Forster, E. M., 156
Frank E. Campbell funeral parlor, 589
Frankfurter Allgemeine
, 553–54
Freeman, Lucy, 354, 373, 399
Freud, Anna, 634
n
Freud, Sigmund, 663
n
Fricks, Jack, 494
Fugitive Kind, The
(film), 330, 339–41,
339
,
340
, 395, 677
n
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
n
, 714
n
, 715
n
TW’s characters as, 35, 59–60, 179, 183, 205, 209, 332, 549, 555, 556, 560, 562, 563, 567, 578, 601, 628
n
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),
7
,
10
, 43, 51, 52–55, 73, 88, 95, 126, 355–56, 376, 468, 475, 558, 620
n
absent father in, 42, 59
Broadway opening of, 1–4, 13–15, 32–33, 60–64,
63
casting of, 5, 7–8
Chicago reviews of, 12–13
Chicago tryout of, 8–9, 11–13, 621
n
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
n
, 643
n
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
n
, 707
n
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
n
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
n
, 657
n
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
n
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,
10
, 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
n
–71
n
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
n
–82
n
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,
24
, 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
n
–4
n
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
n
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
n
, 644
n
, 646
n
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
n
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
n
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
n
–80
n
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
n
structural insight of, 194
Sweet Bird of Youth
and, 377, 378, 383–91, 392, 394, 399–400, 408, 673
n
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
n
–80
n
, 689
n
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