Authors: Sam Kashner
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ABC-TV, 344, 355
Absolutions
(film), 406â7
Academy Awards, 13, 136, 206, 207, 217, 264, 288
Burton losses, 131, 133, 176, 177, 205â7, 290, 291â92, 381, 405â6
Burton nominations, 131, 152, 176, 209, 226, 279, 281, 285â86, 292, 313, 401
campaigning for Burton, 285â86
Hollywood during, 285
post-Oscar parties, 290â91
Taylor Best Actress Awards, 176, 206â7, 229, 281
Taylor doesn't attend, 206â7
Taylor nominations, 9, 152
Taylor party for losers, 292â93
Taylor presents at, 285, 290
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
nominations, 177
Aimée, Anouk, 206, 229
Albee, Edward, 137, 138, 169, 170, 173, 206, 207, 264
Alexandre de Paris, 19, 199, 200, 228, 325, 326, 347â48
Algonquin Hotel, New York, 324
Ali, Muhammad, 11
All About Eve
(film), 13, 14
Alpert, Hollis, 181
American Music and Dramatic Academy, 95, 106, 151, 232
Andrews, Julie, 15, 246
Anhalt, Edward, 74
Annenberg, Walter, 273
Anne of the Thousand Days
(film), 252, 260â61, 263â67, 269, 271, 272, 278â79, 281, 288â90, 291
Anouilh, Jean, 73, 74
Anstee, Paul, 93
Archerd, Army, 295
Around the World in Eighty Days
(film), 5, 38
Ash Wednesday
(film), 357â58, 359, 360, 375, 376
Asquith, Anthony “Puffin,” 45, 53
Assassination of Trotsky
(film), 324â25
Aubrey, James, 287
Auden, W. H., 114, 186
Avedon, Richard, 37
Aznavour, Charles, 255
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Bacon, Francis, 401â2
Bacon, James, 83, 295
Bailey, David, 172
Baker, Josephine, 183
Baker, Stanley, 51, 66, 134, 178
Baldwin, James, 261
Balfour, Neil, 387
Ball, Lucille, 294â95, 298
Bankhead, Tallulah, 411
Barcher, Larry, 332
Barnes, Billy, 213
Bart, Peter, 115
Battle of Sutjeska
(film), 320â23, 372
Beaton, Cecil, 325
Beatty, Warren, 241, 251, 287, 387
Beaumont, Hugh “Binkie,” 186
Becket
(film), 73â74, 87, 90, 96, 131, 133, 185, 196, 268, 269
Bel Air, California, x, 1, 386, 414, 425, 437
Bell, Jean, 388, 389
Bell Inn, Wales, 271, 274â75
Benton, Jim, 267, 274, 278, 306, 344
Bergman, Ingrid, 38, 42, 212
Berkeley, Ron, 24, 119, 167, 227, 321â22, 344, 350, 384, 406
Berman, Pandro S., 63â64
Besançon, Andrew, 247
Betty Ford Clinic, 372, 424, 432, 435
Beverly Hills Hotel, 286, 291, 360, 400
Bible, The
(film), 193
Bloom, Claire, 18, 49, 120â22, 128, 167, 394, 427
Bluebeard
(film), 327â42, 375
Blue Bird, The
(film), 388â89
Bogarde, Dirk, 134, 216, 324
Bogart, Humphrey, 328
Bolt, Robert, 53
Boom!
(film), 211â20, 238â40, 242, 269, 272, 288, 373
Boorman, John, 401
Bosworth, Patricia, 160
Boyd, Pattie, 136
Boyd, Stephen, 11, 15
Boy with a Cart, The
(play), 90
Bozzacchi, Claudye Ettori, 198â99, 322, 344
Bozzacchi, Gianni, 119, 197â99, 247, 315, 319, 322, 344, 359, 377â78, 382, 431
Bragg, Melvyn, 56, 58, 106, 317
Brando, Marlon, 157, 189â92, 233, 234, 255, 299, 324, 328, 357, 428, 429
Breakthrough
(film), 406
Breslin, Jimmy, 302, 420
Bridges, Beau, 316
Brief Encounter
(TV movie), 386, 387
Britt, May, 207
Brodsky, Jack, 27, 29
Bronson, Charles, 114
Brooks, Richard, 7
Brown, Pamela, 73
Browne, Roscoe Lee, 196
Browning, Robert, 276
Buchman, Sidney, 13
Buda, Max, 225
Budapest, Hungary, 327â35, 337
David Frost interview in, 339
Taylor's 40th birthday ball, 331â35
Bufman, Zev, 411, 413, 422
Bujold, Geneviève, 261, 265, 266, 270, 288
Bulgari, Gianni, 45, 99, 172, 175, 178, 235, 237, 332
Burr, Robert, 104
Burton, Jessica, 15, 42, 48, 60, 118, 119â20, 195, 377
Burton, Kate, 15, 48, 60, 135, 195, 225, 247, 299, 304, 333, 339, 376, 390, 402, 412, 433
Burton, Maria, 24â25, 36, 79, 80â81, 97, 115, 119, 127, 130, 171, 183, 195, 208, 282, 299, 322, 332, 333, 352â53, 376, 411, 412, 415, 433
birth mother shows up, 163â64
Burton, Philip, 64, 70â72, 75, 87, 95â96, 106, 134, 151, 166, 186, 232, 309â10, 329, 339
Burton, Richard.
See also
Taylor, Elizabeth and Richard Burton romance
on acting, 305â6, 318, 335, 372, 396, 427
acting and talent of, 1, 15â16, 20â21, 71, 72, 73, 74, 93â94, 95, 97, 102, 104, 121, 123, 176â77, 193, 268, 318, 421
alcohol, attempts at sobriety, 208, 283â86, 289â91, 293, 300, 302, 322, 324, 331, 334, 336, 338â39, 342, 345, 346, 349, 377, 390, 391, 393â94, 396, 398, 399, 402, 406, 428, 431
alcohol, detox, 1973, 363, 367
alcohol and alcoholism, viii, 1, 15, 21, 48, 50, 51â54, 59, 73â74, 82, 83, 85â86, 92, 96â98, 104, 120, 124â25, 127, 146, 162, 165, 190, 192, 202â4, 209, 217, 220, 226, 241, 251, 253, 258, 270, 271, 281â85, 302â3, 305, 306, 312, 317, 336â40, 353, 354, 358, 360â61, 374, 377â79, 392, 394, 408, 409, 410, 413, 420, 431
alcoholism, final stage, 377â78, 381â82, 384, 392
appearance, 18, 19, 24, 48, 55, 70, 71, 121, 134, 167, 186, 229, 244, 289, 294, 300, 303, 328, 331
Ava Gardner and, 77â78, 85â86
background and family, ix, 18â19, 49, 51, 61, 64, 65â73, 86â87, 97, 110, 186, 359, 383
beating by London thugs, 55â56, 104
brothers and sisters (list), 65
burial and memorial services, x, 432â34
Claire Bloom and, 49, 120â22
death, ixâx, 430â32
depression, 105, 120, 122, 125, 146, 203, 208, 257, 278â79, 283, 289, 354, 387
desire for knighthood, 282, 409
diary, 2, 29â30, 124, 170, 173, 192, 203â4, 213, 227, 241, 245, 262, 263, 268, 284, 288, 292, 302â3, 305, 318, 321, 336, 414
The Dick Cavett Show
, 408
directing, 113â14
disasters of 1968, 241, 245â46, 247â48, 255
Dylan Thomas and, 314, 316, 337
earnings, 15, 44, 113, 119, 120, 139, 193, 196, 212â13, 214, 250, 292, 327, 388, 407
engagement to Princess Elizabeth, 387â88
entourage reduced, 402, 428 (
see also specific individuals
)
epilepsy of, 92, 120, 159, 409
fame, viii, 37, 89, 92, 96, 107, 123, 164, 222, 306, 340
favorite foods, 66, 75, 126
fears and phobias, 91
final written words, 432
gifts to family, 75, 118, 126, 177â79
guilt over Ifor, 248, 271, 273, 335â36, 340
Haitian property, 401, 428
Hampstead, England, home, 50â51, 194, 240, 319
health problems, 104, 233, 283, 306, 312, 320, 382, 407â9, 415, 428â29
hemophilia, 91â92, 120, 159, 435
homosexuality and, 16â17, 160â61, 248â50
Jean Bell and, 388, 389
Judiasm and, 174
love of books, 171â72, 221, 272, 297, 358, 401â2
love of poetry, 18, 86â87, 106â7, 121, 125, 142â43, 169, 174â75, 202, 332
names for, 53, 65
obsession with Faust legend, 189
Oxford and, 53, 72, 112, 114, 185â86, 195, 281, 332, 343â44
Pays de Galle, Céligny, x, 39, 42, 118, 194, 247, 271, 388, 389, 400, 424, 430â32
personality, 1, 10, 18, 81, 96, 97, 152, 192â93, 204, 242, 329, 344, 424
Philip Burton and, 64, 70â72, 87, 95â96
purchases jet, 180
receives CBE, 304â5
Sally Hay and, x, 420â21, 424, 428, 429, 430
Susan Strasberg and, 18, 122â23
Suzy Hunt and, 394, 395, 396â99, 400, 401â2, 406â7, 409, 410
Sybil Burton and, 1, 15, 25, 29, 30, 39, 42, 43, 47â52, 60, 118, 133â34, 240
virility, 16, 18, 24, 49, 229, 302, 415
voice, 18, 20, 33, 48, 70, 71, 74, 93â94, 100, 101, 102, 121, 159, 188, 227, 229, 231, 314, 316, 336, 356, 380, 386, 398, 415, 429, 432
Welsh identity, ix, 1, 50, 66, 69â70, 71, 75â76, 102, 118, 125â26, 179, 314â15, 359, 417
womanizing, 1, 17, 18, 21â22, 27, 49â50, 120â21, 122, 123, 208, 329, 340, 379, 382
writings, 164, 227â28, 281, 359, 413, 434â35, 443â45
F
ILMS
, 268
Absolutions
, 406â7
Academy Award losses, 131, 133, 176, 177, 205â7, 290, 291â92, 381, 405â6
Academy Award nominations, 131, 152, 176, 209, 226, 279, 281, 285â86, 292, 313, 401
Anne of the Thousand Days
, 252, 260â61, 263â67, 269, 271, 272, 278â79, 281
Assassination of Trotsky
, 324â25
“A Walk with Destiny” or “The Gathering Storm,” 387â88
The Battle of Sutjeska
, 320â23, 372
Becket
, 73â74, 87, 96, 131, 133, 185, 196, 269
best work of, 269
Bluebeard
, 327â35, 337â42
Boom!
, 211â20, 238â40, 272, 288
box-office rankings, 112, 131, 162, 196, 236
Breakthrough
, 406
Brief Encounter
, 386, 387
brother Graham as stand-in, 51
Candy
, 234, 255
Circle of Two
, 406
Cleopatra
, 2, 15, 58â60, 112, 436
The Comedians
, 196â204, 209, 228â30
The Desert Rats
, 1
Divorce His Divorce Hers
, 344â57
Ellis Island
, 430
Equus
, 401
Exorcist II: The Heretic
, 401
Hammersmith Is Out
, 316, 323
Ice Palace
, 139
influence of Taylor, 73, 74, 87, 131
Jackpot
, 388, 396
The Klansman
, 381â82, 388
The Last Days of Dolwyn
, 19, 42â43, 48â49, 145
Laughter in the Dark
, 235â36, 240â41
The Longest Day
, 31
Look Back in Anger
, 122â23, 140, 236, 345
Lovespell
, 406
Massacre in Rome
, 357, 370
The Medusa Touch
, 406
Under Milk Wood
, 313â16, 323
My Cousin Rachel
, 1, 15, 122, 133
Night of the Iguana
, 76â88, 112, 131, 174, 185, 193, 211, 237, 269
1984
, x, 424â25, 427â30
poor choices and, 234, 406
Raid on Rommel
, 297â300, 317
retirement contemplated, 154, 251â52, 267â68, 281
The Robe
, 1, 15, 133
roles reflecting life, 118, 129, 131, 146â49, 161, 202â3, 215, 264, 266, 310, 356
The Sandpiper
, 113â19
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
, 120â31, 133, 168, 176, 185, 205, 215, 265, 269
Staircase
, 248â50, 269, 272, 288
The Taming of the Shrew
, 161, 164â72, 178â82, 185, 205, 211
Villain
, 300â301, 305, 317â18
The V.I.P.s
, 42â45, 47, 50â51, 53â54, 55â56, 112, 113, 168, 225
The Voyage
, 367, 377
Wagner
, 409â10
Where Eagles Dare
, 235, 252, 255, 272, 298, 387
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
, 107, 129, 138â52, 185, 205
The Wild Geese
, 406
S
TAGE CAREER:
Camelot
, 15â16, 24, 36, 96, 98, 140, 407, 409, 436
desire to play King Lear, 353, 406, 409, 414, 429
Doctor Faustus
, 112, 114, 185â89, 209, 211