Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

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by Mark Harris

24: John Florea/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

  27: Everett Collection

  28: Margaret Herrick Library/Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences

  29: Collection Capa/Magnum Photos

  30: Margaret Herrick Library/Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences

  31: Margaret Herrick Library/Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences

  32: Archive Photos/U.S. Army/Getty Images

  33: Mark Kauffman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

  34: National Archives/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

  35: © Bettmann/CORBIS

  36: Thomas D. McAvoy/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

  38: Everett Collection

  39: © CinemaPhoto/CORBIS

  40: Everett Collection

  41: AP Images

  42: Everett Collection

  43: Everett Collection

  INDEX

  The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. The link provided will take you to the beginning of that print page. You may need to scroll forward from that location to find the corresponding reference on your e-reader.

  Aachen, 344

  Abbott, Bud, 103

  Academy Awards, 24, 69–70, 76, 77, 81, 117–18, 179n, 189, 203–6, 211, 238, 286–88, 290, 379n

  Capra and, 24, 40–41, 52, 69–70, 205, 288, 435–37

  Ford and, 2, 18, 52, 70, 72, 126, 174, 205, 288, 324–25, 407, 408, 441

  Huston and, 288, 443

  Stevens and, 288, 290, 443

  Wyler and, 33, 52, 69–70, 72, 118, 123, 125–26, 203–5, 435–36, 442

  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 40, 174, 183–84, 264, 421

  Capra and, 7, 40, 46, 110

  Research Council of, 46, 71, 215, 216

  Across the Pacific, 127–29, 186

  Adak, 170, 186–91, 222–23, 241

  Address Unknown (Taylor), 39, 40

  Adventure for Two, 178

  Africa, see North Africa

  Africa Freed!, 243, 248–49

  African Americans:

  Ford and, 314n

  as movie characters, 304

  The Negro Soldier, 134–36, 234, 303–8

  racism and, 134, 136, 304

  soldiers, 304

  African Queen, The, 443

  Agee, James, 32, 125, 138, 173, 218, 232–33, 265, 287, 289, 298, 383–84, 407, 412, 436

  Aherne, Brian, 34

  Air Force, 129, 203, 294

  Alaska, 170

  Aleutian Islands, 223–24

  Huston in, 170, 186–91, 265, 269

  Report from the Aleutians, 191–92, 222–27, 241, 264, 265, 284, 288, 333, 411, 413

  Alexander Nevsky, 264

  Algeria, 173, 197–98, 214, 231, 232, 238, 242

  Algiers, 179–80, 197–98, 215, 237–39

  Alice Adams, 21, 81, 373

  Allgood, Sara, 105

  All Quiet on the Western Front, 21, 22, 64–65, 87, 259

  “Aloha Means Goodbye” (Carson), 127

  Alsop, Stewart, 7

  Ambler, Eric, 170, 253–54, 265–70, 279, 280

  America First, 89–90, 93–95

  American Cinematographer, 151–52

  American Revolution, 1, 24–25, 53, 382

  American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), 401, 443

  American Veterans Committee, 428

  Amsterdam News, 307

  Anchors Aweigh, 405

  Anderson, Marian, 306

  Anderson, Maxwell, 259–61, 293

  Valley Forge, 24–25, 28

  Andrews, Dana, 108, 209, 427, 429, 434

  Angels with Dirty Faces, 163

  Animeshk, 239

  Annie Oakley, 21–22

  Anschluss, 15

  Anti-Nazi League, see Hollywood Anti-Nazi League

  Araner, 55–56, 72, 168, 272, 324

  Arise, My Love, 68, 76

  Arizona, USS, 207

  Armistead, Mark, 318

  Army Emergency Relief, 214, 298

  Army Hour, 245

  Army-Navy Screen Magazine, 234

  Army Photographic Center, 192

  Army Pictorial Service (APS), 253, 255, 283, 311, 329, 368, 386, 410, 412–13, 425

  Army Training Film program, 215

  Arnim, Hans-Jürgen von, 262

  Arnold, H. H., 244, 388

  Arsenic and Old Lace, 8, 110–12, 216, 278–79, 329

  Arthur, Jean, 41, 166, 167, 193–95, 416

  Association of Motion Picture Producers, 40

  Astor, Mary, 123, 124, 127

  Atlantic Monthly, 7

  At the Front in North Africa, 215, 232–34

  Attu, 170, 187, 188, 190–91, 223–26

  August, Joseph, 356

  Augusta, USS, 314, 316, 318

  Austria, 29, 164

  Anschluss, 15

  Awful Truth, The, 79–80

  B-17s (Flying Fortresses), 176, 188, 199, 201–2, 219–21, 246, 266, 430, 434–35

  Jersey Bounce, 201–3, 219

  Memphis Belle, see Memphis Belle

  B-24s, 188–90, 220

  B-25s, 110, 137–38

  Background to Danger, 170, 253

  Back to Bataan, 357

  Balaban, Barney, 90

  Bankhead, Tallulah, 118

  Baptism of Fire, 288

  Barkley, Alben, 43–44

  Bartlett, Sy, 111, 123, 127, 139

  Barton, USS, 356

  Bastogne, 349

  Bataan, 141, 149, 299–300, 352

  Battle of Britain, The, 164

  Battle of China, The, 164, 308, 330

  Battle of Midway, The, 144, 145–59, 160, 172–75, 179, 180, 182, 184, 205, 206, 209, 222, 224, 275, 282, 301

  Battle of Russia, The, 164, 264–65, 278, 288

  Battle of San Pietro, The, 279–83, 322, 331–34, 382–85, 399–400, 407, 411

  Battle of the Bulge, 346

  Belfast, HMS, 312

  Belgium, 343–44, 346, 349, 368

  Ben-Hur, 442

  Bergen-Belsen, 367–68

  Bergman, Ingrid, 417

  Berlin, 29, 369, 276

  Berlin, Irving, 245

  Berman, Pandro, 22, 39

  Bernds, Edward, 25, 42

  Best Years of Our Lives, The, 390, 391–96, 417, 425–38, 441, 442

  Biscuit Eater, The, 303

  Bishop’s Wife, The, 390

  Blanc, Mel, 235

  Blanke, Henry, 32

  Blood on the Sun, 277

  Bogart, Humphrey, 62, 86, 124, 127, 128, 186, 270, 385

  Bogdanovich, Peter, 72, 151

  Bohnen, Eli, 375

  Bolton, Jack, 155

  Bomber’s Moon, 226

  Bond, Ward, 109

  Bône, 179–80

  Borzage, Frank, 48, 109

  Boyer, Charles, 59, 137

  Bradley, Omar, 254, 314, 322, 340

  Braun, Eva, 376

  Breen, Joseph I., 16, 88, 428–29

  Breen Office, 194, 296

  Bremen, 202

  Bridges, Lloyd, 389

  Briskin, Sam, 380, 382, 389, 416, 424, 437

  Britain, 175–76

  Germany and, 45, 56, 68, 76, 81, 92, 97, 105, 121, 247–48, 252

  Know Your Ally—Britain, 302–3

  London, see London

  Royal Air Force, 176, 220, 248, 346, 367

  Tunisian Victory and, 243, 247–52, 254, 255

  British Army Film Unit, 243, 248, 262, 268, 316

  British films:

  Africa Freed!, 243, 248–49

  Desert Victory, 232–33, 236, 268, 288, 289

  British War Office, 250, 254

  British War Relief, 81

  Broadway Bill, 422

  Brooklyn Eagle, 306

  Buchman, Sidney, 41, 42, 166, 263

  Buck, Jules, 265, 267–69, 279, 280

  Bulkeley, John, 299, 302, 318–19, 352–54, 356

  Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP), 162–63, 166, 175, 206, 211, 225, 2
26, 335

  Bureau of Public Relations, 217, 243, 333, 383, 388, 410–13

  Burma, 222, 273–74, 326

  Burnett, W. R., 85, 170n

  Bury the Dead, 169

  Cagney, James, 62, 137, 163, 277

  Cagney, William, 389

  Cairo, 197

  Cairo Conference, 278

  California, 241, 243, 288

  Canutt, Yakima, 342

  Capa, Robert, 266, 291

  Capra, Ann, 110

  Capra, Frank, 7–9, 11, 18, 23–28, 40–41, 45–46, 55, 59, 65, 69–70, 77–79, 82, 110–16, 119, 129, 130–34, 137, 139–44, 145, 158, 161, 163, 166, 169, 181, 191–92, 205, 211, 218, 233–34, 261–63, 276, 278–79, 284, 288, 311, 325, 326, 328–31, 344, 349, 366–68, 379, 401, 402, 414–16, 419–22, 428, 429, 439–41, 444

  Academy Awards and, 24, 40–41, 52, 69–70, 205, 288, 435–37

  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and, 7, 40, 46, 110

  Africa Freed! and, 248–49

  Allied landing in France and, 302

  at Anti-Nazi League rally, 28–29

  Arsenic and Old Lace, 8, 110–12, 216, 278–79, 329

  B-25 bomber film and, 137–38

  Columbia left by, 46, 49, 79, 166

  Communism and, 275–76, 441

  death of, 442

  discharge from army service, 380, 381

  Distinguished Service Medal awarded to, 381

  entry into army, 8, 110–12

  Eve of Battle, 317

  financial difficulties of, 77, 111, 278, 329

  The Flying Irishman and, 328

  Ford and, 442

  Frank Capra Productions, 46, 65

  Here is Germany, 379

  Hey, Soldier! and, 234

  Huston’s Italy assignment and, 252–53, 265, 266, 269, 281, 282, 331–32

  It Happened One Night, 24, 130–31

  It’s a Wonderful Life, 414, 416–17, 419, 422–25, 435–37, 439, 441

  Knight and, 142–44, 163, 164

  Know Your Allies, see Know Your Allies

  Know Your Enemies, see Know Your Enemies

  Lend-Lease Act and, 308–9

  Liberty Films, 345, 380–82, 389–90, 402, 414, 416, 417, 419–22, 424, 444

  Liberty Films sold by, 437, 439

  in London, 247–54, 257, 263, 276, 292

  Lost Horizon, 161–62

  Marshall and, 113–14, 133, 381

  Meet John Doe, 46, 65–68, 69, 76–79, 183, 211, 216, 423

  Mellett and, 114–15, 144, 184, 205, 210, 218, 264

  Moss and, 303, 307–8

  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 24, 26, 28, 65

  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 41–46, 52, 65, 77, 94, 110, 132, 166, 183, 423

  Mussolini and, 25, 67

  The Negro Soldier, 134–36, 234, 303–8

  On to Tokyo, 380

  politics of, 8, 274, 277, 422

  Private SNAFU cartoon series, 234–36, 308

  Roosevelt and, 28, 441

  Roosevelt speech drafted by, 114–15

  Schlossberg and, 111–13, 133

  Screen Directors Guild and, 26, 40, 79, 110, 408

  Stevens and, 164–65, 167, 195, 345, 347, 418

  Truman Committee and, 216

  Tunisian Victory and, 236–43, 247–52, 254, 255, 278, 283, 288, 289, 298, 305, 381

  Two Down and One to Go!, 380

  Why We Fight, see Why We Fight

  You Can’t Take It With You, 24, 26–27, 40–41

  Your Job in Germany, 378–79

  Capra, Frank, Jr., 329

  Capra, John, 27

  Capra, Lucille, 24, 27, 112, 115–16, 132–34, 139, 140, 183, 242, 247, 251–55, 329

  Capra, Tommy, 247

  Capri, 348

  Carey, Harry, 44

  Carlotta of Mexico, 33, 34

  Carson, Robert, 127

  Carver, George Washington, 306

  Casablanca, 231–32, 236

  Casablanca, 130, 286, 290, 417

  Casablanca Conference, 185

  Caserta, 266, 348

  Catholic World, 139

  Cerf, Bennett, 261

  Chamberlain, Neville, 47, 48, 59

  Chaplin, Charlie, 38, 67, 89, 93

  Chayefsky, Paddy, 347

  Chennault, Claire, 241n

  Chennault, Jack, 241–42

  Chiang Kai-Shek, 278

  Children’s Hour, The, 33

  China, 182, 222, 273, 274, 326

  The Battle of China, 164, 308, 330

  Japan and, 162, 189

  Know Your Ally—China, 303

  Chodorov, Jerome, 169, 200

  Choltitz, Dietrich von, 341

  Churchill, Winston, 59, 60, 122, 178, 185, 254, 278, 317, 376

  Citadel, The, 46

  Citizen Kane, 77, 262, 431

  Civilian Conservation Corps, 113

  Clampett, Bob, 235

  Claridge’s, 176, 179, 199, 200, 248, 250, 319

  Clark, Bennett, 90, 93, 94

  Clark, D. Worth, 97, 98

  Clothier, William, 169, 177, 199, 219, 221, 246, 293, 317–18

  Cobb, Humphrey, 22–23

  Coburn, Charles, 194

  Cohn, Harry, 24–25, 28, 44, 49, 79, 155, 161, 167, 194, 195, 424

  Colbert, Claudette, 59, 68, 131

  Collier’s, 25, 91, 338

  Colman, Ronald, 166, 167

  Columbia Pictures, 23–24, 40, 65, 81, 137, 161, 194–95, 345, 402

  Capra’s departure from, 46, 49, 79, 166

  Stevens’ contract with, 49, 79, 166, 167, 193

  Committee for the First Amendment, 441

  Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 59

  Communism, 16, 17, 19–20, 26, 27, 41, 42, 50, 54, 61–63, 132–33, 169, 226, 265, 275, 441

  Capra and, 275–76, 441

  Ford and, 274, 275

  House Un-American Activities Committee and, 16, 41, 62, 276n, 441

  Huston and, 171, 191

  McCarthyism and, 275

  Communist Party USA (CPUSA), 191

  concentration camps, 374, 401

  Bergen-Belsen, 367–68

  Dachau, 23, 369–77, 415, 421, 444

  Dora, 367

  Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps, 400, 402–3

  Stevens and, 23, 367, 369–77, 400, 402–3, 415, 418, 421, 444

  Confessions of a Nazi Spy, 36, 37–38, 82, 382

  Connelly, Marc, 135, 423, 424

  Cooper, Gary, 25, 28, 41, 60, 65, 66, 73, 76–77, 84, 88, 275

  Cooper, Merian C., 56, 401

  Corregidor, 142, 149

  Costello, Lou, 103

  Coutances, 338

  Coward, Noel, 296

  Crisp, Donald, 154, 156, 157

  Cronin, A. J., 46

  Cronkite, Walter, 203

  Crowther, Bosley, 88, 218, 407

  Cue, 297

  Cukor, George, 69–70

  Curtiz, Michael, 290

  Czechoslovakia, 34, 59, 164

  Dachau, 23, 369–77, 415, 421, 444

  Daily Telegraph, 189

  Daily Worker, 54

  Darwell, Jane, 154, 156, 157, 172

  Davenport, Harry, 108, 206

  Davis, Bette, 33, 34, 51, 60, 69, 73, 117–19, 125, 168

  Wyler and, 31, 33, 51, 60–61, 118–19, 426, 429, 442

  Davis, Elmer, 207, 217, 226

  D-Day, 310–19, 324, 444

  Dead End, 33, 427

  December 7th, 107–9, 126, 147, 155, 191, 206–10, 216, 271, 288, 306, 324–25, 355, 408, 409

  de Gaulle, Charles, 185, 340, 341

  de Havilland, Olivia, 125, 258, 385

  Huston and, 123, 125, 129, 137, 170–71, 192, 284, 385

  DeMille, Cecil B., 441

  Desert Training Center, 241

  Desert Victory, 232–33, 236, 268, 288, 289

  De Sica, Vittorio, 421

  Desire Under the Elms, 32

  Detective Story, 442

  Diary of Anne Frank, The,
444

  Diary of a Sergeant, 425–26

  Dies, Martin, 16, 62, 213

  Dies Committee, 16, 19, 62–63, 133

  Dieterle, William, 34, 35, 85

  Directors Guild of America, 442

  Disney, Walt, 275

  Disney Studios, 164, 182, 235, 276

  Dive Bomber, 300

  Divide and Conquer, 164

  Dodsworth, 33

  Donovan, William “Wild Bill,” 3, 104, 106–8, 145, 152, 173, 174, 207, 216, 272, 273, 311, 319, 326, 348, 442

  Doolittle, James, 110

  Doolittle raid, 110, 145, 146

  Dora, 367

  Downey, Sheridan, 96

  Drake, Alfred, 426

  Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet, 85–86

  Dreiser, Theodore, An American Tragedy, 401, 443

  Drums Along the Mohawk, 53, 152

  Duel in the Sun, 415

  Duff, Warren, 163

  Duggan, Pat, 394

  DUKWs, 313

  Dunne, Irene, 79–80

  Dunne, Philip, 59, 62, 74–76, 105, 107

  Each Dawn I Die, 163

  Eagle Squadron, 176

  Eaker, Ira, 199–200, 220, 221, 257, 258, 260–61, 348, 389, 415

  Eareckson, William, 190

  E-boats, 318

  Egypt, 233, 237, 261

  Cairo Conference in, 278

  Eichorn, David, 375

  Eifler, Carl, 273

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 262, 312, 339, 344, 347, 366, 379, 390

  Eisenstein, Sergei, 264

  El Alamein, 233

  Elbe, 368, 369

  Elizabeth, Queen, The Queen Mother, 220, 260

  Emerald Bay Yacht Club, 326–27

  Emergency Peace Campaign, 84

  Engel, Samuel, 108–9, 155

  England, see Britain

  Epstein, Joseph, 130

  Epstein, Julius, 130

  Escape, 120

  Evans, Vincent, 202

  Eve of Battle, 317

  Faichney, James, 283, 284

  Farber, Manny, 289, 384

  Farm (Field Photo Memorial Home), 326–27, 409

  Fascism, 17, 20, 23, 26, 27, 35, 39, 41, 42, 63, 66, 67, 77, 177, 274, 276, 336

  Prelude to War and, 182, 218

  Faulkner, William, 170n

  FBI, 194, 276

  Feldman, Charles, 167, 293, 344, 414

  Ferguson, Otis, 44–45

  Fetchit, Stepin, 214

  Fidler, Jimmie, 50

  Field Photo Memorial Home (the Farm), 326–27, 490

  Field Photo Unit, 56–57, 72, 106–9, 179–81, 188, 206, 208, 215, 216, 222, 271, 273, 275, 288, 301, 311, 324, 325, 400–401, 403, 408

  at Allied landing in France, 313–19

  Battle of Midway and, 145, 151, 153, 155

  They Were Expendable and, 355, 356

  Fighting Seabees, The, 273, 357

  FilmIndia, 23

  Finkel, Abem, 86

  1st Marine Division, 391

  Fitzgerald, Barry, 328

  Fitzgerald, Geraldine, 74

  Fitzgerald, Marietta, 192, 241, 284

  Flaherty, Robert, 192

  Flanner, Janet, 163

 

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