28, 30, 34, 36, 48-59, 64-65, 66; Espionage Agent 49, 57 Flynn, Errol 28, 29, 32-33, 34, 35 Index making of 16, 52-54; Fascism 7, 8, 12, 27, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 42, Flynn, John T. 13 reception of 18, 19, 32, 49, 54-57, 69, 75; Fonda, Henry 36 64, 74; and the Spanish Civil War 36-37; For Me and My Gal 36 sources for 16, 52, 74 and Warner Bros. fight against it 15-24, For Whom the Bell Tolls 36-37, 75 Contemporary Soviet Propaganda and 49-59, 74; Ford, John 36 Disinformation conference 68 see also Nazis Foucault, Michel 42 Creel Committee Femme fatale 42-44 Four Minute Men 68 see Committee on Public Information Fight for Freedom Committee 68 Four Sons 57 9/11 15, 77 Bergman, Ingrid 22, 43 Buscombe, Edward 33 (CPI) Fighting Seabees 41 Franco, Francisco 36-37, 49 Abraham Lincoln Brigade 36 Berlin, Irving 22, 69 Bush, George W. 77 Creel, George 68, 74 Film 11-12, 15, 27, 28, 31, 51, 63; Fussell, Paul 76 Across the Pacific 21, 23, 36 Bernstein, David 64 Cagney, James 22, 28, 35, 50-51 Crisp, Donald 29 as allegory 31-33, 57; biopics 28, 31, 32, Gabler, Neal 61 Action in the North Atlantic 40 BFI Companion to the Western 33 Canadian Moving Picture Digest 55 Cromwell, John 44 33, 34, 35, 65; Garfield, John 46 Adventures of Robin Hood, The 28, 32, 52, 75 Bible, The 63 Capra, Frank 35, 66 Crump, Owen 18 didacticism and 32, 40, 75-76; Garland, Judy 41 Air Force 21 Bill of Rights 54, 58 Captain Blood 28 Culbert, David 69-70 educational potential of 19, 40, 42, 63, Geisel, Theodore 66 All Through the Night 26, 35, 36 Birth of a Nation, The 49 Captains of the Clouds 21 Curtiz, Michael 28, 32 65, 67, 70; General Dies at Dawn, The 36 Allegory 31-33, 57 Black Fury 28, 31, 34 Casablanca 21-22, 35, 36, 40, 43, 44, Custer, George Armstrong 33, 34, 35 escapist 12, 27, 28, 30, 39-40, 45, 47; Genre films see film America First Committee 30, 64 Black Legion 16, 31, 49, 51, 74 45-46, 75 Dante Alighieri 32 film noir 42, 44; German-American Bund 51, 52, 54, 55 American Film Institute 36 Blacklisting see House Un-American Castles in the Air 36 Daughters of the American Revolution 65 gangster 35-36, 54, 65, 75; German-American League 55 American Legion, The 16, 50, 65, 68 Activities Committee (HUAC) Cat in the Hat 66 Davies, Joseph 20, 21 military shorts 8, 18, 19, 21, 67, 69; Germinal 30 American Nazis 52 Blakley, Johanna 7, 8 Catholics and Catholic Church 30, 36, 63 Davis, Bette 21, 22 musicals 45; Gestapo 54 American Revolution 16, 31, 65 Blockade 36 Celebrity, Politics & Public Life 6, 7 Dawn Patrol, The 29 narrative qualities of 32, 33, 36, 39-42, God’s Angry Man 33 Americanism 18, 31, 54-55, 63, 65, 68 Bogart, Humphrey 22, 26, 28, 31, 35-36, Censorship 51, 52-54, 57, 74; Declaration of Independence, The 16 44-47, 74-75; Goebbels, Joseph 65 see also ideology 40, 43, 44 see also Committee on Public Information Demarest, William 26 patriotic shorts 16, 18, 21, 31, 61, 65, see also Confessions of a Nazi Spy and patriotism Bolshevism 57 and Production Code Administration Democracy 12, 13, 16, 30, 31, 50, 51, 52, 58, 66, 67, 68; Goldwyn, Samuel 68 An American’s History of Hollywood– Bond, Ward 50 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 68 64-65, 66, 67, 68, 69 politics in 15-16, 21, 22, 24, 27, 30-31, Good Earth, The 28 The Tower of Babel 63 Bordertown 28, 31 Chaplin, Charlie 50, 57, Depression, The 12, 50, 51 32, 33, 34, 35, 36-37, 49-59, 73; Grant, Cary 38, 46 An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Bosko’s Picture Show 16, 19 Charge of the Light Brigade, The 28 Destination Tokyo 21, 38, 39, 45, 46-47 as propaganda 19, 28, 30, 32, 39-47, 50, Grapes of Wrath, The 40 Invented Hollywood 61 Braudy, Leo 7, 8, 73, 74, 75 Chicago Daily News 70 Deutscher Weckruf Und Beobachter and 55, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 73-77; Grauman, Sid 50 Anti-Semitism 8, 12, 15, 27, 30, 51, 52, Breen office Civil War 31-34 The Free American 57 romance in 22, 40-42, 44, 46-47; Great Dictator, The 32, 57 62, 74 see Production Code Administration Clark, Bennett Champ 13, 18, 28, 32, 58, 69 Didacticism 32, 40, 75-76 screwball comedies 42; Greenstreet, Sydney 21, 36 see also Jews, Nazism, racism (PCA) Clurman, Harold 36 Dieterle, William 28, 36 war 21, 39-42, 44, 45, 46, 49, 70; Greibl, Dr. Ignatz 52 and prejudice Breen, Joseph 16, 27, 31, 36, 51, 52, 54, Cohan, George M. 22 Dive Bomber 21, 32, 33 westerns 27, 31, 32-34, 75; Griffith, D.W. 49 Army Emergency Relief Fund 22, 69 57, 74 Cohn, Harry and Jack 64 Dodge City 32-33 see also specific films Group Theatre 36 Astor, Mary 44 British Intelligence 49, 57 Columbia Pictures 64 Don Juan 11 Film Weekly 55 Gyssling, Dr. George 52 Baby Peggy 28 British Royal Air Force 16 Committee on Public Information (CPI) Donovan, William 68 First Amendment 18, 74, 77 Hawks, Howard 35 Barrymore, Lionel 54 Bryant, Nana 18 68, 74 Double Indemnity 44 First Motion Picture Unit (FMPU) 18, 19, Hays, Will 27, 57, 67, 68 Battle against Shop Thirteen, The 19 Buckner, Robert 33 Committee to Defend America and Friends Douglas, Melvyn 50 22 Hays Code see Production Code Battle of Algiers, The 77 Bunyan, Paul 32 of Democracy 68 Dreyfus, Alfred 16, 31 Five Graves to Cairo 76 Administration (PCA) Beaton, Welford 49 Bureau of Motion Pictures Communism 12, 18, 21, 50, 51, 58, 69, Edelman, Lou 49 Flag of Humanity 16, 18 Hayward, Susan 41 Beers, Charlotte 77 see Office of War Information Bureau 75, 76 Ehrlich, Paul 31 Flight Command 32, 57 Hell over Hollywood: The Truth about Bennett, Joan 42 of Motion Pictures Confessions of a Nazi Spy 8, 12, 13, 15, 17, Escape 32, 57 FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) 77 the Movies 63 94 WARNERS’ WAR: POLITICS, POP CULTURE & PROPAGANDA IN WARTIME HOLLYWOOD 95 Hemingway, Ernest 35, 36 66, 68-69 Loew, Arthur 64 Mussolini, Benito 36, 49 Poplowski, Kira 7 Saving Private Ryan 49 Henry, Patrick 65 It Can’t Happen Here 27 Looney Toons 28, 31, 66 My Four Years in Germany 12 Popular culture 24, 40, 42, 65, 75 Scarface 28 High Sierra 35 Ivens, Joris 36 Lorre, Peter 36 Nash, Gerald 65, 69 Popular Front 50 Screen 51 Historical filmssee Film biopics James, Henry 30 Lukas, Paul 22, 54 Nazi Spies in America 16, 52 Prejudice 16, 24, 27, 31, 33-34, 51-52, Sea Hawk, The 28, 31, 33, 49, 57 Hitchcock, Alfred 75-76 Jazz Singer, The 11 Luraschi, Luigi 52 Nazis and Nazism 7, 8, 12, 13, 15-22, 24, 55, 61, 74, 75 Sea Wolf 49, 57 Hitler, Adolph 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 27, Jews 12, 15, 18, 27, 51-52, 54, 57, 58, 64; MacMurray, Fred 44 26, 27, 30, 31, 34, 35-36, 41, 42, 49, see also anti-Semitism Seldes, George 30 30, 36, 42, 49, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 58, 63, in Hollywood 15, 18, 27, 30, 31, 50, Maltese Falcon, The 35, 36, 44 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57-58, 64, 65, 66, Pride of the Marines 41 Senate - Propaganda in Motion Pictures 66, 68 51, 56, 58, 63, 74; Maltin, Leonard 33 67, 72, 76 Pride of the Yankees, The 35 Hearings 13, 18-19, 28, 33, 36, 64, Hobson, Bishop Henry W. 68 in movies 16, 31, 52, 74; Malvina Pictures 31 see also Confessions of a Nazi Spy Private SNAFU 8, 19, 66 69, 74 Hokett, Randi 7 and Warner family background 11, Man Hunt 42, 45 Nelson, Richard Alan 67 Production Code Administration (PCA) 15, September, 11, 2001 Hollywood 39-47, 75; 61-63 March, Frederick 50 Neutrality Acts 28, 32, 36 16-18, 31, 36, 51, 52-54, 57, 67, 73, see 9/11 civic responsibilities of 12, 16, 63, 65, see also anti-Semitism March of Time newsreels 15, 28, 54 New York Post 52 74, 75 Sergeant York 13, 18, 19, 21, 32, 35, 71, 75 66, 77; Joe Smith, American 41-42 March On, Marines 18, 19 New York Times 16, 65, 69 Propaganda 7, 8, 13, 19, 24, 39-40, 42, 44, Service with the Colors 18, 19 political activism of 15, 34, 36, 49-59, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee 50 Martin, Harry 66 Niven, David 29 45, 47, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 58, 61, Sidney, Sylvia 51 68-69; Juarez 28, 49, 52 Massey, Raymond 30 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) 63, 64, 65, 68, 69, 72-77; Sinatra, Frank 42 relationship with Washington 7, 8, 15, Julius Caesar 32 McCarthy Hearings see House Un-American 77 ambiguity as the enemy of 75-76; Sister Cities International 77 21-24, 27, 28, 30, 61-71, 73-74, Kaplan, Martin 7, 8, 73, 76, 77 Activities Committee (HUAC) Norman Lear Center, The 7, 8, 73 American 30, 65, 66, 67, 75; Smith, Wendy 36 76-77; Karloff, Boris 57 Mead, Margaret 42 Nuremberg Laws 51 definition of 27, 28, 30, 67-68, 74-75; Snow, Nancy 7, 8, 73, 76-77 see also Jews in Hollywood Katz, Nicholas 64 Meet John Doe 35 Nye Committee see Senate, Propaganda in as displaced narrative 32-34; Sons of Liberty 16, 18 Hollywood Anti-Nazi League 15, 34, 50, 54 Kaufman, Joseph 64 Meet Me in St.