by Sam Kashner
James, Elfred, 68–69, 71, 75
Jamison, Kay Redfield, 391
Jane Eyre (film), 437
Jaws (film), 386
Jenkins, Edith “Edie,” 177, 179
Jenkins, Edith Thomas, 65, 66, 67, 257
Jenkins, Graham, 51, 52, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 72, 78, 88, 118, 125, 179, 221, 232, 248, 336, 424–25, 430, 431, 433
Jenkins, Gwen, 50, 195, 247, 273, 392
Jenkins, Ifor, 49, 50, 51–52, 56, 65, 118, 195, 255, 274, 379, 384, 392
accident and paralysis, 247–48, 258, 271, 272–73, 401, 431
death of, 335–36
Jenkins, Richard “Dic” or “Dadi Ni,” 51–52, 53, 65–67, 69, 72–73, 85–87, 270, 315, 385
Jenkins, Thomas, 65, 67
Jenkins, Verdun, 65, 66, 178, 179, 333, 434
Johns, Glynis, 314
Jones, Ernest, 173
Jones, James Earl, 196, 229, 437
Jones, Meredith, 70
Jones, Thomas Owen, 66, 71
Jones, Tom, 66
Jourdan, Louis, 44
Julia Misbehaves (film), 368
Kalizma (yacht), 220–22, 223, 226–27, 237–38, 263, 264, 268, 270, 276, 288, 302, 303, 318, 319, 321, 322, 324, 376, 377, 385, 400
Kaminska, Ida, 206
Kara, Edmund, 115
Katselas, Milton, 422
Kelley, Kitty, 82, 416
Kelly, Margaret, 64
Kenemer, Rex, 283, 285, 293, 296, 322, 424
Kennedy, Ethel, 174, 232–33
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 8–9, 35, 140, 154, 223, 224, 274, 275
Kennedy, John F., 387
Kennedy, Robert, 174–75, 232
Kerr, Deborah, 76, 77, 82, 287
Kilgallen, Dorothy, 32
King, Larry, 434
Kissinger, Henry, 390, 402, 407
Klansman, The (film), 381–82, 388
Krays, The (film), 56
Krupp diamond, 237–38, 255, 274, 277, 331, 334, 343, 344, 433
Ladies Home Journal, 153, 378, 392
La Dolce Vita (film), 28, 36
Lady’s Not for Burning, The (play), 90, 121
Lambert, Henry, 405
Lancaster, Burt, 287
Lancaster Hotel, Paris, 111, 116, 119, 180
Lantz, Robert, 158, 395, 406
La Peregrina pearl, 258–60, 274, 348, 356
LaSalle, Bobby, 167
Lassie Come Home (film), 3, 15, 199, 436
Last Days of Dolwyn, The (film), 19, 42–43, 48–49, 145
Laughter in the Dark (film), 235–36
Burton fired from, 240–41
Lawford, Christopher, 369
Lawford, Patricia Kennedy, 233, 368
Lawford, Peter, 233, 368, 369, 370
Lawrence, Gertrude, 414
Leaving a Doll’s House (Bloom), 121
Le Carré, John (David Cornwall), 123, 125, 127–29, 264
Lee, John, 119, 167, 200, 249
Lee, Marjorie, 120
Lehman, Ernest, 137, 139–40, 141, 143–44, 145, 150–51, 173, 266
Leigh, Vivien, 265
Lerner, Alan Jay, 15
Lerner, Max, 370, 386
Letter to Three Wives, A (film), 13
Levant, Oscar, 7, 98, 404
Lewin, David, 230–31
Lewis, Alun, 321
Life magazine, 56, 59, 103, 116, 136, 164, 239, 376
Lindstrom, Peter, 38
Lisi, Virna, 329
Little Foxes, The (play), 411
Little Night Music, A (play), 403
Lombardy Hotel, New York, 396, 398, 415
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (play), 414
Longest Day, The (film), 31
Look Back in Anger (film), 122, 140, 236, 345
LOOK magazine, 177, 201, 204, 209, 288
Loren, Sophia, 43, 134, 135–36, 165, 275, 367, 373–74, 377, 386
Losey, Joseph, 211, 212–14, 216, 218, 219, 222, 235, 242–43, 246, 324–25, 332, 372
Love Letters (play), 437
Lovespell (film), 406
Lowe, Frederick, 15
Lowry, Malcolm, 423
Lucas, Alex, 300, 301
Luna, Victor, 422, 424, 425, 434
Lyon, Sue, 76, 77
MacDougall, Ranald, 13
MacLaine, Shirley, 12, 207
Maddox, Brenda, 44, 173, 278
Malle, Louis, 325
Mamoulian, Rouben, 11, 12, 13
Manchester, William, 8
Man for All Seasons, A (film), 139, 205, 278
Mankiewicz, Chris, 17
Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 13–18, 20, 25, 27, 28–29, 46–47, 58, 59, 60, 73, 101, 261, 351, 370
Mankowitz, Wolf, 188–89, 370
Manso, Peter, 191
Margaret, Princess of England, 134, 238
Marquand, Christian, 191–92
Marvin, Lee, 176, 290, 382, 383
Marx, Sam, 254
Mason, James, 114, 138
Mason, Morgan, 114
Mason, Pamela, 114
Massacre in Rome (film), 357, 370
Mastroianni, Marcello, 165
Matthau, Walter, 255
May, Elaine, 36
Mayer, Louis B., 3, 10, 25, 43, 309
McCowan, Alec, 395
McCullers, Carson, 158, 160
McDowall, Roddy, 15, 37, 134, 160, 199, 249, 356, 368, 369, 424, 436
MCL Films, 80
Measure for Measure (play), 186
Medak, Peter, 50, 52, 53, 55, 56, 198
Medusa Touch, The (film), 406
“Meeting Mrs. Jenkins” (Burton), 164
Mendenhall, Thomas C., 148
Merchant, Vivien, 314
Merlo, Frank, 82
Meryman, Richard, 7, 152–53
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 3, 5, 6, 12, 41, 58, 62–64, 80, 112, 114, 115, 118–19, 154, 157, 199, 236, 254, 269, 287
Midnight Cowboy (film), 290, 291
Minnelli, Liza, 289
Minnelli, Vincente, 114, 117, 249
Mirror Crack’d, The (film), 435
Misfits, The (film), 157
Misil, Robert, 97
Mitchum, Robert, 242, 244, 246
Monroe, Marilyn, 137, 157
Moreau, Jeanne, 246
Morgan, John, 53
Morin, Pat, 34
Morley, John David, 282
My Cousin Rachel (film), 1, 15, 122, 133
“My Last Duchess” (Browning), 276
My Life with Cleopatra (Wanger), 35–36
My Love Affair with Jewelry (Taylor and Meryman), 44, 434
Nabokov, Vladimir, 240
National Velvet (film), 3, 62–64, 137, 269
Neal, Patricia, 138
Neshamkin, Paul, 82, 119
Newman, Paul, 7, 250, 414
Nichols, Mike, 36–37, 139–49, 172–73, 189, 207, 232, 251, 411
Nicholson, Jack, 287
Night of the Iguana, The (film), 76–88, 112, 131, 138, 174, 185, 193, 211, 229, 237, 269
Night Watch (film), 341, 342, 343, 346, 347, 349
1984 (film), x, 424–25, 427–30
Niven, David, 287, 332
Nizer, Louis, 33
Novak, Kim, 113, 435
Nureyev, Rudolf, 169, 411
Ober, Phil and Jane, 85
O’Brien, Edna, 301, 305, 306, 310, 311
Olivier, Sir Laurence, 16, 48, 95, 176, 187, 230, 282, 305, 318, 409
Onassis, Aristotle, 223, 224, 274, 341
O’Neal, Tatum, 406
O’Neill, Eugene, 414
Only Game in Town, The (film), 250–52, 258, 287, 297
Osborne, John, 122, 345
Othello (film), 176
O’Toole, Peter, 73–74, 97, 120, 226, 289, 313, 315
O’Toole, Sian Phillips, 226, 314
Owens, Hilda Jenkins, 65, 66, 73, 126, 177–79, 433–34
Oxford University, 72, 186, 281, 332
Burton teaches at, 343–44
Doctor Faustus and, 186–8
8, 230
Pacino, Al, 287
Pallenberg, Anita, 255
Palmer, Tony, 73, 410
paparazzi, viii, 28, 27–28, 29, 34, 36, 38, 111, 153, 170, 214–15, 433
Paramount Pictures, 157, 381
Parker, Suzy, 37
Parkinson, Michael, 16, 93–94
Parkinson, Norman, 330–31
Parsons, Louella, 32, 35
Pawnbroker, The (film), 176
Peck, Gregory, 290
Peerce, Larry, 358
Perelman, S. J., 5
Perkins, Tony, 398
Perry, Simon, 428
Phoenix Too Frequent, A (play), 90
Pignatelli, Princess, 174
“Ping-Pong” diamond, 277, 339
Pinter, Harold, 219
Place in the Sun, A (film), 13, 157, 250, 269, 286, 436
Plaza Athénée, Paris, 248, 253
Plummer, Christopher, 178–79
Pompidou, Georges, 325
Ponti, Carlo, 357, 367–68, 373, 377
Pontrhydyfen, Wales, ix, 19, 65, 66–67, 73, 75, 118, 126, 179, 319, 433
Popovic, Nikola, 320
Port Talbot, Wales, 70, 71–72, 75, 118, 126, 177, 179, 249
Powell, Dick, 328
Praturlon, Pierluigi, 197
Private Lives (play), 219, 395, 413–24
Prowse, Juliet, 33
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 77, 79, 81–85, 112, 126, 174, 193, 194, 237, 243, 261–62, 281–82, 283–84, 294, 316, 376, 381, 407, 409
Quayle, Anthony, 264
Queens Hotel, Cardiff, Wales, 125
Radford, Michael, x, 427–29
Raid on Rommel (film), 297–300, 317
Rainier, Prince of Monaco, 167, 385
Raintree County (film), 328, 338
Randolph Hotel, Oxford, 187
Ransohoff, Martin, 113, 150
Rattigan, Terence, 43, 53
Redford, Robert, 139, 316–17
Redgrave, Lynn, 206
Redgrave, Vanessa, 117, 206, 229, 236
Reed, Rex, 388
Reflections in a Golden Eye (film), 113, 158–61, 176, 189–92, 209, 211, 233–34, 236
Regency Hotel, New York, 105, 107, 111
Reynolds, Burt, 405
Reynolds, Debbie, 7, 8, 9, 38, 119, 154, 436
Rice, Cy, 35
Richard Burton (Waterbury), 35, 164
Richard Burton, My Brother (Jenkins), 66
Richard Burton Hemophilia Fund, 92, 151
Richardson, Sir Ralph, 409
Richardson, Tony, 122, 235–36, 240–41
Ritt, Martin, 123, 124, 129
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Montreal, 100
Rivers, Joan, 404
Robe, The (film), 1, 15, 133
Roberts, Rachel, 212, 213
Robinson, Sugar Ray, 255
Roddy, Joseph, 86
Romanov, Mike, 297
Rose, Helen, 76
Rossellini, Roberto, 38, 375
Rothschild, Baron and Baroness Guy de, 167, 180, 222, 253, 326–27
Proust Ball, 324–27
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), 71, 72
Saint, Eva Marie, 114
St. Jacques, Raymond, 196
Salinger, Pierre, 325
Sandpiper, The (film), 113–19, 136, 137, 139, 150, 157, 243
Burton-Taylor home during, 115–16
costs of, 115
nude statue of Taylor, 115, 116
profits from, 118–19
reviews, 116–17
Sanz, Gaston, 119, 127, 167, 227, 335, 337, 338, 344
Schulberg, Budd, 82, 83
Scofield, Paul, 139, 205, 206–7, 230, 278, 289, 427
Scott, George C., 250
Secret Ceremony (film), 240, 242–43, 246, 250, 269, 288, 436
Segal, George, 139, 143
Seven Arts, 159, 190
Shaffer, Peter, 395
Sharaff, Irene, 19, 100, 136, 141, 167
Shaw, Robert, 386
Shimkus, Joanna, 216, 239
Ship of Fools (film), 176, 217
Signoret, Simone, 212, 246
Simmons, Jean, 1
Simon, Neil, 406
Sinatra, Frank, 197, 250, 251, 286, 296–97
Sinclair, Andrew, 313
Skouras, Spyros, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 45–46, 233
Smith, Liz, vii, viii, 270, 291, 292, 386, 398, 399, 410, 423, 437
Smith College, 141, 148–49
Snowdon, Anthony, Lord, 134
Sondheim, Stephen, 403
Southern, Terry, 192, 234
Spender, Stephen, 332, 334
Spiegel, Sam, 325
Spielberg, Steven, 287, 386
Spinetti, Victor, 168, 169–70, 171, 314
Springer, John, 99, 141, 289, 344, 389, 406
Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The (film), 120–31, 133, 165, 168, 185, 205, 215, 265, 269
awards for, 176
Burton-Bloom co-stars, 120–22
Burton’s drinking and, 127
Taylor’s entrance on the set, 127–28
Staircase (film), 248–50, 269, 272, 288
Stark, Ray, 159, 233–34
Starr, Ringo, 227, 234, 255, 332, 334
Steiger, Rod, 122, 176, 427–28
Sterne, Richard L., 93, 94, 96, 97, 98, 102, 105, 107
Stevens, George, 13, 157, 250–51, 351
Storaro, Vittorio, 410
Storch, Otto, 201
Strasberg, Susan, 18, 122–23, 384, 394
Streisand, Barbra, 291
Suddenly, Last Summer (film), 13, 14, 158, 159, 211, 217, 220, 234, 243, 269, 436
Sutherland, Joan, 167
Sweet Bird of Youth
play, 414
TV movie, 436
Sweet November (film), 162
“Taj Mahal” diamond, 333, 334
Taming of the Shrew, The (film), 120, 161, 164–72, 205, 211, 245, 264, 269, 271, 272, 376
Burton-Taylor co-produce, 164, 185, 194
filming, 166–67, 168–69, 175, 357
paparazzi and, 170–71
premieres, reviews, awards, 177–79, 180, 181, 233
profitability of, 185, 212–13, 232
Taylor helps with extras, 170, 263
Taylor’s first Shakespearean role, 168
Zeffirelli as director, 165–72
Tandy, Jessica, 102
Tatelman, Harry, 297
Taybur Company, 194
Taylor, Elizabeth. See also Taylor, Elizabeth, and Richard Burton romance
aging and, 252, 260–61
AIDS work, 92, 159, 253, 435, 437
alcohol and, viii, 21, 52–53, 55, 74, 82, 83, 217, 218, 258, 270, 271, 285, 293, 294, 312–13, 322, 324, 339, 342, 354, 358, 368, 392, 399, 402, 413, 415, 421–22, 424
animals and, 3, 62, 165–66, 170, 213, 221, 236–37, 358
beauty, 2, 3, 4, 19, 24, 55, 94, 97, 135, 154, 198, 203, 217–18, 228–29, 233, 239, 243, 324, 327, 328, 331, 334, 356, 358, 425
Bel Air home, x, 386, 414, 425, 437
benefit event in South Africa, 390
Burton’s death and, 432–34
as businesswoman, 11, 33, 38, 43, 113, 386, 389, 436
Casa Kimberly, Puerto Vallarta, 81, 84, 112, 126, 193, 194, 261–62, 281–82, 283–84, 294, 381, 400
children, 5, 9, 24–25, 36, 44, 79, 80, 82, 97, 115, 129, 154, 171, 183, 195, 225–26, 268, 282, 303–4, 376–77
Christian Science and, 62
condemned by Congress and Vatican, 36, 153, 278
criticized by the Times, 278
dating, 1973, 368–70
death of Dick Hanley and, 309–10
death of Roddy McDowell and, 436
deaths of friends and family, 379
domestic violence and, 2, 6, 37, 59
earnings, 10–11, 43, 63, 75, 113, 119, 139, 193, 196, 214, 250, 292, 388
Eddie Fisher and, 7, 10, 12, 24, 26, 32–33, 40, 43, 80–81, 89, 99, 153
England, emigration considered
, 163–64
entourage, 386, 393, 413 (see also Taylor, Elizabeth, and Richard Burton romance; specific individuals)
fame and starpower, viii, 4, 35, 38, 92, 112, 117, 125, 131, 136, 152–53, 164, 222, 246, 285–86, 290–91, 311, 340, 354, 371–72, 399, 403, 410
family and early years, 61–64
father’s death, 254
favorite foods, 22, 144, 194
50th birthday celebration, 411
Fisher-Taylor-Reynolds scandal, 7, 8, 9, 38
gay friends, 37, 92, 159, 199, 249
glamour and lifestyle, viii, 25, 59, 110, 167, 177–78, 193–94, 200, 237, 277, 288, 307, 331–35, 376
as grandmother, 319
Gstaad home (Chalet Ariel), 26, 28, 33, 35, 39–40, 80, 112, 166, 224, 268, 272, 274, 385, 389, 394, 396, 425
health problems, 12, 13–14, 43, 45, 129, 142, 160, 183, 193, 242, 244–45, 253–54, 257, 265, 266, 281, 293, 295–96, 297, 354, 380, 387, 390–91, 411, 437
Henry Wynberg and, 370–71, 374, 378–79, 380–81, 385, 386–87, 388, 389, 400, 402