The Richard Burton Diaries

by Richard Burton

  Bozzacchi, Gianni: marriage to Claudye, (i), (ii); Robin Marlowe requests contraceptives from for junior Michael Wilding, (i); in Paris, (i), (ii); gives birthday presents to RB, (i), (ii); accident with Mace, (i); carries restorative, (i); in Yugoslavia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); bores RB, (i); on value of ET's furs, (i); unpaid, (i); on expenses in Yugoslavia, (i); Hebe Dorsey complains of non-payment by, (i); in Ariel, (i); on Joey Heatherton, (i); photographs, (i)

  Brace, Onllwyn, (i), (ii)

  Braddon, Russell, (i), (ii)

  Bragg, George Henry, (i)

  Bragg, Melvyn, Baron: biography of RB, (i), (ii); and RB's diaries, (i)

  Braine, John: Life at the Top, (i)

  Bramble Bush, The (film), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Brando, Marlon: in Italy with RB, (i), (ii), (iii); embarrasses Stark, (i); picks up New York Critics award for ET, (i); personality and appeal, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); ET calls on phone, (i); stage acting, (i); dependence on Kazan, (i); declines film parts, (i); intellect, (i); marriage to Anna Kashfi, (i); proposed to play Mussolini, (i); RB accuses of laziness, (i)

  Brandon, Henry, (i)

  Brandt, Willy, (i)

  Braswell, Charles, (i)

  Breakthrough (film), (i)

  Bremner, Billy, (i)

  Breslin, Jimmy, (i)

  Brezhnev, Leonid, (i), (ii)

  Brickhouse, Jack and Pat, (i)

  Bridges, Beau, (i)

  Brief Encounter (film), (i)

  Brighton Rock (film), (i)

  British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): RB records for, (i); Third Programme, (i)

  Britton, Eva, (i)

  Britton, Jasper, (i)

  Britton, Tony, (i), (ii)

  Broadway Limited (railway train), (i)

  Brogan, Denis, (i)

  Brook, Peter, (i), (ii)

  Brooke, Rupert, (i)

  Brown, Christy, (i)

  Brown, George Stanford, (i)

  Brown, Pamela, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Browne, Roscoe Lee, (i)

  Broz, Jovanka (Tito's wife), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Bruhn, Erik Belton Evers, (i)

  Bryant, John, (i)

  Brynner, Doris, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Brynner, Rocky, (i), (ii)

  Brynner, Victoria, (i)

  Brynner, Yul, (i)

  Bucerias, Mexico, (i)

  Buckley, Patricia, (i)

  Buckley, William F., (i), (ii), (iii)

  Budapest, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Buffman, Zev, (i), (ii)

  Bujold, Geneviève: relations with RB, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); in Anne of the Thousand Days, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); A. P. Herbert makes pass at, (i); behaviour, (i); unpopularity, (i); RB criticises, (i)

  Bulgari, Gianni, (i)

  Burroughs, William S.: Exterminator, (i)

  Burton, Hal (ed.): Acting in the Sixties, (i)

  Burton, Jessica (RB's daughter): birth, (i); in Paris, (i); christening, (i); RB's relations with, (i); letter to RB, (i); RB's hopes for, (i); in Switzerland with RB, (i), (ii); inheritance from RB, (i)

  Burton, Kate (RB's daughter): birth, (i); in Geneva, (i); christening, (i); and mother's remarriage, (i); RB's relations with, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); RB meets in USA, (i); visits to RB, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); correspondence with RB, (i), (ii); RB sends money to, (i); sculpture of, (i); seasick on yacht, (i); writes diary as child, (i); Ivor and Gwen take to New York, (i); ungenerous nature, (i); attends Besancon's funeral, (i); dislikes caviare, (i); RB takes to New York on Queen Elizabeth, (i); visits Ivor Jenkins, (i); takes small part in Anne of the Thousand Days, (i); manner, (i); writing, (i); appearance, (i), (ii); compliments RB, (i); in Mexico with RB, (i); leaves Mexico, (i); swearing, (i); view of parents, (i); lifestyle, (i); fourteenth birthday, (i); love of flying, (i); shows off before girlfriend, (i); in New York, (i); enters college, (i); visits RB in Switzerland, (i); birthday (1975), (i); acts in Alice in Wonderland with RB, (i); acting in New York, (i); attends Tennessee Williams’ funeral, (i); marriage to Michael F. Ritchie, (i)n54; plays in Ellis Island with RB, (i); inheritance from RB, (i)

  Burton, Philip: background, (i); influence on RB, (i), (ii); RB moves into home and taken as ward, (i); teaches RB, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); stage productions, (i)n167; directs RB in school play, (i), (ii); visits London to see Shaw, (i); in Port Talbot YMCA, (i)n247, (ii)n252; and RB in New York, (i); moves to USA, (i); RB writes to from Sardinia, (i); visits RB in Italy, (i); praises ET in Secret Ceremony, (i); compared with Mrs Trench, (i); tells RB to be patient with Michael Wilding, (i); in Florida, (i); legacy from RB, (i)

  Burton, Richard: diaries, (i), (ii), (iii); birth and family background, (i); sister Cis takes care of as child, (i); chapel-going, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi); musical interests, (i); rugby football-playing, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); schooling, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); leaves school and works in store, (i); Philip Burton's interest in, (i); works for Co-operative Wholesale Society, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); adopts surname Burton, (i); moves in with Philip Burton and becomes ward, (i); takes Oxford University short course, (i); trains as RAF navigator, (i); awards and nominations, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii); early stage and film parts, (i); marries Sybil Williams, (i); Shakespearean roles, (i), (ii); children with Sybil, (i); first meets ET, (i); moves to Céligny, Switzerland, (i), (ii); drinking, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix), (xxx), (xxxi), (xxxii), (xxxiii), (xxxiv); first romance with ET, (i); romantic liaisons, (i); marries ET (1964), (i); Sybil divorces, (i); self-criticism, (i), (ii); early death, (i); proposed autobiography, (i); rows with ET, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii); supposed relations with leading ladies, (i); spelling, (i); complex character, (i); filmgoing as youth, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv); plays Monopoly, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); works as paper-boy, (i); takes school exams, (i), (ii), (iii); plays tennis, (i), (ii); school sports, (i), (ii); collects horse manure, (i); cricket, (i), (ii), (iii); reading, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix), (xxx), (xxxi), (xxxii), (xxxiii), (xxxiv), (xxxv), (xxxvi), (xxxvii), (xxxviii), (xxxix), (xl), (xli), (xlii), (xliii), (xliv), (xlv), (xlvi), (xlvii), (xlviii), (xlix), (l), (li), (lii), (liii), (liv), (lv), (lvi), (lvii), (lviii), (lix), (lx), (lxi), (lxii), (lxiii), (lxiv), (lxv), (lxvi), (lxvii), (lxviii), (lxix), (lxx), (lxxi), (lxxii), (lxxiii); in wartime air raids, (i), (ii); plays billiards, (i), (ii); swimming, (i), (ii); in school play, (i), (ii); takes School Certificate exam (‘matric’), (i); quarrel with Elfed James, (i); installs Anderson air raid shelter, (i); lacks confidence in Welsh language, (i); fifteenth birthday, (i); joins YMCA, (i); smokes pipe as schoolboy, (i); takes first communion as member of Noddfa Chapel, (i); gambling, (i), (ii); learns to ski, (i); studies Russian, (i); ranking in Motion Picture Herald, (i); makes records, (i); watches rugby internationals, (i), (ii); ET praises, (i); honeymoon with ET, (i); plays Yahtzee (dice game), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); marriage relations with ET, (i); plays piano, (i), (ii); dislikes paparazzi, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); pet dogs, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii); celebrates 40th birthday, (i); attends ballet, (i); financial anxieties, (i); self-image, (i); preparations for film parts, (i); and shooting of Taming of the Shrew, (i); gives up drink temporarily, (i), (ii); takes Finalgon (drug), (i); depressions, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); smoking, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); competes in father's race at Maria's school sports, (i); and death of sisters,
(i), (ii); learns Italian, (i), (ii); skin trouble, (i); loses taste for alcohol, (i), (ii), (iii); gives away money, (i); follows American baseball, (i); exercises, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); attitude to public figures, (i); bet to write book, (i); fears losing ET, (i); forty-first birthday, (i); defends pornography, (i); narration for documentary on Florence, (i); passion for ET, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); purchases yacht on cruise in Mediterranean, (i); sculpted by Rocchi, (i); arthritic arm and wrist, (i), (ii); loses weight, (i); dislikes flying, (i); gives money to Howard and Mara Taylor, (i); buys jet plane for ET, (i); buys jewellery for ET, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); and ET's hysterectomy, (i); knowledge of French, (i); desire for river barge, (i), (ii); earnings and wealth, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); Universal Pictures threatens to sue, (i), (ii); wears alopecic baldwig, (i), (ii); temper and ill behaviour, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); offered tutoring post at Oxford, (i), (ii); arthritis in hip, (i); forty-third birthday, (i); mink coat, (i); Zanuck sues for $55 million, (i); mimicry, (i); seduction technique, (i); political views, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); misses absent ET, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); hates the English, (i), (ii); ice-skating, (i); skiing, (i); Christmas in Gstaad, (i); eye damaged in fight, (i); disparages the French, (i); diets, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); cosmic pessimism, (i); attitude to acting, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); records for BBC, (i); writing, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii); visits dentist, (i); on national stereotypes, (i); grows beard, (i); charitable gifts, (i), (ii), (iii); dreams, (i), (ii), (iii); supports family financially, (i); punishes soldier at Paddington Station, (i); fitted for costume, (i); reaction to interviews, (i); religious scepticism, (i), (ii); lists worthwhile films, (i); singing voice, (i), (ii); talking, (i); plays badminton, (i), (ii); steals books from Foyle's, (i); performs in foreign languages, (i); gives speech in Geneva, (i); weight, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); gives up drink after health check-up (1970), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); learns Spanish, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); loses sexual urge, (i); at Oscars (1970), (i); appointed CBE, (i), (ii), (iii); given ticket for speeding, (i); attitude to reviewers, (i); dreams of retiring onto Kalizma, (i); learns German, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); relishes fame, (i); diminished sexual appetite, (i); on causes of illness, (i); uses exercise bike, (i); invested with CBE, (i); learns Serbo-Croat, (i), (ii), (iii); proposed as Director of National Theatre, (i), (ii); plays table tennis, (i), (ii); acquires TV movie machine, (i); in knife-throwing act, (i); and ET's overdosing on sleeping pills, (i); view of film directors, (i); creditors, (i); views on entourage, (i); in helicopter drama, (i); reflects on stage and film career, (i); stage acting, (i); criticised by press for wealth, (i); fighting, (i); dislikes museums, (i), (ii); pride in intellectual superiority, (i); memory lapses, (i); on film rewards, (i); wine drinking, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); in Winnipeg as airman, (i); early sexual experience, (i); death foretold, (i), (ii); forty-sixth birthday, (i), (ii); newspaper reading, (i), (ii); plays in horror film (Bluebeard), (i), (ii); attends Rothschild party with Princess Grace, (i); acne, (i); catches photographer with rubber ball, (i); manners, (i); attempts to give up cigarettes, (i); box office position, (i); Korda offers contract to, (i); and brother Dai Morgan Williams, (i); affair with Jean Simmons, (i); learns Hungarian, (i), (ii); appearance, (i); loses hair, (i); eighth wedding anniversary (1972), (i); affairs, (i); resumes drinking, (i); rift with ET, (i); engagement to Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, (i); ET divorces, (i); relations with Jeanne Bell, (i); cycling in Switzerland, (i), (ii), (iii); teetotalism, (i); enters clinic, (i); struggles with drink problem, (i); eyes tested, (i); remarries ET in South Africa, (i), (ii); fiftieth birthday (1975), (i); revisits Wales, (i); affair with Susan Hunt, (i); second divorce from ET and marriage to Susan Hunt, (i); pinched nerve, (i); effect on public in restaurants, (i); abruptness on telephone, (i); TV narration for wedding of Prince of Wales and Diana, (i); undergoes spinal surgery in Santa Monica, (i); marriage with Susan fails, (i); relations with Sally Hay, (i); divorce from Susan, (i), (ii); marries Sally, (i); cerebral haemorrhage and death, (i); estate, (i)

  Burton, Sally (earlier Hay; RB's fourth wife): gives RB diaries to Swansea University, (i); reads RB's diaries, (i); RB meets, (i); anxieties over RB's divorce from Susan, (i); in Port au Prince, (i); in New York, (i); marries RB, (i); inheritance from RB, (i)

  Burton, Susan (earlier Hunt; RB's third wife): RB reads to from diary, (i), (ii); marriage to RB, (i); flies to Geneva with RB, (i); in New York, (i), (ii), (iii); fourth wedding anniversary, (i); in Chicago, (i), (ii); under public scrutiny, (i); background and sensitivity to people, (i); and Bob Wilson, (i); dress, (i); on reviews of Camelot, (i); twin sister (Vivienne), (i); hurts spine, (i); fondness for Kupcinets, (i); in Dallas, (i); mollifies Merrick, (i); fears over-exposure, (i); marriage with RB fails, (i); divorce from RB, (i)n3, (ii); RB keeps silence on, (i)

  Burton, Sybil (RB's first wife): marriage to RB, (i), (ii), (iii); moves to Switzerland, (i); and RB's romance with ET, (i); in Rome with RB, (i); divorces RB, (i); sees RB's diary, (i); RB telephones from New York, (i); joins RB in Paris, (i); RB misses, (i); takes possessions from Céligny, (i); remarries (Jordan Christopher), (i); and daughter Kate's visits to RB, (i); and Edie's death, (i); and Kate's visit to RB in Italy, (i); post-divorce relations with RB, (i); grey hairs, (i); birth of daughter, (i); disparages Lyndon B. Johnson, (i); relations with Kate, (i), (ii); takes RB's Welsh books to New York, (i); attempted suicide, (i); appearance, (i)

  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (film), (i)

  Butt, Ronald, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Cagney, James, (i)

  Caine, (Sir) Michael, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Callas, Maria, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Camelot (stage musical), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); film version, (i), (ii)

  Cameron, Roderick (‘Rory’), (i)

  Camus, Albert, (i)

  Canada: RB in at war's end, (i)

  Candy (film), (i)

  Cannes, (i)

  Capote, Truman, (i)

  Capri, (i)

  Cardiff, Jack, (i)

  Cardus, Neville, (i)

  Carey, Joyce (actress), (i)

  Carlos, John, (i)

  Carnal Knowledge (film), (i)

  Caron, Leslie, (i)

  Carter, Jimmy, (i)

  Cashin, Fergus, (i)

  Castle Anna (play), (i)

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (film), (i)

  Catania, Sicily, (i)

  Catch 22 (film), (i)

  Catherine II (the Great), Empress of Russia, (i)

  Cavett, Dick, (i), (ii)

  Cavtat, Yugoslavia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Cecil, Lord David, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Céligny, near Geneva, (i)

  Celina (Gstaad maid), (i)

  Chamberlain, Neville, (i), (ii)

  Chandler, Otis and family, (i)

  Chaplin, Charlie, (i)

  Chapman, John, (i)

  Charles, Mr (of Dan-y-bont), (i)

  Charles, Prince of Wales: investiture in Wales, (i), (ii); wedding with Diana, (i)

  Charles, Uncle, (i), (ii)

  Charlton, Bobby, (i)

  Charon, Jacques, (i)

  Chase, Richard, (i)

  Cheshire, Group-Captain Leonard, (i)

  Chester, Lewis, Geoffrey Hodgson and Bruce Page: An American Melodrama, (i), (ii)

  Chesterton, G. K., (i)

  Chevalier, Maurice, (i)

  Chicago, (i), (ii)

  Chichester, Sir Francis, (i)

  Chimes at Midnight (film), (i)

  Chobe National Park, South Africa, (i), (ii)

  Christie, Agatha: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, (i)

  Christie, Julie, (i)

  Christmas Story, A (RB), (i), (ii)

  Christopher, Amy (Sybil-Jordan's daughter), (i)

  Christopher, Jordan (bo
rn Jordan Zankoff): marries Sybil, (i); birth of daughter, (i); Kate buys book for, (i)

  Chronicle of an English Crown (Vivat Rex) (BBC radio programme), (i)

  Churchill, Randolph, (i)

  Churchill, (Sir) Winston: as Prime Minister (1940), (i); dismisses underlings, (i); RB proposed to play in film, (i), (ii); biography by son Randolph, (i); RB meets, (i), (ii); on Germans, (i); and Mediterranean strategy, (i); Tito meets, (i); and Hochhuth's Soldiers, (i); reputation, (i); wins Nobel Prize, (i); hair colour, (i); RB attacks, (i); RB plays, (i); The World Crisis, (i)

  Circle of Two (film), (i)

  Clark, Jim, (i)

  Clark, Kenneth: The Nude, (i)

  Clay, Cassius see Ali, Muhammad

  Cleopatra (film), (i), (ii)

  Cliburn, Harvey Lavan (‘Van’), (i)

  Clifford, Francis: The Naked Runner, (i)

  Clift, Montgomery, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Clowes, Dick, (i)

  coal industry: South Wales, (i)

  Coburn, James, (i)

  Cochlin, D. A., (i)

  Coghill, Ambrose, (i)

  Coghill, Sir Marmaduke Nevill Patrick Somerville, (i)n21

  Coghill, Nevill, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

  Cohen, Alexander H., (i), (ii), (iii)

  Cohen, Nat, (i)

  Colicos, John: in Anne of the Thousand Days, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); character, (i); RB's influence on, (i), (ii), (iii); Hathaway orders to have hair cut, (i); in Mexico for Raid on Rommel, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Collier, Richard: Duce, (i)

  Collingwood, Charles: in Las Vegas, (i); congratulates RB on writing on Wales, (i); and wife's drinking, (i); asks RB for opinion on novel, (i); resents RB's celebrity, (i), (ii); drinking, (i), (ii); interviews Speer, (i); The Defector, (i), (ii)

  Collingwood, Louise, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Columbia Pictures, (i)

  Columbus, Christopher, (i)

  Comedians, The (film), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Compton, Fay, (i)

  Connery, (Sir) Sean, (i)