You Must Remember This (37 page)

Stewart, Jimmy,
131
–32,
154
–55,
207
,
226
,
227
,
228

Strickling, Howard,
175
,
178
–79

studios and movie business.
See also
specific studios

actor layoffs,
169

agent package deals,
221
–22

changes after World War II,
8
–10

clannishness and competitiveness,
10
,
113
–14,
130

corporate owners,
11

creation of fantasy,
28
,
79
–80,
81

decline in production and profits,
182
,
249
–50

during Depression,
28
–29

exclusive actor contracts,
171
,
182

investment in stars,
79
,
195

in Los Angles economy,
29

passion and pride of founders,
11
–12

protection of stars’ reputations,
14
,
171
,
176
–77,
180
–82

publicists and press agents,
171
–72,
175
–79

studio buildings,
80
–81

studio locations,
73
–74,
109
,
193

Sturges, Preston,
234
–35

Swanson, Gloria,
74
,
141
–42

Talmadge, Norma,
99
–100,
116
,
140
,
195

Taylor, Elizabeth,
4
–6,
92
,
93
,
182

Taylor, Francis,
95

Taylor, Robert,
154
,
155
,
201
,
207

television,
9
–10,
136
,
182
,
249
,
250

Thalberg, Irving,
104

Thompson, Kay,
179
,
211
,
245

Tracy, Spencer,
90
,
150
,
178
,
209

Trocadero “The Troc,”
204
–6,
214
–16

20th Century Fox.
See
Fox/20th Century Fox

United Artists,
58
,
70
,
115

Universal,
28
–29,
127
,
250

Valentino, Rudolph,
75
–78,
76
,
159
–60

Van Heusen, Jimmy,
223

Vendôme,
241

Victor Hugo,
192
–93

von Sternberg, Josef,
100
–101

Wagner, Robert J.

adolescent years,
32
,
43
,
83
,
120

children,
51
,
125
,
145

contract with Fox,
44
,
58
,
175
,
251

first film,
239
–40

golf,
144
–48,
146

homes,
30
,
51
–52,
109
,
125

love for horses,
32
–34,
33
,
125
,
253
–54

marriages,
51
,
52
,
125
,
203

move to California,
29
–30

photos,
33
,
46
,
47
,
50
,
87
,
118
,
146
,
164
,
173

on St. John’s Hospital board,
132

Wald, Jerry and Connie,
126

Walker, Robert,
43
,
177

Walsh, Raoul,
54
,
150
,
252
–53

Warner, Ann,
113
,
114
,
179

Warner, Harry,
10
,
93
–94,
113
,
114
,
150

Warner, Jack

at costume party,
142

donation to Hollywood Canteen,
207

gambling,
242

gentrification of,
179

home,
110
–14,
115

interest in horses and racing,
150

ouster of brother from studio,
113
–14

passion for moviemaking,
11
–12

restaurant investments,
196
,
217
,
224

Warner Bros.

in movie industry family,
10
–11

ouster of Harry,
113
–14

production rate,
28
–29,
250

studio locations,
109
,
193

typical movies,
115

Wasserman, Lew,
115

Wayne, John,
43
,
222

Webb, Clifton,
13
,
54
,
153
,
173

West, Nathanael,
30

Weyl, Carl Jules,
195
,
199

Wilcox, Horace and Daeida,
20

Wilder, Billy,
63
,
132
–35

Wilkerson, Billy,
54
,
204
–6,
205
,
209
–10,
215
–16,
240
–43

Williams, Paul Revere,
95
–97,
230
–31

Williams Brothers,
211

Willson, Henry,
181
–82

Wood, Natalie,
44
,
52
,
164
,
186
,
203
,
228

Wright, Frank Lloyd,
107
–8,
108

Wrigley, Phil, and family,
44

Wrigley, William, Jr.,
41
–42

Zanuck, Darryl

favorite restaurants,
197
–98,
219

homes,
116
–17,
117

investments,
38
,
217

leisure activities,
94
,
151
,
151
,
152
,
153
–54

military service,
207

studio,
58
,
176

types and styles of movies,
8
–9,
11
–12,
116

Zanuck, Richard,
117
–18

Zukor, Adolph,
11
,
24
,
165