Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945

Index

345 Abroad with Two Yanks (film), 186– 87, 189, 309n84 Action in the North Atlantic (film), 71, 189, 219, 222, 227 credits, 306n32 discussed, 175–83 Roosevelt is urged to view, 223 Actors’ Laboratory of Hollywood, 203–4 Air Force (film), 171–75, 219, 222, 223, 304–5n10 Alberni, Luis, 24–25, 195, 243n67, 314n119 Alexander Hamilton (film), 326n109 All through the Night (film), 189–90 Ambler, Eric, 127, 284n45 American Cavalcade (film), 78 American Communists. See Communist Party of the United States of America; radical Left American Jewish Congress, 71 American Romance, An (film), 193–94, 200, 313n115 Anders, Władysław, 130, 131 Andrews, Jack, 283n32 anti-Irish persecution, 242n52 anti-Semitism, 8, 213, 214–16, 217, 226–27, 242n52 antitrust violations, 258n10 Appointment in Berlin (film), 77 Armia Krajowa (Home Army), 52 Arnold, Gen. H. H., 171 Arthur, Jean, 195 Assignment in Brittany (film), 78 As the Earth Turns (film), 32–34, 246–47n111 Astor, Camille, 17, 239n24 Atlantic Charter, 67 Atlas, Leopold, 131, 201, 286n59 Atwill, Lionel, 85 Auer, Mischa, 18, 196 Australia, 153 Avengers (film), 78 Background to Danger (film), 78 Baclanova, Olga, 18 Ball, Ernest R., 187 Barasch, Stephen, 102–3 Barzman, Norma, 270n41, 284n37 Bassermann, Albert, 121, 161 Bataan (film), 190–91, 312n102 Battle of Britain, The (documentary), 151, 285n53 Battle of China, The (documentary), 295n151 Battle of Russia, The (documentary), 71, 151–52, 212, 297nn170–171 Bazykin, Vladimir, 77 Beban, George, 24 Bell, Ulric, 72, 107, 146, 164 Bellamy, Ralph, 35 Bell for Adano, A (film), 16, 189 Bendix, William, 186 Index 34 Index Beneš, Eduard, 75, 297n166 Bennett, Bruce, 128 Benny, Jack, 17, 84, 85, 87, 268n28 Bergquist, Lillian, 70, 77, 203, 260n26 Berle, Adolf, 67 “Berlin Nightingale,” 12 Berneis, Eleanor, 106, 164–65, 166 Bernstein, Walter, 206, 213 Bessie, Alvah, 203, 221, 223, 319–20n19 Biberman, Herbert, 64, 261n48 Birdwell, Michael, 225 Bischoff, Samuel, 111, 217 Black Book of Poland, The, 279n163 Black Fury (film), 29–32, 245n90 “Black Hell” (screenplay), 29–30 See also Black Fury Black Legion (film), 40–43, 250n154 Bleeding Hearts, The (film), 242n58 Block Busters (film), 78 Blonde Fever (film), 78 Boeing, 172 Bogart, Humphrey, 40–43, 175, 189 Bohunk: A Melodramatic Comedy (play), 29 Bolesławski, Ryszard, 16–17 Bomber’s Moon (film), 78 Bond, Ward, 43, 192 Boretz, Allen, 300n200 Boros, Ferike, 196 Bossak, Jerzy, 27–28 Bowery Boys, 314n121 Boyer, Charles, 16, 38 Boys from Stalingrad (film), 263n68 Brandon, Henry (Heinrich von Kleinbach), 42, 44, 251n167 Brazil, 153 Brecher, Egon, 251n163 Breen, Joseph, 21, 217, 275n113 Brennan, Frederick Hazlitt, 79, 264n82 Brennan, Sandra, 133 Bressart, Felix, 86 Brewster, Ralph O., 296n158 Briskin, Samuel J., 147 Britain, Battle of, 52–53, 120 Browder, Earl, 61 Brown, Karl, 192 Buchman, Sidney, 164, 167, 201 Buckner, Robert, 74, 290n93 Buck Rogers (serial), 44 Buhle, Paul, 4, 202, 203 Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP) Action in the North Atlantic, 182 Air Force, 174 concern for portrayals of ethnic Americans, 81 concern for the positive portrayal of foreigners, 78–79 Edge of Darkness, 133–34 function of, 68 indifference to Poles and Polish issues, 80 leftist preferences of, 204 Lifeboat, 199–200 Madame Curie, 163–64 None Shall Escape, 115–17 The North Star, 146–47 In Our Time, 105–7 pro-Soviet attitude in, 5, 73, 74, 76, 78–79 recommendations to the film industry, 72–73 review of scripts, 71, 77–78 Song of Russia, 77 A Song to Remember, 164–66 Warner Brothers and, 75–76, 183 Burnett, W. R., 179, 202 Bzura, Battle of the, 46 Cagney, Jimmy, 23 Caldwell, Erskine, 289n88 Cameron, Kate, 143 Canada, 153 Capra, Frank, 75 Jay Leyda and, 299–300n195 Anatole Litvak and, 296n157 Index 34 politics of, 205 on the Soviet invasion of Poland, 297n165 Soviet themes in films and, 18 Why We Fight, 147, 151, 152, 154, 296n160 Carey, Harry, 172 Carlisle, Harry, 58 Carnovsky, Morris, 133 Carroll, Gladys Hasty, 32, 34 Casablanca (film) authoring of, 88, 269–70n34 credits, 300n198 as having a simplified moral vision, 329n2 Paul Henreid in, 127 Jewish characters in, 222 omission of the Polish cause from, 155–56, 300n198 Victor László character and, 4, 75 Warner Brothers’ concerns with ethnicity and, 264n84 Cass, Maurice, 17, 239n24 Catholic Church, 21–22 cavalry, 49, 148 “celebratory nationalism,” 64 Censor Forbids, The, 86 censorship, Production Code, 21, 81 “Century of Friendship, A” (screenplay), 195 Ceplair, Larry, 6 Chałupiec, Apolonia...