My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir (28 page)

B
USCH
, C
HARLES
– author and star of off-off Broadway plays:
Psycho Beach Party, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom,
and
Red Scare on Sunset.
Broadway author of
Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
.

B
UZZI
, R
UTH
– comedienne featured on
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.

C
AGE
, J
OHN
– 20th century composer, pioneer of avant-garde music.

C
ALLAS
, M
ARIA
– renowned opera singer, revived operas of Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini.

C
APALBO
, C
ARMEN
– stage director, Broadway premiere of
A Moon for the Misbegotten
and historical revival of
The Three Penny Opera
.

C
ARLISLE
, K
ITTY
– actress, singer and arts advocate. Served as chairman of the New York Council on the Arts. Wife of Moss Hart.

C
ARROLL
, L
EWIS
– British author,
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
(includes the poems, “Jabberwocky,” “The Hunting of the Snark”).

C
ARROLL
, P
AT
– actress. Stage,
Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein
,
Gertrude Stein
,
The Merry Wives of Windsor (
Falstaff), Film, the voice of Ursula in
The Little Mermaid
.

C
AVETT
, D
ICK
– former television talk show host. Landmark interviews: Groucho Marx, Katharine Hepburn and Marlon Brando.

C
HANEL
, C
OCO
– legendary fashion designer and creator of fragrance
Chanel No. 5.

C
HANNING
, C
AROL
– musical theater star,
Hello, Dolly
and
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
.

C
HARNIN
, M
ARTIN
– lyricist, writer and theater director. Director and lyricist of the musical
Annie
.

C
HILD
, J
ULIA
– chef and star of the TV series
The French Chef.

C
HRISTIAN
, L
INDA
– film actress, played Mara in the last Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film,
Tarzan and the Mermaids
.

C
HRISTOPHER
, S
YBIL
– founded the 60s discotheque Arthur, The New Theater on 54th Street and The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

C
IBELLI
, R
ENATO
– Broadway actor, singer.
Oklahoma, Happy Hunting, Milk and Honey, Man of La Mancha.

C
LIFT
, M
ONTGOMERY
– Hollywood star,
A Place in the Sun, I Confess
,
From Here to Eternity.

C
ONNELL
, G
ORDON
– actor, composer, frequently performed with his wife, Jane.
Lysistrata
and
The Good Doctor
.

C
ONNELL
, J
ANE
– actress: Agnes Gooch in
Mame, New Faces of 1956 (
introduced
April in Fairbanks.)

C
OOK
, B
ARBARA
– actress, singer. Broadway musicals;
Plain and Fancy
,
Candide
and
The Music Man
. Concert career begun in 70s, continues.

C
OOPER
, G
ARY
– Hollywood star from the silent era through the golden age.
A Farewell to Arms, High Noon
.

C
OWARD
, N
OËL
– English playwright, composer, actor. Plays,
Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter, Blithe Spirit.
Songs,
If Love Were All, I’ll See You Again, A Room With a View, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, London Pride, I Went to a Marvelous Party.
Acting roles,
Private Lives, Tonight at 8:30.

C
RAWFORD
, J
OAN
– Hollywood star,
Mildred Pierce, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

C
RYSTAL
, B
ILLY
– actor. Film,
When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers, Analyze This
. Stage,
700 Sundays.
Television,
Soap
,
Saturday Night Live
, Academy Awards host 9 times.

C
ULLUM
, J
OHN
– actor, singer. Broadway,
On the Twentieth Century, Shenandoah, Show Boat.
Television,
Northern Exposure.

C
UMMING
, A
LAN
– Scottish-American actor. Broadway,
Cabaret.
Television,
The Good Wife.

C
URIE
, M
ADAME
M
ARIE
– French physicist, discovered radium and coined the term “radioactivity.” First woman to win a Nobel Prize.

D
ANE
, F
AITH
– actress, created the role of Mazeppa in
Gypsy
.

D
ABDOUB
, J
ACK
– actor in more than a dozen Broadway shows, including the original production of
Man of La Mancha.

D
A
C
OSTA
, M
ORTON
“T
EKE
”
– stage director, had the distinction of having four Broadway hits in three years during the mid-1950s,
Plain and Fancy, No Time for Sergeants, Auntie Mame
and
The Music Man.

D
AHL
, R
OALD
– British writer,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda.

D
ARLING
, C
ANDY
– actress, Warhol Superstar.
Flesh
and
Women in Revolt.

D
AVIS
, B
ETTE
– Hollywood star,
Of Human Bondage, Dark Victory, The Great Lie, Now Voyager, The Little Foxes, All About Eve, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

DE
H
AVILLAND
, O
LIVIA
– Hollywood star,
Snake Pit, The Heiress, Gone with the Wind.

D
ELUISE
, D
OM
– actor. Film,
The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Cannonball Run, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
. Television,
Candid Camera, The Dean Martin Show.

D
EPARDIEU
, G
ÉRARD
– French film star,
Get Our Your Handkerchiefs, Going Places, Green Card, Cyrano de Bergerac.

D
E
P
ORTAGO
, A
LFONSO
– Spanish racing driver.

D
EPP
, J
OHNNY
– Hollywood star,
Edward Scissorhands
,
Sleepy Hollow, Pirates of the Caribbean
.

D
IETRICH
, M
ARLENE
– Hollywood star, singer,
The Blue Angel
,
Blonde Venus, Touch of Evil, Judgment at Nuremberg.
Later concert career in Las Vegas and Europe.

D
ISHY
, B
OB
– actor. Stage,
Flora the Red Menace, The Price, Sly Fox, Grown Ups.
Film,
Lovers and Other Strangers, Brighton Beach.

D
OUGHERTY
, M
ARION
– casting director, cast some of Hollywood’s biggest stars in their earliest parts.

D
OUGLAS
, K
IRK
– Hollywood star,
Spartacus, Lonely Are the Brave, Lust for Life, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Vikings, Ace in the Hole, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

D
OWLING
, D
ORIS
– actress in the film classics
The Lost Weekend, Blue Dahlia
,
Bitter Rice
and Orson Welles’
Othello
.

D
OWNEY
S
R.
, R
OBERT
– actor and underground filmmaker,
Putney Swope, Greaser’s Palace, Pound.

D
OVIMA
– fashion model during the 1950s. Famous for the iconic Avedon photograph, “Dovima with the Elephants.”

D
RAPER
, R
UTH
– actress, monologist, career spanned 40 years.

D
USE
, E
LEONORA
– legendary actress. Early 20th century. Subject of Eva Le Gallienne book,
The Mystic in the Theater
, still in print today.

D
UKAKIS
, O
LYMPIA
– actress. Stage,
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.
Film,
Moonstruck
(Oscar),
Steel Magnolias, Away from Her
.

D
WIGHT
, G
EORGE
– political activist and ardent gardener.

E
BB
, F
RED
– lyricist, half musical theater team of Kander and Ebb. Broadway musicals include
Cabaret
and
Chicago
.

E
BERT
, G
ABRIEL
– actor, singer, originated roles in
4000 Miles
,
Matilda,
and
Robin Hood
.

E
LIOT
, T.S.
– Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright. Poems, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Wasteland.” Plays,
The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, Murder in the Cathedral.

E
MERSON
, F
AYE
– actress who achieved national popularity in the 1950s as one of television’s first late-night interviewers.

E
VANS
, D
AME
E
DITH
– English stage star. Career spanned sixty years during which she played more than 100 roles.

F
AIRBANKS
, J
R.
, D
OUGLAS
– actor, began in silent films.

F
EINGOLD
, M
ICHAEL
– former drama critic for
The Village Voice,
now for TheaterMania.

F
IELDS
, W.C.
– Hollywood star,
My Little Chickadee, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, The Bank Dick, Poppy, David Copperfield.

F
ISCHER
-D
IESKAU
, D
IETRICH
– German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous Lieder performers of the postwar period.

F
ISH
, D
ANIEL
– director of conceptually experimental stage productions,
True Love, The Black Monk, Paradise Park, Rocket to the Moon.

F
LEMING
, R
HONDA
– 40s, 50s film actress,
The Big Circus, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

F
ONTAINE
, J
OAN
– Hollywood star,
Rebecca
(Oscar),
Suspicion, Jane Eyre, The Women.

F
RANKEL
, S
COTT
– musical theater composer in collaboration with lyricist Michael Korie,
Happiness, Grey Gardens, Meet Mr. Future, Doll, Far From Heaven.

F
RANKLIN
, B
ONNIE
– actress. Broadway,
Applause.
Television,
One Day at a Time
.

F
REY
, L
EONARD
– actor, theater and film.
Boys in the Band, Fiddler on the Roof
.

F
ROST
, D
AVID
– journalist, television host, host of satirical news program,
That Was the Week That Was.

F
ROST
, R
OBERT
– American poet, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “The Road Not Taken.”

F
URTH
, G
EORGE
– playwright, actor, book for
Company
and the play
Twigs
. Film roles,
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
,
Blazing Saddles
and
Shampoo.

G
ABLE
, C
LARK
– Hollywood star, leading man over three decades.
Gone with the Wind, It Happened One Night, The Misfits.

G
ARDNER
, A
VA
– Hollywood star,
Mogambo, The Barefoot Contessa, The Night of the Iguana, Showboat.

G
ATCHELL
, R. T
YLER
– theatrical general manager and producer. With partner, Peter Neufeld served as executive producer of innumerable Broadway shows, including
Cats
and
Evita
.

G
EFFEN
, D
AVID
– business magnate, producer, film studio executive, and philanthropist.