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Forster, E. M., 156

Frank E. Campbell funeral parlor, 589

Frankfurter Allgemeine

, 553–54

Freeman, Lucy, 354, 373, 399

Freud, Anna, 634

Freud, Sigmund, 663

Fricks, Jack, 494

Fugitive Kind, The

(film), 330, 339–41,

339

340

, 395, 677

see also

Battle of Angels

(Williams);

Orpheus Descending

(Williams)

Garbo, Greta, 152

Gardner, Ava, 440, 466

Garfield, John, 133–35

Gauguin, Paul, 18

gay liberation movement, 521

TW attacked by, 532–34

Gay Sunshine

, 532

TW’s letter to, 533–34

Gazzara, Ben,

303

Gentleman’s Agreement

(film), 133

Gershwin, Ira, 23

ghosts:

TW as, 42, 65, 87, 483, 550, 554, 555, 557, 625

, 714

, 715

TW’s characters as, 35, 59–60, 179, 183, 205, 209, 332, 549, 555, 556, 560, 562, 563, 567, 578, 601, 628

Gibbs, Wolcott, 343, 369

Gielgud, John, 156, 159–60

Gigi (dog), 457, 493–94

Gilman, Richard, 455

Gionataiso, Frank, Merlo’s letters to, 165–67

Glass Menagerie, The

(film), 169, 173–74, 184, 185, 186

bad reviews of, 187

Breen office objections to, 225–26

negotiations on, 111–12

rewritten ending of, 186–87

TW’s disparaging of, 187–88

Glass Menagerie, The

(Williams),

, 43, 51, 52–55, 73, 88, 95, 126, 355–56, 376, 468, 475, 558, 620

absent father in, 42, 59

Broadway opening of, 1–4, 13–15, 32–33, 60–64,

casting of, 5, 7–8

Chicago reviews of, 12–13

Chicago tryout of, 8–9, 11–13, 621

early versions of, 30, 31–32, 34–35, 39–40, 367–69

Edwina given half of royalties on, 62–63

ghostliness in, 59–60

London production of, 155–57

new dramatic style unveiled by, 65–67

New York reviews of, 32–33, 61–62, 63–64

quest for redemption in, 66

road company of, 630

, 643

success of, 68, 69

TW on, 5

Glavin, Bill, 491,

493

TW’s letters to, 501, 505–6

TW’s relationship with, 494–97, 507–8, 705

, 707

Glenville, Peter, 525, 527, 539

Gnadiges Fraulein, The

(Williams), 474–75, 477–82,

481

, 494–95

reviews of, 482

Goforth, Flora (char.), 442, 444–48, 467–68, 662

Golden Age, The

(Vidal), 222

Goldman, Milton, 519, 571, 587

Goodman, Lord Arnold, 595–96

Goodman Theatre (Chicago), 573, 579

Gotham Book Mart, 599

Gov’t Inspected Meat and Other Fun Summer Things

(Rader), 522

Gray, Bill, 280, 494

Gross, Elliot M.:

on cause of TW’s death, 587–88

New York Times

exposé of, 588

Grotowski, Jerzy, 476

Group Theatre, 16, 22, 130, 342, 631

, 657

Grove Weidenfeld, 599

Guardian

(London), 591–92

Guggenheim, Peggy, 236

Guys and Dolls

(musical), 210

Hack, Keith, 560

Hadrian (char.), 75, 76–77

Haigh, Kenneth,

564

, 567

Halberstam, David, 223

Hall, Peter, 555, 596, 597

Hamlin, Harry, 557

Hammerstein, Oscar, 275

Hancock, John, 442–43, 483, 517, 556–58, 695

Hannah Jelkes (char.), 414, 416, 421, 424, 440

Harford, Carl, 497, 500

Harper’s Bazaar

, 526

Harrison, Rex, 213–14

Harris, Ralph, 474

Hart, Moss, 23, 348, 372

Hartman Theatre (Stamford), 597

Harvard University:

as TW’s designated literary trustee, 592

TW’s honorary degree from, 579,

581

TW’s papers donated to, 579, 595

Harvey, Laurence, 238–40

Havana, TW’s trips to, 349–50, 400

Haydon, Julie,

Glass Menagerie

and, 8, 9,

, 60

Hayes, Helen, 114, 156, 157, 158

Hazan, Joseph, 89, 635

TW’s letters to, 29, 99

Healy, Jo, 364

Heartsong

, 126

Heavenly (char.), 378–79

Helburn, Theresa, 20, 27

Hellman, Lillian, 468

Hemingway, Ernest, as character in

Clothes for a Summer Hotel

, 563–64

Henderson, Bobby, 302

Henderson, Cathy, 596

Henderson, Mary, 164–65, 167

Hepburn, Katharine, 414, 424–25, 468

Herlie, Eileen, 509–10, 511

Herlihy, James Leo, 457

Hidden Selves

(Khan), 670

–71

Hickey, William, 531

Hide and Seek

(film),

see

Baby Doll

(film)

Hill, George Roy, 412

Hines, Robert, 450–51, 494

Hobson, Laura Z., 348

Hoctor, Emmett, 681

–82

Holly, Catharine (char.), 356, 357,

359

, 367, 369, 398, 420

Hollywood:

anti-Communist hysteria in, 248–49

TW in, 184–88

Hollywood’s Tennessee

(Palmer and Bray), 227

Holman, Libby, 275

homosexuality, homosexuals:

bigotry toward, 222–23, 258, 534

Brick as repressed, 304–5

TW as, 79, 82–83, 521, 532–34, 545

Walter Dakin as possible, 41–42

see also

gay liberation movement

Hook, The

(film), 198

Hooks, Bobby, 470–71

Hopkins, Konrad, TW’s letters to, 267, 272

Hopkins, Miriam,

Battle of Angels

and, 22–25,

, 27

Horowitz, Vladimir, 348

Hotel Elysée, 582

House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), Kazan’s testimony to, 248, 249, 251–52

House Not Meant to Stand, A

(Williams), 572–73, 575–79,

575

, 580, 597

reviews of, 579

“How Can I Tell You?” (Williams), 328

“Humble Star” (Williams), 191–92

Hunt, William:

Small Craft Warnings

and, 521, 529

TW’s letters to, 521–22, 527

Hunter, Kim, 145, 151–52, 249

Hunter, Mary, 475

Hunter, Tab, 468–70, 471, 472

Huston, John, 127, 298, 440, 466

If You Don’t Dance They Beat You

(Quintero), 385

Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, An

(S. Freud), 663

Inge, William, 210, 275, 311, 348,

406

, 412, 482

Splendor in the Grass

and, 390, 406, 410

TW’s influence on, 406

TW’s jealousy of, 311, 406

International Creative Management (ICM), 518–19, 568, 571

International Shoe Company, 35, 46, 56–57, 344

In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel

(Williams), 485–90,

486

, 491–92, 506

as examination of TW’s self-loathing, 485–86

reviews of, 492, 703

–4

struggle between creativity and self-destruction in, 488–89

Ionesco, Eugene, 476, 479

Iowa, University of, 16, 77, 78, 366

“Iron Is the Winter” (Williams), 99

“Iron Man” (Williams), 353

Isherwood, Christopher, 156, 169, 302, 324, 403

“Isolated” (Williams), 59

Ivanhoe Theater (Chicago), 509

Ives, Burl,

303

, 308,

309

Jabe (char.), 17, 19, 332, 335

Jackson, Anne, 163, 566

Jackson, Charles, 348

Jacobson, Max (“Dr. Feelgood”), 431–32, 478, 494–95

J.B.

(MacLeish), 394

Jelkes, Hannah (char.), 414, 416, 421, 424, 440

John Buchanan (char.), 79, 94, 97, 103, 122

Jones, Margo, 137, 158, 649

death of, 314

Glass Menagerie

and, 8–9, 12, 15

Summer and Smoke

directed by, 115, 125, 150, 152, 162–64

TW on, 163

TW’s letters to, 31–32, 100, 106, 139, 151, 221, 639

, 644

, 646

Jones, Robert Edmond, 1, 33

Jordan, Richard, 557

Jouvet, Louis, 152

Junior Life

, 59

Jurado, Katy, 551

Kafka, Franz, 151

Kalem, Ted, 288, 530

Katselas, Milton, 549

Kauffmann, Stanley, 482

Kazan, Athena, 242–43, 244

Kazan, Elia, 71, 128,

132

, 152, 162,

260

274

, 342, 465, 501, 549

Academy lifetime achievement award of, 252–53

acting style influenced by, 129–30

Actors Studio co-founded by, 130

All My Sons

and, 129, 131

Baby Doll

and, 245–46, 317–20, 408

as best-selling novelist, 410

Brando on, 130

Camino Real

and, 253, 254, 256, 257, 258, 259–74

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

and, 291–92, 302–8, 312, 313, 408–9, 673

Communist Party and, 243, 248–49, 251–53

competitiveness of, 243–44, 390

in creative break with TW, 313, 408–11

Death of a Salesman

and, 194

directing methods of, 130, 244–45, 268–71

director-producer relationship reinvented by, 131, 132

dramatic collaboration of TW and, 241, 245, 261–62, 292, 296, 304, 308, 312, 313–14, 384–85, 388–89, 405, 409

family background of, 242–43

as father figure for TW, 245

Gentleman’s Agreement

and, 133, 194

in growing frustration with role of director, 389–90, 673

HUAC testimony of, 248, 249, 251–52

Man on a Tightrope

and, 254, 259

as most powerful director in U.S., 194, 410

Night of the Iguana

and, 435, 436

On the Waterfront

and, 262

Orpheus Descending

and, 289–91, 679

–80

as outsider, 242, 243

Period of Adjustment

and, 396, 405–6, 412

personality of, 129

as reliant on Thacher’s critical judgment, 262–63

Rose Tattoo

and, 183, 193–94, 195–96, 198–201, 203, 204, 240

on St. Just, 157

Selznick’s relationship with, 131, 132–33, 145, 253

Splendor in the Grass

and, 390, 406, 410

Streetcar

(film) and, 226–28, 230–32, 249

Streetcar

(play) and, 119–20, 122, 129, 139, 141, 142–43,

142

, 145, 146,

149

, 610

structural insight of, 194

Sweet Bird of Youth

and, 377, 378, 383–91, 392, 394, 399–400, 408, 673

TW’s correspondence with, 56, 136, 152, 153, 171, 182, 185, 192, 194, 199–200, 211, 212–13, 219, 232–33, 235, 241, 254, 255, 256, 260, 280, 290, 291–92, 294–95, 296–97, 303, 304–5, 312, 313, 319, 330, 337, 349, 352, 356, 371–72, 373, 377, 378, 388–91, 394–95, 396, 406, 408, 409, 410–11, 440, 452, 550, 567, 679

–80

, 689

on TW’s death, 588

on TW’s expressed desire for children, 249–50

on TW’s need for success, 409

on TW’s newly relaxed manner, 371–72

TW’s personal relationship with, 130–31, 215, 240–42, 244, 245, 253, 410–11, 412