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ABC-TV, 344, 355

Absolutions
(film), 406–7

Academy Awards, 13, 136, 206, 207, 217, 264, 288

Burton losses, 131, 133, 176, 177, 205–7, 290, 291–92, 381, 405–6

Burton nominations, 131, 152, 176, 209, 226, 279, 281, 285–86, 292, 313, 401

campaigning for Burton, 285–86

Hollywood during, 285

post-Oscar parties, 290–91

Taylor Best Actress Awards, 176, 206–7, 229, 281

Taylor doesn't attend, 206–7

Taylor nominations, 9, 152

Taylor party for losers, 292–93

Taylor presents at, 285, 290

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
nominations, 177

Aimée, Anouk, 206, 229

Albee, Edward, 137, 138, 169, 170, 173, 206, 207, 264

Alexandre de Paris, 19, 199, 200, 228, 325, 326, 347–48

Algonquin Hotel, New York, 324

Ali, Muhammad, 11

All About Eve
(film), 13, 14

Alpert, Hollis, 181

American Music and Dramatic Academy, 95, 106, 151, 232

Andrews, Julie, 15, 246

Anhalt, Edward, 74

Annenberg, Walter, 273

Anne of the Thousand Days
(film), 252, 260–61, 263–67, 269, 271, 272, 278–79, 281, 288–90, 291

Anouilh, Jean, 73, 74

Anstee, Paul, 93

Archerd, Army, 295

Around the World in Eighty Days
(film), 5, 38

Ash Wednesday
(film), 357–58, 359, 360, 375, 376

Asquith, Anthony “Puffin,” 45, 53

Assassination of Trotsky
(film), 324–25

Aubrey, James, 287

Auden, W. H., 114, 186

Avedon, Richard, 37

Aznavour, Charles, 255

 

Bacon, Francis, 401–2

Bacon, James, 83, 295

Bailey, David, 172

Baker, Josephine, 183

Baker, Stanley, 51, 66, 134, 178

Baldwin, James, 261

Balfour, Neil, 387

Ball, Lucille, 294–95, 298

Bankhead, Tallulah, 411

Barcher, Larry, 332

Barnes, Billy, 213

Bart, Peter, 115

Battle of Sutjeska
(film), 320–23, 372

Beaton, Cecil, 325

Beatty, Warren, 241, 251, 287, 387

Beaumont, Hugh “Binkie,” 186

Becket
(film), 73–74, 87, 90, 96, 131, 133, 185, 196, 268, 269

Bel Air, California, x, 1, 386, 414, 425, 437

Bell, Jean, 388, 389

Bell Inn, Wales, 271, 274–75

Benton, Jim, 267, 274, 278, 306, 344

Bergman, Ingrid, 38, 42, 212

Berkeley, Ron, 24, 119, 167, 227, 321–22, 344, 350, 384, 406

Berman, Pandro S., 63–64

Besançon, Andrew, 247

Betty Ford Clinic, 372, 424, 432, 435

Beverly Hills Hotel, 286, 291, 360, 400

Bible, The
(film), 193

Bloom, Claire, 18, 49, 120–22, 128, 167, 394, 427

Bluebeard
(film), 327–42, 375

Blue Bird, The
(film), 388–89

Bogarde, Dirk, 134, 216, 324

Bogart, Humphrey, 328

Bolt, Robert, 53

Boom!
(film), 211–20, 238–40, 242, 269, 272, 288, 373

Boorman, John, 401

Bosworth, Patricia, 160

Boyd, Pattie, 136

Boyd, Stephen, 11, 15

Boy with a Cart, The
(play), 90

Bozzacchi, Claudye Ettori, 198–99, 322, 344

Bozzacchi, Gianni, 119, 197–99, 247, 315, 319, 322, 344, 359, 377–78, 382, 431

Bragg, Melvyn, 56, 58, 106, 317

Brando, Marlon, 157, 189–92, 233, 234, 255, 299, 324, 328, 357, 428, 429

Breakthrough
(film), 406

Breslin, Jimmy, 302, 420

Bridges, Beau, 316

Brief Encounter
(TV movie), 386, 387

Britt, May, 207

Brodsky, Jack, 27, 29

Bronson, Charles, 114

Brooks, Richard, 7

Brown, Pamela, 73

Browne, Roscoe Lee, 196

Browning, Robert, 276

Buchman, Sidney, 13

Buda, Max, 225

Budapest, Hungary, 327–35, 337

David Frost interview in, 339

Taylor's 40th birthday ball, 331–35

Bufman, Zev, 411, 413, 422

Bujold, Geneviève, 261, 265, 266, 270, 288

Bulgari, Gianni, 45, 99, 172, 175, 178, 235, 237, 332

Burr, Robert, 104

Burton, Jessica, 15, 42, 48, 60, 118, 119–20, 195, 377

Burton, Kate, 15, 48, 60, 135, 195, 225, 247, 299, 304, 333, 339, 376, 390, 402, 412, 433

Burton, Maria, 24–25, 36, 79, 80–81, 97, 115, 119, 127, 130, 171, 183, 195, 208, 282, 299, 322, 332, 333, 352–53, 376, 411, 412, 415, 433

birth mother shows up, 163–64

Burton, Philip, 64, 70–72, 75, 87, 95–96, 106, 134, 151, 166, 186, 232, 309–10, 329, 339

Burton, Richard.
See also
Taylor, Elizabeth and Richard Burton romance

on acting, 305–6, 318, 335, 372, 396, 427

acting and talent of, 1, 15–16, 20–21, 71, 72, 73, 74, 93–94, 95, 97, 102, 104, 121, 123, 176–77, 193, 268, 318, 421

alcohol, attempts at sobriety, 208, 283–86, 289–91, 293, 300, 302, 322, 324, 331, 334, 336, 338–39, 342, 345, 346, 349, 377, 390, 391, 393–94, 396, 398, 399, 402, 406, 428, 431

alcohol, detox, 1973, 363, 367

alcohol and alcoholism, viii, 1, 15, 21, 48, 50, 51–54, 59, 73–74, 82, 83, 85–86, 92, 96–98, 104, 120, 124–25, 127, 146, 162, 165, 190, 192, 202–4, 209, 217, 220, 226, 241, 251, 253, 258, 270, 271, 281–85, 302–3, 305, 306, 312, 317, 336–40, 353, 354, 358, 360–61, 374, 377–79, 392, 394, 408, 409, 410, 413, 420, 431

alcoholism, final stage, 377–78, 381–82, 384, 392

appearance, 18, 19, 24, 48, 55, 70, 71, 121, 134, 167, 186, 229, 244, 289, 294, 300, 303, 328, 331

Ava Gardner and, 77–78, 85–86

background and family, ix, 18–19, 49, 51, 61, 64, 65–73, 86–87, 97, 110, 186, 359, 383

beating by London thugs, 55–56, 104

brothers and sisters (list), 65

burial and memorial services, x, 432–34

Claire Bloom and, 49, 120–22

death, ix–x, 430–32

depression, 105, 120, 122, 125, 146, 203, 208, 257, 278–79, 283, 289, 354, 387

desire for knighthood, 282, 409

diary, 2, 29–30, 124, 170, 173, 192, 203–4, 213, 227, 241, 245, 262, 263, 268, 284, 288, 292, 302–3, 305, 318, 321, 336, 414

The Dick Cavett Show
, 408

directing, 113–14

disasters of 1968, 241, 245–46, 247–48, 255

Dylan Thomas and, 314, 316, 337

earnings, 15, 44, 113, 119, 120, 139, 193, 196, 212–13, 214, 250, 292, 327, 388, 407

engagement to Princess Elizabeth, 387–88

entourage reduced, 402, 428 (
see also specific individuals
)

epilepsy of, 92, 120, 159, 409

fame, viii, 37, 89, 92, 96, 107, 123, 164, 222, 306, 340

favorite foods, 66, 75, 126

fears and phobias, 91

final written words, 432

gifts to family, 75, 118, 126, 177–79

guilt over Ifor, 248, 271, 273, 335–36, 340

Haitian property, 401, 428

Hampstead, England, home, 50–51, 194, 240, 319

health problems, 104, 233, 283, 306, 312, 320, 382, 407–9, 415, 428–29

hemophilia, 91–92, 120, 159, 435

homosexuality and, 16–17, 160–61, 248–50

Jean Bell and, 388, 389

Judiasm and, 174

love of books, 171–72, 221, 272, 297, 358, 401–2

love of poetry, 18, 86–87, 106–7, 121, 125, 142–43, 169, 174–75, 202, 332

names for, 53, 65

obsession with Faust legend, 189

Oxford and, 53, 72, 112, 114, 185–86, 195, 281, 332, 343–44

Pays de Galle, Céligny, x, 39, 42, 118, 194, 247, 271, 388, 389, 400, 424, 430–32

personality, 1, 10, 18, 81, 96, 97, 152, 192–93, 204, 242, 329, 344, 424

Philip Burton and, 64, 70–72, 87, 95–96

purchases jet, 180

receives CBE, 304–5

Sally Hay and, x, 420–21, 424, 428, 429, 430

Susan Strasberg and, 18, 122–23

Suzy Hunt and, 394, 395, 396–99, 400, 401–2, 406–7, 409, 410

Sybil Burton and, 1, 15, 25, 29, 30, 39, 42, 43, 47–52, 60, 118, 133–34, 240

virility, 16, 18, 24, 49, 229, 302, 415

voice, 18, 20, 33, 48, 70, 71, 74, 93–94, 100, 101, 102, 121, 159, 188, 227, 229, 231, 314, 316, 336, 356, 380, 386, 398, 415, 429, 432

Welsh identity, ix, 1, 50, 66, 69–70, 71, 75–76, 102, 118, 125–26, 179, 314–15, 359, 417

womanizing, 1, 17, 18, 21–22, 27, 49–50, 120–21, 122, 123, 208, 329, 340, 379, 382

writings, 164, 227–28, 281, 359, 413, 434–35, 443–45

F
ILMS
, 268

Absolutions
, 406–7

Academy Award losses, 131, 133, 176, 177, 205–7, 290, 291–92, 381, 405–6

Academy Award nominations, 131, 152, 176, 209, 226, 279, 281, 285–86, 292, 313, 401

Anne of the Thousand Days
, 252, 260–61, 263–67, 269, 271, 272, 278–79, 281

Assassination of Trotsky
, 324–25

“A Walk with Destiny” or “The Gathering Storm,” 387–88

The Battle of Sutjeska
, 320–23, 372

Becket
, 73–74, 87, 96, 131, 133, 185, 196, 269

best work of, 269

Bluebeard
, 327–35, 337–42

Boom!
, 211–20, 238–40, 272, 288

box-office rankings, 112, 131, 162, 196, 236

Breakthrough
, 406

Brief Encounter
, 386, 387

brother Graham as stand-in, 51

Candy
, 234, 255

Circle of Two
, 406

Cleopatra
, 2, 15, 58–60, 112, 436

The Comedians
, 196–204, 209, 228–30

The Desert Rats
, 1

Divorce His Divorce Hers
, 344–57

Ellis Island
, 430

Equus
, 401

Exorcist II: The Heretic
, 401

Hammersmith Is Out
, 316, 323

Ice Palace
, 139

influence of Taylor, 73, 74, 87, 131

Jackpot
, 388, 396

The Klansman
, 381–82, 388

The Last Days of Dolwyn
, 19, 42–43, 48–49, 145

Laughter in the Dark
, 235–36, 240–41

The Longest Day
, 31

Look Back in Anger
, 122–23, 140, 236, 345

Lovespell
, 406

Massacre in Rome
, 357, 370

The Medusa Touch
, 406

Under Milk Wood
, 313–16, 323

My Cousin Rachel
, 1, 15, 122, 133

Night of the Iguana
, 76–88, 112, 131, 174, 185, 193, 211, 237, 269

1984
, x, 424–25, 427–30

poor choices and, 234, 406

Raid on Rommel
, 297–300, 317

retirement contemplated, 154, 251–52, 267–68, 281

The Robe
, 1, 15, 133

roles reflecting life, 118, 129, 131, 146–49, 161, 202–3, 215, 264, 266, 310, 356

The Sandpiper
, 113–19

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
, 120–31, 133, 168, 176, 185, 205, 215, 265, 269

Staircase
, 248–50, 269, 272, 288

The Taming of the Shrew
, 161, 164–72, 178–82, 185, 205, 211

Villain
, 300–301, 305, 317–18

The V.I.P.s
, 42–45, 47, 50–51, 53–54, 55–56, 112, 113, 168, 225

The Voyage
, 367, 377

Wagner
, 409–10

Where Eagles Dare
, 235, 252, 255, 272, 298, 387

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
, 107, 129, 138–52, 185, 205

The Wild Geese
, 406

S
TAGE CAREER:

Camelot
, 15–16, 24, 36, 96, 98, 140, 407, 409, 436

desire to play King Lear, 353, 406, 409, 414, 429

Doctor Faustus
, 112, 114, 185–89, 209, 211