Memoirs

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) r />
  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

  Music Box Theatre, 158–59

  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

  St. Vincent’s Hospital, 39

  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