Index to Academy Oral Histories Howard W. Koch

Howard W. Koch (Producer, Director) Call number: OH149 Abdo, Laurie, 66, 88 Abrahams, Jim, 39 Academy Awards, 14, 18–25, 28–30, 40–42, 57–63, 66–113, 117, 120–122, 126–127 Academy Awards 1979 Oscar Annual (book), 112 Academy Film Scholars Program, 124 Academy Headquarters (Beverly Hills), 26–27, 124 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, 124 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 12, 17–30, 40–42, 57–61, 63, 66–91, 93–113, 117–126 Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, 31, 87 accounting, 50–51;99-100 acting, 12, 46–47, 53–54, 78–79, 83, 87, 95-97, 115, 117 advertising, 117 AFFLICTION, 93 African-Americans in the film industry, 120 agents, 29, 78 AIRPLANE!, 25, 39, 54 AIRPLANE II; THE SEQUEL, 39 alcoholism in films, 100 Allen, Woody, 57 Allyson, June, 48 Alton, John, 53 American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 79, 82, 91, 98, 118, 125 American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, 12 ANCHORS AWEIGH, 41 Andrews, Julie, 106 ANDY HARDY COMES HOME, 54 ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD (1951), 11; 46–47, 49 ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD (1994), 46 Archerd, Army, 68 art direction, 84 assistant directing, 10–12, 15, 40, 42–49, 105, 126 Association of Motion Picture Producers, 121 Atlas, Jack, 18 attorneys in motion pictures, 78, 84 Aubrey Schenck Productions, 17 A-Z Productions, 54 BADGE 373, 55–56, 65, 114 Bailey, John, 120 Balaban, Barney, 32 Bancroft, Anne, 50 Barker, Lex, 52 Basehart, Richard, 53 Bates, Kathy, 30 BEACHHEAD, 17 Bel-Air Productions, 15–17 Bell, Carl, 22–23 Bell System, 123 Benigni, Roberto, 24–25 Benjamin, Jean, 68–69 Benjamin, Robert, 16, 68–69 Bergen, Candice, 73 Bernstein, Elmer, 18 BEST BOY, 109 Beverly Hills (California), 20–21 Beverly Hills High School (California), 45 Beverly Hills Police Department, 9 THE BIG FIX, 43 BIG HOUSE U.S.A., 44, 49, 55 billing, 42 blacklisting, 40–42 THE BLACK SLEEP, 50 Bluhdorn, Charles, 34, 36–37, 63 BOB HOPE--ON THE ROAD WITH BING (television), 80 BOP GIRL GOES CALYPSO, 52 BORDER INCIDENT, 45, 48 BORN RECKLESS, 51 BORN TO SPEED, 43 Bowen, Sid, 12 BOWFINGER, 105 Brando, Marlon, 66–68, 86 Braverman, Charles, 111 THE BROKEN STAR, 50 Bronson, Charles, 49 Brown, Clarence, 11, 46, 126 Brown, Russ, 35 Brugge, Gerte, 36–37 budgets, 19, 37, 43–44, 50–52, 83, 91, 111, 114–115 Burnett, Carol, 66 Caine, Michael, 66 Camden Productions, 44 Capra, Frank, 18, 105 Carey, Macdonald, 18 CASABLANCA, 40–41 casting, 36 Cates, Gilbert, 81 censorship, 55, 70, 82, 117 Champlin, Charles, 98 Chandler, Dorothy Buffum, 108 Chaplin, Charles, 57–59, 62, 76, 82–83, 92 Chaplin, Oona, 58, 92 CHARIOTS OF FIRE, 41 Chayefsky, Paddy, 109 choreography, 60 Christie's (auction house), 41 cinematography, 53, 91–92 CITIZEN KANE, 41 Clark Productions, 52 Clinton, William J. Bill, 14 THE COBRA STRIKES, 45, 48 Coburn, James, 93 Coen, Ethan, 115 Coen, Joel, 115 Columbine, Colorado (1999), 14 comedy films, 25, 104–105 Conti, Bill, 75, 83 contracts, 36, 117 Cooper, Martin M., 111 Corcoran, Donna, 46 Cort, Robert, 65 costume design, 60–61, 66, 90 craft services, 57 cranes and dollies, 44, 49, 80 Crawford, Broderick, 49 credits, 11, 42, 47 CRIME AGAINST JOE, 50 CRISIS, 48 Crosby, Bing, 80 THE DALTON GIRLS, 50 David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award, 106 Davis, Bette, 41 Davis, Bruce, 21, 27, 40 Davis, Sammy Jr., 59 Dax Foundation (charitable organization), 41 de Havilland, Olivia, 106 DESERT SANDS, 50 directing, 10–16, 33, 37-39, 43–46, 49–55, 61–64, 66, 77, 80–83, 85, 90, 106, 110, 113–115, 126–127 Directors Guild of America, 12–14, 105 Directors Guild of America Assistant Director Training Program, 13 Directors Guild of America Award, 31 Directors Guild of America Frank Capra Award, 13 distribution, 23–24, 39–40, 55, 65, 115–117 documentary film, 22–23 Dorian, Charles, 12 Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles), 24, 59, 66, 108 Douglas, Paul, 46–47 DRAGNET (radio), 53–54 DRAGNET (television), 53–54 drive-in theaters, 52 Duvall, Robert, 57 Eagle Lion Pictures, 15–17, 42–45, 53, 105 EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE, 48 Eastwood, Clint, 74–75 Elias, Hal, 17–18, 102 EMERGENCY HOSPITAL, 50 Emmy Awards, 87 Essex Productions, 31-32 THE EVE OF ST. MARK, 10 executives, 13–14, 31–40, 52, 115 exhibition, 23–24, 38–40, 52, 55, 65, 96, 116 extras, 10 fan mail, 52 Farelly, Bobby, 115 Farelly, Peter, 115 Fields, Verna, 111 Fifty Golden Years of Oscar: The Official History of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (book), 112 film libraries, 9 Fletcher, Louise, 80–81, 92 Fonda, Jane, 61–62 Foray, June, 22–23 foreign-language versions of Hollywood films, 82 FORT BOWIE, 51 FOR THOSE WHO THINK YOUNG, 55 THE FORTUNE COOKIE, 64, 88 FORT YUMA, 50 Frank Capra Achievement Award, 105 FRANKENSTEIN 1970, 54 Frank, Melvin, 19 Frankovich, Michael J., 18 Freed, Arthur, 19, 101–102 THE FRENCH CONNECTION, 56, 61 Friedkin, William, 68 FRONTIER SCOUT, 50 Fryman Productions, 54 Gable, Clark, 41 Garnett, Tay, 11 Garson, Greer, 109 Gavin, John, 73 THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER, 38 GHOST, 25, 39 GHOST TOWN, 48, 50 ghostwriting, 113 Gibbons, Cedric, 112 THE GIRL IN BLACK STOCKINGS, 50 THE GODFATHER, 57 Goldberg, Whoopi, 60, 70 Goldwyn, Samuel, 26, 98, 125 GONE WITH THE WIND, 41, 106 Graver, Gary, 41 grips and electricians, 45 Gulf & Western Corporation, 34, 37–38 Hackman, Gene, 56–57, 62 Haley, Jack Jr., 101-102 Hamburger Hamlets (restaurants), 56 Hawn, Goldie, 91 Hayes, Helen, 59 Head, Edith, 61 HEARTS AND MINDS, 70 HELL BOUND, 50 Hepburn, Audrey, 63, 69 Herrick, Margaret, 25–26, 111, 122 Heston, Charlton, 66, 74, 86 HE WALKED BY NIGHT, 43–45, 52–54 Higgins, John, 49 Holden, William, 106 Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, 121 Hope, Bob, 70, 80, 106 Hornbeck, William, 18 HOT CARS, 50 Hudson, Rock, 66 Hughes, Albert, 115 Hughes, Allen, 115 Hynes, Fred, 18 I CHEATED THE LAW, 48 Inside Oscar (book), 67 internet, 116–117 Irving Thalberg Memorial Award, 89 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, 41 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, 45 Jackson, Michael, 41 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, 68–69, 88–89, 104 JEZEBEL, 41 Johnson, Ben, 60 journalism, 68, 77, 81–82, 96 JULIUS CAESAR (1953), 86 JUNGLE HEAT, 50 Kanin, Fay, 84–85, 90, 102, 111 Kaper, Bronislau, 18 Karp, Jacob, 31–32 Kelly, Gene, 91, 106 THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM, 10 King, Alan, 59–60 Koch, Emily (granddaughter), 88 Koch, _____ (father), 9–10, 16 Koch, Howard W. -- childhood, 9, 88–89, 126 Koch, Howard W. -- enters motion pictures, 9–10 Koch, Howard W. -- at Twentieth Century-Fox, 9 Koch, Howard W. -- and World War II civil defense, 9, 22 Koch, Howard W. -- as assistant director, 10–12, 16, 42–43, 45–48 Koch, Howard W. -- and Aubrey Schenck, 15–17 Koch, Howard W. -- and Bel-Air Productions, 15–17 Koch, Howard W. -- and Eagle Lion Pictures, 15–16 Koch, Howard W. -- as director, 15–16, 54–56, 80 Koch, Howard W. -- and Directors Guild of America, 12–14 Koch, Howard W. -- and television directing, 31 Koch, Howard W. -- and Frank Capra Award, 13, 105 Koch, Howard W. -- as producer, 16-28, 31, 63–66, 98–103, 105–106, 110, 112–113, 117–118, 126 Koch, Howard W. -- and Frank Sinatra, 31–33 Koch, Howard W. -- as Paramount Pictures studio head, 31–39 Koch, Howard W. -- and the Academy, 17–18, 20–28, 31, 98–103, 105–106, 110, 112–113, 117–118, 126 Koch, Howard W. -- and Academy Awards, 19–20, 57–58, 60–63, 66–84, 86–96, 101, 117–118, 121–122, 126–127 Koch, Howard W. -- as Academy President, 89, 100–103, 110–113, 118–125 Koch, Howard W. -- as Academy Life Member, 104 Koch, Howard W. -- and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, 88–89, 104 Koch, Howard W. Hawk Jr. (son), 12, 40-42 Koch, Lucy, 40–41 Koch, Ruth (wife), 33, 35, 88 Koch, William (grandson), 23 Kodak Theater (Los Angeles), 20–21 Krim, Arthur, 16 labor unions, 10–14, 114–115, 126–127 Lansing, Sherry, 65 Lantz, Walter, 121 THE LAST MILE, 54–55 LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS, 65 Latinos in motion pictures, 55 LAURA, 36 LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, 10 Legion of Decency, 55 Leigh, Janet, 11, 46 Lemmon, Jack, 59, 64, 74, 111 Leroy, Mervyn, 11 LET'S LIVE A LITTLE, 45 Lipstone, Howard, 98 litigation, 37–38 Littlefeather, Sacheen (Maria Cruz), 66–68, 86 Littlejohn, William, 22–23 Littleton, Carol, 120 location shooting, 17, 45–46, 50, 56 Loew's Inc, 15 Los Angeles County Music Center, 108 Los Angeles District Attorney, 100 Los Angeles Fire Department, 28 Los Angeles Police Department, 28 Lubitsch, Ernst, 40 Ludwig, William, 106 Madden, Dave, 65 MAGNAVOX PRESENTS FRANK SINATRA (television), 31, 80 Mahnken, Elaine, 54 THE MAN FROM TEXAS, 45 Mankiewicz, Joseph, 10–11 Mann, Anthony, 44 Margaret Herrick Library, 22 marketing, 117 Martin, Steve, 105 Mason, Marsha, 106 Matthau, Walter, 37, 64–65, 88, 91, 106 May, Elaine, 37–38 McDowall, Roddy, 121 MacLaine, Shirley, 71 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 16, 33, 46–47, 54 Metzler, Fred L., 95 Metzler, Robert F., 95, 101 MICKEY (1948), 17 Miller, Arthur C., 18 Mirisch, Marvin, 102 Mirisch, Walter, 17, 26, 84, 91–92, 104, 118 Mohr, Hal, 17–18 Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), 14 Motion Picture Country House and Hospital, 121 Motion Picture Producers Association, 15 Moulin Productions, 17 Murphy, Eddie, 104–105 Museum of Modern Art (New York City), 121–122 music, film, 52, 75–76, 92-93 music, television, 75-76, 83, 92 National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 79–82, 91, 118 nepotism in the film industry, 15-17 A NEW LEAF, 37–38 A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, 114 THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH, 45, 48 Oak Pictures, 50–51 O'Brien, Edmond, 44–45, 49 occupational safety and health, 14 O'Connor, Carroll, 57 THE ODD COUPLE, 30, 63–65 THE ODD COUPLE II, 65 Ohmart, Carol, 51 Olivier, Laurence, 108–109 ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER, 17, 30, 65–66 ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH, 66 Opel, Robert, 93 OSCAR PRESENTS JOHN WAYNE AND THE WAR MOVIES (television), 98 OSCAR'S BEST ACTORS (television), 106, 108 OSCAR'S BEST MOVIES (television), 98, 106 OSCAR'S FIRST FIFTY YEARS (television), 111 OUTLAW'S SON, 50 OUT OF THE BLUE, 43 THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS (1999), 120 Palm Productions, 50 Paramount Pictures, 12–13, 31–40, 44, 52, 55–56, 63–66 Pasetta, Marty, 57, 60–61, 80–81, 90, 110 Pate, Jonas, 115 Pate, Joshua, 115 Pavlik, John, 121 Peck, Gregory, 17–18, 106 Peddie School (New Jersey), 88–89, 126 PHAROAH'S CURSE, 50 PHILO VANCE'S SECRET MISSION, 43 Pickfair (Beverly Hills), 91–92 Pickford, Mary, 91–92 Players Directory (trade publication), 124 PLAZA SUITE, 30, 65 Powell, Charles, 102 Preminger, Otto, 35–36 THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST, 64 Price Waterhouse (accounting firm), 100 prison films, 44, 49, 54–55 Producers Guild of America, 15, 106 Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), 43 producing, 12, 14–19, 24–25, 29–39, 44, 48–87, 90–95, 98, 101–102, 110, 113–116, 126–127 Production Code Administration, 14, 55 production management, 13, 47–83, 101 propaganda film, 42 protests against motion pictures, 55, 62, 65, 72–73, 91 QUINCANNON, 50 racism, 55 racism in the motion picture industry, 120 Rackin, Martin, 32 radio, 53-54, 109 ratings, 14–15 RAT RACE, 39 Reagan, Ronald, 96–97 REBEL IN TOWN, 44, 50 Redgrave, Lynn, 70, 95 Redgrave, Vanessa, 72, 91, 95 THE RED STALLION, 42–43, 48 Redstone, Sumner, 38 THE REFORMER AND THE REDHEAD, 48 Rehme, Robert, 23, 27, 111, 117, 124 REPEAT PERFORMANCE, 17 REVOLT AT FORT LARAMIE, 50 Reynolds, William, 18 Roberts, James, 27, 98–99 Rogers, Donald C., 102 ROMAN HOLIDAY, 63 Rooney, Mickey, 54 Ross, Katherine, 73 Roth, Jay D., 13 "runaway production, 114–115, 126 salaries, 14, 16, 83, 89, 114–115 Samuel Goldwyn Theater (Beverly Hills), 24, 26, 98, 125 Sanicola, Henry, 31-32 Savalas, Telly, 80 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, 14 Schary, Dore, 16 Schenck, Aubrey, 15–17, 42, 47, 49 Schenck, Joseph, 15 Schenck, Nicholas, 15 Schneider, Bert, 70–72 Screen Actors Guild, 12–13 Screen Publicists Guild, 105 screenwriting, 14–15, 40–42, 49, 52–53, 65, 84, 90, 98, 106, 109–110, 113–114 Segal, George, 91 Selznick, David O., 41 sexuality in films, 14, 51, 55 SHAFT, 57 SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, 73–74, 92–93 Shaw, Frank, 12 Shaw, Robert, 91 SHIELD FOR MURDER, 44–45, 49 short films, 22–23 Shrine Auditorium (Los Angeles), 86 Shurlock, Geoffrey, 18 SIDE STREET, 48 Simon, Neil, 64–65 Simpson, O. J., 91 Sinatra, Frank, 31–33, 50–51, 55, 69–71, 80 Sinatra, Nancy, 55 THE SIXTH SENSE, 115 SOLDIERS THREE, 49 SOME LIKE IT HOT, 77 Sotheby's (auction house), 41–42 sound recording, 46-47 sound re-recording, 46–47, 82 Spacey, Kevin, 41 Spiegelgass, William, 106 Spielberg, Steven, 41 Stahl, John, 10–11, 126 Stanwyck, Barbara, 48 STAR SPANGLED GIRL, 31, 65 Stoll, George, 41 Streisand, Barbra, 66 Student Academy Awards, 122–123 studio system, 47, 125 Taradash, Daniel, 17, 76, 84, 106 television, 31, 39, 70–71, 74–92, 106-111, 125 TELLY...WHO LOVES YA, BABY? (television), 80 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, 25 THE THIN RED LINE, 14 THREE BAD SISTERS, 48, 50 TITANIC, 38, 97 titles, 52, 82 T-MEN, 43 TOMAHAWK TRAIL, 48, 50 TO PLEASE A LADY, 48–49 Travolta, John, 38 TrizecHahn Corporation, 21 TULSA, 45–46 Turner, Ted, 62 Twentieth Century-Fox, 10–13 Tytle, Harry, 18 United Artists, 17, 51, 54 United States, President of the, 14, 96–97 Universal Pictures, 20–22 UNTAMED YOUTH, 49, 51 UNTOUCHABLES, THE (television), 31 Van Doren, Mamie, 50–51 Variety (trade publication), 68 Vidor, King, 121 violence in films, 14–15, 49, 55, 114, 116–117 VIOLENT ROAD, 51 VON RYAN'S EXPRESS, 32 VOODOO ISLAND, 50 Wachowski, Andy, 115 Wachowski, Larry, 115 Wallis, Hal, 21 WAR DRUMS, 50 war films, 17 Warner Bros., 51 WAR PAINT, 17 Wayne, John, 106, 108 Webb, Jack, 53–54 Webb, Robert, 12 Weisl, Edwin, 32, 34–35 Welles, Beatrice, 41 Welles, Orson, 41 Wellman, William, 11 Weltner, George, 32–35 Werker, Alfred, 43–44, 53 westerns, 17 Wilbur, Crane, 49 Wilder, Billy, 63–64 Williams, Billy Dee, 73 Williams, John, 75 Willis, Bruce, 115 Windsor, Marie, 50 Wise, Robert, 18 Wohl, Ira, 109 women in the film industry, 120 World War II, 9–14, 22 Writers Guild of America, 13 Wynn, Marty, 54 YELLOW TOMAHAWK, 50 Zucker, David, 39 Zucker, Janet, 39 Zucker, Jerry, 39