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Hecht/MacArthur play as source, 308, 309, 364

  male friendship theme, 282, 308, 313, 334

  musical score, 312, 364

  PG rating of, 312

  photography, 311–12, 364

  production crew, 311, 327, 364

  screenplay/shooting script, 309–11, 364

  Furlong, John, 364

  Gabel, Martin, 310, 364

  Gable and Lombard (film), 324

  Gaines, Richard, 349

  Galitzenstein, Maxim, 6

  Galle, Raymond, 11, 347

  Galler, Suzie, 365

  gangsters, 212, 214, 215, 225, 228, 250

  Garbo, Greta, 22–24, 122, 209, 325

  Gardenia, Vincent, 313, 364

  Garfield, Allen, 364

  Garrie, John, 363

  Garris, John, 350

  Garvin, Gene, 353

  Gasnier, Louise, 16

  Gehman, Richard, 238, 244

  Gemünden, Gerd, 212

  General, The (film), 122

  Gentleman’s Agreement (film), 99

  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (film), 170

  Geria Films, 326, 329, 364

  German accent, 91, 148, 285

  Bogart’s mockery of Wilder and, 158–59

  of Lubitsch, 15, 19

  Wilder’s Viennese, 311

  German cinema, 9–10, 74, 79, 326

  golden age, 5–6

  Menschen am Sonntag, 7–9

  rejuvenation after World War II, 85

  German language, 13, 14, 102, 103

  Germany

  under Allied occupation, 83, 106, 107

  film censorship in West Germany, 152

  Nazi regime, 13, 14, 21, 178

  reunified (post-1989), 269

  Gershwin, George, 251, 271, 361

  Gershwin, Ira, 251, 271–72, 277, 361

  Getty, John Paul, 116

  Giannetti, Louis, 172, 289

  Gibbons, Cedric, 62

  Gibbs, A. H., 358

  Gibson, Henry, 361

  Gigi (film), 190, 192

  Gilbert, John, 123

  Gilbert, Lauren, 362

  Gill, Brendan, 247–48

  Glaessner, Verina, 237

  Glass, Ned, 362

  Go-Between, The (film), 327

  Going My Way (film), 70, 90, 97, 245, 383n68

  Gold, Ernest, 357

  Golden Bear Award, 344

  Golden Boy (film), 114

  Golden Globe Award, 229, 267, 321

  Golden Laurel Award, 343

  Goldsworthy, John, 351

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 29, 156

  Good Earth, The (film), 70

  Goodman, Ezra, 159

  Gough, Lloyd, 352

  Gould, Harold, 313, 364

  Grable, Betty, 96, 145

  Granach, Alexander, 22

  grande illusion, La (film), 44

  Grand Hotel (film), 24

  Grand Prix (film), 327

  Granger, Bertram, 348, 349

  Grant, Cary, 16, 85, 156, 157, 226

  in His Girl Friday, 308, 309

  Love in the Afternoon and, 189

  Graves, Peter, 353

  Gray, Billy, 358

  Gray, Judd, 55, 68

  Gray, Walter, 347

  Greatest Story Ever Told, The (film), 263

  Great Flammarion, The (film), 12

  Great McGinty, The (film), 43

  Great Ziegfeld, The (film), 70

  Green, Ernie, 284

  Green, Jack, 339

  Greene, Graham, 34, 89

  Greenson, Ralph, 222

  Greer, Dabbs, 356

  Grenzbach, Hugo, 351

  Griffith, D. W., 196

  Grifters, The (film), 345

  Guidi, Guidarino, 363

  Gurney, Harlan, 184, 356

  Gys, Robert, 347

  Hall, Porter, 349, 353

  Halliwell, Leslie, 35

  Hamilton, Murray, 186, 323, 356

  Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 15

  Hampden, Walter, 354

  Handl, Irene, 362

  Handman, Lou, 364

  Hansard, Paul, 363

  Hare, William, 69

  Harlan, Russell, 201, 357

  Harlow, Jean, 168, 331

  Harris, Del, 356

  Harrison, Doane, 24, 206, 300

  Ace in the Hole and, 133, 353

  The Apartment and, 239, 358

  Double Indemnity and, 51, 69, 349

  The Emperor Waltz and, 350

  Five Graves to Cairo and, 43, 47, 50, 119, 348

  A Foreign Affair and, 101, 102, 104, 351

  The Fortune Cookie and, 361

  Irma la Douce and, 262, 360

  Kiss Me, Stupid and, 360

  The Lost Weekend and, 76, 78, 84, 119, 349

  Love in the Afternoon and, 191, 356

  The Major and the Minor and, 36, 37, 347

  One, Two, Three and, 359

  Sabrina and, 157–58, 354

  The Seven Year Itch and, 170, 354

  Some Like It Hot and, 216, 223, 357

  The Spirit of St. Louis and, 181, 183, 355

  Stalag 17 and, 353

  Sunset Boulevard and, 37, 119, 352

  Harrison, Will, 353

  Hart, Lorenz, 153

  Hart, Moss, 245, 246

  Hartman, Don, 149, 161

  Harvey, Paul, 354

  Haubner, Steffen, 123

  Havoc, June, 99

  Hawks, Howard, 29–31, 170, 187, 308, 309

  Haworth, Ted, 358

  Haydn, Richard, 90, 351

  Hayes, Helen, 309

  Hayward, Leland, 35, 177, 181, 182, 355

  Head, Edith, 347, 348, 351

  Heart of Humanity, The (film), 44

  Heath, Dodie, 362

  Heather, Jean, 349

  Heat’s On, The (film), 112

  Hecht, Ben, 187, 307–8, 309, 314, 339, 364

  Hedrick, Earl, 76, 77, 133, 349, 353

  Heffner, Richard, 312

  Henderson, Ray, 364

  Hepburn, Audrey, 245, 325, 345

  in Love in the Afternoon, 189, 190, 191, 195, 356

  in Sabrina, 152, 155–56, 158, 160, 162, 354

  Héritier, Gaby, 347

  Hersh, Ben, 357

  Herzog, Werner, 334

  Heston, Charlton, 147

  Heuberger, Richard, 350

  High Noon (film), 196

  Hillaire, Marcel, 354

  Hirsch, Foster, 60, 74, 129, 325

  His Girl Friday (film), 29

  Hitchcock, Alfred, 82, 149, 323

  The Man Who Knew Too Much, 180, 181, 334

  Stage Fright, 104

  Vertigo, 154

  Hitler, Adolf, 1, 10, 143, 252, 326

  Hoffman, Bernd, 361

  Hoffman, Dustin, 319

  Hoffman, Kurt, 212

  Hofstede, David, 160

  Hogan, Harry, 351

  Holcombe, Harry, 361–62

  Hold Back the Dawn (film), 31, 34, 180

  photography, 36

  screenplay, 24, 26, 27–29, 56

  Holden, Ardis, 151, 160

  Holden, William, 129, 144

  death, 332, 406n46

  in Fedora, 324, 325, 332, 365

  in Sabrina, 152, 154, 156, 158, 159–60, 354

  in Stalag 17, 147, 148–49, 151, 159, 163, 353

  in Sunset Boulevard, 114, 117, 125, 159, 352

  Holiday, Hope, 358, 360

  Holiday Inn (film), 38

  Hollander, Frederick, 10, 24, 197

  A Foreign Affair and, 100–101, 104, 351

  in One, Two, Three, 255, 359

  Sabrina and, 157, 163, 354

  Witness for the Prosecution and, 200

  Holloway, Stanley, 299, 362

  Hollywood film industry, 5, 196, 330–31

  A-picture budgets, 36

  Broadway theater compared with, 154

  collapse of studio system, 325

  film noir, 60

  German emigré directors in, 9, 12–13, 19,
60, 95, 119

  golden age, 324

  homosexuality in mainstream films, 80

  rating system of, 291

  studio executives, 13, 42

  as subject of Sunset Boulevard, 109–11, 122–23, 125

  Wilder’s directorial debut, 31, 34, 36–37

  Holman, Libby, 114

  Holocaust, 21, 102, 139, 159

  Holt, Jason, 60

  Homolka, Oskar, 355

  homosexuality/homoeroticism, 11, 26, 201, 260

  censorship code and, 73–74

  in Double Indemnity, 68

  The Fortune Cookie and, 290

  in Kiss Me, Stupid, 277

  in The Lost Weekend, 79–80

  in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 80, 296–97, 302

  in Stalag 17, 145–46

  Hope, Bob, 85, 212, 321

  Hopp, Glenn, 329, 338

  Hopper, Hedda, 327, 352

  Hornblow, Arthur, Jr., 24, 196, 198,

  The Major and the Minor and, 34, 347

  Witness for the Prosecution and, 202, 216, 357

  Horton, Robert, 63, 300

  Hotel Imperial (Biró play), 41, 42, 50, 247, 348

  Hotel Imperial (films; 1926 and 1939), 41

  Houdini (film), 213

  Hound of the Baskervilles, The (film), 294, 304, 401n4

  Howard, Noel, 356

  Howey, Walter, 308

  Hoyt, Martin, 364

  Hubbard, Harold, 353

  Hudson, Rock, 247

  Hughes, Howard, 188, 308

  Huldschinsky, Paul, 350

  Hunt, C. J., 365

  Huston, John, 31, 60

  Hyer, Martha, 354

  I Loved a Soldier (unmade film), 41

  Inglis, Tony, 362

  Ingram, Rex, 43

  In Old Chicago (film), 24

  Inside “The Apartment” (documentary film), 231

  In the Company of Men (film), 141

  Iribe, Judith. See Wilder, Judith Iribe (first wife)

  Irma la Douce (Breffort/Monnot musical play), 259, 261, 360

  Irma la Douce (Wilder film), 192, 259–60, 274, 359–60

  Academy Awards and, 267

  cast, 262, 265–66, 360

  censorship code and, 260, 276

  characters and plot, 261–62, 264–67, 360

  as color film, 261, 270

  critical reception, 266, 267

  musical score, 267, 360

  photography, 262–63, 360

  production crew, 262, 360

  screenplay/shooting script, 260–61, 263, 360

  set design, 262, 360

  success of, 268, 269, 315, 324

  Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, 343

  Irwin, Boyd, 348

  Italy, 318

  I Wanted Wings (film), 27

  Jackson, Charles, 71, 74, 76, 81, 349

  on The Lost Weekend film, 84

  Lost Weekend novel as autobiography, 73

  Jackson, Keith, 362

  Jacobi, Lou, 261, 262, 360

  James, Godrey, 363

  Jameson, Joyce, 240, 358–59

  Jane Eyre (film), 90

  Jaquet, Frank, 353

  Jaray, Hans, 365

  Jazz Singer, The (film), 9, 178

  “Jealous Lover” (song), 239

  Jedele, Helmut, 364

  Jenkins, Allen, 364

  Jennings, Gordon, 80, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353

  Jesse James (film), 201

  Jews, 21, 143, 190, 269

  John, Gottfried, 365

  John Brown’s Body (Benet), 201

  Johnson, Don, 348

  Johnson, Hilding, 308

  Johnson, Rita, 39, 348

  Jolson, Al, 9

  Jolson Story, The (film), 167

  Jones, Carolyn, 355

  Jones, Gordon, 352

  Jones, Herb, 360

  Jourdan, Louis, 192, 265, 360

  Jugement de minuit, Le [The Judgment of the Moment] (film), 11

  Jungle, The (Sinclair), 141

  Kael, Pauline, 76, 258, 261, 304, 314

  Kahal, Irving, 364

  Kahn, Gus, 358

  Kakutani, Michiko, 344–45

  Kalmar, Bert, 358

  Kalser, Erwin, 354

  Kanin, Garson, 126

  Karasek, Hellmuth, 104

  Karlweis, Oscar, 90, 93

  Kästner, Erich, 9

  Kawin, Bruce, 341

  Kaye, Danny, 188

  Kazan, Elia, 275

  Kazanjian, Howard G., 364

  Keaton, Buster, 122, 327, 352

  Keith, Ian, 348

  Keller, Harald, 249, 259

  Keller, Marthe, 326–27, 328, 332, 365

  Kellogg, Ray, 355

  Kemp, Philip, 155

  Kennedy, Joseph, 115

  Kern, Jerome, 15, 71

  Kerr, Deborah, 172

  Keyes, Evelyn, 355

  Khachaturian, Aram, 255

  Kibbee, Roland, 348

  Kilbourne, Fannie, 33, 347

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 288

  King of Kings, The (film), 24, 122

  King Solomon’s Mines (film), 125, 311

  Kinski, Klaus, 334, 335–36, 365

  Kipen, David, 26

  Kiss Me, Stupid (Wilder film), 299, 360–61

  Bonacci play as source, 269

  box-office failure of, 280–81, 290

  cast, 271, 273, 285, 361

  censorship code and, 276

  characters and plot, 233, 270, 276–78, 361

  critical reception, 278–80

  Legion of Decency and, 269, 274–76

  musical score/songs, 271–72, 273, 277–78, 361

  production crew, 271, 360–61

  sneak previews, 276

  Kiss of Death (film), 194

  Kitty Foyle (film), 35

  Kiwe, Til, 359

  Klangfilm (sound movies), 8–9

  Kleeb, Helen, 362

  Knef, Hildegard, 327, 328, 332, 365

  Knopf, Alfred, 55

  Knopf, Blanche, 55

  Koenekamp, H. F., 355

  Köhler, Heinz-Jürgen, 265

  Kohner, Paul, 5, 6, 326

  Kolpe, Max, 347

  Korean War, 143, 159

  Korkes, Jon, 310, 364

  Krasner, Milton, 167, 174, 355

  Krim, Arthur, 196

  Krugman, Lou, 360

  Krupa, Gene, 30

  Kruschen, Jack, 241, 358

  Krutnik, Frank, 65

  Kubelik, Rafael, 233

  Kubrick, Stanley, 264, 265

  Kuch, Oliver, 101, 106

  Kuehl, William L., 355

  Kulp, Nancy, 354

  Kurnitz, Harry, 199, 200, 357

  Kuveiller, Luigi, 318, 319, 363

  LaBute, Neil, 141

  Lacey, Catherine, 362

  Lady Eve, The (film), 36

  Laemmle, Carl, 6

  Lally, Kevin, 51, 138, 250

  on Fedora, 330

  on The Fortune Cookie, 283

  on Irma la Douce, 261

  Lamprecht, Gerhardt, 9

  Lancaster, Burt, 172, 245

  Lanchester, Elsa, 199, 202, 204–5, 209, 357

  Lanfield, Sidney, 294

  Lang, Charles

  Ace in the Hole and, 133, 134, 353

  A Foreign Affair and, 101, 351

  Midnight and, 24

  Sabrina and, 157–58, 163, 354

  Some Like It Hot and, 101, 216, 357

  Lang, Fritz, 5, 7, 75, 326

  Lang, Jennings, 232, 308, 324–25, 363

  Larrecy, Henry, 364

  LaShelle, Joseph

  The Apartment and, 237, 238, 284, 358

  The Fortune Cookie and, 238, 284, 361

  Irma la Douce and, 262, 360

  Kiss Me, Stupid and, 284, 360

  Last Outpost, The (film), 16

  Last Waltz, The (film), 330

  Laszlo, Ernest, 36, 147, 353

  Lau, Fred, 357, 358

  Laughton, Char
les, 199, 298

  in The Canterville Ghost, 141

  in Witness for the Prosecution, 198, 201, 203–5, 209, 282, 357

  Lawrence, Jay, 354

  Lawrence of Arabia (film), 270

  Lax, Frances Weintraub, 359

  Lazar, Irving “Swifty,” 164, 165

  Leaming, Barbara, 165, 169, 219, 221

  Lean, David, 173, 194, 231, 270

  Lederer, Charles, 308

  Lee, Christopher, 295–96, 362

  Lee, Ruta, 357

  Legion of Decency

  The Apartment and, 243, 264

  Irma la Douce and, 264

  Kiss Me, Stupid and, 269, 274–76

  Love in the Afternoon and, 191–92

  name change of, 290–91

  The Seven Year Itch and, 171, 191

  Some Like It Hot and, 223, 224, 264

  Lehar, Franz, 89, 90

  Lehman, Ernest, 154–58, 163, 165, 201

  Bogart’s antipathy toward, 160–61

  Sabrina and, 281, 354

  Leisen, Mitchell

  To Each His Own, 100

  Easy Living, 24

  Frenchman’s Creek, 91

  Hold Back the Dawn, 24, 26–29, 31

  I Wanted Wings, 27

  Midnight, 24–26, 27, 101

  Remember the Night, 62

  Lembeck, Harvey, 147, 353

  Lemmon, Chris, 283

  Lemmon, Jack

  in The Apartment, 32, 231, 237, 239, 242–45, 282, 358

  in Avanti!, 317, 318, 321, 363

  in Buddy Buddy, 333, 335, 336, 365

  in The Fortune Cookie, 282–86, 361

  in The Front Page, 309, 311, 312, 364

  in Irma la Douce, 160, 262–63, 360

  in Some Like It Hot, 213, 214, 217–18, 221, 224, 225, 227–28, 230, 358

  Lemon, Richard, 140

  Lengyel, Melchior, 22

  Lennig, Arthur, 44, 46, 50, 113

  Leonard, Harry M., 355

  Lerner, Diki, 360

  Let’s Make Love (film), 251

  Lewis, Bobo, 361

  Lewis, David, 240, 358

  Lewis, Harold, 348, 353, 354

  Lewis, Jerry, 329

  Library of Congress (National Film Registry), 343

  Lichtenfield, Louis, 355

  Liebmann, Robert, 9, 10

  Lieffen, Karl, 359

  Lights of New York, The (film), 9

  Lilley, Joseph J., 350

  Lindbergh, Charles, 175, 177–80, 182, 183, 184–86, 355

  Lindgren, Harry, 352

  Lindt, Karl Ludwig, 359

  Lipstone, Louis, 47, 63, 328

  Little, Msgr. Thomas, 171, 223, 243, 290

  on Irma la Douce, 264

  Kiss Me, Stupid and, 274–75

  The Seven Year Itch and, 290

  Little Caesar (film), 214, 228, 250

  Livingston, Jay, 134, 352, 353

  Lloyd, Maj. David, 45

  location shooting

  The Apartment, 236–37

  Double Indemnity, 62, 76

  The Emperor Waltz, 92

  Five Graves to Cairo, 42

  A Foreign Affair, 87, 97, 101–2

  The Lost Weekend, 76, 77

  Sabrina, 157

  Some Like It Hot, 220

  Sunset Boulevard, 116

  Lockhart, Frieda, 288

  Loel, Art, 183, 355

  Lofton, Carey, 364

  Logan, Michael, 211, 357