The Richard Burton Diaries

by Richard Burton

  Roblin, Thomas J., (i)

  Robson, Dame Flora, (i)

  Rocchi, Gualberto, (i)

  Rockefeller, Margaretta (‘Happy’), (i)

  Rockefeller, Nelson, (i)

  Roddy, Jo, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Rodriguez, Martin, (i)

  Rogers, Paul, (i)

  Romanoff, Mike, (i)

  Rome: RB and ET in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii); traffic, (i)

  Ron (RB's brother-in-law), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Ronstadt, Linda, (i)

  Rose, George, (i)

  Rosenberg, Marvin, (i)

  Rossi, Alberto di, (i)

  Rossi, Gianetto de (‘Gianni Props’), (i)

  Rossier, Dr Alain, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Rossiter, Bernard, (i)

  Roth, Philip: Portnoy's Complaint, (i)

  Rothschild, David René de, (i), (ii)

  Rothschild, Edouard Etienne de, (i)

  Rothschild, Baron Elie de, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Rothschild, Baron Guy de: in Paris, (i); entertains RB and ET, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); at races, (i); ostracizes Onassis, (i); on sexual practices, (i); wit, (i); gives grand ball at Ferrières, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Rothschild, Baroness Marie-Hélène: entertains RB and ET, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); at races, (i); ostracizes Onassis, (i); fears drunks, (i); infatuation with Warren Beatty, (i); appearance, (i); birthday celebrations, (i); gives grand ball at Ferrières, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); supposed hypochondria, (i)

  Rothschild, Philippe Sereys de, (i)

  Rowe-Beddoe, David, (i), (ii)

  Rowe-Beddoe, Lisa, (i)

  Rowse, A. L., (i)

  Royal Air Force: RB serves in, (i)

  Rudin, Milton (‘Mickey’), (i)

  Russell, Bertrand, (i), (ii)

  Russell, Rosalind, (i)

  Ryan, Cornelius: The Last Battle, (i)

  Rye, Daphne, (i)

  Sackler, Howard: Great White Hope, (i)

  St Exupéry, Antoine: The Little Prince, (i), (ii), (iii)

  St Jacques, Raymond, (i), (ii)

  Salinger, Pierre, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Salinger, Mrs Pierre, (i)

  Sallis, Zoe, (i)

  Salt, Jennifer, (i)

  Salt, Waldo, (i)

  Sam, Chen, (i)

  San Felipe, Mexico, (i), (ii), (iii)

  San Francisco, (i)

  Sanderson, Mervyn, (i)

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

  Santayana, George, (i)

  Sanz, Gaston: as RB's driver and bodyguard, (i), (ii); officiousness, (i); hides Easter eggs for children, (i); and change of clocks for summertime in Italy, (i); life with RB and ET, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); RB praises for helpfulness, (i); in Monte Carlo, (i); girl friends, (i); in Sardinia, (i); Rachel Roberts abuses, (i); gives birthday present to RB, (i); younger brother killed, (i); relations with ET, (i); and Geneviève Bujold, (i); at Aston Clinton, (i); crashes RB's Cadillac, (i); helps RB with French, (i); praises Hungarians, (i)

  Saragat, Giuseppe, (i)

  Sarajevo, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Sardinia, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Sartre, Jean-Paul: Le Diable et le Bon Dieu, (i); Kean, (i)

  Sassoon, Siegfried, (i)

  Sava, St, (i)

  Schell, Maximilian, (i)

  Scherz, Ernst Andrew, (i)

  Schlesinger, Arthur: 1000 Days with Jack Kennedy, (i)

  Schneider, Romy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Schreiber, Lew, (i), (ii)

  Schreyeck, Elaine, (i)

  Schulberg, Budd, (i)

  Scofield, Joy (Joy Parker), (i), (ii)

  Scofield, Paul: plays in A Man for All Seasons, (i); wins acting awards, (i), (ii); and RB's writing on actors, (i); dedicated to theatre, (i); suggested for Raid on Rommel, (i); acting, (i), (ii); as heir to Gielgud, (i); sulks, (i); appearance, (i); and Tynan's notices, (i); Sussex home, (i); in Scorpio, (i); voice, (i)

  Scott, George, (i), (ii)

  Scott, Gordon, (i)

  Seberg, Jean, (i)

  Second World War: setbacks (1940), (i), (ii)

  Secret Ceremony (film), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Sellers, Peter, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Seltzer, Nancy (‘Alka’), (i), (ii)

  Serge, Victor (Victor Lvovich Kibalchich): The Memoirs of a Revolutionary, (i)

  Sergio (Mexican boy): confirmation, (i)

  Shaffer, Anthony, (i), (ii)

  Shaffer, (Sir) Peter: Equus, (i); Sleuth, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Shaftel, Josef, (i)

  Shah of Iran (Mohammed Shah Pahlavi), (i)

  Shakespeare, William: RB praises, (i); Antony and Cleopatra, (i); As You Like It, (i), (ii); Coriolanus, (i); Hamlet, (i), (ii); King Lear, (i); Measure for Measure, (i); Richard II, (i), (ii); The Taming of the Shrew, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv); The Tempest, (i); Timon of Athens, (i)

  Sharaff, Irene, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Shaw, George Bernard: praises Kotor, (i); despises Shakespeare, (i); The Apple Cart, (i), (ii), (iii); Captain Brassbound's Conversion, (i)

  Shaw, Robert, (i), (ii)

  Shepridge, John (‘Goulash’), (i)

  Shimkus, Joanna, (i), (ii)

  Shoes of the Fisherman, The (film), (i)

  Shriver, Robert Sargent, (i)

  Sica, Vittorio de, (i), (ii)

  Sicre, Ricardo, (i)

  Signoret, Simone, (i)

  Silencers, The (film), (i)

  Silvera, Albert, (i)

  Simenon, Georges, (i), (ii)

  Simmons, Jean, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Simon, Neil: The Gingerbread Lady, (i)

  Simpson, Charles, (i), (ii)

  Sinatra, Frank: withdraws from The Only Game in Town, (i); fails to acknowledge Francis Taylor's death, (i); John F. Kennedy stays with, (i); suspected of associating with gangsters, (i), (ii); self-centredness, (i); supports Reagan, (i); announces retirement, (i); writing, (i); and Bogart, (i); Edie Goetz and, (i); provokes press-envy, (i); RB pays TV tribute to, (i)

  Sinclair, Sir Archibald (later Viscount Thurso), (i)

  Siodmak, Robert, (i)

  Sisler, Dr, (i), (ii); son recites Shakespeare speech, (i), (ii)

  Sitwell, Dame Edith, (i)

  Skidelsky, Robert: Oswald Mosley, (i)

  Smatt, Ernie, (i)

  Smite (teacher's nickname), (i)

  Smith, Basil Fenton, (i)

  Smith, Cecil, (i)

  Smith, Hardy William (‘Bill’), (i)

  Smith, Liz, (i)

  Smith, (Dame) Maggie, (i), (ii)

  Smith, Mick, (i)

  Smith, Red, (i)

  Smith, Tommie, (i)

  Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, (i)

  Snow, Charles P., Baron, (i)

  Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Soglo, Christophe, President of Dahomey, (i)

  Soldano, Sergio, (i)

  Soldati, Mario, (i)

  Solomon, Louis, (i)

  Solowicz, Maurice, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Solowicz, Maurice B., Fert & Cie (Geneva), (i)

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, (i)

  Sordi, Alberto, (i)

  South Africa, (i)

  South Wales: coal industry, (i); air raids on, (i), (ii); RB revisits, (i)

  Southern Breeze (yacht), (i)

  Spain: RB's love for, (i), (ii)

  Spark, Muriel: The Public Image, (i)

  Speaight, Robert, (i)

  Speer, Albert, (i)

  Spender, (Sir) Stephen, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Spengler, Oswald: The Decline of the West, (i), (ii)

  Spiegel, Sam, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Spinetti, Victor, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Spoljar, Branko, (i)

  Springer, John, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
/>   Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The (film), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Squire, William, (i), (ii)

  Squire's Mount Cottages, Hampstead, London, (i), (ii)

  Stafford, Robin, (i)

  Staircase (film), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi)

  Stalin, Josef, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Stanislavski (Kopnstantin Sergeyevich Alekseyev), (i)

  Stapleton, Maureen, (i), (ii)

  Stark, Ray, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Starkie, Enid, (i)

  Starr, Ringo and Maureen, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Steiger, Rod, (i)

  Stennett, Stan, (i)

  Stepanjek, Branimir, (i)

  Stephens, James, (i)

  Stephens, Robert, (i)

  Sterne, Richard L., (i)

  Stevens, George, (i), (ii)

  Stevens, Jack, (i)

  Stevens, Stella, (i)

  Stevenson, Adlai, (i)

  Stevenson, Frances (Countess Lloyd-George), (i)

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, (i)

  Stewart, James, (i)

  Stewart, Mary: The Gabriel Hounds, (i)

  Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire, (i)

  Strachey, Lytton, (i); Queen Victoria, (i)

  Strasberg, Paula: death, (i)

  Strasberg, Susan, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Stratford-upon-Avon, (i)

  Streisand, Barbra, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Stross, Raymond, (i)

  Sullivan, Ed, (i)

  Sullivan, John, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Sunday Express, (i)

  Sunday Times, (i)

  Super-Chief (railway train), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Sutjeska, battle of (1943), (i)n1, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Swansea: bombed, (i), (ii)

  Swanson, Jane: in Rome, (i); in Sardinia, (i); in Gstaad, (i); and RB's new typewriter, (i); RB's regard for, (i); family house in Yugoslavia, (i); and ET's flight from Yugoslavia to see injured Liza, (i); gives present of books to RB, (i); watches horses parade in Rome, (i); forwards letters from Rome, (i); brings clothes to RB, (i)

  Swanson, Sarah, (i)

  Swanton, E. W., (i)

  Sweeting, Elizabeth, (i)

  Swerdlow, Dr, (i), (ii)

  Switzerland: RB resides in, (i), (ii), (iii); hygienic appearance, (i); see also Geneva; Gstaad

  Synge, John Millington, (i), (ii)

  Tabori, George, (i)

  Taibach, Port Talbot, (i)

  Taibach Co-operative Wholesale Society, (i), (ii)

  Taming of the Shrew, The (film) see Shakespeare, William

  Taormina, (i)

  Tashorne, Brian, (i)

  Tate, Sharon, (i)

  Tatelman, Harry, (i)

  Taylor, A. J. P., (i), (ii)

  Taylor, Christopher (ET's nephew), (i)

  Taylor, (Dame) Elizabeth: RB first meets, (i); in Cleopatra, (i), (ii); marriages and children, (i); romance with RB, (i); divorce from Eddie Fisher and marriage to RB, (i), (ii); contributes to RB's diary, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); gives 1965 diary to RB, (i); reads RB's diaries, (i), (ii), (iii); rows with RB, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx); suspects RB of relationship with Geneviève Bujold, (i); cracks head on cupboard door, (i); RB reads with, (i); undergoes minor surgery, (i); watches rugby with RB, (i); honeymoon with RB, (i); celebrity, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); marriage relations with RB, (i); nicknames, (i)n70, (ii)n41, (iii)n43, (iv)n109, (v)n117; dental treatment, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); fittings for clothes, (i), (ii), (iii); with RB in USA, (i); RB teaches to play billiards, (i); in Rome with RB to film Taming of the Shrew, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); curetage for bleeding, (i), (ii); medical examinations and tests, (i), (ii), (iii); loathes Zeffirelli, (i), (ii), (iii); Cyril Cusack threatens, (i); at Edith Jenkins's funeral, (i); cooking, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); inheritance from Montgomery Clift, (i); drinking, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix); grey hairs, (i); takes British citizenship, (i); weeps at Aberfan disaster, (i); in Reflections in a Golden Eye, (i); RB fears losing, (i); Eddie Fisher sues for divorce, (i); in Dahomey to film The Comedians, (i); RB's passion for, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); wins New York Critics award for Virginia Woolf, (i); Oscar for Virginia Woolf, (i), (ii); shopping, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); RB lampoons in diary, (i); rebukes Rachel Roberts, (i); decorates yacht, (i); awards, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Kate Burton sleeps alongside, (i); wart removed from finger, (i); weight, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); shows dislike of people, (i); plays in Boom!, (i); Coward admires, (i); in Corsica, (i); lionized in Paris, (i); jewellery, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi); hysterectomy, (i), (ii); plays in The Only Game in Town, (i), (ii), (iii); relations with Warren Beatty, (i), (ii), (iii); at races in Paris, (i); wealth, (i), (ii), (iii); fear of becoming cripple, (i); in Secret Ceremony, (i); RB beats at gin rummy, (i); gives mink coat to RB for birthday, (i); singing, (i); RB praises, (i); and father's death and funeral, (i), (ii); gives saint's day party, (i); dress, (i); RB misses when separated, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); fondness for daughter Liza, (i); incapacitated, (i), (ii); photographed kissing Duke of Windsor, (i); medication, (i), (ii); lethargy and boredom, (i); newspaper article by Tommy Thompson, (i); reading, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); appearance, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); weeps at departure of children, (i); ill-health, (i); RB's understanding of, (i); personality and acting, (i); eating, (i), (ii); bleeding, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); effect on others, (i); as godmother to Emma Jenkins, (i); worthwhile films, (i); and David Lewin, (i); 37th birthday (1969), (i); considerateness, (i); similarity to RB, (i); on Quayle's imitation of Gielgud, (i); matron of honour at Bob Wilson-Alice wedding, (i); travels to Cornwall to meet polio victim, (i); in North Moreton, Oxfordshire, (i); RB chooses over Kate, (i); buys complete Everyman's Library for RB, (i); steals book for RB from Foyle's, (i); and Sinatra, (i); returns to Puerto Vallarta, (i); at Oscars (1970), (i); piles, (i), (ii), (iii); given presents in Mexico, (i); and Lucille Ball, (i); stage presence, (i); surgical operation in California, (i), (ii); recovers from operation, (i); Look article on, (i); in Hammersmith is Out, (i); joins RB in Mexico, (i), (ii); susceptibility to illness, (i); visit to Los Angeles, (i), (ii); as child actress in National Velvet, (i); attends Michael Wilding Jr's wedding, (i); back pain, (i), (ii); in Yugoslavia with RB, (i); in knife-throwing act, (i); overdoses on sleeping pills, (i); and Tito film, (i), (ii); acquires kitten, (i); mother's illness, (i); lassitude in Yugoslavia, (i); models for Italian furrier and wears furs, (i); in pain in Yugoslavia, (i); conscious of cultural background, (i); flies to England following Liza's riding accident, (i), (ii); Shahbanu of Iran follows, (i); and bid for X, Y and Zee, (i); with son Michael and grandchild, (i); stops drinking, (i), (ii); defends Sinatra, (i); has hair streaked, (i); gives birthday present to RB, (i); cyst and mole removed, (i), (ii); religious affiliation, (i); at Rothschild party with Princess Grace, (i); behaviour and manners, (i); converts to Judaism, (i); visits Voldengs, (i); gives $5000 to Orchestral Fund of Phoenix, (i); box office position, (i); in Budapest, (i), (ii); late-night exercises, (i); photographed by Parkinson, (i), (ii); and Wolf Mankowitz, (i); fortieth birthday celebrations (1972), (i); eighth wedding anniversary (1972), (i); consorts with Onassis, (i); in Los Angeles hospital, (i); rift with RB, (i); divorce from RB, (i); dysentery, (i); calls RB in Céligny, (i); RB's view of after separation, (i); RB sees again after divorce, (i); visits RB in Céligny, (i); RB remarries in South Africa, (i), (ii); stay in South Africa, (i); lung cancer scare, (i); illness in South Africa, (i); writes journal, (i); affair with Darmanin, (i), (ii); second marriage to RB fails, (i); writing, (i); marries John Warner, (i); excites press envy, (i); in stage production of The Little Foxes, (i); rehearses f
or Coward's Private Lives, (i), (ii); admits to loneliness, (i); RB re-encounters in New York, (i); troubled state during rehearsals, (i); loses teeth, (i)

  Taylor, Francis (ET's father), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); death, (i)

  Taylor, Howard (ET's brother): RB and ET visit in San Diego, (i); plays in Boom!, (i)n60; visits RB and ET in Europe, (i), (ii); RB gives money to, (i); adopts Simoleke, (i); RB's fondness for, (i); and father's funeral, (i); at Voldengs’ in Phoenix, Arizona, (i); awareness of lesbianism in X, Y and Zee, (i); marriage relations, (i); travels to Hawaii, (i); appearance, (i); celebrates ET's 40th birthday, (i); gives straight talk to ET, (i); on ‘grapple-snapping’, (i)

  Taylor, Layton (Howard-Mara's son), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Taylor, Mara (Howard's wife), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Taylor, Sara (ET's mother): RB lunches with, (i); sends birthday present to RB, (i); and husband's death, (i), (ii); with Duke of Windsor, (i); travels to Geneva with RB, (i); buys paintings, (i); lunches with RB, (i); influence on ET, (i); invited to post-Oscars ‘Thanksgiving’ dinner, (i); illness and recovery, (i); impending death, (i); RB's final visit to, (i), (ii); sees X, Y and Zee, (i); decline, (i); garrulity, (i)

  Taylor, Simoleke (Howard-Mara's adopted daughter): adopted by Howard and Mara, (i); stays with RB and ET, (i); laughs on film set, (i); brings boyfriend to stay, (i); engagement (to John Gross), (i); travels to Geneva with RB, (i); expelled from school, (i); untidiness, (i)

  Teuber, Andreas, (i), (ii)

  Tey, Josephine: A Shilling for Candles, (i)

  Thatcher, Tina, (i)

  Thesiger, Ernest, (i)

  Thomas, Alun, (i)

  Thomas, Charles, (i)

  Thomas, Dylan: Coghill praises, (i); loathes Vaughan-Thomas, (i); RB's view of, (i); on museums, (i); at ML Club, (i), (ii); RB quotes, (i); biographies, (i); The Beach of Falesa, (i); ‘Poem in October’, (i); Under Milk Wood, (i), (ii)

  Thomas, George (later Viscount Tonypandy), (i), (ii)

  Thomas, Gwydion, (i), (ii)

  Thomas, Gwyn, (i)

  Thomas, R. S., (i)

  Thomaster (headmaster), (i)

  Thompson, Tommy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Thomson of Fleet, Roy, Baron, (i)

  Thoreau, Henry David, (i)

  Thorndike, Dame Sybil, (i)

  Thorneycroft, Peter, Baron, (i)

  Thoroughly Modern Milly (film), (i)

  Thorp, Roderick: The Detective, (i)

  Tiel, Vicky, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)