I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir (48 page)

Papp, Joe,
93
,
202
–5,
356
–57

Pappa, Peter,
403

Paris,
16
–18,
143
–47

Parker, Eleanor,
75

Parker, Sarah Jessica,
370

Parkins, Barbara,
205
,
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,
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,
244

Parks, Larry,
439

Parton, Dolly,
293
–94

Pataki, George,
186

Penn, Arthur,
118
,
119
–20

Perry, Hart,
359

Peters, Jon,
234

Pettinaro, Verino,
403

Peyton Place,
205
–8

Pfeiffer, Michelle,
341

Phillips, Michael,
402

Piaf, Édith,
146
–47

Pierce, David Hyde,
439

Pierce-Roberts, Tony,
383

Pierson, Frank,
255
–56

Pine, Ellie,
144

Plaza Suite,
267
–68

Plowright, Joan,
170

Pocono Camp Club,
31
–32,
40
–42,
70

Poitier, Sidney,
236
–37,
239
,
413
–14

Pollard, Mike,
105

Polonsky, Abe,
100
–101

Portnoy’s Complaint,
259
–62

Post, Ted,
208

Prager, Stanley,
214
–15

Prisoner of Second Avenue, The,
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,
268
–70,
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–76

Private View, A,
356
–57

Public Theater,
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–5,
356
–57

Purl, Linda,
319

Quill, Tim,
380

Quine, Don,
206

Quinn, Tony,
295

Raab, Phyllis,
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,
205

Randolph, John,
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–67,
238

Raskin, Carolyn,
264

Rasumoff, Abner and Musea,
12
–13

Raymond (uncle),
34
–35

Reagan, Ronald,
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–70

Redgrave, Lynn,
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–64,
424
–25

Redgrave, Vanessa,
419

Reese, Sammy,
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,
305

Reunion,
393

Richards, Ann,
141

Rifkin, Arnold,
402
,
407
–8

Rifkin, Ron,
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,
310

Rivers, Joan,
263
–64

Roberts, Eric,
397

Roberts, Rachel,
341
–42

Robson, Mark,
245

Rodgers, Richard,
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124

Rose, Billy,
166
–68

Rose (maid),
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25

Rosenberg, Stuart,
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,
305

Rosenthal, Abraham

background,
3
–4

contempt for Feury,
316
,
333
–34,
349

contempt for Manoff,
88
–90

contention with LG over loan,
334
,
347
–48,
349
–51

death and ashes,
443
–44

East Rockaway nursery school,
91
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316
,
349

jobs,
4
,
31
,
70

move to LG’s home,
333
–34

move to retirement home,
349

at parents’ home,
15

Pocono Camp Club,
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–32,
40
–42,
70

principles of and need for respect,
31
,
91
,
316
,
349

separation from and reunion with LG’s mother,
5
,
15
–16,
18

Rosenthal, Anne,
128

Rosenthal, Genevieve,
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–33

Rosenthal, Witia Haskell

adoration of LG,
26
–27,
52
,
89

background,
4

cancer and death,
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–33

dramatic tendencies,
26
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35
,
39
,
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dreams and plans for LG,
3
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,
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East Rockaway nursery school,
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332
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349

Haskell Nursery School,
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as inspiration for LG’s character in
The Landlord,
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LG’s secrets from,
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39
,
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loan to LG for Green House,
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,
333
–34

separation from and reunion with LG’s father,
5
,
15
–16,
18

vicarious living through LG,
45
,
48

vulnerability,
48
–49,
332

Ryder, Alfred,
203

Sager, Carole Bayer,
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,
426
–27

Salt, Waldo,
100
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103
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230
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319

Sands, Diana,
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–49

Sarandon, Chris,
318

Saroyan, Carol (later Carol Matthau),
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–66,
168

Savalas, Telly,
223

Sawyer, Connie,
70

Schell, Maria,
301
,
305

Schell, Max,
315

Schimmel, Mike,
41

Schisgal, Murray,
214

Schlatter, George,
263
–64

Schneller, Dr. (heart doctor),
396

School of American Ballet,
19

Schulberg, Budd,
217

Schwartz, Gladys,
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–61,
230
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318
–19

Scott, George C.,
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370

Scotti, Antonio,
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–11

Screen Actors Guild,
369
,
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Seasons of the Heart,
393

Sebring, Jay,
245

Segal, George,
393

Segall, Bernardo,
343
–44

Shakespeare in the Park,
202
–5

Shampoo,
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–91,
294
–95

Shape of Things, The,
263

Shatner, Bill,
319

Shumlin, Herman,
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–99

Silk Stockings,
188

Silver, Joan Micklin,
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Simon, Neil,
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–68,
307

Sinatra, Frank,
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,
212

Smith, Dick,
195

Sobieski, Carol,
255
–56

Solms, Kenny,
293

Spacey, Kevin,
439

Spielberg, Steven,
302

Stanislavski, Constantin,
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,
101

Stanley, Kim,
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–6

Stapleton, Jean,
353

Stapleton, Maureen,
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–72,
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Staying Together,
380

Steiger, Rod,
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–37,
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Steinem, Gloria,
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–97,
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Sterling, Jan,
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Stevens, Warren,
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Stewart, Jimmy,
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Strasberg, Lee,
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Strasberg, Susan,
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Streep, Meryl,
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–87

Strick, Joe,
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Stronger, The,
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–300

Stuart, Mary,
138

Sullivan, Joe,
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–57

Susann, Jacqueline,
243

Swarm, The,
315

Swarthout, Gladys,
10

Sylbert, Anthea,
288

Sylvia (aunt),
48

Tamiment summer resort,
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–59

Taormina Film Festival,
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,
366

Tate, Sharon,
245

Taylor, Elizabeth,
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–16,
423
–27

Tell Me a Riddle,
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–30,
373

Terkel, Studs,
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Thomas, Marlo,
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–74,
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Thomas, Tony,
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Threepenny Opera, The,
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–35

Tierney, Maura,
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–7

Tinker, Grant,
353

Tomlin, Lily,
294

Torn, Rip,
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Torre, Rosemary and Mike,
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–6

Towne, Bob,
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Trini (housekeeper),
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,
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Trumbo, Chris,
433

Trumbo, Dalton,
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–34

Turner, Lana,
210

Two for the Seesaw,
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–22,
169

Tynan, Ken,
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Tyne, Ethel and Buddy,
103

Ustinov, Peter,
341

Vaccaro, Brenda,
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,
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–65,
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,
312
,
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Vajna, Andy,
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Valley of the Dolls,
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–46,
419

Van Dyke, Dick,
264

Van Dyke, Mary,
54

Van Patton, Joyce,
106

Van Zandt, Porter,
120

Ventura, Clyde,
299

Verona, Steve,
397

Vietri, Albert,
403

Visiting Hours,
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–20

Vladimiroff, Pierre,
19

von Brandenstein, Patrizia,
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Voyage of the Damned,
301

Walken, Chris,
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–40

Walker, Bobby and Elly,
251

Wallace, Mike,
139

Walton High School,
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–45

Wanamaker, Sam,
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Warden, Jack,
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Warren, Lesley Ann,
234

Warwick, Dionne,
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–21

Wedding Breakfast,
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–100

Weil, Claudia,
323

Weinglass, Leonard,
179

Welch, Joseph,
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,
187

Welles, Orson,
301

Wertmüller, Lina,
366

Wexler, Haskell,
237

What Sex Am I?,
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–64,
366

Whitehead, Bob,
108

Williams, Billy,
302

Willis, Bruce,
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–10

Willmar 8, The,
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–22,
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Wilson, Michael,
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Winters, Shelley,
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–100,
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–78,
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–24

Witt, Paul Junger,
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–97

Wolfe, Thomas,
318

Women on Trial,
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–90

Woodard, Alfre,
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Wyler, William,
75

Yarrow, Peter,
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,
321
,
344

Yorkin, Bud,
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,
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,
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Yorty, Sam,
232

You Can’t Go Home Again,
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Young, Gig,
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Youngberg, Stephen,
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Young Savages, The,
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–24

Zaentz, Saul,
324

Zambanini, Richie,
403

Zeta-Jones, Catherine,
428

Zorina, Vera,
209

Zuniga, Daphne,
380

Dancing on the set of
Detective Story
. Copyright © 1951 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. Courtesy Paramount Pictures.

With Shelley Winters on the set of
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
. Copyright © 1968 MGM Studios. All rights reserved. Courtesy MGM.

With Sidney Poitier in
In the Heat of the Night
. Copyright © 1967 MGM Studios. All rights reserved. Courtesy MGM.

With Sharon Tate in
Valley of the Dolls
. Copyright ©1967 Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved.

Playing croquet with Beau Bridges in
The Landlord
. Copyright © 1970 MGM Studios. All rights reserved. Courtesy MGM.

With Jack Warden on the set of
Shampoo
. Copyright © 1975, renewed 2003, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All rights reserved. Courtesy Columbia Pictures.

With Walter Matthau in
Plaza Suite
. Copyright © 1971 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. Courtesy Paramount Pictures.

Lee Grant and Warren Beatty in
Shampoo
. Photograph by Nate Cutler.

Joe Feury. Photograph by Roddy McDowall.

Lee Grant is an Emmy- and Academy Award–winning actress and director. In 1989, Women in Film honored Grant with their first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award. Grant founded the production company Feury/Grant Entertainment with her husband and is an adjunct professor at Tisch School of the Arts. She lives in New York
City.