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The Richard Burton Diaries

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by Richard Burton


  Time (magazine), (i)

  Tinker, Grant, (i)

  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (TV adaptation), (i)

  Tito, Josip Broz: RB plays in film, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); Liza chooses as historical character for school, (i); RB meets, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); appearance, (i); gives cigar-holder to ET, (i); releases German prisoners, (i); accommodation, (i), (ii), (iii); unveils Sutjeska memorial, (i); at Tjentiste ceremony, (i); RB gives Alsatian puppy to, (i); disorder expected following death, (i); popularity, (i); charm, (i); RB's accent for, (i); supposed aristocratic paternity, (i); and Princess Elizabeth (‘Elisheba’), (i)

  Tiziani, Evan Roberts, (i), (ii)

  ‘To Play Churchill is to Hate Him’ (RB; article), (i)n72

  Tobruk (film), (i)

  Today show (USA), (i)

  Todd, Liza (ET's daughter): horseriding, (i), (ii); accompanies RB to studio, (i); stays with RB and ET, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); swimming, (i); homework, (i); Eddie Fisher sues ET for custody of, (i); in Gstaad, (i), (ii), (iii); schooling, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); buys present for Maria (stewardess), (i); calls RB ‘daddy’, (i), (ii); attends Besancon's funeral, (i); RB takes to New York, (i); writes to RB, (i), (ii), (iii); RB writes to, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); RB's fondness for, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); performs at school, (i); fondness for mother, (i); appearance, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); RB's concern over intelligence, (i); eleventh birthday, (i); smoking, (i); growing up, (i), (ii); troubles, (i); watches RB's films, (i); attempts to reconcile RB and ET, (i); untidiness, (i); promised horse, (i); character, (i), (ii); treatment of RB, (i); and ET's tiger, (i); with RB in Mexico, (i), (ii), (iii); adolescence, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); school report, (i); comforts ET, (i); sends late birthday present to RB, (i); RB disowns, (i); reading, (i); returns to England from Yugoslavia, (i); ET writes to, (i); injures head in fall from horse, (i), (ii); RB's sex talk with, (i); RB offers to set up on farm with horses, (i); in Rome, (i); returns to school from Rome, (i); chooses Tito as historical character, (i); poor handwriting, (i); religious indifference, (i); at ET's 40th birthday, (i); in London, (i); visits RB in Switzerland, (i); birthday (1975), (i); height, (i); leaves for Leningrad, (i); with RB in Pusey, (i); inheritance from RB, (i)

  Todd, Mike, (i), (ii)

  Todd, Mike, Jr: produces TV film on father, (i); visits RB, (i); wife's death, (i)

  Todd, Sarah Jane, (i)

  Tolo, Marie Lou, (i)

  Tom Jones (film), (i)

  Tonight (BBC TV programme), (i)

  Toronto, (i)

  Tourneur, Yves le, (i)

  Toynbee, Arnold: A Study of History, (i), (ii)

  Toynbee, Philip, (i)

  Tracy, Spencer, (i)

  Trench, Mrs (headmistress), (i), (ii)

  Tristan and Isolt (film), (i)

  Troques, Dr, (i)

  Trotsky, Leon, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Truetta, Professor, (i)

  Truman, Harry S.: Memoirs, (i)

  Tuchman, Barbara: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, (i)

  Tucker, Brooke, (i)

  Tucker, Forrest, (i)

  Turner, Lana, (i), (ii)

  Turner, Mrs, (i)

  Twain, Mark, (i)

  Twentieth Century-Fox: employs RB, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); RB and ET's disputes with, (i)

  Tynan, Kenneth, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Umberto D (film), (i)

  Under Milk Wood (film), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Under the Volcano (film), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  United States of America: RB travels in, (i); presidential election (1968), (i); Civil Rights Bill, (i); crossword puzzles, (i); RB considers living in, (i); RB's disenchantment with, (i)

  Universal Pictures, (i), (ii)

  Unruh, Jesse, (i)

  Upfield, Arthur, (i)

  Ure, Mary, (i)

  Ustinov, (Sir) Peter: in Switzerland, (i); in Dahomey, (i); imitations, (i); rotundity, (i); and Hammersmith is Out, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Utrillo, Maurice, (i)

  Vadim, Roger, (i)

  Valachi, Joe, (i)

  Valentine, James, (i)

  Valéry, Paul, (i)

  Van Cleef and Arpel (company), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Van de Water, Frederick F.: Glory-Hunter, (i)

  Van Dyk, Vanessa (Vivienne's daughter), (i), (ii)

  Van Dyk, Vivienne (Susan Burton's twin sister), (i), (ii)

  Van Dyke, Dick, (i)

  Van Gogh, Vincent, (i)

  Van Zuylen, Gabrielle, (i)

  Vandal, M. (lawyer), (i)

  Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford, (i)

  Venice, (i)

  Verga, Giovanni: La Lupa (play), (i)

  Vessna (Yugoslav interpreter), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Vickery, Walter, (i)

  Victor, Collette, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Victor, Paul-Emile, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Victoria Falls, (i)

  Vidal, Gore, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Vietnam, (i)

  Vignale, Raymond: ET orders RB not to shout at, (i); in Palm Springs, (i); finds lost diaries, (i); criticises new cook, (i); in Yugoslavia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); RB attacks, (i); ageing, (i); bores RB, (i); unpaid, (i); and ET's flight to see injured Liza, (i); and Jeffrey Archer's wish to see RB, (i); surgery for sciatica, (i); takes children dancing in Céligny, (i)

  Villain (film), (i)n196, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Villefranche, (i)

  Vincent, Roy, (i)

  V.I.P.s, The (film), (i), (ii)

  Visconti, Luchino, (i)

  Vitti, Monica, (i)

  Vlaminck, Maurice de, (i)

  Vogue (magazine), (i), (ii)

  Voight, Jon, (i), (ii)

  Voldeng, Karl E. and Mary Frances, (i), (ii)

  Voyage, The (film), (i)

  Vuillard, Edouard, (i)

  Wagner (film), (i)

  Wain, John, (i)

  Wales: rugby team, (i); see also South Wales

  Walker, Alexander, (i)

  Walker, Kathryn, (i), (ii)

  Walker, Zena, (i)

  Waller, Gordon, (i)

  Wallis, Hal B., (i), (ii)

  Walsh, Dr J. J., (i)

  Walter (publicity man), (i)

  Walter, Stanley T. J., (i)

  Walters, D., (i)

  War of the Worlds, The: RB narrates, (i)

  Ward, James (‘Skip’), (i)

  Ward, Sir John Guthrie and Daphne Norah, Lady, (i)

  Warhol, Andy, (i)

  Warmbrodt, Sam, (i)

  Warner Brothers film corporation, (i)

  Warner, Francis, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Warner, Jack L., (i), (ii)

  Warner, John: marries ET, (i)

  Warner, Sylvia Townsend, (i)n19

  Wasserman, Lew, (i), (ii)

  Waterfront (film), (i)

  Waterloo (film), (i)

  Waters, Mira L., (i)

  Watson, James D.: The Double Helix, (i)

  Waugh, Don, (i)

  Waugh, Evelyn: RB admires writing, (i); on Anthony Powell, (i); Black Mischief, (i); Vile Bodies, (i)

  Wayne, John, (i)

  Webb, Alan, (i), (ii)

  Webb, Sidney (Baron Passfield), (i)

  Webling, Peggy: The Story of Virginia Perfect, (i)

  Weibel, Berenice, (i), (ii)

  Weibel, René, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Weiller, Commandant Paul-Louis, (i)

  Weiss, Peter: Marat-Sade, (i)

  Weissburger, Arnold, (i)

  Welch, Raquel, (i)n17, (ii), (iii)

  Welles, Orson, (i), (ii)

  Wellington, Wyndham, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Wendy (nurse), (i), (ii)

  Werner, Oskar, (i), (ii)

  West, Morris: Shoes of the Fisherman, (i)

  West, Nathaniel: Miss Lonelyhearts, (i)

  Where Eagles Dare (film), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Wherle, Colin, (i), (ii
), (iii), (iv), (v)

  White, Edward Higgins, (i)n83, (ii)

  White, Nat and Louise, (i)

  White, Terence Hanbury, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); The Once and Future King, (i)

  White, Theodore Harold: The Making of the President 1968, (i)

  Whitehead, Paxton, (i), (ii)

  ‘Who Cares about Wales? I Care’ (RB; article), (i)n37

  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film): RB and ET in, (i); RB reads, (i); ET reads, (i); filming, (i); reception, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); nominated for Oscars, (i), (ii); Mike Nichols directs, (i); success, (i)

  Wichert, Willi and Chantal, (i)n28

  Wicker, Tom, (i)

  Wigmoller, Jorgen, (i)

  The Wild Ones (pop group), (i)

  Wilde, Cornel, (i)

  Wilde, Oscar, (i)

  Wilder, Billy, (i)

  Wilding, Beth (née Clutter, Michael Jr's wife): marriage, (i); birth of daughter, (i); and Michael's untrustworthy behaviour, (i); visits Rome, (i)

  Wilding, Christopher (ET's son): horseriding, (i); RB gives compass key-ring to, (i); RB takes to cinema, (i); accompanies RB to work, (i); appears in Taming of the Shrew, (i); writes to RB, (i); holidays from school, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); popularity, (i); girl friends, (i), (ii); attends Millfield school, (i), (ii); in London, (i); on valuing beautiful days, (i); RB writes to, (i); grows, (i); travels to Geneva with RB, (i); retains American accent, (i); withdrawn from Millfield, (i); in Puerto Vallarta, (i); RB's fondness for, (i); character and manner, (i), (ii); visits RB, (i); at ET's 40th birthday, (i); RB phones for Mark Getty's number, (i); Tennessee Williams makes pass at as boy, (i); inheritance from RB, (i)

  Wilding, Henry (Michael's father), (i)

  Wilding, Leyla (Michael-Beth's daughter), (i)

  Wilding, Michael, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Wilding, Michael, Jr (ET's son): horseriding, (i); RB gives compass key-ring to, (i); RB takes to cinema, (i); accompanies RB to work, (i); in Rome, (i); appears in Taming of the Shrew, (i); RB writes to, (i), (ii); holidays from school, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); RB meets in Rome, (i); expelled from school, (i), (ii); dates girl, (i); attends Millfield school, (i), (ii); in London, (i); and Claudye, (i); grows, (i); sick from drinking, (i); travels to Geneva with RB, (i); artistic interests, (i); anglicized, (i); manner, (i), (ii); withdrawn from Millfield, (i); religious views, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); writes from Hawaii, (i); appearance, (i); returns from Hawaii, (i); in Gstaad, (i); behaviour, (i); letter of farewell to RB, (i); RB dreams of being dead, (i); travels in Asia, (i); marriage (to Beth Clutter), (i), (ii); aspires to be pop musician, (i); RB's concern for lifestyle, (i); takes drugs, (i); bohemian life, (i); visits Rome with wife and baby, (i); in Wales, (i)

  Wilding, Naomi (Michael Junior's daughter), (i)

  Williams, Alan, (i), (ii)

  Williams, Arthur Neville, (i)

  Williams, Billy, (i)

  Williams, Brook: writes in RB diary, (i); attends Besancon's funeral, (i); and birth of child, (i); RB attacks, (i), (ii); RB praises, (i), (ii); RB visits in Oxfordshire, (i); career and ambitions, (i); plays badminton with RB, (i), (ii); visits RB in Switzerland, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); RB explains baseball to, (i); and ET's tiger, (i); attends rehearsals for Oscars, (i); invited to post-Oscars ‘Thanksgiving’ dinner, (i); in Mexico and California with RB, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); and Lucille Ball, (i); gives typewriter to RB, (i); on British politics, (i); drinking, (i), (ii), (iii); plays in Raid on Rommel, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); on Clinton Greyn, (i); travels to Chicago, (i); in Yugoslavia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); ET attacks, (i); RB's disenchantment with, (i); reports accident to Liza, (i); in Rome, (i); and father's selling South Moreton cottage, (i); and RB's filming Jackpot, (i); drives MG sports car, (i); on RB's audience with Duvalier, (i); in New York, (i), (ii)

  Williams, Dai Morgan (‘Dai Mogs’), (i)

  Williams (William), David, (i)

  Williams, Elizabeth (Brook's wife; ‘Liz'; ‘Lillabetta’), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)

  Williams, Elmo, (i)

  Williams, Emlyn: speaks at RB's memorial service, (i); RB auditions with, (i); sends scripts to RB, (i), (ii); meets RB in Switzerland, (i); RB's view of, (i); RB meets, (i); prospective honour, (i), (ii); ageing and nervous collapse, (i), (ii); revue numbers, (i); influence on RB, (i); RB offers to buy Oxfordshire cottage, (i); RB acts for, (i); The Druid's Rest, (i)

  Williams, Freddie, (i), (ii)

  Williams, Gerwyn (‘Gin'; ‘Ginger’), (i), (ii)

  Williams, Hugh, (i)

  Williams, I., (i)

  Williams, Jack, (i)

  Williams, Jake, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Williams, Ken, (i)

  Williams, Molly (née Shan), (i), (ii)

  Williams, Stan, (i)

  Williams, Tennessee, (i), (ii)

  Wilson, Alice (‘Gwladys’), (i), (ii)

  Wilson, Edmund: RB criticises, (i); Europe Without Baedeker, (i); Memoirs of Hecate County, (i)

  Wilson, Harold (later Baron), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Wilson, Otis, (i)

  Wilson, Robert (Bob): in Rome, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); predicts outcome of Ali-Cooper fight, (i); drinking with RB, (i), (ii), (iii); RB's rudeness to, (i); accompanies RB home, (i); limited helpfulness, (i); at Cap Ferrat, (i); in Sardinia, (i), (ii); gives birthday present to RB, (i), (ii); in London with RB, (i); uses ET's Rolls Royce, (i); RB attacks, (i); wedding, (i); entertains Geneviève Bujold, (i); in San Felipe with RB, (i); RB's view of, (i); and Romany Bain, (i); awareness of prejudice, (i); in New York, (i), (ii); legacy from RB, (i)

  Wilson, Sally, (i), (ii), (iii); death, (i)

  Windsor, (i)

  Windsor, Edward, Duke of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Winnipeg, Canada, (i)

  Wishart, James, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Wodehouse, P. G., (i), (ii); Do Butlers Burgle Banks?, (i)

  Wolf, Nero, (i)

  Wolfe, Thomas, (i)

  Woman with No Name, The (film), (i)

  Wood, Natalie, (i)

  Woodstock, Oxfordshire, (i)

  Woolf, Virginia, (i)

  Woollcott, Alexander, (i)

  Wooller, Wilfred, (i)

  Wordsworth, Wiulliam, (i)

  Worsthorne, (Sir) Peregrine, (i), (ii)

  Wynberg, Henry, (i), (ii), (iii)

  X, Y and Zee (film), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

  Yeats, William Butler, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Yesenin, Sergei, (i)

  York, Michael, (i)

  York, Susannah, (i), (ii)n7, (iii), (iv)

  Young Bess (film), (i)

  Young, Gig, (i)

  Young, Howard, (i)

  Young, Nicholas, (i), (ii)

  Young, Terence, (i), (ii)

  Yugoslavia: RB in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); purge (1968), (i); character of people, (i), (ii); political unrest, (i); RB's affection for, (i)

  Z (film), (i)

  Zabljak, Yugoslavia, (i)

  Zanuck, Darryl Francis, (i), (ii)

  Zanuck, Richard, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Zapata, Emiliano, (i)

  Zec, Donald, (i)

  Zeffirelli, Franco: directs The Taming of the Shrew, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); RB lunches with, (i); Irene Sharaff dislikes and quarrels with, (i), (ii); RB's view on, (i), (ii), (iii); sends memo to RB on showing rushes, (i); McWhorter writes to, (i); produces Barber's Antony and Cleopatra at Metropolitan Opera, New York, (i); calls on RB and ET, (i), (ii); on Fellini, (i); awarded Mask of Silver, (i); on Florence floods, (i); documentary on Florence, (i); shows Taming of the Shrew at Cannes, (i); Cotti admires, (i)

  Zola, Emile, (i)

  Zuylen, Baron Thierry de, (i)

  INDEX

  NOTE:
The intitials RB signify Richard Burton; ET signifies Elizabeth Taylor

  Aaron, Hank, (i)

  Aaron, Tommy, (i)

  Abakarov (proposed film), (i)n56

  Abel, Elie: The Missile Crisis, (i)

  Abercorn, Dukes of, (i)

  Aberfan: disaster (1966), (i), (ii)

  Abraham, William (‘Mabon’), (i)

  Absolution (film), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Academy Award: RB nominated for, (i)

  Acheson, Dean, (i)

  Ackerley, Joe Randolph: My Dog Tulip, (i)

  Advice to a Married Man (filmed as A Guide for the Married Man), (i)

  Agate, James, (i)

  Agnew, Spiro, (i)

  Alain, Pierre, (i)

  Albee, Edward, (i), (ii)

  Alberty, Karl-Otto, (i)n180, (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Alcott, Joe, (i)

  Alderson, Christian (Richard Alderson), (i)

  Aldredge, Theoni, (i), (ii)

  Aldrin, Edwin (‘Buzz’), (i)

  Alex (nurse), (i)

  Alexander, A.V. (later Earl), (i)

  Alexander the Great (film), (i), (ii)

  Alexandre de Paris (Louis Alexandre de Raimon), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Alfie (film), (i)

  Ali, Muhammad (earlier Cassius Clay), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Alice in Wonderland (stage adaptation), (i)

  Allbritton, Louise, (i)

  Allende, Salvador, (i)

  Allers, Franz, (i)

  Allott, Kenneth, (i)

  Alsop, Stewart: The Center, (i)

  Amalia (cook's wife), (i)

  Amis, (Sir) Kingsley: The Green Man, (i)

  Amundsen, Roald, (i), (ii)

  Anderson, John B., (i)

  Anderson, Lindsay, (i)

  Andre (Bernard Greenford's partner), (i)

  Andress, Ursula, (i)

  Andrews, Harry, (i), (ii)

  Andrews, Julie, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Andri , Ivo: Bridge over the Drina, (i), (ii)

  Ann-Margret (Ann-Margret Olsson), (i), (ii)

  Anne, Princess, (i)

  Anne of the Thousand Days (film): McWhorter discusses with Wallis, (i); RB's relations with Bujold in, (i), (ii); Universal threaten to sue RB over, (i), (ii); RB fitted for costumes, (i), (ii); filming, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); reception, (i), (ii); wins Oscar nomination, (i); see also Bujold, Geneviève

  Anne-Marie, Queen of Greece, (i)

  Anouilh, Jean: Legend of Lovers, (i); Time Remembered, (i)

  Anzio, Italy, (i), (ii)

  Archer, Jeffrey (later Baron), (i)

  Archerd, Army, (i)

 

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