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Merv Griffin- A Life in the Closet

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by Darwin Porter


  King Must Die, The 441

  King, Dr. Martin Luther Jr. 79, 418, 419, 420

  King, Henry 257, 258

  King, Larry 288, 513

  Kirk, Phyllis (a.k.a. Phyllis Kirkegaard) 127, 128, 129, 131, 522

  Kirkeby Mansion 152

  Kiss Me Kate 284

  Kissinger, Henry 373

  Kitt, Eartha 441, 461

  Kitty Foyle 146

  Klansman, The 427

  Klein, Calvin 431

  Klein, Herb 404

  Knight, Dickie 310

  Knotts, Don 365

  Kolodny, Stephen 489

  Kovacs, Ernie 345

  Kramer, Adam 490

  Kramer, Stanley 194, 225

  Kubrick, Stanley 482

  Kummer, Marty 284, 286, 296, 303, 316, 320, 322, 331, 349, 350, 523

  Kyser, Kay 34, 43, 382

  L.A. Confidential 156

  L'Escoffier 3

  La Onda Va Bien 13

  La Quinta Ranch 475

  La Rocque, Rod 19

  Lac Merveilleux 475

  Ladd, Alan 126

  Lady of Burlesque 431

  Lady Says Yes, A 285

  Lady Sings the Blues 385

  Lafferty, Perry 102

  Lake, Veronica 164, 266, 346

  Lamarr, Hedy 60, 218, 248, 250, 348, 417, 426

  Lamour, Dorothy 333, 437

  Lancaster, Burt 124, 166, 178, 179, 180, 194, 234, 276, 400, 435, 470, 482, 487

  Landis, Carole 285

  Langtry, Lillie 461

  Lanza, Mario 185, 449

  Las Vegas Hilton 382

  Lassie 357

  Lassie Come Home 59, 508

  Last Frontier Hotel, The (Las Vegas) 69, 119

  Last Resort, The (a.k.a. Butterflies in Heat) 441, 520

  Laughlin, Nevada 473

  Laughton, Charles 287, 288, 289, 523

  Laven, Ralph 35, 520

  Lawford, Lady May 243, 244, 245, 522

  Lawford, Patricia Kennedy 346

  Lawford, Peter 52, 54, 55, 56, 61, 86, 97, 98, 99, 106, 128, 131, 135, 140, 142, 143, 165, 173, 181, 193, 213, 238, 239, 241, 242, 244, 269, 329, 345, 371, 373, 398, 440, 521, 522

  Lawrence of Arabia 359, 360, 361

  Lawrence, Gertrude 328, 329

  Lawrence, Steve 323, 353, 367

  Leamer, Laurence 349

  Leary, Dr. Timothy 355

  Lee, Brenda 343

  Lee, General Robert E. 388

  Lee, Gypsy Rose 92, 145, 431

  Lee, Peggy 135, 225

  Leeds, Phil 363

  Leigh, Janet 136, 137, 193, 194, 195, 269, 407

  Leigh, Vivien 328, 364

  Lemmon, Jack 344

  Lenin, Vladimir 467

  Lennon, John 113, 383, 391, 392, 431, 451

  Lenny 387

  Leonard, Jack E. 232, 233

  Lesser, Sol 148

  “Let There Be Love” 39

  Let's Play Post Office 409

  Letter to Three Wives, A 29

  Lewis, Jerry 193, 353, 416, 430, 447, 455, 482, 514

  Lewis, Robert Q. 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 323, 350, 353, 364, 387, 523

  Lewis, Sinclair 37

  Liberace 2, 3, 21, 23, 186, 259, 260, 262, 264, 265, 266, 268, 295, 321, 322, 336, 338, 340, 353, 361, 371, 372, 424, 434, 440, 474, 479, 480, 488, 516, 523

  Liberace Cooks! 264

  Life Is Worth Living 18

  Life Magazine 419

  Life of Riley, The 367

  Lifeboat 275, 367

  Linda Lovelace for President 387

  Lindbergh, Charles 356

  Lindsay, John 435

  Lindsey, Mort 399, 400, 431, 437

  Lindy's 116

  Linkletter, Art 32

  Lion King, The 83

  Lisser, Alan 32

  Little Church of the West, The (Las Vegas) 380

  Little People, The 392

  Little Princess, The 335

  Little Theater, The (a.k.a. Helen Hayes Theater) 378, 384, 389

  Lloyd, David 356

  Lloyd, Harold 352

  Lodge at Pepple Beach, The 490

  Loews 86th Street Theater (New York) 312

  Loggia, Robert 81, 521

  Lollabrigida, Gina 190

  Lombardo, Guy 42, 43

  London Weekend Television 414

  Long, Richard 66, 521

  Longest Day, The 442

  Look Up and Live 303

  Loren, Sophia 37, 360, 416, 427

  Los Angeles Film Critics Association 491

  Los Angeles Superior Court 493

  “Lost in the Stars” 365

  Louis XV, King of France 452

  Love Boat, The 494

  Love Nest 349

  Lovejoy, Frank 199

  Lovelace, Linda 422

  Lowell High School (San Francisco) 383

  Lucky Me 132

  “Lucky Me” 132

  “Lucky Pierre” 81

  Luft, Sid 135, 238, 399, 401, 406

  Lupino, Ida 124

  Lyons, Leonard 69

  M*A*S*H 102

  Maas, Willard 433

  Mabley, Moms 400, 401, 429

  MacDonald, Jeanette 122

  MacFarland, Barbara 474

  MacLaine, Shirley 242, 292, 344, 470

  MacMurray, Fred 344

  MacRae, Gordon 2, 38, 113, 120, 121, 132, 133, 134, 135, 146, 156, 159, 174, 187, 212, 232, 233, 234, 247, 257, 258, 318

  MacRae, Sheila 257

  “Mad About the Boy” 328, 393

  “Madame Siemmens” 11

  Maddox, Dean 26

  Madison, Guy (a.k.a. Robert Mosely) 38, 58, 198, 202, 203, 207, 211, 217, 218, 220, 421, 519, 521

  Madonna 470

  Mae West on Sex, Health, and ESP 265

  Magical Mystery Tour 83

  Magnificent Obsession 210, 272

  Maharis, George 367

  Mahesh Yogi, Maharishi, The 474

  Mahoney, Will 298

  Mailer, Norman 181, 435

  Main, Marjorie 66, 399

  Maisie (the Ann Sothern film series) 28

  Major Barbara 290

  Malden, Karl 254, 255, 305

  Malone, Dorothy 259

  Malraux, Andre 373

  “Mama Will Bark” 341

  Man Who Came to Dinner, The 456

  Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, The 474

  Man With the Golden Arm, The 256

  Manone, Wingy 302

  Manor Books, Inc. 426

  Manor Reviews 441

  Mansfield, Irving 285, 316, 317, 523

  Mansfield, Jayne 186, 253, 263, 350

  Manville, Lorraine (Countess Lorraine Dumanceaux) 173

  Manville, Tommy 173

  Margaret Rose, Princess of England 357

  Marie Antoinette 1

  Marks, Guy 369

  Marrying Kind, The 199

  Marshall, George 223

  Martin, Dean 242, 312, 367, 412, 455

  Martin, Freddy 31, 33, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 49, 50, 68, 71, 72, 80, 83, 85, 87, 88, 90, 101, 108, 110, 119, 120, 131, 136, 137, 188, 263, 382, 473, 482, 485, 520

  Martin, Mary 50, 51, 72

  Martin, Tony 488

  Marx, Chico 343

  Marx, Groucho 367

  Marx, Harpo 343

  Mary Poppins 379

  Mary Tyler Moore Show, The 102, 356, 376

  Mason, James 250, 400, 407

  Massacre River 204

  Match Game, The 333, 401

  Mathis, Johnny 499, 505, 516

  “Matilda” 79

  Mature, Victor 43, 200, 250, 427

  Maverick 125

  Maxwell, Elsa 345, 346

  Maxwell, Marilyn 333

  May, Elaine 332

  Mayer, Louis B. 19, 65, 99, 134, 247

  Mayflower Hotel, The (Washington, D.C.) 463

  Mayflower, The 375

  Mayo, Virginia 124

  Mazer, Bill 401

  MCA 182

  MCA Agen
cy, the 284

  McAbee, John 434

  McCain, John 496

  McCarthy, Mary 181

  McCarthy, Senator Joseph 362

  McCartney, Paul 451

  McCormick, Pat 355, 368

  McDaniel, Hattie 93, 277

  McDonald, Jeanette 92

  McDonald, Marie 252, 253

  McDowall, Roddy 52, 58, 59, 61, 62, 64, 66, 87, 97, 106, 107, 108, 112, 117, 130, 136, 141, 163, 178, 179, 182, 197, 199, 204, 206, 214, 222, 240, 250, 311, 322, 329, 380, 397, 407, 427, 438, 470, 507, 508, 519, 521

  McDowall, Winifriede 65

  “McGiver, Bill” (a.k.a. “Mrs. Rock Hudson”, a.k.a.

  “Jack Navaar”) 208, 210

  McGrady, Mike 413

  McGuire, Dorothy 81

  McKenna, Jay 443

  McLain, Curly 255

  McNamara, Maggie 366

  McNamara, Robert 374

  McNutt, Barbara 26

  McQueen, Steve 440, 458, 481

  Meader, Vaughn 367

  Meadows, Audrey 332, 344

  Medina, Patricia 254, 255

  Meet Me in St. Louis 55, 144, 214, 399

  Meisner, Sanford 129

  “Melancholy Baby” 46, 79

  “Melancholy Serenade” 301

  Melcher, Marty 120, 121, 521

  Melcher, Terry 120, 121

  Melody Time 43

  Member of the Wedding, The 166

  “Men in My Little Girl's Life, The” 382

  Menninger Clinic, The 142

  Meredith, Burgess 290

  Merman, Ethel 12, 50, 86, 92, 285, 344, 400

  Merrill Lynch 465

  Merv 416

  Merv Griffin Enterprises 467, 471

  Merv Griffin Entertainment 473

  Merv Griffin Events 483

  Merv Griffin Productions 354, 404, 437, 446

  Merv Griffin Ranch Company 473

  Merv Griffin Show, The 2, 13, 33, 39, 168, 270, 318, 350, 358, 361, 365, 376, 377, 388, 397, 407, 411, 416, 418, 419, 428, 433, 437, 456, 457, 458, 463, 464, 472, 473, 474

  Merv Griffin Show: 40 of the Most Interesting People of

  Our Time 509

  Merv Griffin's Crosswords 510

  Merv Griffin's Resort Hotel (Palm Springs) 483

  Merv: Making the Good Life Last 3

  “Mervgate” 491

  Metromedia 437

  Meurice Hotel (New York) 117

  Meyer, Johnny 283, 521

  Miami Herald, The 292, 319

  Midnight Cowboy 441

  Midway Island 456

  Mike Douglas Show, The 377, 382, 383

  Mildred Pierce 62, 213

  Miles, Sarah 458

  Miles, Vera 148, 199

  Milken, Michael 487

  Milland, Ray 389

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent 274

  Miller, Ann 269, 328

  Miller, Arthur 181

  Miller, Glenn 17, 42, 125

  Miller, Mark 469

  Miller, Mitch 35, 140, 341

  Minnelli, Liza 367, 381, 382, 400, 401, 432

  Minnelli, Vincente 56, 207, 381

  Miracle on 34th Street 196

  Miracle Worker, The 103

  Miranda, Carmen 30, 198, 328, 420

  “Miserlou” 48, 71, 72

  “Miss Miller” 429

  Miss Sadie Thompson 33, 138, 200

  Mitchell, Guy 34, 36, 39, 140, 224, 520

  Mitchum, Robert 178, 204, 239, 276, 290

  Monroe, Marilyn 70, 104, 181, 185, 195, 204, 253, 263, 266, 292, 307, 309, 310, 346, 348, 349, 369, 373, 379, 402, 450, 458, 460, 514

  Montalban, Ricardo 81, 470

  Montgomery, George 27, 31, 32

  Moon Is Blue, The 366

  Moonraker 198

  Moore, Grace 184, 187

  Moore, Terry 192

  Moore, Tommy 422

  Moreno, Rita 145

  Morgan, Dennis 36, 48, 146

  Morgan, Jaye P. 318, 319

  Morley, Robert 364

  Morning Show, The (CBS) 314, 315, 523

  “Morningside of the Mountain” 237

  Morrell, Hadley 5, 12, 229, 230, 233, 238, 239, 245, 250, 252, 254, 261, 267, 268, 271, 284, 285, 293, 294, 295, 305, 306, 309, 310, 319, 320, 323, 364, 373, 381, 383, 387, 390, 391, 402, 405, 425, 426, 434, 439, 447, 458, 462, 472, 479, 482, 496, 520

  Morris, Sam 27

  Morris, Wayne 94

  Morritt, Fred G. 92

  Mort Lindsay's Orchestra 428

  Mortal Storm, The 379

  Mosolino, Gloria 180, 181

  Mother Teresa 395

  Motion Picture Country Home for Indigent Show

  People 439

  Moulin Rouge 138

  Mount Mervillian Winery 483

  Mountbatten of Burma, Lord 452

  “Move On Up a Little Higher” 304

  “Mr. Sandman” 259

  Muggeridge, Malcolm 395

  Murder at the Cannes Film Festival 448

  Murders in the Rue Morgue 254, 255

  Murdoch, Rupert 378

  Murphy, Bob 12, 437

  Murray, Arthur and Kathryn 341

  Murray, Jan 353

  Music by Martin 96

  Music for a Summer Night 342

  Mutual Network, The 33

  “My Heart Cries for You” 35

  My Little Chickadee 263

  “My Melody of Love” 343

  My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan 464, 466

  Mystery of the Wax Museum 130

  Nader, George 205, 208, 469, 470

  Nader, Michael 470

  Naked Came the Stranger 413

  Namath, Joe 458

  “Navaar, Jack” (a.k.a. “Mrs. Rock Hudson,” a.k.a. “Bill

  McGiver”) 208, 210

  Navy Blues 302

  NBC News 489

  NBC Teen Workshop 343

  Neal, Patricia 124

  Neal, Tom 211

  “Nearer My God to Thee” 328

  Nelson, Gene 232

  Network 377

  “Never Been Kissed” 45, 86, 101

  New Faces of 1952 81

  New Frontier Resort, the (Las Vegas) 338

  New School, The 78

  New York Herald Tribune, The 292

  New York Hilton 400

  New York Times Bestseller List, The 413

  New York Times, The 422, 510, 515

  Newberger, Marcia 507

  Newman, Paul 127, 256, 305, 306, 424, 440, 506, 523

  Newsday 413

  Newsweek 479

  Niesen, Gertrude 26

  “Night and Day” 125

  Night Beat 418

  Night Has a Thousand Eyes 219

  Night of a Thousand Stars 451

  Night of the Hunter 290

  “Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A” 508

  Niven, David 94, 119, 263, 366, 389

  Nixon, Richard 349, 383, 395, 403, 408, 429, 430, 452, 467, 481

  Nizer, Louis 314, 467

  No Way Out 305

  Novak, Kim 474

  Novak, William 466

  Novello, Ivor 326

  Nureyev, Rudolph 374, 402

  O'Brien, Hugh 367

  O'Brien, Pat 429

  O'Brien, Sheila 167

  O'Donnell, Rosie 505, 514

  O'Hanlon, George 144

  O'Neill, Eugene 393

  O'Neill, Oona 393

  O'Toole, Peter 359, 361, 362, 396, 491, 506

  Occidental Petroleum 466

  Odd Couple, The 367

  Oklahoma! 256, 257

  “Old Devil Moon” 298

  Olivier, Sir Laurence 328, 329, 357, 427, 481

  Olsen, Dale 481

  Olson, Johnny 333

  Olson, Nancy 234

  “On and On” 429

  On Moonlight Bay 212

  “On Moonlight Bay” 135

  On the QT 339, 340

  On the Waterfront 255

  Onassis, Aristotle 4, 346, 373, 374, 450

  O
nassis, Jacqueline Kennedy 4, 286, 292348, 371, 372, 402, 430, 431

  “Once in Love with Amy” 237

  One in a Million 409

  One Lifetime is Not Enough 451, 457

  One Night of Love 184

  One Touch of Venus 142

  One Trick Pony 447

  Ono, Yoko 383, 392, 431

  Open End 418

  Orchids & Salami 3

  Oroville, California 427

  Orr, Bill 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 132, 135, 152, 155, 269, 522

  Orr, Joy Page 132

  OrryKelly 195

  Our Gang 186

  “Our Love Is Here to Stay” 499

  Our Very Own 127, 129

  Outlaw, The 71, 192, 226

  “Over the Rainbow” 135, 214, 240, 383

  Paar, Jack 284, 314, 335, 345, 347, 349, 352, 353, 369, 413

  Pabst, Bill 32, 33, 41

  Pacino, Al 396

  Page, Joy 124, 126

  Pajama Game, The 375

  Pal Joey 298

  Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of

  Television & Radio) 508

  Palmer, Jim (baseball player) 439, 440

  Palmer, Jim (radio announcer) 488

  Panda Records 37

  Pandagon 515

  Paradise Island, The Bahamas 485, 486, 487, 499

  Paramount Studios 224

  Pardo, Don 333

  ParkerBowles, Camilla 505

  Parker, Colonel Tom 37, 338

  Parker, Dorothy 274

  Parsons, Louella 72, 88, 89, 90, 129, 137, 186, 187, 240, 242

  Parton, Dolly 458

  Password 365

  Pat and Mike 199

  Pattiesen, Peter 181

  Paul Whiteman Orchestra, The 38

  Paule, Sally 9

  Paulson, Betty 10

  Payn, Graham 327, 328, 329, 330, 361, 523

  Payn, Sybil 328

  Payne, John 158, 192, 196, 197

  Payton, Barbara 190, 211, 333

  Pebble Beach Lodge, The 27, 28, 30, 520

  Pebble Beach, California 473

  “Pecos Bill” 48

  Peirce, Mrs. Albert 521

  Penn, Arthur 102

  Penny, J.C. 37

  People Magazine 490, 514

  Perfect Speciman, The 21

  Peters, Jean 190, 192

  Peters, Roberta 488

  Phantom of the Rue Morgue 246, 254, 255

  Phelps family, the 516

  Phelps, Margie 516

  Philadelphia Story, The 52

  Philbin, Regis 378

  Piazza, Ben 211

  “Pickaninny's Heaven” 300

  Pickens, Slim 234

  Pidgeon, Walter 447

  Pied Piper, The 113

  Pink Martini 509

  Pittsburgh 420

  Place in the Sun, A 111, 118

  Play Your Hunch 317, 331, 333, 334, 335, 349

  Playboy 360

  Players' International 488

  Playgirl 444, 459

  Playing the Field 458

  Playmates, The 343

  Plaza Hotel, The (New York) 488

  Plott, Brent 489, 490, 491, 492, 493, 504

  Poe, Edgar Allan 254

  Poitier, Sidney 304, 305

  Pompadour, Madame de 450, 452

  Ponder, Jon 516

  Poole, Wakefield 421, 422, 423

  Porter, Cole 22, 232

 

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