My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir (31 page)

P
OWELL
, L
OVELADY
– film actress,
I Never Sang for My Fathe
r,
The Happy Hooker
,
The Possession of Joel Delaney.

P
RINCE
, H
AL
– Broadway producer and director,
Company
,
Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Evita, Fiddler on the Roof, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Cabaret, Show Boat, Phantom of the Opera
(now running on Broadway for over 25 years.)

P
RYCE
, J
ONATHAN
– actor. Broadway,
Comedians
(Tony Award),
Miss Saigon
(Tony Award). Film,
Carrington
,
Brazil, Evita, Glengarry Glen Ross, Tomorrow Never Dies, Pirates of the Caribbean.

Q
UINTERO
, J
OSE
– director, founder of Circle in the Square Theater. Plays,
Summer and Smoke
,
Our Town, The Iceman Cometh. Broadway,
premiere production of
Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
Film,
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.

R
ABB
, E
LLIS
– actor, director.
You Can’t Take it With You, The Royal Family, The Philadelphia Story, A Life in the Theater.

R
AITT
, J
OHN
– actor singer, originated roles in
Carousel
and
The Pajama Gam
e.

R
AYNER
, C
HESSY
– decorator, founder of design company with partner Mica Ertegun.

R
EDGRAVE
, L
YNN
– actress. Stage,
Black Comedy/White Lies
,
My Fat Friend, Shakespeare for My Father.
Film,
Georgy Girl, Gods and Monsters.

R
EED
, P
AMELA
– actress. Stage,
Getting Out
(Obie). Film,
The Right Stuff
,
The Best of Times, Kindergarten Cop.
Television,
Parks and Recreation.

R
EEVE
, C
HRISTOPHER
– stage and film actor, activist. Broadway,
The Fifth of July, A Matter of Gravity.
Film,
Superman, Death Trap.
Founder, Christopher Reeve Foundation.

R
EVSON
, C
HARLES
– businessman, philanthropist, founder of the cosmetics company, Revlon.

R
EYNOLDS
, B
URT
– Hollywood and television star. Film,
Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit, White Lightning, The Longest Yard, Boogie Nights (Golden Globe)
. Television,
Evening Shade
(Emmy).

R
EYNOLDS
, D
EBBIE
– Hollywood musical star,
Singin’ in the Rain, The Unsinkable Molly Brown
. Later starred on Broadway in
Irene.

R
IFKIN
, R
ON
– actor. Stage, S
ubstance of Fire, Three Hotels, Cabaret
(Tony). Film,
Manhattan Murder Mystery, L.A. Confidential.
Television,
Alias, Brothers and Sisters.

R
IVERS
, J
OAN
– stand-up comic, writer, television personality.

R
OBARDS
, J
R
., J
ASON
– actor. Stage,
The Iceman Cometh, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
. Film,
A Thousand Clowns, Julia, All the President’s Men
,
Magnolia.

R
OBBINS
, J
EROME
– director, choreographer New York City Ballet, Broadway.
On the Town, Peter Pan, The King and I, West Side Story, Gypsy
and
Fiddler on the Roof.
Film,
West Side Story.

R
OBBINS
, R
EX
– Broadway and film actor,
Gypsy
with Angela Lansbury,
Richard III
with Al Pacino, S
isters Rosensweig.
Film,
The Royal Tenenbaums
,
1776, Shaft
.

R
ODGERS
, M
ARY
– Broadway composer,
Once Upon a Mattress, Hot Spot.
Novelist,
Freaky Friday.

R
ODGERS
, R
ICHARD
– composer, first with Lorenz Hart, then Oscar Hammerstein,
Pal Joey, The King and I, Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, Flower Drum Song, The Sound of Music.

R
OGERS
, G
INGER
– Hollywood star, Fred Astaire’s dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musicals.

R
OSENBLUM
, E
DGAR
– executive director Long Wharf Theater. Premiered
The Gin Game, The Shadow Box, The Changing Room.

R
OSS
, H
ERBERT
– Broadway choreographer, film director. Choreographed
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
. Directed films
A Turning Point, Footloose, Steel Magnolias, The Sunshine Boys.

R
OWAN
& M
ARTIN
– comedy duo, hosts of the sketch comedy show
Laugh-In
. Introduced Lily Tomlin and Goldie Hawn, Ruth Buzzi, Jo Anne Worley and Alan Sues.

R
UBINSTEIN
, H
ELENA
– cosmetics magnate, founder of Helena Rubinstein Incorporated.

R
YAN
, D.D.
– editor at
Harper’s Bazaar
under Diana Vreeland, costume designer for Broadway,
Company
.

S
AKS
, G
ENE
– actor, stage, film director. Broadway,
Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Lost in Yonkers, Broadway Bound, The Odd Couple, California Suite
. Film,
Barefoot in the Park
,
The Odd Couple
,
Cactus Flower, Mame
.

S
ALINGER
, J.D.
– author,
The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey
, and
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.

S
ANFORD
, T
IM
– Artistic Director of Playwright’s Horizons Theater since 1996.

S
EGAL
, D
AVID
– lighting designer for over 15 Broadway productions, including
Oh, Calcutta, Irene
and
Damn Yankees
.

S
EGAL
, G
EORGE
– actor. Film,
Ship of Fools, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Blume in Love, Where’s Poppa?
Television,
Just Shoot Me, Entourage, The Goldbergs.

S
HALHOUB
, T
ONY
– actor. Broadway,
Lend Me a Tenor, Golden Boy, Act One.
Television,
Monk (
three Emmys, Golden Globe).

S
HAW
, A
RTIE
– musician, led popular big bands in the late 30s and 40s.

S
HEVELOVE
, B
URT
– playwright, lyricist, librettist, director.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
,
No, No, Nanette.

S
IMON
, D
ANNY
– TV writer,
Your Show of Shows
,
The Carol Burnett Show, The Facts of Life
.

S
IMON
, N
EIL
– playwright, wrote a series Broadway successes over a period of 40 years. Awarded Pulitzer Prize for
Lost in Yonkers.

S
MITH
, A
LEXIS
– actress in 40s films opposite Errol Flynn, Frederic March, Cary Grant. Broadway,
Follies.

S
ONDHEIM
, S
TEPHEN
– Broadway composer/lyricist,
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods.
Lyricist,
West Side Story, Gypsy.

S
PENDER
, S
TEPHEN
– British poet, critic and novelist.

S
TANLEY
, K
IM
– stage star,
Bus Stop, Picnic
. Film,
The Goddess, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Frances
.

S
TAPLETON
, M
AUREEN
– stage star,
The Rose Tattoo, Little Foxes, Orpheus Descending, The Gingerbread Lady, The Country Girl.
Film,
Reds, Interiors.
(Oscar, Emmy, two Tonys, British Academy Award.)

S
TEVENS
, R
OGER
– Founding Chairman of The Kennedy Center. Instrumental in creation of National Endowment for the Arts.

S
TREEP
, M
ERYL
– stage and film star, winning Oscars for
Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie’s Choice, The Iron Lady.
Other films:
Ironweed, The Devil Wears Prada, Postcards from the Edge, Silkwood.

S
TREISAND
, B
ARBRA
– mega-star of stage, film, recording.

S
TRITCH
, E
LAINE
– Broadway actress, singer, original productions of
Bus Stop
,
Sail Away, Company;
revival,
A Delicate Balance
and one-woman show,
Elaine Stritch at Liberty.

S
TRUTHERS
, S
ALLY
– actress, Archie Bunker’s daughter on
All in the Family
.

S
TONE
, D
AVID
– Broadway producer,
Wicked. If/Then, Next to Normal, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

S
TYNE
, J
ULE –
prolific composer “Just In Time,” “Let It Snow,” “I’ll Walk Alone,” “I Fall In Love Too Easily,” “I’ve Heard That Song Before.” Broadway shows:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bells Art Ringing, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl.

T
HOMPSON
, E
MMA
– actress, screenwriter. Academy Award for screenplay,
Sense and Sensibility
. Film roles:
The Remains of the Day, In the Name of the Father, Sense and Sensibility.
Television:
Wit, Angels in America.

T
HORNDIKE
, D
AME
S
YBIL
– British stage actress, originated title role in
St. Joan
, written for her by George Bernard Shaw.

T
ILLSTROM
, B
URR
– puppeteer and creator of the television series
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
.

T
OMLIN
, L
ILY
– actress. Television,
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.
Films,
Nashville, Nine to Five, Big Business.
Stage,
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.

T
WITTY
, C
ONWAY
– country singer, often partnered with Loretta Lynn.

V
ICIOUS
, S
ID
– English guitarist and vocalist, the
Sex Pistols.

V
REELAND
, A
LEXANDER
– founder of IFF International Flavors and Fragrances, creating and marketing Diana Vreeland Parfums, grandson of Diana Vreeland.

V
REELAND
, F
REDERICK
“F
RECKIE
”
– diplomat, writer, son of Diana Vreeland. Served as Ambassador to Morocco.

V
REELAND
, N
ICHOLAS
– ordained Tibetan monk, grandson of Diana Vreeland.

V
REELAND
, R
EED
– banker, husband of Diana Vreeland.

V
REELAND
, T
IMOTHY
– architect, son of Diana Vreeland.

V
UILLARD
, J
EAN
-E
DOUARD
– French painter and printmaker.

W
AITS
, T
OM
– singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Films,
Paradise Alley
,
Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Down by Law
.

W
ALKER
, N
ANCY
– actress. Broadway, original productions of
On the Town, Pal Joey, Wonderful Town, Do Re Mi.
Television,
Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda.

W
ALLOWITCH
, J
OHN
– cabaret singer and prolific songwriter, fixture of the New York cabaret world for more than 40 years.

W
ARHOL
, A
NDY
– pop art artist, filmmaker, founded
Interview
magazine.

W
ELLES
, O
RSON
– film auteur.
Citizen Kane
,
The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, Macbeth, Othello, The Lady from Shanghai, The Trial.

W
EINSTOCK
, J
ACK
– playwright,
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Catch Me If You Can, Hot Spot.