Exhibitions and shows: group show at Billy Al Bengston’s studio (1970) xix, 88, 104, 107–8, 109; Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles (1974) xix-xx, 361, 362, 407, 408–9, 416, 434, 445, 447, 449, 453, 456, 460–61, 467; (1977) 545, 547, 548, 549–50, 550–51, 551–2; Irving Blum’s gallery, Los Angeles (1970) 3, 7, 14, 16, 18, 23, 47, 64, 69, 81, 87, 123; joint show with Ed Ruscha at Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco (1970) 118, 121, 123, 125; joint show at San Pedro Art Gallery (1971) 153, 157; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park (1973) 293, 345, 358, 359, 361–3, 364, 366, 374–5, 376–8, 380, 411, 427; (1979) 609; New York Cultural Center (1974) 375, 397, 412, 414, 416, 419, 421, 426, 430; Dootson-Calderhead Gallery, Seattle (1975) 487; Texas Gallery, Houston (1979) 545, 609; Redlands (1979) 608; Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles (1980) 621, 626, 629, 630; Robert Miller Gallery, New York (1980) 646, 649–51, 652–3, 665; Pierce College, Woodland Hills (1981) 669; West Beach Café (1981) 673; group show at Newport Beach art museum (1981) 674–5
Publications: Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood xxix, 688; see also “Frankenstein: The True Story”; October
Relationship with C.I.: C.I.’s love for viii–ix, xv, xx, xxxv, xl, 26, 90, 166–7, 287, 353, 363, 446, 556, 557, 565, 663–4, 680, 682, 687; C.I.’s happiness with ix, xx, xxxv, 2, 78, 91, 97, 110, 115, 163, 217, 263–4, 287, 293, 294, 314, 375, 378, 381, 428, 455, 463, 472, 474, 489, 556, 568, 569, 626, 643, 667, 688; physical and sexual aspects ix, xix, xxi, 412, 671, 680, 681; parallels of relationship in their screenplay of “Frankenstein” xvii–xviii; secret animal identities xx–xxi, 201, 276, 693, 722, 754; jealousies and conflicts xxi, xxxiii, 40, 60, 106–7, 247–8, 249, 474, 483, 600, 601, 608, 609–610, 663–4, 675; mutual identification with one another xxi–xxii, 90, 128, 245, 269, 463, 474, 484, 563; C.I. misses while apart 28, 35, 39, 41, 64, 201, 202, 397, 419, 603, 604; eighteenth anniversary of meeting 142, 143; C.I.’s notebook on relationship 156, 157, 166; C.I.’s pride in 162, 375, 380, 421, 485, 650, 660, 669; twentieth anniversary of meeting 341, 451; relationship not viewed as a marriage 411; twenty-second anniversary of meeting 472; their first meeting 544, 592, 615; twenty-seventh anniversary of meeting 626
Bachardy, Glade (Don’s mother): birthdays 144, 496; sends C.I. Valentine’s card 144; visits C.I. and Don 147; C.I. visits and socializes with 153, 273, 490, 499, 504, 587; and Don’s new car 198; suffers attack during Christmas dinner 218; trip to Europe 266, 273, 279; Don buys chihuahua for 352; Don visits for Christmas 411; mental and physical deterioration 555, 557, 587, 662, 687; death of husband 557, 558, 559; providing care for in widowhood 559, 569, 585, 662, 687; 696
Bachardy, Jess (Don’s father): helps with repairs and renovations 122, 147; C.I. visits and socializes with 153, 273, 490, 499, 504; and Don’s cars 198, 267, 273, 557; at Christmas dinner 218; trip to Europe 266, 273, 279; Don visits for Christmas 411; at Glade’s birthday 496; cancer 548, 551, 555; death 557; clearing apartment and settling estate 557, 559; 696
Bachardy, Ted (Don’s brother): mental breakdowns 214, 364, 451, 584, 585, 687; at family gatherings 218, 496, 499, 504; at the movies and theater with C.I. and Don 490, 492, 497, 504; drives C.I. and Don to airport 508; and father’s illness 548, 555; death of father 557, 558; and care of mother 559, 569, 585; relations with Don 637; on deaths of movie stars 659; 696–7
Bacon, Francis 319, 323–4, 510, 513, 552, 697
Bad Company (film) 311
Baddeley, Hermione 18, 19, 697
Baeressen, Beverly 279, 506
Baggage (ballet) 75–6
Bailey, Jeffrey (Jeff) 273, 496, 697
Bailey, Paul 531, 607, 697
Balanchine, George 169n, 247n, 697–8
Balcon, Jill 515n
Baldwin, Bob 644
Baldwin, Stanley 330
Ball, William (Bill) 91
Balogh, Endre 234
Balzac, Honoré de 402
Bangladesh 155n, 698
Barada 526, 698
Bard, Mr. (Chelsea Hotel manager) 423–4
Barley, Hank 161
Barnett, Jimmy (Sat; Swami Buddhananda) 228, 373, 445, 518, 698
Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery 293, 345, 358, 374–5, 376–7, 497, 609
Barrault, Jean-Louis 78
Barrie, Jay Michael: nurses Gerald Heard through final illness 84, 142, 159, 163, 183; and Peggy Kiskadden 142; and death of Stravinsky 163; and Heard’s death 188–90, 199; trip to Trabuco with C.I. 189, 190–92; stays with Clare Boothe Luce in Honolulu 189, 191, 195; and Christopher Wood 191, 511; and Jack Jones 192; refuses proposed Advocate obituary of Heard 194; and Margaret Gage 198; moralism 248; on Prabhavananda at Trabuco 248; book on Heard 283–4; offers to pay Larry Miller’s medical expenses 469; house in Santa Monica Canyon 614; 698
Barrie, J.M. 12
Bataille, Georges 59
Bates, Alan 585
Baumes, Bud 480
Baxter, Anne 138–9, 181, 274, 519, 594, 698–9
Baxter, Keith 557, 568, 572, 583, 584, 608n, 699
BBC: “Late Night Extra” 7; film on Forster 87, 89; film on George Eliot 163; proposed radio play of C.I.’s A Single Man 176; “Hooray for Hollywood” (“Arena: Cinema” segment) 409, 410–411; Paul Bailey interview of C.I. 531
Beardsley, Aubrey 275
Beaton, Cecil 46–7, 74, 511, 699; The Happy Years 173
Beatty, Warren 491, 496
Beaumont, Hugh “Binkie” 46
“Beautiful and Damned, The” (C.I and Don Bachardy; draft television screenplay) 471, 477, 478, 479–80, 481
Beckett, Samuel: Not I 319, 320; Krapp’s Last Tape 320–21
Bedford, Brian 126, 171, 545, 699
Beesley, Alec 40, 42, 46, 197, 213, 228, 302, 325, 511, 680–81, 699–700
Beesley, Dodie Smith: C.I. socializes with in England 28, 40, 42–3, 325, 511; Christian Science beliefs 41, 48; appearance and character 42–3, 325; comments on C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 46, 70–71; and Keith Vaughan 52; and C.I.’s journals 197; views on C.I.’s Kathleen and Frank 213; correspondence with C.I. 228, 680–81; Don Bachardy’s third choice to spend Christmas with 302; autobiography 441; C.I. speculates on reaction to Conan Doyle 588; 699–700
Between You and Me 46; A Tale of Two Families viii, 39, 40–41, 42
Behrendt, Olive 386
Behrman, S.N. 388, 700; People in a Diary 251–2, 388–90
Belcher, Muriel 513
Bell, Arthur 221
Bell, Larry xix, 80, 107, 282–3, 700
Bell, Quentin, Virginia Woolf 358
Bell, Vanessa x, 21
Belur Math, West Bengal, India: headquarters of Ramakrishna Math and Mission xxvi, 109, 124, 155, 363, 418, 464, 482, 486; Vivekananda centenary celebrations xxvii, xxxiii; numbers of monks 137
Bender, Jack 230
Benglis, Lynda 494
Bengston, Billy Al: arranges group show including Don Bachardy xix, 88, 104, 107–8, 109; friendship and socializing with C.I. and Bachardy 84, 112, 135, 182, 188, 204, 216, 233, 240, 243, 302, 381, 385, 427, 476, 490, 494, 497, 500, 502, 505, 519, 520, 533, 558, 559–60, 577, 598–9, 607, 608, 620, 676; motorcycle racing 84, 112; art works 109, 153, 243, 577; Bachardy shows new work to 113, 142–3, 204; trips to Mexico 143, 536, 538; and Bachardy’s Municipal Art Gallery show 361–2, 363, 376; relations with Irving Blum 361–2; on “Frankenstein” television film 406; and Bachardy’s New York Cultural Center show 419; recommends doctor 479; Corcoran Gallery show 505; birthdays 544, 569; running 559–60, 562, 599; trips to Hawaii 577, 580, 676; views on Bachardy’s work 580; warns of effects of Butazolidin 590; 700–701
Bennett, Arnold 613
Bennett, Jill 508, 511, 543
Benson, Robby 492
Bente, Dan 517
Berg, Norman (roofer) 122, 124
Berg, Robert 547
Berger, B. (father of autograph hunter) 299
Bergeron, Douglas 494
Bergman, Ingmar: Autumn Sonata 591; Face to Face 520; The Magic Flute 492; The Touch 194
Bergman, Ingrid 335, 471, 585, 591, 701; The Constant Wife 471, 474; Don Bachardy draws 474; The Bells of St. Mary’s 564
Berkeley, California 353; Vedanta Center 179, 486n
Berkeley, University of California at 392, 399, 645
Berlant, Anthony (Tony) xix, 107, 701
Berlin, Germany: C.I.’s life in (1930s) xxiv–xxv, 398, 400, 408, 409, 437, 446, 447, 522, 668; stage production of Cabaret 467
Berlin of Sally Bowles, The (C.I.; omnibus edition of novels) 465
Bernard, James (Jimmy) 327, 511
Bernheim, Alain 334
Bernheimer, Martin 386
Bernolak, Mark 658
Bernstein, Leonard 134
Bertrand, Marcheline (Voight) 215, 311, 360, 701
Berwick, Keith 570, 571n
Berwick-upon-Tweed, England 512
Best Years of Our Lives, The (film) 201
Bhadrananda, Swami see Worton, Len Bhaghavad Gita: C.I. and Prabhavananda’s translation 64; C.I.’s recording of readings from 541–2, 598, 602, 607
Bhaktiprana (earlier Gwendolen Thomas) 420
Bhaskarananda, Swami 518
Bhavyananda, Swami 9, 77, 327, 701–2
Bhuma see Johnson, Clifford Bijou (sex film) 303–4
Birtwell, Celia see Clark, Celia Black, Seymour 495
Black, Steve 268
Black Sparrow Press (publishers) 624
Blackpool, England 163–164
Blair Atholl, Scotland 512
Blakemore, Michael 51n
Blanch, Lesley 5, 702
Bleasdale, John (decorator) 124, 127, 131
Blenheim Palace, England 512, 532
Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (film) 265
Bloom, Claire 172
Blue Bird, The (George Cukor film) 449
Blum, Irving: dealer for Don Bachardy xix, xx, 3, 16, 23, 87–8, 108, 122, 123, 157, 177, 204, 358, 359, 361–2, 363, 366, 375, 377, 409; C.I. and Bachardy socialize with 13, 80–81, 218, 359; and Leonard Stanley 113n; house and art collection 193; relations with Billy Al Bengston 361–2; 702
Blum, Jason 193
Blum, Shirley 16, 80, 193, 218, 359, 702
Bobo, Wallace 373, 702
Bockris, Victor 597
Boeing 747 (“jumbo jet”) 174, 312, 314
Bogarde, Dirk 40
Bogdanovich, Peter 260, 274, 533, 534, 702
Bok, Derek 131–2, 135–6, 261
Böll, Heinrich 170
Boman, Eric 209–210, 291, 320, 329, 335, 343, 510, 511, 515
Bond, Edward 67
Boorman, Christel 494, 496, 506, 507, 526
Boorman, John: at Jon Voight’s wedding 215; and possible film version of C.I.’s A Single Man 215; and “Frankenstein” television film 220–21, 222, 227, 228, 231, 233, 242, 247, 256, 260, 291; C.I. socializes with 494, 496, 506, 507, 527; and Dr. Elsie Giorgi 527; 702–3
Deliverance 222n, 260, 311; Zardoz 227n, 415
Booth, Shirley 258
Bopp, Bill 244, 493, 579, 703
Borges, Jorge Luis 596–7
Borrow, George, The Bible in Spain 556
Bosetti, Giulio 267
Boswell, James 632
Bosworth, Patricia, Montgomery Clift: A Biography 568
Boucher, René 377, 378
Boutique Fantasque, La (ballet) 57, 58
Bowen Jones, Rosemary 409, 410–411
Bowen, Karl 19–20, 29, 703
Bower, Tony 243, 703
Bowie, Angie 496
Bowie, David 496, 567, 703–4; The Elephant Man 648
Bowles, Paul 170, 517, 565, 704
Boy Meets Boy (musical) 501
Boys in the Sand, The (sex film) 303
Boyt, Alexander “Ali” 513n
Brackett, Charles 365, 400n, 704
Brackett, Muff 364–5, 400n, 598, 704
Bradbury, Ray 290, 442–3, 704; I Sing the Body Electric! 157
Bradford, England 513
Bradley, Dan 13, 14–15, 331, 332, 332–4, 513, 610, 616, 704
Bradley, Evelyn (Dan’s wife) 13, 15, 53, 55, 331–2, 333–4, 513, 610, 611, 616, 704
Bradley, Ronald (Dan and Evelyn’s son) 610
Bradley, Susan (Dan and Evelyn’s daughter) 332, 610
Bradley, Tom 363
Bradshaw, Judge John (17th-century ancestor of C.I.) 116
Brahmananda, Swami (Maharaj): and C.I.’s meditation 101, 105–6, 107; and Prabhavananda 110, 127, 148, 166, 200, 203, 219–20, 222, 237, 250, 261, 280, 281, 282, 345, 346, 353, 355, 363, 365–6, 397, 413, 418, 436, 439, 440, 452; puja 133, 134, 151, 494, 561; and Ramakrishna 219, 222, 355; visions 222; The Eternal Companion: Brahmananda, His Life and Teachings (Prabhavananda) 251, 413n, 532; and Mokshada 349, 352; and Holy Mother (Sarada Devi) 452; 705
Brainard, Joe 168, 302, 705
Brambell, Wilfrid 13
Brandeis Medal 471, 474
Brando, Marlon 214, 350, 508, 705
Brandon, Michael 176
Brandt, Stuart 496, 501, 705–6
Brautigan, Richard: The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster 148; Trout Fishing in America 141, 148;
Bravo, Angie (cleaner) 352–3
Brazil 351
Brecht, Bertolt 29
Brendel, Alfred 379
Brett, Jeremy 595–6
Brevard, Lee 500, 507, 706
Brewer, John 514
Brewster, Truman 103
Bridges, James (Jimmy, Jim): friendship and socializing with C.I. 1, 81, 130, 193, 240–41, 252, 262, 263, 276–7, 296–7, 309, 343, 385, 407, 494, 498, 506, 533, 534, 575, 601, 638; and Jim Gates 45; and proposed Writers Guild strike 86; relationship with Jack Larson 95, 226, 296–7, 308; suspected appendicitis 95; at goodbye dinner for Peter Schlesinger 103; on homosexuals’ use of women’s names 126; and proposed stage productions of A Meeting by the River 126, 206, 238, 281; treatment for “Frankenstein” television film 130; in New York 150, 378; Don Bachardy’s drawing of Warhol loaned to 157; and Gavin Lambert 187, 232–3; possible director of “Frankenstein” television film 206, 211, 233; skiing 241; attends Joe Chaikin’s directing classes 252; at Tom Hayden’s lectures on Indochina 261, 275, 277; Christmas with family in Arkansas 297; and Writers Guild Strike 346, 347; and possible film version of A Meeting by the River 378, 384, 391, 394, 395, 400, 405, 414–15, 419, 422–3, 424–5, 430–31; swollen lymph glands 400; recommends Open Theater Company productions 406; Salka Viertel visits 409, 414, 415, 416; upset by John Voight’s comments on homosexuals 410; three-picture deal with Warner Brothers 414–15; joins Peter Viertel in Spain 444; and Proposition 6 campaign 576–7; and Mark Bernolak 658; 706
The Babymaker 1–2, 16, 139; A Meeting by the River (stage production) 226, 227, 228, 229–30, 232–3, 238, 298, 307; The Paper Chase 259, 281, 308, 313, 346, 355, 378, 385, 391, 395, 405, 575; September 30, 1955 506; A Streetcar Named Desire (stage production) 259–60, 312, 343, 346, 347, 348, 349; White Hunter, Black Heart 415, 422, 430–31, 444
Bridges, Jeff 518
Bridges, Jim, Urban Cowboy 628, 638
Briggs, John (California State Senator), Proposition 6 569–70, 575, 576–7, 586, 587, 599, 600
Bringing Up Baby (film) 533
Brisson, Frederick 581, 600, 706
British Museum, London 328–329, 510
Britten, Benjamin 54, 487, 511–512, 706–707; Paul Bunyan 512
Brodie, Ian 617
Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights 13, 104–5, 513n
Brook, Peter 252; King Lear 215–16
Brookes, Jacqueline 293, 298, 306, 707
Brooks, Louise 536, 538, 588, 641
Brosman, Dr. 680
Brown, Andreas 169
Brown, Andrew 511, 514, 515, 707
Brown, Bill: Don Bachardy visits in Montecito 97, 99, 256; C.I. and Bachardy visit in Montecito 117, 211, 270, 271; and C.I.’s Kathleen and Frank 197; friendship and socializing with C.I. 247, 424; plans to move 247, 271; house in New Hampshire 271, 293, 300; paintings 424; moves to San Francisco 430, 4
37; C.I. and Bachardy stay with in San Francisco 666–7; 707
Brown, Dan (“Dan Curzon”) 467
Brown, Frederick, An Impersonation of Angels 7
Brown, Gregory 10, 29, 57, 511, 515
Brown, Harry 90–91, 180, 499, 502, 560, 562, 598, 666, 707
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