by John Lahr
As Queen Victoria in Two on the Aisle (1951)
(photo © Graphic House)
As Lefty Hogan, ballplayer, in Two on the Aisle
(photo © Graphic House)
With Dolores Gray in Two on the Aisle
As Estragon with E. G. Marshall as Vladimir in Wailing for Godot (1956)
(photo © Impact Photos)
With Kurt Kasznar as Pozzo and E. G. Marshall.Waiting for Godot
(photo © Impact Photos)
Portrait from Waiting for Godot
(photo by Richard Avedon © The Richard Avedon Foundation)
Portrait (c. 1957)
(photo © Paul Himmel)
In Hotel Paradiso (1957)
(photo © 1978 Mark Shaw/mptvimages.com)
In Foxy (1964)
Crawling up the proscenium in Foxy
With Nancy Walker in “Hostility” (1959)
As Hyacinth Beddoes Laffoon in The Beauty Part (1962)
(photo © Friedman-Abeles)
As Nelson Smedley in The Beauty Part
(photo © Friedman-Abeles)
As Judge Herman J. Rinderbrust with David Doyle in The Beauty Part
(photo © Friedman-Abeles)
Final gesture of The Beauty Part
(photo © Friedman-Abeles)
As Pisthetairos with Mildred in The Birds.Ypsilanti Greek Theater Festival (1966)
Fishing with Field &Stream editor A. J. McLain
With daughter Jane
(photo © John Cochran)
An advertising pose
(photo © Dick Richards)
With Mildred at Time banquet honoring cover stories
(photo © Margaret Norton)
Waiting for rehearsal (1962)
Index
Aarons, Alexander, 94, 100, 114
Abrahams, Solly, 15, 16, 35
Actors Talk About Acting (arranged and edited by Lewis Funke and John E. Booth), 10, 44, 120, 293, 294
Actors’ Workshop of San Francisco, 270
Aeschylus, 296
Albee, E. F., 86
Albee, Edward, 258
Alchemist, The (Jonson)331
Allen, Charlie, 69, 84
Allen, Fred, 79, 170, 175-7, 180, 374-8
Allen, Gracie, 79
Allen, Portland (Mrs. Joseph Rines), 374-8
Allery, Irene, 240-2, 245
Always Leave Them Laughing, 221-2
American Musical Theater, The, 227
American Shakespeare Festival, 291-4
Amos ’n Andy, 41
Anastasia, 257, 260
Anderson, John Murray, 136
Anderson, Dame Judith, 296
Androcles and the Lion (Shaw), 301
Annie Get Your Gun (1946), 205, 227, 249, 330
Anouilh, Jean, 278
Anything Goes (1934), 100, 206
Aristophanes, 296-301
Arlen, Anya, 136
Arlen, Harold, 141, 162, 163, 167, 190, 197, 356, 379
Arnez, Desi, 213
Arrowsmith, William, 297-9
Association of Producing Artists, 295
Atkinson, Brooks, 10, 133, 137, 166-7, 170, 209, 227, 239, 258, 290
Avedon, Richard, 355
Avon Comedy Four, 37, 357-60
Babes in Arms (1937), 189
Baer, “Bugs,” 108
Ball, Lucille, 147
Bann, Billy, 92
Bara, Theda, 60
Baral, Robert, 124
Barnum, P. T., 262
Barry, Bobby, 240-4
Barrymore, John, 279
Barton, James, 67, 79-81
“Baseball Sketch,” 381-3
Baum, L. Frank, 189
“Beach Babies,” 366-70
Beauty Part, The (1962-3), 3 ff., 107, 230, 304-11, 312, 315, 317, 340-2, 371
Beckett, Samuel, 150, 253-82, 331, 354
Beebe, Lucius, 228, 232-3
Beery, Wallace, 220
Belasco, David, 186
Bellamy, Ralph, 180
Bennett, Arnold, 155
Bennett, Joan, 213, 217, 219
Bennett, Robert Russell, 230
Benny, Jack, 41, 70, 89, 170, 258, 259, 261
Benny, Mary, 79
Bentham, M. S., 56, 69
Bentley, Eric, 239-40
Beowulf, 33, 334
Berado, Charlie, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31
Berado, Joey, 17, 19
Berghof, Herbert, 141, 273-9, 281
Berkowitz, Sam (“Butch”) 17, 20, 21
Berle, Milton, 221-2, 286
Berlin, Irving, 6
Berman, A. L., 65, 114, 124, 149, 151, 157, 159, 160, 167, 199-200
Berman, Shelley, 302
Bernard, Sam, 27, 28, 32, 48
Berra, Yogi, 273
Best Show in Town, The (1917), 43, 45, 48, 49
Bestry, Harry, 127
Beyond the Fringe (1961), 247
Billingsley, Sherman, 219, 350
Birds, The (Aristophanes), 296-301
Bishop, Joey, 326
Blackbirds of 1928, 91
Blair, Nicky, 115
Blondell, Joan, 213, 219
Bloom, Lew, 29
Bloomer Girl (1944), 227
Blyden, Larry, 314-16, 318-23, 324
Blythe, Ann, 222
Bolger, Ray, 136, 137, 142, 189, 191-6, 198
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 175
Bosch, Hieronymus, 276
Boswell, James, 69, 155, 203
Bow, Clara, 350
Boyer, Charles, 213, 216
Brady, Diamond Jim, 29
Brice, Fanny, 101
Brigadoon (1947), 313
Brown, Earl, 5, 7
Brown, Joe E., 110-11, 112-13, 181, 251
Brown, John Mason, 234
Brown, “Knockout,” 24
Brown, Lew, 91, 94, 97-101, 114-16, 124, 128, 129, 130, 138, 228
Brown, Russ, 95, 97
Browning, Robert, 163
Bruce, Lenny, 302
Brueghel, Pieter, 276
Brustein, Robert, 310
Burke, Billie, 123
Burlesque (1946), 68, 236-47, 262
Burns, George, 79
Burrows, Abe, 141, 247-52, 284, 381
Caesar, Sid, 247
Cagney, James, 180, 184, 185, 213, 216-18, 305
Callaghan Brothers, the, 56
Cantor, Eddie, 30, 170, 172
Capone, Al, 124
Carroll, Carroll, 172-5
Carroll, Earl, 123
Carter, Mrs. Leslie, 186
Caruso, Enrico, 97
Cass, Peggy, 247
Cast a Giant Shadow, 343-5
Chaliapin, Fedor, 162-5
Chandler, Raymond, 309
Chaplin, Charlie, 179, 185, 286
Chapman, John, 248
Chase and Sanborn
Coffee Hour, 174-6
Chasen, Dave, 145, 180, 212
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 334
Chevalier, Maurice, 170, 341
“Chin Up,” 371-3
Ciardi, John, 298-9
Clark, Bobby, 29, 67, 101, 172, 185, 210, 227, 292, 346
Clark and McCullough, 29
Clurman, Harold, 289-90
Cochran, Charles, 154-5
Cocteau, Jean, 259
Cohan, George M., 45, 61
Cohn, Roy, 305
Colbert, Claudette, 186-7, 213, 218
College Days (1916), 38, 49, 51, 83
Colonna, Jerry, 213
Comden, Betty, 247, 381
Compton, Betty, 100, 106
Confessions of Felix Krull, The (Mann), 2
Conrad and Graham(“The Shooting Stars”), 28
Conway, Justice, 157
Cook, Joe, 53, 54-5, 81
Cooke, Alistair, 3
Cooper, James E. (Blutch), 38, 42, 43, 49, 57-9
Corrigan, Robert, 299
Cotten, Joseph, 269
Coward, Noel, 106, 136
Cowles, Fleur, 308
“Crazy Fat,” 18
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br /> Crosby, Bing, 148, 170, 213, 216-17, 219
Crowther, Bosley, 170
Cukor, George, 186-7, 193
Curtains (Tynan), 282
Dale, Charlie, 22, 37, 357; see also Smith, Joe; Smith and Dale
Dali, Salvador, 233
Dalrymple, Jean, 78, 237-8, 245
Damita, Lili, 130
Dave Clark Five, 342-3
Davis, Flo, 59
Davis, Joan, 184
Dawn, Jack, 194
de Beauvoir, Simone, 303
Decroux, Etienne, 278
Dee, Ruby, 297, 299
Deering, Vaughn, 255
de Haven, Gloria, 269
de Havilland, Olivia, 217
Delaney, Shelagh, 290
Delmar, Harry, 84-5, 88-9, 91-2, 95
Delpino, Anna, 54, 65, 83-4, 86-7, 113, 121, 168-9, 200
Delpino, Isabel, 54, 59, 84, 95, 108; death of, 86-7
Delpino, Mercedes; see Lahrheim, Mercedes
Delpino, Roberto, 54, 59
DeMarcos, the, 128
Dempsey, Jack, 97
DeSylva, B. G. (Buddy), 6, 91-94-97-101, 114-20, 124, 138, 177, 198, 201, 203-5, 210-11, 228
Devine, Andy, 178
Dickens, Charles, 60, 296
Dietrich, Marlene, 213
Dion and the Belmonts, 225-6
Disney, Walt, 189
Doll’s House, A (Ibsen), 317
Donlevy, Brian, 135, 142
Dorando, 28
Doyle, Major, 191-2
Drake, Jeanie, 83, 85, 366-70
Du Barry Was a Lady (1939) 6, 175, 198, 201, 203-11, 214, 227, 237, 253, 311, 333, 371
Duffy, Father, 219
Dunbar, Dixie, 34, 35
Durante, Jimmy, 136, 206, 209, 216
Duse, Eleonora, 279
Earl Carroll Vanities (1930), 81
Eddy, Nelson, 162
Edwards, Cliff, 125-6
Edwards, Gus, 23
Eliot, T. S., 248
Ellis, Mike, 5
Embers (Beckett), 256
Engle, George E., 271
Epstein, Alvin, 262, 277-8
Ervine, St. John, 104
Ewell, Tom, 259, 262, 269-70, 274
Ewell, Mrs. Tom, 269
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 188
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr., 130
Fantasticks, The (1960), 301
Farnsworth, Bill, 151
Fay, Frank, 85, 89-91, 95
Faye, Alice, 147
Feldman, Charles, 42
Feydeau, Georges, 285-91
Fiddler on the Roof (1964), 321
Fielding, Henry, 41
Fields, Dorothy, 91
Fields, Herbert, 198
Fields, W. C., 29, 83, 101, 125, 185, 191, 227, 229, 345-6
Film, 268
Fleming, Victor, 193, 195-7
Flippen, Jay C., 79, 333
“Flugel Street,” 361-5
Flying High (1930), 97, 114-22, 123, 128-9, 143
Flying High (1931), 181, 182-3
Flynn, Errol, 130
Follow Thru (1929), 97
Folly Town (1919), 56, 57, 196
Fontaine, Joan, 269
Foxy (1964), 283, 311-24
Foy, Brian, 56, 181
Foy, Eddie, Jr., 79, 180, 223-6, 95
Fratellinis, the, 273
Frederick, Pauline, 186
Freed, Arthur, 189-90
Freedley, Vinton, 94, 99, 100, 110, 114
Freedman, David, 371
Friedlander, L. &M., 24-5
Frisco, Joe, 79
Funke, Lewis: see Actors Talk About Acting
Garber, Gail, 238, 240-2, 244, 245, 246
Garbo, Greta, 186
Garden Belles (1916), 42
Garland, Judy, 189, 191, 195
Garnies, Lee, 225
Gaxton, Bill, 56, 111, 112-13
Gaxton, Madelaine (Mrs. Bill), 112-13
Gear, Luella, 136-7
George White’s Music Hall Varieties, 1933 130-3, 134
George White’s Scandals, 41, 123, 124-5, 125, 133-137, 153; of 1920 124; of 1921 81; of 1926 98; of 1931 144; of 1936 125, 126, 133-4, 135, 142, 148
Gershwin, George, 100, 124
Gershwin, Ira, 100, 136, 138
Gibbs, Wolcott, 287
Gide, André, 277
Gilbert and Sullivan, 219
Ginsberg, Allen, 331
Girl Crazy (1930), 100, 114
Girls Against the Boys, The (1959), 302-4, 384
Giselle, 253, 263
Glenville, Peter, 258, 285-7
Glick, Eddie, 19-20
Gold, Sid, 33
Goldwater, Barry, 341
Goldwyn, Samuel, 147, 182
Gone With the Wind, 225
Good News (1927), 97, 78
Goodman, Benny, 228, 234
Gordon, Bert (“The Mad Russian”), 30, 36, 81
Gormé, Eydie, 350
Grable, Betty, 177, 207, 333
Grady, Bill, 191-2, 198
Grant, Cary, 213, 215, 216
Gray, Dolores, 249
Green, Adolph, 247, 381
Greenwich Village Follies, 41
Grok, 273
Grove Press, 258
Guinness, Alec, 258, 285
Guys and Dolls (1950), 269
Haley, Flo (Mrs. Jack), 79, 107, 108-9
Haley, Jack, 57, 77-9, 107, 189, 191, 193-5, 198
Hallmark Hall of Fame, 301
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 2, 294
Hammerstein, Oscar, 189
Hammerstein, William, 28
Harburg, E. Y. (“Yip”), 136-9, 141, 160, 167, 190, 197, 356, 379-80
Hardy, Lahr and Usher, 38
Hardy, Oliver, 213, 216-17, 219, 258
Harland, Mrs., 14
Harry Delmafs Delmar’s Revels (1927), 68, 85, 88, 90-5, 99, 101, 229
Hart, Moss, 228, 229, 230, 231, 279
Hayes, Gabby, 178
Hecht, Ben, 228
Hellinger, Mark, 128, 129
Hello, Dolly! (1964), 321, 323, 324
Hemingway, Ernest, 147
Henderson, Ray, 91, 94, 97-9, 101, 114-16, 120, 124, 128, 129, 138, 228
Hepburn, Audrey, 186
Hepburn, Katharine, 186
Hickey Brothers, the, 75, 225
High Society, 206
Hiken, Nat, 247
Hobson, Harold, 258
Hold Everything (1928), 181, 197
Holland, Merlyn, 348
Hollywood Victory Caravan, 212-19
Holmes, Justice, 3
Holtz, Lou, 125, 170
Hope, Bob, 89, 177, 178, 213, 216-17, 258, 259, 261, 299
Hopkins, Arthur, 247, 319, 324; and production of Burlesque, 236-41
Horwitt, Arnold B., 384
“Hostility,” 384
Hot-Cha! (1932), 128-30, 143, 146-7, 171
Hotel Paradiso (1957), 285-91, 293, 316
Houdini, 76
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961), 250
Howard, Eugene, 41, 125, 134
Howard, Sammy, 19
Howard, Willie, 19, 41, 101, 125, 134, 227
Hunger Artist, The (Kafka), 349
Hunter, Frankie, 43 passim, 46, 69, 57
Hunter, Ian McLellan, 313 passim, 319
Ibsen, Henrik, 317
“If I Were King of the Forest,” 379-80
In Search of Theater (Bentley), 239-40
Jamaica (1957), 313
Jessel, George, 30
Joe Miller’s Joke Book, 30
Johnson, Erskine, 186-7
Johnson, Jack, 28
Johnson, Samuel
Johnstone, Justine, 158-9
Jolson, Al, 98
Jonson, Ben, 311, 313, 331
Josette (1938), 184
Joyce, James, 260
Just Around the Corner, (1938), 184
Kafka, Franz, 349
Kahn, Otto, 101
Kalmer and Puck, 91
Kanin, Garson, 25
7
Kasznar, Kurt, 262, 276
Katinka (1916), 50
Kaufman, George S., 141, 228, 299
Kaye, Danny, 206
Kean, Edmund, 279
Keaton, Buster, 179, 185, 223-6, 268, 350
Keaton, Eleanor (Mrs.Buster), 224
Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, 185, 224
Keel, Howard, 222
Keep Smiling (1921), 61-3, 68, 241
Kefauver, Estes, 248
Kemp, Will, 292
Kern, Jerome, 98, 204, 354
Kerr, Donald, 80
Kerr, Walter, 258, 270, 283, 289, 297, 303, 322-3, 330
Kilmer, Joyce, 132
LaTour, Babe, 59
Lady Be Good (1924), 100
Lahr, John, 5, 7, 8, 64, 67, 68, 77, 96, 178, 212, 221, 234-6, 248, 254-5, 269, 306, 307, 317, 326
Lahr, Jane (daughter of Lahr), 220-1, 234-6, 248, 269, 306, 317, 326
Lahr, Herbert (first son of Lahr), 65, 108-9, 113, 181, 142-3, 146, 151, 159-60, 200
Lahrheim, Augusta (mother of Lahr), 11-17, 21, 36, 41
Lahrheim, Cele (Mrs. Ed Levine, sister of Lahr), 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 340
Lahrheim, Charles, 12
Lahrheim, Jacob (father of Lahr), 10, 13-17, 19. 23, 36, 51, 76, 212, 246
Lahrheim, Mercedes Delpino (first wife of Lahr), 51-5, 58, 62, 64-5, 66-74, 75-81, 83-4, 85, 86-7, 88, 90, 92-6, 103-6, 107-8, 113, 115, 121, 122-44, 148, 149, 151, 167-9, 199-201
Lahr, Mildred Schroeder (second wife of Lahr), 5, 7-9, 65, 77, 144-8, 149, 150-4, 155, 156-9, 166, 179, 198-201, 202-3, 212, 220-1, 226, 231, 234-6, 254-5, 268, 290, 298, 326-7
Lahr v. Adell Chemicals, 1962 111
Lamarr, Hedy, 245
Langford, Frances, 219
Lansbury, Angela, 288-91
Lardner, Ring, Jr., 313; passim, 319
Lark, Tommy, 15, 350
Laurel, Stan, 213, 216-17, 258
Lawrence, Gertrude, 100
Lawrence, Steve, 350
Leavitt, Michael Bennett, 41
Leonard, Eddie, 28
LeRoy, Mervyn, 186, 189-90, 191, 197-8, 222-3
Let’s Face It (1941), 206
Levy, Parke, 173
Lewis, Jerry, 286
Lewis, Robert, 313, 314, 316; passim
Life Begins at 8:40 (1934), 133-43, 147, 196, 371-3
Life of Johnson (Boswell), 69
Lightner, Winnie, 85
Lilley, Edward C., 160
Lillie, Beatrice, 46, 101, 159-63, 166-7, 170, 228-30, 231-4, 241, 249, 303, 313
Lindbergh, Charles, 98
Lindsay, Mayor John V., 346
Littel, Robert, 120
“Little Red School House, The,” 30
Lloyd, Harold, 185, 188
Loew, Marcus, 29
Lolita (Nabokov), 341
Love and Hisses (1938), 184
MacColl, James, 142
Mailer, Norman, 281
Main, Marjorie, 222-3, 245
