“I saw that you needed”: ibid.
375
“Given hindsight”: Ned Brower to author.
375
“I got the chance”: Ralph Lauren to author.
375
“I did all the designs”: Theoni V. Aldredge to author.
376
“practically wound up in a hospital”: Ralph Lauren to author.
376
“The apartment seems all wrong”: Peter Carlsen to author.
378
“found himself staring”: Lyons, p. 34.
378
“to a wealthy, big-hearted man”: ibid.
378
Sarnoff’s predictions: Wisdom, Sept., 1958.
378–79
Random House story: Cerf, pp. 286–287.
379
“I don’t watch CBS”: ibid., p. 286.
379
“You may not realize … off on vacation”: ibid., p. 287.
380
“We’re not going to argue”: ibid. p. 287.
380
Bronfman funeral: Newman, p. 151.
380–83
Goldwyn’s last years: author’s impressions.
381
“Oh, we have”: Frances Goldwyn to author.
381–82
The Goldwyn-Zanuck exchange: ibid.
382
Goldwyn on Chaplin: ibid.
382
“I’d be lost”: ibid.
382–83
“The doctors say”: ibid.
383
“Just think”: ibid.
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Manners, Ande. Poor Cousins. New York: Coward McCann and Geoghegan, 1972.
Newman, Peter C. Bronfman Dynasty. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978.*
O’Higgins, Patrick. Madame. New York: Viking Press, 1971.
Rubinstein, Helena. My Life for Beauty. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.
Schoener, Allon, ed. Portal to America: The Lower East Side, 1870–1925. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
Siegel, Richard, and Carl Rheins. The Jewish Almanac. New York: Bantam Books, 1980.
Woollcott, Alexander. The Story of Irving Berlin. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1925.
Yaffe, James. The American Jews. New York: Random House, 1968.
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*Published in the United States under the title King of the Castle, in somewhat different form, by Pocket Books, 1979.
Index
Adams, C. M., 122
Adenoids Riot, 4, 11, 24
Aldredge, Theoni V., 375–76
Alexander II of Russia, 37
Alexander III of Russia, 37
Allgemeiner Jiddisher Arbeiter Bund, 38
Altman, Addie Richman, 12
Altman family, 15
Amboy Dukes, The, 274
Ameche, Don, 278
America First Committee, 265–66
American Hebrew, 24
American Jewish Year Book, 73
Anastasia, Albert, 283
Andrews, Lincoln C., 212
Annenberg, Leonore Cohn, 246–47
Annenberg, Moses L., xii
Annenberg, Walter, xii, 246–47
anti-Semitism, 275, 339–40, 343
in Dearborn Independent, 138
among Jews, 12, 14–15, 20–21, 22, 23–24, 313–14, 350–51
Lindbergh speech, 265
Nazis, 258–67, 270–72
of other ethnic groups, 77–78
in Poland, 80–81
in Russia, 36–38
at West Point, 341
Apfelbaum, Maximilian, 287–88
Apple Tree, The, 368
Arden, Elizabeth, 225
Arlen, Harold, 188
Arrowsmith, 208
Astor, John Jacob, 104
Astor, Vincent, 104, 106
Astor, Mrs. William, 12, 15
Atherton, Gertrude, 111, 197
Auden, W. H., 222
Avedon, Richard, 32
Bacall, Lauren, 32
Baline, Isidore. See Berlin, Irving
Bankhead, Tallulah, 197
Banky, Vilma, 195–96
Bara, Theda (Theodosia Goodman), 189, 192
Baron de Hirsch Fund, 20
Barondess, Joseph, 70
Baxter, Anne, 371
Beach, Rex, 197
Begin, Menachem, 259, 281
Belasco, David, 86
Belfrage, Cedric, 254
Bell, Alexander Graham, 317
Belmont, Alva (Mrs. Oliver H. P.), 13, 59, 71
Ben-Gurion, David, 281, 286
Bennett, Arnold, 176
Bennett, James Gordon, 100–01
Benny, Jack (Benjamin Kubelsky), 189, 192, 371
Berg, Gertrude, 347
Bergson, Peter, 259, 260, 263, 264, 266, 280
Berkman, Alexander, 3, 114, 129
Berlin, Ellin Mackay, 349–50
Berlin, Irving (Isidore Baline), 189, 190, 272
childhood of, 182–83
early career of, 183–87
marriage of, 349–50
music of, 187–88
reasons for success of, 190–91
Bern, Paul, 111
Bernhardt, Sarah, 92
Best Years of Our Lives, The, 296–97
Beverly Hills Supper Club (Newport, KY), 212
Bilsky, Lucy. See Bronfman, Lucy
Bingham, Theodore, 28–30
Birth of a Nation, 88
blacklist, 344–49
Blaustein, Jacob, xiii
Blaustein, Louis, xii–xiii
Bond, Carrie Jacobs, 182
Bonnard, Pierre, 174
bootlegging, 151–55, 162, 210–12, 293
Borscht Belt, 48, 80, 191, 192, 272
Brandeis, Louis, 259
Brice, Fanny (Fanny Borach), 176, 189, 190, 191, 192
Brinkley, David, 351
Bronfman, Abe, 155, 156
Bronfman, Allan, 156, 161, 215, 223, 271
Bronfman, Ann Margaret Loeb, 332, 364–65
Bronfman, Bessie, 156
Bronfman, Edgar, 250, 293, 332, 337–338, 363–69
Bronfman, Ekiel, 155, 156–57
Bronfman, Georgiana Eileen Webb, 367
Bronfman, Harry, 155, 156
Bronfman, Jean. See Matoff, Jean Bronfman
Bronfman, Laura, 155
Bronfman, Lucy Bilsky, 161
Bronfman, Melanie Mann, 367
Bronfman, Minda. See Gunzburg, Minda Bronfman de
Bronfman, Minnie, 155
Bronfman, Phyllis. See Lambert, Phyllis Bronfman
Bronfman, Rose. See Rady, Rose Bronfman
Bronfman, Saidye Rosner, 161–62, 215, 224, 250
Bronfman, Samuel, 32, 268
childhood of, 156–57
as executive, 222–24, 333–38
funeral of, 380
trip to Israel of, 354
Meyer Lansky and, 155, 159–63, 210
in liquor business, 157–63, 210, 213–16, 222–24, 241–52, 293, 328–31, 333–38
marriage of, 161–62, 215, 224, 250
personality of, 215, 222–24
philanthropy of, 271, 354
Lewis Rosenstiel and, 245–48
Seagram’s Seven Crown and, 243–44, 331
Seagram tower and, 361–62
social aspirations of, 214–15, 216, 328–29, 331–32
son Edgar and, 337–38, 364–65
Bronfman, Samuel, II, 366–67
Bronfman Dynasty, 334–36
Bronx, NY, 140, 176–78, 320
Bronx Tabloid, 177
Brower, Ned, 375
Buchalter, Louis “Lepke,” 149
Burns, George (Nathan Birnbaum), 189
Butter and Egg Man, 274
Byrne, Dominic, 366, 367
Cahan, Abraham, 99
Campbell, Ralph B., 122–24
Cantor, Eddie (Isidor Iskowitch), 32, 176, 189, 190, 192, 231
Cantor, Ida, 231
Carnegie, Andrew, xi
Carpathia, 106
Carpentier, Georges, 234, 235
Castle Garden, 21
Catherine II of Russia, 35–36
Catskill resorts, 47–48
see also Borscht Belt
Cedarhurst, NY, 321, 323
Century Country Club (New York City), 313–14
Cerf, Bennett, 378–80
Chancellor, John, 351
Chaplin, Charlie, 262–63, 382
Child of the Century, A, 280
Children’s Strike, 4
Churchill, Winston, 381
City College (New York City), 178–80
Clark, Senator Bennett Champ, 265–66
Cobb, Lee J., 192
Coburn, Charles, 304
Coca, Imogene, 272
Cocteau, Jean, 174
Cohan, George M., 183
Cohen, Mickey:
descriptions of, 278–79, 339, 356–57
downfall of, 356
Benny Siegel and, 302, 305, 306, 307
temper of, 356
Zionism and, 280–85, 300
Cohn, Harry, 84, 202, 246, 351
Conn, Leonore. See Annenberg, Leonore Cohn
Coleman, McAlister, 72
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 318
Columbia Pictures Corporation, formation of, 202
Commentary, 274
Commercial Cable Company, 101–02
Communist witch-hunt, 343–52
Coolidge, Calvin, 115, 315
Coughlin, Father Charles, 339
Crawford, Joan, 292
Cronkite, Walter, 351
Cukor, George, 381
Dan, Uri, 356
Dance, Charlie, Dance, 274
Dark Angel, The, 196
Da Silva, Howard (Howard Silverblatt), 345–46
Davies, Marion, 196
Davis, Bette, 371
Davis, Sir Mortimer, 214
Day, Richard, 229
Dearborn Independent, 138
Debs, Eugene V., 69, 108
Dee, P. S., 125, 134
Del Rio, Dolores, 196
DeMille, Cecil Blount, 86–88, 93, 195, 196, 201
DeMille, William C., 86–87
Dempsey, Jack, 159, 234, 235
Dewey, Thomas E., 294
DeWitt, Margaret, 121–22
Dillingham, S. W., 125, 134
Disney, Walt, 267
Dix, Richard, 203
Dodsworth, 208
Donghia, Angelo, 376
Duer, Katherine Alexander. See Mackay, Katherine Alexander Duer
Dufy, Raoul, 174
du Pont, Eugene E., 199, 200
du Pont, Henry F., 199, 200
du Pont, T. Coleman, 199, 200
du Pont family, xi, 368
Earth and High Heaven, 268
Eastern European Jews. See Russian Jews
East Side (New York City):
Lower, 3–6, 9, 12–13, 18–19, 22–23, 26–27, 29, 31, 32, 77–79, 138–41, 147
Upper, 12–13, 146, 175–76
Einstein, Albert, 315
Eisenberg, Dennis, 356
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 341, 342
Ellis Island, 42
Emanu-El, Temple (New York City), 292, 310–13
Epstein, Jacob, 32
Espionage Law, 119
Espy, Reeves, 229
Eternal City, The, 208
Evlanoff, Michael, 225
Fairbanks, Douglas, 192, 208, 381
Famous Players—Lasky, 92–95
Farnum, Dustin, 87, 88
Farrar, Geraldine, 197
Faye, Alice, 278
Ferber, Edna, 230
Fiddler on the Roof, 346
Fine, Sylvia, 272
Firpo, Luis Angel, 159
Fisher, Max M., 165
Fisher, William (Velvil Fisch), 165
Five Towns (Long Island, NY), 321–24
Flamingo Hotel (Las Vegas), 301–08
Flowers, Maude B., 116, 119–20
Ford, Henry, xi, 138, 269, 313, 339
Ford, John, 232–33
Ford Foundation, 313
Founding Father, The, 257
Fox, William, 112, 191
Foy, Thelma Chrysler, 289
Frank, Helena, 69
Freeman, Monroe E., 341, 342
Frick, Henry Clay, xi, 3, 130n.
Front Page, The, 274
Gable, Clark, 192
Gardner, Ava, 278
Garfield, John (Julius Garfinkle), 192, 346–47
Garland, Judy, 278
Garson, Greer, 293
Gebhardt, Florence E., 116, 121, 134
Gelbfisz, Shmuel. See Goldywn, Samuel
General League of Jewish Workers in Russia, Poland, and Lithuania, 38
German-American Bund, 339
German Jews, 11–24, 145–47
gambling and, 79–80
Reform Judaism of, 13–14
Russian Jews vs., 12, 15, 20–21, 22, 23–24, 291–92, 309–14, 332–33
wealth of, 11–12, 15, 20
Gershwin, George, 188
Giannini, Amadeo Peter, 197, 206
Gibson, Charles Dana, 52, 70
Gide, André, 174
Gilbert, John, 205
Glyn, Elinor, 111
Goddard, Paulette (Pauline Levee), 192
Godsol, Frank Joseph, 198–201, 202
“Goldbergs, The,” 347
Goldfish, Sam. See Goldwyn, Samuel
Goldman, Emma, 3, 114, 122, 129
Goldwyn, Blanche Lasky, 85–86, 93–94, 202–03
Goldwyn, Frances Howard, 203–08, 229, 230, 273, 292, 297–99, 380–83
Goldwyn, Samuel (Shmuel Gelbfisz), 32, 262, 264, 268
career in films of, 85–95, 191, 195–201, 208, 227–33
daughter Ruth and, 94, 202–03, 270
divorce of, 94, 202–03
early career of, 84–85
emigration from Poland, 33–35
as executive, 227–33
film financing and, 197–201
generosity of, 237, 270
Goldwynisms of, 229–30
forms Goldwyn Pictures, 95
Danny Kaye and, 272–74
last illness of, 382
marrage to Frances Howard, 203–08, 380–83
marriage to Blanche Lasky, 86, 93–94, 202–03
feud of, with Louis B. Mayer, 228
forms Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 201
reaction of, to Nazis, 258
Louella Parsons and, 296
as publicist, 195–96
social aspirations of, 295–99, 351
Squaw Man and, 87–89
views of, on television, 319
Anzia Yezierska and, 110, 111–12
&n
bsp; Adolph Zukor and, 93–95, 201
Goldwyn, Samuel, Jr., 336, 382
Gompers, Samuel, 71
Gone with the Wind, 261
Good Citizenship, 75–76
Gordon, Leon, 294
Gould, Anna, 331
Gould, Jay, 331
Gourielli-Tchkonia, Archil, 225, 293
Grable, Betty, 278, 279–80, 282
Graham, Gwendolyn, 268
Grand Concourse (Bronx, NY), 177, 178, 320
Graustark, 231–32
Great Gatsby, The, 374, 375
Griffith, D. W., 88
Guggenheim, Benjamin, 105
Guggenheim family, 12
Guinness, Mrs. Loel, 289
Gunzburg, Baron Alain de, 332
Gunzburg, Minda Bronfman de, 332, 361
Gussev, Sergei, 254
Guzik, Jacob “Greasy Thumb,” 149
Haganah, 281, 282
Halkett, Sarah Phelps Stokes, 58
Hall, John, 232
Hamilton, Gertrude, 120
Hand, Learned, 95
Harding, Warren G., 315
Harlem (New York City), 320
Harlow, Jean, 111
Harmonie Club (New York City), 314
Harper’s Bazaar, 59, 60, 65
Harper’s Weekly, 29
Hayward, Leland, 262
Hebrew language, 14, 24
Hebrew Standard, 24, 64–65
Hecht, Ben, 258–62, 263, 264, 265, 274, 280, 281, 284
Helleu, Paul, 174
Hellman, Lillian, 231, 344
Hello, Dolly!, 381
Helpful Thoughts, 10
Hepburn, Katharine, 381
Herberg, Will, 73
Hespeler, William, 216
Hewlett, NY, 321, 322
Hill, “Chick,” 306
Hill, Virginia, 302–03, 305, 307
Hillcrest Country Club (Los Angeles), 267–68
Hillquit, Morris, 70
Hine, Lewis W., 46
His Girl Friday, 274
Hitler, Adolf, 255, 275, 287, 289 see also Nazis
Hoffman, Dustin, 87n.
Holiday magazine, 337
Hollywood Black List, 344–49
Hollywood Ten, 345
Holman, Libby (Catherine Holzman), 189
Hoover, Herbert, 315
Hoover, John Edgar, 114
Hopper, Hedda, 264, 345, 349, 351
Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss), 189
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 343–49, 351
Howard, Frances. See Goldwyn, Frances Howard
Hughes, Howard, xi
Hughes, Rupert, 110, 197
Hungry Hearts, 110, 111, 113
Huntley, Chet, 351
Hurricane, 232–33
I Can Get It for You Wholesale, 274
International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), 70–73
Inwood, NY, 321, 323
Irgun Tzevai Leumi, 259, 281, 282, 284
Israel:
American Jews and, 353–54, 358–59
creation of, 280–86, 289
Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 259–60, 263
James, Harry, 282
Javits, Jacob, 23, 32
Jerome, V. J., 219n.
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