, Caryl, 549–50
Lindbergh, Charles, 123, 294 508, 586, 854
Lindbergh baby, 294
Lindi, Aroldo, 346
Lindsay, Earl, 33, 34, 36, 42, 45, 46, 51, 59, 142
Lindsay, Margaret, 449, 694
Lion and the Mouse, The (1928), 191
Lipscomb, W. P., 457
Littell, Robert, 256
Little, Brown, 684
Little Caesar (1931), 209, 232, 238, 354, 547
Little Foxes, The (Hellman), 833
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), 340
Little Shower (horse), 733, 760
Little Women (1933), 396
Litvak, Anatole, 695
Live, Love, and Learn (1937), 679
Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), 529
Living Corpse (Tolstoy), 92
Livingston, Margaret, 144, 145, 207
Livingstone, Mary, 431, 609, 652, 836–39
Lloyd, Albert, 468, 474–75
Lloyd, Frank, 237, 529, 531
Lloyd, Harold, 177, 385
Lloyd, Paget, 463, 474, 475
Lloyd Pan (horse), 658
Lloyd’s of London (1936), 520
Locked Door, The (1929), 134, 135, 136, 146, 152–53, 157, 168, 171, 869
Lockhart, R. H. Bruce, 396
Loew, Marcus, 38, 129
Loew’s Inc., 129, 354, 439
Loew’s Metropolitan Theatre, 40, 147–48
Loew’s State Theatre, 497, 509, 536, 597, 647, 666
Loew State Building, 38
Logan, Josh, 631
Lombard, Carole, 263, 380, 425, 436, 471, 472, 500, 519, 562, 569–70, 570, 571, 578, 594, 596, 609, 643, 650, 679, 698, 701, 712, 719, 725, 732–33, 733, 758, 787, 799, 801–3, 814, 815, 819, 835, 836, 837, 848, 853
Lombardo, Guy, 592
London, Jack, 73, 414
London Observer, 574
Lonergan, Lester, 68
Long, Huey, 376
Long Lost Father (1934), 603–4
Long Pants (1927), 160
Loos, Anita, 80, 129, 353
Lord, Daniel A., 209
Lord, Pauline, 91
Lord, Robert, 299, 395
Lorraine, Lillian, 34
Lorre, Peter, 708
Los Angeles, Calif., 65–66, 132, 156–57, 164, 176–79, 210, 214, 231, 239, 242, 537, 568, 608, 624, 633, 645, 647, 655, 669, 674, 738, 743, 751, 755, 789
Los Angeles Bureau of Water Works and Supply, 568
Los Angeles Evening Herald, 248
Los Angeles Examiner, 179, 210, 226, 251, 279, 291, 408, 425, 759
Los Angeles–Santa Monica Gun Club, 799–800
Los Angeles Superior Court, 682, 686, 690
Los Angeles Times, 305, 572, 739, 767, 827
Lost Horizon (1937), 704
Lost Horizon (Hilton), 553
Lost Lady, A (1924), 401
Lost Lady, A (1934), 397–401, 399, 404, 405, 408, 415, 646, 709, 872
Lost Lady, A (Cather), 397
Lost Patrol, The (1934), 440, 618
Lotus Eaters, The (1921), 254
Louise, Anita, 629, 800
Louise, Ruth Harriet, 728
Louise of Coburg (stage production), 582
Louisiana Derby, 658
Love, Montagu, 336
Love Affair (1939), 727
Love at First Flight (1928), 150
Love Is a Racket (1932), 299
Love Like That, A, see Breakfast for Two (1937)
Love on a Bet (1936), 499
Love on Parole, 710
Love Parade, The (1929), 757
Lover, Come Back to Me, 178, 210
Lowe, Edmund, 71
Loy, Myrna, 139, 139, 150, 154, 155, 179, 185, 377, 436, 503, 512, 609, 628, 682, 685, 714, 750, 754, 825, 826, 832, 854
Lubin pictures, 618
Lub
itsch, Ernst, 166, 183, 562, 588, 589, 624, 661, 687, 805
Lucas, Nick, 839
Luce, Clare Boothe, 852
Lucky Baldwin ranch, 687
Lucky Night (1939), 754, 826, 843
Lummox (1930), 258
Lupino, Ida, 800, 828
Lusitania (ship), 456
Lux Radio Theatre (1936–1954), 537–38, 597, 676, 676, 679, 697, 709–11, 743, 763–64, 828, 847, 851, 854, 889, 890, 891, 892, 893, 894, 895
Lux Toilet Soap, 116
see also Stanwyck, Barbara, product endorsements of
Lynn, Mass., 7
Lynne, Sharon, 549
Lyon, Ben, 160, 211, 273
Lyons, Arthur, 144, 424, 430–31, 440, 473
Lyric Theatre, 22
MacArthur, Charles, 163, 261, 603, 604, 730, 782, 828
MacArthur, Douglas, 420
McAvoy, May, 99
McAvoy, Mickey, 722
McCall, Mary, 410
McCall, Mary, Jr., 405
McCarey, Leo, 158, 678, 679, 687, 701–2, 703–4, 719
McCarthy, Charlie, 704, 724, 764
McCay, Winsor, 52
McClintic, Guthrie, 82
McClure’s Magazine, 19
McCormick, John, 473, 601, 606–7, 606
McCoy, Horace, 554
McCrea, Frances Dee, 391
McCrea, Joel, 329, 377, 387–92, 387, 391, 425, 478, 530, 542, 543, 548, 549, 563, 567–68, 571, 579, 583–84, 584, 587, 590, 597, 643, 739, 745–46, 745, 751, 755, 755, 756, 763, 784, 852
McDaniel, Hattie, 500, 730, 738, 849
MacDonald, Jeanette, 384, 413, 432–33, 512, 648, 685, 687, 697, 800
Macfadden, Bernarr, 58
MacGuire, Gerald, 419–20
Machinal, (Treadwell), 129
McHugh, Jimmy, 548
McIntyre, Robert, 586
Mack, James “Buck,” 25–26, 126, 128, 189, 392–93, 406, 468, 473, 650, 656, 662, 663, 674, 675, 725, 726, 727, 788, 796, 799, 841
Mack, Willard “Bill,” 67–71, 72, 85, 95, 134, 137, 140, 169, 186, 192, 265, 267, 386, 492, 717, 742, 778, 841
The Noose, 73–80, 83
Mackaill, Dorothy, 157, 254
Mackaye, Dorothy, 331
McKinley, William, 455, 457, 593, 595, 596
McLaglen, Victor, 595
McLarnin, Jimmy, 278
McLeod, Norman, 824
MacMurray, Fred, 430, 431, 432, 441, 446–47, 479, 537, 542, 593, 679, 686, 734, 762, 763, 797, 799, 801–2, 806, 807, 808, 811, 812, 813, 815, 817, 818–21, 818, 819, 820, 822, 841, 847, 852
McPhee, Elizabeth, 6
McPhee, George, 6
McPhee, Malcolm, 6
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 214
Macy, Dora, 236
Madame Butterfly (album), 505
Madame Curie, 710
Madame Du Barry (1934), 395
Madame Peacock (1920), 76
Madame Walewska, see Conquest (1937)
Madame X (1937), 191, 580–81, 610
Madam Satan (1930), 805
Mädchen in Uniform (1931), 342
Madden, Al, 799
Madden, Owney, 40
Made for Each Other (1939), 802
Made on Broadway (1933), 382
Mad Genius, The (1931), 339
Mad Hatter (horse), 656, 760
Madison Square Garden, 566, 684, 833
Mad Miss Manton, The (1938), 710, 714, 724, 727–30, 727, 728, 729, 738, 756, 784, 876
Mad Sue (horse), 760
Magic Key of RCA, The (radio show), 467
Magnificent Obsession (1935), 476, 478, 478, 480, 483, 487, 493, 494
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas), 597, 660, 724
Magnin, Edgar, 562
Mahin, John Lee, 421, 486, 599, 783
Maid of Salem (1937), 819
Main, Marjorie, 120
Main Man (horse), 794
Main Street (Lewis), 537, 538, 709
Majestic Theatre, 238
Major Barbara (Shaw), 542
Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour, 838
Maker, Jessie, 47
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), 701–2, 704
Male and Female (1919), 741, 804
Malloy, Doris, 386–87
Mamoulian, Rouben, 766, 767, 770–71, 771, 775–76, 778–79, 780, 787, 794–95, 804
Mandeville, Molly, 336
Manhattan Cocktail (1928), 142
Manhattan Mary (play), 86, 90, 98, 99, 115, 116
Manhattan Melodrama (1934), 503, 512, 517
Man I Love, The (1929), 598
Man in Possession, The (1931), 590
Man in Possession, The (1937) see Personal Property
Mankiewicz, Herman, 342, 503
Mankiewicz, Joseph, 342, 503–4, 506, 646, 660, 685
Mann, Erika, 850
Mann, Lew, 103
Mann, Thomas, 684, 705, 706
Mann Act, 812
Mannequin (1937), 660
Manners, David, 180, 221–25, 221, 223
Manners, Dorothy, 647
Mannix, Eddie, 121, 192, 252, 382, 565, 642, 796, 826, 848
Mansfield, Walda, 49, 115, 118, 382
Barbara Stanwyck and, 48, 55–62, 57, 64, 65–66, 66, 67, 85, 91, 96–97, 107, 109, 130–31, 133, 142, 292
on Fay, 104, 105, 108–9, 112
in move to Hollywood, 117, 121
name change of, 86
near drowning of, 66
in The Noose, 68–80, 74
Manslaughter (1922), 741
Mantle, Burns, 52, 360
Man Who Came to Dinner, The (Hart and Kaufman), 833
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934), 660
Man Who Played God, The (1932), 288, 339
Man with a Cloak, The (1951), 883
Marbury, Elizabeth, 53, 104
March, Fredric, 41, 384, 439, 523, 552, 599, 607, 608, 643, 647, 698, 700, 712, 746, 777, 799, 851
March of Time, see Broadway to Hollywood (1933)
Maré, Rudolph, 624
Maree, Morgan, 455, 723, 759, 799
Marie Antoinette (1938), 553, 730–31
Marigold Cafe, 33
Marines, U.S., 592
Marion, Frances, 194, 417, 553, 554, 615, 623
Markey, Gene, 338, 339, 358, 397, 398–99, 408, 497, 502
Marks, Sadie, see Livingstone, Mary
Marlow, Julia, 71
Marriage Bed, The, 343
Marriage Circle, The (1924), 166
Married and in Love (1940), 693
Marry the Girl, see Bride Walks Out, The
Marsden, Charles, 357
Marsh, Mae, 318
Marshall, Armina, 776
Marshall, George, 459
Marshall, Herbert, 498, 640, 661–62, 709, 710, 725, 835
Martin, Anthony “Tony,” 544, 548
Martin, Mary, 852
Marwyck Ranch, 569, 570, 571, 577, 633, 649–53, 650, 651, 652, 654–55, 656–57, 656, 658, 674–75, 674, 676, 682, 683, 687, 692, 693, 695, 698, 707, 723, 725, 726, 732, 733, 734, 759, 760, 794, 797, 798, 799
Marx, Chico, 426, 427, 430, 466, 562
Marx, Groucho (Julius Henry), 384, 389, 426, 427, 428, 435, 562, 647
Marx, Gummo, 426, 426, 427
Marx, Harpo, 426, 427, 429, 562
Marx, Karl, 356
Marx, Manfred, 427
Marx, Marion, 425, 435, 445, 456, 462, 465, 466, 472, 476, 480, 488, 569, 570, 571, 582, 633, 647, 650, 652, 652, 653, 654, 656, 658, 689, 698, 723, 732, 733, 734, 759, 760, 762
marriage of Zeppo and, 429–30, 429, 466, 467, 567
Stanwyck’s friendship with, 430, 431, 436, 443–44, 456, 466, 476, 567, 686, 687, 707, 788
see also Marx, Zeppo, in Marwyck Ranch venture
Marx, Miller, 759
Marx, Minnie Schönberg, 426, 427
Marx, Sam, 546
Marx, Zeppo, 445, 462, 488, 633, 647, 653, 654, 658, 675, 687, 689, 723, 734, 760, 762
comedic talent of, 427, 435
Fay and, 430, 444
MacMurray and, 431, 446, 537, 686
marriage of Marion and, 429–30, 429, 466, 467, 567
in Marwyck Ranch venture, 568–69, 654, 675
in Marx Brothers, 425–28, 426
as Stanwyck’s agent, 440, 455, 462, 499, 537, 582, 583, 759
Stanwyck’s friendship with, 428–29, 430, 431, 436, 443–44, 456, 463, 476, 499, 537, 567, 568–69, 571, 686, 707, 763, 788
as theatrical agent, 426, 428, 430–31, 440, 446, 449, 455, 462, 499, 537, 582, 583, 686, 698
Marx Brothers, 47, 411, 426, 426, 562, 652, 701
Mary, Queen consort of United Kingdom, 572
Mary of Scotland (1936), 463, 501, 522, 523, 524, 524, 534, 535, 536, 538, 649
Mary Stevens, M.D., 369
Mason, Noah, 735
Mason, Sarah Y., 273–74, 584, 775
Mason, Shirley, 600–601, 602, 602
Masonic Order, 207
Masonic Temple, 27
Masquers, Pomona, 552
Massachusetts, 21
Massey, Ilona, 853
Mast, Jane, 82
master of ceremonies, 106
Maté, Rudy, 630, 631
Matinee Idol, The, 224
Matrimonial Bed, 188
Matthews, James B., 734–35, 736
Maugham, Somerset, 80, 245, 279, 404, 661
Maverick Queen, The (1956), 886
Maxine Elliott Theatre, 54
Maxwell House, 697
May, Edna, 113
May, Mitchell, 269
Mayer, Edith, 746
Mayer, Edwin Justus, 342
Mayer, Irene, 355, 746
Mayer, Louis B., 83, 114–15, 129, 176, 191–92, 253, 336, 351, 354, 355, 356, 358, 388, 390, 417, 436, 460, 480, 483–84, 504, 507, 515, 553, 557, 562, 563, 580, 598, 609, 639, 643, 644, 648, 660, 671–72, 681–82, 699, 702, 703, 705, 724, 730, 731, 737, 746, 782, 787, 794, 826, 850
Mayer, Margaret Shenberg, 114–15
Mayer Family Fund, 355
Mayfair Balls, 732
Maylite (horse), 657
Mayo, Archie, 184–85, 232, 330, 369, 370, 371, 373, 387, 390, 391, 391, 404, 832
Mayon, Rita, 189
Maytime, 553, 703
Meehan, John, 178, 215, 510
Meek, Donald, 661
Meet John Doe (1941), 856–59, 877
Meet the Mayor, see Fool’s Advice, A (1932)
Meet the Wife, 47
Mellon, Andrew, 118
melodrama, 171, 217
Melton, James, 449
Meltzer, Lew, 776
Memories of My Life (Bernhardt), 31
Mendelssohn, Felix, 696
Men in White (Kingsley), 772
Menjou, Adolphe, 261, 262–64, 265, 266, 329, 384, 599, 601, 607, 609, 766, 768, 781
Menken, Helen, 81
Men Without Names, 447
Menzies, William Cameron, 849
Mercer, Beryl, 224
Mercer, Frances, 727, 728, 729
Mercury Aviation, 743
Mercury Theatre on the Air, 739
Merivale, Philip, 71
Merkent, Al, 25, 26, 27, 59, 65, 328, 329, 343, 358
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