Las Meninas (Velázquez), 284, 285
Laura (in Glass Menagerie), 192, 193–94, 196, 197, 198–202, 206, 207
Lauren, Ralph, 296
Laurie, Piper, 323
LeRoy, Warner, 236, 237, 238
Leslie, Bethel, 210, 214
Lessing, Doris, 340, 341
Lewis, Bobby, 144
Lewis, Michael, 236
The Life of Émile Zola (film), 214, 223
Lindfors, Viveca, 251
L’Interdit (fragrance), 292–93
The Little Foxes (play), 81
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 191
Lodge, John, 191
Lodge, Lily, 191–93, 268, 341, 357
Logan, Joshua, 107–8, 152
Lolita (Nabokov), 203
Lollobrigida, Gina, 283
The Lonely Crowd (Riesman), 169
Loren, Sophia, 283
Lothar, Nick, 195
Lou (older man in Reno), 128–29
Lowell, Robert, 195
Luce, Clare Booth, 49
Lukas, J. Anthony (Tony), 140
Lynn, Diana, 349
Lyons, Leonard, 152–53, 224, 230, 286
Lyons, Sylvia, 152
Maas, Peter, 324–25, 326–28
MacArthur, Charles, 202
MacArthur, Mary, 191, 197
MacArthur, Mrs. Douglas, 111
MacLaine, Shirley, 331
Mad Men (TV show), 146, 169
Mailer, Norman, 152, 250, 311, 325, 326
Malden, Karl, 172
“The Man in the Brooks Brothers Suit,” 168
Mapes Hotel and Casino (Reno), 128, 129
Martin Beck Theatre, 351
Mary, Mary (play), 328–32, 335, 349–50, 351, 356–57
Mary Poppins, 10, 11
Massey, Danny, 236–37, 238, 351
Mastroianni, Marcello, 283
The Matchmaker (play), 301
Maxwell’s Plum, 238
McCall’s, 86, 358
McCarthy, Joseph, and McCarthyism, 3, 23, 76, 112, 141, 166
McCarthy, Mary, 168, 169
McCormick, Ken, 343
McCullers, Carson, 205
McLiam, John, 238, 242, 249
McQueen, Steve, 176–80
McRae, Ellen, 209–10
Meeker, Ralph, 108
Mehija, Arthur, 22, 28–29, 30, 33, 346
Meisner, Sandy, 158, 254, 308
The Member of the Wedding (film), 153–54
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (McCarthy), 169
The Men (film), 278
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), 19
Michel (French photographer), 263–64, 266
Miller, Arthur, 144, 156, 157, 166, 188
Monroe, Marilyn, 151, 152, 155–57, 187, 188, 203, 250
Monsieur Beaucaire (film), 223
Monty, Gloria, 255, 256
The Moon is Blue (play), 308
Morgan, Henry, 308
Morse, Robert (Bobby), 146, 350, 351
Morse, Richard (Rick), 146–50, 153
Mother M (nun in San Francisco), 14, 273
Ms. magazine, 297
Muni, Paul, 210–12, 214–15
My Life as a Liberal (Bartley Crum’s memoir), 229
Nabokov, Vladimir, 203
National Lawyer’s Guild, 13
Neal, Patricia, 173
Nelson, Barry, 330, 331
New Amsterdam Roof, 235
Newman, Paul, 108, 151, 152, 175, 182, 204
New York (Herald Tribune Sunday magazine), 356, 357–58
New York Post, 152
New York Star (formerly PM), 23, 24, 112, 324
New York Times, 358
Neylan, John, 347
Nichols, Mike, 158
Night Music (Odet), 180, 181
Nina (in The Seagull), 225–26
Noble, William, 158
nuclear testing in Nevada, 128–29
Nulman, Kal, 347–48
The Nun’s Story (film)
Audrey Hepburn in, 270, 280–82, 286, 291–92, 295, 296
Mildred Dunnock in, 268
Patricia casted in, 263–64
Patricia’s scenes in, 280–81, 291–92, 296
Patricia’s teeth and, 278–80
screenplay, 265, 274
success of, 296
The Nun’s Story (novel by Hulme), 265
Nye, Carrie, 349
Odet, Clifford, 180
Off-Broadway, 308, 312, 323–24
Olson, James, 240
Olson, Nancy, 349
On the Waterfront (film), 172
Ophelia (in Hamlet), 355–56
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 128
An Ordinary Man (play), 312
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 352
Our Town (play), 147, 148–49
Paar, Jack, 151
Pacino, Al, 171
Paddie (folk singer boyfriend), 225
Page, Geraldine, 175–76
Paglia, Camille, 145
Pajama Game (musical), 178, 239, 331
Palm Beach Playhouse, 192, 193, 196–202
Papp, Joe, 195–96, 216, 302, 358
Parsons, Estelle, 171–72
Peck, Gregory, 20, 127–28
Penn, Arthur, 157–59, 160, 161–63, 164–65, 204, 250
Peppard, George, 250, 251–52
Pete (teenage boyfriend), 21
Peter Pan, 10–11
The Philco Television Playhouse, 165
Phillips, Margaret, 265
Phoenix Theatre, 312
Picnic (play), 107–8, 109, 187
A Place in the Sun (film), 26
Planer, Franz, 282, 291
Pleshette, Norman, 341
Plimpton, George, 167, 325–26
Plummer, Christopher, 255
Poitier, Sidney, 310
Poletti, Diamond, Roosevelt, Friedin & Mackay, 25
Pollack, Sydney, 255
Pons, Lily, 287
Powers, John Robert, and Powers Agency, 70–71, 72, 79, 97
Prell shampoo commercial, 143
Preminger, Otto, 338
Provincetown Playhouse Off-Broadway, 312
Pulitzer, Joseph, 96
Quinn, Anthony, 286
Radio City Music Hall, 296
Rado, Sandor, 97, 118–20, 141, 321, 322, 336
Radziwill, Lee, 332
A Raisin in the Sun (play), 310
Randall, Tony, 211
Raushenbush, Esther, 1
Raymond (teenage boyfriend), 31, 33
Red Scare, 112
Reed College, 1, 109, 133, 134, 142, 195
Regina (opera), 81
The Rehearsal (play), 351
Reid, Alastair, 114
The Reivers (film), 179
Remains to Be Seen (play), 308
Reno, Nevada, 123–29
Resika, Paul, 195
Riesman, David, 169
Riggs, Bobby, 326
Ripton, Vermont, 88, 91, 93–96
Robbins, Jerome, 40
Roman Holiday (film), 127–28
Romanoff and Juliet (play), 257
Rome, Italy, 274–75, 283, 286, 296–97
Romeo and Jeannette (play), 323
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 195–96
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 13, 15, 16, 95, 317
Roosevelt and Hopkins (Sherwood), 235–36
Rosemary and the Alligators (play), 323
Roth, Philip, 325
Ruby, Jack, 352
Rule, Janice, 108
Russian Tea Room, 224, 230, 357
Rydell, Mark, 161, 162, 164
Sabrina (film), 270, 293, 294–95
Saks, Gene, 313
Salinger, J. D., 137, 142
Salmi, Albert, 312
Salvator Mundi International Hospital, 270, 271–75
Sands, Tommy, 308
San Francisco, California
Audrey Hepburn and, 293
Bartley as successful lawyer in, 12–13, 112
Bela Kornitzer and, 95
Crum family move to, 14
Curran Theatre in, 18
exiles in New York, 194
Gertrude as celebrated hostess in, 16
Mother M in, 14, 273
Patricia’s writing and, 332–33, 343
San Francisco Call-Bulletin, 13
Sarah Lawrence College
graduation from, 147
meeting with president of, 55–56
news of Bart Jr.’s death at, 1
Patricia’s acting during time at, 140, 143, 147
Patricia’s life at, 39–43, 60, 97, 139–40, 143, 159
Patricia’s modeling during time at, 70, 71, 147
Sardi’s (restaurant), 184, 187, 222, 236, 314, 356
Sarracini, Gerald (Gerry), 240, 241–42, 243–48, 250, 257–61, 263
Saul, Dr., 16–17, 260–61
Scarface (film), 214
Schildkraut, Joseph (Pepi)
Bartley and, 230–31, 232, 233, 234
breakup with, 232–33, 234
as father figure, 225
Gertrude and, 261
Patricia’s career assistance from, 225–26, 227, 228–29, 230–31
Patricia’s introduction to, 223
Patricia’s relationship with, 224–25, 226–28
Schildkraut, Marie, 224, 232–33
Schmidt, Godfrey, 307, 309
Schönberg, Bessie, 1, 40–41, 99
Schulberg, Budd, 172–73
The Seagull (Chekhov), 225, 231, 233
The Search (film), 278
Search for Tomorrow (TV soap opera), 335–36
The Secret Storm (TV soap opera), 255–56
Seldes, Marian, 356
Senate Rackets Committee, 306–8, 309–10, 317
sense-memory exercise, 185–86
Serpico, Frank, 324
Seventeen, 73, 76
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Kinsey), 34, 83
sexuality, women and, 50, 167–68, 337. See also homosexuality
Shakespeare, William, 19, 175, 195–96, 216
Shakespeare in the Park (Joe Papp’s), 216
Shakespeare Workshop (Joe Papp’s), 195–96
Shangri-la (Reno), 123–24
Sharaff, Irene, 235, 236
She Loves Me (musical), 351
Sherwood, Robert, 235–36, 237
Shumlin, Herman, 81, 210, 213, 214, 215
Sick, Sick, Sick (cartoon), 326
Silver Hill, 221–23, 224, 229, 230
Sinatra, Frank, 237–38, 267
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (film), 192
The Sin of Pat Muldoon (play), 238–43, 248–50, 265
Sister Luke (in The Nun’s Story), 265, 280, 282, 291–92, 296
Sister Rose (at Salvator Mundi), 270–71, 273–75
Sister Simone (in The Nun’s Story), 265, 280
Sixty-Eighth Street brownstone, 2, 30, 45, 56, 108, 135, 141, 231
The Skin of Our Teeth (play), 191
Skolsky, Sidney, 156
Small War on Murray Hill (play), 227, 228–29, 230, 235–38
Smith, Clark, 21
Smith, Paul, 194
Smith, Rib, 167, 168–70, 234
Solowinksi, Ray, 70–71
Song of the Lark (Cather), 16
Sophocles, 191–92
Splendor in the Grass (film), 301
Squire, Katherine, 160–61, 162, 240, 241
Stanish, Rudy, 345
Stanislavski, Konstantin, 175
Stanislavski Method, 175, 254
Stanley, Kim, 108, 162, 187–188, 310
Sterling, Jan, 236, 237
Steuer, Clark, 28–31, 135, 205, 346
Stevens, Roger, 328, 356
Stevenson, Adlai, 112
Stix, John, 145–46, 147, 310–11
Stockbridge, Massachusetts (boarding school in), 36, 45, 67, 109, 134
Storch, Arthur, 180
Straight, Beatrice, 265
Strasberg, Lee
Actors Studio ruled by, 145, 171, 174–77, 187–88, 240
Meisner as archrival of, 254–55
Method of, 175, 250, 254
Patricia’s introduction to, 154–57
Patricia’s learning from, 181, 186–87, 251–54, 308, 357, 360
Strasberg, Susan, 156, 188–89, 223, 226, 357
A Streetcar Named Desire (play), 144–45, 203
Stritch, Elaine, 238–39, 240, 241, 242–46, 249, 256–57, 259
The Stronger (play), 251
Strudwick, Shepperd, 311
Strumpet Wind (G. B. Crum), 13, 77
Styron, William, 325
Summer and Smoke (play), 175–76, 203
Sweet Bird of Youth (film), 176, 182
Sykes, Gerald, 342, 343
Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), 175, 216
Tavern on the Green, 238
Taylor, Elizabeth, 357
Taylor, Harold, 55
Taylor, Laurette, 197, 204, 207
The Tell-Tale Heart (film), 223
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 140
Thatcher, George, 125
Thatcher, Reno, 125–26
Theatre Bar, 241–42, 250
Theatre Guild, 162, 193
Thomajan, Guy, 183–84
The Thomas Crown Affair (film), 180
Three Sisters (Chekhov), 225
Tobias (Bart Jr.’s friend), 36, 88, 109–10, 130, 131, 134–37, 226
Tom (in Glass Menagerie), 193, 194, 197, 198–99, 204
Tonino (lawyer from Warner Bros.), 283, 285
Torn, Rip, 172
Travelletti, Mlle., 27, 31
Trigère, Pauline, 231–32
Trigorin (in The Seagull), 225–26
Trillin, Cal, 326
True Confessions, 44–45, 71
Truman, Harry, 16, 95, 96, 317
21 (restaurant), 111–12, 147, 310
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare), 195–96
Uffizi Gallery, 283–84
Vaccaro, Brenda, 350
Valachi, Joe, 324
Vandamm, Florence, 265
Van Fleet, Jo, 323
van Heemstra, Ella, 292
Velázquez, Diego, 284, 285
Verdon, Gwen, 152
Vidal, Gore, 34, 83, 202–6, 221, 283, 287–89, 356
Vietnam War, 359
Village Voice, 326
Visit to a Small Planet (film), 205
von Furstenberg, Betsy, 152, 328–29, 349
Waiting for Lefty (play), 181
Wallace, Mike, 151
Wallach, Eli, 152, 172, 194, 255
Warner Brothers, 263, 271, 274, 275, 277, 283, 296
Warren, Earl, 111–12, 232
“We Have Had Abortions” (in Ms.), 297
Welles, Orson, 15, 76, 82
Welty, Eudora, 205
West, Rebecca, 107
Westport Country Playhouse, 157–58, 162
White Barn Theatre, 223, 226
Wiard, Jim, 361
Wilder, Thornton, 147, 236
William Morris Agency, 195
Williams, Annie Laurie, 336
Williams, Edward Bennett, 307, 309, 310
Williams, Rose, 194, 203–4
Williams, Tennessee
Baby Doll, 172, 194, 203
The Glass Menagerie, 192, 194, 201, 202–5, 207
at Studio spring party, 152
Summer and Smoke, 175–76
young actors and plays of, 144
Willkie, Wendell, 318, 347
Winters, Shelley, 100–101, 151, 187, 251
Wolders, Robert, 296
Wood, Natalie, 301
Writers at Work (series), 326
Young, Gig, 256
“Your Little Voice (Over the Wires)” (Cummings), 99
Yucca Flats, Nevada, 128–29
Zeeman (girlie magazine photographer), 72–73
Zinnemann, Fred
as The Nun’s Story director, 263, 274, 282
Patricia chosen by, 2
65
Patricia’s impression of, 269, 286
Patricia’s interactions with, 275, 278–80, 281, 292
Zola, Émile, 214, 223
The Zoo Story (Albee), 310–12
Photos Section
Me, Daddy, and Bart at Lake Tahoe, 1937
My brother and me in Carmel, California, 1938
Me, Mama, Bart, and Daddy at Aptos, California, 1942
Mother and daughter in matching Lantz dresses at Aptos, 1943
Daddy (holding our cocker spaniel, Frisky), Mama, and Bart outside Aptos, 1944
Sitting in my hideout, 1945
Daddy with President Harry Truman, 1948
Me and Bart on our way to school in San Francisco, 1948
Here I am surrounded by friends at Ecolint, 1950
Bart and me at Aptos after the Deerfield incident, 1950
The last photograph of Bart, taken for his passport, September 1953
My first modeling test shot, 1953
High-fashion modeling shot, 1955
Testing for Seventeen magazine, 1955
Me and Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio (Getty Images)
Burt Brinckerhoff, me, and Mark Rydell in Blue Denim at the Westport Playhouse, summer 1955
Playing Laura in The Glass Menagerie opposite Helen Hayes at the Palm Beach Playhouse, January 1956
Joseph Schildkraut (“Pepi”) and me outside the White Barn Theatre, August 1956
Small War on Murray Hill curtain call at the Barrymore Theatre on opening night, January 3, 1957. Left to right: Stefan Schnabel, Nicholas Joy, me, Leo Genn, Jan Sterling, Daniel Massey, Francis Compton, Harry Sheppard
The Sin of Pat Muldoon curtain call at the Cort Theatre on opening night, March 13, 1957. Left to right: Elaine Stritch, James Olson, Gerry Sarracini, me
My close-up as Sister Simone in The Nun’s Story with Audrey Hepburn, directed by Fred Zinnemann, filmed in Rome, spring 1958
Me as Sister Simone and Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke, about to say our penance in The Nun’s Story
On Broadway again as Sally Sims with Albert Salmi in Phoebe Ephron’s Howie at the Forty-Sixth Street Theatre, September 1958
Before I went on as Mary in Jean Kerr’s Mary, Mary at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway, 1964
Here I am in my dressing room before going on for Tiffany in Mary, Mary (and transitioning into journalism), 1964 (Photograph by Jill Krementz. All rights reserved)
Mel and me on our wedding day, February 15, 1966
About the Author
PATRICIA BOSWORTH was born in San Francisco and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and lives in New York City. Patricia has taught literary nonfiction at Columbia University and Barnard College and is a winner of the Front Page Award. A longtime board member of the Actors Studio, she ran the Playwrights-Directors Unit there. Her first memoir, Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story, was about her family and the Hollywood Blacklist. She is also the author of bestselling biographies of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and the photographer Diane Arbus. Her Arbus biography inspired the 2006 film Fur, starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr.
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