Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation (73 page)

dress style

drinking and drugs

epilogue

exhibitionism

extravagant entertaining

in
Fallen Angels

fame and celebrity

fans of

film and Hollywood career

finances and debts

in
The Green Hat

holiday in South of France

hosts NBC’s
The Big Show

hysterectomy

lack of acting technique

lesbian affairs

in
Let Us Be Gay

life in London and circle of friends

in
The Little Foxes

London debut in
The Dancers

marriage to Emery

meeting with du Maurier

memoirs (
Tallulah
)

and mimicry

in
Nice People

offstage persona

one-liners and trademark quips

portrait by Augustus John

press interest in and stories

professional decline

rejection of by Maugham for his play ‘Rain’

relationship with father

relationship with sister (Eugenia)

relationship with Tony de Bosdari

reviews of performances

Scotland Yard file on

stage performances and roles

stays at Algonquin Hotel

in
A Streetcar Named Desire

in
They Knew What They Wanted

virginity

works in a repertory company

Bankhead, Will (father)

Bara, Theda

Baring, Poppy

Barney, Natalie

Barrymore, Ethel

Barrymore, John

Bataille, Maurice

Beach, Sylvia

Beaton, Cecil

beauty industry

Beaverbrook, Max

Beckett, Samuel

Beecham, Sir Thomas

Beerbohm, Max

Belvoir Castle

Benchley, Robert

Bennett, Arnold

The Pretty Lady

Bennett, Charles

Berlin

Bernhardt, Sarah

Bernstein, Henri

Billborough, Ethel M.

Billing, Noel Pemberton

Bingham, Jocelyn Augustus

Binney, Constance

Bird, William

birth control
see
contraception

Bishop, John Peale

Blackton, J. Stuart

Blake, Eubie

Blast
(magazine)

Blondel, Alain

Bloody Sunday (1905) (St Petersburg)

Bolsheviks

Booker T. Washington theatre

Booth, Commander Evangeline

Bosdari, Count Anthony de

Bottega de Poesia gallery (Milan)

Boucard, Pierre

Bouillon, Jo

Bow, Clara

Brady, Robert

Brecht, Sidney

Breton, André

Brett, Dorothy

Bricktop (Ada Smith)

Bright Young Things

British Rational Dress Society

Brittain, Vera

Bromley, Dorothy Dunbar

Brooks, Louise

Brooks, Romaine

Broughton-Adderley, Peter

Broun, Heywood

Buck and Bubbles

Burckhardt, Carl

Bush, Rufus

C

Campbell, Lawton

Capel, Diana

Capote, Truman

Carmi, Maria

Carpentier, Horace

Carson, Eddie

Carten, Audry

Casati, Marchesa Luisa

Case, Frank

Casino de Paris

Castelbarco, Count Emanuele

Castlerosse, Valentine

Cave of the Gold Calf (London)

Cavell, Edith

Cavendish Hotel (London)

Century Theatre (New York)

Chaliapin, Feodor

Chanel, Coco

Charles, Jacques

Charleston

Charmy, Emilie

Charteris, Ego

Charteris, Letty (née Manners)

Cheka

Chez Joséphine (Paris)

Chronicle

Churchill, Ivor

cocaine

Cochran, Charles

Cocteau, Jean

Colette

Colin, Paul

College Humor

Colson, Percy

Conchita

condoms

Constantinovich, Grand Duke Gabriel

contraception

Contreras, Victor

Cooper, Sir Alfred

Cooper, Anne (wife to John Julius)

Cooper, Lady Diana (née Manners)

affairs

appearance

backlash against bad behaviour and social rejection of

birth of baby son

childhood and upbringing

and dancing

death of

and death of Asquith

and death of Duff

and death of father

death of friends in war

debutante season

depression and hypochondria

discovery of true biological father

dress style

and driving

and Duff’s affairs

and economizing

as editor of
Femina
magazine

epilogue

fame and celebrity

film career and dislike of Hollywood

and First World War

in
The Glorious Adventure

in
Hearts of the World

living in New York

male admirers and public flirtations

marriage to and relationship with Duff

memoirs

in
The Miracle

money-making schemes

morphine addiction

as newspaper columnist

in old age

parental background

as political wife

pregnancy

press interest in

rebellion and public notoriety in early years

relationship with Asquith

relationship with Moore (George Gordon)

relationship with mother

reviews of stage performances

and Second World War

self-improvement regime

stage career

travels

in
The Virgin Queen

virginity and sexual uncertainties

as volunteer nurse at Guy’s during war

voyage to New York

wartime entertainment and parties

wedding day

Cooper, Duff

awarded DSO

death

elected as MP for Oldham

and First World War

marriage to and relationship with Diana
see
Cooper, Diana

political career

postings during Second World War

promiscuity of and affairs

resigns from Foreign Office

view of by Duchess of Rutland

view of New York

Cooper, Gary

Cooper, Gladys

Cooper, Jo

Cooper, John Julius (son)

Cooper, Ralph

Corrupt Coterie

Coward, Noël

Cowl, Jane

Creaking Chair, The

Crosby, Caressa

Crosby, Harry

Crothers, Rachel

Crowder, Henry

Crowninshield, Frank

Cruger, Bertram

Cult of the Clitoris

Cunard, Sir Bache

Cunard, Edward

Cunard, Lady Maud (née Burke) (mother)

affair with Beecham

affair with Moore (George)

death

literary attack on by daughter over negro lover

marriage to Bache Cunard

opposition to daughter’s affair with Crowder

relationship with daughter

renovations to Nevill Holt

as social hostess

upbringing and early years

Cunard, Nancy

affairs and lovers

appearance and beauty of

and black cause

‘Black Man and White Ladyship’

bohemian lifestyle

broken thigh

buys house near Chapelle-Réanville (Le Puits Carré)

childhood and upbringing

collapse

coming out season

contracts Spanish flu

and death of father

death and funeral of

deterioration of mental health and admission to psychiatric hospital

deterioration of physical health

dress style

and drinking

emphysema diagnosis

epilogue

at finishing school in Paris

and First World War

friendship with Iris Tree

friendship with Sybil Hart-Davis

hatred of authority

home in Paris (Grattery)

hysterectomy