When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics Donald T

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Agnetti, L.E., 136 Biberman, Herbert, 77, 104 The Alamo, 140, 144 Blacklist, 42, 50, 59, 78, 80, 89, 93, 101–8, Albert, Eddie, 138 145, 194 Algonquin Hotel, 56 Black Panther, 196 Allyson, June, 118, 130, 172 Bliss, Ray, 167 Alvarez Hill, Helen, 166 Bloomingdale, Alfred, 143 Ameche, Don, 67 Bond, Ward, 34, 36, 49, 55, 66, 105, 107, America First Committee, 40, 57 140, 144 American Federation of Labor (AFL), 83 Boone, Pat, 142, 172, 191–2, 200, 206 American Legion, 9, 20, 35, 47, 88, 101–2, Bozell, Brent, 163 118, 141 Brackett III, Charles, 119 Amherst College, 34 Brecht, Bertolt, 31 Animal Crackers, 24, 51 Bregman, Buddy, 139 Anne, Revere, 83 Brennan, Walter, 51–2, 130, 142, 161–2, Anthony, Quinn, 138 172–3, 191–2 Anti-Fascist League, 32 Bridge on the River Kwai, 177 Anti-Semitism, 19, 40, 45, 55–6, 87 Bright, John, 28–9, 64 Archibald, MacLeish, 33 Brophy, Frank Cullen, 162 Associated Press, 35 Brown, Donald, 135 Astaire, Fred, 17, 54, 60, 181, 206 Buchman, Sidney, 57 Buckley Jr., William F., 162, 166 Bancroft, Philip, 44–5 Band Wagon Radio Show, 114–15 Cabot, Bruce, 111 Barrymore, Lionel, 14, 67 Cabot Lodge Jr., Henry, 164 The Battleship Potemkin, 18, 31 Cagney, James, 16, 18, 28, 32, 39, 191 Battle of the Somme, 36 Calhoun, Rory, 172–3, 191, 200 Beckett, Garner, 110 California Election News, 27 Beda, Rudolph, 31 California Light Horse Regiment, 35 Beery, Wallace, 14, 23, 67 California Light Regiment, 36 Belafonte, Harry, 138, 172 California Republican Party, 8, 14, 24, 42, 44, Bellamy, Ralph, 138 109, 121, 129, 131, 133, 137–8, 144–5, 158, Bell, Elliott, 128 165, 168 Bennett, Constance, 125, 172 California Walnut Growers Association, 25 Bernstein, Elmer, 122 Campbell, Allan, 29

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Cantor, Eddie, 32, 111 Cummings, Robert, 54, 130 Capra, Frank, 96, 194 Curtis, Tony, 138, 172 Captain Courageous, 30 Carmichael, Hoagy, 111 The Daily Worker, 34, 80 Carrillo, Leo, 26, 46–7, 119–20, 127 Darcy, Sam, 9, 24 Cartoonist Union, 30 Dart, Justin, 110, 129, 130, 138, 143, 155, 158, CBS, 122, 169 164–5, 167–8, 186, 193, 199 Chamber of Commerce, 20, 25, 52, 88, 124, 177 Dartmouth College, 61 Champ Clark, Bennett, 40 Davies, Joseph, 63 Chandler, Harry, 9–10, 24–5, 44, 85 Davis, Bette, 16, 81 Chaplin, Charlie, 16, 23–4, 32 Davis, John W., 9 Charles Mofﬁtt, John, 63 Davis Jr., Sammy, 138, 172, 193 Chase, Borden, 47, 50, 67 Davis, Phil, 178 Chavez, Cesar, 190 Day at the Races, 53 Chotiner, Murray, 44, 117, 136, 143 Death Day, 21 Christian Nationalist Party, 128 DeCarlo, Yvonne, 191 Christopher, George, 159, 185, 188 de Havilland, Olivia, 92 Cinema Educational Guild, 113 Dekker, Albert, 189 Cisco Kid, 120 DeMille, Cecil B., 8, 13, 15, 43, 45, 53, 55, 57, Citizen’s Committee for Voluntary Unionism, 67, 103, 109–11, 113, 115–16, 118–24, 128, 136 136–7, 166–7 Citizen Kane, 16 Democratic National Convention, 15 Civil Rights Act of 1957, 169 Democratic Party, 7–8, 12, 15–16, 23, 27, 62, Civil Rights Act of 1964, 163, 166, 175 68, 116, 118, 124, 126, 131, 133, 158, 175, Coburn, Charles, 67, 111 189–90, 193 The Cocoanuts, 51 de Toledano, Ralph, 118 Cofﬁn, Tris, 174 The Devil and Miss Jones, 53–4 Colburn, Charles, 49, 54 Dewey, Thomas, 66–7, 76, 85, 108, 121 Cold War, 43, 48, 78, 102, 110, 112, 140, 145, Dickstein, Samuel, 38 160, 164 Dieterle, William, 31 Cole, Lester, 29, 77, 100, 102, 106–7 Dilling, Elizabeth, 57 Collins, Richard, 61, 104–5 Directors Guild, 15, 103 Columbia Pictures, 119 Disney, Walt, 26, 39, 47, 52–3, 55, 67, 70, 96, Committee for Voluntary Unionism, 136, 166 98, 109, 119, 142–3, 172, 173 Commonwealth Progressive Party, 23 A Divided Heart, 52 Communist Party, 7–9, 16, 20, 22, 24–6, 29–34, Dmytryk, Edward, 77, 90, 104 38, 48, 53, 55, 57–65, 78–9, 88, 91, 92, Dos Passos, John, 33, 51, 79–80 95–100, 102, 104–5, 107, 177, 196 Douglas, Kirk, 106, 138, 140, 162 Conference of Studio Unions, 53–4, 65, 78, 81 Douglas, Stephen, 163 Connally Amendment, 138, 141 Downey, Sheridan, 27, 116 Connors, Chuck, 130, 172, 188, 191–2, 200 Dramatist League, 29 Constitutional Party, 128 Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 37 Contemporary Historians Inc., 33 DuPont II, Pierre, 135 Coolidge, Calvin, 12–13, 36 Cooper, Gary, 7, 34, 36–7, 42, 49, 51, 66–7, 77, Eastman, Max, 51 89, 98, 111, 132, 144, 204 Ebsen, Buddy, 142, 173–4, 181, 188, 191–2, Cosmopolitan, 34, 52 203 Cotton, Joseph, 81 Eddy, Nelson, 130 Craig, Robert L., 44 Eisenstein in Mexico, 21 Creel, George, 23, 121, 125 Eisenstein, Sergei, 18, 20–2 Cristina, Vernon J., 171 Eisler, Hans, 31 Crosby, Bing, 109, 191 Emmett Rogers, Howard, 29, 50, 57, 60, 64

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Empey, Arthur Guy, 34 Goodrich, Frances, 28 End Poverty in California (EPIC), 23 Gracie and George Burns, 67 Engle, Clair, 137, 169 Gysling, Georg, 37 Examiner, 35, 112, 120 Exodus, 30, 106 Hackett, Albert, 28 Eyman, Scott, 13–14, 122 Haight, Raymond, 23 Hammerstein, Oscar, 32 Fagan, Myron, 113 Hammett, Dashiell, 26 Fairbanks, Douglas, 18, 130, 140 Harlow, Jean, 51 Fast, Howard, 80, 87 Hayes, Helen, 28, 130, 140 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 49, 83–4, Hayes, Will H., 37 87–8, 104, 187 Hayward, Susan, 81 Fernhout, John, 33 Hayworth, Rita, 57 Fifth Amendment, 77, 81, 86, 113 Hearings, 20, 39–40, 55, 73, 81, 83–95, Fighting Sixty-Ninth, 50 97–101, 104–8, 109, 116, 118, 122, 127, Fighting Youth, 34 144, 164 Finch, Robert, 110, 129–30, 137–9, 181 Hearst, William Randolph, 8, 13, 35, 37, Firestone, Leonard, 110, 131, 143, 155, 158, 52–3, 65 164–5, 168, 186, 193 Hellman, Lillian, 29, 33 First Amendment, 77, 81, 86, 93, 101 Hemingway, Ernest, 33, 51 First World War, 35, 90 Hepburn, Katharine, 92 Fish Committee, 20 Hillings, Pat, 128 Fish, Hamilton, 20–1 Hitchcock, Alfred, 129 Fitzgerald, Ella, 139, 206 Hitler, Adolph, 7, 55 Fleming, Victor, 30 Holden, William, 119, 176 Fonda, Henry, 66, 93, 138, 172 Hollywood Anti-Nazi League (HANL), 16, Ford, John, 15, 32, 35, 49, 56, 65–6, 31–2, 61 96, 107, 121, 124, 142, 173, 191, Hollywood Bowl, 23, 92, 114, 141–2 194–5, 209 Hollywood Citizen, 43 Foster, William Z., 63, 79 Hollywood Hotel, 60 Foyle, Kitty, 53–4 Hollywood Hussars, 35–6 Frankfurter, Felix, 34 Hollywood Left, 13–14, 23, 34–5, 45, 56–7, Frawley Jr., Patrick J., 142 66, 77, 93–5, 104, 119, 139, 176, 190 Fury, 31 Hollywood Production Code, 17 Hollywood Reporter, 26, 54, 83, 91, 95, Gable, Clark, 28, 39, 49, 51–2, 53, 60, 66–7, 101, 113 173, 191 Hollywood Right, 30, 39, 42–3, 63, 87, 126, Gahagan Douglas, Helen, 116, 141, 189 141–2, 145, 155–83, 184–213 Garbo, Greta, 32 Hollywood Ten, 16, 31, 50, 77–8, 85, 95, The Gay Desperado, 120 101–4, 106–8 General Dynamics, 131 Hoover, Herbert, 9–10, 12–13, 19, 36, 49–50, Gershwin, George, 51 67, 124, 128, 177, 215 Gianni, Joseph, 136 Hope, Bob, 66, 109, 177, 193, 196–7, 202, Glenn, Charles, 61–2 204, 205 Goering, Albert, 37 Hopper, Hedda, 45, 49, 55, 105, 114, 118, 121, Goering, Hermann, 37 123–25, 132, 144–5, 151, 161, 166, 172–3, Gold, Mike, 59, 61, 80 170, 193, 215 Goldwater, Barry, 110, 115–16, 123, 142, 145, Hotchkiss, Preston, 131 155–83, 188–9, 193, 195, 199–200, 203, House Committee for the Investigation of 207–12 Un-American Activities, 38 Goldwyn, Sam, 28, 60, 126, 156 House Special Committee To Investigate Gone With the Wind, 30 Communist Activities and Propaganda, 20

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House of Un-American Activities Committee King Cole, Nat, 138, 142, 172 (HUAC), 42–3, 47, 55, 63, 68, 70–1, 73, Knight, Goodwin, 112, 132–3, 137, 143 76–9, 81–8, 93, 95, 97–9, 101–8, 19, 113, Knott, Walter, 110, 138, 143, 179 116, 118, 122, 144 Knowland, Joseph, 111 Howard Lawson, John, 29, 59, 77, Knowland, William, 111, 132–3, 156, 166 101, 104 Korean War, 102, 104, 117 Hudson, Rock, 142, 155, 203–4 Kuchel, Tom, 143 Hughes, Howard, 28, 50, 113, 156 Hughes, Rupert, 88–9 Laguardia, Fiorello, 67 Humphrey Bogart, 16, 39, 78, 81, 93, 101 Lancaster, Burt, 172 Landon, Alf, 9, 43 Ickes, Harold L., 39 Lang, Fritz, 31, 33, 103 Ida Koverman, 13–14, 124 Lasky, Jesse L., 18 Ida Lupino, 182 Lawford, Peter, 138, 172 I, Governor of California and How I Ended League of Women Voters, 77, 98 Poverty, 23 Leech, John L., 39 Industry strikes, 63, 65 Lee Mahin, John, 29, 51, 55, 64, 86, 98 The Informer, 36 Lehman, Herbert H., 67 Insurgent Mexico, 21 Leigh, Janet, 172 International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Leo Anderson, 44 Employees and Motion Picture Machine Lesser, Sol, 21 Operators (IATSE), 53 Lewis, Fulton, 143 International Defense Committee for Mexican Lincoln, Abraham, 163, 179, 190 Film, 22 Lindbergh, Charles, 40 Irene Dunne, 111, 118–19, 125, 132, 139, Linkletter, Art, 130, 140, 172 172–3, 181, 192, 206 Lives of a Bengal Lancer, 29 Irish Fusiliers, 35 Lockheed, 106, 131 Irving Thalberg, 15, 26, 28 Loeb, Edwin, 15 Irwin Shaw, 60 Lorrie, Peter, 31 Ivens, Joris, 33 Los Angeles Coliseum, 67, 126 Los Angeles County Republican Party, 44, 130 Jackson, Riley, 171 Los Angeles Daily News, 116 Jaffe, Sam, 26 Los Angeles Federation of Republican Jarrico, Paul, 113 Women, 14 Jarvis, Howard, 143 Los Angeles Times, 10–11, 13, 24–5, 37, 44, 49, Jessell, George, 32 83, 85, 110–11, 134, 157, 165, 167, 170–1, Johnson, Hiram, 11, 23, 111 173–4 Jolson, Al, 14 Lost Horizon, 57 Jones, Cleave, 44 Lou Costello, 123 Jordan, Frank, 137 Louis B. Mayer, 7–8, 13, 25–6, 43, 52, 94, 97, The Jungle, 22 113–14, 118, 121, 123, 145, 152, 156 Louis Budenz, 47 Kahlo, Frida, 21 Louise Beavers, 118, 139 Kai-shek, Chiang, 48 Love is a Many Splendored Thing, 177 Kaufman, George, 51 Loyd Wright, 138, 143, 158 Keefer, Leonard D., 136 Loy, Myrna, 17 Kelly, Gene, 83, 93, 111, 138, 182 Lubitsch, Ernst, 31–2 Kennedy, John F., 117, 137–8, 163, Lucky Luciano, 67 171, 195 Lux Radio Theater, 122 Kennedy, Robert, 196 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 163, 170–1 Kevin McGuinness, James, 29, 50 Lyon, Eugene, 16

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MacLaine, Shirley, 138, 196 Murphy, George, 45, 63, 67, 82–3, 95–6, MacLean, Donald, 136 107–8, 111, 113–14, 116, 118–20, 125–8, Major Frank Pease, 19 130–1, 135, 139, 142–3, 152, 156, 167–8, Maltz, Albert, 77, 79–80, 100, 104–5 176 Manion, Clarence, 166 Mussolini, 19, 37 Mankiewicz, Joseph, 26 My Man Godfrey, 51 The Man from Laramie, 131 Mann, Thomas, 34 NAACP, 56, 169 Mao Zedong, 48 Nation, 7, 12, 40, 44, 56, 69, 122, 160, 174, March, Fredric, 32–3, 39, 60 194, 198, 200, 205, 207, 209 Marilyn Monroe, 138 National Labor Relations Board, 30, 64 Marion Davis, 37 National Recovery Administration, 64 Marion Yacht Club, 60 Neblett, William C., 27 Marlene Dietrich, 31 Nebraska State Federation of Labor, 53 Marlon Brando, 138, 156, 172 New Deal, 7–10, 15, 19, 27, 29–31, 36, 38, 40, Martin Dies, 38–9 44, 46, 54, 62, 79, 85, 88, 114, 117, 121, 130 Martin, Joe, 69 Newman, Paul, 156, 172 Martin Luther King Jr, 196 The New Masses, 60 Marx Brothers, 17, 24, 50–1, 53 New Republic, 20, 39 Marx, Groucho, 28, 32, 53 New York Times, 77, 88, 105–6, 135, 138–9, Mary Craig, 21 187, 198, 200, 204 Mary Pickford, 18, 45, 67, 125, 139, 142, 173, Nichols, Dudley, 24 191–2 A Night at the Opera, 50–1 Massey, Raymond, 67, 111, 155, 172–3, Niven, David, 65 191 Nixon, Richard, 94, 109–10, 113–14, 119–20, McCarthy, Joseph, 55, 113–14, 123 124–25, 127–33, 135, 137–8, 141–5, 156, McLaglen, Victor, 35–6 162, 194–6, 198, 200–1 McQueen, Steve, 172 Nye, Gerald, 40 McWilliams, Carey, 11, 15, 36 Mellon, Andrew, 13 Oakland Tribune, 111, 134, 173–4, 192 Melrose Studio, 26 Odets, Clifford, 33, 60, 98 Melvin, Leroy, 171 Of Thee I Sing, 51 The Menace of Hitler, 32 Ogden Stewart, Donald, 32, 60 Menjou, Adolphe, 49, 52, 55, 67, 77, 90, 96, 98, Oil Lamps for China, 34 105, 107, 111, 118–19, 124, 193 Olson, Culbert, 12, 27–8 Merman, Ethel, 130, 140 Olson, James, 15 Merriam, Frank, 12, 23, 45 Opera Guild, 14 MGM Studios, 13–14 Ornitz, Sam, 29, 31 Michael Korda, 198 Oscar, 32, 54, 57, 81 Minor, Robert, 25 Over the Top, 36, 180 Mission to Moscow, 51, 63, 65, 94 Moley, Raymond, 51 Palmer, Kyle, 11, 25, 112, 114, 167 Montgomery, Robert, 23, 47, 56, 81–2, 95, 111, Panama Canal, 206–9 119, 125–6, 132 Paramount, 15, 18, 21, 32, 43, 47, 53, 61, 81, Morgan, Raymond, 174 139, 177 Morley, Karen, 83 Parker, Dorothy, 24, 29, 32 Mosk, Stanley, 169 Parkinson, Gaylord, 188 Motion Picture Democratic Committee, 16 Payne, John, 130, 143, 172–3, 205 Motion Picture Herald, 35 Pearl Harbor, 65 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 57 Pearson, Drew, 175, 189 Mudd, Harvey, 110, 167 Perry, Lincoln, 56

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Persons, Wilton B., 131 Rockefeller, Nelson, 110, 155, 159, 163, 165, Pidgeon, Walter, 83, 111, 191 169, 186 Pitts, Zasu, 130, 140, 143, 162, 176 Rogers, Lela, 42, 49, 57, 90, 96, 98 Poitier, Sidney, 138 Rolph, James, 12 Polonsky, Abraham, 79 Romney, George, 169, 170, 199, 203 Popular Front, 16, 32, 38, 51, 55, 59, 62–3, Roosevelt, Franklin D., 7 78–81, 87–8, 92 Royal Fusiliers Gun Company, 36 Popular Front in the Soviet Union, 32 Rumford Act, 182 The Postman Always Rings Twice, 16 Russell, Jane, 142 Poulson, Norris, 129 Russell, Rosalind, 67, 81 Powell, Dick, 83, 111, 117–18, 139–40 Ryan, Robert, 138 Powell, Jane, 118, 139 Ryskind, Morrie, 24, 50–1, 55–6, 67, 89, 107, Powell, William, 17, 67 125, 135, 166, 173 Pride of the Yankees, 51, 53 Princeton University, 34 Sacco and Vanzetti trial, 86 Proposition 14, 157, 181–2 Salinger, Pierre, 168–9, 180 Proposition 18, 134, 136–7 SALT I, 208 Public Enemy, 28 SALT II, 208, 211 Pulitzer Prize, 51 Salvatori, Henry, 110, 135, 138, 143, 166, 176, 178, 186 Rand, Ayn, 45–6, 49, 51–2, 77, 87, 90, 97, Samson and Delilah, 122 103–4 San Diego Tribune, 111 Reagan, Ronald, 30, 42, 63, 66, 70, 77, 89, 92, San Francisco Chronicle, 111–12, 169 95, 107, 111, 117, 127, 128–9, 142–3, 145–6, Saturday Review of Literature, 55–6 155–83, 184–95, 198–201, 204–13, 215 Scarface, 29, 50–1 Rear Window, 129 Schary, Dore, 57 Red Army, 48 Schenck, Joseph, 13 Red Dust, 51 Schorr, Daniel, 169 Red Salute, 34 Schulberg, Benjamin, 15 Reed, Donna, 142, 172 Schultz, Dutch, 67 Reed, John, 21 Schwarz, Fred, 141 Reiner, Carl, 182 Schwinn, Herman, 57 Republican County Central Committee, 13 Scott, Randolph, 111, 118, 130–2, 139, 141, Republican National Committee, 44, 174, 209 172–3, 191–2, 200 Republican Old Guard, 8 Scottsboro boys, 15, 86 Republican Party, 7–11, 14–15, 24–5, 36, 42–4, Screen Actors Guild, 47, 64, 81–2, 176, 184 46, 85, 95, 108, 109–10, 114, 120–1, 128–31 Screen Playwright Guild, 30 133, 135, 131–8, 144–5, 155, 158–60, 164–5, Screen Writers Guild (SWG), 8, 16, 24, 29–30, 167–70, 180, 183, 184, 187–8, 193–4, 196, 49–52, 54, 57, 59, 61–4, 87, 99–100, 105 198, 200, 205, 207, 209, 211, 213 Scully, Frank, 24, 27 Reynolds, Debbi, 205 Second World War, 8, 30, 40, 42–3, 45, 47, 51, Rice, Elmer, 55 53, 56, 58–9, 61–2, 63, 65, 68, 77–9, 85, 88, Richardson, Friend W., 11 97, 110, 177, 194–6, 202 Riﬂeman, 153, 172 Seeds of Treason: The True Story of the Riskin, Robert, 29, 64 Chambers-Hiss Tragedy, 118 Rivera, Diego, 21 Seiler, Conrad, 20 RKO Pictures, 113 Selznick, David O., 67, 139, 143 Robertson, Dale, 130, 140, 172, 191–2 Semple McPherson, Aimee, 24 Roberts, Randy, 15–16, 50, 140–1, Shattuck, Ed, 44, 159 161, 197 Shearer, Norma, 32 Robinson, Edward G., 28, 35, 45, 76, 85, 111, Shell, Joe, 110, 155, 158–9, 164, 171, 188 122 Sherwood, Robert, 88

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Shields, Paul, 37 Taylor, Robert, 39, 42, 49, 55, 66, 74, 83, 91–2, Shrine Auditorium, 14 94, 96–8, 111, 172–3, 178, 191–3 Sidney, Sylvia, 31 Temple, Shirley, 29, 39, 143 Sign of the Cross, 57, 122 The Ten Commandments, 122 Sinatra, Frank, 138, 172, 193–4, 202, 205 Ten Days That Shook the World, 18 Sinclair, Upton, 7–8, 14, 18, 21–2, 24, 26, 51, Tender Comrade, 90 112, 215 Tenney, Jack, 39, 75, 128 Skouras, Spyros, 132 Thin Man, 17, 26 Slesinger, Tess, 32 Thunder Over Mexico, 21 Smith, Alfred, 13 Thurmond, Strom, 114 Smith, C. Arnholt, 166 Together We Live, 34 Smith, Gerald L.K., 128 Topper, 125 Socialist Party, 48, 51, 57 Townsend, Francis, 24 Sondergaard, Gale, 32 Tracy, Spencer, 31, 49 Song of Russia, 51–2, 63, 65, 87, 91, 97, 104–5 Truman, Harry, 48, 115 Sorrell, Herbert, 56, 78, 82 Trumbo, Dalton, 16–17, 30–1, 40, 59, 77, 80, Southern California Finance Committee, 87, 90, 99–100, 106–7, 140 143, 178 The Truth about Hollywood, 50–1 Southern Paciﬁc Railroad Company, 11 20th Century Fox, 132 Soviet Union, 18, 21–2, 30–3, 38, 40, 43, 45, Two Arabian Nights, 50 47–8, 51, 55, 58, 60–1, 63, 78, 85–6, 91, 96–7, 104, 106, 118, 122, 138, 201, 204–5, 211 Union Oil, 142 Spanish Civil War, 15, 33, 51 Unions, 8, 29–30, 43, 48, 53–4, 56, 58, 62–3, The Spanish Earth, 33 65, 78, 81, 84, 101, 123, 145 Spartacus, 106, 140 United Artists, 18, 34 Spreckels, Adolph, 23, 37 University of California, 46, 156, 183, Sproul, Gordon, 46 186, 215 The Squaw Man, 122 Stack, Robert, 142, 172–3, 206 Van Dyke, W.S., 26 Stage Coach, 66 Vertigo, 129 Stalag 17, 177 Vidor, King, 52, 55, 67, 192 Stalin, 18, 22, 38, 58–61, 78, 104 Viertel, Salka, 31 Stalin-Hitler Pact, 38, 58–9, 61 von Zell, Harry, 173, 191–2 Stander, Lionel, 39 Voorhis, Jerry, 23, 113 Stanwyck, Barbara, 34, 49, 67, 111 A Star is Born, 61 Wagner, Robert, 27 State Emergency Relief Administration, 28 Wagon Train, 144 Stephens, George, 103 Waiting for Lefty, 60 Stephens, Lincoln, 60 Walgreen, Ruth, 129 Stephens, William D., 11 Wallace, George, 161–2 Stevenson, Adlai, 126, 132–3 Wallace, Henry, 92, 114–15 Stewart, Jimmy, 66, 129, 205–6, 209 Walton, Rus, 174 Storm, Gale, 172–3, 191–2 Warner Brothers, 8, 28, 34, 40, 81–2, 145, 156 Stripling, Robert, 69 Warner, Jack, 97, 126, 131, 142–4, 191 Sunset Boulevard, 119, 177 Warren, Earl, 25, 28, 43–6, 68, 82, 111, 119, Swanson, Gloria, 28, 46, 53, 177 133, 159 Syndicalism Act, 11 Washington, George, 50 Washington Post, 77, 98 Taft-Hartley Act, 115, 118, 123 Wayne, John, 15–16, 30, 37, 42, 50, 66, 105, Taft, Robert, 120–1, 123–4, 125, 133, 163, 195 107, 130, 139–40, 142, 147, 148, 155, Talbott, Harold, 131 161–2, 166, 172–3, 175, 179, 181, 191–3, Tales of Wells Fargo, 130 195–8, 200, 203–13

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Weiss, Max, 72 Winters, Shelley, 131, 172 Welch, Robert, 110, 155, 160, 187 Wizard of Oz, 30, 51 Welles, Orson, 16, 57, 111 Wood, Natalie, 172 What Makes Sammy Run?, 61 Wood, Sam, 51–4, 67, 107 Wheeler, Burton, 40 Woods, Rose Mary, 113 White, Charles M., 135 Woodward, Joanne, 172 White, Walter, 56 Wyman, Jane, 76, 111, 176 Whitney, Richard, 67 For Whom the Bell Tolls, 51, 53 Yale University, 60, 125 Wiere Brothers, 139 Young Crusaders, 26 Wilder, Billy, 31, 78, 119 Young, Robert, 130, 140, 143 Wilkerson, Billy, 26 Wills, Garry, 36–7 Zanuck, Darryl, 56, 67, 120, 126–7, Wilson, Michael, 66 132, 143 Winter, Ella, 60 Zimbalist Jr., Efrem, 167, 172–3, 206–7, 212