Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1

by Christopher Isherwood

  Kiskadden, William Sherrill (Bill): meetings and relations with Peggy, 237–8, 264, 273; war service, 273; marriage to Peggy, 300–1, 304, 306, 310–11, 322, 374–5, 834; friendship and meetings with C.I., 315, 368, 391, 392, 485, 490; treats C.I. for hemorrhoids, 344, 348; and C.I.’s fortieth birthday, 360; operates at Good Samaritan Hospital, 393; on effect of hormone pills, 469; round-the-world trip, 485; quarrels with Peggy, 678; ill-health, 733

  Kiskadden, William Sherrill, Jr. (Bull; little Bill; son of Peggy and William), 427, 429–30, 485–6, 678, 834

  Kismet (film), 493, 514, 535, 607

  Kiss Them for Me (film), 699

  Kitay, Michael, 688–9, 715, 716, 772

  Kitchen, Dick, 250

  Kittredge, Bob, 427–8

  Kittredge, Mary, 427–8

  Klopfer, Bruno, 669

  Knopf, Alfred, 525–6

  Knopf, Edwin H. (Eddie): C.I. meets, 52–3; loses hand, 52; on Samuel Goldwyn, 53–4, 84; on Britain in war, 84; relations with C.I., 84; produces Crossroads, 151; C.I. works with, 465, 467, 469, 477, 482, 492, 498, 502, 510, 515, 531–2; on Marisa Pavan, 478; protests at film censorship, 478; absence from studio, 480; favors Armendariz, 487; C.I. dines with, 490, 494, 505, 513, 525–6, 611; reproves C.I., 499; and Charlie Lederer, 500; on George Gershwin’s illness, 506; nightmares, 507; in good health, 508; makes film in France, 614–15

  Knopf, Mildred, 494, 515, 611

  Koehler, Wolfgang, 176

  Kohner, Paul, 881

  Kolisch, Dr.: treats C.I., 71–3, 78, 91–3, 96, 114–15, 116, 118, 121, 295, 410; examines Guttchen, 91; conducts Swami’s class, 122; attends Amiya, 150; Amiya attacks, 302, 322; returns to Ivar Avenue, 322; syphilis obsession, 322–3; tells story, 334; attends Johnny Latham, 338–9; on religious life and sickness, 351; Idyllwild ranch, 363; at Ananda Bhavan, 364; treats Sister Lalita, 378

  Kondo, Ichituro: Tosushai Sharaku (Worked 1794–1795), 886n

  Koniaris, Angela, 751

  Koniaris, George, 743, 751

  Korbett, Tanya, 198, 200, 208, 218

  Korean War (1950–3), xxvi, 423–6, 457

  Kortner, Peter, 497, 832

  Kraus, Hertha, 195, 210, 224

  Krishna see Fitts, George

  Krishna (Hindu deity), 30

  Krishnamurti, Jiddu: at Huxleys’ party, 49–50; Aldous Huxley on, 114; lecturing, 345; Prabhavananda on, 349; Gottfried Reinhardt and, 361; visits Ananda Bhavan, 373; Iris Tree on, 549

  Kropotkin, Prince Peter, 189

  Kubrick, Stanley, 792–3

  Kulberg, John, 709

  kundaluni, 30

  Kunkel, Fritz, 113

  Laclos, Choderlos de: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 716

  Ladera Lane see Ananda Bhavan

  Laguna Beach: Chris Wood’s home in, 232, 234, 238, 240–3, 250, 261, 275, 281

  Laird, David and Helen, 878

  Lamarr, Hedy, 425

  Lambert, Gavin: C.I. works with, xlv; works on TV script for Gingold, 713, 715, 719–20, 721n, 722–4, 727, 731; at C.I. party, 740; hurt in fire, 740; entertains C.I. and Don Bachardy, 770; cinema going with C.I., 775; takes mescaline, 775; collaborates on The Vacant Room, 788, 820, 832, 847; works on Sons and Lovers, 798; and “Emily Ermingarde” (TV series), 799n; praises “Mr. Lancaster” (C.I.), 810; at Carousel with C.I., 816; praises “Afterwards” (C.I.), 822; and Frank Taylor, 826; friendship and meetings with C.I., 828, 844, 852, 858; begins novel, 848, 850; Don Bachardy draws, 848n; reads “Ambrose” (C.I.), 849; character and appearance, 852, 868, 879; at Ivan Moffat’s, 860; Tony Richardson on, 879; Slide Area, 708

  Lamkin, Marguerite (later Brown; then Harrity): marriage to Harry Brown, 450, 480, 484, 494; and Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 477, 479–80, 485; marriage difficulties, 484, 494, 498–501, 505–6, 511, 513, 521; and Don Bachardy, 490; at Hollywood party, 497; absence in Louisiana, 500–1; relations with brother Speed, 511; divorce from Brown, 514, 520, 524, 526, 528, 601; criticizes Tony Duquette, 515; C.I.’s irritation with, 528, 782, 858; Don Bachardy upset by, 599–600; at Bracketts’, 600; and Kazan, 602; trips to New York, 615, 618, 652, 671; C.I. criticizes, 616, 778; neglects C.I., 628; writes to C.I., 629; and Montgomery Clift, 647–9, 727; stays at C.I.’s during round-world trip, 726, 728; boyfriend falls for Speed Lamkin, 739–40; C.I. quarrels with, 741; gives birthday party for Don Bachardy, 752; portraits by Don Bachardy, 752, 848; Don Bachardy visits in Monroe, Louisiana, 757; father’s attempted suicide, 758–9; reconciliation with Speed, 776; works on The Sound and the Fury, 776; and John Foster, 777; Russian boyfriend, 778–9; visits C.I., 781; marriage to Harrity, 798, 830–1, 860, 863–4, 880; advises Don Bachardy, 833; C.I. dines with, 836; dislikes Hope Lange, 881

  Lamkin, Speed: on C.I.’s World in the Evening, xxxiv, 538; visits Marion Davies, 431–2, 490; plans for C.I., 436; C.I. considers living with, 439; on screaming, 440; and sister Marguerite, 450, 511; C.I. first meets, 459; gives teddy bear to C.I., 482; ignores Don Bachardy, 484; helps Don Bachardy find job with Tony Duquette, 488; on C.I.’s influence on Don Bachardy, 493; at Harry Brown’s birthday party, 494, 505n; lunches with C.I., 497; and Marguerite’s difficulties with Harry Brown, 499; carries dance record, 505n; on Caskey’s trip to Italy, 506; pessismism, 507; and Millard, 514, 518, 646, 705; self-control, 514; criticizes Tony Duquette, 515; decorates home, 518; John Goodwin dislikes, 520; and Caskey’s Inez Johnson painting, 522; Harry Brown threatens, 524; on Caskey’s work as miner, 525; on Harry Brown’s hospitalization, 525; C.I.’s irritation with, 528; film work, 531, 621; friendship and meetings with C.I., 536, 604, 623, 625, 633, 650, 670, 692, 675–6; and C.I.’s return from Europe, 598; criticizes Joan Elan, 599; and Marguerite’s marriage breakdown, 601; character, 616, 633, 680, 686; gives advice C.I., 621; behavior, 623; appearance, 631; and Perle Mesta, 632, 685–6; on Rod Owens, 635; and Jim Charlton, 645, 650; sees The Ten Commandments, 665; compensatory feelings, 669; Beaton dislikes, 725; Marguerite’s boyfriend falls for, 739–40; reconciliation with Marguerite, 776; and Caskey, 781; calls Don Bachardy a praying mantis, 812; Comes a Day (play), 705; Out by the Country Club (play), 599, 664

  Lancaster, Burt, 498–9, 561

  Lanchester, Elsa (Mrs. Charles Laughton): C.I. hopes to write TV play for, 725, 738; in Bell, Book and Candle, 783; C.I. visits, 786, 809, 829; relations with Laughton, 811–12, 827, 851, 899; offends Don Bachardy, 827; visits C.I., 837; and Hal Greene house, 863–4; on Laughton and Terry Jenkins, 887; anxieties, 892; TV show, 897

  Land of the Pharaohs (film), 509

  Lane, Homer, 48, 106

  Lane, Lola, 510

  Lange, David, 879–80

  Lange, Hope (Mrs. Don Murray): C.I.’s friendship with, 724, 726, 752, 795, 878–9, 901; qualities, 732, 879; baby, 795–6; trial separation, 848; and George Stevens, Jr., 873; and Ivan Moffat, 878; and Glenn Ford, 880; Marguerite Lamkin hates, 881

  Langford, Sam, 391, 403

  Langley, Noel, 89–90

  Lansbury, George, 15

  Lansing, Gerrit, 448, 628

  LaPan, Dick, 307, 332, 640

  Larmore, Alexandra (née Brackett; Xan), 521, 794

  Larmore, James, 494, 521, 600, 794

  Larson, Jack, 705, 759, 790, 853

  Laser, Marvin, 849, 851

  Lasky, Jesse, 503

  Last Hunt, The (film), 527

  Last of Mr. Norris, The (C.I.) see Mr. Norris Changes Trains

  Latham, Hugh, 244–5

  Latham, Johnny, 338–41

  Lathwood, Jo see Masselink, Jo

  Laubach, Frank Charles, 160

  Laughlin, Jay, 479

  Laughton, Charles: and Plato/Socrates project, xlviii, 847–9, 858, 863, 865, 869, 871–2, 876–7, 880, 885, 887–92; C.I. visits, 809–12; studies and plays King Lear, 810, 812, 822, 824; relations with Elsa Lanchester, 811, 851, 899; visits C.I., 837; considers Billy Wilder film, 851; gall-bladder trouble, 857; negotiates for Hal Greene house, 857, 863–5, 873, 892; proposes production of School for Scandal, 858, 861, 863; rudeness
to Don Bachardy, 877, 879n; and Terry Jenkins, 885–8, 892, 898; praises Don Bachardy”s drawing, 886; in “Wagon Train” (TV program), 889–90, 891–2; operation, 897–8

  Laughton, Elsa see Lanchester, Elsa

  Laurencin, Marie, 824

  Laurents, Arthur, 531, 801

  Lautner, Mrs. John, 744

  Laval, Jay de see de Laval, Jay

  La Verne Seminar (1941), 161–80

  Law, Doc, 47, 802

  Lawrence, D. H.: on sex, 60–1; Brett on, 113–14; Sudhira discovers, 309; at Taos, 429–30; C.I. quotes, 525; on Riviera, 558; on sex in the head, 685; academics on, 820; Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 109–11; The Lost Girl, 637–8, 640; introduction to Memoirs of the Foreign Legion, 846; The Plumed Serpent, 94; St. Mawr, 14, 429

  Lawrence, Frieda, 43, 94–5, 238, 429–30

  Lawrence, Gertrude, 339, 613, 625

  Lawrence, Jerome (Jerry): C.I. visits, 724n, 742, 840, 853, 881, 885; visits C.I., 742; projected TV series, 847–8; drunken friend, 871; and Geraldine Brent, 899; The Diamond Orchid, 900; The Gang’s All Here, 900

  Lawrence, T. E.: The Mint, 483

  Layard, John, xiv

  le Boutilliere, Teddy, 197–8, 202–3, 206, 217, 225, 228

  le Boutilliere, Una, 198, 202–3

  Ledebur, Count Friedrich, 425, 552

  Ledebur, Henrietta, 450, 489, 518, 744

  Lederer, Charles (“Boon”), 500

  Lee, Auriol, 112, 683, 700

  Lee, Dick, 840, 897

  Le Gon, Jeanne, 629

  Le Havre, 393, 394, 400

  Lehmann, Beatrix, 92

  Lehmann, John: requests short pieces for New Writing, xxix; on C.I.’s pacifism, 7; in C.I. dream, 175; C.I. sees on visits to England, 385, 391–3, 403, 549, 564–5, 568, 823; C.I. writes for, 415, 464, 614–15; C.I. criticizes, 565–7; reports Peter Watson’s death, 616–17; fails to write to C.I., 623; Jewishness, 649; Huxley on, 797; C.I. sends “Afterwards” to, 831; praises “Mr. Lancaster” (C.I.), 831; (ed.) The Craft of Letters in England, 702–3; I Am My Brother, 833; The Whispering Gallery, 538

  Lehmann, Rosamond, 385, 747–9, 797

  Leichter, Otto, 199–200, 221–2

  Leigh, Vivien, 882–3, 899

  LeMaire, Charles, 832–3

  Lengyel, Menyhért Melchior, 109

  Leonardson, Dan, 76–7, 301, 377

  Leontovich, Eugenie, 623, 874

  Leopold III, King of the Belgians, 98

  Leopold, Michael: relations with C.I., 388, 394, 420n, 446–7, 453; at Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opening, 479

  Lerch, Louise, 219

  Let’s Make Love (film), 898

  Levant, Oscar, 488, 746, 749, 758, 768–9, 795–6, 831, 884

  Levy, Mr. and Mrs. (Haverford refugees), 216, 226–8

  Lewis, Clive Staples, 870

  Lewis, Glen, 390

  Lewis, Hayden, 390, 406, 451–2, 506, 613, 674, 679, 703, 812

  Lewis, Dr. Jack: confirms C.I.’s tumor, 680–1; gives injections to C.I. and Don Bachardy, 718, 721; and C.I.’s driving accident, 791; examines C.I., 804–5; treats C.I.’s internal disorder, 806, 825–6; believes C.I. hypochondriac, 830; and C.I.’s loving voice, 842; and Don Bachardy’s Dexamyl, 860; and C.I.’s back trouble, 870, 872, 884

  Lewis, Rosa, 585

  Lewton, Val, 88

  Lichtenberg, Bill de see de Lichtenberg, William

  Lichtenstein, Dr., 680, 684, 687, 715

  Lichtman (of MGM), 76

  Light, Mr. (C.I.’s neighbor), 512, 514, 519

  Lillie, Beatrice, 722, 725

  Lin Yutang, 287

  Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 139

  Lindfors, Viveca, 623, 629

  Lindley, Denver, 165, 169, 172–3, 177, 208

  Linscott, Bob, 458

  Lions and Shadows (C.I.), viiin, xxix–xxx, xlvii, 5, 197, 385, 525n, 53on, 590, 630n, 668

  Lipman, Bill, 130

  Lippman, Mr. (Haverford refugee), 210, 215

  Lipton, Maurice, 761

  Lisbon, 539

  List, Herbert, 541, 545–6, 560–2

  Litebaum, Don, 628

  Little, George, 166

  Liu, T. Y., 117

  Llano, California, 237–8, 289, 333

  Lloyd, Pat, 167

  Locke, Charles O., 689, 693–4, 699, 706; The Hell-Bent Kid, 689, 724

  Locke, Virginia, 693, 706

  Lodge, Carter: C.I. meets, 48–9; relations with van Druten, 111–12, 339, 568, 645, 659–60, 662, 666, 683, 685, 688, 700, 715, 731, 733, 854; offers ranch job to C.I., 279; at AJC Ranch, 492–3; business interests, 522; relations with C.I., 628, 754, 852; and van Druten’s death, 733; on Dodie Smith’s new play, 774; wealth, 781; Don Bachardy hates, 785; gives electric typewriter to C.I., 820; on Tahiti, 829, 853; and Foote, 853–4; loneliness, 854; gives Biphetamine to C.I., 882

  Loew, Arthur, Jr., 490

  Logan, Joshua, 611–12, 617, 621, 628, 634, 664, 686, 741–2

  Logan, Mrs. Joshua, 612

  Lom, Herbert, 556

  Lombard, Carole, 147

  London: bombed in war, 120, 337; C.I. travels to with Caskey, 387, 393, 403; C.I. visits: (1951), 442n; with Don Bachardy (1956), 564–9, 578–95; with Don Bachardy (1959), 823; see also England

  London, Jack: “To Light a Fire,” 249

  Long Hot Summer, The (film), 741

  Loos, Anita, 49–50, 58, 92, 110–11, 436

  Lope de Vega see Vega Carpio, Lope Felix

  Lord, Bart, 718, 749, 760, 845

  Los Alamos, 431

  Los Angeles: C.I. first visits, 20; driving in, 231; see also Hollywood

  Los Angeles State College (L.A. State): C.I. teaches at, xlvi, xlviii, 805, 808, 827, 830, 832, 838, 841, 845, 849; exhibition of C.I.’s work, xlviii, 846; holds reception for C.I., xlviii, 858; symposium, 854–5

  Los Angeles Times, The, 279, 423

  Los Prietos camp, California, 231, 245, 250

  Lost, The (C.I.) see Down There on a Visit

  Lowell, Robert (“Cal”), 690

  Löwenstein, Prince Hubertus zu, 55

  Lubbock (Connolly), Lys, 391

  Lubitsch, Nicola, 836

  Luce, Clare Boothe, 550

  Luce, Henry, 188

  Lucretia Borgia (film), 485, 487

  Lucy Crown (film), 649

  Luft, Sid, 495

  Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 43, 430–1

  Lyndon, Andrew, 392

  Lynes, George Platt, 11, 504, 596

  Lynn, Diana, 883

  Lyons, Edward, 525

  M. see Isherwood, Kathleen Bradshaw (C.I.’s mother); and Gupta, Mahendranath

  MacArthur, General Douglas, 423–4, 432

  Macaulay, (Dame) Rose, 405

  MacCarthy, Desmond, 403

  MacClellan, Phil, 204

  McClendon, Carlos, 672

  McCullagh, Mr., 141

  McCullagh, Mrs. (Joe Valentine’s landlady), 140–1

  McCullers, Carson, 479–80; The Member of the Wedding, 639

  MacDonald, Jeanette, 106, 742

  MacDonald, Madge, 613, 621, 818

  Mace, John, 466

  MacFadden, David, 700

  McGrath, Earl, 454

  MacGregor, Bob, 462

  McGuire, Dorothy, 492, 498

  MacIntyre, Jane, 465

  MacKenna, Kenneth, 152, 534, 657, 682, 799

  McKenna, Siobhan, 596

  Macklem, Francesca (Jill), 834, 842, 849, 854, 856, 859, 869, 897

  Macklem, Les, 856, 897

  McLane, Father, 490

  McLaren-Ross, J., 467n

  Maclean, Donald, 580, 584

  MacLeod, Josephine (Tantine), 807

  MacNeice, Louis, 391

  McNutt, Paul V., 264

  McPartland, John: No Down Payment, 655

  MacRea, Ted, 166, 171, 176

  Macy, Gert, 441

  Mad Dog of Europe, The (film), xv

  Madame Curie (film), 45

  Madhabi, 293, 302, 304, 306, 309–10, 314, 332, 339, 343, 357, 364


  Magnani, Anna, 490, 662

  Magnus, Maurice, 846n

  Maharaj see Brahmananda, Swami

  Maharshi, Bhagavan Ramana, 631–2

  Maiden, Naomi, 206

  Mailer, Norman: The Deer Park, 538

  Maloney, Jim, 526, 530

  Mangeot, Olive, 7, 62, 384, 392

  Mangeot, Sylvain, 880

  Manitzas, George, 816

  Mann family, 114, 409

  Mann, Erika: welcomes C.I. to New York, 8; hate lectures on Germany, 55; opposes German refugee organization, 66; C.I. lunches with, 99, 108; on war and pacifism, 99–100; mocks German song at party, 409

  Mann, Gottfried (Golo), 100

  Mann, Heinrich, 100

  Mann, Katja (Thomas’s wife), 100

  Mann, Klaus: C.I. writes article on, xxv, 394, 415, 417, 419, 437; welcomes C.I. to New York, 8; and outbreak of war, 46; opposes German refugee organization, 66; C.I. lunches with, 99, 108; suicide, 415n

  Mann, Michael, 516

  Mann, Thomas, 100, 108, 114; death, 520

  Mannheimer, Al, 130, 132

  Mansfield, Jayne, 690

  Mansfield, Katherine, x, 435, 558, 621, 639

  Manulis, Martin, 877

  Marais, Jean, 563