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on death of Gloria Stewart’s son, 204
and Heeley and Kramer, 235–36
and Stewart, James, 173, 174–76, 207, 208, 238
and Stewart’s intruder story, 231–35
Strauss, Renee, 235, 236
Streep, Meryl, 272
Streisand, Barbra, 345, 358, 392
Stripper, The (film), 65
Suddenly Last Summer (film), 71
Tate, Sheila, 191
Taylor, Elizabeth, 90, 91–95, 95
autograph of, 90
home of, 93–94
Spencer Tracy Legacy interview, 91, 92–93, 94–95
Teamster Rep at MGM, 221–22
Tebet, David, 177
Ter-Arutunian, Rouben, 7–8
Three Faces of Eve, The (film), 59
“Three Hats, The” lithograph, 295
TNT
All About Bette, 248
and Fonda on Fonda, 289, 292–93, 299–303, 304
and Katharine Hepburn: All About Me, 305, 307, 310
Tonight Show, The (TV program), 228–28
Too Much, Too Soon (film), 387
Top Hat (film), 17
“Top Hat, White Tie and Tails” (Astaire and Rogers dance), 22–23
Tovar, Lupita, 326
Tracy and Hepburn (Kanin), 71
Tracy building, MGM, Culver City, 79
Tracy, Spencer, 66
diary of, 79
hat of, 291, 291–92
Katharine Hepburn on anniversary of death of, 141–42
living with Katharine Hepburn, 36
meeting Katharine Hepburn for the first time, 112–13
scrapbooks of, 96
and Sinatra, 86
and Wagner, 140–41
See also Spencer Tracy Legacy
Tracy, Susie, 129, 134, 135, 139, 375
tributes, 13
Tribute to The Group, Williamstown, 270, 270–72
Trident Hotel, Port Antonio, Jamaica, 378, 379
Tucci, Maria, 270, 270
Tuckerman, Nancy, 168–69
Turner Classic Movies (TCM), 363, 373, 377
Turner Entertainment Co. (TEC), 251, 278
Turner, Ted, 289, 292–93, 299, 301–2, 305
TV Guide, 115–16, 116n
20/20 program, and Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, 51–52, 59, 60–61
Two for the Seasaw (play), 297
UNICEF and Audrey Hepburn, 282, 285
Universal
about, 326–28, 326n, 327, 331, 333–34, 350
backlot for James Stewart and Johnny Carson interview, 207–15, 209
corporate jet, 331, 332
“Jaws Lake,” 335
MCA/Universal, 351–52
Stage 28, 334
Wasserman’s memorabilia collection, 360
See also Wasserman, Lew R.
Universal Story, The (documentary), 325–29, 331–35, 336–37, 351–53
about, 336–37
Dreyfuss as host, 331–35
interviews, 325–29, 351–53
Venza, Jac
amd Emmy Award nomination for Fred Astaire, 155–58, 159
and Astaire, 11, 12–13
and Broadway’s Dreamers, 271, 273
and Fred Astaire Songbook, 280
and The Group Theatre, 263
Vidal, Gore, 55, 392
Vincent, John, 98, 104
Vision of Sir Launfal, The (play), 372
Wagner, Robert, 70, 91, 128–29, 133, 135, 138, 139, 140–41
Wallis, Hal, 76
Wall, Roger, 91, 92, 94
Walters, Barbara, 60–61
Warner Bros. films, 251, 252, 252n, 377
Warner Bros. lot, shooting Bacall On Bogart at, 253–55
Warner/Chappell, 392
Wasserman, Edie, 360
Wasserman, Lew R., 352, 361
biographical information, 351–52
and Clinton, 356–59, 361
and Davis, 354
and Heeley and Kramer, 352–54, 360–61, 361
and The Universal Story, 326–28, 330
and Pope John Paul II, 355
security system at his home, 356
and Sinatra, 354–55
and Stewart, 208, 238
Weinstein, Inez, 128, 129–32, 134–35, 139
Welles, Orson, 326, 345
“We’re a Couple of Swells” (song), 162
Wertheimer, Tom, 331
Westin, Av, 51, 60
Westlake, Blair, 326, 352, 352
Westport Country Playhouse, 368
West Side Waltz, The (play), 29, 29n, 46
Wharton, Edith, 392
White House, The, 189–99
Wilbourn, Phyllis, 76, 77, 78, 112, 185
Williams, Esther, 391
Williamstown Tribute to The Group, 270, 270–72
Wirth, Darice, 64
Wise, Robert, 59
Wizard of Oz, The (film), 162
WNET
and Bacall On Bogart, 251
The Dial magazine article on Hepburn, 44
and Fred Astaire Songbook, 278
and Garland documentary, 161–62, 165
and Heeley, 5, 7
and Kramer, 6, 7, 61
Skyline, 8, 9, 12, 13
Skyline with Beverly Sills, x, 8
and Spencer Tracy Legacy, 69
See also Page, George; PBS; Venza, Jac
Wolders, Robert, 282, 283
Woman of the Year (film), 71, 112
Woodward, Joanne, 48, 57, 62, 260, 264, 267, 368, 371
on acting in The Three Faces of Eve, 59
after death of Paul, 64–65
änd Garfield, John, 364, 368
ballet classes, 59
and Broadway’s Dreamers, 261, 263, 267, 268–72, 273, 274
and Flynn, 382
as Fred Astaire narrator, 21, 50
as interviewee for Spencer Tracy Legacy, 70
and Kramer, 12, 12n, 49, 57, 58–59
and Kramer and Heeley, 64–65, 65, 271–72, 273
and Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, 56, 58, 59, 61
and Williamstown Tribute to The Group, 270–71
See also Broadway’s Dreamers; Group Theatre, The; Newman, Paul; Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
wounds, off-stage, 369, 382–83
WPIX, Channel 11, New York, 366
Wyler, Willie, 284–85
Young Lady of Property, A (TV), 53, 54, 55
1 I am five years older than my sister, Marilyn. She remained in the UK, and is married with four—now adult—children.
2 Four weeks were at ATV’s Wood Green studio, where plays, musicals, and variety shows were produced. The last two weeks were at the Foley Street Network Control Centre.
1 We first met when she and Paul Newman appeared together on The Dick Cavett Show in 1973.
2 He was in New York working with the Joffrey Ballet to recreate two of Nijinsky’s famous performances in “Prélude à l’Après-Midi d’un Faune” and “Petrushka.”
3 The notorious Pledge Weeks are usually at least two weeks, and have been known to last even longer. They are unloved by both viewers and the stations, but do produce income for the always-strapped public television system and are not likely to disappear any time soon.
4 After Adele and Ginger, Barrie was the partner Fred danced with most often in his career.
5 The number is shown in the film as a part of a nightclub performance. However, within a few decades, portrayals of African Americans by Caucasians in motion pictures, and especially “blackface” performances (although Astaire did not wear the exaggerated “Minstrel Show” style of make-up), were virtually non-existent, considered offensive.
1 New York’s public television station, WNET, has always been known by its channel number.
2 The West Side Waltz, a play by Ernest Thompson, went on tour before opening in New York on November 19th, 1981, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
3 She asked for Spencer Tracy, whom she didn’t yet
know, and Clark Gable, but neither of them was available. So Louis B. Mayer, the head of the studio, hired freelance actor, Cary Grant, and assigned the other male lead to one of MGM’s own contract players, James Stewart.
4 Details of the Henry Fonda interview are in “Henry and Jane and Ted and Peter.”
5 A few years later he designed the costumes for Gone With The Wind, and won a “Best Costume Design” Oscar for An American In Paris.
6 A Bill of Divorcement in 1931.
7 As with Fred Astaire, he controlled the use of clips from his films.
8 See “A Few That Got Away.”
1 At that point, Paul had made over forty films, and Joanne more than twenty, in addition to their TV work.
2 Santa Monica Boulevard is over eighty-seven miles long.
1 See “Frank, Paper Towels, and Mickey” and “At Last, Elizabeth Taylor.”
2 See “Directing Kate.”
1 Barbara Blakely Marx was Frank Sinatra’s fourth wife. They married in 1976.
1 See “Now That I Have Friends.”
2 Eugene O’Neill’s play had a short but successful run on Broadway in 1931-32. It was eventually made into a movie, starring Rosalind Russell, by RKO in 1947.
3 The only TV Guide cover any of our shows had was six years later, in 1992, for Fonda on Fonda. It was also TNT’s first-ever TV Guide cover story.
1 Her last film at MGM was Summer Stock in 1950.
1 For many years, Roger had been an executive at MGM, before Ted Turner asked him to run TEC. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Academy Award.
2 Warners made The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, and many more important Bogart movies.
1 In 1978, Jones had convinced his followers to take poison and commit suicide.
2 Alan Berliner went on to become an award-winning filmmaker in his own right.
1 See “Fred Was First.”
2 The most notorious case involved the televising of The Kennedy Center Honors, which in 1992 was paying tribute to Ginger Rogers. Film excerpts were always provided to the program on a “most favored nations” basis; rights-holders waived charges, but only if all other rights-holders followed suit. Robyn Astaire refused to co-operate with the no-fee policy, so no Astaire/Rogers dance numbers could be shown.
3 Eventually the Gardens of the World series was postponed, and did not air until 1993.
1 It wouldn’t be long before Betty Cohen was promoted to head the new Cartoon Network.
1 Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967), The Lion In Winter (1968), On Golden Pond (1981).
1 Universal Pictures came into being as The Universal Film Manufacturing Company in 1912, the result of a merger between a number of small independent companies (IMP, Nestor, Rex, Éclair, et al). For some reason, MCA/Universal decided to recognize the 1915 opening of Universal City as the birth of Universal, and created a 75th anniversary logo for its feature films released in 1990.
2 See also “Getting to Know The Last Mogul.”
3 In the 1930s the leaders were MGM, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros., with RKO close behind.
4 Sagansky was Co-President of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which owns Columbia Pictures.
5 On 10th Avenue, at 54th Street, the building was once the home of Fox Movietone newsreels, as well as where On the Waterfront, Fail Safe, Sophie’s Choice and Kramer vs. Kramer were filmed, before it was turned into recording studios.
1 See “Two Birthdays—Universal and Columbia.”
2 It was a profile of Alfred Hitchcock, which we started, but didn’t finish because of some insurmountable problems.
1 See “Joanne and The Group.”