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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to give special thanks to many people who supplied invaluable assistance during the research and preparation of this book: the incomparable Don Weise, who launched this project and offered support, kind words, and encouragement from start to finish; the unflappable Jonathan Crowe, who very patiently and thoughtfully answered my countless questions; Bruce Shenitz, who kept asking me about that Vincente Minnelli biography I planned to write someday, and who proved to be a terrific little matchmaker; Ms. Karen Richards, research assistant extraordinaire (whether it was
The Fundamental Principles of Balaban & Katz Theatre Management
, Peter Bogdanovich’s birthdate, or a listing in the 1926 Illinois Bell white pages, you somehow found anything and everything that I asked for; as I said innumerable times, I couldn’t have done this without you); Dell Lemmon, for divine intervention whenever I needed it; Paula J. Carter, for her captivating caricature of Mr. Minnelli and his trio of screen goddesses; Bingo wizard Greg Astor, for getting me an agent; Dan Works, the information technology oracle, (who made sure hundreds of hours of interviews were kept safe and sound); and Keary Nichols, who gave his all and then some more.
INDEX
Academy Awards.
see
Oscars
Adair, Perry Sheehan
Adams, India
Advertising Advisory Council
An Affair to Remember
age altering by Minnelli
Alda, Robert
Alias Jimmy Valentine
Alice in Wonderland
(book)
Alice in Wonderland
(film)
All About Eve
All the Fine Young Cannibals
Allen, Jay Presson
Allen, Jayne Meadows
Allenby, Frank
Allyson, June
Alton, John
Alton, Robert
Alzheimer’s disease
An American in Paris
American International Pictures
Anchors Aweigh
Anderson, Eddie “Rochester”
Anderson, Eva
Anderson, John Murray
Anderson, Lee (Margaretta Lee)
Anderson, Robert
Andrews, Julie
The Andy Griffith Show
Angeli, Pier
Angelo, John
Annenberg, Leonore
Annie Get Your Gun
Antik, Alan A.
Anyone Can Whistle
Arce, Hector
Arch of Triumph
Arden, Eve
Ardrey, Robert
Arkoff, Samuel Z.
Arlen, Harold
Armstrong, Louis
Arnaz, Desi
Around the World in Eighty Days
Arsenic and Old Lace
Artists and Models
artwork of Minnelli
Asher, Betty
Astaire, Adele
Astaire, Fred
Astor, Mary
Aswell, James
At Home Abroad
Athens International Film Festival
Atkinson, Brooks
Attack of the Puppet People
Aubrey, James
Aumont, Jean-Pierre
Avery, Brian
awards
All About Eve
An American in Paris
and
The Bad and the Beautiful
and
Best Director award
Brigadoon
(Broadway production) and
Designing Woman
and
Father of the Bride
and
Gigi
and
Lust for Life
and
Oscars
Sunset Boulevard
and
Axelrod, George
Ayres, Lemuel
Babes on Broadway
Bacall, Lauren
Bachardy, Don
The Bad and the Beautiful
Baker, Josephine
Balaban, A. J.
Balaban and Katz
Balaban, David
Balanchine, George
Balcomb, Frances
Balderston, John L.
Ball, Lucille
Ballad of a Firing Squad
Ballbusch, Peter
Balmain, Pierre
The Band Wagon
Bankhead, Tallulah
Banks, Stanley T..
see also
Tracy, Spencer
Barber, Virginia
The Barkeleys of Broadway
Barnes, Howard
Barrett, Rona
Barrios, Richard
Barrymore, Diana
Barrymore, Ethel
Barrymore, John
Basinger, Jeanine
Bates, Jeanette
Bathers on the Beach at Trouville
(Boudin)
Beaton, Cecil
Beckley, Paul V.
Behrman, S. N.
Bells Are Ringing
Bemelmans, Ludwig
Ben-Hur
(1927 version)
Ben-Hur
(1959 remake)
Benchley, Robert
Bennett, Joan
Benny, Jack
Benson, Sally
Bergen, Candice
Bergerac, Jacques
Bergman, Ingmar
Bergman, Ingrid
Berkeley, Busby
Berkeley Square
Berkson, William
Berlin, Irving
Berman, Pandro S.
Bernstein, Elmer
Berry Brothers
Bieber, Nita
Birinski, Leo
Birnie, William A.H.
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
(1933)
The Black Follies
Blacque, Judi
Blane, Ralph
Blau, Bela
Blaustein, Julian
Blondell, Joan
Bloomingdale, Al
Bloomingdale, Betsy
Blyden, Larry
Blyth, Ann
Bobby, R.
Boehm, Karl
Bogarde, Dirk
Bogart, Humphrey
Bogdanovich, Peter
Bolton, Guy
Bonanza
Bonnie and Clyde
Booth, Margaret
Born Yesterday
Borodin Alexander
Boudin, Eugene
Bowers, Scotty
Bowles, Paul
Boxoffice
Boyer, Charles
The Boys in the Band
Boys’ Night Out
Bradshaw, George
Brady, Ruth
Brand, Edward
Brawley, Margaret
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Brecher, Irving
Breen, Joseph L.
Bremer, Lucille
The Bribe
Brice, Fanny
Brigadoon
The Broadway Melody
Broken Blossoms