American Cinema of the 1920s: Themes and Variations

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INDEX 277 Abbott, George, 239 Abrams, Hiram, 27 Academy Awards, 214, 257 Ace of Hearts, The (William Worsley, 1921), 51–52, 53 Addison, Heather, 148 Adrian, 5 adventure films, 40, 126, 128–29, 239 advertising, 4, 73, 83, 94n1, 154, 188–89, 205–8. See also promotions Affairs of Anatol, The (Cecil B. DeMille, 1921), 49, 55–59, 58 African Americans, 9–10, 12–13, 143, 251–55 Alden, Mary, 150 Alibi (Roland West, 1929), 14 “Alice” series (Walt Disney), 131 all-black films. See race movies Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1–2, 3, 5, 7 Allen, Robert, 238 American Federation of Labor (AFL), 25 Americanization, 48 anarchist groups. See radical groups Anderson, Maxwell, 167 Anger, Kenneth, 105 Angora Love (Lewis R. Foster, 1929), 238 Ani, Andre, 209 animation. See cartoons Annie Laurie (John S. Robertson, 1927), 191 anti-intellectualism, 147 Applause (Rouben Mamoulian, 1929), 246–47 Arabian Nights (Burton), 126, 127 Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,” 7–8, 53–54, 96 Are Parents People? (Malcolm St. Clair, 1925), 151–52 Arzner, Dorothy, 238 Astaire, Fred, 9 Asther, Nils, 7 athletics. See physical valor attendance, movie, 15 Aumont, Jacques, 215 Austen, William, 200 Austin, Albert, 39 automobiles, 6 avant-garde films, 11, 240 Ayers, Agnes, 66, 68 Babbitt (Lewis), 72 Baby Peggy, 124 Baclanova, Olga, 226 Badger, Clarence, 199 Baggot, King, 158, 159, 160 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 128 Ballet Mécanique (Fernand Léger, 1924), 134, 252 Bancroft, George, 191, 217 Bandy, Miklos, 11 Banky, Vilma, 190 Banner, Lois, 154 Banton, Travis, 5 Bara, Theda, 33, 105, 193, 196 Barbed Wire (Rowland V. Lee, 1927), 190 Barrymore, John, 8, 165, 190, 244 Barrymore, Lionel, 238 Barthelmess, Richard, 49 Barton, Bruce, 145–46 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925), 167 Battling Butler (Buster Keaton, 1926), 167 Bazin, André, 89 Beau Geste (Herbert Brenon, 1926), 167–68, 183–86 Beau Geste (William A. Wellman, 1939), 184 Beaumont, Harry, 5, 237 Beautiful and Damned, The (Fitzgerald), 73 Beautiful and Damned, The (William A. Seiter, 1922), 75–76 Beery, Wallace, 108 Behrman, S. N., 239 Bell, Monta, 146, 176 Bellamy, Madge, 147 Beloved Rogue (Alan Crosland, 1927), 190 Benchley, Robert, 239, 253 Ben Hur (Fred Niblo, 1925), 146, 164, 180, 190 Bennet, Spencer Gordon, 239 Bennett, Belle, 163, 164 Bennett, Constance, 163 Benny, Jack, 244, 246 Benson, Susan Porter, 161 Berkeley, Busby, 180 Berlin, Irving, 254 Bernays, Edward, 72 Besserer, Eugenie, 191, 195 Big Brother (Allan Dwan, 1923), 97 Big Business (James W. Horne and Leo McCarey, 1929), 239 Big Parade, The (King Vidor, 1925), 14, 146 Billions (Ray C. Smallwood, 1920), 29–31, 30 Birthright (Oscar Micheaux, 1924), 121 Blaché, Herbert, 15 Black and Tan (Dudley Murphy, 1929), 252–53 blackface, 177, 191. See also racism Black Pirate, The (Albert Parker, 1926), 126 Blackton, J. Stuart, 207 Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, 167, 176, 180, 183 Blitzstein, Mark, 11 Blood and Sand (Fred Niblo, 1922), 73, 140 Blot, The (Lois Weber, 1921), 6, 59–65, 65, 69n2 Blue Angel, The (Josef von Sternberg, 1930), 217 Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (Sam Wood, 1923), 97 Boardman, Eleanor, 219, 220 Bobbed Hair (Thomas N. Heffron, 1922), 74, 76–78, 77 body, cinematic, 97–98 Body and Soul (Oscar Micheaux, 1925), 13, 143 Bolsheviks, 26 Boni and Liveright (B&L) publishing, 72 Bonner, Priscilla, 200 Booker, Beulah, 43 Borzage, Frank, 7, 191, 238, 240 Bow, Clara, 6, 8, 76, 91, 93–94, 98, 147, 148–49, 189, 191, 200, 201, 202–3, 205, 206–7, 208, 209, 210, 238, 239 Bowers, John, 52 Boy of Flanders, A (Victor Schertzinger, 1924), 124 Brabin, Charles, 239 Brass; a Novel of Marriage (Norris), 73 Brendel, El, 2 Brenon, Herbert, 108, 109, 183 278 INDEX Brent, Evelyn, 191 Bresson, Robert, 174 Breton, André, 141 Brewster, Eugene, 207 Brice, Fanny, 47 Brick, Al, 3 Bridge, The (Charles Vidor, 1929), 240 Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (Charles Brabin, 1929), 239 Broadway (Paul Fejos, 1929), 241, 255 Broadway actors, 9, 239 Broadway Melody, The (Harry Beaumont, 1929), 237, 241, 242 Broken Blossoms (D. W. Griffith, 1921), 49 Bronson, Betty, 151 Brook, Clive, 159, 161 Brooks, Peter, 215 Brown, Clarence, 146, 152, 157–58, 162, 195 Brown, Lew, 241 Browning, Tod, 9, 239 Brownlow, Kevin, 110, 117, 142n4 Bruckman, Clyde, 238 Bryan, William Jennings, 144–45 Bryant, Charles, 29, 45n2, 105 Bulldog Drummond (F. Richard Jones, 1929), 238, 239 Burden of Race, The (unknown, 1921), 48 Burton, Sir Richard Francis, 127 Butler, David, 148, 238 Byron, Marion, 224 Cabanne, Christy, 8 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (Robert Weine, 1920), 11, 129...