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Charlie’s Angels (TV programme), 172n
Charlton, John, 105, 500; and DB’s writing, 8, 105, 143, 191; takes holiday, 244; suggests title for DB’s book, 246n
Chat, Le (film), 56n
Châteauneuf de Grasse see Haut Clermont, Le
Chatto, Beth, 443
Chatto, Rosalind, 62
Chatto & Windus (publishers): publish DB, 117, 133, 135–6, 139, 172, 183, 215, 231, 264; troubles at, 238n; Norah Smallwood leaves, 273
Chatwin, Bruce, 468; Utz, 506
Chekhov, Anton: The Cherry Orchard, 241, 504
Chelsea: DB and Tony rent house in, 349; see also Cadogan Gardens
Cheshire, Leonard, Baron, 415
Chess, Mary, 206
Chirac, Jacques, 484, 486, 488
Chorus Line, A (film), 307, 321n
Christie, Julie, 29, 42, 114, 127n, 181
Christopher, Sybil (earlier Burton), 405
Churchill, Sir Winston, 277
Ciment, Michel: Conversations with Losey (earlier Le Livre de Losey), 290n
Cinecittà, 38
Cipriani, Arrigo: The Harry’s Bar Cookbook, 456 &n
Clark, Alan: Diaries, 468 &n
Clark, Kenneth, Baron, 265, 271
Clarke, Gerald: Capote: A Biography, 373n; Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, 374 &n
Clayton, Jack, 51, 66, 108, 127
Cleared for Take-Off (DB), 464 &n, 466, 473
Cleopatra (film), 455
Clift, Montgomery, 387
Clockwork Orange, A (film), 70
Close, Glenn, 406
Closing Ranks (DB; novel), 274, 306, 319n, 482 &n, 489–90, 495
Cochrane, Peter, 193
Cogan, Alma, 406n
Cohen, Nat, 140
Colbert, Claudette, 43
Coldstream, John, 442, 506; as literary editor of Daily Telegraph, 442n, 467
Colegate, Isabel: The Shooting Party, 231
Colette, 306, 506
Collins, Joan, 407
Collyer, Paddie, 310
Columbia (film corporation), 49
Company of Youth, 455
Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy, 289
Connery, Sir Sean, 58, 113, 121, 129, 222n
Conran, Shirley: Lace, 167
Conti, Tom, 204
Conversation Piece (film), 94n
Cooper, Sir Alfred Duff, 204, 481
Cooper, Lady Diana, 202, 416, 481; Autobiography, 204 &n
Cooper, Gary, 172
Coppola, Francis Ford, 194n
Cortese, Valentina, 240, 484n
Costner, Kevin, 473
Cotten, Joseph, 387
Courtenay, Sir Tom, 76 &n, 181, 241, 423
Covington, Julie, 181
Cowan, Theo, 295
Coward, Sir Noël, 106, 116–17, 277, 407, 428–30, 438n, 500; The Vortex, 428; Suite in Three Keys, 429n
Cox, Lionel, 250n
Cox, Nerine see Selwood, Nerine Cradock, Fanny, 501
Craig, Wendy, 41
Crawford, Gabrielle, 496
Creighton, Anthony, 477
Cresson, Edith, 410n
Croft, Peggy, 3
Cronin, A.J.: The Citadel, 327
Crowley, Mart, 211
Cukor, George, 167; and film of Justine, 31, 414; DB films with, 119; in DB’s Snakes and Ladders, 172; and A Star Is Born, 322n; decline, 388
Cuore di cane (film), 107
Cusack, Cyril, 29n, 30, 80
D-Day landings (1944), 3
Daddy Nostalgie (These Foolish Things; film), 372n, 374, 376, 378n, 384–7, 390, 395, 398, 401, 408, 473, 506
Dahl, Roald, 221, 232, 233, 237; DB plays in The Patricia Neal Story, 220, 225–7; writing, 241, 434; on gardening, 268; Danny the Champion of the World, 233 &n
Dahl, Tessa, 227
Daily Telegraph, The: DB reviews and writes for, 365 &n, 372 &n, 415n, 420, 425n, 430–1, 442n, 461, 462n
Daisy (dog), 53–4, 60, 64, 71, 77, 85, 90, 145, 170; death, 185–6
Dam Busters, The (film), 73
Damiani, Damiano, 35, 38
Damned, The (La caduta degli dei; Götterdaämmerung; film), 23, 31, 34, 37, 50–1
Dance, Charles, 277n
Danjoux, Marie and Henri, 68–9, 76, 83, 201 &n Dankworth, Sir John, 285
Darling (film), 5, 36n, 180n, 455
Dartmouth College, 36n
Daubeny, Molly, Lady, 241
Davie, Michael, 202n
Davies, Andrew: Rose, 228n
Davies, Pamela, 105 &n
Davis, Bette, 6, 65–6, 68–9, 73, 77, 115–16
Dawson, Beatrice (‘Bumble’), 31
Day of the Locust, The (film), 110n, 113n
Day-Lewis, Daniel, 388
Dearden, Basil, 55n, 285, 310n, 311
Death in Venice (film): DB plays Aschenbach in, 34–7, 45–7, 51, 68, 102, 108, 499; shooting, 37, 42; Losey and, 39; screened, 49, 59, 61, 143, 310; wins award for Visconti, 57n; Visconti justifies making, 87; shown on TV, 242
Dee, Simon, 38
de Havilland, Olivia, 455
de Jongh, Nicholas, 477
de László, Philip, 75 &n
Delfont, Bernard, Baron, 140, 194n
Delon, Alain, 32, 62n
Delors, Jacques, 410n
Demongeot, Mylène, 455
Dench, Dame Judi, 406
Denham, Maurice, 229
de Niro, Robert, 475 &n
Desert Island Discs (radio programme), 381
Despair (film), 140, 142, 146, 152–4, 161–3, 169n, 171, 189, 195, 384, 402–4
Devils, The (film), 61n
Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of, 231
Diana, Princess of Wales (née Spencer), 233n, 473, 475
Dietrich, Marlene, 270, 299
Dillon, Carmen, 58
Dirk Bogarde – By Myself (TV programme), 410 &n, 411, 430, 432
Diversion No. 2 (revue), 160
Doctor’s Dilemma, The (film), 80n, 454n
Dodd, James, 326n
Dodd, Mary (née Forwood), 326, 336, 443, 504
Dodds, Olive, 505
Doel, Frank, 4–5
Doillon, Jacques, 397 &n
Doillon, Lou, 397 &n
Doll’s House, A (film), 83
Donald, James, 160
Donaldson, Frances, Lady: Edward VIII, 121
Donaldson, Roger, 283n
Donen, Stanley, 284
Don’t Look Now (film), 127n
Dosai, Istvan, 283n
Dotrice, Roy, 146
Douglas, Kirk, 211
Drabble, Margaret, 77
Drummer’s Yard, near Beaconsfield, 9
Ducreux, Louis, 374n
Dullea, Keir, 83n
du Maurier, Daphne (Lady Browning), 128, 159
Dunn, Nell: Steaming, 307
Dunnock, Mildred, 227
Durrell, Gerald, 73
Durrell, Lawrence, 213, 414; Justine, 221
Dylan, Bob, 111
Eastwood, Clint, 35n
Eco, Umberto, 306
Economist, The (journal), 484–5
Ekberg, Anita, 168
Elizabeth II, Queen, 345, 479
Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 343, 345–6, 431
Elliott, Denholm, 204n, 229
Ellis, Vivian, 394
Esther Waters (film), 3
Etranger, l’ (Lo straniero; film), 40 &n
European Pianist of the Year see National Power World Piano Competition
Evans, Dame Edith, 36, 227
Evans, Maurice, 94
Evening News, 203
Everett, Rupert, 282n
Fabrizi, Aldo, 387
Falk, Rossella, 33
Falkender, Marcia, Baroness, 116n
Fargue, Annie, 500
Farrow, Mia, 29, 30n, 127n
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 146, 161; directs Despair, 140–1, 145–6, 148, 152–3, 158, 195, 384; pessimism, 147–9; relations with DB, 153, 158; reputation and expertise, 159, 163, 195–6; DB describes to Wallace S. Watson, 402�
�5; death, 404
Fawcett-Majors, Farrah, 172
Fearon, George, 406
Feibleman, Peter: Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman, 373n
Fellini, Federico, 46, 80, 163
Fellini’s Roma (film), 80
Fellowes, Julian, 349
Fells, Dorothy, 3
Fermor, Sir Patrick Leigh: DB plays in Ill Met By Moonlight, 329–30; DB visits in hospital in London, 449; The Violins of Saint-Jacques, 329 &n Ferréol, Andréa, 140, 147, 152–4, 158, 161, 169, 402–4
Ferrer, José, 41, 48
Feuillère, Edwige, 240, 306, 484
Field, Shirley Anne: A Time for Love, 431n
Fielding, Daphne, 445, 449, 452; visits DB, 111, 113, 116; believes passage in A Particular Friendship libellous, 376n; birthday lunch, 471; on reading, 478
Fighting Cock, The (army newspaper), 3
Figures in a Landscape (film), 41 &n, 49
Finch, Peter, 60n, 455
Finney, Albert, 74n, 283, 399, 477
Firth, Colin, 282n Fixer, The (film), 27n, 52n, 53, 92, 129, 252n
Fonda, Henry, 81
Fonda, Jane, 83n
Fontanne, Lynn, 167–8
Foot, Michael, 236
For the Time Being: Collected Journalism (DB), 400n, 496 &n
Forbes, Bryan, 186; and The Madwoman of Chaillot, 32 &n; Familiar Strangers, 186n
Foreman, Carl, 80
Forsyth, Bruce, 180
Forwood, Anthony (Ernest Lytton Langton Forwood): keeps diary, 1; relations with DB, 3, 71, 325–6, 339, 389; resides on Continent, 4, 23; in Labaro (Italy) with DB, 28; motor cars and driving, 33, 42, 48, 59, 316n, 324; in Venice with DB, 42; moves to Le Haut Clermont with DB, 45; cyst, 52; and DB’s refusing film parts, 59, 84; domestic and gardening activities, 69, 71, 92, 131, 142, 214, 265, 268; accompanies DB from Dover, 103; friendship with Brock Van den Bogaerde, 114; onJack Jones, 118; drawing, 124; in Paris with DB, 127, 271; aunt visits in France, 134–5; in Berlin with DB, 158; abscess on tooth, 178; compiles index for DB’s Snakes and Ladders, 178; and death of Daisy (dog), 186; flu, 198; writing, 198, 307; reads Waugh diaries, 202; arthritic foot, 212; helps bury Labo (dog), 220; in thunderstorm, 235; Parkinson’s disease, 242–3, 249n, 252, 303, 317, 337–8, 357; witnesses snake attack on toad, 247; cancer, 257 &n, 259n, 316, 338–9, 350, 352, 356–7, 459; convalesces, 259, 503; and DB’s award at Cannes Film Festival, 260; sadness at leaving Clermont, 264; watches Jewel in the Crown, 277; noseblowing, 288; approves of DB’s article on father, 292; entertains in France, 298; ageing and deterioration, 303–4, 314, 316–17; misses DB’s honorary doctorate at St Andrews, 306, 314; onDB’s drawing, 321; photograph of DB used as book cover, 321, 336; and Attenboroughs, 322; reads typsecript of DB’s Backcloth, 324; prostate operation and convalescence, 325–8, 330; and prospective return to England, 328; and filming of May We Borrow Your Husband?, 338; leaves Clermont, 353; death, 358–60, 362, 370–1, 381, 409, 505; letter writing, 368; at Sybil Burton’s farewell party, 406n; in DB’s A Short Walk from Harrods, 443–5, 452, 459–60; and DB’s literary qualities, 503
Forwood, Gareth, 31, 60, 82 &n, 106n, 160
Forwood, Leslie Langton, 52
Forwood, Thomas, 106n, 398, 419 & n, 448
Forwood, Véronique, 106n
Fosse, Bob, 211
Four Weddings and a Funeral (film), 464, 475
Fowles, John, 503
Fox, Angela, 38, 376; Slightly Foxed, 324 &n; Completely Foxed, 376 &n
Fox, Edward, 278, 476, 492n
Fox, James, 42, 48n, 278n, 364; Comeback, 278n
Fox, Robert, 419, 424, 466, 476–7, 492
Fox, Robin, 34, 38, 42
Foyles luncheons, 220, 277–8
France: political situation, 173, 237, 253, 259; DB’s devotion to, 309, 410, 437, 486, 490, 505; see also Haut Clermont, Le; Paris
Frankel, Cyril, 104n
Frankenheimer, John, 27n, 52, 59, 83, 131
Frankham, David, 222, 372, 461, 472, 474, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507; correspondence with DB, 5
Frankovich, Mike, 49
Fraser, Lady Antonia, 305, 436
Frears, Stephen, 338n
French, Michael, 397
Freud, Lucian, 232
Friedkin, William, 38n
Fry, Christopher, 369n
Gabin, Jean, 56
Gainsbourg, Charlotte, 397n
Gainsbourg, Serge, 397n, 399
Galileo (film and play), 29 &n, 109, 110n
Galsworthy, John: The Forsyte Saga, 379, 409; A Summer Story, 364n
Gandhi (film), 195, 197, 258, 259n
Garbo, Greta, 108, 270
Gardner, Ava, 104n, 107–8, 379, 387
Garland, Judy, 72 &n, 172, 178, 232, 322n, 373, 430
Garland, Patrick, 83n, 376n
Garnett, David: Lady into Fox, 80
Garrick Club, 464n
Gassman, Vittorio, 258
Gaulle, Charles de, 484, 491
Gavin, Brigadier-General James, 129n
Geeves, Val, 3
‘Genius in Love with Vulgarity, A’ (DB; newspaper article), 461 &n
Gentle Occupation, A (DB; novel): title, 191, 195; writing, 193, 195, 199, 501; publication and reception, 196, 199, 209–10; launch and promotion, 203n, 206–7, 220n; corrections and editing, 209; foreign translations, 225
Gerzina, Gretchen: Carrington, 373 &n
Gibson, Mel, 406
Gide, André: The Immoralist, 98
Gielgud, Sir John, 120, 122, 125, 130, 151, 170, 172–3, 215, 370, 429, 435n; An Actor and His Time, 501; Stage Directions, 64n
Gilbert, Bee (Bridget), 52, 58, 63, 69, 83, 90, 129, 252, 256, 367; correspondence with DB, 5; and Ian Holm, 5, 84, 131, 230 &n
Girardot, Annie, 100
Giraudoux, Jean: The Madwoman of Chaillot, 32n
Gladstone, David and April, 323 &n
Gladwyn, Cynthia, Lady, 481 &n
Glasgow: DB’s childhood in, 439–41
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 472 &n
Go-Between, The (film), 29, 42, 46n, 56n, 57–8
Godwin-Austen, Robert, 204n, 205–6
Goetz, William and Edith, 95 &n
Gogh, Vincent van, 112
Goldman, William, 129
Goldwyn, Samuel, 373
Goodings, (Margaret) Elizabeth Marie (née Van den Bogaerde; DB’s sister; ‘Lu’; ‘Lulu’), 122, 125, 137, 303, 316, 318, 499; letters from DB, 2; stays at Clermont, 122–5, 130, 145, 188, 191–3; DB gives Postillion to, 136–9; and mother’s death and funeral, 208; and DB’s article on father for Times bicentennial, 289; and husband’s cancer, 316–18; burgled, 327; visits Somme battlefield with DB, 335; husband’s death, 360 &n, 505; and DB’s knighthood and investiture, 433, 436, 506; reads DB’s Short Walk from Harrods, 443–5; visits DB in Chelsea, 450
Goodings, George (Elizabeth’s husband), 122, 130, 145, 193, 316n, 318, 320, 505; death, 360n
Goodings, Judy (née Roberts; Mark’s wife), 359
Goodings, Mark, 359; injured in fight, 82; and hair, 126;in DB’s autobiography, 319
Goodings, Sarah, 319
Gordon, Carol, 497
Gordon, Dorothy Webster (‘Mrs X’), 23; correspondence and relations with DG, 4–5, 8, 64, 82, 99, 176, 254–5, 290, 361, 368–9, 373, 497; DB never meets, 73, 77; death, 99, 487, 499; South African correspondent enquires about, 265; in An Orderly Man, 345 &n
Gordon, Ruth, 429n
Gotlieb, Howard, 404
Grace, Princess of Monaco, 240
Grade, Lew, Baron, 194
Grand, Elaine, 217n
Granger, Stewart, 376, 458
Grant, Cary, 172
Grant, Hugh, 464
Grasse see Haut Clermont, Le, 127
Great Gatsby, The (film), 127n Great Meadow (DB): Jeremy Hutchinson and, 154n; writing, 221 &n, 431n, 437; DB submits to Kavanagh, 434; DB reads on BBC radio, 447, 450; success, 455
Greaves, Flt Lt Christopher, 466 &n
Greene, Graham, 198 &n, 199;
Dr Fischer of Geneva, 204n, 209 &n; May We Borrow Your Husband?, 316n, 322, 325, 330n, 331, 337, 418
Grenfell, Joyce: Darling Ma: Letters to Her Mother, 1932–1944, 363 &n
Gribble, Bernard, 224
Griem, Helmut, 34, 75
Griese, Irma, 78
Gronowicz, Antoni: Garbo: Her Story, 390
Guard, Dominic (‘Leo’), 48n, 58
Guardian Travel Supplement, 194
Guildford: Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, 369 &n
Guinness, Sir Alec, 161, 172, 204
Guinness, Matthew, 161
Guinness, Merula, Lady, 161
Hackett, General Sir John: I Was a Stranger, 164
Hackett, Pat: The Andy Warhol Diaries, 374
Hackman, Gene, 121, 129
Haggard, Piers, 364n
Haig, David, 401n
Haining, Peter: The Legend of Greta Garbo, 390 &n
‘Half-life in World’s End, A’ (DB; newspaper article), 363 &n
Hall, Sir Peter, 184, 189, 277–8, 477
Hall, Willis, 9, 335n, 463
Hamer, Robert, 388 &n
Hamlet (Zeffirelli film), 406n
Hammond, Diana, 298n
Handl, Irene: The Sioux, 424 &n
Handsley, Mark, 450 &n
Hanff, Helene: 84 Charing Cross Road, 4–5
Harbottle, Laurence, 344; onDB’s extreme
Bromley fan, 216n
Harris, John: Covenant with Death, 335n
Harris, Julie, 396
Harris, Rosemary, 429n
Harrison, Cathryn, 401n
Harrison, John and Rebecca, 497
Harrison, Noel, 406n
Harrison, Sir Rex, 83, 115, 157, 376, 465–6
Hartley, L.P.: The Go-Between, 29, 42
Harty, Russell, 104n, 105, 118, 136, 138, 269, 337, 415, 433
Harvey, Anthony, 36, 220n, 221, 224, 232
Harwood, Ronald: The Dresser, 241n
Hatchards (bookshop), Piccadilly, 390
Haut Clermont, Le, Châteauneuf de Grasse: DB purchases, 34–5, 37; life at, 45–7, 49, 60, 63, 68, 71, 83, 88, 91–2, 102–3, 106, 168–9, 304–5; visitors, 46, 63, 92, 134–5, 147–8, 190–2, 209–11, 238; refurnishing, 200; affected by earthquake, 216; DB puts on market, 264, 337; DB sells and leaves, 341–3, 353, 412; de Pauws occupy and alter, 371–2, 413, 480
Healey, Denis, Baron, 135, 136
Hearst, William Randolph, 27
Heat and Dust (film), 258
Heilpern, John, 387
Heinemann Educational Books, 64
Hellman, Lillian, 372
Hemingway, Ernest, 173
Hepburn, Audrey, 448
Hepburn, Katharine, 416
Heysel stadium, Brussels, 434
Higgins, John, 237
Hillsborough football ground disaster, 427
Hinxman, Margaret: The Films of Dirk Bogarde (with Susan d’Arcy), 6; interviews DB, 38, 39n, 52n