The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909–1959

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by Raymond Chandler


  Film Noir 125

  films see motion pictures

  financial system 98

  ‘Finger Man’ 121

  first love 234

  first-person characters 94–5

  First World War x, 12–13, 101–2, 127, 230–31

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott 139–40, 235–6

  Fleming, Ian 219, 220

  Fontemara 127–8

  Ford, Ford Madox 116

  Fox, James M. 192, 193, 197

  Fracasse, Jean 247, 258

  Francis, J. 184

  ‘Free Verse’ 8–11

  Gardner, Dorothy 217

  Gardner, Erle Stanley 19, 29, 43, 53, 65–6, 233

  Gartrell, Deirdre 230, 232, 235, 238, 243

  Gault, William 208, 224, 233

  Gibbs, Wolcott 58–9

  Gilbert, Michael 214, 217, 224, 241, 242

  Go-Between, The 197–8

  Goldwyn, Samuel 69

  Graham, Billy 234

  grammar 36–7

  Great Gatsby, The 235–6

  Greene, Graham 89

  Greene, Helga 215, 221, 231, 234, 235, 236, 238, 242, 243, 245, 246–7, 248, 251, 256, 258

  Guinness, Maurice 250, 259

  guns 99, 161–2

  Halsey, Margaret 21, 23

  Hamilton, Hamish ('Jamie') 50, 51,

  , 60, 67, 75, 89, 97, 101, 105, 108, 112, 116, 118, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 138, 143, 146, 149, 153, 155, 166, 169, 170, 173, 176, 181, 187, 190, 191, 193, 197, 200, 203, 210, 239

  Hammett, Dashiell 17, 33, 42–3, 56–7, 90

  The Maltese Falcon 57, 59, 75

  Hartley, Wesley 244

  Harvard Summer School 189–90

  Hawks, Howard 68, 95, 105

  Haycroft, Howard 78

  Heard, Gerard 225

  Heart of the Matter, The 89

  Hellman, Lillian 56

  Hemingway, Ernest 33, 67, 137–8

  heroes 3–5

  High Wentryow, The 30, 31, 32, 34

  Jews in 61–3

  Hines, Mr 167

  Hitchcock, Alfred 135–6, 141–2, 162, 166, 174–5

  Hogan, Mrs Robert 75, 78

  Hollywood

  Communists 84–5

  contracts 108

  graveyard to talent 17

  how to survive 172, 229–30

  manner 73

  people 43, 100

  phony life 112

  Warner brothers 118–20

  writers and subconscious 122

  see also motion pictures; screenwriting

  homosexuality 120–21, 155–6, 227

  honesty 136

  Hoover, J. Edgar 192

  horizontal writing 97

  Hose, H. F. 149, 187, 191

  Houghton Mifflin 50, 108

  Houseman, John 126

  Howard, James 232

  I Know Where I'm Going 142–3

  Ibberson, D. J. 157

  Iceman Cometh, The 84, 86–7, 91

  idealism 5–6, 7–8

  ‘Improvisation for Cissy’ 14

  Inglis, Mr (a fan) 171

  insomnia 151–2

  inspiration 104

  insurance inventory 166–7

  Ireland 26, 49, 104, 131

  Irish, William 32

  Isherwood, Christopher 225

  Jaguars 103

  Jews 22, 23, 61–3

  juvenile delinquents 191–2, 233

  Keddie, James 136

  Kefauver committee 154–5

  Knopf, Alfred 14, 17, 21, 26, 31, 32, 33, 50, 63, 108, 191

  Knopf, Blanche 20, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 66

  La Jolla 18–19, 22, 74, 103–4, 221, 224

  La Jolla Hermosa Writers Club 88–9

  Lady in the Lake, The 38

  languages 194–5, 244

  lawyers

  fees 217

  hanging 135

  and organized crime 237–8

  Leon, Jean de 226, 234

  legal system

  America 147

  England 213

  Levitt, Gene 141

  limericks 246

  literary criticism 58–9, 65, 81–2, 122, 127, 194

  reviewers 256

  literature 65–6

  and detective fiction 40, 117, 139

  ideas 122

  importance 134–5

  mechanical perfection 59–60, 76–7

  past and present 149–50

  rebellious thoughts on 243

  significance 106–7

  Little Sister, The 89, 109

  London 212

  Long Goodbye, The 166, 180–81, 182, 193

  dust jacket 194

  pruned material 183–4

  Los Angeles 238

  Loughner, Louise ix, 210, 212

  love 117, 234

  Lucania, Luciano (Lucky Luciano) xi, 250–55

  Macdonald, John 109–10

  Machell, Roger 186–7, 188, 194, 206, 241, 258

  Maclnnes, Helen 156

  McClung, Paul 173

  mail 167–8

  Maltese Falcon, The 57, 59, 75

  manners 83–4

  Marlowe, Philip x, 21

  acting up 43

  biography 157–62

  Bogart as 67

  character 241

  as first-person character 94–5

  honourable man 126–7

  keeping alive 61

  marriage 247, 259

  maturity 171–2

  playing God 68–9

  social conscience 50–51

  tied to for life 166

  marriage 216–17, 228–9, 235, 259

  maturity 171–2

  Maugham, W. Somerset 129, 130–31, 145, 163, 184, 198

  clichés 35, 44

  letters to 145–6, 163

  medical profession 173, 231–2, 238

  melodrama 87, 102

  Memoirs of Hecate County 74

  Messick, Juanita 162, 189

  MGM 57–8, 97

  Mildred Pierce 40–41

  Miller, Max 23, 24

  Miss Lonelyhearts 113

  Montgomery 241

  Morgan, Neil 211, 216, 218

  Morton, Charles 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 49, 52– 53, 54, 56, 58, 69, 75, 76, 81, 82, 83,88,93, 103, 113, 115, 137, 140, 163, 164, 165, 175, 182

  Moseley, Hardwick 194, 197, 205, 209, 221, 225

  motion pictures

  detective 80–81

  English 180

  magazines 180

  moral content 126

  public success 180

  significance 182–3

  technical advances 112

  technique 174–5

  see also Hollywood; screenwriting

  Moving Target, The 109–10

  mysteries see detective fiction

  Mystery Writers of America 259

  Nebraska 45

  Neglected Authors 200–201

  Neuman, E. Jack 246

  New York 43, 220, 221

  New York Times, The 194

  New Yorker 58, 69

  Nichols, Dudley 70

  Nichols, Luther 256

  1984 122

  Nobel Prizes 118

  novels see literature

  Nuremberg Trials 101–2, 177–8

  Of Mice and Men 17

  Offord, Lenore 98

  O'Neill, Eugene 84, 86–7, 91

  organized crime 237–8, 256–7

  Orwell, George 84, 122

  Oscars 70–73, 107, 110

  Paramount Studios 38, 39, 97

  Partisan Review 81, 124

  death 202–5

  illness 170–71, 187

  ‘Improvisation for Cissy’ 14

  Perelman, Syd 167, 168–9, 178

  Phantom Lady 32

  phonies 22, 51

  photographs 25, 31, 126

  Picture Post 147

  Place in the Sun, A 179

  plagiarism 50, 90–92

  Playback 226, 255

  playwritin
g 129

  plot 78, 177

  police 41–2, 96–7, 106, 107–8, 207

  secret 192

  politics 123

  postal service 167–8

  Priestley, J. B. 149, 153, 155–6, 163, 167

  private eyes 187–8

  proof readers 77, 105

  psychiatry 171, 174

  publicity 100, 105, 116, 155

  publishers 115, 125, 163–4

  Rancho Santa Fe 168, 178

  Raymond Chandler's Mystery Magazine 116

  realism 6–8

  Realism and Fairyland 5–8

  rejections 53

  religion 131, 226, 234–5, 260

  Remarkable Hero, The 3–5

  reprints 66–7

  retiring 250

  reviewers 256

  reviewing see literary criticism

  Richard III 20–21

  Russell, Leonard 202

  San Francisco 96

  Sanders, Sydney 14, 16, 51–2

  Sandoe, James 39, 77, 79, 81, 83, 92, 95, 98, 101, 109, 114, 116, 117, 123, 124, 125, 128, 130, 132, 142, 147, 150, 154, 176, 182, 187, 197

  Santa Monica 41–2

  Sartre, Jean-Paul 135

  Saturday Evening Post 21

  science fiction 188

  screenwriters 162, 138

  screenwriting 45–9, 172–3, 235

  Double Entryemnity 38, 39, 41

  Strangers on a Train 135, 141–2, 166

  Second World War 20, 26–7, 93–4, 177–8

  secret police 192

  Sequence 180

  Série Noire 125

  serious novels see literature

  Shakespeare, William 113, 150

  Shaw, Joseph 16, 17–18, 57, 92

  Siegal, Sol 162

  significance 65, 106–7, 182–3

  Silone, Ignazio 127–8

  Simple Art of Murder, The 42–3

  sinus condition 32, 34

  Sistrom, Joe 38

  slang 36, 75, 105, 134

  French 145

  ‘Smart Aleck Kill’ 121

  snobbishness 198–9

  socialism 153

  Spender, J. A. 143

  Spender, Natasha 210, 216, 218, 225, 246, 247

  Spender, Stephen 112

  split infinitives 77

  Stark, Ray 94, 135

  Stein, Gertrude 176

  storytelling 184

  Strangers on a Train 135, 141–2, 166

  Streetcar Named Desire, A 179

  style 78–9, 97–8, 157

  English and American 35–8

  suicide attempt 206–8

  suspense 101, 135, 256

  Swanson, H. N. 69, 188

  teenagers 233

  television 69, 140–41, 145–6, 173

  Thieves Like Us 17

  Third Degree 196

  Times Literary Supplement, The 127

  Tit-Bits 143–4

  titles 75, 191

  tone quality 37–8

  Townend, William 177, 185

  tragedies 79

  Trench Raid 12–13

  Tyndale, Jessica 214, 215, 222, 223, 225, 246, 248

  Wallace, Edgar 66

  Warner, Jack and Harry 118–20

  Warren, Dale 50, 53, 57, 59, 74, 99. 100, 111, 114, 20, 123, 128, 131, 132, 133, 134, 139, 145, 155, 166, 167, 172, 174, 179, 199, 255

  Weeks, Edward 77, 229

  West, Nathaniel 113, 117

  Westerns 205

  Westminster Gazette 1, 143

  whisky 197

  Wilson, Angus 227

  Wilson, Edmund 59, 74, 163, 184

  Wodehouse, P. G. 177–8

  Woman's Way, A 1–2

  women 223, 227–8, 232

  England 212, 218–19

  New York 220

  writers 128, 132, 190, 256

  Woolrich, Cornell 33

  Wright, Leroy 132, 260

  writers

  documentaries 197

  egotism 98, 134, 239

  not-quite writers 148

  photographs 126

  psychoneurotic 256

  screenwriters 162

  self-consciousness 123–4

  and un-writers 165–6

  unhappy domestic lives 228

  women 128, 132, 190, 256

  see also screenwriters

  writing 78–9, 121, 226–7

  action and inner reaction 99

  dead language 133

  detective fiction 87–8

  dialogue 41

  dictation 52–3

  English and American style 35–8

  explanation scenes 100–101

  inspiration 104

  learning 19–20, 75–6, 232–3

  love stories 117

  moral status 82–3

  plays 129

  pretentiousness 109–10

  for radio 128

  slang 105

  storytelling 184

  style 157

  turning the corner 108–9, 218

  working methods 243–4

  see also screenwriting

  ‘Youth to Age’ 229

  Zevion, B. D. 80

 

 

 


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