by Donald Bogle
Jamaica, 382, 491
James, Harry, 355
Jason, Leigh, 233
“Jazzin’ Babies Blues,” 88
Jazzland in 1930, 187
Jazz Masters, 65, 96
Jazz Singer, The (film), 167–68
“Jeepers, Creepers,” 305
Jeffers, Robinson, 427, 440
Jeffries, Herb, 214, 366
Jeffries, Jim, 73
Jes’ Lak White Fo’ks, 138
Jessel, George, 152, 193, 307
Jessye, Eva, 267, 270, 329
Jet (magazine), 461
Jim Crow laws, 4, 30, 289, 376
Joachim, Joseph, 109
Johnson, Billy, 138
Johnson, Charles S., 122
Johnson, Charlie, 67, 267
Johnson, Chink, 65
Johnson, Edmond “Mule,” 52, 55–56
Johnson, Hall, 148, 267, 306–8, 355, 360, 375–76, 380–81, 416
Johnson, Jack, 72–77, 210, 325
Johnson, James P., xii, 51, 67–68, 116–17
Johnson, James Weldon, 48, 52, 57, 63, 125, 127–29, 138–42, 146–47, 193, 227, 299
Johnson, J. C., 116, 239
Johnson, J. Rosamond, 138–39, 141, 193, 299, 310, 332, 341, 355
Johnson, Lyndon B., 532
Johnson, May, 513
Jolson, Al, 49, 106, 153, 167, 169, 206, 217, 225, 349
Jones, Dijau, 167, 173, 187
Jones, Ginger, 458
Jones, Jo, 474, 508
Jones, Louis, 302
Jones, Sissieretta, 24
Jovien, Harold, 428
Jubilee, 269
Jubilee (radio show), 355
Jubilee Spectacle and Cakewalk, 24
Judge Priest (film), 434
Judgment at Nuremberg (film), 469
Jumbo, 269
Jump Steady, 90
Kael, Pauline, 181, 472
Kahn, Otto, 143, 149, 151
Kapp, Jack, 231
Karloff, Boris, 202, 233
Kaufman, George S., 217
Kazan, Elia, xii, 185, 251, 263–64, 430–31, 434–37, 439, 445, 456, 461, 487
Kazin, Alfred, 129
Keaton, Buster, 522
Keene, Louie, 98
Keep Shufflin’, 51
Keith, B. F., 51
Keller, Nelson, 231
Kelly, Edward J., 249
Kelly, Gene, 264, 375, 537
Kern, Jerome, 143, 219, 310
Kerr, Walter, 476
Kersands, Billy, 23–24
Khan, Aly, 176
Kiley, Richard, 481
Kilgallen, Dorothy, 313
“Kind Lovin’ Blues,” 88
King, Joe, 116
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 486, 495
Kirland, Baron Christy, 331
“Kitchen Man,” 36
Kitt, Eartha, 416–17, 479, 525, 527
Klein, Manny, 173
Knaack, Twila, 529, 534–38, 540
Knight, Raymond, 260
Knopf, Alfred, 124–25
Knopf, Blanche, 125, 131
Koehler, Ted, 211–13
Kramer, Stanley, 469–71
Krupa, Gene, 355
Lady Be Good (film), 264
Lady Sings the Blues (Holiday), 462
“Lady with the Tap,” 265, 266
Lagerfeld, Karl, 263
Lahr, Bert, 260, 406
Lake, Arthur, 171
LaMar, Lawrence, 377
Lamour, Dorothy, 393
Lanchester, Elsa, 456
Landis, Jessie Royce, 475
Lansburgh, G. Albert, 169
LaRedd, Cora, 214
Larsen, Nella, 52, 125, 149
Lashley, Faithful, 131
Lastfogel, Abe, 144
LaTouche, John, 338, 339
Laugh Time, 401–3
Laughton, Charles, 360
“Leaving Tomorrow,” 35
Lee, Canada, 310, 314, 412
Lee, Gypsy Rose, 398
Lee, Johnny, 54
Lee, Lola, 52
Le Gon, Jeni, 236, 292
Leighton, Margaret, 502
LeNoire, Rosetta, 314
Lenya, Lotte, 125
Leonard, Herbert, 507
Leslie, Lew, 108, 111, 168, 178, 187–98, 205, 207–9, 211, 302, 383, 412
Lesser, Sol, 398
Levette, Harry, 287, 376, 388, 471
Lewis, Albert, 335, 338, 381
Lewis, Sinclair, 125, 130–31, 193
Lewis, Ted, 115, 216
Lewis, Theophilus, 149, 289–90
Liebling, Bill, 302–3
Life, 344
“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” 139
Lillie, Beatrice, 260–66, 275, 277–78, 280, 308
Lindsay, Howard, 475
Linkletter, Art, 531
Lips, Little Kid, Jr., 133
“Little Black Boy,” 239
Little Foxes, The (Hellman), 324
Little Show, The, 218
Liza, 142
Lloyd, Harold, 297
Locke, Alain, 348, 462–63
Lockridge, Richard, 315, 344
Lombardo, Guy, 216, 231, 398
“Lonesome Swallow,” 116, 158
“Lonesome Walls,” 310, 327
Long, Avon, 416
Long Hot Summer, The (film), 503
Long Lance, Chief, 125
“Long Lost Mamma,” 96
Lorin, Will, 508
Los Angeles Mirror, 506
Los Angeles Sentinel, 287, 376
Los Angeles Times, 288, 353, 355, 404, 415, 420, 429, 444, 447, 472, 506, 536, 540
Los Angeles Tribune, 376, 405, 411
Lost Boundaries (film), 433, 444
Lost in the Stars, 457
“Lost Out Blues,” 96
Louis, Joe, 77, 202, 266, 319, 324–25, 332, 335, 386, 490
“Love Is the Thing,” 230
Lovejoy, Alex, 133, 331
Lowe, Edmund, 233
Loy, Myrna, 372, 395
Luce, Clare Boothe, 299
Luce, Henry, 495
Lugosi, Bela, 202, 233
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 125
Lukas, Paul, 233
Lulu Belle, 133, 142, 149
Lunceford, Jimmie, 68, 210, 238
Lundigan, William, 433, 437, 445–46
Lunt, Alfred, 395, 398
Lupino, Ida, 371
Lutz, Mark, 124
Lyles, Aubrey, 52, 58, 89, 108, 142, 144, 147, 149, 189
lynching, xi, 4, 81–82, 84, 221, 224, 227–29, 249, 255–56, 392
MacArthur, Charles, 142, 320
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 310, 315, 321
MacDonald, Jeanette, 368–70, 395
Mack, Roy, 221
MacMahon, Aline, 313
Madden, Owney, 210
Maharis, George, 508–10
Maid of Harlem, 59
Majors, Lee, 534
Malcolm, Jim, 306, 502
Mallory, Arenia, 281–82, 285
Mallory, Blanche, 267
Mallory, Eddie (fourth “husband”), 239–40, 246–48, 252, 256–57, 262, 265, 267–68, 270, 275, 280–82, 284, 287, 291–94, 297–98, 304–5, 307, 318, 320, 325–28, 330–32, 337, 346–47, 349, 356, 361, 364–65, 409, 446, 462, 505–6, 517
Mallory, Frank, 281, 285
Mallory, John, 247
Mallory, Mary, 267
Mamba’s Daughters (Heyward and Heyward), xi, 11, 273–75, 284, 300–303, 309–26, 328–30, 336–37, 339, 345–46, 354–56, 358–59, 416–17, 432, 436, 443, 448, 451, 453, 475, 478–79
“Mamma Goes Where Papa Goes,” 104
“Mammy,” 167, 217
Mammy (film), 217
Mamoulian, Rouben, 269–70
Manchild in the Promised Land (Brown), 463
“Mandy,” 217
Manhattan Melodrama (film), 368
Manhattan Tower (TV show), 484
“Man I Love, The,” 172
Mankiewicz, Joseph M., 430
Manley, Froncell, 79
Mann, Thomas, 329
Mannix, Eddie, 388
Mansfield, Jayne, 481
Mantle, Burns, 146, 315
Man Who Went to War, The (radio show), 412
March, Fredric, 395
Marinoff, Fania, 124–26, 130, 144, 149, 183, 187, 313, 346, 348, 388, 507, 522
Markham, Dewey “Pigmeat,” 72, 257, 280
Marshall, Boots, 91
Marshall, Thurgood, 359
Martin, Arthur, 110
Martin, Carrie McDonald, 110
Martin, John, 340
Martin, Mary, 229
Martin, Sara, 60, 90
Martin, Tony, 466
Martineau, Stanley, 440, 453
“Mary’s Gone with a Coon,” 23
Mason, Eliza Pruitt Dancer, 98
Mason, Fred, 98
Matinee Theatre (TV show), 500
Matthews, Clyde Edward “Eddie” (third “husband”), 166–67, 173–78, 181, 183, 185, 187, 200–206, 208, 213, 215, 221–22, 233, 235–36, 247–48, 252, 284–85
Matthews, Ralph, 242
Maugham, Somerset, 125
May, Butler (Stringbeans), 37
“Maybe Not at All,” 116
Mayer, Louis B., 388
Mayfair, Mitzi, 280
McAllister, Blue, 189, 196
McCambridge, Mercedes, 456
McClendon, Rose, 52, 269, 321
McClintic, Guthrie, xii, 303, 309–10, 312–13, 317, 319, 328
McCord, Castor, 305, 331
McCorkle, Susannah, 540
McCormick, Kenneth, 457, 461
McCrary, Tex, 446, 478, 496
McCullers, Carson, x, xii, 440–43, 449, 451, 453, 455, 470, 472
McDaniel, Hattie, 359–60, 362, 372–75, 377, 383, 400–401, 421, 455–56, 461, 503
McDonald, Carrie, 110
McDonald, Sue Smith, 490, 540
McElravy, Charles A., 252
McHugh, Jimmy, xii, 195, 211, 233
McKay, Claude, 52, 142, 320
McKibbon, Al, 422
McKinley, William, 4
McKinney, Nina Mae, 168–69, 174, 206–7, 270, 433, 437, 445
McNair, Barbara, 525
McNeil, Claudia, 455–56
McQueen, Butterfly, 373, 458
Medea (Euripides), 316, 423
Jeffers adaptation, 427, 440
Meet Me in St. Louis (film), 373, 380
Meet Mose, 62
Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers), ix, x, 11, 440–43, 447–57, 459, 462–68, 475, 482–84, 491, 509, 511, 520–21, 530, 536
film, 469–73, 542
“Memories of You,” 191–92, 466
Memphis Bound, 417–18
“Memphis Man,” 66, 96
Mencken, H. L., 125
Mercer, Ann, 412, 423
Mercer, Mabel, 179, 256
Meredith, Burgess, 303, 426, 466, 499
Merman, Ethel, 193, 214, 229, 398, 482
Merritt, Theresa, 456
Micheaux, Oscar, 248
“Midnight Blues,” 66, 96
Mike Douglas Show, The (TV show), 522, 537
Millinder, Lucky, 238
Miller, Arthur, 435, 440–41
Miller, Dorrie, 364, 392
Miller, Flournoy, 52, 58, 89, 108, 142, 144, 147, 189, 191, 194, 398
Miller, Loren, 420, 421
Miller, Marilyn, 218–20, 225, 229, 244, 283
Miller, Mitch, 484
Miller, Raquel, 144
Mills, Billy, 144
Mills, Florence, 56, 108–9, 111, 113, 116, 136, 142, 149–50, 155, 182, 188, 336, 341
Mills, Irving, 213, 298
Mills Brothers, 207, 208, 231
Milner, Martin, 508
Minnelli, Vincente, xii, 185, 259–66, 287, 301–2, 373–74, 380–89, 396–97, 436
Miracle in Manhattan (film), 501
Miss Calico, 133–35
“Miss Otis Regrets,” 231, 255–56, 258, 410
Mitchell, Abbie, 141
Mitchell, Lou, 184
Mitchell, Thomas, 261, 475
Mohr, Hal, 469
Monroe, Marilyn, 226–27, 478
Montgomery, Robert, 412
Montgomery bus boycott, 486, 495
“Moonglow,” 231, 249
Moore, Juanita, 502, 527
Moore, Monette, 250
Moore, Phil, 163
Moore, Toots, 41
Moore, Victor, 233
Moreland, Mantan, 190–91, 373, 377, 397, 415
Morgan, Helen, 49, 143, 482
Morrison, Ernest “Sunshine Sammy,” 258, 287, 297, 375
Morros, Boris, 378
Morton, Jelly Roll, 179
Moses, Ethel, 148
Moses, Rev. W. H., 148
Moten, Etta, 94, 122, 237–38, 254
Mounia (model), 263
Mr. Belvedere (film series), 218–19
Mulatto (Hughes), 269
Mulligan, Robert, 511
Muni, Paul, 336, 395
Murphy, George, Jr., 198
Murrow, Edward R., 477–78
Muse, Clarence, 100, 141, 168, 254, 375, 423
Music After the Great War, The (Van Vechten), 124
Musical Memories with Ethel Waters, 491
Music and Bad Manners (Van Vechten), 124
Music of Spain, The (Van Vechten), 124
“My Baby Sure Knows How to Love,” 158
My Fair Lady, 217
“My Handy Man,” 116–18, 158, 183, 189, 485
“My Handy Man Ain’t Handy No More,” 191, 192
“My Man,” 291
“My Old Virginia Home on the Nile,” 340
“My Special Friend Is Back in Town,” 116, 120
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 52, 193, 227, 238–40, 249, 298–99, 320, 324, 335, 377, 421, 443, 457, 463, 485–87, 537
Nader, Ralph, 531
Nail, John, 63
Nance, Ethel, 122
Nancy Ann (Heyward), 273
Nathan, Jean, 125
National Afro-American Council, 4
Native Son (Wright), 314
Natwick, Mildred, 303
“Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl,” 36, 119
Negri, Pola, 176, 522
Negro Actors Guild, 255, 298–300, 302, 307, 312, 324, 334, 445–46, 476
Negro American League, 348
“Negro ‘Blues’ Singers” (Van Vechten), 127–29
Newman, Paul, 502–3
New Orleans (film), 172
New Orleans Item (newspaper), 83
New Vanities, 132–33
New York Age, 62, 69, 82
New York Daily Mirror 197
New York Daily News, 146, 275, 315, 319, 404–5, 453
New Yorker, 146, 197, 231, 232
New York Evening Post, 196
“New York Glide, The,” 61
New York Herald Tribune, 344, 417, 453, 459, 461
New York Journal-American, 487
New York Mirror, 396
New York Post, 344, 453, 487
New York Press, 124
New York Sun, 191, 315
New York Times, 106, 111, 124, 153, 181, 191–92, 228, 266, 300, 307, 316–17, 344, 396, 417, 432–33, 442–43, 453, 463, 472, 504, 540
New York World, 62, 146
New York World-Telegram, 146, 197
Nicholas, Fayard, 264, 292, 372, 375
Nicholas, Harold, 292, 375
Nicholas, Viola, 292, 375, 402
Nicholas Brothers, 72, 178, 211, 214, 216, 238, 264, 269, 291, 307, 339, 359, 372, 375, 398
Nichols, Alberta, 195–96
Nichols, Dudley, 431
Nichols, Lewis, 406, 417
Nigger Heaven (Van Vechten), 126–27
Night Beat (TV show), 485–86
Nixon, Julie, 531
Nixon, Marni, 510–11
Nixon, Pat, 531
Nixon, Richard, 495, 531–32, 535
Nixon, Tric
ia, 531, 536
“Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out,” 35
No Way Out (film), 433
Nugent, Bruce, 28, 320
Oberon, Merle, 398
Octoroon, The (play), 137
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), 340
Oh! Joy!, 90–91
“Oh, Daddy,” 65
“Oh Joe, Play That Trombone,” 88
“Old Aunt Jemima,” 23
Old Maid (play), 303
“Old Man Harlem,” 331
“Ol’ Man River,” 143
Olsen, George, 144
Olson, Culbert L., 372, 390
Once in a Lifetime, 217
O’Neal, Frederick, 433, 445, 508
O’Neill, Eugene, 125, 130, 207, 265, 273, 315, 500
O’Neill, Sally, 171, 181
“One Man Nan,” 66
“On the Sunny Side of the Street,” 188
On with the Show (film), 170–72, 181–82, 254, 360, 432
“Organ Grinder Blues,” 158, 159
Ormsbee, Helen, 406
Orrick, Martha, 452
Osborne, Mary, 422
Our Gang (film series), 297
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV show), 534
Ox-Bow Incident, The (film), 392, 430
Oyster Man, 62
Pace, Harry, 26, 61–64, 66–67, 69–70, 75, 78, 81, 88, 96–97, 402
Page, Lucille, 304
Paige, Hot Lips, 423
Pakula, Alan J., 511
Palmer, Jack, 116
Panama Hattie (film), 374, 382
Parham, Tiny, 247
Parks, Rosa, 486
“Partners with God,” 518, 525
Passing Show, The, 419
Patton, Bernice, 287
Pavlova, Anna, 124
Payne, John, 179–81, 183
Payton, Philip A., 50
Peale, Norman Vincent, 531
Pearl Bailey Show, The (TV show), 526
Peck, Gregory, 522
Peel, Sir Robert, 261
Penn, William, 5
Pennington, Ann, 100
Perry, Pop Sam, 7–8
Perry, Ray, 422
Person to Person (TV show), 477
Peterkin, Julia, 199, 316
Peters, Brock, 519
Philadelphia Bulletin, 540
Philadelphia Inquirer, 156, 451, 487
Philadelphia Tribune, 72, 74, 376, 393, 396
Pickford, Jack, 219, 244
Pickford, Mary, 75, 219
Picon, Molly, 193
Pillow to Post (film), 173
Pineau, Irene, 77
Pinkard, Maceo, 116
Pinky (movie), x, 430–39, 443–47, 448, 456, 463, 541
Pittsburgh Courier, 103, 134–36, 147–48, 152–53, 169, 171, 187, 197, 206–7, 209, 232–33, 235, 238–39, 245–46, 287–90, 300, 407–8, 426, 460, 490
Placksin, Sally, 60, 120, 540
Plantation Days, 104
Plantation Revue, The, 108, 142, 302
Plessy v. Ferguson, 4
Poitier, Sidney, 469, 482, 485
Polakov, Lester, 449, 465
Policy Players, The, 139
Polk County (Hurston), 412
Pollock, Arthur, 344
