France, 19, 20, 139–40, 148–50, 244–45
Frosted Glass Coffin, The (Williams), 150
Fryer, Robert, 157
Fugitive Kind (Williams)
critical response to, 44
first production, 42–44
Garbo, Greta, 138–39
Garden District (Williams), 175–76
critical response to, 175–76
New York opening, 175
Gassner, John, 62
Gauguin, Paul, 6
Gay Lib, 50
George V Hotel, 139
Germany, 21–23
Gert, Valesca, 71
Gibraltar, 160
Gielgud, John, 147, 148, 149
Giraudoux, Jean, 70
Glass Menagerie, The (Williams), 16, 66, 83, 92, 109, 120, 125, 137, 162, 198
Chicago tryout, 81–82, 85–87, 89, 90
critical response to, 84, 85, 90, 149–50
Italian production, 142
London production, 147–48, 149–50
New York opening, 84
1973 television version, 84
Glenville, Peter, xvi–xvii, 79–80, 127, 147, 179, 192
Gnadiges Fraulein, The (Williams), xviii, 212–13
Gordon, Ruth, 200–1
Gotham Book Mart, 224
Great Britain, 147–50, 175, 200–1
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 178
Great Gatsby, The (motion picture), 178
Greenstreet, Sydney, 76
Group Theatre, 4, 7
Guggenheim fellowships, 3
Gwenn, Edmund, 96
Hall, Adrian, 193
Hancock, John, 201
Hard Candy and Other Stories (Williams), 29
Harris, Leonard, 233–34
Harris, Ralph, 206–7
Harris, Rosemary, 231
Haydon, Julie, 81, 82
Hayes, Helen, 138, 147–50
Helburn, Theresa, 62
Hemingway, Ernest, 65, 67–68, 111, 164
Hemingway, Pauline Pfeiffer, 65, 67, 111, 112
Henreid, Paul, 76
Hepburn, Katharine, 70
Herlie, Eileen, 228
Hickey, Bill, 34, 115
Hoiby, Lee, 235
Holiday, Billie, 210
Homeric, 19
Homosexuality
McCullers, 244–45
U.S.S.R., 9–10
Williams, 9–10, 15, 49–51, 67, 78–79, 83–84, 140, 208–11
affairs, 53–54, 59–61, 84, 87, 109, 132–33, 155–69, 173–75, 180–95, 199, 226–28, 232, 235, 242–44, 248
dancing, 92–93
first encounters, 25, 28–33, 42, 45–49
prostitution, 75, 141, 143–45, 147, 154, 231
sensibility and, 51
society and, 100–1, 203–4
Times Square cruising, 52–53
venereal disease, 75
violence, 96–98, 135, 136, 185–86, 215–16, 221–22
Hong Kong, 236
Hooks, David, 34
Hopkins, Miriam, 59, 61, 111, 160
Hótel de l’Université, 148–49
Howard, Leslie, 39
Huit Clos (Sartre), 149
Hunter, Tab, 199
Hunter College, 124
Huxley, Aldous, 102
If You Don’t Dance They Beat You (Quintero), 202
Iliad, The (Homer), 11
Illinois, University of, 87
Inge, William, 87–90, 165, 215–16
alcohol, 87–88
drugs, 87–88
Williams on, 87–90
Ink Spots, 110
Inman, Mrs., 105
Institute for Living, 126
International Shoe Company, 8, 13, 25, 36, 116, 124–25
International Who’s Who, 1–2
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (Williams), xviii, 51, 213, 216
In the Summer House (Bowles), 160
“Inventory at Fontana Belle, The” (Williams), 156
Iowa, University of, 42–49
Isherwood, Christopher, 77, 79
Italy, 128, 141–47, 161, 162–65, 169, 178, 195–96, 200, 211, 215–17, 237
Ivanhoe Theatre, 228
Jackson, Anne, 53
Jamais Hotel, 161
January Crossing (Mills), 123
Japan, 236
Joe Allen’s, 35, 227
Johnson, Buffie, 152
Johnston, Spuds, 102
Jones, Margo, 79, 81–82, 92, 111, 130–34
Summer and Smoke production,108–9, 151–53
“J.S.” (river steamer), 18
Kahn, Michael, 40
Kanin, Garson, 243
Kappa Kappa Gamma, 27
Kazan, Elia, 90, 102, 162, 170–71, 175, 183, 195, 229
Baby Doll, 169–70
Camino Real, 165–67
The Glass Menagerie, 130–32
A Streetcar Named Desire, 134–35, 137
Sweet Bird of Youth, 173–74
Kazan, Molly Day Thacher, 4, 7, 130, 174, 175, 195
Kennedy, John F., 136
Kennedy, Mrs. John F., 136
Kerr, Walter, 212, 245–46
Kidd, Edie, 218
Kingdom of Earth (Williams), 40, 58, 165, 211–12
critical response to, 212
Kirstein, Lincoln, 77
Kramer, Mrs., 15, 29
Kramer, Florence, 15–16, 18, 37
Kramer, Hazel, 14–18, 25, 28–29, 37, 38, 120
Kubie, Dr. Lawrence, 173, 238
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 64
“Lady in Satin” (record album), 210
Langner, Lawrence, 62–63, 69
Lanier, Nan, 205, 211
Lanier, Reverend Sidney, 195
Lansbury, Angela, 41, 201
Lansing, Robert, 175
Last Tango in Paris (motion picture), 83
LaTouche, John, 132–33
Latter Days of a Celebrated Soubrette, The (Williams), 246
Lawrence, D. H., 41, 94, 102, 140
Lawrence, Frieda, 102, 104
Lawrence, Jane, 152
Lazareff, M., 140
Lazareff, Mme., 140
Lee, Doris, 64
Leigh, Vivien, 226
Leighton, Margaret, 212–13
Levy, Dr., 223, 224, 225, 226
Lewis, Robert, 162, 167
Liebling, Bill, 7, 10, 92, 104, 228
Liebling–Wood, Inc., 10
Life, 216
Loring, Eugene, 76, 79
Lorre, Peter, 76
Losey, Joe, 183, 200
Luce, Clare, 193
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 103
Lutetia Hotel, 139–40
Lyon, Nelson, 192
Mabie, E. C., 47, 48–49
McArthur, Charles, 148
McBurney, Clark Mills, 48
McCabe, Terrence, 38
McCarthy, Joseph, 105
McClintic, Guthrie, 96
McCool, Ellen, 210
McCullers, Carson, 106–9, 159, 237–38, 244–45
Williams on, 106–9
McCullers, Reeves, 108
homosexuality, 244–45
McGovern, Eugene, 95
Machiz, Herbert, 175, 197, 198
McIlhenny, Henry, 146
Madden, Donald, 41, 51, 193, 200–1, 213, 228
Madwoman of Chaillot, The (Giraudoux), 70
Magnani, Anna, xix, 61, 82, 162–65, 181, 196, 244–45
Malraux, André, 136
“Man Bring This Up Road” (Williams), 195
Mann, Eric, 238
Manning, Mary Louise, 232
Marais, Jean, 149
Marijuana, 159
Martin Beck Theatre, 173
“Mattress by the Tomato Patch, The” (Williams), 77
Maugham, Somerset, 236, 243
Mayer, Louis B., 167
Meacham, Anne, 41, 175, 176, 213, 216, 218, 246
Mellaril, 205, 209
Melton, Fred, 55
Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers)
novel, 106
play, 107–8, 238
Memorial Hospital, 189, 193–94
Menotti, Gian-Carlo, 196
Merlo, Anna, 194
Merlo, Frank Phillip, 84, 109, 155–69, 173–75, 180–95, 199, 226–28, 232, 235, 244, 248
death of, 194–95
drugs, 186
financial situation, 188
physical health, 183, 185, 189–94
Merrick, David, xvi–xvii, 127, 183, 199–200, 211–12, 215, 234
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 49, 59, 76, 77, 152
Mexico, 5, 56–59, 79, 92–94
Miles, Sylvia, 178, 201, 216
Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The (Williams), 41, 187–88, 195–201
critical response to, 197, 198
London production, 200–1
motion picture version, 198, 200, 201, 210
New York production, 196–98
out-of-town tryout, 196–98
San Francisco revival, 201
Spoleto production, 195–96, 200
Tallulah Bankhead production, 198–200
Miller, Arthur, 130
Mills, Clark, 122–24
Miltown, 211
Miramare Hotel, 195
Mishima, Yukio, 236, 248
Missouri, University of, 2, 24–27, 29–33, 35–36, 120
Moore, Dudley, 246
Moore, Virginia, 121
Moriarty, Michael, 40, 51
Morocco, 160–61, 187, 188, 207
Morphine, 70
Morrissey, Paul, 216–17
Mother Courage (Brecht), 41
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 109
Mummers of St. Louis, 42, 43
Murray, Don, 161
Murray, Peg, 114, 128, 214, 239
Mutilated, The (Williams), 212
Myers, John, 175
Nacional Hotel, 177
Nathan, George Jean, 82, 90
National Institute of Arts and Letters, 2
Nave Nave Mahana (Gauguin), 6
Nembutal, 171, 192, 240
Nesbitt, Cathleen, 176
Netherlands, the, 21–23
New Directions, 159, 171
Newman, Paul, 83, 173
New Theatre, 156, 214, 238–39
New York Drama Critics’ Award, 169
New Yorker, The, 29, 72, 106
New York Herald-Tribune, The, 176
New York Times, 59, 114, 152, 176
Night of the Iguana, The (Williams), xviii, 58, 180–83
early production of, 183–84, 193
out-of-town tryout, 180–83
Nijinsky, Waslaw, 9, 54
Nixon, Richard M., 95
Norton, Elliot, 197
Nytol, 225
Ochsner Clinic, 202
“Old Men Go Mad at Night” (Williams), 227
Olivier, Laurence, 83
“One Arm” (Williams), 93
Orient Hotel, 236
Orme, Dick, 91, 109
Orpheus Descending (Williams), 31, 172–73, 175
critical response to, 173
Philadelphia tryout, 172
Out Cry (Williams), 79–80, 127–29, 147, 179, 192, 215, 227
Chicago tryout, 228–29, 233
critical response to, 233–34
New Haven tryout, xv–xviii
New York production, 233–34
rewrites, 242
Ozzie (nurse), 11, 252
P. J. Clarke’s, 150, 158
Page, Geraldine, 82, 173, 201
Paris Jour, 140
Paris Soir, 140
Parrot, Jim, 64, 65–66
Parsons, Estelle, 211–12
Pasadena Playhouse, 79
Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot, A (Williams), 147
Perse, St.-Jean, 162
Persky, Lester, 200, 212
Pi Kappa Alpha, 24
Pickford, Mary, 23
Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing, 61
Pink Bedroom, The (Williams), 138–39
Pinter, Harold, 170
Plaza Hotel, xvi, 9–10
Poker Night, The (Williams), 109–10
Pollock, Jackson, 56, 250
Polyclinic Hospital, 59
Pont Royal, 244
“Portrait of Girl in Glass” (Williams), 120, 125
Portrait of a Madonna (Williams), 132
President Cleveland, 236
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 45
Prostitution, 75, 141, 143–45, 147, 154, 231
Psychoanalysis, xviii, 173, 206–7, 238
Puerto Rico, 201–2
Pulitzer Prize, 169
“Purification, The” (Williams), 55
Queen Mary, 150–51
Quintero, José, 150, 183, 201–2, 211–12, 226
Rabb, Ellis, 231
Rader, Dotson, 156
Rasky, Harry, 95
Ray, Johnny, 166
Red Devil Battery Sign, The (Williams), 183, 234
Redgrave, Vanessa, 199
Reed, Rex, 178, 217
Rembrandt Hotel, 160
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), 142
Rhodes, 207–8
Rhodes, Knolle, 40
Rhodes, Mrs. Knolle, 40
Richard of Bordeaux, 46, 47
Richardson, Tony, 198–99
Rimbaud, Arthur, 123, 250
Ritallin, 239
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 197
Robert Clay Hotel, 176
Robertson, Cliff, 172
Rockfeller Foundation, 3, 7–8, 10, 63, 69
Rock Hotel, 160
Roebling, Paul, 196–98
Roebling, Mrs. 197–98
Romains, Jules, 123
Roebling, Mrs., 197–98
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (Williams) 141, 172
motion picture version, 226
Rome Daily American, 89
Romeo and Juliet (motion picture), 142
Rose Arbor Players, The, 40
Rosebrough, Mrs., 41
Rose Tattoo, The (Williams), 161–62, 172, 188
critical response to, 162
motion picture version, 162
Ross, Tony, 86
Royal Court Theatre, 200
Royalton Hotel, 106
“Sabbatha and Solitude” (Williams), 240
Sagan, Françoise, 176
St. Just, Lady, 149, 178, 195, 210, 215, 217, 228, 229, 243, 244, 246
St. Just, Lord, 149
St. Louis University, 224
St. Regis Hotel, 243
Santayana, George, 146–47
Sardi’s, 192, 212
Saroyan, William, 37
Sartre, Jean Paul, 68–69, 149
Scapino, 40
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (motion picture), 39
Schippers, Thomas, 196
Schneider, Alan, 212
Scofield, Paul, 127
Sea Gull, The (Chekov), 41
Seconal, 158, 169, 182, 203, 210–11, 225–26
Selznick, Irene M., 111–12, 132, 134–36, 161, 167
Senso (motion picture), 195
“Separate Poem, A” (Williams), 155
Sevier, John, 12
Shapiro, Bernice Dorothy, 41
Shaw, Clay, 204
Shaw, Guy, 14
Shaw, Irwin, 4
Shelton Hotel, 98
Shubert Theatre, xv, xvi
Sicily, 142, 179, 241
Sikes, Pinkie, 19
Sillcox, Luise M., 7
Singer, Louis J., 81, 82
Slapstick Tragedy (Williams), 212–13
Sloane, Al, 192, 193
Small Craft Warnings (Williams), 9, 51, 94, 128–29, 238–40
rewrites of, 234
Williams appears in, 33–35, 114, 128, 138, 147, 150, 156–58, 192, 214–15, 239
Smith, Jane, 170, 215
Smith, Tippy, 27
Smith, Tony, 108, 152, 170, 215
Smith, William Jay, 122–24
Smith College, 63, 65
Socialism, 37, 94
Social Register, 105
Something Unspoken (Williams), 175
Sorbonne University, 123
Soule, Bobby, 193
Southwestern University, 40, 119
Spain, 159
Spanish-American War, 12
“Speechless Summer, The” (Williams), 187
Spender, Stephen, 39
Spiegel, Sam, 176
Spoleto’s Festival of Two Worlds, 195–96, 200
Square Root of Wonderful, The (McCullers), 108
Stairs to the Roof (Williams), 59
Standard Fruit Company, 65
Stapleton, Maureen, 82, 99, 147, 161–62, 173, 211
“Stardust” (Darling), 35
Star-Times, 89
State Asylum (Missouri), 125, 251
Stay of Execution (Alsop), 247
Steen, Mike, 209
Stein, Gertrude, 50
Stein, Jean, 170
Steinbeck, John, 167
Steinbeck, Mrs. John, 167
Stephens College, 30–31
Stevens, Roger, 196, 198
Stirrup, Dan, 189, 192
Stoney Lodge, 126–27, 243, 244, 250–51
Stopped Rocking (Williams), 225
Story, 37
Strand Theatre, 75–76
Strasberg, Lee, 162, 167
Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams), 53–54, 109–12, 153, 155, 157, 161, 162, 235
Italian production, 142
New York opening, 137
out-of-town tryout, 135–37
preparations for New York production, 130–32, 134–35
recent productions, 231, 242
Subber, Saint, 166
Suddenly Last Summer (Williams), 175–76
motion picture version, 176
Sullavan, Margaret, 132
Sullivan, Brad, 34
Summer and Smoke (Williams), 92, 108, 109, 150, 158–59, 161, 201, 238
critical response to, 108–9, 152, 153
Margo Jones production, 108–9, 151–53
Sweet Bird of Youth (Williams), 82, 176–77, 208
critical response to, 176
New York production, 173–74
Paris production, 176
Tandy, Jessica, 132, 135
Tatiana, 243, 251, 252
Taylor, Elizabeth, 200, 201, 210
Taylor, Laurette, 81–82, 131, 198
alcohol, 90
Mrs. Edwina Williams and, 85–86
Williams on, 86, 89, 90–91
Television interviews, 94–96, 213
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (Williams), 101, 165
Audrey Wood’s reaction to, 101, 165
Tennessee, University of, 12, 24, 25
Ter–Arutunian, Rouben, 199
Terra Trema, La (motion picture), 142
Texas, University of, 38
Thailand, 235–37
Theatre Guild, 52, 59, 62–63, 69, 148
This Is (Williams), 234
Thomas, Dylan, 39, 108
Thomas, Norman, 37
“Three Players of a Summer Game” (Williams), 29
Torn, Rip, 173
Tramway che se chiamo Desiderio, Un (A Streetcar Named Desire), 142
Twain, Mark, 69
Two-Character Play, The (Williams), 179