240
Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 79–80
Federal Reserve System, 11, 13
Federal Writers’ Project, 117–18
Ferris, Walter, 182
Fess, Simeon D., 13
Fetchit, Stepin (Lincoln Perry), 62, 88–89, 165, 268 n
Fields, Dorothy, 94
Fields, Lew, 17
fireside chats, 36–40, 44
Flossie Flirt doll, 141
Ford, John, 155, 167–69, 174
Forkins, Marty, 91, 93
Forman, Henry, 126–27
Fort Apache , 237
Fortune , 117
42nd Street , 153–54
Fox, William, 67, 151
Fox Film, 2, 55, 56, 59, 62–67, 73–75, 74 , 80, 84, 86, 115, 122, 124, 124 , 141, 150–52, 155, 177, 208, 217, 219, 220
see also Twentieth Century–Fox
Frank, Anne, 1, 133
Frolics of Youth series, 48
Front Page, The , 49
Gable, Clark, 41, 117
Garbo, Greta, 41
Gardella, Tess, 89
Garland, Judy, 46, 93, 148, 181, 185, 188, 198, 224
Gaynor, Janet, 152
Gentleman’s Agreement , 154
Gettysburg Address, 108–9
Ghana, 244
Girl Who Came Back, The , 193, 195
Gish, Lillian, 31
Glad Rags to Riches , 50
Goldman, Mollye, 141, 144
Gone with the Wind , 104, 181, 237
“Goodnight, My Love,” 173
Gordon, Mack, 196
Gorney, Jay, 55–56
Gover, Mildred, 89
Grapes of Wrath, The , 154, 198
Grauman, Sid, 203
Great Britain, 66, 69, 147, 211
Great Depression:
African Americans in, 27, 29, 35, 87, 89, 90, 113
deepening of, 15, 17, 27
emotional crisis and healing in, 3–4, 20–21, 29, 45, 78–79, 87, 88, 128–29, 171–72, 179, 184, 198
FDR’s recovery strategy for, 1–3, 6, 21, 29–32, 34–45, 69, 77, 148
full recovery from, 32
Hoover’s failed strategy for, 11–21
image of men in, 77–79
onset of, 11–13, 126
optimism as ideological choice in, 70
smile as symbol of recovery in, 1–2, 26, 34, 80–81, 89, 111, 233, 261 n
Great Dictator, The , 198
Greene, Graham, 81–82
Green-Stone, Lois, 145
Greenwood, Charlotte, 195
Grierson, John, 69
Griffith, D. W., 104
Griffith, John, 60 , 209
Griffith, Mabel, 209
Griffith, Raymond, 109
Grumbine, E. Evalyn, 135–38
Gumm, Ethel, 46, 224
Haley, Jack, 173, 175
Hall, Alexander, 224, 289 n
Hancock, A. E., 177, 185
“Happy Days Are Here Again,” 26–27, 55
Harburg, E. Y. “Yip,” 55
Harlem Renaissance, 109
Harlow, Jean, 122
Hastings, Patrick, 82
Hathaway, Henry, 209
Hauptmann, Bruno Richard, 211, 213
Havoc, June, 224
Hawaii, 215, 216, 239
Hays, Jack, 47–49, 51, 55
Hays, Will, 122
Hecht, Ben, 49
Heidi , 87, 148, 170–72, 173, 175, 209, 224, 279 n
Henie, Sonja, 204
Hersholt, Jean, 175
Hewart, Gordon, 82
Hickok, Lorena, 80
“hidden children,” 132
Highfields, 210
Hill, Ethel, 182
“His Enigmatic Smile,” 43
Hitler, Adolf, 44, 45, 116
Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 2, 234
Hollywood, see motion picture industry
Hollywood Reporter , 64
Holocaust, 132–33
homelessness, 27
Honeymoon , 238
Honolulu, Hawaii, 215, 216
Hooray for Love , 94–95, 267 n
Hoover, Herbert, 26, 28
in attempts to minimize stock market crash, 11–14, 178
failed Depression strategy of, 11–21
FDR compared to, 21–22, 29, 32–33, 36, 42, 44, 55
loss of presidency by, 27, 28
as pessimistic and gloomy, 15–17, 19, 32, 46
public protest against, 20
respect and regard for, 9–11
sarcastic use of name of, 18
Hoover, J. Edgar, 1, 116, 240
House Committee on Un-American Activities, 238
House of Rothschild, The , 154
Hovick, Rose, 224
Howard, Cordelia, 53
Howard, Kathleen, 195
Howe, Louis, 254 n
How Green Was My Valley , 154
How I Raised Shirley Temple (Gertrude Temple), 225
“How’s Chances?,” 58, 58
Hughes, Howard, 123
Hughes, Langston, 113
humor:
in Baby Burlesks spoofs, 48–50
of FDR, 41, 42, 43–44
of Robinson, 91–92
in ST films, 161–62
Hundred Days, 21, 31–32, 58
Hurrell, George, 218, 226
Hyde Park, N.Y., 22, 227
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang , 153–54
Ideal Novelty and Toy Company, 5, 82, 120, 141, 143–44, 147–48
imitation, of ST, 114, 133, 137, 143
look-alike contests, 5, 123–32, 124
IMP girl, 202
Independent Moving