Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

by Marion Meade

  Benchley, Robert Charles, Jr.

  Benét, William Rose

  Berkeley, Martin

  Berlin, Irving

  Bernstein, Leonard

  Bernstien, Oscar

  Bernstien, Rebecca

  “Big Blonde” (Parker)

  blacklist, Hollywood

  Blitzstein, Marc

  Bobbed Hair

  Boissevain, Eugen

  “Bolt Behind the Blue, The” (Parker)

  Boni and Liveright

  Bookman

  Boothe, Clare

  Boyle, Jack

  Brace, Clement

  Brackett, Charles

  Brice, Fanny

  Broun, Heywood

  drinking habits of

  Parker and

  personal style of

  Round Table and

  Broun, Heywood Hale “Woody,”

  Bryan, Joseph

  Burke, Billie

  Burr, Courtney

  Business Is Business (Parker and Kaufman)

  But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (Loos)

  Cabell, James Branch

  Caesar, Arthur

  Caesar’s Wife (Maugham)

  Cagney, James

  California State College

  Campbell, Alan

  acting career of

  army service of

  death of

  Parker’s collaboration with

  Parker’s marriages to

  Parker’s relationship with

  Campbell, Harry Lee

  Campbell, Hortense Eichel

  Candide (Bernstein, Hellman and Wilbur)

  Capote, Truman

  Carson, Robert

  Case, Frank

  Case Against Mrs. Ames, The

  “Cassandra Drops Into Verse” (Parker)

  Castle, Irene

  Cavett, Frank

  Cerf, Bennett

  “Certain Lady, A” (Parker)

  Chaplin, Charlie

  Chase, Edna Woolman

  Chase, Ilka

  Chicago Herald-Examiner

  Chicago Tribune

  Children’s Hour, The (Hellman)

  Cisney, Marcella

  Clair, René

  Claire, Ina

  Close Harmony (Parker and Rice) see also Soft Music

  “Clothe the Naked” (Parker)

  Clurman, Harold

  Coast of Illyria, The (Parker)

  Cobb, Irvin

  Collier’s

  Collins, Seward

  death of

  erotica collected by

  Parker’s relationship with

  Connelly, Madeline Hurlock

  Connelly, Marc

  contemporaries recalled by

  Kaufman and

  on Parker

  Parker and

  Conning Tower, The

  Coolidge, Calvin

  Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt

  Cooper, Wyatt

  Cosmopolitan

  Coward, Noel

  Cowboy and the Lady, The

  Crazy Fool, The (Stewart)

  Crime Takes a Holiday

  Crosby, Bing

  Crowninshield, Frank

  Nast and

  Parker and

  personality of

  Vanity Fair edited by

  Crude (Hyde)

  Cue.

  “Custard Heart, The” (Parker)

  “Dark Girl’s Rhyme” (Parker)

  Davies, John

  Davies, Marion

  “Day-Dreams” (Parker)

  Dear Sir (Kern and Dietz)

  Death and Taxes (Parker)

  DeMille, Cecil B.

  Dempsey, Jack

  Depression, Great

  Design for Living (Coward)

  Deutsch, Helen

  “Dialogue at Three in the Morning” (Parker)

  Diary of Samuel Pepys, The (Pepys)

  Dietrich, Marlene

  Dietz, Betty

  Dietz, Howard

  Dorothy Parker Portfolio, A

  Dos Passos, John

  Double Exposure (McDowall)

  Droste, George, Jr.

  death of

  life-style of

  Parker’s dislike of

  Droste, Helen “Lel,” see Iveson, Helen “Let” Droste

  Droste, Helen Rothschild, see Grimwood, Helen Rothschild Droste

  Droste, Marge

  Droste, William (nephew)

  Duffy, Edmund

  Duke, Vernon

  “Dusk Before Fireworks” (Parker)

  d’Usseau, Arnaud

  d’Usseau, Susan

  Eichel, Roy

  Enough Rope (Parker)

  Ephron, Henry

  Ephron, Phoebe

  “Epitaph” (Parker)

  Ernst, Morris

  Esquire

  Evans, Rosser Lynn

  “Everlastin’ Ingenue Blues, The” (Parker and Taylor)

  “Experience” (Parker)

  Fan, The

  Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway)

  Faulkner, William

  Federal Bureau of Investigation

  Parker’s investigation by

  Ferber, Edna

  Fiedler, Leslie

  Fields, W. C.

  Firpo, Luis Angel

  Fish

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  death of

  Parker and

  Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre

  mental illness of

  Five O’Clock Girl

  Flanner, Janet

  Fleischmann, Raoul

  Fleischmann, Ruth

  Flight into Nowhere

  Foch, Nina

  Forty-niners, The

  Foster, Sally Blane

  “From the Diary of a New York Lady” (Parker)

  “Frustration” (Parker)

  “Game, The” (Parker and Evans)

  Garrett, John Wiley

  Garrett, Madeleine

  Geis, Bernard

  “Gentlest Lady, The” (Parker)

  Gershwin, George

  Gilbert, John

  Gill, Brendan

  Gillmore, Margalo

  Gilman, Mildred

  Gingrich, Arnold

  Glass Key, The (Hammett)

  Goetz, Augustus

  Goetz, Ruth Goodman

  Goldwyn, Samuel

  Goldwyn Follies, The

  Goodman, Philip

  Goodman, Ruth, see Goetz, Ruth Goodman

  Goodrich, Frances

  Good Soup, The

  Gordon, Ruth

  Graham, Sheilah

  Grant, Jane

  Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald)

  Green Pastures, The (Connelly)

  Grimwood, Helen Rothschild Droste (sister)

  adolescence of

  children of, see Droste, William; Iveson, Helen “Lei” Droste

  death of

  marriages of

  Parker’s relationship with

  Grimwood, Victor

  Guinzburg, Alice

  Guinzburg, Harold

  Guinzburg, Thomas

  Hackett, Albert

  Hahn, Emily

  Hale, Ruth

  death of

  feminism of

  Parker and

  Hallelujah

  Hammerstein, Oscar

  Hammett, Dashiell

  Hands Across the Table

  Happiest Man, The (Laszlo, Parker and Campbell)

  Harper’s

  Harriman, Averell

  Harrington, Nedda

  Hart, Moss

  Harvard Lampoon

  Hayes, Harold

  Hayes, Helen

  Hayward, Susan

  Hearst, William Randolph

  Hecht, Ben

  Heggen, Tom

  Heiress, The (Goetz)

  Hellman, Lillian

  Hammett and

  memoirs of

  Parker’s relationship with

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Parker and

  Parker’s New Y
orker profile of

  on writing.

  Hemingway, Hadley

  Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn

  Hemingway, Pauline Pfeiffer

  Here Come the Clowns (Barry)

  Here Lies (Parker)

  Here Today (Oppenheimer)

  “Here We Are” (Parker)

  High Society (Parker, Crowninshield, Fish and Chappell)

  Hitchcock, Alfred

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hollywood Anti-Nazi League

  Hollywood Nineteen

  Holman, Libby

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Hopkins, Arthur

  Hopkins, Miriam

  “Horsie” (Parker)

  Hotchner, Aaron

  House at Pooh Corner, The (Milne)

  House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

  “How Am I to Know?” (Parker and King)

  Hunter, Ian

  Hyde, Robert

  Ice Age, The (Parker and d’Usseau)

  Idiot’s Delight (Sherwood)

  “I Live on Your Visits” (Parker)

  Immoralist, The (Goetz)

  “In Broadway Playhouses,”

  “Indian Summer” (Parker)

  Information Please

  In Our Time (Hemingway)

  “Interior Desecration” (Parker)

  “Inventory” (Parker)

  Iveson, Helen “Lel” Droste (niece)

  Iveson, Robert

  Ivy (maid)

  Jackson, Gardner “Pat,”

  Jonasson, Meyer

  Jones, Margo

  Joyce, James

  Joyous Season, The (Barry)

  Judge

  Jurgen (Taylor)

  Kahn, E. J., Jr.

  Kahn, Otto

  Kanin, Garson

  Katz, Otto

  Kaufman, Beatrice

  Kaufman, George S.

  collaborative work of

  Kelly, George

  Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Kennedy, Sheelagh

  Kern, Jerome

  King, Jack

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  King, Muriel

  Kober, Arthur

  Koch, John

  Ladd, Parker

  Ladies’ Home Journal

  Ladies of the Corridor, The (Parker and d’Usseau)

  Lady Be Careful

  “Lady with a Lamp” (Parker)

  La Guardia, Fiorello

  Laments for the Living (Parker)

  Lamparski, Richard

  Lardner, Ellis

  Lardner, James

  Lardner, Ring

  Lardner, Ring, Jr.

  Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald)

  Laszlo, Miklos

  Latouche, John

  Lawrence, D. H.

  Lazar, Irving “Swifty,”

  League of American Writers

  Lee, Albert

  Leech, Margaret

  Le Gallienne, Eva

  Lehne, John

  Lenihan, Winifred

  Lester, Clara

  Levant, Oscar

  Life

  Benchley as drama critic for

  Parker and

  Light in August (Faulkner)

  Lillie, Beatrice

  Lipstick War, The (Campbell and Kaufman)

  “Little Curtis” (Parker)

  Liveright, Horace

  “Lolita” (Parker)

  Loos, Anita

  Lorimer, George Horace

  “Lovely Leave, The” (Parker)

  Lovett, Adele Quartley Brown

  Lovett, Robert A.

  “Lucky Little Curtis,” see “Little Curtis”

  Lyon, Wanda

  MacArthur, Charles Gordon

  Benchley and

  Parker and

  MacArthur, William Telfer

  McCall’s

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McClain, John

  McDowall, Roddy

  McKelway, St. Clair

  MacLeish, Ada

  MacLeish, Archibald

  McMein, Neysa

  Parker and

  McNamara, Ed

  Macy, Louise “Louie,”

  Madame X, 197, 199

  Mademoiselle

  Mailer, Norman

  Mankiewicz, Herman

  “Mantle of Whistler” (Parker)

  Man Who Came to Dinner, The (Kaufman and Hart)

  March, Fredric

  Marshall, Herbert

  Marston, Caroline (grandmother)

  Marston, Elizabeth (great-grandmother)

  Marston, Frank (uncle)

  Marston, Stanhope (great-grandfather)

  Marston, Susan (aunt)

  Marston, Thomas (grandfather)

  Marston, William (great-uncle)

  Marx, Harpo

  Marx, Zeppo

  Mary Burns, Fugitive

  Masson, Thomas

  Maugham, Somerset

  Maxwell, William

  “Men” (Parker)

  Mencken, H. L.

  Mendum, Georgie Drew

  Merrily We Roll Along (Kaufman and Hart)

  Milford, Nancy

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent

  Milne, A. A.

  Monroe, Marilyn

  Moodie, Betty

  Mooney, Mary

  Mooney, Tom

  Morning Telegraph

  Morris, Wright

  Morse, Lee

  Mostel, Kate

  Mostel, Zero

  “Mr. Durant” (Parker)

  “Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street” (Parker)