My Life as a Mankiewicz (60 page)

Mankiewicz, Sara

Mankiewicz, Thomas Frank “Tom”: Elizabeth Ashley and; asthma of;
Batman; The Beat of the Brass; The Best Man; birth; The Cassandra Crossing
; cats and; cocaine and;
Columbo; The Comancheros
; on conflict, relationships, and suffering; on the costs of making movies; Creative Artists Agency and; cremation of mother; Sammy Davis Jr. and;
The Deep; Delirious; Diamonds Are Forever
; on directing; disillusionment with the film business;
Dragnet
; on the dumbing down of American entertainment;
The Eagle Has Landed
; entry into the film industry; fake birth certificate; on film studios and housekeeping deals;
Gavilan
television series;
Georgy!
; Jackie Gleason and; growing up in the 1940s; Jack Haley Jr. and; Guy Hamilton and;
Hart to Hart
; Bridget Hayward and; William Holden and; house in Malibu; interests outside of film; Jack Daniel's whiskey; on James Bond actors; James Bond films and; Suzy Kendall and; Pope John Paul and; in Kenya; Margot Kidder and;
Ladyhawke
; David Lean and;
Legal Eagles
; life in Malibu in the 1960s; life in New York City in the 1950s; life in Rome in 1953; life in Westchester;
Live and Let Die
; Carol Lynley and;
The Man with the Golden Gun
; Willie Mays and; Liza Minnelli and; mirror shots; Robert Mitchum and;
Moonraker
; Jerry Moss and;
Mother, Jugs & Speed
; mother's suicide; move to Universal studios; on movie stars and actors;
Movin' with Nancy
; nanny; net profits from movies and;
Never Say Never Again
and; Joan O'Brien and; Mike Ovitz and; at Phillips Exeter Academy;
Please
script; poker and; Stefanie Powers and;
Rainbow
script; on relationships with actresses; relationships with women; relationship with father; relationship with mother; religion and; screenwriting and; script fixing for Warner Brothers; David O. Selznick and; Jean Simmons and;
Skin Tight
script;
The Spy Who Loved Me
; Inger Stevens and; stops making Bond films; the
Superman
movies;
The Sweet Ride; Taking the Heat
script;
Tales from the Crypt
; tarot and; Elizabeth Taylor and; television documentary on Sophia Loren; turns down the TriStar studios offer; Gore Vidal and;
War Games
; Tuesday Weld and; at the Williamstown Summer Theater; Natalie Wood and; on writer-directors; on writing for Roger Moore; writing habits; at Yale University

Mankiewicz family: character of; the making of
Cleopatra
and; religion and; writing and

Man Who Would Be King, The
(movie)

Man with the Golden Gun, The
(Fleming)

Man with the Golden Gun, The
(movie)

Marathon Man
(movie)

Marcus Welby, M.D
. (television series)

Mardigian, Ron

Margaret, Princess of England

Margot (cat)

“mariachi” music

Mark VII Productions

Marsh, Jean

Marshall, E. G.

Martin, Dean

Martin, Nan

Martin, Ross

Martin, Tony

Marvin, Lee

Mason, James

Matter of Gravity, A
(movie)

Matthews, Rosemary: Joseph Mankiewicz and; Tom Mankiewicz and; on the set of
Cleopatra. See also
Mankiewicz, Rosemary

Matthews, Terry

Maverick
(television series)

Mayer, Louis B.

Mays, Willie

McCarthy, Andrew

McCarthy, Joseph

McCarthy, Kevin

McCartney, Paul

McClory, Kevin

McCord, Ken

McDaniel, Hattie

McDowall, Roddy

McDowell, Malcolm

McElwaine, Guy

McGoohan, Patrick

McGuane, Tom

McKeon, Julian and Jane

McKern, Leo

McQueen, Steve

Mechanic, Bill

Meddings, Derek

Medford, Don

Mencken, H. L.

Mentalist, The
(television series)

Merman, Doc

Merrick, David

Merrill, Robert

Meryman, Richard

Meston, John

Metropolitan Opera

Meyer, Ron

Miami Vice
(television series)

Michaels, Lorne

Milagro Beanfield War, The
(movie)

Mielziner, Jo

Millar, Stuart

Miller, Artie

Million Dollar Legs
(movie)

Mills, Juliet

Milner, Marty

Mimieux, Yvette

Minnelli, Liza

Minnelli, Vincente

Minow, Newton

Miracle on 34th Street
(movie)

Mirisch brothers

Mirror

mirror shots

Mister Roberts
(movie)

Mitchell, Elvis

Mitchum, Robert

Mix, Tom

“monkey points,”

Monroe, Marilyn

Monsignor
(movie)

Montecito Hotel

Moonraker
(movie)

Moore, Demi

Moore, Dudley

Moore, Roger;
Diamonds Are Forever
offered to;
Live and Let Die
; Tom Mankiewicz on writing for; portrayal of James Bond;
The Spy Who Loved Me

Morgan, Harry

Moss, Jerry

Mother, Jugs & Speed
(movie)

Mountains of the Moon
(movie)

Mount Kenya Game Ranch

Mount Kenya Safari Club

Mount Kisco

movie stars: Tom Mankiewicz on; salaries.
See also
actors

Movin' with Nancy
(television musical special): conception of; Sammy Davis Jr. and; Dean Martin and; shooting of; Frank Sinatra and

Mulligan, Bob

Munsel, Patrice

Murphy, Eddie

Murray, Bill

Murray, William

My Fair Lady
(musical)

“My Way” (song)

 

Natural, The
(movie)

Navajo Indians

negative pickup

Negulesco, Jean

Neill, Noel

net profits

Network
(movie)

Never Say Never Again
(movie)

Newley, Anthony

Newley, Leslie

Newman, David

Newman, Leslie

Newman, Paul:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
; Connaught Hotel and; Freddie Fields and; flop films of; interest in playing James Bond; Joseph Mankiewicz and;
When Time Runs Out

New Orleans

Newsweek

New York, New York
(movie)

New York City: shooting the
Superman
movies in

New York Giants (baseball team)

New York
magazine

New York Times

New York World

Nicholson, Jack

Niven, David

Niven, David, Jr.

Nixon, Richard

Nizer, Louis

No Country for Old Men
(movie)

Nolte, Nick

North by Northwest
(movie)

Nothing in Common
(movie)

Novak, Kim

No Way Out
(movie)

Nye, Carrie

 

Oberon, Merle

O'Brien, Edmond

O'Brien, Joan

O'Connor, Donald

Offence, The
(movie)

O'Halloran, Jack

O'Hara, Maureen

Oliver Twist
(movie)

Olivier, Laurence

Olmedo, Alex

Omen, The
(movie)

One-Eyed Jacks
(movie)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(movie)

opera

Oppenheimer, Jerry and Gail

Orbach, Jerry

Oriental Hotel (Bangkok)

Out of Africa
(movie)

Ovitz, Mike; Creative Artists Agency and;
Ladyhawke; Legal Eagles
; Tom Mankiewicz's move to Universal and

 

Pakula, Alan

Palance, Holly

Paley, Bill

Paris

Parker, Dorothy

Parker, Sue

Parks, Bert

Parsons, Louella

Parton, Dolly

Passage to India, A
(movie)

Pasternak, Joe

Paths of Glory
(movie)

Patton, Gen. George

Paul, Alexandra

Peace Corps

Pean, The
(school yearbook)

Pearl
(television miniseries)

Peck, Gregory

Penn, Leo

Penn, Sean

Penny (dog)

“People” (song)

Peppard, Christian

Peppard, George

Perkins, Anthony

Perrine, Valerie

Persuaders, The
(television series)

Peter Island

Petey (dog)

Pfeiffer, Michelle

Philadelphia Story, The
(movie)

Phillips Exeter Academy

Picker, David

Pierce, Fred

Pierson, Frank

Pinky
(movie)

Places in the Heart
(movie)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles
(movie)

Please
(script)

Pleasence, Donald

Pleshette, Suzanne

Plimpton, George, Jr.

Plummer, Christopher

Poitier, Sidney

poker

Pollack, Sydney

Polygram

Ponti, Carlo

Poseidon Adventure, The
(movie)

Poston, Tom

Powers, Debbie

Powers, Stefanie: Columbia studios and;
Hart to Hart
television series; William Holden on; and Pope John Paul; in Kenya; Tom Mankiewicz and

Preminger, Otto

prep school

Pressure Point
(movie)

Previn, André

Price, Frank

Price, Vincent

production companies

Profiles in Courage
(Kennedy)

Promises, Promises
(Broadway musical)

Provine, Dorothy

Pryor, Richard

psychoanalysts

Pulp Fiction
(movie)

Puzo, Mario

 

Quantum of Solace
(movie)

Quiet American, The
(movie)

 

race issues:
Live and Let Die
and

racism: film industry and; in Louisiana

Rafelson, Bob

Raffin, Deborah

Raging Bull
(movie)

Rainbow
(script)

Ransohoff, Martin

Rapf, Harry

Rasche, David

Rasputin

Rat Race, The
(movie)

Redford, Robert

Redgrave, Vanessa

red scare

Reeve, Christopher: Sean Connery's advice to;
Monsignor
; paralysis; the
Superman
movies

Reeve, Dana

Reiner, Carl

Reitman, Ivan

Remick, Lee

Reno Silver Sox (baseball team)

Reservoir Dogs
(movie)

Reynal, Elizabeth

Reynal, Eugene

Reynolds, Burt

Reynolds, Debbie

Richards, Dick

Rickles, Don

Rigg, Diana

Ritchie, Michael

Riviera Hotel

Roar of the Greasepaint—and the Smell of the Crowd, The
(Broadway musical)

Robards, Jason, Jr.

Roberts, Julia

Roberts, Tanya

Robertson, Cliff

Robin and Marian
(movie)

Robinson, Edward G.

Robinson, Frank

Robinson, Sugar Ray

Rocket, Charlie

Rodgers, Richard

Rogers, Roy

Roman Holiday
(movie)

Rome

Roquebrune, Micheline

Rosemary's Baby
(movie)

Rosenberg, Stuart

Ross, Diana

Ross, Steve

Roth, Ron

Routh, Brandon

Rowling, J. K.

Roy Rogers Museum

Rubenstein, Arthur

Runaway Boy
(teleplay)

Russell, Kurt

 

Sager, Carole Bayer

Saint, The
(television series)

Salinger, J. D.

Salkind, Alexander

Salkind, Bertha

Salkind, Ilya

Saltzman, Harry:
Diamonds Are Forever; Live and Let Die; The Man with the Golden Gun
; other films of; rights to the Bond movies and; sells control of the Bond films to Broccoli

Saltzman, Jackie

Samms, Emma

Samuels, Lesser

Sands Hotel

Santa Anita racetrack

Sardi, Vincent

Sargent, Joe

Sartosha
(schooner)

Saturday Night Live
(television show)

Saturn Award

Savalas, Telly

Schaefer Ambulance Company

Schaffner, Franklin

Schickel, Richard

Schlatter, George

Schlesinger, John

Schoonmaker, Thelma

Schubert Theater

Schuler, Lauren

Schwartz, Bernie.
See
Curtis, Tony

Schwartzman, Jack

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Scorsese, Martin

Scotland

Scott, George C.

Screen Directors Guild

script supervisors

Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The
(movie)

Sedgwick, Edie

See How They Run
(D. Mankiewicz)

Segal, George

Segal, Marion

Seitz, Maj. Gen. J. F. R.

Seitz, Raymond G. H.

Selleck, Tom

Selznick, David O.

Semel, Terry

Seymour, Jane

Shapiro, Bob

Shaw, Robert

Shaw, Run Run

Shaw Studios

Sheedy, Ally

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
(movie)

Sheinberg, Sid

Sheldon, Sidney

Ship of Fools
(movie)

Shiva, Gil and Susan

Shriver, Sergeant

Shuler, Lauren

Simmons, Bob

Simmons, Jean

Simpson, Freddy

Simpson, O. J.

Sinatra, Frank: birthday gift to Nancy; Jacqueline Bisset and; on Sammy Davis Jr.; Ava Gardner and; on Judy Garland;
Guys and Dolls
; Howard Hughes and; Tom Mankiewicz and;
Movin' with Nancy
; Jill St. John and

Sinatra, Nancy

Singer, Bryan

Singin' in the Rain
(movie)

Skin Tight
(script)

Skippy
(movie)