My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir (29 page)

G
ELDZAHLER
, H
ENRY
– art historian and curator, served as New York City Commissioner of Cultural Affairs.

G
ERSTEN
, B
ERNARD
– producer, driving force behind New York Shakespeare Festival and Lincoln Center Theater.

G
HOSTLEY
, A
LICE
– actress. Stage,
New Faces of 1952, The Beauty Part, A Thurber Carnival.
Film,
To Kill a Mockingbird, Grease
. Television,
Designing Women, Bewitched, Mayberry R.F.D.

G
ILBERT
, W
ILLIE
– book writer with Jack Weinstock for the musicals
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
,
Catch Me If You Can
and
Hot Spot
.

G
ODDARD
, P
AULETTE
– Hollywood star of the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
Modern Times, The Great Dictator, The Women.

G
ORDON
, R
UTH
– Broadway actress for 50 years. Film,
Rosemary’s Baby, Harold and Maude, Where’s Poppa.
Screenwriter,
Adam’s Rib, Pat and Mike.

G
OULD
, H
AROLD
– stage, television actor,
Fools,
Jules Feiffer’s
Grown Ups The Golden Girls, Rhoda
.

G
RAHAM
, R
ONNY
– actor,
New Faces of 1952,
and screenwriter,
To Be Or Not To Be, Spaceballs
.

G
REENE
, A
DOLPH
– playwright, performer, lyricist, collaborator with Betty Comden on Broadway musicals,
On the Town, Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing,
and screenplays,
Singin’ in the Rain
and
The Band Wagon.

G
REIF
, M
ICHAEL
– stage director. Broadway musicals:
Rent, Grey Gardens, Next to Normal
.

G
RIZZARD
, G
EORGE
– actor, originated the roles of Nick in
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
and Tony in
The Royal Family; Delicate Balance
(Tony Award).

G
UARE
, J
OHN
– playwright,
The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, Landscape of the Body.

H
AGEN
, U
TA
– actress, teacher, author. Originated the role of Martha in
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Co-founder with husband Herbert Berghof of HB Studios. Author,
Respect for Acting.

H
AMILTON
, M
ARGARET
– actress, Wicked Witch in
The Wizard of Oz
.

H
AMLISCH
, M
ARVIN
– Broadway and film composer,
A Chorus Line
,
The Sting, The Way We Were
.

H
ARLEY
, M
ARGOT
– co-founder with John Houseman of
The Acting Company.

H
ARPER
, W
ALLY
– Broadway musical arranger and composer. Composer,
Sensations.
Conductor/arranger for Barbara Cook.

H
ARRINGTON
, J
R.
, P
AT
– television actor,
One Day at a Time, The Steve Allen Show.

H
ARRIS
, B
ARBARA
– actress, singer. Stage,
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You In The Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad.
Broadway, in musicals written for her, O
n a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Apple Tree
(Tony). Film,
A Thousand Clowns, Nashville, Family Plot.

H
ARRIS
, J
ULIE
– stage star,
Member of the Wedding, I Am a Camera, The Belle of Amherst, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, Forty Carats.
Film,
Member of the Wedding, The Haunting, East of Eden
. 5 Tony Awards.

H
ARRIS
, R
OSEMARY
– stage star,
The Lion in Winter (Tony), A Delicate Balance, Road to Mecca, The Royal Family, An Inspector Calls.
Film,
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
, Aunt May in the three
Spider-Man
films.

H
AWN
, G
OLDIE
– Hollywood star,
Private Benjamin, The First Wives Club.
Television,
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.

H
AYES
, H
ELEN
– stage actress for 80 years, earned the title “First Lady of the American Theater.”

H
EAD
, E
DITH
– Hollywood costume designer to the stars: Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Shirley MacLaine and Grace Kelly. Films include
The Heiress
and
The Sting.

H
ERZOG
, A
MY
– playwright,
4000 Miles
(Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner)
After the Revolution
,
The Great God Pan
and
Belleville
.

H
EPBURN
, A
UDREY
– Hollywood star,
Roman Holiday
,
Funny Face, My Fair Lady
.

H
ESTON
, C
HARLTON
– Hollywood star,
The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, El Cid, The Planet of the Apes.

H
IRSCHFELD
, A
L
– artist, caricaturist, chronicling nearly all the major entertainment figures of the 20th century.

H
OLLIDAY
, J
UDY
– Stage and film star. Appeared in both stage and screen versions of
Born Yesterday
and
Bells Are Ringing.

H
ORNE
, L
ENA
– actress, singer. Film,
Cabin in the Sky, Stormy Weathe
r. Stage,
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music.

H
UNTER
, K
IM
– actress. Originated the role of Stella in
A Streetcar Named Desire
. Film,
A Streetcar Named Desire, Deadline USA, A Matter of Life and Death, Planet of the Apes.

H
UNTLEY
, P
AUL
– master hair designer and wigmaker for stage and film. Honored in 2003 with a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.

I
RVING
, G
EORGE
– actor in Broadway musicals,
Irene, Me and My Girl, So Long, 174th Street.
At age 86, performed one-man cabaret show at Feinstein’s and received Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theater.

I
SHERWOOD
, C
HRISTOPHER
– English novelist best known for the stories he wrote in the 1930s that served as the basis for the play,
I Am a Camera
and the musical
Cabaret.

I
VES
, C
HARLES
– composer, employed experimental techniques that foreshadowed musical innovations.

J
AGGER
, M
ICK
– lead vocalist of The Rolling Stones.

J
ONSON
, B
EN
– 17th century English writer of satirical plays,
Every Man in His Humour, Volpone, The Alchemist.

J
ORDAN
, R
ICHARD
– stage, screen and television actor. Member of the New York Shakespeare Festival.

K
ANDER
, J
OHN
– composer, half musical theater team of Kander and Ebb. Broadway musicals include
Cabaret
and
Chicago
.

K
ANIN
, G
ARSON
– writer and director. Authored
Born Yesterday
, and with wife Ruth Gordon co-authored Tracy-Hepburn movies. Directed
The Diary of Anne Frank
and
Funny Girl
.

K
AVNER
, J
ULIE
– television actress, voice-over artist,
The Simpsons, Rhoda.

K
EATON
, B
USTER
– silent film star. Films,
The General, The Navigator.

K
ENNEDY
, R
OSE
– matriarch of the Kennedy political dynasty, mother of President John F. Kennedy.

K
ERT
, L
ARRY
– actor, singer, and dancer. Originated the role of Tony in
West Side Story.

K
ILGALLEN
, D
OROTHY
– newspaper columnist, covered gossip, entertainment and politics.

K
ING
, A
LAN
– comedian, actor, developed from borscht-belt comic to social satirist. Films,
Casino, Just Tell Me What You Want.

K
ING
, C
AROLE
– songwriter, singer, with husband and lyricist Gerry Goffin: “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” “Natural Woman,” “So Far Away,” “I Feel the Earth Move,” and “You’ve Got a Friend.”

K
IRBY
, B
RUCE
– television actor,
Goodyear Television Playhouse, Columbo, The Sopranos.

K
LEIN
, R
OBERT
– stand-up comic, actor. Television, eight live HBO specials 1975 – 2005. Film,
Hooper, Primary Colors, Reign Over Me.

K
ORIE
, M
ICHAEL
– musical theater lyricist, in collaboration with composer Scott Frankel,
Happiness, Grey Gardens, Meet Mr. Future, Doll, Far From Heaven.

K
RASS
, M
ICHAEL
– Broadway costume designer.
Machinal, The Constant Wife, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
,
After the Fall, Twelve Angry Men.

L
ADD
, A
LAN
– Hollywood star of 40s and 50s noir and westerns.
Shane, The Blue Dahlia.

L
AHR
, B
ERT
– Broadway star,
Foxy, The Beauty Part, Waiting for Godot
. Film,
The Wizard of Oz.

L
AMOS
, M
ARK
– theater, opera director, producer, actor. Film,
Longtime Companion.
Artistic Director of the Westport Country Playhouse.

L
ANE
, K
ENNETH
J
AY
– costume jewelry designer, created designs for Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Vreeland, and Audrey Hepburn.

L
ANSBURY
, A
NGELA
– Star for 70 years. Film,
Gaslight, Manchurian Candidate.
Broadway,
Mame, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Blithe Spirit.
Television,
Murder, She Wrote.

L
ANZA
, M
ARIO
– American tenor, movie star of 40s and 50s.

L
AURENTS
, A
RTHUR
– playwright, director, screenwriter. Broadway, book for
Gypsy, West Side Story
. Directed revivals of both. Screenplays,
The Way We Were, The Turning Point.

L
AZAR
, I
RVING
“S
WIFTY
”
– talent agent and dealmaker of the golden age of Broadway and Hollywood. Represented performers, writers and producers.

L
EE
, G
YPSY
R
OSE
– entertainer in vaudeville and burlesque whose memoir was the basis for the musical
Gypsy
.

L
EAR
, N
ORMAN
– television producer, writer, creator of sitcoms
All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, Sanford & Son, One Day at a Time, Good Times,
and
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

L
EE
, P
EGGY
– singer, jazz and pop. Hits include:
Fever, Is That All There Is?

L
E
G
ALLIENNE
, E
VA
– Broadway star for 70 years.
The Royal Family, Mary Stuart, To Grandmother’s House We Go, Alice in Wonderland.

L
ENYA
, L
OTTE
– German actress. Stage,
The Threepenny Opera, Cabaret.
Film,
From Russia With Love, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.

L
EVENE
, S
AM
– stage and film actor for 50 years. Originated roles in 33 Broadway productions,
Three Men on A Horse
,
Dinner at Eight, Room Service, Light Up the Sky, Heartbreak House, The Sunshine Boys, Guys and Dolls.
Films,
Three Men on a Horse, The Babe Ruth Story, Sweet Smell of Success.

L
IBERTINI
, R
ICHARD
– actor, original cast member of
The Mad Show
. Films,
Don’t Drink the Water, Days of Heaven, Popeye.

L
ILLIE
, B
EATRICE
– British comedienne, muse to Noel Coward and Cole Porter. Broadway,
High Spirits.
Film,
Thoroughly Modern Millie
. Earned title “the funniest woman in the world.”