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TW’s post-HUAC loyalty to, 253
on TW’s psychoanalysis, 378
on TW’s relationship with Pancho, 143
Wild River
screenplay of, 390, 410
womanizing by, 243–44
Kazan, George, 242
Kazan, Molly,
see
Thacher, Molly Day
Kazan, Nick, 262
Keathley, George, 327,
327
, 399, 509, 510–11, 680
n
Kelly, Grace, 312
Kennedy, John F., assassination of, 471
Kennedy Center Honors, 554, 567, 568–69
Kerr, Deborah, 440, 466
Kerr, Walter, 273, 311, 392, 440, 442, 482, 560
TW’s letters to, 274–75, 554, 703
n
–4
n
Key West, Fla.:
homophobia in, 222, 223, 534
TW in, 116–17, 188–90, 214, 233, 277–78, 283–84, 315, 457, 473, 491, 496–97, 507–8, 540–41
TW’s house in, 188–90,
189
, 223, 324, 419, 450, 457
TW’s sale of house in, 580–82
Walter Dakin in, 42, 116–17, 188–89, 283–84, 414
Williams family visits to, 219, 223
Khan, Masud, 287, 670
n
–71
n
Kiely, Robert, 579
Kiernan, Kip (Bernard Dubowsky), 89–94,
91
, 413, 569
as prototype of TW male heroes, 94
TW’s relationship with, 90–92, 635
n
, 636
n
Kilgallen, Dorothy, 222
Kilroy (char.), 254, 256, 264, 269, 271
Kingdom of Earth
(Williams),
see
Seven Descents of Myrtle, The
(Williams)
Kinsey, Alfred, 223
Kluz, Mark, 525
Knight, Shirley, 597
Korda, Michael, 545, 713
n
Korean War, 219, 233
Kosmonopolis, Princess (char.), 375–76, 385, 389–90
as surrogate for TW, 380–81, 390–91
Kowalski, Stanley (char.), 94, 95, 118–19, 122, 229
Brando on, 137, 138
Kazan on, 146, 942
n
Pancho as model for, 143
TW on, 122–23
Kowalski, Stella (char.), 99, 118–20, 122, 229
Kramer, Hazel, 78, 632
n
Krause, Frank, 351
Kretzmer, Herbert, 549
Kroll, Jack, 492
Kronenberger, Louis, 273
Kubie, Lawrence S.,
347
, 680
n
professional career of, 347–48
on
Suddenly Last Summer
, 370–71
TW psychoanalyzed by, 346–47, 348–49, 350–56, 372–73, 375, 377, 395, 402, 684
n
Kunes, Steven, 579–80
Kushner, Tony, 369, 476
“Lady and Tennessee, The” (Lahr), xv
Lady in the Dark
(musical), 23, 348
Lady Torrance (char.), 331–36
La MaMa, 477
Landesman, Rocco, 597
Langner, Lawrence, 26, 27–28, 126, 623
n
Lanier, Sidney, 461, 473, 589
Lasky, Floria, 520
La Touche, John, 167, 275
Laughlin, James, 82, 170, 502
and Leverich’s biography of TW, 599–600
on
Rose Tattoo
, 203
St. Just and, 298–99, 300–301, 514
TW’s correspondence with, 9–10, 27, 49, 70, 71, 105–6, 145, 154–55, 210, 211, 272, 278, 299, 300–301, 442, 492, 631
n
and TW’s death, 583
TW’s encomium to, 582
Laura (char.),
see
Wingfield, Laura (char.)
Laurence, Paula, 157, 362, 363, 431, 474–75, 594
Lawford, Pat Kennedy, 564, 566
Lawrence, D. H., 1, 29
Lawrence, Gertrude, 23, 186
Leavitt, Richard, 346, 462
Lee, Gypsy Rose, 22, 275
Lee, Ming Cho, 480
Lee, Robert, 450
Legion of Decency, 229–32, 320
Leigh, Vivien, 199,
228
, 249
Leighton, Margaret, 475, 480–81, 514
in
Night of the Iguana
, 425, 426, 427, 428, 433, 436
Lenya, Lotte, 275
Lerner, Max, 686
n
LeRoy, Joseph, 491, 704
n
“Let It All Hang Out” (Williams), 51
Letter to His Father
(Kafka), 151
Leverich, Lyle, xiii, 56, 359
as TW’s personally authorized biographer, xiv–xv, 598–600, 601
Levy, Dr., 503, 504, 506
Lewis, Robert, 199
Liebling, William, 1,
3
, 112, 125, 135, 253, 310, 311, 400, 582, 639
n
, 677
n
death of, 516–17
Liebling-Wood agency, 2
Life
, 476, 492
Life, A
(Kazan), 317, 390, 410
“Life Story” (Williams), 568
Little Foxes, The
(Hellman), 468
Living Theatre, 476
Lobdell, David, 519, 534
TW’s letters to, 485, 506–7, 625
n
Logan, Josh, 156, 348, 372
London Evening Standard
, 591
Longacre Theatre, 494–95
Look Back in Anger
(Osborne), 467
Loomis, David, 497
Losey, Joseph, 448, 485
Loss of a Tear Drop Diamond, The
(Williams), 372
“Love and the Rind of Time” (McCullers), 107, 639
n
Ludlam, Charles, 476
Lumet, Sidney, 340–41,
340
Luther
(Osborne), 467
Lyndon, Andrew, 507
Lyon, Sue, 466
MacGregor, Robert, 420, 455, 491, 493–94, 503
Machiz, Herbert, 441, 454–55, 489, 492
MacLeish, Archibald, 241, 394
Madden, Donald, 509, 511
Maggie (char.),
see
Pollitt, Maggie
Magnani, Anna, 174, 325, 417
on Brando, 678
n
Brando on, 339, 340–41
in
Fugitive Kind
, 339–41,
339
Orpheus Descending
and, 336–37, 339
Rose Tattoo
and, 202–3, 291, 315, 317,
317
, 337
TW’s relationship with, 202–3, 315, 336–37, 376
Mailer, Norman, 527
Malden, Karl, 249, 318,
318
“Malediction, The” (Williams), 633
n
Mamet, David, 715
n
Man for All Seasons, A
(Bolt), 440
Mangiacavallo, Alvaro (char.), 94, 182–83, 200, 204, 205–8,
206
Merlo as model for, 190–91, 209, 233
“Man in the Overstuffed Chair, The” (Williams), 253–54, 344–45
Mankiewicz, Joseph, 290, 424
Mann, Danny, 199
Rose Tattoo
and, 211
Mann, Eric, 525
Manners, Hartley, 3
Man on a Tightrope
(film), 254, 259
Mansfield, Katherine, 29
Man Who Bit the Sun, The
(Nicklaus), 454
“Many Writers, Few Plays” (Miller), 665
n
Mao Zedong, 219
March, Fredric, 275
Mark (char.), 486–90
TW on, 489
Martin Beck Theatre (New York), 336, 386, 392
Massie, Jordan, 110, 111, 293, 297, 672
n
Matilda (char.), 75, 77
Maxine Faulk (char.), 414, 425, 439–40
Maxtone-Graham, John, 426, 427, 428–29, 433, 435
Maxwell, Gilbert, 346, 399, 401, 449, 462, 680
n
, 687
n
May, Elaine, 441
McCann, Elizabeth, 596
McCarthy, Joseph, 222
McCarthyism, 665
n
McClintic, Guthrie, 68–69, 110, 114, 211
McCorkle, Bella (char.), 573, 575–78
McCorkle, Charlie (char.), 575–77
McCorkle, Cornelius (char.), 573–75, 577
McCullers, Carson,
108
, 325, 537, 639
n
death of, 483
on
Glass Menagerie
, 62
TW’s friendship with, 106–10, 315, 703
n
TW’s letters to, 153, 169, 174, 190, 263
on TW’s relationship with Pancho, 110
McGee, Leoncia, 233, 456–57, 491, 580–82
Meacham, Anne,
486
, 492–93
Medina, Kate, 545–46, 592
Mellaril, 501
Member of the Wedding, The
(McCullers; novel), 106
Member of the Wedding, The
(McCullers; play), 108, 190, 342
Memoirs
(Williams), 54–55, 79, 92, 93, 102–3, 112–13, 140, 141, 163, 212, 241, 273, 284, 365, 401, 418–19, 452, 454, 457, 459, 461, 495, 512, 533, 535, 545–46, 592, 598–99, 632
n
, 635
n
, 653
n
, 687
n
–88
n
Memorial Hospital, 456, 457, 460, 461–62
Merlo, Frank,
168
,
189
, 234, 273, 336–37,
464
, 699
n
as autodidact, 165, 166
on Bankhead, 324
Bigelow on, 169
as B-movie actor, 167, 169
Chance as surrogate for, 380–81
death of, 456, 461–63, 466, 472, 503
drinking by, 328, 404–5
Evans on, 169
funerals of, 463–65
Gionataiso’s letters from, 165–67
illnesses of, 325, 418, 429, 452
jealousy of, 246, 326–27
lung cancer of, 455, 456–59, 460–61
Milk Train
as portrait of, 448–49
as model for Alvaro, 190–91, 209, 233
poetry of, 404, 405
St. Just and, 299
TW’s eulogy for, 463–65
TW’s final breakup with, 417–21, 428, 429, 431, 452–53
TW’s guilt toward, 458, 465, 544
TW’s letters to, 240, 374–75, 417–18
TW’s love for, 403, 420, 460
as TW’s personal secretary, 169, 174, 233, 453
TW’s relationship with, 150, 164, 170–71, 174–76, 180–81, 183–84, 188–89, 201, 208–9, 214, 233, 235, 237, 240, 246–48, 249–50, 280–81, 325–29, 350, 374–75, 380–82, 403–4, 415, 417–21, 428, 429, 431, 450–53, 489, 537
TW’s separations from, 235, 280, 324–25, 350–51, 373, 403
Walter Dakin and, 188–89, 190, 414
Wood and, 452–53
in World War II, 165–66
Merrick, David,
548
Milk Train
and, 467, 472
Red Devil Battery Sign
and, 547, 549–53
Merrill, Gary, 425
Merton, Thomas, 491
“Mes Cahiers Noirs” (Williams), 547
Mexico, TW in, 19, 20–21, 68–69, 94
MGM, 94–95, 312, 321–22, 372
Miami Herald
, 329, 398–99, 491
Mielziner, Jo:
Camino Real
and, 260
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
and, 308
Glass Menagerie
and, 2
Period of Adjustment
and, 406
Streetcar
and, 133, 644
n
Sweet Bird of Youth
and, 379–80
TW’s letters to, 374, 508
Milbert, Seymour, 267, 269–71
Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The
(Williams), 442–49, 595
Baddeley in, 443–44,
445
, 454–55, 468, 662
n
Bankhead revival of, 466–72
Barter Theatre production of, 456, 461
Broadway failure of, 455
as portrait of Merlo, 448–49
reviews of, 455, 472
struggle between creativity and self-destruction in, 443–44
see also
Boom!
(film)
Miller, Arthur, 64, 65, 129, 131, 171, 173, 194, 198, 221, 241, 262–63, 395
on
Glass Menagerie
, 62
on Kazan as director, 244–45
on Kazan’s HUAC testimony, 251–52
on McCarthyism’s effect on arts, 665
n
on sixties’ theater, 476
on
Streetcar
, 146
at TW’s memorial, 589
Miltown, 324, 420
Miriam (char.), 486–90,
486
Mishima, Yukio, 351, 485, 493–94
Missouri, University of, 46
Missouri Baptist Hospital, 360
Mitch (char.), 120, 122
Mitford, Nancy, 561
Moise and the World of Reason
(Williams), 545
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