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I N D E X 285 ★★★★★★★★★★ ✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩ Abie’s Irish Rose (Victor Fleming, 1928), 20, 31 Abrams, Brett L., 110 Adrian, 138 Adventure (Victor Fleming, 1945), 270 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Richard Thorpe, 1939), 268 Adventures of Marco Polo (Archie Mayo, 1938), 70, 77 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (Michael Curtiz/William Keighley, 1938), 160, 161, 162, 163, 166, 169–71, 170, 173 Affron, Charles, 104, 105 After Office Hours (Robert Z. Leonard, 1935), 257 After the Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke, 1936), 220, 230, 232, 235, 237, 238 Agar, John, 63 Akins, Zoe, 40–41 Alexander, Ross, 156 Alibi Ike (Ray Enright, 1935), 155 Alice in Wonderland (Norman Z. McLeod, 1933), 68 All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950), 107n4 Along Came Jones (Stuart Heisler, 1945), 71 Alter, Nora M., 119 Ameche, Don, 6, 268 Anderson, Doris, 41 Anderson, Eddie “Rochester,” 7 Anderson, Maxwell, 97 Andre, Gwili, 127 Angel (Ernst Lubitsch, 1937), 113, 124, 126 Animal Kingdom, The (Edward H. Griffith, 1932), 222 Ann Carver’s Profession (Edward Buzzell, 1933), 46 Anna Christie (Clarence Brown, 1930), 54, 113, 120 Anna Karenina (Clarence Brown, 1935), 113, 126 Another Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke, 1939), 220, 242 Anybody’s Woman (Dorothy Arzner, 1930), 40–41 Arizona Bound (John Waters, 1927), 66 Arlen, Michael, 92 Arliss, George, 7, 8, 86, 87, 135, 154 Arnold, Edward, 6 Arthur, Jean, 6, 42, 175, 192, 239, 267 Arzner, Dorothy, 38, 40, 130 As You Desire Me (George Fitzmaurice, 1932), 113, 114 Asher, Irving, 154, 159 Asta (Skippy), 228, 229, 243n6 Astaire, Adele, 200, 201, 203, 206 Astaire, Fred, 5, 6, 14, 196–219, 196, 208, 213, 216, 218, 226, 243n1, 268, 269 Asther, Nils, 35 Astor, Mary, 41, 183, 254–55 Atwill, Lionel, 158, 169 Ayres, Lew, 178 Babes in Arms (Busby Berkeley, 1939), 9, 267 Baby Take a Bow (Harry Lachman, 1934), 44, 48, 51, 56, 59 Bacall, Lauren, 243n1 Bachelor Mother (Garson Kanin, 1939), 268 Bad Sister, The (Hobart Henley, 1931), 85, 100, 102, 103 Baldwin, Faith, 249 Balfe, Veronica “Rocky,” 73 Ball, Lucille, 7 Bankhead, Tallulah, 43n1, 115 Bannister, Harry, 22, 25 Barbarian, The (Sam Wood, 1933), 233 Barkleys of Broadway, The (Charles Walters, 1949), 199 Barnes, Binnie, 168 Barrett, Judith, 16n4 Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (Sidney Franklin, 1934), 132, 136 Barrie, James M., 56 Barriga, Cecelia, 120 Note: Featured stars in boldface; page numbers for illustrations in italic. Barry, Philip, 22, 270 Barrymore, Ethel, 6 Barrymore, John, 5, 6, 9, 12, 126, 136, 185, 223 Barrymore, Lionel, 6, 9, 54, 185 Barthelmess, Richard, 87, 224, 225 Bartholomew, Freddie, 11 Bartlett, Michael, 16n4 Bartlett, Neil, 169 Basinger, Jeanine, 157, 231, 260, 261 Bataan (Tay Garnett, 1943), 269 Baxter, Peter, 117 Baxter, Warner, 6, 224, 241 Beast of the City, The (Charles Brabin, 1932), 180 Beau Geste (Herbert Brenon, 1926), 223 Beau Geste (William A. Wellman, 1939), 69, 70, 78, 79, 267 Bed of Roses (Gregory La Cava, 1933), 34 Beery, Wallace, 6, 9, 185, 190–91 Bellamy, Ralph, 6 Bennett, Barbara, 22 Bennett, Constance, 7, 18, 19–30, 33–34, 34, 38, 41–43, 113, 121, 148–49 Bennett, Joan, 22 Bennett, Richard, 22 Benny, Jack, 270 Bergman, Andrew, 2 Berkeley, Busby, 13, 134 Bern, Paul, 174, 182–83, 187, 191, 195n3, 195n6 Bickford, Charles, 149 Big House, The (George W. Hill, 1930), 151 Big Shakedown, The (John Francis Dillon, 1934), 88 Billy the Kid (David Miller, 1941), 269 Birrell, Tala, 127 Blonde Crazy (Roy Del Ruth, 1931), 180 Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg, 1932), 113, 115, 116–18, 117, 121, 124 Blondell, Joan, 7, 156, 180 Blondie (character), 3 Blood and Sand (Rouben Mamoulian, 1941), 269 Blue Angel, The (Josef von Sternberg, 1929), 109–10, 113, 119, 121, 122, 124 Blue Bird, The (Walter Lang, 1940), 62, 63 Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (Ernst Lubitsch, 1938), 69, 70 286 INDEX Bogart, Humphrey, 7, 93, 154, 171, 243n1, 268 Boleslawski, Richard, 113 Bolger, Ray, 10 Bombshell (Victor Fleming, 1933), 187 Bordertown (Archie Mayo, 1935), 90, 103 Born to Love (Paul L. Stein, 1931), 34 Borzage, Frank, 38, 69, 128 Bow, Clara, 26, 67, 177, 181 Boyer, Charles, 7, 10, 126, 267 Break of Hearts (Philip Moeller, 1935), 47 Breen, Joseph, 2, 58, 116, 188, 192 Brent, George, 7, 33, 35–38, 35, 37, 86, 90, 91, 92, 96, 154, 163 Bride Wore Red, The (Dorothy Arzner, 1937), 130 Bright Eyes (David Butler, 1934), 44, 46, 48, 49, 51, 56–57, 61 Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938), 12...

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