Churchill, (Sir) Winston S., 25n
Cienega, La, Boulevard (Los Angeles), 15
Clift, Montgomery, 149, 174
Clock Symphony, The (ballet), 147n
Clore, Andrew, 235[n]
Coble, Jack, 123
Cockburn, Claud, 108
Cockburn, Jean see Ross, Jean
Cockburn, Sarah (Sarah Caudwell), 108
Cocteau, Jean: praises Fireworks, 212; Le Livre blanc (attrib.), 140n
Collier, John: amused by C.I.’s gonorrhea, 7; enthusiasm for Proust, 21, 26; works on film scripts, 23, 25, 31 & n; at Warner Brothers, 24–5; described, 24–5; wins bet on 1945 British election result, 25n; alimony payments, 31 & n; witnesses C.I.’s homosexual activities, 32–3; and plot of Up at the Villa, 36n; describes Caskey, 42; His Monkey Wife, 52n
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone, 25; The Woman in White, 23–4
“Coming to London” (C.I.; earlier “Letter from England”; article), 83, 85–6, 88, 89n, 113n
Committee on Un-American Activities, 191
Compton–Burnett, (Dame) Ivy: Manservant and Maidservant, 140n; Two Worlds and Their Ways, 224n
Condor and the Cows, The (C.I.): writing, xxxiv, 170, 172–3, 177–8, 183, 187; as autobiography, 3; on Caskey’s hitting C.I., 52n; on Berthold Szczesny and Tota, 133n; ghost story in, 133n; Victoria Ocampo in, 136; and C.I.’s visit to South America, 141; manuscript sent to publishers, 188; dedications, 194; publication, 196; Bob Craft praises, 203n
Conklin, Groff (ed.): A Treasury of Science Fiction, 175–6n
Connolly, Cyril: in USA, 81; C.I. meets in London, 96, 143; The Rock Pool, 140–1n; The Unquiet Grave, 51n, 275n
Connolly, Lys (formerly Lubbock; née Dunlap), 96 & [n], 143
Connor, Whitfield, 235[n]
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo, 175n; The Shadow Line, 140n
Cooley, Steve (pseud.): C.I.’s relations with, 32–8, 41; arrested and released, 39–40; takes drama classes, 39; interrupts C.I.’s lovemaking, 279; and Jack Garber, 279
Coombs, Don: on de Laval’s seducing, 29n; relations with C.I., 218–19, 221, 230, 258, 260–1
Cooper, William: Scenes from Provincial Life, 275n
Cornell, Ed, 213n
Corvo, Baron see Rolfe, Frederick William
Cowan, John, 50–1, 76
Cowan, Rita, 51, 191
Coward, Noël, 130–1
Cowper, William, xxvii
Craft, Robert, 198–200, 201n, 202–3, 222, 241, 243, 264 & [n]; Dialogues and a Diary (with Stravinsky), 201n; Retrospectives and Conclusions, 198
Creixell, Luis, 133
Cromwell, Richard see Radebaugh, Roy
Cuevas de Vera, Tota, 133, 134–5n
Cukor, George, 37–8, 40
Culbrow, Leonard, 277
“Curly” (pseud.), 17, 40
Curry, Phil, 167–8
Curtiss, Mina, 135
Dahl, Ingolf, 264 & [n]
Dakar (West Africa), 141
Daniehan, Leon, 50n
Danilova, Alexandra, 50n
Dantine, Helmut, 32
Darms, Peter (pseud.), 242–3, 246, 258, 282
Darnell, Linda, 207n
Darrow, John, 14
Davies, Marion, 63–4, 234, 273
Davis, Bette, 31n, 37
Davis, Richard E., 235[n]
Day–Lewis, Cecil (ed.): The Mind in Chains: Socialism and the Cultural Revolution, xiii n
Deception (film), 31 & n
Defoe, Daniel, xxvii
de la Mare, Walter: Memoirs of a Midget, 140n
de Laval, Jay: friendship with C.I., 28–9, 81, 153, 195, 208; and C.I.’s relations with Caskey, 34–5, 67, 233; runs restaurant, 43–5, 171; C.I. entertains, 50; encourages Michael Hall to approach C.I., 67; relations with Lennie Newman, 67; at Vernon Old’s wedding, 170; affair with Brad Saurin, 172, 177; organizes new restaurant in Virgin Islands, 177; at Caskey trial, 209; introduces C.I. and Coombs, 218; Caskey travels to Baja California with, 248
Derain, André, 244n
Devotion (film), 31 & n
Dewey, Thomas, 172
Diehl, Digby, 247
D.J. (pseud.), 259
Dolin, Anton, 147
Doone, Rupert, 83n, 116
Doré, Gustave, 99n
Dostoevsky, Fedor: depicted in film (The Great Sinner), 146, 150–2, 177; Crime and Punishment, 151; The Gambler, 150–1
Douglas, Melvyn, 187
Down There on a Visit (C.I.), xiii, xxv, 7[n], 46n, 49, 271
Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy, 84
Duchamp, Marcel, 29
Dunphy, Jack, 125
Durant, Tim, 271
Easiest Thing in the World, The (film), 167, 195, 198, 206, 207n
East Rustic Road (No.3 33), Santa Monica, 167, 183–6, 238, 272
Eberhardt, Dave (pseud.): C.I.’s friendship with, 11, 31, 50; at AJC Ranch, 220
Edelman, Louis, 23–4, 29, 32
Edens, Roger, 170
Edman, Irwin, 235[n]
Ehrenburg, Ilya, 135n
Eliot, T.S., 98; The Cocktail Party, 275n
Enfants du paradis, Les (film), 95
England: C.I. visits (1947), 80–116; 1947 prices, 89n; C.I. visits with Caskey (1948), 143–9
Erdman, Richard, 205
Erdmann, Charles, 101–2
Ernst, Max, 158
Erskine, Eileen, 235[n]
Ethan Frome (stage adaptation), 229
Evans, Rex, 37
Ewing, Majal, 233
Exhumations (C.I.), 83, 282n
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 223n
Fairbanks, Harold, 155–6, 192, 263n
Falk, Eric, 107
Falkenburg, Eugenia (Jinx), 135, 137
Farrell, James T., 48
Faulkner, William, 140n
Fechin, Nicolai, 222
Felton, James, 9
Ferrer, José, 17
Field, Fritz, 235[n]
Field, Gus: co–adapts C.I.’s Goodbye to Berlin for stage (as Sally Bowles), xxxi, 265–6, 273, 277; C.I. excludes, xxxii-xxxiii, 285; accepts C.I.’s withdrawal of Sally Bowles adaptation, 285
Fire Island, New York, 129 & [n], 138
Fireworks (film), 212
Flint (pseud.), 5
Fodor, Ladislas, 150–3, 168n, 188
Fontan, Jack, 224–6
Foote, Dick, 196 & n
Forbes, Don, 11, 31, 50, 220
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier, 140n; Parade’s End, 250n, 275n
Foreman, Carl, 205
Forster, Edward Morgan: meets and likes Caskey, xvii, 42, 121, 143; influence on C.I., xxviii–xxx, 201n; and Katherine Anne Porter, 68; C.I. visits in England (1947), 83 & n, 92, 94–5; on C.I.’s accent, 86; and Burgess’s intercession for Jack Hewit, 93, 99n; on C.I.’s capacity for friendships, 94; character, 94–5; on C.I.’s extravagance, 99n; visits USA, 99n, 121; lectures at Aldeburgh festival, 144; Vidal and Tennessee Williams visit, 146; C.I. and Caskey visit (1948), 148; on T.E. Lawrence, 175n; Maurice, xxviii
Fouts, Denham (Denny): introduces Bill Harris to C.I., 4–6, 19; C.I. depicts in writing, 7, 121n; and C.I.’s life at Vedanta Center, 7; and Marcel Rodd, 8; and kite incident, 9–10; and C.I.’s travels with Bill Harris, 13; starts composing cycling song, 13n; friendship with C.I., 17, 28, 31, 34, 45; and Bobo and Kelley, 18; and C.I.’s relations with Caskey, 20, 34–5, 52, 69; on Thelma Todd’s, 29; on Steve Cooley, 32; Tompkins’s exhibitionism at party, 35, 48, 279; death, 40n, 142, 172–3; Maugham warns C.I. of police watch on, 40; in Mexico, 41; leaves for New York, 46; sells Picasso picture, 46n; quarrels with Caskey and leaves Los Angeles, 69–70; C.I.’s friendship ends, 70; C.I. and Caskey visit in Paris, 142; and Watson–Gandy, 173, 222n; and Ken Anger, 212
Fowler, Norman, 179
Fox, Paul, 13, 242
Fragment of Speaking (film), 212
France: C.I. visits with Caskey, 141–2
Francis, Anne, 220
TV script, with Bachardy), ix
Fred (pseud.; friend of Coombs), 260–1
French, Jared, 127–8
Freud, Lucian, 143
Freud, Sigmund, xx
Friends, Society of (Quakers): C.I. works with, 7, 72; in The World in the Evening, 121–2 & n, 244n; C.I. attends meeting, 125; and Los Angeles world peace conference (1949), 189
Friendship, The (Santa Monica bar), 43–4 & n
From, Eddie (Isadore), xix, 24n
From, Sam: C.I. attends party, xviii–xix; appearance, 24n; friendship with C.I., 24, 264; at Benton Way Group, 197; answers Evelyn Hooker’s questionnaire, 198; motor accident, 264
Fry, Christopher: Venus Observed, 275n
Fueloep–Miller, René, 150
Furtmueller, Carl, 121n
Gage, Margaret, 238
Garber, Jack (pseud.), 279–80
Garbo, Greta: in C.I.’s circle, xvii, 81, 101; seeks company of C.I. and Caskey, 71–2; C.I. rebukes, 130–1; in New York, 130; Foote claims to have propositioned, 196n
Gardner, Ava, 168, 187 & n
Garrett, Eileen, 241
Gaszynski, Michael, 264
Geller, James, 23–4, 230
Germany: C.I.’s fading interest in, xxx–xxxi, 19n; C.I.’s sexual experiences in, 57–8
Ghosh, Asit, 8 & n
Gide, André, xx; Lafcadio’s Adventures, 52n; Pastoral Symphony, 84n
Gielgud, (Sir) John, 134–6
Gissing, George, xxvii
Goldsmith, Joel, 247
Goodbye to Berlin (C.I.): stage adaptation (as I Am a Camera), xxxi, 78, 282; Vernon Old reads, 181; see also Sally Bowles
Goodman, Paul: at From party, xviii–xix; at Benton Way Group, 197; The Breakup of Our Camp, 197; Making Do, 197
Goodwin, John: at Fouts party, 14; friendship with C.I., 45; C.I. entertains, 50; and death of Fouts, 172–3; C.I. visits at ranch, 457–8
Gordon, Cliff, 147
Gordon, Ruth, 229
Gorer, Geoffrey: The American People, 175–6n
Gorfain, Dr. A.D., 61–3, 111
Goring, Hermann, 133
Gottfried see Reinhardt, Gottfried
Goulding, Edmund, 38n
Goyen, William, 194; The House of Breath, 275n
Grant, Alexander, 147n
Great Sinner, The (film), 146, 150, 153, 167–8, 174, 176, 187–8
Green, Henry see Yorke, Henry
Greene, Felix, 89
Greene, Graham: The Quiet American, 265n
Groddeck, Georg, xx
Groix (French ship), 141, 170
Hagen, Uta, 17
Hagenbuehler, Hanns, 212n
Hall, Michael, 67
Halliburton, Richard, 274
Halma, Harold, 126–7, 131–2
Hamilton, Bernie, 200
Hamilton, Gerald, 96–8, 107–8, 115n; Mr. Norris and I, 97
Hamlin, John and Mrs., 228
Hanna, Len, 34, 43, 53
Harford, Betty (later Andrews), 229
Harkness, Alan, 74
Harper’s Bazaar (magazine), 74n, 78, 83, 210n
Harrington, Curtis, 212, 229
Harris, Bill: relations with C.I., 4 & n, 5–7, 9–20, 76; painting, 16; leaves for New York, 21; admires John Cowan, 50; sees figure at East Rustic Road, 184–5; and Jack Fontan, 224–6; stays with C.I., 224, 226, 229
Hartford, Connecticut, 78
Hartford, Huntington, 245–6; Foundation, 245–6, 264, 277–8, 281–3
Hatfield, Hurd, 170
Hauser, Amber, 108
Hauser, Hilda, 107–8
Hauser, Phyllis, 108
Haverford, Pennsylvania, xvii, xxix–xxxi, 7, 49, 121; see also Friends, Society of
Haxton, Gerald, 37
Hayden see Lewis, Hayden
Hayward, John, 97–8
Heard, Henry FitzGerald (Gerald): C.I. visits with Caskey, 47; Kathleen Isherwood mistrusts, 89; on self-imputation, 132; acquaintance with Grace Wiley, 152n; believes Kiskadden a sadist, 179; comments on C.I.’s life-style, 181; arranges transfer of Trabuco to Vedanta Society, 188; relations with Stravinsky, 201n; friendship with C.I., 208, 230, 238, 263; C.I.’s proposed article for, 210n; story of film dog (Strongheart), 221n; at Sophia Williams’s. séance, 238–9; believes in flying saucers, 263n; interest in extrasensory phenomena, 264; “The Great Fog”, 176n; Is Another World Watching?, 263n
Hearst, William Randolph, 234, 273
Heinz see Neddermayer, Heinz
Helpmann, (Sir) Robert, 113n
Hemingway, Ernest, 83n, 137, 270–1
Henreid, Paul, 31n
Hepburn, Katharine, 15, 40
Hersey, John, 135, 137
Heston, Charlton, 263
Hewit, Jack, xxix, 92–4, 98–100, 103, 106, 113
Heyerdahl, Thor: The Kon–Tiki Expedition, 275n
High Valley Theatre, Ojai (California), 74, 229
“High Valley Theatre” (C.I.; article), 74n
Hill, Ramsay, 235[n]
Hirschfeld, Magnus, xx–xxi, 56
Hitler, Adolf, xi, 31
Hollywood Code, xii
Holmes, John, 116–17
Hooker, Edward, xxi
Hooker, Evelyn (formerly Caldwell): at From party, xviii–xix; conducts studies on homosexual community, xix–xxii, xxiv, 197–8; friendship with From, 24n, 198 & [n]; at Benton Way Group, 197
Hopper, Hedda, 216
Horizon (magazine), 143
Horst (i.e., Horst B. Horst, or Horst Bohrmann), 65n, 123, 125
Houseman, John, 242
Howard, Brian, 95–6, 102–3, 105n
Hoyt, Karl, 216
Hubbard, Ron, 237 & n
Hunt, Bob, 253
Huntington Hartford Foundation see Hartford, Huntington
Huston, John, 126n, 154n, 229, 242, 268–70
Huston, Walter, 187
Huxley, Aldous: in C.I.’s circle, xvii, 81; writes to Anita Loos on Matthew and Warner Brothers strike, 27n; C.I. lunches and sups with, 31, 198; C.I. entertains, 50; makes no mention of Salka Viertel in letters, 71; comments on C.I.’s life–style, 181; relations with Stravinsky, 201n, 222–3; Bob Craft contradicts, 203; works on Below the Equator film story with C.I., 207, 229–30; friendship with C.I., 208, 277; on LeCron, 230n, 235; at Vedanta Center, 277; Ape and Essence, 175–6n
Huxley, (Sir) Julian, 31n
Huxley, Maria (née Nys; Aldous’s first wife), 50, 81, 198, 208, 222
Huxley, Matthew, 23, 27, 139
Hyndman, Tony, 113–15 & n, 145
Ibsen, Henrik: The Stranger from the Sea, 75
Ince, Thomas, 234
Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin, xx
Isherwood, Christopher: Finances: film earnings, 23n, 91; credits accumulate in English bank account, 84–5
Health: inflamed throat, 21, 23; contracts gonorrhea (the clap), 35–7; penis trouble, 47, 61; urethra operation (for median bar), 61–3, 111; made sterile, 62–3; operation for piles, 179n; nervous strain, 183; rectal bleeding, 183; impotence, 219n; copies friends’ ailments, 272; illness (1950), 272
Personal life: homosexuality, ix, xi–xvii, xx, xxiv—xxv, 32–3, 90; political ideas, xiii, 190; drinking, xvi, 53, 96, 100, 140, 183, 195, 199, 201, 276, 278; sense of identity, xviii, xxv; slow adaptation to American style, xxv; sense of guilt, xxviii–xxix, xxxiii, 6–7, 41, 55, 81, 181, 220n; learns German, xxx; preoccupation with exclusion, xxxii–xxxiii; casual sexual activities, 5, 64, 67, 116–17, 131, 147, 218, 242, 258–62, 276; visits burlesque shows, 14–15; attracted to blond men, 19 & n, 20; sexual practices, 20–1, 56–8, 219n; as supposed model for Larry in Maugham’s Razor’s Edge, 22n; Time magazine article on, 22 & n; reading, 23, 51, 140n, 175n, 223n, 274n; hitchhikes to work, 24; owns cars, 33, 46, 276; takes out U.S. citizenship papers, 40; sexual snobbishness, 41–2; entertaining with Caskey, 49–51; at school in England, 57 & n; exhibitionism, 64, 279–80; and songs, 66; antagonizes Katherine Anne Porter, 68–9; gives blood to accident victim, 69; occupies Salka Viertel’
s garage apartment, 70–1, 73–4; promiscuity, 74; jealousies, 75, 79, 166; granted U.S. citizenship, 77–8, 209; pacifism, 77–8, 100, 189–90; fear of flying, 80; plans to settle in New York on return from England (1947), 82n; homesickness for USA, 84; accent, 85–6; wears dinner jacket, 104n; attends Pilates’ gymnasium, 120; photographed by Jared French, 128; photographed on Fire Island, 138–9; returns to Los Angeles (1948), 149–50; bicycling, 150n; moves into East Rustic Road with Caskey, 167, 183; hospital visiting, 183, 200, 204–5, 219, 236, 239–40; psychic sensitivity, 185–7 & n; attends Benton Way Group meeting, 197–8; gives up smoking, 211–12; resumes smoking, 215n; detained in raid on homosexual club, 216–17; Fechin portrait of, 222; hypnotized by LeCron, 230–1; driving, 231; practises autosuggestion, 236; attitude to Jews, 262, 266; encounter with psychotic neighbor, 264–5; leaves Los Angeles for Laguna Beach, 273–5; painted by Sorel, 276; play–acts drowning, 278; moves into Huntington Hartford Foundation, 282
Professional activities: film script writing, 23–5, 28, 32–5, 46, 150–3, 167, 176–7, 191, 195, 207 & n, 229; film outline of ghost story, 49; works for MGM, 73n; works with Lesser Samuels, 81, 91, 167, 195, 198, 206, 229; speaks lines for Christ’s voice in The Great Sinner, 177–8; membership of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 188; as trustee of Hartford Foundation, 245–6, 264
Relationships: with Don Bachardy, ix–x, xxi, xxiii, xxvii, xxxii; with Heinz Neddermayer, xi, xxi, xxx; with Bill Caskey, xv–xvii, xxv, xxvii, 20, 34–5, 41–9, 52–6, 59–61, 66, 69, 73–5, 79, 117–18, 163, 166–7, 175, 182, 193–4, 208, 233, 241n, 257–8, 277–8; with Jim Charlton, xv, 156–66, 183, 208, 210–11, 213–14, 216, 230, 248, 280n; with Jack Hewit, xxix, 92–4, 98–100, 103; with Bill Harris, 4–7, 9–20; with Carter Lodge, 12n; with Steve Cooley, 32–7, 41–2; with Vernon Old, 45, 50, 92, 106, 193; with Auden, 58; friendship with Denny Fouts ends, 70; with John Cowan, 76; with Ian Scott–Kilvert, 103–7 & n; with Tony Hyndman, 114–15n, 145; difficulties with Caskey, 179–83, 197, 210, 220, 250n, 278; considers leaving Caskey, 192–3, 199–200; Caskey breaks with, 195, 282–3; with Don Coombs, 218–19, 221, 258, 260–1; with Michael Leopold, 220–2, 230, 258, 277; with Peter Darms, 242–3, 258, 282; with Brad Saurin, 258–9; with Lennie Newman, 279–80
Spiritual ideas and practices: takes up Vedanta, xxvii, xxix; meditation, xxix; enjoys Vedanta Center ceremonies, 9, 14, 59, 81, 179; has doubts over monastic life, 27–8; consults clairvoyants, 39, 51n; finally moves from Vedanta Center, 45–6; initiation by Prabhavananda, 78, 209; makes japam, 171, 183
Travels: in South America with Caskey, xxxiv, 119, 123, 133, 139, 141; hitchhiking with Bill Harris, 13; hobo trip with Vernon Old, 13; motor trip with Caskey, 47; in China, 61, 82; to Mexico with Caskey, 78, 79; to England (1947), 80–117; in Portugal (1935–6), 114n; return to New York (1947), 117–19; in Berlin, 133–4n; in Amsterdam, 134n; to France with Caskey, 141–3; in England with Caskey (1948), 143–7; returns to New York with Caskey (1948), 149; to New Mexico with Peggy Kiskadden, 247–54