Merv Griffin- A Life in the Closet
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Dove, Billie 70, 190
Downey, Robert Jr. 483
Dozier, William 36, 37
Drag 266
Drake, Tom 55, 56, 96, 97, 109, 110, 112, 123, 128, 129, 130, 133, 139, 142, 143, 521
Drimmer, Dr. Eric 453
Driver, Donn 299
Dru, Joanne 259
DuBois, Richard 263
Duel of the Titans 148
Duff, Howard 143
“Duke and IMerv Visits John Wayne” 420
Duke, Doris 346, 348, 449
DuMont Television Network 18
Dunaway, Faye 377
Dunn, Monica 524
Dunne, Dominick 479
Dunne, Irene 95, 96
Dunning, Philip 374
DuPont Show of the Week, The 343
Durant, Will & Ariel 418
Durgom, George (“Bullets”) 125, 150, 161, 162, 224, 225, 228, 232, 234, 284, 300
Dylan, Bob 431
Dynasty 471
East of Eden 268
Eastwood, Clint 458, 474
Ecstasy and Me 426
Eddie Fisher Show, The 284
Eddy, Nelson 11, 122
Edward, Duke of Windsor (a.k.a. King Edward VIII) 389
Edwards, Joan 38
Egg and I, The 66
Ehrenstein, David 491
Eisenhower, Dwight 96, 408, 477
Eisenhower, Mamie 408, 477
Ekberg, Anita 145, 190
Elizabeth II, Queen of England 389, 404, 451
Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Princess 503
Elizabeth, The Queen Mother 451
Elliot, “Mama” Cass 367
Ellroy, James 156
Elvis: What Happened? 520
Emery, John 278
Enquirer, The 493
Enter Laughing 386
Entertainment Weekly 509, 514
Entratter, Jack 272, 275, 282
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter 345
Erskine, Marilyn 194
“Eternally” 341
Ethel Barrymore Theater, the 49
Eva Gabor, an Amazing Woman 491
Evans, Dale 415, 497
Evans, Linda 470
Evening With Tallulah Bankhead, An 272
Everett, Marge 499
F Troop 125
Faber, Mr. and Mrs. George 10
Fairbanks, Douglas Jr. 19, 94
“Falling in Love with Love” 38
Farrell, Rita 131, 195
Farrow, Mia 352
Faulk, John Henry 314, 523
Faye, Alice 26, 198
Fear of Flying 428
Fear on Trial 314
Ferrer, Jose 138, 139, 200, 225, 317, 324, 522
Fields, Totie 509
Fields, W.C. 115, 264
Fighter Squadron 53
Fighting Cock Club, The 231
Finian's Rainbow 297, 299
Fiore, Carlo 520
Fisher, Eddie 33, 114, 117, 118, 119, 137, 237, 238, 254, 329, 367, 428
Fisk, Peter 421
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 37, 181
Flamingo, The (Las Vegas) 451
Fleming, Art 376
Fleming, Ian 198, 328
Fleming, Rhonda 35
Flesh and the Devil 154
Fletcher, Terry 14, 15
Flynn, Errol 20, 22, 34, 43, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 124, 169, 170, 193, 213, 248, 264, 270, 293, 325, 337, 428, 450, 499
“Flynn's Flying Fuckers” 77
Fog Over Frisco 199
Folsom, Janet 27, 29, 30, 31, 37, 520
Fonda, Henry 53, 354, 357, 416
Fonda, Jane 415, 417
Fontaine, Joan 36, 38
For the First Time 449
For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington 465
Forbes, Malcolm 471
Ford Motor Company, The 415
Ford, Barbara 98
Ford, Gerald 408
Ford, Glenn 200, 357, 453
Ford, Harrison 1
Ford, John 337, 421
Ford, Tennessee Ernie 299
Ford, Wallace 234, 235
Forest Lawn Cemetery 229
Forrest, Steve 254
Foster, Norman 94
Foy, Eddie Jr. 132
Franciosa, Tony 70
Francis, Connie 367
Francis, Kay 411
Francis, Robert 226, 227, 228, 522
Frank Campbell Funeral Home 405
Franklin, Aretha 351
Frasier 356
Freedland, Michael 360
Freedom of Peace Party, The 414
Friedman, Harry 446
From Here to Eternity 160, 163, 177, 180, 181, 182, 256, 404, 522
Front Runner, The 440
Frost, David 413
Frost, Harvey 448
Fuller, Buckminster 395, 396
Funny Farm, The 447
Funny Girl 388
GString Murders, The 431
Gable, Clark 19, 52, 64, 72, 90, 94, 98, 105, 166, 180, 259, 276, 337, 357, 380, 389, 478
Gabor, Eva 1, 5, 8, 45, 71, 212, 347, 348, 413, 436, 438, 448, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 469, 472, 474, 476, 477, 478, 482, 491, 492, 493, 496, 500, 503, 504, 514, 524
Gabor, Jolie 453, 456, 476, 477, 478, 479, 504, 505, 524
Gabor, Magda 450, 453, 455, 504, 505
Gabor, Zsa Zsa 3, 8, 108, 292, 340, 347, 348, 349, 383, 414, 427, 429, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 457, 472, 476, 477, 492, 493, 504, 514, 524
Gallagher, Helen 297, 298
Gallegher, Tom 486
Garbo, Greta 152, 153, 248, 329, 356, 480
Gardner, Ava 72, 98, 104, 142, 180, 182, 183, 184, 242, 287, 291, 346, 360, 390, 427, 470
Garfield, John 124, 406
Garland, Judy 47, 54, 56, 76, 83, 86, 87, 89, 93, 98, 99, 109, 119, 133, 135, 144, 207, 213, 225, 238, 241, 258, 270, 285, 310, 349, 351, 366, 380, 381, 383, 397, 399, 400, 405, 406, 407, 460, 481, 513, 521, 523
Garon, Jay 426, 520
Garroway, Dave 413
Gary, Romain 181
Gates, Phyllis 208
Gay & Lesbian Review, The 515
Gay Caballero, The 31
Gay Men's Health Crisis 443
Gaynor, Mitzi 190, 505
Geffen, David 514
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 383
Gershwin, George 93
Gershwin, Ira 93
Getting Gertie's Garter 252
Gibson, John 444
Gielgud, Sir John 328, 330, 427
Gigi 330
Gilbert, Billy (“Sneezy”) 26
Gilbert, John 329
Gilbert, Johnny 333
Gilda 173, 175
Gilford, Jack 362
Gilford, Madeline Lee 362
Givenchy Hotel & Spa (Palm Springs) 483
Givenchy, Hubert de 483
Gleason, Jackie 125, 284, 300, 302, 303, 344, 407
Globe, The 493
“Go Tell It On the Mountain” 304
God and Intelligence 18
“God Bless America” 26, 299
God Save the Queens 387
God's Little Acre 201
Goddard, Paulette 333, 421
Godfather, The 396
Godfrey, Arthur 317, 366
Going Places 319, 321
Goldblum, Jeff 345
Golden Blade, The 277
Goldeneye (Jamaica) 328
Goldman, Albert 172
Goldwater, Barry 383
Goldwyn, Samuel 129, 357
Gone With the Wind 420
Gong Show, The 318
Good Shepherd Catholic Church (Beverly Hills) 504
Goodman, Benny 42, 43
Goodson, Mark 32, 331, 365
Goulet, Robert 382
GQ Magazine 440
Grable, Betty 26, 30, 74, 198, 202, 253, 288, 379, 412
Grahame, Gloria 257
Granger, Farley 100, 127
Granger, Stewart 119, 250, 251, 253, 254
Grant, Cary 69, 73, 191, 195, 263, 287, 329, 374, 389, 475
, 482, 506
Grant, Gogi 63
Grapes of Wrath, The 63
Gray, Barry 296
Gray, Billy 159
Grayson, Kathryn 63, 176, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 224, 519
Great Masturbator, The 449
Greatest Show on Earth, The 165
Greatest Story Ever Told, The 81
Green Acres 454, 504
Green Hornet 37
Green, Shirley 200
Greene, Richard 94, 255
Greenstreet, Sidney 495
Greer, Jane 71
Gregory, Dick 414, 416, 419
Grieg, Edvard 11
Griff, the 505
Griffin Shoe Polish 299
Griffin, Anthony (Tony) 82, 319, 511
Griffin, Donovan Mervyn 319
Griffin, Elmer 19, 21, 22, 73, 74, 124, 126, 269, 270, 356
Griffin, Fatah 319
Griffin, Julann Elizabeth Wright 319
Griffin, Mervyn Edward Sr. 7, 10, 13, 16, 320
Griffin, Peck 19
Griffin, Rita Robinson 7, 10, 45
Grizzard, George 211, 305, 306, 523
Grove, Betty Ann 284
Gucci 483
Guider, Elizabeth 514
Guinness Book of World Records 173, 445
Gunsmoke 145
Gustaf Adolf, Prince of Sweden 185
Guy Mitchell Show, The 35
Guys and Dolls 51, 312
Gypsy 431
Hackett, Buddy 438
Haggart, Stanley Mills 520
Haig, Alexander 429
Haines, William 168, 420
Hall, Jon 264
Hall, Virginia 272
Halsman, Philippe 104
Hamilton, George 1
Hamilton, Margaret 400, 401, 423
Hamlet 461
Hammer, Armand 466, 467
Hammerstein, William 298
Handleman, Stanley Myron 387
Hanging Tree, The 211
“Hangman” 443
Hanlon, David 487
“Happy Days Are Here Again” 370
Happy Hustler, The 441
Happy Times, The 454
Hargitay, Mickey 263
Harlow, Jean 29, 266
Harrah's 488
Harris, Jean 509
Harris, Richard 440
Harrison, George 451
Harrison, President Benjamin 388
Harrison, President William Henry 388
Harrison, Rex 285, 427
Harrison, Robert 336
Harvey, Laurence 420
Hasty Heart, The 124, 127
Hathaway, Henry 389
Hauptmann, Richard Bruno 356
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” 399
Hayden, Tom 415
Hayes, Helen 43
Hayes, Peter Lind 353
Hayes, Richard 316
Haymes, Dick 32, 33, 101, 200, 201, 342
Hays, Wayne 450
Hayward, Louis 329
Hayward, Susan 131, 190, 346, 438
Hayworth, Rita 33, 138, 173, 175, 200, 201, 342, 449, 462, 520
Hazel Bishop Show, The 79, 101, 102
Head, Edith 224
Hearst, William Randolph 89, 90, 483
“Heartaches by the Number” 35
Heatherton, Fred 83
Hebrew National Foods 471
Hefner, Hugh 482, 491
Heidi 335
Heiress, The 151
Helen Morgan Story, The 63
Hellcats of the Navy 503
Hello Down There 407
Hello, Dolly! 383, 384, 386
Hemingway, Ernest 139, 181
Hepburn, Katharine 43, 52, 53, 71, 199, 328, 364, 367
Herbalife 483
Herbert, F. Hugh 366
Hercules 448
Herron, Mark (a.k.a. Truman Herron) 278, 279, 280, 286, 289, 291, 292, 380, 381, 397, 398, 399, 523
Heston, Charlton 163, 430, 446
Hickman, Darryl 63
Hickman, Dwayne 63, 64
High Noon 124
High School Musical 416
Hilfiger, Tommy 483
Hilton Hotels Corporation 481
Hilton, Conrad 106, 108, 348, 414, 477
Hilton, Nicky 106, 107, 114, 250, 451, 477, 513
Hinckley, John 464
Hitchcock, Alfred 149, 150, 207
Hitler, Adolf 373
Hockenhull, Isaac 304
Hoffman, Abbie 415
Hoffman, Dustin 491, 495
Hogan's Heroes 81
Holden, Dr. Skip 510
Holden, William 126, 366, 373, 389
Holder, Dennis 490
Holiday In Mexico 60
Holiday, Billie 12, 136, 267, 277
Holliday, Judy 199, 363
Holly, Buddy 367
Hollywood Babylon 150
Hollywood High School's Merv Griffin Fan Club, The 83
Hollywood Palace Theater 437
Hollywood Palladium, The 83, 84
Hollywood Reporter, The 372, 514, 515
Hollywood Walk of Fame 438, 445
Holman, Libby 311
Holmes, John C. (a.k.a. “Johnny Wadd”) 434
Holmes, Karen 167
Honeymooners, The 344
Hooker, Mrs. Lent 27, 30
Hoover, J. Edgar 209, 240, 419
Hoover, President Herbert 497
Hope, Bob 333, 344, 367, 416, 437, 471
Hopper, Hedda 59, 66, 72, 186, 240, 253, 254, 297
Horne, Lena 461
“Hot-Cha-Cha” 341, 344
Houdini, Harry 193, 263
“Hound Dog” 339
House of Wax 129, 130, 246
Houston, Whitney 472
“How Are Things in Glocca Morra?” 298
How Green Was My Valley 59
Howard, Curly 334
Howard, Leslie 329
Howard, Moe 334
Howdy Doody Show, The 316
“Hucklebuck, The” 341
Hucksters, The 180
Hudson, Rock 2, 53, 57, 58, 59, 67, 86, 87, 128, 186, 198, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 216, 229, 261, 263, 269, 272, 275, 276, 277, 309, 313, 390, 407, 408, 423, 424, 438, 439, 440, 442, 458, 468, 469, 470, 471, 479, 516, 519, 521
Huffingon Post, The 491
Hughes, Howard 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 77, 184, 189, 190, 192, 194, 197, 225, 229, 239, 248, 282, 283, 284, 287, 289, 428, 436, 450, 476, 521
Hughes, Mark 483
Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra, The 341
Humphrey, Senator Hubert 416
Hunter, Tab 46, 67, 130, 187, 198, 209, 421, 432, 516
Huston, Angelica 506
Huston, John 506
Hutton, Barbara 347, 449, 477
Hutton, Betty 253, 257, 333
Hyer, Martha 132
I Confess 149, 150, 151, 152
I Could Go on Singing 83
I Couldn't Smoke the Grass on My Father's Lawn 393
“I Don't Care” 480
“I Don't Want to Walk Without You” 128
“I Got the Music in Me” 429
“I Kiss Your Hand, Madame” 186
“I Like the Look of You” 131
“I Was Taken for a Sleighride in July” 32
“I'd Like to Hate Myself in the Morning” 399
“I'll Be Seeing You” 285, 339
“I'll Never Smile Again” 53
“I'll Walk Alone” 28
“I'm in Love with Miss Logan” 81
“I've Been 'Buked, and I've Been Scorned” 304
I've Got a Hunch 331
“I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts” 82, 83, 85, 94, 109, 121, 133, 145, 176, 188, 260, 295, 311, 315, 357, 482
I've Got a Secret 331, 343
Idolmaker, The 493
Ilson, Saul 435
Imitation of Life 386
In Cold Blood 428
In the Arena 165
“In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening” 49
Ind
iscretion of an American Wife 293
Inge, William 311
Inside Daisy Clover 380
“Introduce Me to the Gal” 237
Iran-Contra Affair, The 465
Ireland, John 259
Isaac, Charles 453
It Happened One Night 166, 249
“It Might as Well be Spring” 296
“It's a Great Feeling” 133
“It's An Unusual Day” 61
It's Like a Dream 508
“It's Magic” 133
Iturbi, Jose 60
Jack Paar Tonight Show, The 345
Jackson, Mahalia 303, 304
Jackson, Michael 480, 482
Jagged Edge 81
Jagger, Mick 431, 432
Jamaica Inn, The 325, 331
Jamieson, Frank 453, 455, 456
“The Jane Froman Show” 131
Jay Garon-Brooke & Associates Agency, The 426, 520
Jeanmaire, Zizi 190
Jennings, Ken 446
Jeopardy! 2, 375, 376, 377, 396, 446, 467, 471, 486, 494
Joan Rivers Show, The 493
Joe the Plumber 496
Joey Bishop Show, The 412
John Wayne Cancer Institute, The 508
John, Elton 480
Johnny and the Hurricanes 343
Johnny Belinda 48
Johnny Carson Show, The 362
Johns, Glynis 290
Johnson, Lyndon B. 273
Johnson, Van 123, 228, 245, 400, 516
Johnston, Johnny 185
Jolson, Al 80, 270
Jones, James 160, 177, 180, 181, 182
Jones, Jennifer 98, 100, 142
Jones, Shirley 258
Jong, Erica 428
Jorden, Al 122
Jorgensen, Christine 417
Jourdan, Louis 330
Judy Garland Show, The 103
Jump Up Calypso 356
Jungle Book, The 83
“Just in Time” 401
Kanter, Jay 70, 111, 306
Karl, Harry 253
Karloff, Boris 334
Kate Smith Hour, the 299
Kaye, Danny 83, 357, 365
Kazan, Elia 308, 309
Kazan, Lainie 388
Kazner, Kurt 81
Kearns, Michael 441
Keaton, Buster 352
Keel, Howard 185, 191
Keep Talking Show, The 331, 332
Keller, Greta 375, 524
Kelly, Emmett 355
Kelly, Gene 381, 400
Kelly, Grace 70, 76, 180, 292, 389, 390, 417, 450
Kelly, Patsy 272, 275, 280
Kennedy, Ethel 402
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald 103, 240, 245, 304, 324, 349, 356, 357, 368, 370, 430, 449, 463, 481
Kennedy, Joseph Patrick 240, 244
Kennedy, Patricia 243, 244, 245
Kennedy, Robert Fitzgerald 103, 345, 346, 349, 358, 374, 401, 402, 429, 522
Kennedy, Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald 243, 417
Kentucky Symphony, The 187
Kerr, Deborah 168, 178, 179, 250
Kerzner, Sol 488
KFRC Radio 32
Khaki Blue 211
Khan, Aly 200
Khan, Prince Aly 175, 389, 449, 463
Kid Nightingale 196
Kilbride, Percy 66
Kilgallen, Dorothy 69, 355
Kim 76
King in New York, A 393