William Wyler (69 page)

Laughing Boy
(script; WW and J. Huston)

Laughton, Charles

Laurents, Arthur

Lawrence, Jock

Lawson, John Howard

Law West of the Pecos, The
(Lloyd)

Lay, Beirne:
I Wanted Wings
;
Strategic Air Command
;
Twelve O'Clock High

Lazy Lightning
(WW)

Leaming, Barbara

Lederer, Francis

Leehner, John R.

Leenhardt, Roger

Left Bank, The
(Rice)

Lehman, Ernest

Leigh, Vivien

Lennart, Isobel

Le Saint, Edward J.:
The Three Godfathers

lesbian theme

Letter, The
(film, 1929; Limur)

Letter, The
(film, 1940; WW): critical reception of; Bette Davis in; ending; expressionism of; Gaudio's camera work on; Leslie murders her lover; Leslie's character; Leslie's confession to her husband; Leslie's death; Leslie's lace; Maugham's play adapted for; melodrama in; moon image/symbolism in; opening shot; Oscars for; release date; start of filming

Letter, The
(play; Maugham)

Lewis, Sinclair:
Arrowsmith
;
Babbitt
;
Dodsworth
;
It Can't Happen Here
;
Main Street

Liberation of L. B. Jones, The
(WW); Bumpas's death; casting; composition/framing; critical reception/failure of; darkness/pessimism of; ending; funeral scene; genesis of; Jones's murder; on liberalism of; lighting; opening shot; on pacifism vs. violence; plot; racism theme; as revolutionary/ powerful; shooting locations; social space in; Steve's character

Liberation of Lord Byron Jones, The
(Jesse Hill Ford)

Liberty Films

Lindsay, Margaret

Lingeman, Richard

Literary Guild Book Club

Litinov, Maxim

Little Foxes, The
(film; WW): Alexandra rejects Regina; casting; composition/framing; critical reception of; Bette Davis in; deep focus used in; dinner party scene; ending; Giddens death scene; Hellman on; Hellman's play adapted for ; Horace's heart attack/Regina's reaction; Horace's moral speech to Regina; house as setting for; the Hubbards as materialistic/self-interested; introductory character sketches; kitchen scene; mirrored shots; opening shots; outdoor scenes; pessimism of; plot; positive characters gathered, scene of; pro-union sympathies in; realism of; Regina's defeat; Regina's evil power; Regina's failed marriage; revivals of; script revisions; seasonal setting; shaving scene; social issues in; staircase scenes; style of; title's source; Toland's camera work on; wrap date; Zan and David's relationship

Little Foxes, The
(play; Hellman)

Litvak, Anatole;
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
;
The Snake Pit

Llewellyn, Richard:
How Green Was My Valley

Lloyd, Everett:
The Law West of the Pecos

Look Homeward, Angel
(Wolfe)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles Examiner

Lost Horizon
(film; Capra)

Lost Horizon
(novel; Hilton)

Louise, Anita

Love, Phyllis

Love in the Afternoon
(B. Wilder)

Love Trap, The
(WW)

Loy, Myrna

loyalty oaths

Lubin, Ronald

Luce, Henry

Lugosi, Bela

Lumet, Sidney

 

MacArthur, Charles

MacEwen, Walter

MacLaine, Shirley

Magnificent Seven, The
(Sturges)

Mailer, Norman:
The Naked and the Dead

Main, Marjorie

Main Street
(Lewis)

Majors, Lee

malignancy/malice theme

Maltz, Albert

Mandell, Danny

Mankiewicz, Joseph

Mann, Stanley

Mannix, Eddie

March, Fredric

Marion, Frances

Marked Men
(John Ford)

Marshall, George C.

Marshall, Herbert

Martin, Mary

Martin du Gard, Roger

Marx, Arthur

Maté, Rudolph

Maugham, W. Somerset:
The Letter

Mayer, Louis B.

Mayo, Virginia

McCarey, Leo:
Going My Way

McCarthy, Frank

McCarthy, Todd

McCarthy era

McCrary, Tex

McCrea, Joel; in
Come and Get It
, ; in
Dead End
; in
Foreign Correspondent
; in
These Three

McDowall, Roddy

McGuire, Dorothy

McMahon, Horace

Mellett, Lowell

Melville, Herman:
Moby Dick

Memphis Belle
(B-17)

Memphis Belle
(film; WW)

Men in White
(Kingsley)

Merchant of Venice, The
(Shakespeare)

Merrily We Roll Along
(G. S. Kaufman and Hart)

MGM

Middleton, Robert

Mielziner, Jo

Milestone, Lewis:
All Quiet on the Western Front
;
Of Mice and Men

Millar, Stuart

Miller, Arthur:
All My Sons
;
The Crucible

Mirisch, Harold

Mirisch, Walter

Miss Julie
(Strindberg)

Mitchell, Margaret:
Gone with the Wind

Mizoguchi, Kenji

Moby Dick
(film; J. Huston)

Moby Dick
(novel; Melville)

Molotov, Vyacheslav

Monogram Pictures

moon, symbolism of

Morgan, Robert C.

Moross, Jerome

Moss, Carlton

Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals

Mourning Becomes Electra
(O'Neill)

Mrs. Miniver
(film; WW); bomb-shelter scene; Carol's death; casting; church scene/vicar's speech; on classes distinctions; composition/framing; destruction/death in; elegiac tone of; ending; flower show scenes; marriage idealized in; Mrs. Miniver encounters downed Nazi pilot; Oscars won for; as a propaganda film; realism of; the rose's symbolism in; script; set design; staircase scenes; Struther's stories adapted for; success of; on U.S.-British relations; World War II as context for

Mrs. Miniver
(stories; Struther)

Mulhouse (France)

Mundy, Meg

Muni, Paul

Murfin, Jane

Mussolini, Benito

mustang (two-reel) westerns.
See also specific films

My Darling Clementine
(John Ford)

 

Naked and the Dead, The
(Mailer)

Nathan, Robert:
The Bishop's Wife
,

Nation

National Recovery Administration

National Youth Administration

Nazism

Negro Soldier, The
(WW)

New Deal

Newman, Alfred

New York Times

Ney, Richard

Niblo, Fred:
Ben-Hur

Nichols, Dudley

Night at the Opera
(G. S. Kaufman)

“A Night Piece” (Wordsworth)

Nine Lives
(WW)

Ninety-First Bomb Group

Niven, David

Nixon, Richard

“No Magic Wand” (WW)

No Other Man
(film; Capra)

No Other Man
(novel; Noyes)

Norris, Frank

Novarro, Ramon

Noyes, Alfred:
No Other Man

Nye, Gerald P.

 

Oberon, Merle

Odets, Clifford

O'Donnell, Cathy (WW's sister-in-law)

Office of War information (OWI)

Of Mice and Men
(film; Milestone)

Olivier, Laurence: in
Carrie
; in
Hamlet
; in
Henry V
; in
Venus Observed
; in
Wuthering Heights

One Big Happy Family
(Stevens)

O'Neill, Eugene;
Desire under the Elms
;
Mourning Becomes Electra

On Trial
(Rice)

Operation Strangle. See also
Thunderbolt

Ornitz, Samuel

Othello
(Shakespeare)

O'Toole, Peter

Owen, Reginald

OWI (Office of War information)

Ozu, Yasujiro

 

Paine, Thomas

Paramount

Parker, Dorothy

Parker, Eleanor

Pascal, Ernest

Patton
(Schaffner)

Pearl Harbor

Peck, Gregory

Peeping Tom
(Powell)

Pells, Richard H.

Pendleton, Austin

Perkins, Anthony

Peters, Margot

Petrified Forest, The
(Sherwood)

Phyllis Was a Fortress
(WW)

Pickford, Mary

Pidgeon, Walter

Pitts, ZaSu

Place in the Sun, A
(Stevens)

Planer, Franz

pluralists

Poitier, Sidney

Potter, Henry

Powell, Michael:
Peeping Tom

Private Lives
(film; Franklin)

Private Lives
(play; Coward)

Production Code

Psycho
(Hitchcock)

Punsley, Bernard

 

Quakers. See also
Friendly Persuasion

Quine, Richard

 

radical politics vs. capitalism

R.A.F.-A.A.F
. (WW)

Rathbone, Basil

Rattigan, Terrence

Reagan, Ronald

realism.
See also specific films

Red River
(H. Hawks)

Reed, Tom

Reid, Carl Benton

Reisz, Karel

Return of Jesse James, The
(Lang)

Rice, Elmer:
The Adding Machine
; background of;
Cock Robin
;
Counsellor-at-Law
;
The Grand Tour
;
The Left Bank
;
On Trial
;
Street Scene
;
The Subway
; on theater;
We the People
; writing career/styles of

Richardson, Ralph

Ripley, Clements:
Jezebel

RKO

Road Back, The

Robbins, Jerome

Robinson, George

Robson, Flora

Rodgers, Richard:
The Sound of Music

Rogers, Will

Rollyson, Carl

Roman Holiday
(WW); HUAC's influence on; opening credits; plot; political problems surrounding; script

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: on abuse of power; on Britain; death of; on the economy (
see also
New Deal); “Four Freedoms” speech; meeting with Churchill; on
Mrs. Miniver
; optimism generated by his second term; reaction to
Memphis Belle
; slum commission appointed by

Roosevelt (Franklin Delano) administration

Rorty, James

Rosenblatt, Freda

“Rose's Turn”

Ross, Herb

Rossellini, Roberto

Rosson, Richard

Roughead, William:
Bad Companions

Russell, Harold

Russell, Rosalind

 

Saboteur
(Hitchcock)

Salt Water

Sarris, Andrew:
The American Cinema
; on
The Collector
; on
Come and Get It
; on
The Liberation of L. B. Jones
; on WW

Schaffer, Peter

Schaffner, Franklin J.:
Patton

Schatz, Thomas

Schlosberg, Richard

Schorer, Mark

Scott, Adrian

Scott, George C.

Screen Directors' Guild (SDG)

Screen Writers' Guild

Search, The
(Zinnemann)

Selassie, Haile

Selznick, David; on
Carrie
;
Gone with the Wind
produced by; on
These Three

sepia printing

Sergeant York
(H. Hawks)

Seven Arts Productions

Shadow of a Doubt
(Hitchcock)

Shakedown, The
(WW)

Shakespeare, William:
The Merchant of Venice
;
Othello

Shane
(Stevens)

Sharif, Omar

Sharp, Mordaunt:
The Green Bay Tree

Shearer, Norma

Sheriff, R. C.

Sherman, Richard

Sherman, Vincent

Sherwood, Robert;
The Best Years of Our Lives
script;
The Bishop's Wife
script; Oscar won by;
The Petrified Forest

Sidney, Sylvia

Siegel, Donald:
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Silliphant, Stirling

Simmons, Jean

Sinatra, Frank

Sister Carrie
(Dreiser). See also
Carrie

Sistrom, Joseph

Skall, William

Slocombe, Douglas

Slotkin, Richard

Snake Pit, The
(Litvak)

Sound of Music, The
(film; Wise)

Sound of Music, The
(play; Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Spaatz, Carl A.

Spielberg, Steven

Stagecoach
(John Ford)

Stamp, Terence

Stark, Ray

star system

“Steel” (WW and J. Huston)

Steiger, Rod

Stein, Jules

Steinbeck, John:
The Grapes of Wrath

Sten, Anna

Sternberg, Josef Von:
An American Tragedy

Stevens, George; at Liberty Films (
see also
Liberty Films);
One Big Happy Family
;
A Place in the Sun
; post-Dachau films by;
Shane

Stevens, George, Jr.

Stewart, Donald Ogden

Stewart, Jimmy

Strasberg, Lee

Strategic Air Command
(Lay and Bartlett)

Street Scene
(film; Vidor)

Street Scene
(play; Rice)

Streisand, Barbra

Strindberg, Johan August:
Miss Julie

Stroheim, Erich Von

Strong, Michael

Struther, Jan:
Mrs. Miniver

Sturges, John:
Bad Day at Black Rock
;
The Great Escape
;
The Magnificent Seven
;
Thunderbolt

Styne, Jule

suburbia, rise of

Subway, The
(Rice)

Sullavan, Margaret (WW's first wife)