I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir (45 page)

Note: “LG” refers to Lee Grant.

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Abzug, Bella,
411

Academy Awards.
See
Oscar nominations and awards

acting.
See also
specific productions

Actors Studio,
71
,
77
,
101

age, appearance, and effect on casting,
154
–56,
205
,
207
–8,
213
,
238
–39,
303
,
320

in adverse conditions,
203
–4

apex of theater career,
204

awards (
see
awards and nominations)

fear of forgetting lines,
131
,
272
–76,
306
,
386

fourth wall,
275
–76

heedlessness of advice,
73

interaction with audience,
274

loss of confidence,
77
–78,
274
–76,
303

makeup art,
195

Method,
53
,
99
,
101
,
204
,
275

migraine pain while,
230
–31,
289
,
327
–28

Neighborhood Playhouse,
51
–57,
62
,
192
,
275
,
318

outlet for anger,
192
,
203

passion for,
53
,
56
,
227

rebound after blacklist,
193
–94,
205
,
238
–39,
434
–35

risk-taking,
77
,
123
,
204

saying yes to everything,
315

shift away from, toward directing,
320

stage fright,
57

subconscious slip,
272

teaching,
105
,
188

television work while on blacklist,
138
–39

use of fear in,
57

Actors’ Equity,
98
,
133

Actors Studio,
71
,
101
–2,
232
–33,
241

Adams, Brooke,
326

Adler, Lulla,
152

Adler, Luther,
305

Adler, Stella,
101

Affrime, Mindy,
324

AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)

complicity in blacklist,
134
–36,
139
,
141
,
438

election of new officers,
133
,
135
–37,
139
–40

night of apology,
438
–39

Airport ’77,
311
–13

Aldredge, Theoni,
203

Allen, Irwin,
316

Allen, Woody,
101

Allgood, Sara,
75

All You Need Is One Good Break,
72
–74,
83
,
144

Alpert, Jon,
431
–32

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
See
AFTRA

American Film Institute,
298
–99

American Masters,
413

Andrews, Dana,
122
,
154

Annie Kay (childhood friend),
35
,
36

Ann-Margret,
393
–94

Anthony, Joe,
151

Arms and the Man,
79
–80

Art Students League,
43

Ashby, Hal,
210
,
231
,
236
–37,
247
–49,
289
–90,
292

Astin, Sean,
380

Austin, Dr. (psychiatrist),
127
,
155

awards and nominations

Cannes International Film Festival,
91
,
133
,
160

Directors Guild Award for TV Director,
374

Emmy,
212
,
297
,
432

Oscar,
90
–91,
133
,
268
,
294
–95,
306
,
364
,
372

Bacharach, Burt,
420
–23

Baghdad ER,
431
–32

Bailey, Pearl,
248

Baker, Kathy,
439

Balcony, The,
173
–77

Balter, Marie,
373

Bancroft, Anne,
119
,
122

Barnett, Joan,
352

Bates, Kathy,
383

Battered,
375
–77

Baumschlag, Stanley,
33

Beatty, Warren,
288
–94

Behar, Joy,
416

Belafonte, Harry,
345

Bendix, William,
75

Benjamin, Richard “Dick,”
259
–62

Berghof, Herbert,
59
–61,
105

Bergman, Ingmar,
373

Bergner, Elisabeth,
325

Bernard, Tom,
404

Bernardi, Herschel,
160

Bernstein, Aline,
318

Bernstein, Walter,
100
–101,
147
,
153
,
156
,
435

Berry, John,
72
–74,
83
,
100
,
143
,
145

Birnkrant, Ruth and Arthur,
75
,
94
,
97

Black, Karen,
259
–62

Black, Lenny,
28
–30

blacklist.
See also
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

AFTRA’s complicity in,
134
–36,
139
,
141
,
438

AWARE, Inc.,
134
–35,
136
–37,
140
,
141

Broadway’s resistance to,
98

careers and lives ruined,
83
,
134
,
327
,
439

children of blacklisted artists,
433
–34,
438
,
440

front men for writers,
100
–101,
433
–34

LG’s inclusion on,
86
,
91

LG’s release from,
128
,
178
,
193

night of apology,
438
–40

Red Channels,
84
,
86
,
134

Screen Actors Guild’s and Reagan’s support,
369

television sponsors and,
138

Blakley, Ronee,
294

Bloomgarden, Kermit,
98

Blumenthal, Dr. (plastic surgeon),
154
–55

Bondi, Eddie,
220

Bori, Lucrezia,
10

Boudin, Leonard,
108
–13

Brando, Marlon,
72
–73

Breslin, Jimmy,
358

Bridges, Beau,
231
,
247
–48

Broadway Brawler,
401
–10

Bromberg, J. Edward “Joe,”
74
,
83
–84,
85
,
439
,
440

Brooks, Albert,
385
–86

Brooks, David,
194

Bruce, Betty,
69

Bruce, Lenny,
183
–86

Brustein, Robert,
206

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell,
220
–24

Burnell, Buster,
58
–59

Burry, Allen,
428

Byrne, Gabriel,
370

Caine, Michael,
315
–16

Cannes International Film Festival award,
91
,
133
,
160

Cannon, Dyan,
298

Captains and the Kings, The,
151
–54,
156
–57

Carnovsky, Morris,
193

Carrie (maid),
25
,
26
,
27
–28

Carson, Johnny,
297

Carver, Mary,
97

Caryl, Naomi,
229
–30

CBS blacklist office,
178

Chamberlain, Richard,
307

Chambers, Dick,
276

Chambers, Everett,
353
–55

Chambers, Nancy,
344

Channing, Stockard,
380

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen,
341
,
422

Chasman, Tanya and David,
103

Chayefsky, Paddy,
118

Cherry, Mrs. (elementary school teacher),
21
–23

Chester (school friend),
49

Cho, Margaret,
397

Christie, Julie,
288

Cirker, Ira,
138

Clayburgh, Jill,
339
–40

Cobb, Lee,
128

Coburn, James,
280

Cohn, Roy,
186

Collingwood, Charles,
137
,
140

Collins, Joan,
415

Communism.
See also
blacklist

LG’s ignorance and rejection of,
67
,
83
,
93
–94,
127

Manoff’s beliefs and associations,
74
,
83
,
89
,
109
,
119
,
147
–48

revelation of Stalin’s atrocities,
147
–48

Conradi, Anne Marie,
19

Constantine, Michael,
304

Coolidge, Martha,
323

Cooper, Louis,
271
,
412

Cooper, Natalie,
339

Corman, Roger and Julie,
367

Costello, Tony,
344

Cotten, Joseph,
311

Cotts, Virginia,
360
,
388

Craig, David,
166

Crane, Norma,
421

Crystal, Billy,
439

Cuccia, Vincent,
186

Cunningham, Sally,
66

Daly, John,
380
–82

Danaher-Dorr, Karen,
352

Daniels, Jeff,
383
–84

Dassin, Jules,
100

Davis, Andy,
299

Davis, Ossie,
238

deaths

Bromberg, Joe,
85

Carrie (maid),
28

Chester (school friend),
50

childhood neighbor,
28

Dante, Nicky,
399

Dora (grandmother),
81
–82

father,
443
–44

Fremo (aunt),
374

friends remembered,
445

Jack (uncle),
7
–8

Manoff, Arnie,
200
–201

McDowall, Roddy,
342
–43

mother,
331
–33

Rachel (mother-in-law),
442

Salt, Waldo,
319

Schwartz, Gladys,
318
–19

suicide victim at Los Angeles hotel,
65
–66

Taylor, Elizabeth,
423

Torre, Mike,
106

Defenders, The,
194
,
196

Defending Your Life,
385
–87

de Havilland, Olivia,
311
,
313

Dennis, Sandy,
105
–6

Derwin, Dr.,
394

Detective Story

Broadway play and film,
54
,
71
–72,
75
,
77

Oscar and Cannes awards,
90
–91,
133

DeVito, Danny,
402

Dickinson, Angie,
341
,
421
–22

Didion, Joan,
240

Diller, Phyllis,
264

Dillon, Melinda,
380

Directors Guild Award,
374

director work.
See also
documentary filmmaking

American Film Institute women’s directing workshop,
298
–300

commercial films,
392
–94

Directors Guild Award for TV Director,
374

first documentary,
321
–23

first television project,
263
–65

first theater project,
233
–35

movies based on documentaries,
352
–55

as new career,
315
,
320
,
323
,
361

repeated mistakes,
340

vision,
327

Divorce American Style,
237

Doctors and the Nurses, The,
194

documentary filmmaking

for
American Masters,
413
–14

Feury/Grant Entertainment,
358
,
360
–61,
389
–90,
411
–12

filmmaking repertory family,
441

first film,
321
–23

for HBO,
358
–60,
362
–64,
369
,
371
–72,
388
–90

as inspired by
Harlan County, USA,
358
–59

lawsuits,
389
–90

for Lifetime channel,
411
–12,
414
,
417
–19,
421
–23,
425
–26

political expression through,
322
–23,
370

Donald (dresser),
270

Doolittle, Jimmy,
233

Dorn, Dolores,
299

Douglas, Kirk,
75
,
428
–30

Douglas, Melvyn,
325
–29

Douglas, Michael,
254
,
293
,
402
,
428
–30