Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 - 1951
Writings: autobiographical memoir, vii; diaries, vii, ix, xii, xxiv, xxvi–xxvii, 3; considers giving up fiction, ix–x; translates Bhagavad Gita with Swami, 8n, 9, 22; helps Prabhavananda with translation of Shankara, 72n; makes typescript of diaries, 72; translates Patanjali aphorisms, 179, 207, 210, 212, 258, 278; foreword to Rinser’s Die Stärkerer, 192; depiction of self in fiction, 200; writes foreword to Vividishananda’s A Man of God, 207; occasional writings, 210n; ideas for stories, 221n; invited to contribute to Tomorrow magazine, 241–2; reviewing, 247, 258, 275–6, 282n
Isherwood, Frank Bradshaw (C.I.’s father), viii, 238
Isherwood, Henry Bradshaw (C.I.’s uncle): death, 90n
Isherwood, Kathleen Bradshaw (M; C.I.’s mother): C.I. writes on, viii; C.I.’s relations with, x; C.I. visits, 87–9, 185n; death, 87; and ownership of Wyberslegh, 90n, 111; and C.I.’s relations with Ian Scott–Kilvert, 104n; reaction to C.I.’s sterility operation, 111; and Richard’s jealousy of C.I., 144; The Condor and the Cows (British ed.) dedicated to, 194
Isherwood, Richard Graham Bradshaw (C.I.’s brother): and C.I.’s 1947 visit to Wyberslegh, 87–8, 112; appearance and behavior, 87; meets Felix Greene, 89; inherits Wyberslegh through C.I., 90n, 111; and C.I.’s 1948 visit, 144, 185n; jealousy of C.I., 144
Ivar Avenue, Hollywood see Vedanta Center
Jackson, Shirley: The Lottery, 223n, 225n
Jacobs, William, 29, 32
James, Henry: C.I. admires, 52n; “The Author of Baltraffio”, 52n; The Bostonians, 175n; “Lady Barberina”, 52n; “The Pupil”, 103n
Japan: surrenders (1945), 45
Jarrico, Paul, 191
Jay see de Laval, Jay
Jeff (pseud.), 17, 40
Jennings, Isa, 123, 130
Jennings, Ollie, 123–4, 133, 138
Job (ballet), 147
John, Augustus, 91
Johnson, Celia, 144
Jones, Jennifer, 154n
Jonson, Ben: The Alchemist, 91
Journey to a War (C.I.; with Auden), 22n, 209
Judgement Day in Pittsburgh (film), 81, 91
Juenger, Ernst: On the Marble Cliffs, 140n
Julius Caesar (film), 263
Jung, Carl Gustav, xi, xx
Jurado, Arthur, 205
Kahn, Gordon, 25
Kallman, Chester, 82, 117, 129, 142
Kanin, Garson: Remembering Mr. Maugham, 37n
Katha Upanishad, 9
Kathleen and Frank (C.I.), viii, x, xxi–xxii
Kaufman, Robert, 237n
Kazan, Elia, 267
Keate, Richard (Dick), 65–6
Kelley, Howard, 17–18, 50, 81, 227–8
Kennedy, Arthur, 31n
Kennedy, Bill, 192, 241–2, 245
Kennedy, Helen see Sudhira
Kennedy, (Sir) Ludovic, 272
Kennington, Eric, 94
Keohane, Jack (pseud.), 75
Kidd, David, 188
King, Mackenzie, 116
King-Page, Neville, 115
Kinsey, Alfred: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, xv
Kirstein, Lincoln: meets Caskey, xvii; hostility to C.I., 69; in New York, 119, 123, 129–30; admires Nadelman sculptures, 132; art cult, 132–3; admires Burns’s The Gallery, 137; visits Fire Island, 138
Kiskadden, Peggy (formerly Bok; then Rodakiewicz): Steve Cooley not introduced to, 41; C.I. meets, 45; C.I. entertains, 50–1; accompanies C.I. when made U.S. citizen, 78; friendship with C.I., 81, 153–4, 208, 230, 281; Kathleen Isherwood’s idea of, 89; on C.I.’s Peter Pan qualities, 101; in New York, 135; disapproves of C.I.’s boyfriends, 154, 283; attends Vernon Old’s marriage, 170; disapproves of Ben Bok’s marriage, 173; dislikes Huxley’s Ape and Essence, 176n; C.I. travels to New Mexico with, 247–56; idea of self, 249n; relations with Georgia O’Keeffe, 250; C.I. ceases close relations with, 256–7
Kiskadden, William Sherrill (Bill): C.I. entertains, 50; friendship with C.I., 81, 153, 230; in New York, 135; C.I. witnesses operation by, 178; supposed sadism, 179 & n
Kiskadden, William Sherrill, Jr. (Bill and Peggy’s son; “Bull”), 247, 249, 252, 254–6
Kittredge, Bob and Mary, 248–9, 255
Knight, Franklin, 7
Kolisch, Dr. Joseph, 23, 63, 272
Korean War (1950–53), 240, 243
Kramer, Stanley, 205
Küsel, Otto, 134n
Lady from the Land of the Dead, The (C.I.; TV script), ix
Laguna Beach: C.I. and Caskey settle in (Monterey Street), 273–5
Lamarr, Hedy, 242
Lamkin, Speed: advises C.I. on The World in the Evening, xxix–xxxii, 281, 283–4; character, xxx, 232, 273, 283; co–adapts C.I.’s Goodbye to Berlin for stage (as Sally Bowles), xxxi, 265–6, 273, 277, 284; C.I. meets, 232; affair with Bertrand Cambus, 260; cultivates C.I.’s friendship, 278, 281; accepts C.I.’s withdrawal of Sally Bowles adaptation, 285; admires Alec Beesley, 285; The Easter Egg Hunt, 283; Tiger in the Garden, 232
Lang, Mrs. (Ian Scott-Kilvert’s mother), 103–6n
Langford, Sam, 95–6, 102
LaPan, Dick, 50, 277
Lathwood, Jo see Masselink, Jo
Laughton, Charles, 45, 195
Laval, Jay de see de Laval, Jay
Law, Doc, 44n
Lawrence, D.H., 253, 255n; St. Mawr, 254n
Lawrence, Frieda, 253, 254n
Lawrence, T.E.: The Mind, 175n; Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 94
LeCron, Leslie, 230–1, 235–8
Leddick, David: Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935–1955, 128[n]
Ledebur, Count Friedrich, 242
Lehmann, Beatrix, 110, 111n, 148n
Lehmann, John: C.I. visits on 1947 trip to England, 83–4, 95–6, 102, 113; edits New Writing, 100[n]; and Neville King-Page, 115; on grounding of Queen Elizabeth, 116; C.I. and Caskey stay with in London (1948), 143, 148; entertains Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams, 145, 146[n]; Paul Almond meets, 194–5; The Ample Proposition, 83, 85
Lehmann, Rosamond, 108, 113 & n
Leigh, Vivien, 153, 267
Leopold, Michael, 220–2, 230, 258, 277
Lerman, Leo, 126–7
Letter from an Unknown Woman (film), 153
“Letter from England, A” see “Coming to London”
Letter, The (film), 37
Lewis, David, 211
Lewis, Hayden: relations with Caskey, 34, 43; loses civilian job with Navy, 43; and C.I.’s relations with Caskey, 45, 48, 52–3, 119n, 233; C.I. gives Packard car to, 46n; on Caskey and Keohane, 75; relations with Rodney Owens, 76–7, 81, 149–50, 153, 167; and C.I.’s 1947 departure for England, 82; meets C.I. on return from England (1948), 149; improved relations with C.I., 150, 153, 167, 208, 238; meets Jim Charlton, 163; at Vernon Old’s wedding, 170; visits C.I. in Monterey Street house, 274
Libman, Lillian: And Music at the Close, 201n
Lihencron, Detlev von, 26n
Lions and Shadows (C.I.), vii–viii, 98, 103n, 108
Litvak, Anatole, 23
Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film), 171n
Lodge, Carter: and C.I.’s life at Vedanta Center, 7; at Beesleys, 11–12; entertains C.I., 11; disapproves of C.I.’s lovemaking, 12n; relations with C.I., 12n; at AJC Ranch, 21, 220; C.I. visits with Caskey, 47, 196; C.I. entertains, 50; relations with Dick Foote, 196n; loathes Starcke, 197n
Logan, Joshua, 225–6
London: C.I. visits (1947), 83–6, 91–107, 113–16; C.I. visits with Caskey (1948), 143, 145–8
Long Beach Veterans Hospital, 236, 239–40
Loos, Anita, 27n
Los Alamos, New Mexico, 250
Los Angeles: conference on world peace (1949), 189–90
Los Angeles Times, The: C.I. interviewed in, 49; quotes C.I. on Ethan Frome, 229n
Lubbock, Lys see Connolly, Lys
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 254, 255n
Lupino, Ida, 31n
Lyme Hall, Cheshire (England), 185n
Lyndon, Andrew, 126–7, 131–2
Lynes, George Pla
tt, 65
MacArthur, General Douglas, 273
Macaulay, (Dame) Rose, 113, 143
McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 190, 209
McCarthy, Mary: The Oasis, 223n, 225n
McClendon, Carlos, 59n, 65–6, 153, 184, 238
McCullers, Carson: The Member of the Wedding, 140n; Reflections in a Golden Eye, 140n
McDowall, Roddy, 17
Mace, John, 81
McGrath, Earle, 28 & [n]
Maclean, Donald, 100
MacNeice, Louis, 83n
Maddox, Tom (pseud.), 17
Madge, Charles, 114n
Magallanes, Nicholas, 50n
Maher, Fern, xix, 24n
Mailer, Norman, 228
Malaparte, Curzio: Kaputt, 140n
Maltz, Albert: The Journey of Simon McKeever, 191
Manchester (England), 89
Mangeot, Olive, 91, 107–8, 110
Mangeot, Sylvain, 91
Mankiewicz, Joseph, 207n
Mann, Erika, 155, 215
Mann, Katia (Thomas’s wife): defends unnamed friend of Klaus, 168; Unwritten Memoirs, 77n
Mann, Klaus: friendship with C.I., 153; recovers after suicide attempt, 155; relations with Harold Fairbanks, 155–6; visits friend in jail, 168; co-writes film outline with C.I., 170; suicide, 191–2; memorial volume, 210n; C.I. writes article on, 212, 215
Mann, Thomas: and Stefan Brecht, 14n; makes no mention of Salka Viertel in letters, 71; C.I. visits, 77, 179; operation on lung, 77 & n; letter to Adorno on Klaus’s suicide attempt, 155; Caskey photographs, 189; reads C.I.’s article on Klaus, 215; Dr. Faustus, 77; Letters, 170
Mansfield, Katherine, 68, 282n
March, Fredric, 67
Markova, (Dame) Alicia, 147
Marple Hall, Cheshire (England), 144, 185
Martinez, José (Pete), 5
Masefield, John: Multitude and Solitude, 275n
Masselink, Ben: Jo meets, 44n; and Jim Charlton, 156n; friendship with C.I., 195, 208, 230, 280–1; and Fechin, 222; and Korean War, 240n, 241; marriage relations, 241n; helps clear up C.I.’s apartment, 256; and C.I.’s break with Caskey, 282
Masselink, Jo (formerly Lathwood): meets Ben, 44n; and Jim Charlton, 156n; friendship with C.I., 195, 208, 230, 280–1; and Fechin, 222; and Korean War, 24on; marriage relations, 241n; helps clear up C.I.’s apartment, 256; and C.I.’s break with Caskey, 282
Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastián, xvi, 124
Matty’s Cell House, New York, 58 & n
Maugham, Robin: The Servant, 225n
Maugham, William Somerset: denies Larry in The Razor’s Edge modelled on C.I., 22; in Hollywood, 37–8; meets Swami, 38, 40; death, 40n; warns C.I. of police watch on Denny Fouts, 40; The Narrow Corner, 223n; The Razor’s Edge, 22n, 37 & n, 38 & n; Up at the Villa, 28, 35 & n, 36n
Mauldin, Bill, 269–70
Mauriber, Saul, 253
Maxine (Bernie Hamilton’s girlfriend), 200
Medley, Robert, 83n, 116
Meeting by the River, A (C.I.; novel and TV script), ix–x, xxv–xxvi, 170
Memorial, The (C.I.), 203
Men, The (film), 205, 228, 230
Menotti, Gian Carlo, 173
Merlo, Frank, 208, 267
Merton, Thomas: The Seven-Storey Mountain, 175–6n
Methuen (publishers), 119, 188, 196
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 73n, 150, 168, 173–4, 176–7, 191
Mexico, 78, 88
MGM see Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Minton, John, 143 & n
Miró, Joan, 47
“Mr. Lancaster” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit), 278
Mitchison, Naomi: The Blood of the Martyrs, 225n
Mitford, Nancy: Love in a Cold Climate, 223n, 225n
Moffat, Ivan: works on films with George Stevens, 66; imitates C.I. describing Gregory Peck, 169; reports story of C.I. misbehaving at Chaplins’, 199n, 233; at Chaplins’ with Caskey and Natasha, 235; at Salka Viertel’s to hear Yma Sumac perform, 242; sees Sadler’s Wells Ballet with C.I., 271
Moffat, Natasha (née Sorokine): Caskey corrects, xvi, 235; marriage, 66–7; at Chaplins’, 234–5; at Sadler’s Wells Ballet with C.I., 271
Monkhouse, Mrs., 89–90
Monkhouse, Allan, 89, 112
Monkhouse, Elizabeth (“Mitty”), 90, 112
Monkhouse, John, 89
Monkhouse, Patrick, 90, 277
Monkhouse, Rachel, 90, 112
Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah, 141 & n, 248, 249n, 255
Moore, George, 51n; A Drama in Muslin, 275n
Moraturi, Pancho, 13, 15
Morgan, Frank, 177
Morris, Phyllis, 81 & n, 214
Mortimer, Raymond, 143
Mosel, Fritz, 126
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 97
Motley, Willard: Knock on Any Door, xv & n, 140n; prose style, xxv–xxvii
Murphy, Audie, 268–70
Mussohni, Benito, 31
My Guru and His Disciple (C.I.), xxiv, xxvii
Nadeau, Nicky, 81, 212n, 216
Nadelman, Elie, 132
Naeve, Lowell: A Field of Broken Stones, 275n
Naked and the Dead, The (film), 228
Nanny see Avis, Annie
Nantucket, Massachusetts, 125–7
National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, 189–91
Neddermeyer, Heinz: refused entry to England, xi, xxi; relations with C.I., xxx, 148; arrest and imprisonment, 98, 114n; in Portugal with C.I., 114n
Negri, Pola, 234
Neumann, Elisabeth (later Viertel), 148
Newman, Lennie: cooks at Jay de Laval’s restaurant, 67, 171, 177; described, 67; at C.I. party, 170; relations with Caskey, 171, 193, 197, 246; tried in court with Caskey, 209; visits C.I. and Caskey, 233, 238; C.I. has sex with, 279–80
New Mexico, 247–54
New World Writing, 284
New Writing (magazine), 100[n]
New York, 117–25, 128–38
Nin, Anaïs: C.I. meets, 245–6; Children of the Albatross, 245
No Way Out (film), 207n
Norment, Caroline, xxxi, 121n, 125, 239
Novak, Alvin, xviii–xix, 197–8
“Nowaks, The” (C.I.; story in Goodbye to Berlin), 100
Obey, André: Noé, 74[n]
Obin, Philomé, 125
Ocampo, Victoria, 134, 136, 175n
O’Casey, Sean: Juno and the Paycock, 189
O’Donnell, Lawrence: “Vintage Season”, 176n
O’Hara, John, 82n
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 247, 249–53, 254n
Old, Vernon (pseud.): and C.I.’s relations with Bill Harris, 6; and Marcel Rodd, 8; practical jokes on, 10; travels with C.I., 13; excites C.I., 20; C.I. dines with, 31; lives in Hollywood with C.I., 38; friendship with C.I., 45, 50, 92 & [n], 106, 153; approves C.I.’s relations with Caskey, 46; C.I. entertains, 50; goes out with Anita Pitoeff, 50; C.I.’s mythic image of, 60–1, 159; takes C.I. to snake show, 152n; marriage to Patty O’Neill, 170–1 & [n], 181; on wishing to serve C.I., 181; and C.I.’s psychic experience in Sequoia, 185n; leaves C.I., 193
Oliver, Maria Rosa, 137
O’Neill, Patty (pseud.): marriage to Vernon Old, 170–1, 181
Ophuls, Max, 153
Orwell, George: Homage to Catalonia, 275n; Nineteen Eighty-four, 225n
Osborne, John: Look Back in Anger, 60n
Ouspenskaya, Maria, 39
Owens, Rodney: relations with Hayden Lewis, 76–7, 81, 149–50, 153, 167; in business, 77; friendship with C.I., 81, 150, 153, 167, 170, 208, 233, 238; at C.I.’s 1947 departure for England, 82; meets C.I. on return, 149; meets Jim Charlton, 163; Radebaugh’s infatuation with, 171; spends Christmas and New Year (1950–51) with C.I., 274
Paris, 142
Pascal, Natalia, 50
Pastoral Symphony (film), 84n
Patanjali: How to Know God (translated aphorisms), 179, 183, 207, 210, 212, 258, 278
Paton, Alan: Cry, the Beloved Country, 175–6n
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??Paul” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit), 7n, 142
Pearn, Agnes Marie (Inez; Stephen Spender’s first wife), 114n
Pears, Peter, 92, 95, 106, 144, 212–15
Peck, Gregory, 152, 168–9, 177, 187–8
Pell, Donald (pseud.), 258, 260, 268, 271
Perkins, Lynn, 49–50
Perlin, Bernard (Bernie), 123
Philipps, Cristina, 108–9
Philipps, Wogan, 108–10
Picasso, Pablo: Denny Fouts sells painting, 46n
Pilates, Joseph, 120 & n
Pitoëff, Anita, 50
Pitoëff, Ludmilla, 50
Pits, The (on State Beach), 63–4
Players Restaurant, Hollywood, 39
Plomer, William, 83 & n, 86, 94n, 101–2, 113, 144
Poitier, Sidney, 207n
Pole, Rupert, 245–6
Pollock, Peter, 100
Porter, Cole, 58[n], 69, 153n, 215
Porter, Katherine Anne, 68–9
Portugal, 114n
Power, Tyrone, 39n
Prabha (Phoebe Nixon; later Pravrajika Prabhaprana), 209
Prabhavananda, Swami: C.I. writes book on, viii, xxiv, xxvii; C.I.’s relations with, ix, 7, 9, 182, 201n, 278; C.I. introduces Caskey to, xvii; and C.I.’s proposed biography of Ramakrishna, xxii; effect on C.I., xxix; translates Bhagavad Gita with C.I., 8n, 9, 22; returns to Vedanta Center, 14; lumbago, 18; Time magazine article on, 22; C.I. talks to about leaving, 27; and C.I.’s gonorrhea, 36; Maugham meets, 38, 40; scorn for Tyrone Power, 39n; and C.I.’s leaving Vedanta Center, 45; translates Shankara’s The Crest–Jewel of Discrimination, 72n; initiates C.I., 78; C.I. visits, 81, 183; blesses C.I. on trip to England, 81; Kathleen Isherwood’s view of, 89; C.I. attends birthday lunch, 173; translates Patanjah, 179, 183, 207; believes Caskey a bad influence on C.I., 181; visits Trabuco, 191; and Sister’s death, 197; leaves for India, 209; undergoes operation, 237, 239; van Druten on, 247; meets Alan Watts, 277
Prater Violet (C.I.), xiii, xxv, xxx, 4, 48–9, 107, 235
Pringle, Aileen, 195
Pritchett, (Sir) V.S., 113
Proust, Marcel, xx, 21, 26; Remembrance of Things Past, 21, 51; “Seascape” (from Within a Budding Grove), 67