Vernon Tigers, 761
Versailles, 855
Versailles Treaty, 738
Victor Emmanuel, King, 485
Victor Hugo Restaurant, 789, 789, 797
Victoria Regina (Housman), 509
Victor Kremer Features, 41
Vidor, Florence, 71
Vidor, King, 191, 412, 562, 579, 583, 583, 585, 586, 597, 615, 616, 624–25, 626, 627–28, 629–30, 630, 631, 633, 634, 635, 635, 636, 638, 663, 664, 702, 811, 843
Viertel, Salka, 552
Villa, Pancho, 654
Violent Men, The (1955), 885
Virginia (ship), 674
Virginia (Taylor’s secretary), 491
Virgin Man, The (play), 82
Visart, Natalie, 749
“Vision of Hassan, A,” 52
Vitagraph studios, 26
Vivacious Lady (1938), 594, 641
Vivian, John, 747
Vogue, 31
Vogue Pattern Company, 30, 31
voix humaine, La (Cocteau), 699
Volcano, 455, 462
Volga Boatman, 138
Voltaire, 578
Vortex, The (Coward), 54
Wagon Train (1961–1964), 901, 902, 903
Waiting for Lefty (Odets), 773
Wald, Jerry, 449
Walewska, Marie, 552
Walker, James J., 66, 294
Walker, Joseph, 160–61, 167–69, 173, 262, 275, 321–22, 323, 323, 324
Walker, June, 80
Walker, Toby, 448
Walk on the Wild Side (1962), 887
Wallace, Irwin, 411
Wallach, Edgar, 72
Wallis, Hal, 292, 353–54, 355, 358–59, 369, 371, 371, 386, 387, 395–97, 398, 399, 404, 405, 408, 410–11, 420, 449, 642, 694, 695, 703, 711, 712, 713
Walpole, Hugh, 31, 489, 660, 671
Walsh, Raoul, 177, 237, 653, 732, 733
Walter Wanger Productions, 424
Walthall, Henry B., 531
WAMPAS (Western Associated Motion Picture Advertisers), 549
Wanger, Walter, 315, 597, 727, 783
Ward, Eddie, 342
Ward, Lucille, 302
Ware, Helen, 334
Waring, Fred, 343
Warner, Albert, 341, 449
Warner, Harry, 176, 341, 351–52, 353–54, 386, 704, 760
Warner, Jack L., 43, 99, 149, 176–77, 179, 185, 211, 238, 258, 332, 335–36, 341, 349, 351–52, 353–54, 355, 362, 386, 400, 403, 408, 415, 420, 449, 609, 658, 703, 712, 713, 733, 764, 794
Warner, Mrs. Jack, 179
Warner, Sam, 99
Warner Bros., 67, 99, 130, 132–33, 134, 139, 143, 149, 152, 154, 187, 222, 230, 238, 242, 244, 245, 246, 249, 251, 253, 254, 255, 258, 263, 272, 273, 275, 279, 286, 287, 288, 289, 291, 292, 297, 299, 304, 305, 325, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 338, 339, 348, 350, 352, 353–54, 355, 361, 371, 377, 386, 388, 389, 389, 393, 395, 396, 397, 400–401, 403, 404, 405, 408, 412, 414, 415, 422, 424, 425, 439, 449, 475, 523, 529, 545, 547, 596, 605, 637, 641, 642, 643, 645, 662, 694, 695, 703, 705–6, 712, 713, 729, 745, 763, 769, 859
see also First National Pictures
Warner Bros. Hollywood Theatre, 662, 697
Warner Bros. Ranch, 730
Warning, The (1927), 160–61
War of the Worlds (Wells), 739
war relief efforts, 835
Warren, Earl, 747
Warrens of Virginia, The (1915), 741
Warrens of Virginia, The (DeMille), 744
Warwick, Robert, 331
Washington, George, 525
Washington Post, 349, 420
Waterloo Bridge (1940), 843–47, 844, 846, 849
Watters, George Manker, 87, 88, 90
Watts, Richard, 346, 536
Waxman, Franz, 696
Wayburn, Ned, 34, 35, 37
Way Down East (1920), 532
Way Down East (1935), 542, 547
Wayne, John, 339–40, 341
We Are Not Alone (1939), 713
Weaver, Erenay, 74
Webb, Clifton, 507
Weber, Lawrence, 87
Webster, Margaret, 855
Week-End Marriage (1932), 291
Weems, Ted, 592
Weidler, Virginia, 629
Weill, Kurt, 431
Weingarten, Lawrence, 850
Weiss, Hymie, 235
Weissmuller, Johnny, 420, 598
We Live Again (1934), 804
Welles, Orson, 631, 702, 739, 836
Wellman, William A. “Wild Bill,” 30–31, 229, 230–41, 231, 244, 248, 251, 254, 261, 273, 275, 282–83, 284, 286, 289, 292, 297, 298–301, 302, 302, 303, 304, 478, 497, 541, 582, 598–99, 600–603, 605–6, 607, 607, 608, 609, 628, 635, 703, 762, 852
Wells, H. G., 739
Wells, William K., 99, 210
We Moderns (1925), 606
West, Claudine, 845
West, Mae, 38, 82, 83, 395, 587, 701, 720, 724
West, Rebecca, 802–3, 823, 850
Western Costume Inc., 358
Westley, Helen, 462
Westmore, Monte, 247, 264, 283
Wee Willie Winkie (1937), 703
Whale, James, 424, 845
What Happened to Mary? (serial story), 19
What Price Hollywood? (1932), 598, 737
Wheeler, Bert, 36, 111–12
Wheeler, Betty, 36
Wheeler and Woolsey, 446
Whelan, Thomas, 788
When Husbands Flirt (1925), 237
Whisk Broom 2nd (horse), 760
White, Frances (Caples), 110, 111, 291
White, George, 86, 98, 99, 115, 388, 389, 622
White, Pearl, 20–22, 756
White, Stanford, 70, 746
White, William Allen, 419
White Cockatoo, The (1935), 411
White Cockatoo, The (Eberhart), 405, 411
White House, 591–92, 591, 785
White Monkey (Galsworthy), 407
White Parade, The (James), 587
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928), 138, 513
White Sister, The (1932), 621, 622
Whiting, Richard, 342
Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt, 687
Whitney, Jock, 124, 604, 609, 701, 711
Whitney, Liz, 733
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 71
Whitty, Dame May, 846
WHN (radio station), 38, 40, 740
Whoopee! (1930), 343
Whoopie! (musical), 342
Whyte, Gordon, 48
Wiebe, Gerhart, 565
Wiedoeft, Rudy, 93
Wife, Doctor, and Nurse (1937), 646
Wilcox, Herbert, 855
Wild Duck, The (Ibsen), 92, 287, 851
Wilde, Oscar, 113, 217
Wild Oranges (1924), 583
Wild Orchids (1929), 316
Wilhelm, Price, 442
Wilhelm Humboldt University, 684
Wilkerson, Billy, 855
Wilkins, Vaughan, 660
William, Warren, 405, 641
William Fox Vaudeville Company, 459
Williams, Emlyn, 702
Williams, Hope, 678
Williams, Paul, 654–57, 674, 674
Willis, Dr., 252
Willner, A. M., 194
Wilson, Carey, 553
Wilson, Clarence, 301
Wilson, Lois, 84, 85
Wilson, Woodrow, 24
Winchell, Walter, 58, 95, 424
Wings (1927), 210, 282, 316, 599
Winninger, Charles, 207, 211
Winning of Barbara Worth, The (1926), 621
Winston, Archer, 841
Winter Garden, 44, 45, 48, 63, 189
Winterset (1936), 587
Winwood, Estelle, 610
“With Apologies To,” 47, 50
Within the Gates (O’Casey), 527
Witness to Murder (1954), 884
Wizard of Oz, The (1939), 811, 843
Wizard of Oz, The (Baum), 811
Wodehouse, P. G., 45, 80, 609
Wolf Fangs (1927), 549
Wolf of Wall Street, The (1929), 142
Wolfson, P. J., 499
Woman Chases Man (1937), 703
Woman in Red, The (1935), 408, 410, 411, 412, 415, 425, 732, 873
Woman of Affairs, A (1923), 503
Woman of Paris, A, 261
Woman Rebels, A (1936), 661
Woman to Woman (1929), 659–60
Women, The (1939), 850
women’s suffrage, 21
Wong, Anna May, 321, 322–23, 417
Wood, Robert, 854
Wood, Sam, 565
Woodruff, Frank, 537
Woods, A. H., 85, 319
Woods, Al, 190, 428
Woods, Donald, 641
Woods, Edward, 180, 232
Woolf, Virginia, 319
Woollcott, Alexander, 47, 81, 95, 98, 428, 463, 833
Works Progress Administration, 402, 450
World Changes, The (1933), 369
World War I, 24, 510, 524, 608, 654, 661, 684, 696, 715, 738
World War II, 856, 738
World-Wide, 327
Wray, Fay, 357, 628, 764, 800
“wristwatch” comedians, 104–5
Writers Club, 356
Wuthering Heights (1939), 828, 849
Wuthering Heights (Brontë), 319, 828–29
Wyatt, Jane, 498
Wyeth, N. C., 303
Wyler, William, 446, 494, 533, 604, 694, 828
Wynn, Ed, 34, 86, 99, 106, 194, 291
Yacht Club, 60
Yale University, 197
Yank at Oxford, A (1938), 659, 660, 665, 667, 670, 671–72, 672, 675, 680, 681–82, 695–96, 697, 714, 846
Yiddish Theater, 75
You Belong to Me (1941), 877
You Can’t Take It with You (1938), 769
You Can’t Take It with You (Kaufman and Hart), 698
Young, Felix, 327, 342, 343, 344, 347, 348
Young, Loretta, 154, 155, 187, 212, 291, 413, 439, 479, 497, 509, 541, 549, 646, 685, 687, 800, 842
Young, Marguerite, 365
Young, Owen, 345
Young, Robert, 357–58, 410, 436, 437, 438, 446, 499, 500, 641, 643, 697, 824
Young, Roland, 7
Younger Generation, The (1929), 258
Young in Heart, The (1938), 712
You Only Live Once (1937), 729
“Your Broadway and Mine” (Winchell), 58
Yr. Obedient Husband (Jackson), 700
Yucca Loma Ranch, 776
Yuccatone Hair Restorer, 231
Yurka, Blanche, 287, 631, 851
Zane Grey Theatre (1958), 899, 900
Zanuck, Darryl F., 99, 179, 182, 185, 186, 230–31, 239, 245, 325, 332, 334, 335–38, 341, 352, 353–54, 362, 439, 457, 458, 459–60, 535–36, 541, 542–43, 545–46, 547, 548, 562, 593, 595, 687, 703, 708, 710, 714, 726, 737, 764
Zanuck, Virginia, 99, 100, 179, 186, 562
Zapata revolutionists, 743
Zelda Marsh, see Shopworn (1932)
Zeppo Marx Inc., 426, 428
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 34, 35, 36, 48, 57, 110, 342, 348, 362
Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), 34–35, 36, 40, 42, 52, 111, 114, 166, 185, 254, 437, 466, 492, 544, 861, 862–63
Zilker, Frank, 64
Zola, Émile, 530
Zoo in Budapest (1933), 410
Zukor, Adolph, 83, 197, 562, 644, 741, 802–3
Zweig, Stefan, 831
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