Tora! Tora! Tora!, 333
Torn Curtain, 12, 183, 309, 313, 328, 331, 362
Trouble with Harry, The, 77, 95, 226, 227, 295n, 360
Under Capricorn, 61, 158n, 171, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189, 193, 358
Vertigo, 11, 19, 20, 81, 111, 158n, 165, 187, 206, 243, 246, 247, 248, 253, 259, 301, 316, 323, 325, 361
Waltzes from Vienna, 85, 86, 87, 193, 314, 354
Way Down East, 57
What Price Hollywood?, 173
Whiffles, 27
White Shadow, The, 30, 351
Woman Alone, The (see Sabotage)
Woman to Woman, 29, 172, 351
Wreck of the Mary Deare, The, 248
Wrong Man, The, 16, 174, 202, 235, 239, 240, 242, 243, 317, 333, 360
Young and Innocent, 111, 114, 158n, 355
Z, 331
INDEX OF NAMES
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Abel, Alfred, 77
Agate, James, 69
Age and Scarpelli (Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli), 309
Aherne, Brian, 205
Anderson, Judith, 128
Anderson, Mary, 155n
Andrews, Julie, 309, 328, 331
Angel, Heather, 155n
Anger, Kenneth, 19
Anthelme, Paul, 199
Auber, Brigitte, 13, 224
Audrey, Robert, 152
Balcon, Michael, 27, 31, 39, 86, 87, 122
Balsam, Martin, 266n
Bankhead, Tallulah, 155n, 156
Bara, Theda, 41
Bardot, Brigitte, 224
Barnes, George, 118
Barrie, Sir James, 307
Barry, Joan, 64
Barrymore, Ethel, 174
Bass’, Saul, 273
Baxter, Anne, 202
Bazin, André, 347
Becker, Jacques, 260
Bel Geddes, Barbara, 243n
Bendix, William, 155n, 158
Bennett, Charles, 87, 95, 127, 133
Benson, Sally, 152
Bergman, Ingmar, 18, 20
Bergman, Ingrid, 116, 118, 120, 140, 165, 167, 168, 169n, 170, 171, 172, 173, 185, 186, 187, 189, 261, 325, 345
Berkeley, Anthony (see Iles, Francis)
Bernstein, Sidney, 160
Billard, Pierre, 330
Bjork, Anita, 202
Black, Karen, 341
Blake, George, 343
Bogart Humphrey, 216
Bogdanovich, Peter, 342
Boileau, Pierre, 243, 317
Bourke, Sean, 343
Bridie, James, 173, 186
Brisson, Carl, 52
Buchan, John, 95, 307, 308
Bunuel, Luis, 18, 341n
Burks, Robert, 328
Burr, Raymond, 214n
Caine, Sir Hall, 61
Canning, Victor, 339
Capra, Frank, 156
Carey, Harry, 146
Carey, MacDonald, 152n
Carlo-Rim, 96n
Carroll, Leo G., 165n, 250
Castro, Fidel, 330
Cayatte, André, 173
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand, 20
Cézanne, Paul, 319
Chabrol, Claude, 13, 14, 17, 107, 163, 304
Chandler Raymond, 193
Chaplin, Charles, 26, 29, 124, 345, 346, 348
Chapman, Edward, 69
Chekhov, Michael, 165n
Christie, Agatha, 74, 189
Churchill, Sir Winston, 89, 90
Clair, René, 77, 124
Clift, Montgomery, 200n, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 249
Cocteau, Jean, 12
Colbert, Claudette, 325
Colman, Ronald, 173
Connery, Sean, 301, 304, 331, 343, 346
Conrad, Joseph, 107
Cooper, Gary, 133
Corey, Wendell, 214n
Costa-Gavras, Constantin, 331
Cotten, Joseph, 73, 152n, 153, 154, 172, 186n, 187, 191, 346
Coward, Noel, 51
Cox, A. B. (see lies, Francis)
Crippen, Dr. (alias Mr. Robinson), 222, 223, 242
Crisp, Donald, 350
Cronvn, Hume, 155n, 179, 186
Cummings, Robert, 145, 209n
Curtiz, Michael, 77
Cutts, Graham, 30, 172
Dali, Salvador, 11, 165, 341
Dall, John, 179n
Dane, Clemence, 73, 122
Darnell, Linda, 325
Datas, 98
Dauphin, Claude, 161
Davis, Bette, 102
Dawson, Anthony, 209n
Day, Doris, 86n, 107, 325
Day, Laraine, 133, 134
Debussy, Claude, 308
De Chirico, Giorgio, 165
de Gaulle, General Charles, 325, 329, 331
Deneuve, Catherine, 343
Dern, Bruce, 341
Devane, William, 341
Dew, Inspector, 223
Dietrich, Marlene, 190, 191
Dixon, Campbell, 105
Donat, Robert, 95, 96, 98, 99, 109, 138
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 20, 71, 72, 95
Douchet, Jean, 266
Dreiser, Theodore, 197
du Maurier, Daphne, 71, 122, 129, 285, 286
du Maurier, Sir Gerald, 82
Duvivier, Julien, 77, 224
Eisenstein, Sergei, 17, 18
Elizabeth II, Queen of
England, 345
Epstein, Jacob, 86
Fairbanks, Douglas, 26
Fellini, Federico, 18
Finch, Jon, 339
Fitzmaurice, George, 350
Fonda, Henry, 239, 240, 242, 317
Fontaine, Joan, 128, 140, 142, 246, 345
Ford, Hugh, 350
Ford, John, 18, 19, 133, 325, 346
Forsythe, John, 226n, 227
Foster, Barry, 339
Freedman, John, 29
Freeman, David, 327, 344
Fresnay, Pierre, 91, 228
Gable, Clark, 139
Galsworthy, John, 77
Garbo, Greta, 173
Gardner, Ava, 325
Gavin, John, 266n, 268
Gelin, Daniel, 91, 228, 229, 231
Geraghty, Carmelita, 36
Gielgud, Sir John, 105
Gilliat, Sidney, 121, 122
Godard, Jean-Luc, 18
Goebbels, Dr. Paul J., 137
Goetzke, Bernhard, 26
Graham, Winston, 301, 325
Granger, Farley, 179n, 194n, 195, 197, 199
Grant, Can, 13, 44, 102, 107, 139, 142, 143, 167, 168, 169n, 170, 171, 172, 223, 226, 228, 249, 250, 251, 254, 256, 257, 261, 262, 265, 323, 325, 345
Gray, Hugh, 347
Griffith, David Wark, 26, 27, 56, 57, 184, 250
Guinness, Sir Alec, 141
Gwenn, Edmund, 77, 226n, 227
Hamilton, Patrick, 179
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 252
Harker, Gordon, 55
Harris, Barbara, 341
Harrison, Joan, 127, 141
Harrison, Rex, 87
Hasse, Otto E., 200n
Hawks, Howard, 18, 19, 20, 77, 346
Hayes, John Michael, 222, 227
Hazen, Joseph, 168
Hecht, Ben, 163, 167, 168, 186, 193
Hedren, Tippi, 254, 286n, 288, 295, 301n, 306, 327, 346
Helmore, Tom, 243n Herrmann, Bernard, 94, 295, 328
Hessling, Catherine, 325
Hichens, Robert, 173
Hicks, Seymour, 27
Higham, Charles, 20
Highsmith, Patricia, 197
Hitchcock, Alma (née Reville), 30, 31, 33, 36, 78, 141, 173, 339, 343, 345, 346
Hitchcock, Patricia, 190
Hitler, Adolf, 73
Hodiak, John, 155n
Holden, William,
199
Homolka, Oscar, 108, 109, 110
Hopkins, Miriam, 325
Hull, Henry, 155n
Hunter, Ian, 52, 54
lles, Francis (pseud, of A. B. Cox), 141
Incrocci, Agenore (see Age and Scarpelli)
Inge, William, 18
Innes, Hammond, 248
Jack the Ripper, 43, 44, 46, 337
Jade, Claude, 331
Jannings, Emil, 31
Jourdan, Louis, 173, 175, 176, 177
Kafka, Franz, 20
Kantor, MacKinlay, 156
Kazan, Elia, 249
Keaton, Buster, 26
Kelly, Grace, 73, 140, 209n, 212, 214n, 216, 222, 223, 224, 226, 272, 301, 307, 325, 327, 331, 339, 345, 346
Kipling, Rudyard, 138
Kirkbride, Ronald, 345
Konstantin, Leopoldine, 172
Korda, Sir Alexander, 95, 109
Krásna, Norman, 139
Kuleshov, 214
La Bern, Arthur, 333
Lancaster, Burt, 187
Lane, Priscilla, 146, 150
Lang, Fritz, 26, 77, 91, 98n
Langlois, Henri, 313
Laughton, Charles, 122, 173n, 174, 205, 316
Launder, Frank, 121
Laurents, Arthur, 179
Lawrence, Gertrude, 82
Lee, Canada, 155n
Lee-Thompson, 47
Lehman, Ernest, 248, 339, 343, 344
Leigh, Janet, 266, 268, 269, 272, 277, 282, 334, 342, 345
Leigh-Hunt, Barbara, 339
Leighton, Margaret, 186n, 187
Lejeune, C. A., 216
Leonard, Elmore, 343
LeRoy, Mervyn, 91
Levy, Benn W., 82, 329
Lloyd, Frank, 146
Lloyd, Norman, 146, 344
Lock wood, Margaret, 118n
Loder, John, 108n, 109
Lombard, Carole, 139, 140
Loren, Sophia, 224
Lorre, Peter, 91, 106n, 111, 297
Lowndes, Mrs. Belloc, 43
Lubitsch, Ernst, 18, 77, 140, 348
Lupin, Arsène, 223
McCarey, Leo, 77
McCrea! Joel, 133, 134
MacDonell, Margaret, 152
MaeLaine, Shirley, 226n, 227
McLaren, Norman, 19
MacPhail, Angus, 163
Magnani, Anna, 325
Mahon, Patrick, 222, 242
Mamouiian, Rouben, 329n
Mander, Miles, 31, 33
Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 329n
Marèze, Janie, 325
Marshall, Herbert, 74, 77, 133
Mason, James, 107, 139, 251
Massey, Anna, 339
Matthau, Walter, 343
Maugham, Somerset, 105, 316
Maxwell, John, 85, 86
Méliès, Georges, 334
Merchant, Vivien, 339
Mérimée, Prosper, 110
Miles, Vera, 242, 247, 266n
Milland, Ray, 209n, 272
Millikan, Dr. Robert A., 168
Mitchum, Robert, 316
Monroe, Marilyn, 224
Montgomery, Robert, 140
Moore, Kieron, 187
More, Kenneth, 98
Mosjoukine, Ivan, 214
Muni, Paul, 91
Murnau, F. W., 17, 26, 31, 47, 55, 96
Naldi, Nita, 41
Narcejac, Thomas, 243, 317
Newman, Paul, 309, 311, 313, 328, 331
Newton, Robert, 177
Noiret, Philippe, 331, 332
Novak, Kim, 243n, 245, 246, 247, 248, 301, 325
Novello, Ivor, 43, 49, 51
O’Casey, Sean, 69, 292, 319
Olivier, Sir Laurence, 128, 173, 177, 306
Ondra, Anny, 64
Ormonde, Czenzi, 193
Parker, Dorothy, 146
Pasternak, Joseph, 77
Peck, Gregory, 165, 167, 173, 177, 218, 249, 306
Perkins, Anthony, 266n, 268, 269, 272, 276, 277, 282, 342, 345
Perutz, Leon, 47
Piccoli, Michel, 331, 332
Pickford, Mary, 26
Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing, 132
Pleshette, Suzanne, 286n
Poe, Edgar Allan, 20
Pommer, Erich, 122
Porter, Edwin S., 57
Prevert, Jacques, 173
Priestley, J. B., 122
Proust, Marcel, 12, 327
Pudovkin, Vsevolod, 214
Rainier, Prince of Monaco, 325
Rains, Claude, 103, 169n, 170, 171, 172, 191, 346
Raphaelson, Samson, 141
Raymond, Gene, 140
Redgrave, Sir Michael, 118n
Reed, Carol, 249
Renoir, Jean, 12, 77, 325
Reville, Alma (see Hitchcock, Alma)
Robin, Dam, 331, 332
Rogers, Will, 146
Rohmer, Eric, 17, 107, 163
Roman, Ruth, 198
Rossellini, Roberto, 325, 346
Rouault, Georges, 319
Russell, Countess, 84
Russell, Jane, 224
Saint, Eva Marie, 107, 249n, 251, 262
Samuels, Charles Thomas, 12
Sandys, Oliver, 31
“Sapper,” 87
Saville, Victor, 29
Scarpelli, Furio (see Age and Scarpelli)
Scott, Helen, 12, 14, 347
Selznick, David O., 11, 121, 127, 128, 129, 133, 140, 145, 152, 159, 163, 173, 194, 195, 323, 329, 343, 347
Shakespeare, William, 74, 283
Shaw, Irwin, 18
Sheean, Vincent, 133
Sherwood, Robert, 128
Sidney, Sylvia, 108n, 110, 111
Sim, Alastair, 190
Simmons, Jean, 121
Skirball, Jack H., 146
Slezak, Walter, 155n
Smith, G. A., 57
Spoto, Donald, 327
Stafford, Frederick, 331
Steinbeck, John, 156
Stewart, James, 20, 86n, 107, 111, 141, 151, 179n, 184, 214n, 216, 217, 219, 222, 223, 227, 228, 229, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 253, 265, 301, 307, 317, 319, 323, 325
Story, Jack Trevor, 216
Stravinsky, Igor, 328
Subor, Michel, 331
Swerling, Jo, 156
Tandy, Jessica, 154, 290, 295
Taylor, Rod, 286n, 288, 297, 323
Taylor, Samuel, 330
Tetzlaff, Ted, 171, 172
Thinnes, Roy, 341n
Thomas, Ralph, 98, 99
Thompson, Dorothy, 156
Todd, Ann, 173n, 174
Todd, Richard, 190
Trnka, Jiri, 19
Ullmann, Liv, 343
Valentine, Joseph, 182
Valli, Alida, 173, 174, 175, 205
Valli, Virginia, 33, 34
van der Post, Laurens, 248
Van Druten, John, 82, 84, 102
Verneuil, Louis, 199
Vintigmilia, Baron, 31, 33, 34
Von Stroheim, Eric, 18, 20, 348
Wagner, Richard, 328
Walker, Robert, 172, 191, 194n, 195, 197, 199
Wallis, Hal, 168
Walsh, Raoul, 19
Wanger, Walter, 133, 329n
Warren, Jack, 183
Wasserman, Lew, 323, 342
Waxman, Franz, 216
Welles, Orson, 18, 295n
White, Ethel Lina, 121
Whitelaw, Billie, 339
Whitty, Dame May, 118n
Wilde, Oscar, 153
Wilder, Billy, 77
Wilder, Thornton, 151, 152, 153
Wilding, Michael, 186n
Williams, Tennessee, 18
Wood, Sam, 152
Woolrich, Cornell, 213
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 254
Wright, Teresa, 152n, 155, 345
Wyler, William, 19
Wyman, Jane, 158n, 190
Wyndham-Lewis, D. B., 87
Young, Robert, 105
Zanuck, Darryl F., 329n
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