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Gregory Peck- A Charmed Life

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by Lynn Haney


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  Libraries and Research Centers

  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Los Angeles – Margaret Herrick Library

  American Film Institute – Louis B. Mayer Library

  Brooksville Public Library

  Clinton Public Library

  Distric
t of Columbia Public Library

  Jersey City Public Library

  La Jolla Historical Society

  Library of Congress – Motion Picture Collection

  Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts – Billy Rose Theatre Collection

  Los Angeles Public Library

  Lyndon B. Johnson Library

  Madison Public Library

  Pasadina Public Library

  Philadelphia Free Library Theatre Collection

  University of California, Berkeley – Bancroft Library

  Rochester Public Library

  San Diego Historical Society

  San Diego Public Library

  University of California, Los Angeles Theatre Arts Collection

  University of Southern California – Doheny Library

  Wesleyan University Cinema Library

  Yale University – Sterling Library

  Websites

  www.canoe.ca

  www.bigpond.com

  www.megwood.com

  www.Nevilshute.org

  www.thecolumnists.com/kinneylittlefield

  www.waka.com

  Acknowledgements

  First, I’m grateful to Gregory Peck for being such a bloody marvelous biography subject. The very mention of his name around inbred show business folk caused doors to swing open that would otherwise have remained shut.

  Next, a rousing cheer for the research staffs of theatre and film libraries from coast to coast. It reinforced my conviction that librarians are the smartest people on earth. Special thanks to the specialists at: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Margaret Herrick Library, The American Film Institute, the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Southern California’s Dohney Library, The UCLA Theatre Arts Collection, the New York City Public Library for the Performing Arts Billy Rose Theatre Collection at Lincoln Center and the film archives at the Museum of Modern Art.

  In the approximately 200 interviews for the book, I had the opportunity to meet all kinds of people who knew Gregory Peck. Both the famous and obscure were kind enough to share their reminiscences with me. I am particularly indebted to June Dally Watkins of Australia who confided in me about her whirlwind romance with Greg during 1952 when he was just coming off the filming of Roman Holiday. Similarly, I’d like to say thanks to Tommy Henkkanen who helped me create a vivid portrait of Greg’s first wife Greta, a woman who has been given short shrift in previous accounts of Greg’s life. Also, I’m appreciative of the wry observations of Leslie Epstein, Greg’s neighbor in the Pacific Palisades who had a chance to observe the star out of the spotlight. For relating poignant moments in Greg’s later years, I want to say thank you to Lisa Krohn. I am also indebted to my close friends Donna and Art Wolff who contributed their canny insights about the Hollywood scene as well as supplying me with plenty of out-loud laughs.

  There’s a special group of individuals I’d like to acknowledge. These were friends of Greg’s firstborn son Jonathan who took his own life in 1975. Among those who supplied me with information never before brought to light were: Nancy Stesin, John Bell, Carter Black, Paul Sack, Blair Bolles, Jamie Auchincloss, and Susan and Tom Casey.

  At Robson Books, I had the good fortune to work with Jane Donovan. If Oscars were passed out to editors, she’d be first in line. Her sharp-eyed attention to the text and her posing of critical questions enable me to sort through the chaff and select the wheat. The manuscript also benefited greatly from the scrupulous copyreading of Alison Moss and Sarah Barlow. For first-rate picture research, I am indebted to Louise Daubeny and Aline Morely. And for creating an exquisite book jacket, my thanks go to Richard Mason. Last, but not least, a toast to publisher Jeremy Robson. Now, there’s a charmer.

  The publisher wishes to thank the following for kindly providing the photographs that appear in this book:

  Page 1 (main) courtesy of © John Springer Collection/CORBIS

  Pages 1 (inset), 3 (bottom right), 5 and 13 (top) courtesy of © Bettmann/CORBIS/© CinemaPhoto/CORBIS

  Page 2 (top) courtesy of Getty Images/Hulton Archive

  Page 2 (bottom) courtesy of Rex Features/Crollalanza

  Page 3 (top) courtesy of the Kobal Collection

  Page 3 (bottom left) courtesy of © Tommy Hinkkanen

  Page 4 (top and middle) courtesy of June Dally-Watkins

  Page 4 (bottom) by kind permission of Jeff and Carol Lang

  Page 6–7 (left) courtesy of Selznick/United Artists/The Kobal Collection

  Page 7 (bottom right) courtesy of Selznick/RKO/The Kobal Collection

  Page 8–9 courtesy of Warner Bros/The Kobal Collection

  Page 10 courtesy of Rex Features/SNAP

  Page 11 (top) courtesy of Rex Features/PHA

  Page 11 (bottom) courtesy of United Artists/The Kobal Collection

  Page 12 courtesy of Rex Features/LUC

  Page 13 (bottom) courtesy of Associated Press

  Page 14 (top and bottom) courtesy of Chrysalis Images

  Page 15 courtesy of Rex Features/ADC

  Page 16 courtesy of Paramount/The Kobal Collection

  Front cover photograph courtesy of © CinemaPhoto/CORBIS

  Index

  Abraham Lincoln Brigade

  Academy Awards

  Gentleman’s Agreement

  The Guns of Navarone

  High Noon

  The Keys of the Kingdom

  Moby Dick H

  Roman Holiday

  The Yearling

  To Kill a Mockingbird

  Twelve O’Clock High

  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

  activism Actors Company Actors’

  Studio

  Adler, Stella

  Agar, John

  Agee, James

  Albert, Eddie

  Albert of Monaco, Prince

  Albuquerque, Lita

  Alford, Philip

  Allen, Frederick Lewis

  Allen, Rupert

  Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)

  American Cancer Society

  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

  American Film Institute

  Lifetime Achievement Award

  Amherst, Massachusetts

  Amory, Cleveland

  Ampolsk, Lester

  Anderson, Donna

  Anderson, Judith

  Anna Christie (play 1939)

  Anthony-World anti-Semitism

  Arabesque (1966)

  Arnold, William

  Arthur, Robert

  Allen Arts Council

  Arts and Humanities

  Act Ashe, Catherine

  Ashe, Thomas

  Ashe, Thomas (cousin)

  Astaire, Fred

  Auchincloss, Jamie

  Aumont, Jean Pierre

  Australia

  Automat

  Avery, Sid

  Axelrod, George

  Ayres, Ben

  Ayres, Bernice see Maysuch, Bernice

  Ayres, John Dagget

  Ayres, Kate

  Bacall, Lauren

  Cecilia’s wedding

  death of Bogart

  Designing Woman

  HUAC

  John Huston

  on meeting Peck

  The Portrait

  back injury

  Badham, Mary

  Baker, Carroll

  Baker, Russell

  Baker, Stanley

  Balanchine, George

  Bankhead, Tallulah

  Baresch, Isabelle

  Barnard, Diana

  Barrie, J M

  Barrie, Wendy

  Barrymore, Diana

  Barrymore, Ethel

  Barrymore, John

  Barrymore, Lionel

  Barter Theater, Abington, Virginia

  Bartlett, Sy

  Basehart, Richard

  Baxter, Anne

  Beach, Rex

  Beard, Michael

  Beard, Peter

  Beatty, War
ren

  Beeding, Francis

  Behold A Pale Horse (1964)

  Beilenson, Laurence

  Belafonte, Harry A

  Bell for Adano (play 1944)

  Bell, John

  Bell, Judy

  The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-Ling-a-Ling

  Beloved Infidel (1959)

  Bennett, Joan

  Bennett, Seymour Benny, Jack Bergen, Polly

  Bergman, Ingrid

  Berkeley

  Berlin

  Berlin, Joey

  Bernstein, Elmer

  Bernstein, Henri

  Bernstein, Walter

  Berrigan, Daniel

  Berrigan, Philip

  Bickford, Charles

  Bierce, Ambrose

  The Big Country (1958)

  The Billionaire (later Let’s Make Love)

  Billy Two Hats (1973)

  Binford, Lloyd T

  Birch, Ruth

  Bird, Dorothy

  Bishop, Joey

  Black, Carter

  Blacklist

  Blake, Robert

  The Blue and the Gray (1982)

  Boccalandro, Iginia

  Bogart, Humphrey

  alcohol

  Ava Gardner

  death of

  fights

  HUAC

  Lauren Bacall

  Method

  privacy

  smoking Bogart, Leslie

  Bogart, Stephen Humphrey Bogeaus,

  Benedict

  Bohan, Mark

  Bolles,

  Blair

  Boochester,

  Buck

  Bork, Robert

  Bow, Clara

  Bowden, Dorris

  Bowers, William

  The Boys From Brazil (1978) ,

  Bradbury, Ray

  Brady, James

  Brand, Harry

  Brand, Phoebe

  Brando, Marlon

  The Bravados (1958)

  Brecht, Bertolt

  Breen, Joseph

  Brentwood

  Brentwood Productions

  Bridges, Lloyd

  Broadway

  leaving for Hollywood

  Leland Hayward

  The Morning Star

  move to

  moving to

  The Willow and I

  Bromley, Hunt

  Brookes, Sir Norman

  Brooks, Richard

  Brown, Clarence

  Brown, David

  Brown, James Mason

  Brown, Kay

  Brown, Pat

  Bruce, Nigel

  Brutsman, Joseph

  Bruzzi, Stella

  Buchanan, Johnny

  Buchwald, Ann

  Buchwald, Art

  Buckley, William F

  Bud (pet dog)

  Burns, George

  Burns, Gracie

  Busch, Niven

  Button Button (play 1940)

 

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