City of Nets (104 page)

In the Sultan's Power
, 6

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
, 573

Irish Eyes Are Smiling
, 258

Isherwood, Christopher, 193

Israel, 535–38

It's All True
(unfinished), 205, 216–17, 556

It's a Wonderful Life
, 505–6

Iturbi, José, 59, 205

Ivanhoe
, 494, 536

 

Jackson, Donald L., 594–95

Jacobowsky and the Colonel
, 84

Jane Eyre
, 55, 280

Jannings, Emil, 102

Japan and Japanese, 142–47, 158, 159–67, 359, 424, 514.
See also
Pearl Harbor

Jarrico, Paul, 465, 614

Jazz Age, 137

The Jazz Singer
, 24–25, 104, 170, 409

Jews, 67–69, 348–51, 438, 494, 512–13, 518.
See also
Anti-Semitism

Joan of Arc, 533–34, 584

Johnny Belinda
, 473

Johnson, Edwin C., 590–91

Johnson, Jack, 275

Johnson, Nunnally, 112, 343, 518

Johnson, Van, 632

Johnston, Eric, 340n, 446–47, 463, 469–70, 481–83, 485–86, 590

Johnston Office, 340, 352, 363–64, 409–11, 509.
See also
Hays Office (Hollywood Production Code Administration)

Jones, Dorothy B., 572

Jones, Jennifer, 57, 83, 263, 311–14, 327–29, 390, 533, 549, 620–21, 630–31

Joseph and His Brothers
, 390

J. P. Morgan, 485

Juarez
, 74–75, 114

Judson, Edward C., 209–11, 215

 

Kahan, Ben, 398

Kahn, Gordon, 438, 446, 449–50, 481, 545

Kallman, Chester, 508–9

Kanin, Garson, 151, 497

Karloff, Boris, 26,
254
, 284–85, 288–293, 299

Katz, Charles, 438, 447

Kaufman, George S., 441

Kaye, Danny, 462, 462n, 463, 472, 512–13

Kazan, Elia, 452, 527–28

Keaton, Buster, 565

Kelly, Gene, 213, 214, 402, 441, 462, 463, 501, 545, 604, 616

Kempton, Murray, 432n, 464n

Kennedy, Joseph P., 29, 371, 518

Kenny, Robert, 438–40, 446–48

Kent, Sidney, 88

Kern, Jerome, 213, 598

Keyes, Evelyn, 462

Kidnapped
, 260–61

Kinetoscope, 7

King, Sherwood, 384

The King of Kings
, 574–75, 624

Kingsley, Sidney, 115, 621

Kings Row
, 123–28, 191, 238, 448

Kitt, Eartha, 561

Kitty Foyle
, 76, 124, 470

Klemperer, Otto, 60–61, 83

Knef, Hildegard, 553–54

Knopf, Alfred, 112, 228–30, 232, 338–39, 391

Knox, Frank, 455

Knute Rockne-All American
, xiii, 76–79, 122

Koch, Howard, 194–95, 219, 438, 440, 446, 449–50

Koerner, Charles, 291, 493–94

Kohner, Paul, 82, 114

Korda, Alexander, 39, 72–73, 556–57

Korda, Michael, 72–73

Korean War, xi, 533, 610, 615, 621

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 58, 83, 124

Krasna, Norman, 64–68

Krock, Arthur, 227

 

Ladd, Alan, 143–44, 234, 330–32, 334–37

Ladd, Sue Carol, 335, 336

The Lady from Shanghai
, 387–89

Laemmle, Carl, 21, 23–24, 287, 290, 299

Laemmle, Carl, Jr., 222, 287

Laemmle, Rosabelle, 100

Lake, Veronica, 174, 302

La Marr, Barbara, 18

Lamarr, Hedy, xii, 16–19,
148
, 151, 154, 190, 464, 624

Lamour, Dorothy, 151, 212

Lancaster, Burt, 541, 543

Lanchester, Elsa, 290, 422

Landru, Henri Désiré, 266–67

Lang, Fritz, 63–66, 116, 136, 180, 181–84, 230, 573–74

Langford, Frances, 224–25

Lansky, Meyer, 369–71, 374, 375, 377, 378–79, 381–82

Lardner, Ring, Jr., 99, 429, 438–41, 449–50, 475–76, 480–82, 484, 485, 528, 571, 611–14

Lasky, Jesse L., 147, 299, 345n, 629

Lassie Come Home
, 490

The Last Tycoon
, 24, 40, 628

Las Vegas, 33, 97, 152, 369–70, 374–82, 416–17, 425–26

Laughton, Charles, 419–29, 480

Laura
, 262–65

Laurents, Arthur, 222, 565

Lavery, Emmet, 449–50

Lawson, John Howard, 18n, 104–5, 107, 108, 267, 365, 367, 429, 433, 438, 449–50, 459, 463–70, 610, 611, 621

Leaming, Barbara, xii

LeBaron, William, 300

Lederer, Charles, 27, 608

Lee, Canada, 552–53

Leech, John L., 75, 185

Leigh, Vivien, 31, 34, 40–41, 193

Le Roy, Doris, 25

Le Roy, Mervyn, 25, 147, 578, 625n, 625–26, 634

Leslie, Joan, 187, 187n

Levant, Oscar, 60–61, 553

Levene, Sam, 494n, 513

Lewis, Sinclair, 99, 266, 492

Lewton, Val, 291–92

Liberty Films, 505–6

The Life of an American Fireman
, 7–8

Life of Emile Zola
, 71n

Limelight
, 564–71

Lindbergh, Charles, 73, 171–72, 192

Lindeloff, Lawrence P., 359, 406

Lindsay, Howard, 506, 553

Lindstrom, Petter, 532–33, 582, 583, 585–86, 589, 590

Lindstrom, Pia, 38

Lingeman, Richard, 158–59

Lippmann, Walter, 159–60, 163

Little Caesar
, 118, 625n

The Little Sister
, 87, 338

Litvak, Anatole, 558

Location shooting, 158, 341–42, 387–88

Lockheed, 147, 167, 168

Loew, Marcus, 5, 93

Loew's, Inc., 3, 5, 21, 27, 88, 108, 134, 282–84, 496, 506, 507

Lombard, Carole, 26, 151–53

Loo, Beverly Jane, 158n

Loo, Richard, 158, 158n

Loos, Anita, 98, 608

Lord, Robert, 71

Lorre, Peter, 116, 158, 180, 194, 196–97, 243, 421, 545

Los Angeles, origins of name, 9–10

Los Angeles Merchants and Manufacturers Association (M&M), 101

Losey, Joseph, 426, 427

The Lost Weekend
, 599–600, 606

Louis, Jean, 385

Lowry, Malcolm, 633

Loy, Myrna, 316, 441

Loyalty oaths, 544–49

Lubitsch, Ernst, 36, 43, 63, 82, 573–74, 600–1

Luce, Clare Boothe, 261–62

Luce, Henry, 521

Luciano, Lucky, 91, 370, 378–79

Lugosi, Bela, 287, 288

Lumière brothers, 7, 627

Lundberg, Ferdinand, 559

Lupino, Ida, 120, 124

 

MacArthur, Charles, 9, 27, 61–62, 516

MacArthur, Douglas, 164

Macbeth
, 388, 552, 556, 557

MacDonald, Jeanette, 220, 316, 625

MacGowan, Kenneth, 258

MacGuffin, 324, 324n, 522–23

MacLeish, Archibald, 441

MacLiammóir, Micheál, 216, 558, 559

MacMurray, Fred, 233–35, 604

MacPhail, Angus, 324n

Madame DuBarry
, 36, 573–74

Madame Tussaud's Hollywood Wax Museum, 1–3

Maeterlinck, Maurice, 13

Magnani, Anna, 535

Mahagonny, as city of nets, 8, 87.
See also
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Mahin, John Lee, 390

Mailer, Bea, 539, 542

Mailer, Norman, 539–43

Malaquais, Jean, 539–41

The Maltese Falcon
, xi, 112–17, 190, 194, 350, 448, 545, 622

Maltz, Albert, 195, 438, 449–50, 464–65, 473–74, 513, 538, 611

Mamoulian, Rouben, 212, 264–65

Mandl, Fritz, 17–18

Mankiewicz, Herman J., 103n, 129–34, 497, 516

Mankiewicz, Joseph, 64–65, 69–70, 300, 321, 498, 545, 625n

Mann, Erika, 396

Mann, Golo, 81

Mann, Heinrich, 80–82, 140–42, 391–92, 591–93

Mann, Katia, 395, 397, 591, 592

Mann, Nelly Kroeger, 80, 81, 141, 142, 391–92

Mann, Thomas, xi, 38, 80, 82, 85, 140–42, 320, 346, 389–98, 412, 461–62, 591, 593–95

Mann Act, 275–76, 566

Mannix, Eddie, 64, 106, 109, 152, 398, 404, 429–30, 441–42, 446, 482, 484, 491

Mann's Chinese Theaters, 4–5, 15

Mantz, Paul, 220–21

March, Fredric, 75–76, 300, 441

Marcuse, Herbert, 391

Marcuse, Ludwig, 141, 391

Margolis, Ben, 438

Marijuana, 561–64

Marquand, John, 158

Marshall, George (director), 331

Marshall, George (general), 218, 256, 272

Marx, Chico, 12, 96, 129, 459

Marx, Groucho, 12, 61–62, 68, 129, 224, 441, 459, 536

Marx, Harpo, 12, 61–62, 96, 129, 459

Marx, Sam, 102–3, 342

Marxism, 135–36, 138

Massey, Raymond, 579

Mature, Victor, 215–16, 624

May, Joe, 62, 598

Mayer, Louis B., 18, 19, 21–28, 68–70, 91–92, 96, 98n, 107, 129–30, 133–34, 138, 157–58, 177, 193, 272, 307, 315–19, 321, 345n, 390, 430, 432, 442, 453–56, 458, 481, 482, 485,
488
, 489–92, 495–500, 536, 541, 550, 571, 606–7, 622, 624–26, 629–30.
See also
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M-G-M)

Mayer, Maggie Shenburg (Mrs. L. B. Mayer), 315–19, 499

McCarey, Leo, 235, 459, 506

McCarthy, Joseph, 404, 432

McCarthyism, 404

McCrea, Joel, 72, 302

McDowell, John, 458

McGranery, James, 568–71

McIntyre, Andrew, 153

McNutt, Paul V., 446

The Measures Taken
, 436, 477–79

Mehring, Walter, 82, 141

Mellett, Lowell, 304–5

Mencken, H. L., 363, 364

Menjou, Adolphe, 459–60, 543

Menzies, William Cameron, 29, 124

Methot, Mayo, 120–21, 195, 353

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M-G-M), 3, 5, 22–31, 36–37, 39, 57–59, 64, 69, 88, 91–94, 96, 102–3, 106, 108–10, 122, 129–30, 133–34, 140, 151–53, 193, 264, 282–84, 307, 342–43, 390, 401–2, 404, 423, 441–42, 453–54, 470–71, 482, 482n, 484, 485, 489–92, 629–30.
See also
Mayer, Louis B.; Thalberg, Irving

Metropolis
, 64

Metropolitan Theater, 4–5

Mexicans/Chicanos, 33, 67, 199–205

Meyer, Johnny, 442–44

Mickey Mouse, 23, 48–49

A Midsummer Night's Dream
, 58, 280

Milhaud, Darius, 58

Milland, Ray, 599

Miller, Ann, 499, 632

Miller, Arthur, 452

Mineta, Norman, 165–66

Minnelli, Vincente, 500–1

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
, 295–96, 302–7

Miranda, Carmen, 205

Mission to Moscow
, 219, 219n, 272, 450–51

Miss Lonelyhearts
/
Advice to the Lovelorn
, 13, 113, 541

Mitchum, Robert,
540
, 561–64

Mix, Tom, 367

Mocambo nightclub, 172, 628, 634

Modern Times
, 269, 273, 409

Mojave Desert, 32, 369–70

Monsieur Verdoux
, 267, 273, 277, 408–16, 564–65

Montgomery, Robert, 36, 95, 149, 402, 506

The Moon Is Down
, 258, 518

Morgan, Dennis, 124, 191

Morgenthau, Henry, 151

Morgenthau, Mrs. Henry, 17

Mother Courage
, 135, 487

Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, 238–39, 459, 578

Motion Picture Association, 340n, 446

Motion Picture Industry Council (MPIC), 546

Motion Picture Producers Association, 75, 92–93, 98, 406, 469–70, 590

Motion Pictures Patents Company, 8

Motion Picture Technicians Committee, 94

Moving-picture process, 7–8, 627

Mrs. Miniver
, 70, 455

Muir, Florabel, 92, 245, 381

Mulholland, William, 31–33

Muni, Paul, 46, 116, 158, 519

Murder Inc., 90, 373

Murphy, Frank, 275, 609

Murphy, George, 402, 616

Music and musicians, xi–xiii, 2–3, 36, 38–39, 41,
42
, 43–62, 83–85, 142–43, 144, 146, 156, 196, 321, 326, 326n, 383, 393, 394–98, 427, 436–37, 498, 507–9, 529–30, 556, 561, 622–23

Musso and Frank's, 301, 629

Mussolini, Benito, 66–67, 167, 210, 530

Muybridge, Eadweard, 7

 

Naish, J. Carroll, 285

The Naked and the Dead
, 539–43

National Can, 485

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), 94, 105, 108, 360–61, 403

National Lawyers Guild, 438–39

Naturama, 627

Nazism, 17–18, 35, 43–48, 63–71, 79–85, 135–42, 181–82, 184, 258, 261–62, 272–73, 320, 321–22, 382, 519–20, 525, 529–30, 593.
See also
Germany and German refugees

Neal, Patricia, 579–80, 621

Negri, Pola, 36, 603–4

Neilan, Marshall, 169, 177

Nelson, Harmon, 172–73

Neutra, Richard, 578

New Deal, 33–34, 105, 283, 403–4, 433, 437, 442–43, 555, 609.
See also
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

New York Film Critics Award, 530

New York Philharmonic, 142–43, 146

New York Trust, 485

Nichols, Dudley, 237–39

Nicholson, Jack, 33

Night at the Opera
, 129

Ninotchka
, xi, 19, 63, 229, 328–29, 571, 600

Nitti, Frank, 90–92, 97

Niven, David, 40–41, 189, 240

Nixon, Richard M., 1, 341, 404, 434, 436, 481, 551, 570–72, 594, 609

NLRB.
See
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Nobel Prize, 38, 344, 355

Norma Productions, 541–42

Northern Pursuit
, 344, 474

Notorious
, 531

Nye, Gerald, 73–74

 

Ober, Harold, 353