William Wyler (68 page)

Drag, The
(M. West)

dramatizing by equivalent

Dreiser, Theodore;
An American Tragedy
;
Sister Carrie
(see also
Carrie
)

Dreyfus, Alfred

Duggan, Pat,

Duncan, Claude E.

Dunne, Philip

Duryea, Dan

 

Eagels, Jeanne

Eaker, Ira B.

Edelman, Lou

Eden, Olive: “Heart and Hand”

Edward, Munson, Jr.

Eggar, Samantha

Eighth Air Force. See also
Memphis Belle

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Eisenstein, Sergei

England, American views of

Ephron, Phoebe and Henry

Epstein, Julius

“Escape to Reality” (WW)

Espy, Reeves

Etting, Ruth

Everson, William

Eyer, Richard

 

Falana, Lola

Farmer, Frances

Federal Parole Board

Federal Writers' Project

Fenin, George

Ferber, Edna:
Come and Get It

Ferrer, José

Ferry Command
(WW)

Fifty-Seventh Fighter Group. See also
Thunderbolt

films: depth of focus in, (
see also under
Wyler, William—
FILMS
); on the “enemy within”; gangster; investigations of the industry (
see under
HUAC); noir; realism in (
see also specific films
); studio system's structure; vs. television; war, (see also
Memphis Belle; Mrs. Miniver; Thunderbolt
); westerns; widescreen, first; women in (1950s).
See also
Hollywood

Finkel, Abem

First Americans, The
(WW)

Flaherty, Robert

Fleming, Victor:
Gone with the Wind

“Flying over Germany” (WW)

Flynn, Errol

Fonda, Henry

Ford, Jesse Hill:
The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones

Ford, John: American Film institute's Life Achievement Award won by;
Arrowsmith
; authority/style of;
The Grapes of Wrath
;
How Green Was My Valley
; Leenhardt on; lends WW equipment to shoot war documentaries;
Marked Men
; military commission for;
My Darling Clementine
;
Stagecoach
;
Three Godfathers
; vs. WW

Foreign Correspondent
(Hitchcock)

“Forgotten Boy” (script; WW and J. Huston)

Forty Carats
(play)

Fowles, John:
The Collector

Franco, Francisco

Frankfurter, Felix

Franklin, Sidney:
The Dark Angel
;
The Guardsman
;
Mrs. Miniver
produced by;
Private Lives

Frankovich, Mike

Freeman, Kathleen

Freeman, Y. Frank

French, Brandon

Friedhofer, Hugo

Friendly Persuasion
(film; WW); battle scenes; casting; in color; composition/framing; county fair scene; critical reception/success of; elegiac tone of; ending; evocative natural images in; Jess saves a wounded soldier; Jess's character; Josh's decision to fight; meetinghouse scene; Moscow showing of; music; opening credits/scenes; opening of; on pacifism vs. violence; Palm d'Or won by; script revisions by WW; as a series of stories; Jessamyn West's novel adapted for; Wilson's script and credit

Friendly Persuasion, The
(novel; J. West)

Froeschel, George

Fry, Christopher;
Venus Observed

Full Employment Act

Funny Girl
(film; WW); budget; casting; choreography; composition/framing; ending; Fanny's liberation; Fanny's love for Nicky; Fanny's unraveling marriage; mirrored shots; music; “My Man,” staging of; opening shot; Oscars for; plot; shooting locations; success as a musical adaptation to film; success of; tugboat scene; WW replaces Lumet on

Funny Girl
(play)

 

gangster films

Garbo, Greta

Garfield, John

Garmes, Lee

Garner, James

Garson, Greer

Gaudio, Tony

Gay Deception, The
(WW)

German Expressionism

German Film Chamber

Gershwin, Ira

Gibbons, Cedric

Gide, André

Gielgud, John

Gilman, Richard

Gish, Lillian

glasnost

Glory for Me
(Kantor)

Goetz, Ruth and Augustus;
Carrie
script;
The Heiress
(see also
Washington Square
)

Going My Way
(McCarey)

Goldwyn, Samuel: vs. Gary Cooper;
The Dark Angel
;
Dead End
produced by; fastidiousness of; illness of; vs. Kantor; Oscar won by; reputation of;
Wuthering Heights
produced by; WW's clashes with; WW's early association with; WW's last association with; WW's lawsuit against

Goldwyn (Samuel) Productions: Best Picture Oscars won by; success brought by WW; vs. United Artists. See also
The Best Years of Our Lives

Gone with the Wind
(film; Fleming)

Gone with the Wind
(novel; Mitchell)

Good Earth, The
(Thalberg)

Good Fairy, The
(WW)

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Gorcey, Leo

Gordon, Bobby

Gould, Elliott

Goulding, Edmund;
Dark Victory
,;
The Dawn Patrol
;
That Certain Woman

Grand Tour, The
(Rice)

Grant, Lee

Granville, Bonita

Grapes of Wrath, The
(film; John Ford)

Grapes of Wrath, The
(novel; Steinbeck)

Grayson, Jessie

Great Depression

Great Dictator, The
(Chaplin)

Great Escape, The
(Sturges)

Green Bay Tree, The
(Sharp)

Greenberg, Joel

Greene, Graham

Griffith, Hugh

Griffith, Richard

Group Theatre

Guardsman, The
(Franklin)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
(Kramer)

Gypsy
(LeRoy)

 

Hall, Huntz

Halop, Billy

Hamilton, Donald:
The Big Country

Hamlet
(Olivier)

Hammerstein, Oscar, II:
The Sound of Music

Hammett, Dashiell

Hanson, Curtis

Harrington, John

Harris, Jed

Harris, Julie

Harris, Mark

Hart, Moss:
Merrily We Roll Along
;
Winged Victory

Hart, William S.

Hartman, Don

Hawks, Howard;
Red River
;
Sergeant York
. See also
Come and Get It

Hawks, Kenneth

Hayes, Helen

Hayes, John Michael

Hayes, Joseph:
The Desperate Hours

Hays, Will

Hayward, Leland

Head, Edith

Hearst, William Randolph

“Heart and Hand” (Eden)

Heaven's Gate
(Cimino)

Hecht, Ben

Hedda Gabler
(Ibsen)

Heiress, The
(film; WW); ads for; budget for/cost of; casting; Catherine and Morris's courtship/engagement; Catherine renounces her love; Catherine's character; Catherine's embroidery; Catherine's revenge/triumph; composition/framing; critical reception/success of; dance scene; elopement/jilting scene; ending; the Goetzes' play adapted for (see also
Washington Square
); on high society; house as setting for; mirrored shots; Morris's character; music; openings for; opening shots; Oscars for; plot; postwar mood of; on the power of money; realism of; Sloper's death; staircase scenes

Heiress, The
(play; the Goetzes)

Hellman, Lillian:
The Children's Hour
(see also under
These Three
);
The Dark Angel
;
Days to Come
; friendship with WW; at Harvard; HUAC investigation of;
The Little Foxes
;
The Negro Soldier
script; politics of; reputation/success of; on the Roy Bean story;
An Unfinished Woman
;
Watch on the Rhine
; writer friends of; on WW

Hell's Heroes
(WW): assigned to WW; baby's birth, symbolism of; complications involved in making of; composition/framing/style; on death/redemption; endings; Kyne on; Kyne's
Three Godfathers
adapted for; opening shot; pessimism of; realism of; Robinson's camera work on; Sangster's character; screenplay; shooting location; success of; as Universal's first sound film

Hepburn, Audrey

Hepburn, Katharine

Her First Mate
(WW)

Herman, Jan

Hershey, Barbara

Heston, Charlton

Higham, Charles

High Noon
(Zinnemann)

Hiller, Wendy

Hilton, James;
Lost Horizon

Hitchcock, Alfred;
Foreign Correspondent
;
Psycho
;
Saboteur
;
Shadow of a Doubt
;
Vertigo

Hitler, Adolf

Hollywood: films on U.S.-British relations; investigations of (
see also under
HUAC); New York intellectuals working in; shooting schedules in

Hollywood blacklist

Hollywood Fights Back.
See
CFA

Hollywood Ten

homosexual theme

Hopkins, David

Hopkins, Miriam; in
Carrie
; in
The Children's Hour
; in
The Heiress
; in
Jezebel
; in
These Three

House Divided
, A (WW)

House Un-American Activities Committee.
See
HUAC

Howard, Sidney;
Dodsworth
; on dramatizing by equivalent;
They Knew What They Wanted How Green Was My Valley
(film; John Ford credited)

How Green Was My Valley
(novel; Llewellyn)

How to Steal a Million
(WW)

HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee): vs. CFA; film industry investigated by (see
also
Hollywood blacklist; Hollywood Ten); hearings' effects on Hollywood; impact on WW; Kingsley on; WW investigated by

Hughes, Howard

Hulburd, Merritt

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
(Laemmle)

Hunter, Ian McLellan

Huston, John; CFA cofounded by; CFA role of; “Forgotten Boy” (script); on
Friendly Persuasion
; investigation of communist affiliations of;
Jezebel
script revisions;
Laughing Boy
(script);
Moby Dick
; reputation of; “Steel”; WW's early association with; WW's friendship with

Huston, Walter: in
Dodsworth
; in A
House Divided

Hyman, Eliot

 

Ibsen, Henrik:
A Doll's House
;
Hedda Gabler

Industrial Revolution

In the Heat of the Night
(Jewison)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The
(Siegel)

Israel

It Can't Happen Here
(Lewis)

It's a Wonderful Life
(Capra)

Ives, Burl

I Wanted Wings
(Lay)

 

Jacobs, Arthur

James, Henry:
Washington Square

Jersey Bounce
(B-17)

Jesse James
(H. King)

Jewish mother syndrome

Jewison, Norman:
In the Heat of the Night

Jezebel
(film; WW); bank boardroom scene; bar scene; Buckner's screenplay; Buck's character; Buck's death in a duel; casting; composition/framing; Bette Davis in; Owen Davis's play adapted for; design/structure of; dinner scene; dressmaker's shop scene; ending; Finkel's script; vs.
Gone with the Wind
; on high society; house as setting for; John Huston's work on the script; industrialization's role in; interior scenes; Julie and Pres's breakup; Julie and Pres's love/engagement; Julie's apology to Pres/introduction to Amy; Julie's character; Julie's entrance; Julie's pleads with Amy; melodrama in; Olympus Ball scene; opening shot; Oscars for; politics in; realism of; retakes in; riding-crop retakes; Ripley's script; set decoration; social issues in; on society vs. nature; on society vs. the individual; the South in; staircase scene; stature of; “styleless style” of; WW chosen to direct; WW's interest in; yellow fever's symbolism in

Jezebel
(play; O. Davis)

Johnston, Eric

Jones, Jennifer

Jordan, Bobby

 

Kael, Pauline

Kalem Company

Kanin, Michael and Fay

Kantor, MacKinlay:
Andersonville
;
Glory for Me
; vs. Goldwyn

Kaufman, George S.:
Merrily We Roll Along
; A
Night at the Opera

Kaufman, Stanley

Kazan, Elia

Kelly, Gene

Kennedy, Robert

Kenyon, Doris

Kern, Eugene

Kinberg, Jud

King, Henry:
Jesse James

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kingsley, Sidney:
Dead End
(see also under
Dead End
[film; WW]);
Detective Story
; on the HUAC;
Men in White

Kleiner, Harry

Knopf, Edwin

Knox, Alexander

Kober, Arthur

Koch, Howard

Koenig, Lester

Kohn, John

Kohner, Paul

Koppes, Clayton R.

Korda, Alexander

Kotto, Yaphet

Kraly, Hans

Kyne, Peter B.:
The Three Godfathers

 

La Cava, Gregory

Laemmle, Carl, Jr. (“Junior”; WW's cousin)

Laemmle, Carl, Sr. (WW's cousin): arrival in America;
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
; nepotism by; star system introduced by; Universal Pictures founded by; WW's early association with; WW's gratitude toward

La Farge, Oliver;
Laughing Boy

Lake, Stuart N.;
Vinegarroon

Lamarr, Hedy

Lang, Fritz:
The Return of Jesse James

Langlois, Henri

Langsner, Clara

Lansbury, Angela

La Plante, Laura

Lardner, Ring, Jr.

Lasky, Jesse

Laughing Boy
(novel; La Farge)