by Mark Harris
Mannix, Eddie, 360
Man Who Would Be King, The, 443
March, Fredric, 62, 427, 429
March of Time, The, 58, 142
Marshall, George, 7, 9, 113–14, 131, 133, 182, 183, 217, 218, 277, 288, 333, 380, 381
Martin, Mildred, 287
Marx, Groucho, 137
Mason General Hospital, 387, 396–400, 410
Maugham, W. Somerset, 51
Maurois, André, 20–21
Maximilian I of Mexico, 33, 34
Maxwell, Elsa, 245
Mayer, Louis B., 16, 120–21, 165, 169, 178, 272, 300–301
McBride, Joseph, 105, 274, 307, 309n
McCall’s, 79
McCarey, Leo, 380, 420
McCarthy, Todd, 86–87
McCarthyism, 275
McCrea, Joel, 48, 193–95
McDowall, Roddy, 74, 105, 442
McFarland, Ernest, 92, 94, 98
McGuinness, James Kevin, 153, 208, 275, 300, 354
Meet John Doe, 46, 65–68, 69, 76–79, 183, 211, 216, 423
Mellett, Lowell, 91, 104, 110, 134, 138–40, 158, 162–63, 174, 181–84, 205–7, 210, 211, 217, 224–27, 236, 265, 288, 335
Capra and, 114–15, 144, 184, 205, 210, 218, 264
Ford and, 174–75, 205
Report from the Aleutians and, 224–26
The World at War, 181–83
Mellor, William, 238, 242, 262, 292, 311, 321
Memphis Belle, 201, 219–21, 244–46, 257–58, 260–61, 430, 434, 442–43
Memphis Belle, The: The Story of a Flying Fortress (originally 25 Missions), 246–47, 257–61, 293–98, 317, 348, 349, 361, 362, 388
Mencken, H. L., 192
Menninger, William C., 411, 412
Meredith, Burgess, 192, 255
Merrie Melodies, 235
Methot, Mayo, 270
MGM, 5, 16, 23, 40, 48, 67–68, 81, 101, 119–23, 138, 139, 168–69, 178, 205, 271–72, 299–301, 327, 330, 356, 357, 360, 405–7
Midnight, 59
Midway, Battle of, 170, 172, 273, 325, 355, 408, 442
The Battle of Midway, 144, 145–59, 160, 172–75, 179, 180, 182, 184, 205, 206, 209, 222, 224, 275, 282, 301
Midway Atoll, 146
Mikado, The, 335
Milestone, Lewis, 21, 126n
Milland, Ray, 68
Millar, Mack, 205
Mills, John, 250
Ministry of Information, 232, 249, 252, 254
Mishkin, Leo, 211
Mister Roberts, 442
Mitchell, Curtis, 333
Mitchell, Thomas, 63, 64
Moffat, Ivan, 262–63, 311, 320–22, 340, 341, 346, 367–69, 373, 376, 415–16
Mojave Desert, Calif., 241, 243, 288
Mondale, Walter, 443
Monogram, 389
Montgomery, Bernard, 322, 340
Montgomery, Robert, 356–60, 406
Morale Branch, 112, 113, 137, 140, 216–17
More the Merrier, The, 167, 193–95, 197, 263, 290, 401–2
Morgan, Robert, 201, 219, 244–45, 247, 259–61, 294
Morocco, 173, 231, 232
Mortal Storm, The, 39, 40, 46, 48, 67–68, 82, 120
Moss, Carlton, 135–36, 303, 305–8
Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPA), 275–76
Motion Picture Artists’ Committee to Aid Spain, 20, 29–30
Motion Picture Committee Co-operating for Defense, 59
Motion Picture Daily, 54
Motion Picture Democratic Committee, 20
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, 44, 91
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 24, 26, 28, 41, 65
Mrs. Miniver, 4, 5, 119–23, 126–27, 129, 134, 138–39, 169, 172, 177–78, 203–5, 211, 220, 298, 389, 426
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 41–46, 52, 65, 77, 94, 110, 132, 166, 183, 423
as sequel to Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 28, 41
Mulberry harbor, 313, 319, 325
Mulhouse, 348–51, 361
Muni, Paul, 34, 85, 86
Munson, Lyman T., 114, 196, 240–41, 333–34, 380, 381
Museum of Modern Art, 141, 222, 410, 412
Mussolini, Benito, 45, 98, 160, 347, 380
Capra and, 25, 67
Juárez and, 34, 35
Prelude to War and, 182
My Darling Clementine, 401
My Favorite Wife, 80
Nagasaki, 396
Name Above the Title, The (Capra), 132
Naples, 266, 267
Napoleon III, 34, 35
Nash, Ogden, 31
Nation, 233, 289, 298, 412
National Film Board of Canada, 163, 276
National Fund Raising Campaign for Russian Relief, 191
National Labor Relations Board, 40
National Legion of Decency, 101
Native Son (Wright), 306
Naval Reserve Armory, 72
Naval Volunteer Photographic Unit, 2, 3
Navy Relief Society, 135
Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps, 400, 402–3
Nazi Plan, The, 377, 400, 403–4
Nazis Strike, The, 164
Negro Soldier, The, 134–36, 234, 303–8
Neutrality Act, 59
New Deal, 9, 26
Newman, Alfred, 154
New Republic, 44, 55, 77, 88, 134, 384, 436
newsreels, 5, 9, 10, 29, 36, 58, 88, 92, 142, 227, 287
Newsweek, 172
New Yorker, 45, 68, 79, 163, 165, 172–73, 233, 264, 288–89, 297–98, 384
New York Film Critics Circle Award, 35, 263–64
New York Herald Tribune, 125
New York Morning Telegraph, 211
New York Post, 138, 307, 412
New York Times, 5, 24, 31, 35, 44, 49, 54, 68, 77–78, 81–82, 87n, 88, 119, 124–25, 138, 172, 181, 214, 218, 225, 288–90, 297, 348, 384, 388, 407, 428–29, 436
New York Times Magazine, 419
New York World-Telegram, 119
Nichols, Dudley, 52, 63–64, 153, 355
Nigeria, 196
Nimitz, Chester, 145–47
Nine Lives, 176
91st Bomb Group, 201–3, 219, 246
Ninotchka, 59
Ninth Air Force, 349–50
Nordhausen, 367–68
Norris, George, 44
North Africa, 164, 167, 173, 237, 278, 279
Africa Freed!, 243, 248–49
At the Front in North Africa, 215, 232–34
Desert Victory, 232–33, 236, 288
Ford in, 179–80, 216
Stevens in, 196–98, 237–41, 261, 266, 321, 339, 444
Tunisian Victory, see Tunisian Victory
Zanuck in, 179–81, 184, 211, 214, 215, 231–32
North Star, The, 126n
Norway, 64
Nugent, Frank S., 35, 54
Nuremberg Trials, 376–77, 400–404
Nye, Gerald P., 89–90, 92–96, 213, 235
Nye Committee, 92–94, 96–98, 103, 120, 212
Oberon, Merle, 74
Objective, Burma!, 336
Odets, Clifford, 192, 423
Office for Emergency Management, 104
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 104, 153, 174–76, 180, 273–74, 288, 311, 316, 326, 353, 408, 409, 442
Office of the Bureau of Archives, 408–9
Office of War Information (OWI), 134, 138, 140, 174, 181, 184, 207, 211, 217, 224, 226, 227, 253, 277, 287, 288, 302, 304, 331, 355, 356, 390
Bureau of Motion Pictures, 162–63, 166, 175, 206, 211, 225, 226, 335
Olivier, Laurence, 74, 178–79
Omaha Beach, 312, 313, 315, 317
Mulberry harbor off of, 313, 319, 325
One Big Happy Family, 417
O’Neill, Eugene, 32, 63, 64
On to Tokyo, 380
Open Book, An (Huston), 86
Operation Avalanche, 253
Operation Overlord, 262, 314
Operation Roundup, 261
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Operation Sledgehammer, 261
Operation Torch, 167, 176, 231
Operation Varsity, 366
Orlando, Fla., 242, 243, 288
Osborn, Frederick, 111–14, 133, 134, 140, 142, 161, 182, 184, 216, 239, 240, 253, 303, 309n, 330, 381
Oscars, see Academy Awards
Our Gang, 221
Owens, Jesse, 306
Ox-Bow Incident, The, 154
P-47s (Thunderbolts), 298
Thunderbolt, 298, 348–39, 351, 361–65, 388–89, 415
Panama Canal, 107, 127
Paramount Pictures, 23, 29, 37, 68, 84, 129, 140
Liberty Films sold to, 437, 439
Paris, 59, 322, 338–39, 376
liberation of, 339–42
Wyler in, 347–49, 351
Parker, Dorothy, 20
Parrish, Kathleen, 107
Parrish, Robert, 106–7, 109–10, 152–56, 175, 208, 209, 327, 401, 408
Parsons, Louella, 151
Pascal, Ernest, 74
Pastor Hall, 68
Paths of Glory, 22–23, 38
Patterson, Robert, 217, 333–34
Patton, 442
Patton, George S., 231, 232, 322, 379
Pavlinchenko, Lieutenant, 164
Pearl Harbor, 1, 3–7, 9–11, 101–3, 107, 110, 111, 113, 117, 119, 121, 127, 128, 139, 146, 149, 193, 299, 330, 335, 352, 354, 355, 406
December 7th, 107–9, 126, 147, 155, 191, 206–10, 216, 271, 288, 306, 324–25, 355, 408, 409
War Comes to America, 164, 308, 379–82
Pearson, Drew, 115
Peck, Gregory, 415
Penny Serenade, 80–81, 387
Philadelphia Inquirer, 287
Philadelphia Story, The, 69
Philippines, 141, 299, 352, 353, 356, 357, 361, 405
Phyllis Was a Fortress, 176
Pichel, Irving, 154, 157
Pickens, Andrew, 1
Pickford, Mary, 204
Pidgeon, Walter, 121
Pier, Kenneth, 147–49, 152
Pinewood Studios, 249–52, 268
Pius XII, Pope, 348
Place in the Sun, A, 440, 443
Planer, Franz, 49–50
Plunkett, USS, 312, 313
Pocketful of Miracles, 441
Poland, 37, 43, 59, 164
Polk, Margaret, 244–45
Popular Front, 19
Positif, 314n
Potsdam Conference, 376
Power, Tyrone, 204
Poynter, Nelson, 138, 166
Prelude to War, 144, 164, 182–85, 205, 210, 211, 217–19, 224, 234, 264, 421
Pride of the Yankees, The, 275
Private SNAFU cartoon series, 234–36, 308
Production Code, 16, 17, 37, 52–53, 88, 89, 194, 236, 296, 428–29, 433
propaganda, Nazi, 141, 142
Triumph of the Will, 6, 141, 142, 376
propaganda, U.S., 6–7, 9–10, 35–36, 59, 82, 87, 88, 102, 120, 153, 163, 175, 181, 184, 207, 210, 211, 213–14, 216–17, 227, 231, 253, 255, 288
anti-Japanese rhetoric in, 160–61, 206–10, 276, 277, 330, 335–37
Senate hearings on, 90–94, 96–98, 103, 120
Psychiatry in Action!, 412
PT boats, 146, 148, 318, 353, 354, 356, 357, 359, 361, 407
Purple Heart, The, 335
Pyle, Ernie, 266, 279, 334
Quebec Conference, 261–62
Quiet Man, The, 441
Radio City Music Hall, 139, 172, 217
Raft, George, 85–86, 124
Rains, Claude, 35, 77
Ramparts We Watch, The, 142
Rat Islands, 170
Reagan, Ronald, 379
Rebecca, 69, 70, 76
Red Badge of Courage, The, 443
“Red River Valley,” 154
Reed, Carol, 125, 176, 347
Reed, Donna, 406
Reims, 342
Reinhardt, Wolfgang, 33–34
Remarque, Erich Maria, 21
Renoir, Jean, 19
Report from the Aleutians, 191–92, 222–27, 241, 264, 265, 284, 288, 333, 411, 413
Returning Psychoneurotic, The, see Let There Be Light
Reunion in France, 357
Revolutionary War, 1, 24–25, 53, 382
Reykjavik, 107, 245
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 403, 404
Riefenstahl, Leni, 6, 141, 142, 376
Riskin, Robert, 26, 27, 65–67, 76–77. 329, 380–81, 420
RKO, 18, 21–23, 38–40, 56, 331, 345, 424, 435
Stevens’ departure from, 49, 79
Roach, Hal, 200, 221
Robeson, Paul, 135
Robinson, Edward G., 38, 85, 125
Robinson, Lionel, 45
Rogers, Ginger, 22, 69
Rome, 317
Rommel, Erwin, 262, 278
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 68, 87
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 9, 16, 17, 20, 25, 46, 59, 60, 62, 76, 79, 88, 90–92, 94–96, 104–6, 110, 113, 122, 126, 140, 162, 175, 183, 185, 204, 210, 211, 217, 226, 232, 254, 276–78, 288, 317, 390
The Battle of Midway and, 156, 158
Capra and, 28, 441
Capra’s draft of speech for, 114–15
death of, 366, 375
December 7th and, 207–8
Ford and, 274, 275
The Memphis Belle and, 296
Mrs. Miniver and, 138–39
Roosevelt, James, 41, 46, 180
The Battle of Midway and, 155–56, 158
Rossellini, Roberto, 421
Royal Air Force (RAF), 176, 220, 248, 346, 367
Runyon, Damon, 214
Russia, see Soviet Union
Russell, Harold, 425–26, 429, 432, 436
Saint-Nazaire, 221
Saint-Tropez, 348
Salerno, 253
Sandrich, Mark, 137
Sanford, John, 131
San Pietro, 267–70, 279–83, 322
The Battle of San Pietro, 279–83, 322, 331–34, 382–85, 399–400, 407, 411
Saroyan, William, 192, 291, 311
Sarris, Andrew, 67
Saturday Evening Post, 127
Sayre, Joel, 309n
Schaeffer, George, 39, 48
Schenck, Joseph, 90, 93
Schlossberg, Richard, 111–13, 123, 126, 127, 129, 133, 191–92
Schmeling, Max, 135, 305
Schnellboote, 318
Schreiber, Lew, 74
Schulberg, B. P., 62
Schulberg, Budd, 300, 376–77, 403
Scott, Phil, 153
Scott, Rey, 188–90, 192, 225
breakdown and hospitalization of, 284, 385–86
Screen Actors Guild, 356
Screen Directors Guild (SDG), 7, 20, 26, 40, 151, 408, 441
Capra and, 26, 40, 79, 110, 408
Stevens and, 79, 81, 166
Screen Writers Guild, 59, 74, 91
Searching for John Ford (McBride), 274
Selznick, David O., 46, 73, 293, 385, 415, 420
Since You Went Away, 426–27
Selznick, Irene, 417
Senate Committee Investigating National Defense, see Truman Committee
Senate hearings on propaganda, 90–94, 96–98, 103, 120
Sergeant York, 73, 83–89, 93–94, 97, 103, 123
Sex Hygiene, 71–72
Shakespeare, William, 178–79
Shane, 443
Shaw, Irwin, 80, 169, 192–93, 262, 291, 292, 311, 316, 320, 323, 341
Sherman, Vincent, 128–29
Sherwood, Robert, 390, 394–96, 425, 428–30, 433, 434, 436
Shintoism, 160, 335, 387
Shirley, Ann, 261
Shore, Dinah, 258
Siegel, Don, 379n
Signal Corps, 9, 46, 71, 112–14, 129, 134, 140, 141, 169, 179–81, 215–17, 222–24, 227, 232–36, 240–41, 246, 247, 253, 262, 264, 275, 278, 293, 295–96, 298, 308, 329, 339, 349, 378, 384, 412, 443
Allied landing in France and, 302
Capra’s joining of
, 8, 112–13
Huston’s joining of, 5, 127–29
Italy and, 265, 267, 268, 279, 280, 283
The Negro Soldier and, 307
Sex Hygiene, 71–72
Tunisian Victory and, 236–37, 239, 243, 283
Wyler’s joining of, 4–5, 123, 126, 127
Simard, Cyril, 146–47
Sinatra, Frank, 261
Since You Went Away, 426–27
Sino-Japanese War, 162
SNAFU cartoon series, 234–36, 308
Solo, Gene, 414
Song of Bernadette, The, 286
“So Proudly We Fail” (Agee), 287
Soviet Union, 26, 126, 131, 170, 182, 368, 375
The Battle of Russia, 164, 264–65, 278, 288
Germany and, 87, 265
Know Your Ally—Russia, 303
Lend-Lease and, 308–9
Spaatz, Carl, 139
Spain, 191
Spanish Civil War, 2, 20, 25, 131, 276
Spanish Earth, The, 276
Special Coverage Unit (SPECOU), 261, 263, 290–91, 309, 311–12, 315, 316, 320–23, 339, 343, 366, 376, 415, 443–44
Spectator, 177
Speer, Albert, 404
Spellbound, 398
Spewack, Sam, 174–75, 224, 248, 304
Spigelgass, Leonard, 132, 164, 235
Stagecoach, 18, 49, 52–53, 63, 153, 174, 272, 357
Stalin, Joseph, 376
Stanwyck, Barbara, 21–22, 66
Stars and Stripes, 205
State Department, 277
Stein, Jules, 168
Steinbeck, John, 53
Stern, Philip Van Doren, 422–23
Stevens, George, 5–6, 11, 12, 18, 21–23, 38–40, 46, 79–81, 136–37, 151, 164–66, 193–98, 247, 261, 288, 290–93, 309n, 338–47, 366, 413–18, 420, 440, 441, 443–44
Academy Awards and, 288, 290, 443
Alice Adams, 21, 81, 373
at Allied landing and aftermath in France, 261–64, 290–91, 309, 310–12, 314–16, 318–23
army enlistment of, 164, 167, 195–96
asthma of, 196, 343
in Belgium, 343–44
Capra and, 164–65, 167, 195, 345, 347, 418
Columbia’s contract with, 49, 79, 166, 167, 193
concentration camps and, 23, 367, 369–77, 400, 402–3, 415, 418, 421, 444
at Dachau, 23, 369–77, 415, 421, 444
death of, 444
at Dora, 367
Eisenhower and, 262
Ford and, 311
in France, 338–44
in Germany, 344–47, 366–77, 401–2
Gunga Din, 23, 38, 39, 81, 262, 343
Lend-Lease to Russia and, 308–9
Liberty Films and, 345, 402, 414, 416, 417, 421, 424, 437
in London, 257, 261, 262, 290–92, 309, 347
in Luxembourg, 343
Moffat and, 262–63, 311, 320–22, 341, 346, 367, 373, 376, 415–16
The More the Merrier, 167, 193–95, 197, 263, 290, 401–2
Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps, 400, 402–3
The Nazi Plan, 377, 400, 403–4
in North Africa, 196–98, 237–41, 261, 266, 321, 339
