by Scott Eyman
Bach, Steven, 111
Back to Bataan, 149–51, 199
Bad and the Beautiful, The, 171
Bad Seed, The, 433
Bakewell, William, 7–8, 39–40, 86, 110
Balboa Bay, 400
Balboa Yacht Club, 485, 550, 566
Baldwin, James, 569–70
Balin, Ina, 355
Ball, Lucille, 465, 545
Ballard, Lucien, 395
Bancroft, George, 56, 66
Bank of America, 332
Bar 26, 426
Barbarian and the Geisha, The, 293–96, 312, 401, 481
Barnett, Bev, 117, 155
Barney Miller, 545
Barrett, James Lee, 431, 452
Barris, George, 485
Barrus, Paul, 15, 17
Barrymore, Lionel, 252, 542
Barthes, Roland, 4
Barton, Charles, 89
Barton, Gregg, 266
Barzman, Ben, 149–50, 151
Basinger, Jeanine, 108, 123, 570
Baskett, James, 249
Batjac Productions, 263–64, 268, 269, 272, 281, 282, 283–85, 286, 289, 291, 302, 305–6, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 315–16, 317, 319, 326, 332, 333, 334, 336–37, 340, 342, 343, 344, 369, 370, 371, 372, 375, 381, 386, 397, 401, 415, 424, 426, 431, 432, 434, 436, 437, 440, 441, 474, 475, 491, 492, 494, 497, 502, 503, 515, 544, 551, 556, 565, 566, 567
Bayless, Luster, 372, 504–5, 550
Beach, Rex, 113
Beatty, Clyde, 257
Beatty, Warren, 210
Beau John, 544–45
Beebe, Ford, 63
Beery, Noah, Jr., 80
Beery, Noah, Sr., 80
Beery, Wallace, 58
Begley, Ed, 190
Belcher, Frank, 401
Bellah, James Warner, 261
Bells of St. Mary’s, The, 232
Beloin, Edmund, 365
Benet, Stephen Vincent, 227
Benge, Hazel, 17
Ben-Hur, 352
Bennett, Charles, 125–26
Benning, Fort, 432, 434
Benny, Jack, 154
Benton, Thomas Hart, 109
Bercovici, Leonardo, 169
Bergman, Ingrid, 230, 512
Berkeley, Busby, 68
Berle, Milton, 245
Bernstein, Elmer, 356
Best Years of Our Lives, The, 143, 438
Bethancourt, Escobar, 537–38
Beverly Hills Hotel, 409
Beverly Hills Lions Club, 50
Beverly Management Company, 115, 239, 312
Beverly Wilshire Hotel, 70, 140
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, 542
Bialystock, Max, 314
Big Canyon Country Club, 416
Big Duke (dog), 22
Big Jake, 93, 451, 474–76, 484, 492, 566
Big Jim McLain, 226, 227–28, 231, 256, 257, 258, 284, 341
Big Sleep, The, 174
Big Trail, The, 8, 46–59, 61, 63, 82, 94, 99, 105, 125, 182, 243, 279, 316, 541
Big Tree, Chief John, 188n
Billy the Kid, 94
Birdwell, Russell, 317, 330, 331, 333, 339, 340
Birth of a Nation, The, 67, 99
blacklist, 142, 145, 149, 166–69, 191, 443, 480, 505–8
Blackmer, Sidney, 252
Black Watch, The, 44, 49
Black Windmill, The, 520
Blair, Charlie, 553
Blake, Larry, 190
Blake, Michael, 496
Blane, Sally Young, 39–40, 114–15
Blazing Saddles, 493–94, 504
Blocker, Dan, 465
Blood Alley, 260, 268–69, 271, 284, 423
Blue, Monte, 348
Bluhdorn, Charlie, 378
Blumofe, Robert, 289, 413
B movies, 83, 85, 88, 196n, 203
Boetticher, Budd, 206–8, 225, 240, 250–51, 281, 282, 283, 503, 568
Bogart, Humphrey, 123, 226, 269, 523, 570
Bogdanovich, Peter, 36, 83, 360, 472–73, 544–45
Bomba and the Jungle Girl, 253
Bond, Mary Lou “Maisie,” 347
Bond, Wardell, 38, 44, 58, 83, 108, 111, 117, 118, 122, 132, 138, 140, 148–49, 152, 154, 163–64, 166, 185, 190, 191, 204, 205, 213, 238, 249–50, 273, 275, 288, 291–92, 296, 297, 301, 345–49, 370, 400, 464, 478, 506, 544, 551
death of, 348–49
Horton’s conflict with, 345–46
Wayne’s accidental shooting of, 148–49
Bondi, Beulah, 112
Books, John Bernard, 520–21, 526, 529, 530, 531–32
Boone, Richard, 309, 320, 326, 332, 335, 474, 475, 529
boot camp, 195
Booth, Adrian, 91–93
Borein, Edward, 549
Born Free, 507
Born Reckless, 46, 49
Born to the West, 89–90, 289
Borowsky, Marvin, 127
Borzage, Danny, 246, 372
Borzage, Frank, 56, 71, 211, 283
Bosworth, Hobart, 41, 42, 536
Boxoffice, 433
Boyd, William, 90, 252
Boyle, Robert, 524
Boy Scouts, 23
Brackett, Leigh, 299, 351, 423
Bradbury, Bob, 71
Bradbury, Brad, 30
Bradbury, Robert N., 71, 74, 75
Brando, Marlon, 204, 279, 280, 287, 294, 350, 394, 439, 483, 511, 545
Brannigan, 504, 505, 507, 508–9, 511
Brave Bulls, The, 208
Brazzi, Rossano, 290
Brecht, Bertolt, 278
Bren, Milton, 554
Brennan, Walter, 300, 304
Brewer, Roy, 142, 143, 166, 292, 506
Bridges, Jeff, 475, 569
Brody, Richard, 362
Broken Arrow, 276
Broken Lance, 252
Bromberg, Joe, 506
Bronson, Charles, 511, 534
Bronson Canyon, 65
Bronston, Samuel, 379–80, 381, 383, 384
Brooks, Louise, 92
Brooks, Mel, 493–94
Brooks, Richard, 322
Brown, Clarence, 140, 166, 205
Brown, Harry, 193, 194
Brown, Johnny Mack, 89
Browne, Roscoe Lee, 477, 480
Brownlow, Kevin, 223, 535–36
Brown of Harvard, 34–35
Buck, Florence, 50
Buckley, William F., Jr., 562
Buetel, Jack, 174
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 2
buffalo nickel, 188n
Bujold, Geneviève, 443
Bullfighter and the Lady, The, 206–8, 216, 217, 240
Bullitt, 482
Burks, Robert, 237
Burns, George, 542
Burson, Polly, 371, 445
Burton, Frederick, 55–56
Burton, Richard, 449–50, 511
Busch, Niven, 284–85
Bushman, Francis X., Jr. (Ralph), 34–35, 231n
Butler, Michael, 505
Buttons, Red, 351
B westerns, 66–69, 71, 72, 75, 79, 81, 82, 84, 93, 100
Byrds, 35
Byron, Lord, 480
Caan, James, 425
Cabana Club, 116
Cabo San Lucas, 400
Cabot, Bruce, 95, 158n, 246, 417, 419, 422, 456, 475
Caesar, Sid, 228
Caffey, Frank, 371, 383
Cagney, James, 130, 190, 299, 410, 557–58
Cahiers du Cinéma, 361
Cahill U.S. Marshal, 393, 489, 492–93, 494, 498, 504
Caine, Michael, 409, 557
Caine, Shakira, 557
California, University of, Los Angeles (UCLA), 140, 397, 554–55
Medical Center at, 547–48, 557
California, University of Southern (USC), 9, 31, 32–33, 37, 39, 42, 44, 427, 429, 465, 535, 538
California Country Club, 116, 154
California Passage, 194
California Straight Ahead!, 85, 86
Callenbach, Ernest, 361
Calle
y, John, 494
Calvet, Corinne, 192
Camargo, Mexico, 235–36, 237, 238
Camelot, 433
Cameron, Kate, 99
Cameron, Rod, 460
Campbell, Glen, 443, 445, 446, 448, 458, 534
Campbell, William, 253–54
Camp Pendleton, 194
Canby, Vincent, 449, 500
Cantor, Eddie, 245
Canutt, Yakima, 2, 44, 64, 65, 67, 70–71, 72–73, 74, 80, 96, 193, 554
Capra, Frank, 61, 167, 379, 380–81, 384
Captains Courageous, 156
Capucine (Feldman’s mistress), 302
Cardiff, Jack, 185, 290, 292
Cardinale, Claudia, 379, 384
Carey, Harry, Jr., 11, 25, 111, 112–13, 119, 148, 175, 180, 182, 184, 185, 186, 190, 198, 235, 273, 277–78, 348, 405, 408–9, 419, 452, 474, 475, 484, 535, 568
Carey, Harry, Sr., 25, 111, 112–13, 184, 277, 288, 349, 535, 568
Carey, Marilyn Fix, 119, 148, 409
Carey, Olive, 111–13, 154, 277, 425, 535, 554, 555
Carlson, Richard, 218
Carnovsky, Morris, 164
Carr, Trem, 74–75, 81–82, 84, 85, 88, 90, 297
Carradine, John, 97, 98, 361
Carroll, Nancy, 56
Carter, Jimmy, 537, 542, 556, 557, 561
cartoons, 203
Carver, George Washington, 15
Casino Royale, 429
Casper, Wyo., 436
Cassell, Wally, 194, 195
Cast a Giant Shadow, 397
Catalina Island, 26, 34, 182, 285, 348, 368, 369, 473, 544, 550–51, 555
Cat and the Canary, The, 67
Cat Ballou, 504
Cathedral Chapel Parochial Grammar School, 402
Cattle Annie and Little Britches, 538, 563
Caulfield, John, 470
CBS, 372, 456, 464, 474, 475, 509
CBS Television City, 63
Central Airport, 68
Chambers, Whittaker, 489
Champion, 196
Champlin, Charles, 537
Chandler, Lane, 84
Chandler, Raymond, 405
Chaney, Lon, Jr., 65
Chapin, James, 109
Chaplin, Charlie, 60, 64, 71, 293
Chase, Borden, 146, 166, 168, 170–71, 249, 336, 569, 574
Chateau Marmont, 119
cheater episodes, 65
Chennault, Claire, 127
Cherrill, Virginia, 60
Chesterfield Pictures, 82
Cheyenne Autumn, 321, 425–26
Chicago, Ill., 275
Chicago Tribune, 203
child actors, 78
Chile, 229
China, 294, 407
China Doll, 283, 317, 343
China Gate, 302
Chisum, 179, 451, 454–56, 489
Chisum, John, 453
Christie, Agatha, 405
Christie, Howard, 34
Churchill, Marguerite, 47, 53, 58, 182
Churchill, Winston, 405, 479, 550
Cinema Center Films, 456, 475
CinemaScope, 238, 242–43, 254, 288, 295
Cinerama, 364, 384
Circus World, 2n, 378, 379–81, 382–85
City Lights, 60
Civil Rights Act (1964), 467
Clark, Dan, 50
Clarke, Charles, 295
Clarke, Eugene, 27, 32, 37–38, 39, 535
Clarke, Harley, 51
Clemente, Steve, 50
Clift, Montgomery, 174–75, 176, 177, 299, 302, 462, 570
Clinton, Bill, 416
Clothier, William, 192, 201, 246, 253, 256, 262, 283, 284, 318, 319–20, 326–27, 340, 351, 355, 356, 365, 366, 374, 419, 420, 421–22, 453, 460, 475, 491
Coburn, Charles, 166, 205
Coca, Imogene, 228
Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire, 62
Coen brothers, 569
Cohen, Albert, 146, 147
Cohen, Larry, 494, 502–4
Cohn, Harry, 61–62, 66, 291, 292, 369, 459, 496
Colbert, Claudette, 123, 153–54
Coldwater Canyon, 346
Cole, Nat King, 391
Coleman, George, 242, 268, 416
Colgate Comedy Hour, The (TV show), 245
College Coach, 68
Colman, Ronald, 246
Columbia, 291
Columbia Pictures, 61, 66, 71, 91, 292, 334, 369, 370, 372, 375–76
Comancheros, The (film) 270, 334, 350, 352–356
Comancheros, The (Wellman), 352
Coming Home, 552
communism, communists, 140–45, 249, 251, 289, 291–92, 349–50, 407, 431
Communist Party, 164, 250
Confidential, 229
Conflict, 85, 88
Congress, U.S., 162, 407
Congressional Gold Medal, 557
Connelly, Marc, 127
Conqueror, The, 199, 200, 264–65, 266–67
Conrad, Ruth, 27
Consolidated Film Industries, 63, 81–82
Cooley (hotel mogul), 381–82
Cooper, Gary, 5, 56, 94, 130, 140, 141, 166, 171, 189, 197, 245, 252, 261, 262, 281, 298, 335, 352, 407, 449, 480, 505–6, 545, 569
Cooper, Merian C., 94, 139, 179, 196, 223, 496
Copa, 300
Coquette, 89
Corrigan, Ray “Crash,” 91, 93, 100, 101
Corsica, 362
Cortez, Stanley, 86
Corwin, Norman, 151–52
Costner, Kevin, 569
Covered Wagon, The, 46, 275
Cowboys, The (film), 451, 476–81, 482, 494, 566
Cowboys, The (Jennings), 476–77
Coyote Bay, 385
Crabbe, Buster, 90
Crawford, Broderick, 168, 196
Crawford, Joan, 69, 115, 123, 127, 252
Crawford, Johnny, 423
Cristal, Linda, 326, 341
Cronkite, Walter, 549
Crosby, Bing, 124, 130
Crowther, Bosley, 178, 336, 361
Cruise, Tom, 5
Cry Terror, 302
Cuba, 407
Culpepper Cattle Co., The, 513
Culver City Hotel, 205, 247
Cummings, Robert, 252
Curtis, Edward, 399, 550
Curtis, Ken, 321, 323, 348
Curtis, Robert, 560
Curtis, Tony, 299, 542
Curtiz, Michael, 228, 352–54, 355, 356
Custer, George, 109, 324
Daily Citizen, 57
Daily Mirror, 317
Dakota, 138
Dallas Cowboys, 348, 523, 548
“Dames Are Such Suckers” (Grant), 158
Daniel, Price, 309
Darby, Kim, 443, 445, 447, 448, 449
Dark Command, 105–6, 109, 487
Darrieux, Danielle, 192
Darwell, Jane, 348
Dassin, Jules, 127
Daves, Delmer, 276
David Copperfield (Dickens), 405
Davis, Bette, 100, 210, 252, 512, 527, 570
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 509, 534
Dawn Patrol, 234
Dawn Rider, The, 71
Day, Doris, 425, 462
Deadly Companions, The, 376
Dean, James, 210
Dean, John, 470
Dear Film, 289
Death of a Salesman, 519
De Carlo, Yvonne, 371
Deceiver, The, 61
DeCuir, John, 384
Deer Hunter, The, 552
Defense Department, U.S., 430–32, 435
deferments, 129–30
Defoe, Daniel, 166
de Franco, Joe, 471–72, 499, 543–44, 546
Dekker, Albert, 126
De Laurentiis, Dino, 519, 521, 531, 532
Dell comics, 267
DeLoache, Benjamin, 133, 137
DeMille, Cecil B., 93, 94, 124–26, 127, 166, 178–79, 188n, 227, 262, 379, 400, 406, 411
Dennis, Alfred, 5–6
Depinet, Ned, 90
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p; Depression, Great, 62, 75
Dern, Bruce, 480
Des Moines, Iowa, 18
Desmond, William, 65
Destry Rides Again, 109, 111
de Toth, Andre, 6
Deuel, Geoffrey, 454
Devil at 4 O’Clock, The, 433
Devine, Andy, 42, 97, 235, 361, 413, 485
De Vol, Frank, 371
Devore, Sy, 551
Dewhurst, Colleen, 500
De Wilde, Brandon, 284, 385
Diary of Anne Frank, The, 352, 449
Díaz Ceballos, Esperanza Baur “Chata,” 117–18, 119, 137, 154–56, 169–70, 183, 207, 210, 224–25, 229, 230, 239–42, 408–9, 427
Dickens, Charles, 405
Dickinson, Angie, 284, 300, 302–4, 372, 534
Dick Tracey’s G Men, 100
Didion, Joan, 470
Dierkes, John, 323
Dietrich, Marlene, 94, 109–12, 113–14, 115, 117, 118, 120, 121, 123, 127, 200
DiMaggio, Joe, 205
Dirty Dozen, The, 482, 496
Dirty Harry, 474, 497, 520, 521
Disney, Walt, 63, 140, 249, 272
Dix, Richard, 91, 161
Django Unchained, 569
Dmytryk, Edward, 150, 286, 462
Dobie, J. Frank, 314
Dodds, Jerry, 431
dog heavy, 72
Dominican Republic, 229
Donner Lake, 233
Donner Pass, 232
Donovan, Bill, 131, 132, 133, 136
Donovan’s Reef, 365–66, 377, 378
Doodletown Pipers, 465
Doolin, Bill, 538
Dos Passos, John, 257
Douglas, Kirk, 196, 260, 269, 293, 299, 350, 385, 386, 387, 388, 397, 418–19, 421, 423, 511
Downes, Brian, 573
Downey, James, 501
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 405
Dreiser, Theodore, 140
Dressler, Marie, 56
Dr. Strangelove, 397
Dru, Joanne, 172, 180
Dubliners (Joyce), 178
Duck Soup, 231
Duel in the Sun, 200
Dulcy (Connelly), 29
Dunne, Irene, 166
Dunne, John Gregory, 179–80
Dunson, Tom, 574
Dupar’s restaurant, 345
DuPont, 379, 383
Durango, Mexico, 136, 391, 395, 418, 419, 421, 427
Durante, Jimmy, 245
Durbin, Deanna, 85
Duvall, Robert, 445, 473
Dwan, Allan, 44, 193, 194–95, 196
Earlham, Iowa, 16, 18
Earp, Wyatt, 43
Easter Parade, 189
Eastman Type Two Panchromatic film, 52
Eastwood, Clint, 448, 476, 497, 500, 502, 503, 504, 510, 511, 520, 527, 542, 545, 569
Easy Rider, 446
Ebert, Roger, 447–48
Ebsen, Buddy, 413, 485
Eckles, Ralf, 29, 30, 38
Edeson, Arthur, 52, 54
Educational Studios, 36
Edward, James, 326
Edwards, Nate, 246, 310–11, 333
Egan, Richard, 281–82
Egyptian Theatre, 255
Eisenhower, Dwight, 209, 349, 400, 429
Ekberg, Anita, 260, 264
Elam, Jack, 356
El Cid, 379
El Dorado, 376, 378, 423–24, 425, 566
