Lolita (film), 264
Lomino, Daniel, 335
Lopert Pictures, 276
Lorimar Productions, 328–29
Lorre, Peter, 12, 14, 19
Los Angeles, 53–54, 62, 76, 87, 224, 333
Lost Weekend, The (Jackson novel), 71, 73, 74–75, 81, 349
Lost Weekend, The (Wilder film), 5, 86, 96, 151, 349–50
Academy Awards and, 119
alcoholism treated seriously in, 72–73
budget, 92
cast, 75–76, 350
censorship code and, 73–74, 79, 81, 90–91
characters and plot, 78–81, 350
critical reception, 81, 84
editing of, 82–83, 349
flashback in, 78, 79
The Front Page compared with, 311
homosexuality in, 79–80
liquor industry lobbying against, 83, 84
location shooting in, 76
musical score/songs, 82, 83, 84, 349–50
photography, 76–78, 349
preview, 82, 121
production crew, 76, 349–50
screenplay/shooting script, 70, 72, 74–75, 349
set design, 77, 133
Lothar, Hanns, 249, 359
Loutrel, Jean-Marie, 355
Love in the Afternoon (Wilder film), 201, 210, 248, 328, 345, 356
cast, 189–90, 356
censorship code and, 263
characters and plot, 188, 192–94, 356
critical reception, 195
editing, 191, 356
Irma la Douce compared with, 265
Legion of Decency and, 191–92, 223
musical score, 190, 191, 193, 195, 356
photography, 191, 356
production crew, 189, 190, 356
screenplay/shooting script, 187–88, 215, 356
“Love in the Air” (unproduced script), 98
Love Parade, The (film), 38
Lubin, Ronald, 350
Lubitsch, Ernst, 13, 14, 30, 41, 195, 326
on American moviegoing public, 33
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, 17, 19–22, 72, 192
censorship evaded by, 193
death, 95–96, 97
The Emperor Waltz as Wilder’s homage to, 90, 95
French farces and, 267
German accent of, 15, 19
influence on Wilder, 40, 155, 167, 216, 249, 266
The Love Parade, 38
Madame Du Barry, 5
“meet-cute” motif and, 19, 20, 72, 79, 95
The Merry Widow, 90, 190
Ninotchka, 22–24
That Lady in Ermine, 96
Trouble in Paradise and, 19
Wilder’s Hollywood directorial debut and, 36
as Wilder’s idol/mentor, 17, 192, 321–22, 344
Wilder’s scriptwriting collaboration with, 1, 20–24, 249
“Lubitsch touch,” 22, 24
Luft, Herbert, 140–41
Lund, John, 100, 351
Lundy, Ken, 348
Lustig, Hans, 10, 347
Luthardt, Robert, 360, 361
Lyles, A. C., 178
Lynch, Thedora, 350
Lynn, Diana, 348
MacArthur, Charles, 307, 309, 314, 339, 364
MacBride, Donald, 355
Macdonald, Dwight, 243
MacDonald, Jeannette, 190
MacLaine, Shirley
in The Apartment, 233, 235–38, 241, 242, 245, 358
in Irma la Douce, 260, 262–63, 267, 360
MacMurray, Fred
in The Apartment, 234, 236, 358
on Buddy Buddy, 339
in Double Indemnity, 61, 62, 66, 75, 234, 349
in Remember the Night, 62
Macnab, Geoffrey, 2
Madame Du Barry (film), 5
Madden, Peter, 362–63
Maddin, Guy, 138
Madsen, Axel, 76, 241, 250, 261, 273, 334
Magnificent Ambersons, The (film), 43
Magnificent Seven, The (film), 251
Mailer, Norman, 219
Major and the Minor, The (Wilder film), 1, 29, 31, 53, 75, 196, 347–48
budget, 36, 42
cast, 35–36, 348
characters and plot, 34–35, 38–40
critical response, 40
making of, 37–38
pedophilia theme, 34–35, 39
production crew, 36, 147, 347
as screwball comedy, 41
Malcolm, Robert, 352
Malkine, Georges, 347
Malneck, Matty, 191, 200, 223, 312, 357, 358
Maltese Falcon, The (film), 80
Man Between, The (film), 199
Mandell, Daniel
The Apartment and, 234, 239, 244, 358
Ball of Fire and, 29
The Fortune Cookie and, 284, 361
Irma la Douce and, 262
Kiss Me, Stupid and, 360
One, Two, Three and, 251, 359
Witness for the Prosecution and, 206, 209, 357
Mander, Miles, 48, 50, 348
Man for All Seasons, A (film), 295
Manhandled (film), 118
Mankiewicz, Joseph, 159, 165, 224, 260
Mann, Abby, 259
Mann, Anthony, 12
Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht, Der [The Man Who Tried to Get Himself Killed] (film), 333
Mantz, Paul, 183, 355
Man Who Came to Dinner, The (film), 245
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (film), 180, 181, 334
Marchetti, F. D., 356
Marlene (documentary film), 209
Marley, J. Peverell, 355
Marshman, D. M., Jr., 109, 111, 125, 352
Martin, Dean, 271, 275, 279, 361
Martin, Robert, 360, 361, 364
Massey, Raymond, 201
Mast, Gerald, 235, 341
Maté, Rudolph, 147
“Matter of Decadence, A” (Luft), 140–41
“Matter of Humor, A” (Brackett), 140
Matthau, Walter, 167, 299
in Buddy Buddy, 333, 335, 365
in The Fortune Cookie, 282–83, 285–86, 287, 335, 361
in The Front Page, 309, 311, 312, 364
Maupi, Marcel, 347
Maureen, Mollie, 362
Maury, Jacques, 365
Mauvaise graine [Bad Seed] (Wilder/Esway film), 10–12, 38, 190, 347
Maxim Films, 6
May, Billy, 312, 364
May, Joe, 12, 15
Mayer, Louis B., 54, 124–25
Mayes, Wendell, 179, 182–83, 199, 355
Mayo, Archie, 212
Mazurki, Mike, 358
McBride, Joseph, 311
McCallum, Gordon K., 362
McCarey, Leo, 70, 85, 245
McCarthy, Todd, 30
McClelland, Doug, 297
McCord, Ted, 355
McCrindle, Alex, 363
McDaniel, Sam, 349
McGee, Rex, 327, 329, 365
McGiver, John, 356
McNear, Howard, 360, 361, 362
McQueen, Neile, 365
Meehan, John, 116, 117, 125, 352
“meet-cute” scenes
in The Emperor Waltz, 90, 91, 94
in The Lost Weekend, 72, 79
Lubitsch and, 19, 20, 72
Mellor, William, 190, 191, 356
melodrama, 12, 31, 51, 59, 150
Melody of the Heart (film), 9
Menjou, Adolphe, 308, 309
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (film), 1, 7–9, 31, 97, 102, 151
Merande, Doro, 361, 364
Meredith, Charles, 352
Merrick, M. A., 356
Merry Andrew (film), 188
Merry Widow, The (musical film), 90, 190
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 62, 124, 154, 188, 235, 330
Buddy Buddy and, 333–34, 335, 336, 339, 365
censorship code and, 264
Double Indemnity and, 54
Lehman at, 155
Lubitsch at, 22
MGM Home Entertainment, 305
Previn’s musical scores, 251
Metropolis (film), 5, 7
Mexico, 14
Meyerinck, Hubert von, 256, 359
Meyers, Jeffrey, 122, 158, 373n66
Michaels, Norman, 296–97, 303
Midnight (film), 24–26, 27, 39, 101
Milestone, Lewis, 308, 309, 314
Milland, Ray
in Easy Living, 24
in The Lost Weekend, 75, 76–77, 84, 85, 350
in The Major and the Minor, 35–36, 75, 348
Miller, Arthur, 213, 218, 220, 222
Miller, William, 130–31
Mills, John, 317
Mills, Juliet, 317, 318, 363
Milne, Tom, 304
Milton, John, 154
Mingand, Pierre, 11, 347
The Ministry of Fear (film), 75
Minnelli, Vincente, 190
Miracle of Morgan Creek, The (film), 31
Miracle on 34th Street, The (film), 77
Mirisch, Harold, 213, 253, 269, 276, 281
Mirisch, Walter, 191, 196, 322
The Apartment and, 232
Avanti! and, 315, 318, 321
The Fortune Cookie and, 286
Irma la Douce and, 260
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and, 295, 301, 302, 401n12
Some Like It Hot and, 211, 212–13, 222, 226
Mirisch brothers (Walter, Harold, Marvin), 186, 188, 195–96, 209–10
The Fortune Cookie and, 290
Some Like It Hot and, 224
Mirisch Company, 196, 211, 246, 269, 281
The Apartment and, 231–32, 239, 245, 358
Avanti! and, 315, 322, 363
The Fortune Cookie and, 361
Irma la Douce and, 261, 359
Kiss Me, Stupid and, 360
One, Two, Three and, 253, 359
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and, 362
Some Like It Hot and, 357
See also United Artists (UA)
Mishkin, Leo, 267
Mitchell, Millard, 351
Modell, Art, 284, 285
Molnar, Ferenc, 247, 249, 359
Monash, Paul, 363
Monkey Business (film), 187
Monnot, Marguerite, 259, 263, 267, 360
Monogram studio, 161
Monroe, Marilyn, 240, 251, 331
look-alike in The Apartment, 240, 256
in The Seven Year Itch, 165, 168–71, 172, 174–75, 229, 355
in Some Like It Hot, 213–14, 217, 218–22, 225–27, 229, 299, 358
Monroe, Thomas, 29
Montagu, Ivor, 86
Montgomery, Gen. Bernard, 43, 50
Moore, Archie, 362
Moore, Michael, 353
Moore, Victor, 171, 355
Moreau, Jeanne, 269
More the Merrier, The (film), 100
Morgenstern, Joseph, 314–15
Morris, George, 279, 283, 287
on Avanti!, 321
on Fedora, 325, 330
on The Front Page, 313
on The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 305
Moscow International Film Festival, 259
Motion Picture Export Association of America, 106
Mottola, Rafaele, 363
Moyer, Ray, 352
Mr. Roberts (film), 177, 213, 263
Mueller, Christine, 365
Muller, Ed, 60
Murnau, F. W., 5, 13, 326
Murphy, William, 352
Murray, Robert, 130
Murrow, Edward R., 174
Muse, Clarence, 350
musical films, 90, 261
musical scores
Ace in the Hole, 134, 135, 352
The Apartment, 234, 239, 358
Avanti!, 363
Buddy Buddy, 336, 365
Double Indemnity, 63, 67, 70, 349
The Emperor Waltz, 89, 90, 93, 95, 350–51
Fedora, 328, 365
Five Graves to Cairo, 47, 348
A Foreign Affair, 351
The Fortune Cookie, 362
The Front Page, 364
Irma la Douce, 267, 360
Kiss Me, Stupid, 273, 361
The Lost Weekend, 82, 83, 84, 349
Love in the Afternoon, 190, 191, 193, 195
The Major and the Minor, 38
Mauvaise graine, 11
Mauvaise graine [Bad Seed], 190
Midnight, 24
One, Two, Three, 251, 359
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 300, 303, 362
Sabrina, 354
The Seven Year Itch, 174, 355
Some Like It Hot, 223, 358
The Spirit of St. Louis, 184, 185
Stalag 17, 149–50, 151, 353
Sunset Boulevard, 119–20, 125, 352
Witness for the Prosecution, 200
Music Corporation of America, 324
Music in the Air (musical film), 15, 31, 112, 270
Mussorgsky, Modest, 336
My Fair Lady (film), 299
My Man Godrey (film), 307
Naremore, James, 69
Nash, Jay, 205
National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures (NCOMP), 290–91
National Medal of the Arts, 343
Nazis/Nazism, 10, 21, 190
anti-Nazi documentary in occupied Germany, 83, 85–86, 89
Chevalier and, 109
in Five Graves to Cairo, 46, 49
in A Foreign Affair, 99, 105
Lindbergh and, 178
in One, Two, Three, 249–50
in Stalag 17, 143–44, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152
Wilder’s hatred of, 102
Neff, William, 352
Negri, Pola, 41
Negulesco, Jean, 127, 167
Nelson, Argyle, 336, 365
Nelson, Sam, 219, 357
Nesmith, Ottola, 357
Newman, Alfred, 174, 355
Newman, Walter, 130, 131, 141, 353
New York City, 2, 76, 236–37
New Yorker magazine, 36, 114
Nilsson, Anna Q., 122, 352
Ninotchka (film), 22–24, 31, 127, 249
cast, 147
set design, 62
Silk Stockings derived from, 327
Nolan, Tommy, 361
Noran, Gustaf, 205
Norman, Barry, 229
Normand, Mabel, 110
Normann, Alessandro von, 363
Norris, Frank, 141
Norton, Cliff, 361
Nosferatu (film), 5, 14
Novak, Kim, 271, 275, 361
Nunn, Larry, 348
Nun’s Story, The (film), 325
Oberst, Walter, 351
O’Brien, Pat, 214, 215, 254, 308, 358
O’Connor, Una, 357
Octopus, The (Norris), 141
Odd Couple, The (play and film), 282, 283
Office of War Information (OWI), 83, 86, 97, 249
O’Flynn, Damian, 352
Oklahoma! (musical film), 188, 223
“Old Pornographer, The” (Dunne), 279
Olivier, Laurence, 295
Olson, Nancy, 123, 352
O’Malley, J. Pat, 357
One, Two, Three (Wilder film), 245, 298, 359
Berlin Wall built during shooting of, 252–53, 258
budget, 257
cast, 248–51, 254, 311, 327, 359
characters and plot, 248, 249–50, 255–57, 359
critical reception, 257–58
The Front Page compared with, 312
Molnar play as source, 247–48, 249, 359
musical score, 251, 359
photography, 252–53, 359
production crew, 251–52, 359
revival of, 259
screenplay/shooting script, 248, 249, 250–51, 253–54, 359
set design, 251–52, 257, 359
O’Neal, Eileen, 361
O’Neill, Dick, 364
Ora della fantasia, L’ [The Dazzling Hou
r] (Bonacci play), 269, 360
Orry-Kelly, 216, 360
Orteig, Raymond, 178
Orth, Frank, 350
Oscars. See Academy Awards (Oscars)
Osmond, Cliff, 277, 288, 360, 361, 364
Pace, Judy, 362
Pacino, Al, 326
Page, Don, 355
Page, Genevieve, 298, 362
Page, Mario, 199
Pain in the Neck [Ass], A (film), 333
Pallenberg, Max, 247, 248
Palmer, Patrick J., 361
“Pam-Pam” (Wilder script), 12
Paramount Pictures, 22, 27, 29, 37, 127, 196, 312
Ace in the Hole and, 130, 134, 139, 352
art department, 62, 116, 133
building dedicated to Wilder, 344
censorship and, 34
Crosby’s status at, 93
Double Indemnity and, 54, 55, 57, 61, 62, 349
The Emperor Waltz and, 91–92, 96, 350
first color films, 91
Five Graves to Cairo and, 44, 47
A Foreign Affair and, 100, 101, 107, 351
The Lost Weekend and, 71, 72, 75, 80, 83–84, 349
The Major and the Minor and, 347
music department, 47, 328
Sabrina and, 153, 155, 164, 354
screenwriters, 31, 36
in silent era, 112
special effects department, 80
Stalag 17 and, 142, 143, 149, 151, 152, 353
story department, 15, 98
Sunset Boulevard and, 111, 124, 352
Wilder’s status at, 42, 70, 85
Parker, Albert, 293
Parnell, Emory, 354
Parsons, Louella, 87, 113, 260
Pasternak, Joe, 5, 6
Payne, James W., 364
Pearce, Alice, 361
pedophilia, 34–35, 39
Pendleton, Austin, 310, 364
Pepper, Barbara, 361
Pereira, Hal
Ace in the Hole and, 133, 353
Double Indemnity and, 62–63, 349
Sabrina and, 354
Stalag 17 and, 147–48, 353
Persoff, Nehemiah, 358
Petersen, Verita, 158
Petri, Elio, 318
Pevsner, Tom, 359, 362
Phantom of the Opera, The (film; 1925), 310
Philliber, John, 349
Picker, David, 329
Pickford, Mary, 112, 124, 196
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 325
Pierson, William, 354
Pinewood Studios (London), 298
Pitlik, Noam, 362, 364
Place in the Sun, A (film), 190
Plemizio, Gianfranco, 363
Pointer, Michael, 304
Polaire, Hal, 358, 360
Poland, 2
Pollack, George, 298
Polo, Eddie, 6
Pommer, Erich, 9, 15, 41, 101
Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), 251
Porter, Cole, 307, 327
Postman Always Rings Twice, The (film and Cain novel), 62
Poverty Row studios, 151, 161
Powell, Michael, 298
Powell, William, 307
Power, Tyrone, 198–99, 201, 203, 208, 357
Powers, Tom, 349
Pozner, Andre, 234
Prager, Stanley, 351–52
Preminger, Otto, 95, 96