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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