The Jews in America Trilogy (180 page)

Conn, Leonore.
See
Annenberg, Leonore Cohn

Coleman, McAlister,
72

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS),
318

Columbia Pictures Corporation, formation of,
202

Commentary
,
274

Commercial Cable Company,
101–02

Communist witch-hunt,
343–52

Coolidge, Calvin,
115
,
315

Coughlin, Father Charles,
339

Crawford, Joan,
292

Cronkite, Walter,
351

Cukor, George,
381

Dan, Uri,
356

Dance, Charlie, Dance
,
274

Dark Angel, The
,
196

Da Silva, Howard (Howard Silverblatt),
345–46

Davies, Marion,
196

Davis, Bette,
371

Davis, Sir Mortimer,
214

Day, Richard,
229

Dearborn Independent
,
138

Debs, Eugene V.,
69
,
108

Dee, P. S.,
125
,
134

Del Rio, Dolores,
196

DeMille, Cecil Blount,
86–88
,
93
,
195
,
196
,
201

DeMille, William C.,
86–87

Dempsey, Jack,
159
,
234
,
235

Dewey, Thomas E.,
294

DeWitt, Margaret,
121–22

Dillingham, S. W.,
125
,
134

Disney, Walt,
267

Dix, Richard,
203

Dodsworth
,
208

Donghia, Angelo,
376

Duer, Katherine Alexander.
See
Mackay, Katherine Alexander Duer

Dufy, Raoul,
174

du Pont, Eugene E.,
199
,
200

du Pont, Henry F.,
199
,
200

du Pont, T. Coleman,
199
,
200

du Pont family,
xi
,
368

Earth and High Heaven
,
268

Eastern European Jews.
See
Russian Jews

East Side (New York City):

Lower,
3–6
,
9
,
12–13
,
18–19
,
22–23
,
26–27
,
29
,
31
,
32
,
77–79
,
138–41
,
147

Upper,
12–13
,
146
,
175–76

Einstein, Albert,
315

Eisenberg, Dennis,
356

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
341
,
342

Ellis Island,
42

Emanu-El, Temple (New York City),
292
,
310–13

Epstein, Jacob,
32

Espionage Law,
119

Espy, Reeves,
229

Eternal City, The
,
208

Evlanoff, Michael,
225

Fairbanks, Douglas,
192
,
208
,
381

Famous Players—Lasky,
92–95

Farnum, Dustin,
87
,
88

Farrar, Geraldine,
197

Faye, Alice,
278

Ferber, Edna,
230

Fiddler on the Roof
,
346

Fine, Sylvia,
272

Firpo, Luis Angel,
159

Fisher, Max M.,
165

Fisher, William (Velvil Fisch),
165

Five Towns (Long Island, NY),
321–24

Flamingo Hotel (Las Vegas),
301–08

Flowers, Maude B.,
116
,
119–20

Ford, Henry,
xi
,
138
,
269
,
313
,
339

Ford, John,
232–33

Ford Foundation,
313

Founding Father, The
,
257

Fox, William,
112
,
191

Foy, Thelma Chrysler,
289

Frank, Helena,
69

Freeman, Monroe E.,
341
,
342

Frick, Henry Clay,
xi
,
3
,
130n
.

Front Page, The
,
274

Gable, Clark,
192

Gardner, Ava,
278

Garfield, John (Julius Garfinkle),
192
,
346–47

Garland, Judy,
278

Garson, Greer,
293

Gebhardt, Florence E.,
116
,
121
,
134

Gelbfisz, Shmuel.
See
Goldywn, Samuel

General League of Jewish Workers in Russia, Poland, and Lithuania,
38

German-American Bund,
339

German Jews,
11–24
,
145–47

gambling and,
79–80

Reform Judaism of,
13–14

Russian Jews vs.,
12
,
15
,
20–21
,
22
,
23–24
,
291–92
,
309–14
,
332–33

wealth of,
11–12
,
15
,
20

Gershwin, George,
188

Giannini, Amadeo Peter,
197
,
206

Gibson, Charles Dana,
52
,
70

Gide, André,
174

Gilbert, John,
205

Glyn, Elinor,
111

Goddard, Paulette (Pauline Levee),
192

Godsol, Frank Joseph,
198–201
,
202

“Goldbergs, The,”
347

Goldfish, Sam.
See
Goldwyn, Samuel

Goldman, Emma,
3
,
114
,
122
,
129

Goldwyn, Blanche Lasky,
85–86
,
93–94
,
202–03

Goldwyn, Frances Howard,
203–08
,
229
,
230
,
273
,
292
,
297–99
,
380–83

Goldwyn, Samuel (Shmuel Gelbfisz),
32
,
262
,
264
,
268

career in films of,
85–95
,
191
,
195–201
,
208
,
227–33

daughter Ruth and,
94
,
202–03
,
270

divorce of,
94
,
202–03

early career of,
84–85

emigration from Poland,
33–35

as executive,
227–33

film financing and,
197–201

generosity of,
237
,
270

Goldwynisms of,
229–30

forms Goldwyn Pictures,
95

Danny Kaye and,
272–74

last illness of,
382

marrage to Frances Howard,
203–08
,
380–83

marriage to Blanche Lasky,
86
,
93–94
,
202–03

feud of, with Louis B. Mayer,
228

forms Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
201

reaction of, to Nazis,
258

Louella Parsons and,
296

as publicist,
195–96

social aspirations of,
295–99
,
351

Squaw Man
and,
87–89

views of, on television,
319

Anzia Yezierska and,
110
,
111–12

Adolph Zukor and,
93–95
,
201

Goldwyn, Samuel, Jr.,
336
,
382

Gompers, Samuel,
71

Gone with the Wind
,
261

Good Citizenship
,
75–76

Gordon, Leon,
294

Gould, Anna,
331

Gould, Jay,
331

Gourielli-Tchkonia, Archil,
225
,
293

Grable, Betty,
278
,
279–80
,
282

Graham, Gwendolyn,
268

Grand Concourse (Bronx, NY),
177
,
178
,
320

Graustark
,
231–32

Great Gatsby, The
,
374
,
375

Griffith, D. W.,
88

Guggenheim, Benjamin,
105

Guggenheim family,
12

Guinness, Mrs. Loel,
289

Gunzburg, Baron Alain de,
332

Gunzburg, Minda Bronfman de,
332
,
361

Gussev, Sergei,
254

Guzik, Jacob “Greasy Thumb,”
149

Haganah,
281
,
282

Halkett, Sarah Phelps Stokes,
58

Hall, John,
232

Hamilton, Gertrude,
120

Hand, Learned,
95

Harding, Warren G.,
315

Harlem (New York City),
320

Harlow, Jean,
111

Harmonie Club (New York City),
314

Harper's Bazaar
,
59
,
60
,
65

Harper's Weekly
,
29

Hayward, Leland,
262

Hebrew language,
14
,
24

Hebrew Standard
,
24
,
64–65

Hecht, Ben,
258–62
,
263
,
264
,
265,
274
,
280
,
281
,
284

Helleu, Paul,
174

Hellman, Lillian,
231
,
344

Hello, Dolly!
,
381

Helpful Thoughts
,
10

Hepburn, Katharine,
381

Herberg, Will,
73

Hespeler, William,
216

Hewlett, NY,
321
,
322

Hill, “Chick,”
306

Hill, Virginia,
302–03
,
305
,
307

Hillcrest Country Club (Los Angeles),
267–68

Hillquit, Morris,
70

Hine, Lewis W.,
46

His Girl Friday
,
274

Hitler, Adolf,
255
,
275
,
287
,
289
see also
Nazis

Hoffman, Dustin,
87n
.

Holiday
magazine,
337

Hollywood Black List,
344–49

Hollywood Ten,
345

Holman, Libby (Catherine Holzman),
189

Hoover, Herbert,
315

Hoover, John Edgar,
114

Hopper, Hedda,
264
,
345
,
349
,
351

Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss),
189

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC),
343–49
,
351

Howard, Frances.
See
Goldwyn, Frances Howard

Hughes, Howard,
xi

Hughes, Rupert,
110
,
197

Hungry Hearts
,
110
,
111
,
113

Huntley, Chet,
351

Hurricane
,
232–33

I Can Get It for You Wholesale
,
274

International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU),
70–73

Inwood, NY,
321
,
323

Irgun Tzevai Leumi,
259
,
281
,
282
,
284

Israel:

American Jews and,
353–54
,
358–59

creation of,
280–86
,
289

Jabotinsky, Vladimir,
259–60
,
263

James, Harry,
282

Javits, Jacob,
23
,
32

Jerome, V. J.,
219n
.

Jewish Chautauqua Society of Philadephia,
76

Jewish Daily Forward
,
27
,
31
,
47–48
,
55
,
61
,
62
,
99
,
137–38

Jewish Daily News
. See
Tageblatt

Johnson, Lady Bird,
289

Johnson, Nunnally,
262

Johnson, Philip,
362

Jolson, Al (Asa Yoelson),
176
,
189
,
190
,
231

Joyce, James,
174

Kael, Pauline,
274

Kahn, Otto,
321

Kansas City Star
,
117–19
,
126
,
132

Kattleman, Belden,
246

Kaufman, George S.,
274

Kaye, Danny (David Daniel Kominski),
32
,
191
,
272–74

Keaton, Buster,
184

Kennedy, Jacqueline,
289
,
381

Kennedy, John F.,
155
,
381

Kennedy, Joseph P.,
155
,
256–58
,
261
,
267

Kennedy, Robert F.,
155

Kern, Jerome,
188

Kessler, Julius,
248–52

Kid from Spain
,
231

Kishinev massacre,
37
,
68

Kiss, Aladar V.,
168

Klopfer, Donald,
378

Kobre, Max,
139
,
140

Kohler, Rabbi Kaufmann,
23

Kohlmar, Fred,
229

Kohn, Morris,
89–91

kosher food,
14
,
312

Ku Klux Klan,
339

Laemmle, Carl,
202

Lahr, Bert (Irving Lahrheim),
192

Lambert, Jean,
361
,
363