The Most Beautiful Woman in the World (77 page)

Maxwell, Robert, 387

Mayer, L. B. (Louis Burt), 4, 11, 14–16, 52

Maytime
, 1

McCambridge, Mercedes, 87, 99

McCarthy, Kevin, 31, 34, 35, 61, 104, 107, 108, 110

McClintock, Trish, 57

McClory, Kevin, 112, 113–14, 117, 118

McDonald, Marie “The Body,” 105, 118

McDonald, Mary, 2

McDowall, Roddy, 5, 6, 7, 15, 20, 61, 62, 65, 109, 187, 191, 218, 306, 309, 343, 412, 417, 420, 447, 459

McFadden, Mary, 373

McGuire, Dorothy, 121

McLean, George, 80

McMasters, Paul, 96, 97–98

McMurray, Finnian (great grandson), 414

McMurray, Todd, 414

McPhail, Doug, 1

McPhail, Muzzie, 1–2

Mellon, Catherine, 326

Menard, Tina, 102

Mengers, Sue, 305

Mercouri, Melina, 177

Mercury, Freddie, 374

Merlo, Frank, 237

Method acting, 36, 95, 163, 405

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, (MGM), 4, 21, 60, 309; lechery at, 11; Little Red Schoolhouse, 1–2, 49; loaning out Taylor to other, studios, 13–14, 28, 85–86, 87, 98; Mayer, L. B., ousted, 52–53; scandal, fear of, 71–72; Schary, Dore, at, 52–53, 110–11; stars and contract players at, 17–18, 20–21, 45, 70, 84; Taylor’s movie career with, 2–17, 19–21, 23–25, 28–29, 41–43, 50, 52–53, 57, 59, 63–64, 65, 74–76, 149, 159–60, 164–66, 177

Michael of Kent, Princess, 341

Midler, Bette, 372

Midnight Cowboy
, 270

Miles, Sylvia, 329

Miller, Ann, 47, 50

Miller, Henry, 319

Miller, Nolan, 372, 378, 380–81, 419

Mills, John, 74

Mills, Paul, 71

Minnelli, Denise, 224

Minnelli, Liza, 325, 326, 331, 347, 391, 417, 446

Minnelli, Vincente, 53, 222, 224, 465

Mirisch, Harold, 122

Mirror Crack’d, The
, 333

Misenhimer, Bill, 360–61, 364–65

Misfits, The
, 31, 65, 185

Mitchelson, Marvin, 368

Mitchum, Robert, 160, 232, 242

Mocambo, 29, 44, 47, 49, 316

Modern Actor, The
(Billings), 38

Moffatt, Ivan, 39, 60

Monroe, Marilyn, 27, 103, 160, 164, 179, 195, 199, 201, 336, 457

Moonstruck
, 381

Moore, Demi, 418, 419, 423, 425–26, 427

Moore, Mary Tyler, 347

Moore, Terry, 27, 55, 92

Morena, Mario (Cantinflas), 126, 135

Morgan, Catherine, 173

Morrison, Keith, 157

Morrison, Sally, 373

Mosley, Diana, 256

Mosley, Leonard, 78, 129

Moss, Kate, 347

Mountain, The
, 53

Muhl, Edward, 85

Muni, Paul, 167

Murphy, George, 53, 334

Murrow, Edward R., 66, 117

My Cousin Rachel
, 79

Nader, George, 365–66

Naked and The Dead, The
(Mailer), 40

National Board of Review award, 230

National Velvet
, 7–10, 92

Natoli, Arthur, 309

Neagle, Anna, 68, 73

Neal, Patricia, 24

Nelson, Barry, 21, 246

Nelson, Judd, 347

Nelson, Sherry, 407

Network
, 175

New York Daily News
, 153, 305, 330, 372

New York Film Critics Circle award, 230

New York Herald Tribune
, 18, 19, 216

New York Mirror
, 5

New York Post
, 370, 372

New York Times
, 10, 41, 194, 219, 230, 247, 268, 277, 291, 301

New Yorker
, 216

Newfield, Penny, 398

Newman, Paul, 21, 139, 148, 388, 393, 453, 454

Niarchos, Stavros, 316

Nichols, Mike, 194, 228–29, 242

Nicholson, Jack, 262

Nicks, Stevie, 347

Night of the Igauna
, 207–12;

Night Watch
, 300–301, 307;

Nine Lives of Mike Todd, The
(Cohn), 139

Nipon, Albert, 373

Niven, David, 33, 72, 129, 197, 258, 294

Nixon, Richard M., 387

Novak, Kim, xxiii, 103, 222

Novelli, Gianni, 303

Nude with a Violin
(play), 131

Nureyev, Rudolf, 340

Nussbaum, Max, 157, 158

Oberon, Merle, 229

O’Brien, Edna, 274

O’Brien, Margaret, 6, 18

O’Connor, Caroline, 255, 258, 261, 263

O’Donnell, Rosie, 402

Oh! Calcutta!
(play), 407

Olivier, Laurence, 77, 139, 180, 185, 197, 205

Olson, Dale, 314–15

On the Waterfront
, 406

Onassis, Aristotle, 224, 249, 252, 253, 255, 258, 267, 299–300, 316

Ondine
(play), 83–84

Only Game in Town, The
, 202, 246, 250, 253, 255, 263

O’Toole, Peter, 197

Our Crowd
(Birmingham), 212

Our Town
(play), 36

Page, Geraldine, 162, 388

Palance, Jack, 393

Palmer, Betsy, 92

Palmer, Tony, 339–40

Pantages Theater, 63, 128, 163, 229

Paramount Pictures, 21, 28, 32, 158, 166, 225, 303

Parsons, Louella O., 48, 50, 53, 85, 159, 188, 195–96

Parton, Dolly, 396, 410, 417

Pawley, William D., Jr., 25–26, 28–29, 49

Peck, Gregory, 270, 363, 392, 418, 421

Peerce, Larry, 303, 305

Perelman, Ronald, 362

Perelman, S. J., 205

Perkins, Anthony, 67, 160, 321, 361

Perkins, Berry Berenson, 391

Perkins, Millie, 167

Perry, Matthew, 347

Perry Mason
(TV series), 72

Petersen, Svend, 331

Petit, Roland, 78, 81

Phillips, Mackenzie, 347

Piaf, Edith, 66

Picasso, Paloma, 326

Pinza, Ezio, 45

Place in the Sun, A
28, 32, 34, 35–42, 45, 68, 78

Pleshette, Suzanne, 421

Polanski, Roman, 275

Poll, Marty, 301

Pompidou, Georges, 260

Pompidou, Madame, 260

Ponti, Carlo, 303, 310, 312

Porter, Jean, 1, 2, 51, 120, 178, 269, 354

Powell, Dick, 23

Powell, Jane, 15, 19, 29, 44, 52, 54, 57, 137

Precht, Betty Sullivan, 54, 57

Presley, Elvis, 103

Presley, Lisa Marie, 418

Price, J. Middleton, 173, 234

Prideaux, James, 330

Prince, William, 31

Private Lives
, 342–43

Psycho
, 160

Pudney, Gary, 367

Queen Christina
, 167

Quine, Judy Balaban, 338

Rack, The
, 21

Radziwill, Lee, 326

Rainer, Luise, 15

Rainier, Prince Albert of Monaco, 284, 315–16

Rains, Claude, 106

Raintree County
, 104–11, 113, 118–21

Ramsbotham, Peter, 326

Ransohoff, Martin, 222

Rattigan, Terence, 205

Reagan, Nancy, 16, 334, 363, 365, 376, 396, 404

Reagan, Ronald, 16, 24, 268, 319, 334, 363, 365, 367, 376, 379, 392, 456

Rebel, The
(TV series), 92

Rebel Without a Cause
, 92–93, 101

Redfield, William, 214

Reed, Rex, 242, 330

Reflections in a Golden Eye
, 219–20, 232–33

Reluctant Saint, The
, 178

Return Engagement
(TV drama), 329

Revere, Anne, 9

Reynolds, Burt, 367, 413, 419

Reynolds, Debbie, 53, 268; background, 116; breakup of marriage, 152–53, 154; career, 159; children of, 133; marriage to Eddie Fisher, 116–17, 129, 131, 138, 142–43; marriage to Harry Karl, 223; matron of honor at Todd-Taylor wedding, 126; Taylor, Elizabeth, and 19, 49, 115, 127, 142–43, 145, 152, 223, 424

Rhapsody
, 42

Rhoten, Patrick, 427

Richardson, Tony, 237

Richie, Lionel, 353–54

Ritt, Martin, 225

Riva, Maria, 66, 67, 112