The Richard Burton Diaries (289 page)
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Authors: Richard Burton,Chris Williams
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; stage acting,
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; criticised by press for wealth,
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; fighting,
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; dislikes museums,
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,
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; pride in intellectual superiority,
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; memory lapses,
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; on film rewards,
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; wine drinking,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; in Winnipeg as airman,
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; early sexual experience,
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; death foretold,
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,
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; forty-sixth birthday,
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,
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; newspaper reading,
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,
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; plays in horror film (
Bluebeard
),
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,
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; attends Rothschild party with Princess Grace,
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; acne,
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; catches photographer with rubber ball,
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; manners,
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; attempts to give up cigarettes,
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; box office position,
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; Korda offers contract to,
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; and brother Dai Morgan Williams,
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; affair with Jean Simmons,
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; learns Hungarian,
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,
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; appearance,
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; loses hair,
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; eighth wedding anniversary (1972),
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; affairs,
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; resumes drinking,
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; rift with ET,
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; engagement to Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia,
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; ET divorces,
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; relations with Jeanne Bell,
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; cycling in Switzerland,
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,
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,
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; teetotalism,
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; enters clinic,
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; struggles with drink problem,
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; eyes tested,
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; remarries ET in South Africa,
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,
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; fiftieth birthday (1975),
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; revisits Wales,
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; affair with Susan Hunt,
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; second divorce from ET and marriage to Susan Hunt,
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; pinched nerve,
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; effect on public in restaurants,
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; abruptness on telephone,
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; TV narration for wedding of Prince of Wales and Diana,
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; undergoes spinal surgery in Santa Monica,
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; marriage with Susan fails,
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; relations with Sally Hay,
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; divorce from Susan,
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,
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; marries Sally,
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; cerebral haemorrhage and death,
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; estate,
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Burton, Sally (
earlier
Hay; RB's fourth wife): gives RB diaries to Swansea University,
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; reads RB's diaries,
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; RB meets,
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; anxieties over RB's divorce from Susan,
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; in Port au Prince,
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; in New York,
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; marries RB,
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; inheritance from RB,
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Burton, Susan (
earlier
Hunt; RB's third wife): RB reads to from diary,
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,
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; marriage to RB,
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; flies to Geneva with RB,
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; in New York,
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,
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,
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; fourth wedding anniversary,
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; in Chicago,
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,
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; under public scrutiny,
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; background and sensitivity to people,
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; and Bob Wilson,
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; dress,
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; on reviews of
Camelot
,
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; twin sister (Vivienne),
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; hurts spine,
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; fondness for Kupcinets,
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; in Dallas,
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; mollifies Merrick,
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; fears over-exposure,
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; marriage with RB fails,
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; divorce from RB,
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n3,
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; RB keeps silence on,
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Burton, Sybil (RB's first wife): marriage to RB,
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,
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,
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; moves to Switzerland,
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; and RB's romance with ET,
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; in Rome with RB,
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; divorces RB,
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; sees RB's diary,
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; RB telephones from New York,
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; joins RB in Paris,
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; RB misses,
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; takes possessions from Céligny,
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; remarries (Jordan Christopher),
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; and daughter Kate's visits to RB,
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; and Edie's death,
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; and Kate's visit to RB in Italy,
(i)
; post-divorce relations with RB,
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; grey hairs,
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; birth of daughter,
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; disparages Lyndon B. Johnson,
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; relations with Kate,
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,
(ii)
; takes RB's Welsh books to New York,
(i)
; attempted suicide,
(i)
; appearance,
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(film),
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Butt, Ronald,
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,
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,
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,
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Cagney, James,
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Caine, (Sir) Michael,
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,
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,
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Camelot
(stage musical),
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,
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,
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,
(iv)
,
(v)
; film version,
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,
(ii)
Cameron, Roderick (‘Rory’),
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Camus, Albert,
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Canada: RB in at war's end,
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Candy
(film),
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Cannes,
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Capote, Truman,
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Capri,
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Cardiff, Jack,
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Cardus, Neville,
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Carey, Joyce (actress),
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Carlos, John,
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Carnal Knowledge
(film),
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Caron, Leslie,
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Carter, Jimmy,
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Cashin, Fergus,
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Castle Anna
(play),
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(film),
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Catania, Sicily,
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Catch 22
(film),
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Catherine II (the Great), Empress of Russia,
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Cavtat, Yugoslavia,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Cecil, Lord David,
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,
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,
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Céligny, near Geneva,
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Celina (Gstaad maid),
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Chandler, Otis and family,
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Chaplin, Charlie,
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Chapman, John,
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Charles, Mr (of Dan-y-bont),
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Charles, Prince of Wales: investiture in Wales,
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,
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; wedding with Diana,
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Charlton, Bobby,
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Charon, Jacques,
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Chase, Richard,
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Cheshire, Group-Captain Leonard,
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Chester, Lewis, Geoffrey Hodgson and Bruce Page:
An American Melodrama
,
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,
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Chesterton, G. K.,
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Chevalier, Maurice,
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Chichester, Sir Francis,
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Chimes at Midnight
(film),
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Chobe National Park, South Africa,
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,
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Christie, Agatha:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
,
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Christie, Julie,
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Christmas Story, A
(RB),
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,
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Christopher, Amy (Sybil-Jordan's daughter),
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Christopher, Jordan (born Jordan Zankoff): marries Sybil,
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; birth of daughter,
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; Kate buys book for,
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Chronicle of an English Crown (Vivat Rex)
(BBC radio programme),
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Churchill, Randolph,
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Churchill, (Sir) Winston: as Prime Minister (1940),
(i)
; dismisses underlings,
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; RB proposed to play in film,
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,
(ii)
; biography by son Randolph,
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; RB meets,
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,
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; on Germans,
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; and Mediterranean strategy,
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; Tito meets,
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; and Hochhuth's
Soldiers
,
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; reputation,
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; wins Nobel Prize,
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; hair colour,
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; RB attacks,
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; RB plays,
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;
The World Crisis
,
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Circle of Two
(film),
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Clark, Jim,
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Clark, Kenneth:
The Nude
,
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Clay, Cassius
see
Ali, Muhammad
Cliburn, Harvey Lavan (‘Van’),
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Clifford, Francis:
The Naked Runner
,
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Clift, Montgomery,
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,
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,
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,
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Clowes, Dick,
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coal industry: South Wales,
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Coburn, James,
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Cochlin, D. A.,
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Coghill, Ambrose,
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Coghill, Sir Marmaduke Nevill Patrick Somerville,
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Coghill, Nevill,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Cohen, Alexander H.,
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,
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,
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Cohen, Nat,
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Colicos, John: in
Anne of the Thousand Days
,
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,
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,
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,
(iv)
; character,
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; RB's influence on,
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,
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,
(iii)
; Hathaway orders to have hair cut,
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; in Mexico for
Raid on Rommel
,
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,
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,
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Collier, Richard:
Duce
,
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Collingwood, Charles: in Las Vegas,
(i)
; congratulates RB on writing on Wales,
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; and wife's drinking,
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; asks RB for opinion on novel,
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; resents RB's celebrity,
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,
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; drinking,
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,
(ii)
; interviews Speer,
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;
The Defector
,
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,
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Collingwood, Louise,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Columbia Pictures,
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Columbus, Christopher,
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Comedians, The
(film),
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,
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,
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,
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,
(v)
Compton, Fay,
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Connery, (Sir) Sean,
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Connolly, Cyril,
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Constantine II, King of Greece,
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Cook, Anthony,
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Cooper, Dr Barrington,
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Cooper, Henry,
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Cordy, K.,
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Cortese, Valentina,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Cotti, Carlo,
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Cottrell, John and Fergus Cashin:
Richard Burton
,
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,
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Cound, Truda,
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Coward, (Sir) Noël: in
Boom!,
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,
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,
(iii)
; time taken writing plays,
(i)
; asked to write on Olivier,
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; RB's esteem for,
(i)
; in RB's fantasy household,
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; ageing,
(i)
; praises Rex Harrison,
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;
Conversation Piece
,
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;
Hay Fever
,
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;
Private Lives
,
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,
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,
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Crawford, Andrew,
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Crosby, Joan,
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Crosse, Rupert,
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Crowther, Bosley,
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Cruikshank, Andrew,
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Cuernavaca, Mexico,
(i)
cummings, e. e.,
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Cusack, Maureen,
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Custer, General George Armstrong,
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Cwmafan: drowning tragedy (1940),
(i)
Czechoslovakia: Soviet invasion (1968),
(i)
,
(ii)
Daddy Long Legs
(film),
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Dahomey (now Benin),
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,
(ii)
,
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,
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Daily American
(Italian newspaper),
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Daily Mail
,
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Daley, Robert:
The Whole Truth
,
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Dali, Salvador,
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Dallas, Texas,
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Dam Busters, The
(film),
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