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Abrams, Hiram, 72-79, 81, 86-87, 95-99
Abrams, Miss (daughter of Hiram), 81-86, 89, 99
Acord, Art, 223
Ad. See Schulberg, Adeline
Adams, Franklin Pierce (F.P.A.), 6, 15
Alonso, Luis Antonio Damasco del See Roland, Gilbert
American Tragedy, An, 356, 369, 393
“America’s Sweetheart.” See Pickford, Mary
Anderson, Gilbert (stage name). See Bronco Billy
Anderson, Sherwood, 420
Anti-Semitism, 5, 6, 103, 108, 296, 348, 408-9, 421
Arbuckle, Fatty (given name, Roscoe), 150-51
Aronson, Max. See Anderson, Gilbert
Arzner, Dorothy (film editor), 319
Autobiography of a Colored Man, 417-18
Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 437-38, 452
Baggott, King, 20
Bancroft, George, 241-52, 254-58, 319
Bankhead, Tallulah, 367
Bara, Theda (stage name), 8, 82, 100, 120, 176-77
Barrymore, John, 30, 31, 50, 364
Becker, Leon (pianist), 472-74
Beetson, Fred (of Hays Office), 314-16
Beldam, George F. See Bell, Rex
Bell, Rex (stage name), 178-81, 183
Ben Hur, 206
Benchley, Robert, 336
Bernhardt, Sarah, 31-33, 34-35
Bickel, Freddie McIntyre. See March, Freddie
Big Parade, The, 204, 205, 224, 268
Bill of Divorcement, 482
Birth of a Nation, The, 13, 38, 40, 206, 365, 419-20
Blue Angel, The, 276
Bow, Clara, 138, 157-66, 168-84, 204, 207, 209-10, 266, 304, 318, 363
Boyden, Frank (Deerfield headmaster), 407-9, 412, 413, 421, 422, 435-36, 437, 440-41, 451-52
Brick, Elsie (Sunday School teacher), 232-35
Broadway, 28, 31, 59, 67, 100, 176, 278, 392, 399
Bronco Billy, 20-21, 22, 59, 84
Brooks, Geraldine, 278-79
Bughouse Fables (author’s screenplay), 436-37, 438, 449, 461
Canzoneri, Tony, 239
Carle, Teet (Paramount publicity), 357, 364-65, 370-71
Cauchoin, Lily. See Colbert, Claudette
Chaplin, Charlie, 8, 11, 21, 36, 51, 76-78, 81, 90, 93, 95-97, 277, 291, 318
Chevalier, Maurice, 475
Chicago, 26-27, 79, 83, 117, 389, 450, 459-61
Cohen, Manny, 486
Cohn, Harry, 25, 258, 358, 360
Colbert, Claudette (stage name), 364, 367
Conrad, Joseph, 403
“Coop.” See Cooper, Gary
Cooper, Gary, 173, 266-68, 270, 363-64, 487-88
Cooper, Jackie, 347
Cop’s Christmas Carol, A (film), 16
Crawford, Joan (stage name), 204, 206, 318, 381, 465-66
Crime and Punishment (film), 220, 265, 277
Crosby, Bing, 487
Darrow, Clarence, 418
Dartmouth University, 373, 441-42
Davies, Marion, 54, 150, 212, 483
Deerfield Academy, 373-74, 406-17, 421-24, 433, 435, 451-55
Del Rio, Dolores, 337-39
DeMille, Cecil B., 8, 11, 17, 33, 40, 51, 58-61, 93, 486
Depression, The, 330, 349, 364, 376, 424, 443-44, 453-54, 460, 469, 493
DeSano, Marcel, 136-45
DeVoe, Daisy, 177-81
Dewey, John, 424
Dickens, Charles, 85, 189, 248, 334, 358, 374, 403, 407
Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie (Edison’s assistant), 11
Dietrich, Marlene, 220, 276-79, 291, 355, 475
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. See Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The
Dostoevsky, Feodor, 248, 263, 265, 374
Dreiser, Theodore, 167, 356, 369, 393, 420
Duffy, Oliveretta. See Thomas, Olive
Edison, Thomas, 11-14, 17, 25, 29, 117
Eisenstein, Sergei, 368-71, 423
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, 21, 92, 159, 371
Fairbanks, Douglas, 43, 73, 76-77, 81, 95-98, 133
Famous Players Film Company, 8, 29-34, 36-37, 40, 43, 45, 48-50, 53, 57, 59, 61, 64-69, 72-78, 92-93, 96, 101, 117, 187
Faulkner, William F., 3
Fiermonte, Enzio (prize fighter), 311-13
Film Trust, 25, 30, 33-36, 38-39, 62, 71, 117. See also Motion Picture Patents Company
First National, 74, 76, 81, 95, 96, 107
Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 30-31, 50
Fitts, Buron (district attorney), 175, 180, 479-80
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 121, 125, 155
Ford, John, 365
Forman, Tom (director), 121, 132, 224
Fox, Sidney (actress), 467-70, 492
Fox, William F. (producer), 33, 100
Francis, Kay, 444
Freaks, 314
Freud, Sigmund, 55, 100, 155, 166, 216, 402, 424
Frohman, Daniel (Broadway producer), 32, 34
Garbo, Greta, 51, 195, 212, 213, 355, 466
Gasnier, Louis, 121, 126-29, 155
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 17, 318
Gilbert, John (Jack), 177, 195, 212, 213, 215-16
“Girl of a Thousand Faces, The.” See Lawrence, Florence
Girl Who Wouldn’t Work, The, 137-39, 142
Gish, Lillian, 46
Glyn, Elinor, 169-70
Goetz, Billy (producer), 398
Goldfish (later, Goldwyn, q.v.), Sam, 9, 33, 58-61
Goldwyn, Sam, 11, 39, 61, 93, 98, 147, 357.
See also Goldfish, Sam
Goodman, Theodora. See Bara, Theda
Goulding, Eddie (writer-director), 298-99
Grant, Cary, 266, 268, 487, 489
Great Train Robbery, The, 14, 28, 32
Griffith, D. W., 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 38-9, 40, 51, 76, 81, 90, 96-97
Hart, William S., 76, 81, 85, 96
Headrick, Baby Richard, 127-30
Hearst Syndicate, 17, 150, 290
Hearst, William Randolph, 54, 150-51, 295, 430, 483
Hecht, Ben, 241, 258, 300, 311, 399-400, 461
Hemingway, Ernest, 133
Hepburn, Katharine, 482
Herzbrun, Henry, 487
Hodkinson, W. W. (theater owner), 71-72
Hollywood, 8, 17, 60, 72, 78-79, 93-94, 113-14, 125, 138, 145, 155, 167-68, 175, 188, 213, 216, 257, 260, 281, 302, 305, 355, 359, 431, 443, 447, 455
Hollywood Reporter, 144, 464, 465, 479
“Hook, The” (author’s unfinished novel), 248
Huston, John, 467
Huston, Walter, 467
Indians, American, 85-86, 425, 461-62
It Girl, The. See Bow, Clara
Jaffe, David (Uncle Dave), 4, 391, 394, 395
Jaffe, Max, 4-5, 6, 25, 38, 116, 191-2, 432
Jaffe, Mildred (Aunt Milly), 307-8, 355, 427, 437-38
Jaffe, Rosalind (Roz, cousin), 391, 401
Jaffe, Sam (Uncle Sam), 188, 307, 437-38, 444, 463
James (chauffeur), 188, 285-92
Johnson, Cornelius (Corny, track star), 477-78
Johnson, James Weldon, 417-18, 419, 420
Judge Lynch (author’s novel), 449, 461, 492
Jungle, The, 421
K.K.K. See Ku Klux Klan
Kaplan, Señor (Paramount representative), 340-42
Katz, Sam, 486
Katz, Stan (theater owner), 376, 488-89
Kaufman, Al, 8, 22, 37, 45, 57, 66, 104, 429
Keaton, Buster, 51
Kennedy, Jeremiah J. (of Film Trust), 25, 33, 35-6
Keystone Kops, 8
Kleptomaniac, The (film), 15
Ku Klux Klan, 39, 348, 419, 420, 421
Laemmle, Carl, 11, 20, 33, 39, 62-63, 292
Laemmle, Rosabelle (daughter of Carl), 398
LaMarr, Barbara, 147
Laseur, Lucille. See Crawford, Joan
Lasky Feature Play Company, 59-61
Lasky, Jesse, 8, 11, 33, 39, 40, 59-61, 71-72, 188, 196, 265, 268, 270, 376, 486
Last Laugh, The, 272-74
Lawrence, Florence, 46
Leach, Archie. See Grant, Cary
Leiner, Benjamin. See Leonard, Benny
Leonard, Benny (nom de ring), 22, 103-10
Lewis, Sinclair, 420
Lichtman, Al, 22, 32, 45, 57-58, 66, 68, 100-101, 104
Life of an American Fireman (film), 11, 13, 14, 40
Lindbergh, Charles, 267, 440, 451
Lindsay, Judge Ben, 171-72
Lindsay, Vachel, 7
Loos, Anita, 17
Loring, Hope (writer), 132, 188, 268
Los Angeles, 89-94, 95, 113-14, 295, 298, 329. See also Hollywood
Los Angeles High School, 329-32, 343-47, 360, 381
Lyman, Abe (and orchestra), 126-29, 259, 379
Lynching. See Racism
MacConaughy, Mac, 414-15, 421, 435, 453
MacDonald, Katherine, 100-101, 121, 125, 157, 196
MacPherson, Aimee Semple, 169, 350
MacPherson, Jeanie, 12
Madame Butterfly (film), 461, 487, 493
Magnin, Rabbi, 191, 232, 235-38
Malibu, 178, 296-98, 303-9, 311-16, 384, 491
Mankiewicz, Herman (“Mank”), 261, 347, 358, 436-37, 487
Mannheimer, Al (Maurice Rapf s cousin), 470-72, 473-74, 491
March, Freddie, 177, 359, 364, 366, 428-29
Marion, Frances (writer), 17
Marx Brothers, 239, 436-37, 461
Mayer, Irene, 115, 296. See also Selznick, Irene
Mayer, L. B. (Louis), 25, 90, 93, 100, 114-17, 121-23, 145, 147-50, 154-55, 215-17, 292, 377, 381, 406, 439-40, 483-86
Mayer, Margaret, 295-96, 382, 484-85
Mayer-Schulberg Studio, 114, 117, 125, 136
Méliès, George (magician), 12, 15
Melville, Herman, 189, 358, 403
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. See MGM
MGM, 115, 118, 146-47, 154, 206-7, 213, 380, 397, 483
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 168, 420
Morrison, Marion Marshall. See Wayne, John
Motion Picture Patents Company, 29, 30, 33-34, 38-39, 117. See also Film Trust
N.A.A.C.P., 418-21, 425, 437, 449
Negri, Pola, 195-96
Neilan, Mickey (Marshall), 18, 51, 93, 145-46, 149, 153, 156, 259, 468-69
Nettles (pigeon breeder), 321, 325
New York, 4, 5, 6, 9, 14, 22, 27, 33, 38, 39, 43, 73, 103, 107, 109, 125, 139, 158, 163, 191, 279, 390-94, 395-403, 405, 453, 457
New York Times, The, 184 (excerpted), 221, 274
Normand, Mabel, 150
Oakie, Jack (stage name), 366-67, 492
O’Fearna, Sean Aloysius. See Ford, John
Offield, Lewis D. See Oakie, Jack
Old Ironsides (film), 318-19
Olympic Games, 475-78
O’Neill, James (actor), 30, 31
Palmer, Stuart (writer), 481, 492
Paramount Pictures, 25, 40, 71-78, 86, 188, 195-96, 239, 268, 276, 319, 357-59, 365, 368, 370, 376-77, 381-82, 392, 397, 428, 430, 433, 439, 443, 463, 475, 486
Parsons, Louella O., 17, 126, 183, 291, 430
Pickford, Mary (stage name), 8, 18, 31, 36-38, 43, 46, 48-51, 58, 64, 73-74, 76-77, 81, 95-97, 101, 195
Pinsker (Adeline Schulberg’s uncle), 9-10
Plastic Age, The, 159, 160-63, 165, 169
Porter, Edwin S., 11-18, 20-21, 23, 25, 28-31, 35, 36, 38, 39-41
Powers, Pat, 62-63
Preferred Pictures, 100-101, 113, 121, 134, 138, 188
Queen Elizabeth (film), 31-33, 34
Quid, The. See Boyden, Frank
Racism, 46-47, 131, 204-5, 282-83, 417-21, 425, 437
Rapf, Grandmother (Harry Rapf’s mother), 205-6, 238
Rapf, Harry, 149, 204, 205-6, 306, 380-81
Rapf, Maurice, 149, 204-8, 210-13, 223-27, 231-38, 252-53, 317-19, 321-27, 360-61, 407, 465-66, 470-72, 491, 492-93
Rapf, Tima, 205-6
Ray, Mutt (Deerfield student), 410-11, 412-13, 441-42
Reeves, Arch (Paramount publicity), 357, 378, 379
Rice Elmer (writer), 401-2
Roche, Joe (writer), 22-23
Rogers St. John, Adela 311-13
Rogers St. John, Elaine, 313, 464
Roosevelt, Franklin, D., 424, 460
Roosevelt, Theodore, 117-18
Rugg, Elaine (author’s friend), 472-74, 492
Russia, 4, 9-10, 61, 64-65, 115, 406, 421-25
Santa Fe Chief (train), 83-86, 113, 140, 141, 145, 259, 307, 433, 450, 455
Schulberg, Adeline (mother), 4, 6, 8, 9, 21-23, 44-48, 53-55, 73, 75, 77, 86-87, 92-94, 99-101, 107, 122-23, 137, 143-45, 166-68, 171-72, 189, 193-99, 203, 225-26, 254-55, 260, 282, 291, 295-97, 306, 350-51, 353-55, 375, 395-96, 398, 400-3, 405-6, 421-25, 438-40, 445-47, 464-65, 475, 483-90
Schulberg, B. P. (father), 6-8, 11, 14-18, 21-23, 25, 30-37, 39-40, 44-51, 53, 57-58, 61, 66-67, 72-79, 80 (excerpted), 81, 84-85, 86-87, 95-101, 103-10, 117, 119-21, 131-43, 154-55, 157-59, 166, 170-76, 181-82, 187-89, 194-99, 218-20, 227, 231-32, 244-47, 254-55, 257-58, 260-63, 265-71, 273, 306, 349-51, 353-55, 358-60, 375-78, 382-84, 427, 429-30, 432-433, 438-40, 444, 453, 458-62, 488-90, 493-94
Schulberg, Sarah (grandmother), 5, 457-58
Schulberg, Simon, 5-6, 25, 38, 116
Schulberg, Sonya (sister), 44-45, 193, 198-99, 225-26, 228, 254-55, 281, 296, 313, 374, 398, 405, 438, 446, 464, 468, 473, 487-88
Schulberg, Stuart (brother), 254-55, 313, 331, 374, 416, 464, 487-88
Scottsboro Boys, 420-21
Selig, Colonel William N., 18, 114, 116-19
Selznick, David, 61, 69, 306, 360, 396-400, 480-82
Selznick, Irene (wife of David), 396-98, 480. See also Mayer, Irene
Selznick, Lewis J., 61-69, 100, 396
Selznick, Myron (brother of David), 67-69, 396, 446-47
Shadows, 132-34
Shannon, Peggy, 367
Shearer, Norma, 148, 212, 291, 318, 398
Sidney, Sylvia, 351, 353-56, 358, 373-75, 381, 382-84, 393, 424, 431, 439, 443, 444, 459, 461, 487
Sinclair, Upton, 168, 370, 421
Skippy, 347
Smith, Gladys. See Pickford, Mary
Stalin, Joseph, 422-24
Stammering (by author), 53-55, 62, 100, 164, 317, 330-34, 411, 438
Stanton, Mrs. (U.S.C. professor), 384, 416, 492
Star is Born, A, 366
Steffens, Lincoln, 370, 406, 420, 438, 479
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 165, 248, 358-59
Stewart, Anita, 90, 93, 100, 121-22, 125
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The, 358-59, 366, 428
Swanson, Gloria, 93, 121, 259, 304, 371
Talmadge, Constance and Norma, 64
Tarbell, Eaton (Deerfield student), 411-12, 455
Tashman, Lilyan, 308-9
Taylor, Elizabeth, 130-31
Taylor, William Desmond, 90, 150
Temple B’nai B’rith, 189, 191, 232-38
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (film), 149, 153
Tess of the Storm Country, 8
Thalberg, Irving, 51, 65, 136, 138-39, 148-49, 265, 304-6, 318, 360, 380, 398
Thirty-Odd Years (B.P.’s unfinished novel), vii
Thomas, A. W. (writer), 7
Thomas, Olive (stage name), 64, 67-9
Tolstoy, Leo, 189
Trust, The. See Film Trust
Twain, Mark, 358
20th Century Limited (train), 81-83, 395, 450, 459
“Ugly” (author’s short story), 198, 273, 384, 416
Underworld. 241-42, 256, 265, 275
United Artists, 76-78, 86-87, 95-98, 100
Universal Film Manufacturing Company, 19, 62-63, 69, 92, 96
Unsell, Eve (writer), 132, 133, 188
Urban Military Academy, 202-3
Vidor, King, 282
von Sternberg, Joseph, 220, 241-44, 265, 275-79, 291, 318, 451
von Stroheim, Erich, 51, 121, 139, 149-50, 153-54, 212, 215-21
Warner Brothers, 204
Wayne, John (stage name), 134, 202, 365-66
Wellman, William (Wild Bill), 265-66, 269-71
West, Mae, 487
Wilkerson, Billy (publisher), 144-45, 479-80
Wilma (governess), 44-47, 188, 281-83
Wolfe, Thomas, 396
Wright, William Lord (writer), 18-19
Young, Clara Kimbell, 63, 69, 100
Young, Felix (producer), 305-6, 373-74, 380, 431, 443, 463
Zanuch, Darryl, 301-2
Zeidman, Benny (writer), 481-82
Zeleznick, L. J. See Selznick, L. J.
Zukor, Adolph, 8, 11, 25-34, 36-40, 43, 48-50, 57-58, 60-61, 65-69, 71-75, 98, 187-88, 270-71, 350, 357, 376, 391-92, 486