Polglase, Van Nest, 533
Polito, Sol, 412
Pollock, Channing, 130
Porgy (Heyward and Heyward), 770
Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), 770
Porter, Edwin S., 139
Porter, Paul, 91
Possessed (1931), 503
Post, Emily, 796
Postman Always Rings Twice, The (Cain), 421, 449
Potel, Victor, 195, 302
Povery Row studios, 515
Powell, Dick, 395, 424, 594, 641
Powell, Eleanor, 478, 666–67, 667, 697
Powell, William, 124, 251, 328, 380, 396, 462, 481, 499, 512, 519, 555, 594, 609, 643, 648, 666, 685, 754, 761, 826, 854
Power, Annabella, 762, 787, 828
Power, Tyrone, 593, 682, 685, 697, 724, 730, 762, 764, 787, 828, 832
Power, Tyrone (grandfather), 730
Power and the Glory, The (1933), 607
Powers Film Company, 20
Preferred Pictures, 282
Presnell, Robert, 371
Preston, Robert, 745, 751, 752, 752, 756, 766, 784–85, 786, 852
Prevost, Marie, 136, 166
Price, Vincent, 800
Price Waterhouse, 351, 530
Pride and Prejudice (1940), 845
Prince and the Pauper, The (Twain), 708
Prince Palatine (horse), 656, 760
Princess Comes Across, The (1936), 500, 819
Prinz, LeRoy, 342
Prisoner of Shark Island, The (1936), 459, 535
Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937), 670, 703
prisonnière, La (Bardet), 81
Private Enemy, see This Is My Affair (1937)
Private Lives (Coward), 369
Private Number (1936), 509
Production Code, 770
Production Code Association, 273, 274, 400, 415
Prohibition, 31, 40, 67, 102, 232, 238
Promontory Summit, 748
propaganda stories, 832
Protestant Dutch Reformed Church, 17, 23
Proust, Marcel, 402
Prouty, Lewis Isaac, 611
Prouty, Olive Higgins, 573, 611–14, 612, 615, 616–18, 624, 634, 635, 637, 638, 664
Provincetown Playhouse, 716
Prudential Studios, 448
Psalm 23, 219
Public Enemy, The (1931), 211, 213, 230, 231–36, 236, 242–43, 248, 598, 768
public schools, 25
Purcell, Gertrude, 613–14, 615
Purchase Price, The (1932), 292, 295, 299, 299, 300, 302, 304, 325, 331, 332, 338, 369, 605, 608, 628, 852, 871
Puritanism, 218
Pygmalion (Shaw), 163, 613
Qualen, John, 604
Quality Street (1937), 610
Queen Christina (1933), 770
Queen Kelly (1929), 713
Queen Mary (ocean liner), 681, 828
Quigley, Martin, 209
Quinn, Anthony, 687, 784
Quo Vadis (1912), 498, 826
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz), 826
radio, 38, 67
Radio City Music Hall, 346, 509, 536, 537, 594, 598, 647, 663, 738
Radio Corporation of America, 346
Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO), 38, 150, 190, 279, 291, 294, 315, 329, 345, 346, 378, 380, 387, 388, 431, 439, 440, 441, 446, 448, 452, 452, 453, 462, 497, 498, 499, 503, 507, 523, 524, 525, 528, 529, 536, 537, 539, 541, 542, 547, 596, 597, 598, 604, 628, 629, 633, 636, 637, 641, 642, 644, 646, 649, 658, 677, 679, 680, 685, 687, 693, 697–98, 710, 711, 713–14, 716, 719, 724, 727, 729, 732, 787, 795, 823, 853
Radio Pictures, 329, 354, 424, 428, 440, 455, 462
Radio City Revels (1938), 428
radio shows, 836
radio sponsors, 828, 837
Radio Theater, 709
Radio Theatre of the Air, 712, 713
Raenford Military Academy, 725, 726, 726, 798
Raft, George, 42, 384, 439, 459, 657, 687, 758, 784, 853
Rain (1932), 319, 438
Rain (Colton and Randolph), 53, 82, 163, 279
Rainbow, The (play), 92
Rainer, Luise, 507, 643, 646, 685, 699–700, 701, 704–5, 705, 706–7, 706, 714, 736, 775
Rain or Shine, 178
Rains, Claude, 417, 855
Ralph, Jessie, 555
Rambeau, Marjorie, 68
Rameau, Hans, 845
Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando, 569
Rand, Ayn, 823
Randolph, Clemance, 279
Rapf, Harry, 179
Raphaelson, Samson, 356
Rascoe, Burton, 281
Rathbone, Basil, 81, 294, 784, 835
Rathbone, Ouida, 784
Rathbun, Stephen, 78–79
Ratmiroff, Max, 346
Rattlebrain (horse), 657
Rawhide (1962), 901
Ray, Joey, 128
Raye, Martha, 697
Raymond, Gene, 369, 410, 411, 412, 413, 432–33, 462, 498, 499, 500, 509, 687, 799, 800
RCA, 346, 830
RCA Photophone, 529
Reaching for the Sun (1941), 852
Reade, Janet, 342
realism, 73, 87–88, 196, 210, 234, 849
Reckless (1935), 499
Reckless Hour, The (1931), 398, 461
recording, 187
Red Dust (1932), 510
Redemption (1930), 192
Redgrave, Michael, 845
Red Salute (1935), 434, 436, 437–38, 437, 438, 439, 440, 498, 499, 714, 843, 873
Reed, Florence, 82, 279–80, 357, 649
Reedy’s Mirror, 554
Reeves, Theodore, 587
Reid, Cliff, 431, 440, 447, 525, 532, 539
Reid, Wallace, 30, 390
reign of terror, 850
Reinhardt, Gottfried, 660, 845
Reinhardt, Max, 700
Reliance Pictures, 434
Remarque, Erich Maria, 683–84, 705
Remember? (1939), 824–26, 826, 830, 843
Remember the Night (1940), 801, 802–3, 806–23, 809, 814, 818, 819, 820, 828, 841, 847, 877
Rennahan, Ray, 149–50
Reno, Jesse, 71
Reno (horse), 734
Renoir, Jean, 588
Republican National Convention (1936), 521
Republican Party, 854
Requiem (Verdi), 505
Resurrection (Tolstoy), 804
Reuben’s, 57–58, 108, 109
Reveille Boy (horse), 657
Revere Beach Reservation, 7
Revier, Dorothy, 206
Rewards and Fairies (Kipling), 31
Rialto Theatre, 27
Rice, Elmer, 603
Rich, Irene, 185, 397
Richard III (Shakespeare), 92
Rich Are Always with Us, The (1932), 289
Richman, Harry, 38, 48, 126–27
Rich Man’s Folly (1931), 269
Richter, Miss, 327
Riffraff (1936), 712
Right to Live, The (1935), 404
Riley, James Whitcomb, 628
Rin Tin Tin, 154, 155, 176, 335–36
Rin Tin Tin, 336
Rio Rita (Bolton and Thompson), 466
Riptide (1934), 661
Riskin, Robert, 178, 182, 214–17, 216, 269, 274, 275, 308, 309, 435, 647, 703, 856
Rito, Ted Fio, 592
Ritt, Martin, 766
Ritter, Emmy, 851
Ritz Brothers, 543, 708, 761
Ritz-Carlton Grille, 65
Rivals, The (Sheridan), 339
River Is Blue, The, see Blockade (1938)
Rivkin, Allen, 593
Rivoli Theatre, 564
RKO, see Radio-Keith-Orpheum
RKO-Colonial, 38
RKO Radio Pictures Corporation, 643
see also Radio Pictures
RKO Roxy Theatre, 346
Roach, Hal, 278, 446, 447, 701, 824
Road Back, The (Remarque), 683
Road to Glory, The (1936), 546
Road to Rome, The (Sherwood), 71
Road t
o Sympathy, The (stage production), 13
Robards, Jason, 414
Robbins, Barbara, 120
Roberta (1935), 597
Robertson, Guy, 342
Robeson, Paul, 504
Robin, Leo, 342
Robinson, Casey, 711–13
Robinson, Edward G., 262, 362, 396, 613, 828
Robson, May, 377, 431, 554
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 345
Rockefeller family, 346
Rockettes, 509, 647
Rodgers, Richard, 194
Rogers, Buddy, 142
Rogers, Ginger, 384, 428, 452, 452, 462, 479, 480, 507, 510, 519, 523, 533, 549, 594, 637, 641, 649, 687, 713–14, 719, 730, 738, 799, 832, 841
Rogers, Lela, 637, 738
Rogers, Will, 34, 35, 329, 420, 439, 466, 493, 568, 593
Rogers Airport, 743
Rogue Song, The (1929), 194
Rokhalad (horse), 733
Roland, Gilbert, 758
Romance (1930), 503
Romberg, Sigmund, 178
Romeo and Juliet (1936), 487, 501, 553, 555
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 71, 740, 845, 846, 853
Romero, Cesar, 725
Romola (1924), 621
Room Service (1938), 727
Rooney, Mickey, 629, 648, 830, 832, 848, 851
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 306, 591, 591, 592, 714, 736
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 266, 306–7, 308, 341, 350, 350, 351, 352, 353, 356, 370, 375, 383, 385, 402, 418, 419, 420, 421, 450–51, 461, 520–21, 548, 560–61, 562, 566, 590, 591–92, 591, 736, 738, 743, 785, 827, 854, 855
Roosevelt, Sara Delano, 764
Roosevelt family, 591
Roosevelt Hotel, 133, 177
Root, Lynn, 178
Rosalie (1937), 660
Rosanova, Rosa, 258
Roscoe, Al, 268
Rose, Billy, 60, 116, 252
Roseland, see Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
Rose-Marie (1936), 512
Rosenbloom, Slapsie Maxie, 467
Rosher, Charles, 849
Rosmersholm (Ibsen), 802
Rosson, Arthur, 749–50
Rostand, Edmond, 279
Roth, Lillian, 331, 334
Rothafel, Samuel Lionel “Roxy,” 345
Roustabout (1964), 887
Rowan, Andrew Summers, 457
Royal Academy, 802
Royal Air Force, 854
Royal Family, The (Kaufman and Ferber), 369
Royal Gelatin Hour (radio show), 473
Royal Hawaiian Band, 741
Royer, 718
Ruben, J. Walter, 687
Rubens, Maurie, 52
Rubin, Benny, 294, 344
Ruggles, Wesley, 431, 432, 471, 657
Runaway Daughter, The, see Red Salute (1935)
Runyon, Damon, 58, 110, 127
R.U.R. (Capek), 775
Ruser, Bill, 789
Rush, Helen, 565
Russell, Johnnie, 725
Russell, Rosalind, 459, 478, 551, 679, 682, 697, 855
Russell, William “Big Bill,” 414, 414
Rutherford, Ann, 853
Ruttenberg, Joe, 696
Ryan, Jimmy, 628
Ryskind, Morrie, 736
Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925), 621
Sacred Flame, The (1929), 404
Sadie McKee (1934), 501, 503
Sadie Thompson (1928), 245
Safe in Hell (1931), 244, 245, 253, 254, 255, 277
St. Denis, Ruth, 472
Saint in New York, The (1938), 698
Saint in New York, The (Charteris), 698
St. James Theatre, 631
St. Johns, Adela Rogers, 600
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 55–56
Sale, Chic, 51, 52
Salt Lake City, Utah, 552
Salzer, Gene, 24, 673–74
Sampter, Martin, 67
Sanborn, Herb, 187
Sandburg, Carl, 512
San Fernando Valley, 568, 569, 595, 676, 723–24, 730, 755
San Fernando Valley Fiesta Horse Show, 732, 733, 735
San Francisco (1936), 510, 512
San Francisco, Calif., 209, 706, 853
San Juan Capistrano Handicap, 695
San Quentin (1937), 761
Santa Anita Derby, 687
Santa Anita racetrack, 608, 658, 687, 695, 785
Santell, Alfred, 412, 587, 589–90, 589, 646, 658, 661, 662
Sapho (Daudet), 502
Sarah and Son (1930), 105
Saranac Lake, N.Y., 211
Saratoga (1937), 641, 647, 648
Sarnoff, David, 345, 529
satire, 217
Saturday Evening Post, 292, 304
Saunders, John Monk, 282, 660
Saville, Victor, 659, 855
Savoy hotel, 671
Sayre, Joel, 448, 546
Scarlet Empress, The, 402
Scarlet Letter, The (1926), 67
Scarlet Letter, The (1934), 607
Schary, Dore, 783
Schenck, Joseph M., 128–29, 130, 131, 135, 253, 354, 355, 416, 439, 545, 642, 643, 644
Schenck, Nicholas, 128–29, 354, 355, 562, 796
Schertzinger, Victor, 757
Scheuer, Philip, 347
Schildkraut, Joseph, 704
Schleicher, Kurt von, 370
Schneider, Sam, 353
Schrafft’s, 57
Schrock, Raymond, 185
Schulberg, B. P. “Budd,” 181, 209, 277, 282, 513, 562, 599, 600, 804
Schulz, Franz, 438
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine “Tini,” 507
Schwartz, Hy, 683, 692–93
Scola, Kathryn, 339, 358, 397, 399, 408, 646, 708, 709
Scott, Randolph, 446, 681, 697
Screen Actors Guild, 384–85, 420–21, 529–30, 531, 550–51, 639–45, 641, 695, 700, 702
Screen Directors Guild, 529–30, 702, 703
Screen Director’s Playhouse (1949–1951), 895, 896, 897
Screen Guild Theater (1940–1952), 891, 892, 893, 894, 895, 896, 897
Screen Writers Guild, 383, 385, 405, 529–30, 532, 702
script girls, 185
Sea Beast, The (1926), 67
Seabiscuit (horse), 687
Sea Devils (1937), 539
Sears, Gradwell, 58
Sears, Roebuck, 854
Sears, Zelda, 510
Sebastian, Dorothy, 328, 329
Second Baptist Church, 655
Secret Agent (1936), 660
Secret Bride, The (1934), 404–5, 407, 420, 873
Seff, Manuel, 395, 486
Segal, Vivienne, 466
segregation, 849
Seiter, William, 424, 593
Seitz, George, 160
Seitz, John, 334
Selig Polyscope Company, 340
Selwyn and Company, 613, 614
Selznick, David O., 142, 354, 425, 499, 502–3, 506–7, 513, 598, 599–600, 599, 603, 608, 609, 661, 701, 703, 711, 713, 731, 763, 786, 845, 849
Selznick, Irene, 598–99
Selznick, Myron, 687
Selznick International Pictures, 582, 597, 598, 670
Sempill, Lord, 671
Senate, U.S., Banking and Currency Committee of, 118
Sennett, Mack, 133, 145, 158–59, 166, 704
“September 1, 1939” (Auden), 835
Service, Robert W., 38–39
Seventh Heaven (1927), 699
Sex (West), 82, 83
Seymour, James, 398, 399, 400
“Shadowgraph, The,” 49–50, 50
Shairp, Mordaunt, 553
Shakespeare, William, 113, 155
Shall We Dance (1937), 523, 649, 703
Shanghai Express (1932), 321, 322, 323, 461
Shanghai Gesture, The (Colton), 82–83, 279
Shaw, Irwin, 698
Shearer, Douglas, 194, 703
Shearer, Norma, 179, 205, 206, 212, 329, 331, 357, 420, 435, 473, 501, 504, 553, 561, 562, 573, 596, 624, 640, 661, 663, 716, 730, 731,
827, 828, 835, 843, 850, 851, 853
She Done Him Wrong (1933), 395
Sheehan, Winfield (Winnie), 253, 653
Sheik, The (Hull), 312
Shellenback, Frank, 762
She Married Her Boss (1935), 500, 596
Sheppard, Dorothy, see Mansfield, Walda
Sheridan, Ann, 819, 837
Sherman, Lowell, 166–67, 167
Sherman, Richard, 737
Sherriff, R. C., 590
Sherwood, Robert E., 71, 234, 385, 845, 850, 854
Shields, Arthur, 528
Ship Ahoy (floor show), 60, 61
Shirley, Anne, 462, 585, 597, 598, 626, 627, 628–30, 630, 633, 636–37, 664, 676, 676, 677, 710, 728
Shirley, Mimi, 636, 637
Shoemaker, Ann, 68
Shooting Star, see Annie Oakley (1935)
Shopworn (1932), 274, 275, 277, 296, 422, 871, 875
Shopworn Angel, The (1928), 142
Shor, Toots, 58
Show Boat (1929), 386
Show Boat (1936), 597, 660
Show Boat (Hammerstein II), 348
Show of Shows (1929), 152, 154
Shriners, 207
Shubert, Jake “J. J.,” 45, 51, 53, 53, 104, 190, 372, 388
Shubert, Lee, 63, 190
Shubert-Teck Theatre, 74–75
Shubert Theatre, 55, 61, 74–75, 189, 673
Shurr, Louis, 86, 145
Sidney, Sylvia, 85, 541, 819–20, 830
Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 497, 826
Sign of the Cross, The (1932), 741, 805
Sign on the Door, The (Pollock), 130
silent pictures, 134, 136, 139, 167–68
Silly Symphonies (cartoon short), 178
Silver Cord, The (1933), 388
Silver Horde, The (1930), 568
Silver Screen, 286
Silver Slipper, 40, 46, 60, 108
Simon, Simone, 460, 541
Simple Simon (Wynn and Bolton), 194
Simpson, Wallis Warfield, 572
Sinatra, Frank, 837
Sinatra, Nancy, 837
Sinclair, Upton, 418–19, 418, 517
Single Standard, The (1929), 316, 387
Singleton, Penny, 728
Sin of Madelon Claudet, The (1931), 610
Sisk, Robert, 528, 539
Sisters, The (1938), 695, 712, 713
Sisters of Nazareth Orphanage, 687
Sitting Bull, 446
Sitting Pretty (Bolton and Wodehouse), 45–46
Six of a Kind (1934), 701
Skelly, Hal, 89, 90, 92, 94, 95, 96, 96, 99, 120, 126, 142, 189
Skolsky, Sidney, 707
Skouras, Edith, 708
Skouras, George, 525
Skouras, Spyros, 119, 525
Skouras Brothers, 117
slapstick, 825
Slesinger, Tess, 510, 553
Small, Edward, 434, 439, 497, 498, 843
Small, Morris, 434
Small Town Girl (1936), 478, 480, 486, 487, 497, 598, 783
Smiling Lieutenant, The (1931), 251
Smilin’ Through (1932), 331
Smilin’ Through (Cowl and Murfin), 537, 851
“Smilin’ Through,” 836, 851
Smith, Al, 118, 306, 420, 521
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