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Merkent, Albert “Bert” Mortimer, 13, 16, 25, 26, 27, 30, 59, 64, 123, 328, 358, 378, 670
Merkent, Ray, 24, 27, 30, 358
Merkent, Viola Maud Stevens, 6–15, 8, 9, 16–19, 25, 26, 30, 47, 59, 123, 184, 246, 328, 358, 378, 445, 448, 670
Merkent’s Meat Market, 13, 64, 358
Merl’s, 90
Merman, Ethel, 38, 764
Merriam, Charlotte, 211
Merriam, Frank Finley, 418, 419
Merrill, Lou, 676
Merry Widow, The, 549, 587
Message to Garcia, A (1936), 455, 456–60, 458, 461, 498, 525, 541, 618, 732, 873–74
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios, 98, 114, 121, 129, 130, 140, 176–77, 191, 253, 316, 329, 351, 354, 356, 357, 358, 369, 382, 386, 387, 416, 416, 417, 420, 421, 424, 428, 436, 439, 460, 476, 480, 483, 484, 485, 487, 499, 501, 503, 504, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 519, 520, 528, 529, 536, 546, 551, 552, 554, 558, 561, 562, 563, 580, 590, 592, 593, 594, 596, 597, 598, 609, 639, 641, 642, 643, 646, 648, 649, 658, 659, 660, 665, 666, 670, 671, 680, 681, 683, 684, 685, 695, 696, 697, 699, 700, 705, 705, 706, 712, 714, 716, 722, 723, 728, 730–31, 733, 736, 737, 738–39, 741, 754, 758, 782, 804, 811, 825, 826, 832, 843, 845, 850, 851
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 715
Metropolitan Opera, 507
Metropolitan Opera Company, 346, 507
Mexicali Rose (1929), 144–47, 150, 157, 168, 171, 250, 605, 869
Meyer, Agnes, 349
Meyer, Eugene, 349
MGM, see Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios
MGM British Studios, 659
Michael, Grand Duke, 441
Mickey Mouse, 178, 396, 461
microphones, 135
Midnight, 756, 802
Midnight (horse), 733
Midnight Frolics (1916), 35, 57, 110, 111
Midnight Taxi, The, 336
Mielziner, Jo, 656
Miles, Carlton, 331
Milestone, Lewis, 233, 261, 438, 774
Milland, Mal, 837
Milland, Ray, 431, 432, 669, 686, 734, 762, 801, 837, 855
Miller, Alan, 723, 759
Miller, Alan Bimberg, 467
Miller, Gilbert, 81, 82, 319
Miller, Henry, 622
Miller, Mrs. Bimberg (Marion’s mom), 467
Miller, Skins, 126
Miller and Mack, 25–26, 343, 392
Millhauser, Bertram, 360, 370
Milne, Peter, 410
Min and Bill, 417, 699
Minsky’s Burlesque, 40, 689
Miracle Child, 628
Miracle Man, The, 216
Miracle Woman, The (1931), 210, 211, 213, 216–29, 243, 247, 249, 251, 275, 348, 359, 378, 857, 870
Mirador, 40
Misérables, Les (1935), 439
Miss Bishop (Aldrich), 832
Mission Reds, 761
Missouri Theatre, 117
Mistinguett, 44
Mitchell, Grant, 405
Mitchell, Margaret, 504
Mix, Tom, 349, 350, 601, 606
Mizner, Wilson, 102
M’Lord the Duke (play), 578
Molly Pitcher Rifle Legion, 855
Molnár, Ferenc, 192, 438, 646
Mondue, Joe, 491
Monkey Business, 426
Monogram Pictures, 424
monologuists, 156
Monroe, James, 566
Montauk Theatre, 46
Montgomery, Robert, 382, 384, 396, 436, 477, 487, 502, 503, 550, 590, 641, 642, 643, 644, 660, 665, 679, 697, 702, 828, 837, 841, 855
Moonlighter, The (1953), 884
Moon’s Our Home, The, 594, 729
Moore, Colleen, 136, 139, 187, 193, 273, 298, 387, 396, 549, 601, 606–7, 606, 796
Moore, Dickie, 285–86, 285, 289, 719
Moore, Grace, 216, 435
Moore, Owen, 607–8
Moore, Victor, 702
Moore, Virginia, 372
Moran, Bugs, 232
Moran, Lois, 359, 580, 580, 623, 624, 629
Moran, Polly, 329
Morando, Otto, 505
Morehouse, S. K., 304
Morgan, Frank, 80, 383, 384, 399, 537, 562, 641, 642, 643, 644, 799
Morgan, Helen, 38, 348
Morgan, Ralph, 357, 384, 410, 562, 642, 644
Mori, Toshia, 321, 322–23
Morning Glory, 396, 710
Morosco Theatre, 46
Morris, Chester, 176, 316, 384, 493, 493, 642
Morris, Mary, 163
Morris, William, 376
Morros, Boris, 376
Morse, Lee, 194
Morton, James J., 156
Mosconi family, 49
Moscow Art Theatre, 770, 771, 772, 851
Mosier, Harold G., 735
Mother Lode (play), 631
Mothers Cry (Carlisle), 180
Motion Picture Boys, The, 64
Motion Picture Code, 421
Motion Picture Daily, 695
Motion Picture Herald, 737, 832
motion picture industry:
pay cuts in, 351, 353, 356
publicity mill of, 842
xenophobia in, 375–76
Motion Picture Machine Operators of the United States and Canada, 639
Motion Picture Producers, 347
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), 207–9
Motion Picture Relief Fund, 847
movies, 98, 139–40
box-office success during Depression, 177, 242
close-ups in, 220–21
props used as advertising in, 213
reflecting women’s role in society, 183
religion in, 213–19
shock value in, 238
sound in, 67, 168, 174
technical problems of, 134–35
themes of, 217
use of color in, 849
use of dummies in, 224
violence in, 232, 238, 240
movie serial, 19
movie theaters, 128, 190
Movietone City, 546
Mowbray, Alan, 383
Mr. Broadway, 124
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 500, 660, 769
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 857
Mud Lark, The, see Night Flower; Purchase Price, The
Muir, Jean, 507
Mulholland, William, 568
Muller, Claire Taishoff, 34, 44, 55, 86, 109
Muni, Paul, 261, 369, 384, 396, 420, 425, 449, 560, 641, 700–701, 705
Munich, 738
Munier, Roland, 65
Munson, Ona, 98
Murder in the Fleet, 480, 494
Murders in the Rue Morgue, 787
Murfin, Jane, 737
Murnau, F. W., 144, 462
Murphy, George, 666, 667
Murphy, Grayson, 420
Murray, David and Hilda, 297
Murray, Mae, 275, 624
musicals, 194
Music Box, 537
Mussolini, Benito, 419, 421, 485, 586
Musuraca, Nick, 787
Mutiny of the Elsinore, The (1937), 414
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), 529, 530, 714
My Man Godfrey (1936), 594, 660, 701, 719
My Reputation (1946), 879–80
Nagel, Conrad, 176, 187, 404
Naish, J. Carrol, 746
Napoleon I, 552
Nash, George, 68, 79, 102
Nast, Condé, 31, 97
Nathan, George Jean, 53, 81, 524
National Democratic Committee, 560
National Guard, U.S., 592, 640, 855
National Labor Relations Act, 640
National Legion of Mothers of America, 855
National Police Gazette, The, 48, 49
National Recovery Administration’s Motion Picture Code, 383, 385
National Republican Committee, 207
National Variety Artists, 211
Naughty Marietta (1935), 512
Navy, U.S., 24
Navy Reserve, U.S., 592
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Nazi Party, 696, 699, 735
NBC, 346, 473, 509, 696
NBC radio, 190
Neagle, Anna, 855
Negri, Pola, 136, 294
Negulesco, Jean, 694
Neighborhood Playhouse, 155
Neilan, Marshall, 608
Neill, Roy William, 308
Nelson, Harmon, 350
Nesbit, Evelyn, 746
Never Say Die (1939), 804
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931), 511
New Amsterdam Theatre, 35, 42, 57
New Deal, 308, 418, 521
New Mexico, USS, 24
New Moon, The (Romberg and Hammerstein), 178
New Republic, 668
newsreel theater, 853
Newton, Mass., 231
New York, N.Y., 21, 40, 177, 179, 508–9, 521, 527, 537, 594, 622, 647, 667, 670, 673, 679, 681, 684, 715, 716, 725, 730, 738, 754, 764
New York American, 81, 179
New York Daily Mirror, 81
New York Daily News, 52, 58, 279
New York Drummers, 33
New Yorker, 178, 179, 188, 359, 636
New York Evening Graphic, 58
New York Evening Journal, 179
New York Evening Post, 346, 546
New York Film Critics Circle Award, 699
New York Herald Tribune, 83, 179, 346, 362, 546, 613, 663, 679, 733, 739
New York Journal, 81
New York Post, 841
New York Stock Exchange, 147
New York Sun, 47, 52, 78–80
New York Telegraph, 79
New York Times, 25, 47, 79, 82, 83, 95, 99, 126, 179, 180, 213, 242, 248, 256, 281, 321, 346, 377, 416, 420, 432, 461, 498, 613, 664, 679, 682, 764, 783, 831, 832, 841, 845
New York Tribune, 281, 546
New York World, 81
New York World Telegram, 346, 347, 385
Next Time We Love (1936), 764
Niblo, Fred, 176, 192
Nichols, Dudley, 462, 527, 529, 531–32, 534, 594, 702
Nichols, George, 539
nickelodeons, 88, 129
Nicklin, Rev., 9
Niemeyer, Harry, 119
Niemeyer, Margaret, 119
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 337, 340
Night at the Opera, A (1935), 428
nightclubs, 66
Night Flower, see Purchase Price, The (1932)
Night in Venice, A (1929), 865–66
Night Must Fall (1937), 702, 703
Night Nurse (1931), 210–11, 229, 236–42, 248, 249, 251, 275, 332, 422, 605, 608, 870
Night of January 16th (Rand), 823
Night of Love, The (1927), 136
Night Walker, The (1964), 887
Night World (1932), 304
Nilsson, Anna Q., 136
Nine O’Clock Revue, 272
Ninety-Nines, 240
Nixon’s Apollo Theatre, 51
No Bed of Her Own (Lewton), 386, 471
Noble, Ray, 518
Nobles, Lloyd, 452
Nobles, Louise, 452, 452
Nobody’s Widow (Hopwood), 47
Nolan, Lloyd, 784
No Man of Her Own (1932), 386, 471
No Man of Her Own (1950), 882
No More Ladies, 501
Noose, The (1928), 114
Noose, The (Mack), 67–80, 74, 83, 84, 87, 90, 129, 150, 152, 171, 267, 396, 542, 605, 673, 740, 865
closing of, 85
reviews for, 78–80
Norris, Charles G., 273
Northridge, Calif., 568, 570, 674, 693, 735, 758, 797
Northridge Estates, 732, 733
North Shore, see Woman in Red, The (1935)
North Shore (Irwin), 408, 411
North West Mounted Police (1940), 763
Northwest Passage (1940), 685, 737, 783
Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, 230
Nothing Sacred (1937), 701, 703, 712
Nova, Lou, 467
Novarro, Ramon, 29, 275, 329
Novello, Ivor, 671
NTG, see Granlund, Nils Thor “Granny”
Nugent, Eddy, 238
Nugent, Frank, 498, 664, 832, 841
Nugget’s King (horse), 733
Nut (horse), 656, 760
Oakie, Jack, 439
Oakley, Annie, 440, 441–42, 442, 443, 446, 448
O’Banion, Dion, 327
Oberon, Merle, 425, 473, 584, 671, 711, 855
O’Brien, Pat, 384, 387, 387, 388, 389, 396, 413
obscenity, 81–83
O’Casey, Sean, 462, 522, 524, 526–28, 526, 539, 540, 773
O’Connell, Dana, 57
O’Connor, Una, 528
O’Day, Dawn, see Shirley, Anne
O’Dea, Denis, 528, 528
Odets, Clifford, 507, 706–7, 706, 722, 764, 765, 766, 767–69, 771–75, 772, 776, 801, 816, 827
Odlum, Floyd B., 498
O’Fallon, Ill., 777
Of Human Bondage (1934), 435, 523, 547, 618
O’Flaherty, Liam, 525, 529
Of Thee I Sing (musical), 348, 359
Oh, Kay! (Bolton and Wodehouse), 80
Oh, Mama, 104
Oland, Warner, 99, 322, 439
Old San Francisco (1927), 336
Oliver, W. E., 385
Olivier, Laurence, 289, 845, 849, 853
Olsen, George, 592
Olympia (Molnár), 192
Omaha, Nebr., 780, 781, 782, 784, 784, 785, 786
O’Neil, Barbara, 630, 631–32, 676
O’Neil, Sally, 55
O’Neill, Eugene, 47, 357, 428, 524, 696–97, 773
O’Neill, Henry, 405, 410
One Man’s Journey (1933), 377, 386
One Night of Love (1934), 435
One of Ours (Cather), 397
One Rainy Afternoon (1936), 582
Only Angels Have Wings (1939), 770
Only Yesterday (1933), 494, 549, 831
On purge bébé (1931), 588
On Your Toes (Rodgers, Abbott, and Hart), 509
Opera House (Omaha, Nebr.), 786
Oppenheimer, George, 660
Orchids to You (1935), 424
Oriole Terrace, 44, 45
Orpheum Circuit, 65, 67, 112
Orpheum Theatre, 179
Orry-Kelly, 338–39, 388, 389
Orsatti, Frank, 428
O’Sullivan, Maureen, 376, 487, 598, 660, 670, 671, 682, 697, 828
Other Love, The (1947), 881
Other Men’s Women (1931), 233
Ouida, 460
Our Dancing Daughters (1928), 413, 507
Our Gang series, 158
Oursler, Grace Perkins, see Macy, Dora
Overman, Lynne, 784
Owen, Catherine Dale, 193
Owen, Robert, 312
Owsley, Monroe, 197
Pacific Coast League, 761
Paddy O’Day (1935), 460
Padlock Bill, 81–82
Padua Hills Playhouse, 552, 578
Painted Angel, The (1929), 258
Painted Veil, The (1934), 661, 711
Palace Theatre, 10, 101, 102, 111–12, 143, 189, 271, 295, 679
Palisades Amusement Park, 54, 129
Palladian Kelmarsh Hall, 655
Palladium (Los Angeles), 788
Palladium (New York), 605
Palm Springs Racquet Club, 805
Palomore (club), 519
Panama Canal, 15
Pangborn, Franklin, 847
Pantages Circuit, 516, 536, 738
Panzer, Paul, 21
Papenie (horse), 657
Paradise Lost (Milton), 218
Paradise Lost (Odets), 773
Paramore, Edward, 312, 315, 685
Paramount Famous Lasky, 114, 126, 598
Paramount Pictures, 139, 142, 147–48, 270, 277, 282, 318, 338, 354, 356, 376, 387, 424, 431, 438, 439, 440, 441, 471, 503, 507, 529, 537, 563, 579, 586, 587, 588, 590, 596, 597, 641, 644, 679, 701, 702, 713, 720, 740, 741, 751
, 755, 766, 767, 781, 782, 784, 801, 802, 803, 804, 805, 807, 807, 812, 820, 823, 831, 852
Paramount Productions, Inc., 643
Paramount Publix Corporation, 253
Paramount Ranch, 817
Paramount Theatre, 841
Pardon Us (1931), 251
Paris, Dawn Evelyeen, see Shirley, Anne
Paris Bound (1929), 716
Paris Bound (Barry), 716
Parker, Dorothy, 356, 519, 599
Parker, Jane, see O’Sullivan, Maureen
Parker, Jean, 480
Parrish, Robert, 532, 535
Parsons, Louella, 166, 178, 179, 210, 251, 297, 347, 349, 361, 362, 460, 461, 479, 509, 571–72, 725, 733, 832
Parties at Pickfair (radio show), 582
Pasadena Community Theater, 751, 785
Pasha (horse), 687
Passing Show of 1924, The (musical revue), 48
Pastry Baker’s Wife, The, see Guardsmen, The (1931)
Pathé Frères, 19, 21, 246, 716
Patrick, Gail, 498, 658, 853
Patterson, Elizabeth, 811, 819, 821, 847
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, 37
Pavlova, Anna, 30, 114
Payne, John, 637, 676
Peale, Norman Vincent, 64
Pearse, Patrick, 528
Peel, Lady, 179
Pendleton, Nat, 340
Penn, Arthur, 836
Pennington, Ann, 36–37
Pennsylvania, 21, 207
Pennsylvania Dutch, 39
Pennsylvania Military College, 746
Penthouse (1933), 377, 512
Perfect Flapper, The (1924), 606
Perils of Pauline, The (1914 serial), 20–22, 20
Perkins, Frances, 450
Perkins, Maxwell, 667–68
Perroni, Patsy, 722
Perry, Bob, 608
Perry, Linda, 727
Pershing, John Joseph, 25, 230, 654
Personal Property (1937), 590, 592, 597, 647, 685
Peter Pan (1924), 315
Peterson, Dorothy, 180
Petipa, Marius, 699
Pfeifer, Harry, 119
Philadelphia Story, The (1940), 854
Philadelphia Story, The (Barry), 833
Photoplay, 181, 249, 294, 700, 759, 782
Piazza, Ben, 480
Picasso, Pablo, 796
Pickford, Mary, 129, 167, 177, 275, 289, 340, 385, 387, 412, 413, 417, 425, 439, 562, 582, 601, 606, 607, 624, 742, 744, 806, 835
Pierrot the Prodigal, 54
Pine, Virginia, 687, 758
Pioneer Woman (The Great Man’s Lady), 852
Pitman, Isaac, 214
Pitts, Zasu, 420, 624
Pittsburgh Leader, 22
Pittsburgh Post, 78
Pitt Theatre, 76
Place Vendome, 683
Plainsman, The (1936), 741, 745, 769
Platinum Blonde (1931), 250, 253, 262, 307, 317
Plessis, Alphonsine, 552
Plough and the Stars, The (1936), 462, 522, 524–29, 528, 532–36, 535, 538–40, 538, 541, 594, 750, 787, 874–75
Plough and the Stars, The (O’Casey), 522, 524–25, 540
Pluto’s Judgement Day (cartoon), 461
Plymouth Theater, 94, 96, 99