by Donald Bogle
“Poor Man’s Blues,” 60
“Porgy,” 214, 230
Porgy and Bess (operetta), 267, 269–71, 284, 309, 315, 341, 483
Porgy (Heyward novel), 201, 271–72
play, 52, 143, 269, 271, 273, 309
Porter, Cole, 125, 212, 255–56, 269
Post, William, Jr., 458
Powell, Adam Clayton, III, 458
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 62, 298, 312–13, 329
Powell, Dick, 231
Powell, Eleanor, 261–62, 264–66, 275–77, 280, 375
Powell, Isabel Washington, 62, 312–13, 329
Power, Tyrone, 372, 427
Preer, Evelyn, 142, 149, 155, 207
Preminger, Otto, 163, 218, 427, 430, 441
Price, Eugenia, 530
Price, Leontyne, 125
Price, Vincent, 355, 356
Pryor, Thomas, 396
Purnsley, Martha, 15
Purnsley, Merritt “Buddy” (first “husband”), 15–16, 101, 175
“Push Out,” 331
Quality (Sumner), 431
“Quicksand,” 398
Quinland, Myrtle, 287
Rabbit Foot Minstrels, 35, 92
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 395
Radio Stars (magazine), 231, 232
Rahn, Murial, 299
Rainey, Ma, 17, 25, 31, 35–36, 38, 54, 96, 119, 240, 296, 311
Rainey, Will “Pa,” 25, 35
Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry), 309, 503
Ramsey, Alice, 17, 48, 52–53
Randall, Tony, 453
Randolph, A. Philip, 320, 348, 417
Randolph, Lillian, 372, 376, 540
Rang Tang, 144, 147, 149
Razaf, Andy, xii, 51, 116–18, 189, 191–92, 238, 280, 285, 313
Rea, Oliver, 440, 449
Reagan, Caroline Dudley, 112–14
Reagan, Ronald, 535
Redman, Don, 68
Red Moon, 139
Reed, Rex, 472
Reisman, Leo, Orchestra, 212
Remains to Be Seen (film), 173
Remarque, Erich Maria, 191
Remick, Lee, 503
Renfroe, Earl, 281
Revue Nègre, La, 113–14, 144
Rhapsody in Black, 194–98, 201, 205–9, 236, 270, 274
“Rhapsody in Blue,” 196
Rhapsody in Blue (film), 172
Rhapsody in Rhythm, 415, 507
Rhoda Monroe (radio show), 394
Richardson, Jazz Lips, 189
Rider of Dreams, 141
Ritt, Martin, 502–3
Ritz Brothers, 395
Roach, Hal, 297
“Robert E. Lee,” 369
Roberts, Marion, 67, 415
Roberts, Porter, 300
Roberts, William, 281–82
Robeson, Eslanda, 123, 181, 328
Robeson, Paul, 52, 80, 123, 125, 150, 169, 181, 207, 274, 299, 310, 312, 319, 328, 335–36, 360, 363–64, 372, 377–78, 412, 485
Robinson, Bill “Bojangles,” xi, 31, 50, 56, 123, 149, 188, 190, 193, 211, 238, 241, 251, 254, 257, 283, 286, 292, 298–99, 308, 313, 330, 334, 336, 347, 393, 418, 426, 446
Robinson, Clarence, 88, 291
Robinson, Edward G., 360
Robinson, Fannie, 149, 313
Robinson, Col. John C., 281
Robinson, Marion, 364, 505
Robinson, Sugar Ray, 490
Robson, Flora, 369
Rockefeller, John D., 238
Rodgers, Richard, 212
Rogers, Ginger, 219, 360, 372
Rogers, J. A., 177–78, 181, 183
Rogers, Lewis, 89
Rogers, Timmie, 415
Rogers, Will, 169
“Roll Jordan,” 190
Romero, Cesar, 287
Romilly, Rita, 149, 180–81
Rooney, Mickey, 298
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 320–21, 344, 348, 446, 454
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 186, 209, 218, 227, 299, 346, 348, 364, 416
Roosevelt, Theodore, 4, 374
Root, Lynn, 335, 340
Rose, Billy, 269, 303–4
Rosemond, Clinton, 397
Ross, Allie, 144
Ross, Diana, 163, 523–24
Rossellini, Roberto, 176
Rossen, Robert, 314
Route 66 (TV show), 507–11
Rowe, Billy, 299, 301, 305
Rowe, Norman, 424
Roy, Rob, 203
Rufus Jones for President (film), 221, 241, 360, 378
Rule, Janice, 481
Runnin’ Wild, 142, 280, 309
Russell, Lillian, 139
Russell, Maude, 21, 33, 122, 155, 223, 245, 249–50, 267, 311, 322–23, 326, 355, 389
Ruysdael, Basil, 445
Saint Laurent, Yves, 263
Salemme, Antonio, 123
Sales, Clifford, 458
Salinger, Conrad, 380
Sally in Our Alley, 139
Salvin, Sam, 108–9
Samuels, Charles, 455, 457, 459, 462
Sanders of the River (film), 378
Sands, Diana, 483
San Francisco (film), 368
Saratoga Trunk (film), 369
Saroyan, William, 332
“Satisfyin’ Papa,” 156
Saturday Review, 475
Saunders, Gertrude, 59, 136, 155
Saunders, Jack, 393, 396
Savage, Archie (companion or “husband”), 342–43, 347, 355, 357, 363, 366, 368–72, 374, 384, 399–405, 409–11, 413, 426, 533
Savage, Augusta, 330
“Savannah,” 340
Savannah Tribune, 83
Scarlet Sister Mary (Peterkin), 199, 268, 316
Schenck, Joseph M., 430
Scheuer, Philip K., 288, 472
Schiffman, Frank, 157, 257, 291–92, 336
Schmeling, Max, 325
Schrank, Joseph, 380
Schurr, Louis, 225
Schuyler, Philippa, 330
Schwartz, Arthur, 260, 265, 368
Schwieger, Hans, 467
Scott, Hazel, 172, 313, 425, 458, 485
Scott, John L., 355
Scott, Randolph, 359, 536
Scottsboro Boys, 227, 278–79
Seeley, Blossom, 152–54
Selwyn Brothers, 86
Selznick, David O., 287
Selznick, Irene Mayer, 287
Serena Blandish (Behrman), 301–2
Sergeant Rutledge (film), 434
“Shadow and the Act, The” (Ellison), 445
“Shadows on the Swanee,” 230
“Shake That Thing,” x, 118, 121, 134, 145, 147–48, 154, 183, 485, 542
Shalett, Sidney, 344
Shapp, Milton, 534
Shaw, Artie, 328
Shearer, Norma, 173
Sheldon, Edward, 142, 449
Sheldon, James, 314, 453
Shelley v. Kramer, 421
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (film), 432
“Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble,” 54
Shoo-Fly Regiment, The, 139
Shore, Dinah, 393, 425
Short, Bobby, 120, 226, 283
Short, Hassard, 218, 220
Show Boat, 80, 143, 310, 378
Show of Shows, 424
Shubert, J. J. “Jake,” 255, 259–60
Shubert, Lee, 255, 259–61, 264
Shuffle Along, 58–59, 62, 86, 89, 99, 108, 110, 141–43, 148, 373
Signorelli, Frank, 173
Silk Stockings (film), 380
Simms, Hilda, 418, 433
Simon of Cyrenia, 141
Sinatra, Frank, 120, 179, 395, 406
Singin’ in the Rain (film), 380
Singleton, Zutty, 84
Sissle, Noble, 52, 58, 104, 108, 167, 188–89, 299, 420, 446, 476, 483
Skelton, Red, 393, 531
Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 348, 426, 475
Skolsky, Sidney, 166
“Sleep Talking Blues,” 35
“Sleepy Time Down South,” 231, 307, 428, 476
Small, Ed, 401
Smalls, Sammy, 271, 272
Smight, Jack, 508
“Smile,” 136, 148–49, 156
Smith, Bessie, 31, 34–38, 54, 60, 64, 68, 79–81, 89, 90, 96, 115, 119–21, 125–27, 168, 207, 240, 257, 279, 283, 296, 311, 533
Smith, Clara, 60, 121, 127–28
Smith, Joe, 67, 88, 116
Smith, Kate, 395
Smith, Mamie, 59–62
Smith, Oscar, 287
Smith, Rex, 68
Smith, Trixie, 60, 96
Smith, Willie, 67
Snake Pit, The (film), 430
Snelson, Floyd, 175
Snelson, Floyd G., Jr., 197
Snow, Valaida, 178, 195–96, 207
Sobol, Louis, 211
Solitaire Lady (play), 491
“Someday, Sweetheart,” 154
“Some of These Days,” 154, 156
Song of Freedom (film), 378
Song of the South (film), 258
Songs for Sale (TV show), 466
Sons of Ham, The, 139
Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner)
film, 502–4, 508
TV adaptation, 481–82
South Pacific (film), 487
Speaking of Hannah (TV drama), 484
Spencer, Kenneth, 373, 397
Spivey, Victoria, 60
Stack, Robert and Rosemary, 536
Stagecoach (film), 432
Stage Door Canteen (film), 393, 398
Stanwyck, Barbara, 314, 371
Stapleton, Maureen, 475
Star, The (film), 473
Stark, Herman, 211–13, 215, 287, 291
Steamboat Round the Bend (film), 434
“Steamboat Whistle,” 262, 266
Steele, Larry, 423
Stein, Gertrude, 125
Steinbeck, John, 179, 430
Steiner, William, 305
Stevedore (play), 249, 309
Stevens, Ashton, 104, 256, 261, 332
Stewart, James Garfield, 332
Stewart, Jimmy, 371
Stewart, Nicodemus, 376
Still, William Grant, 63
“St. Louis Blues,” 26, 28, 32, 37–38, 54, 61, 196
St. Louis Blues (film), 168, 491
Stoll, George, 380
Stone, Dorothy, 245
Stone, Paul, 259
“Stop Myself from Worryin’ Over You,” 331
“Stormy Weather,” x, 112, 212–13, 215–16, 230–31, 239, 247, 249, 281, 291, 331, 383, 393, 410, 413, 476, 542
Stormy Weather, 221
film, 382, 393, 398, 407–9
“Strange Fruit,” 228
Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams), 435
Streisand, Barbra, 120, 422–23
Stringbeans and Sweetie, 27, 37
Strut Miss Lizzie, 142
Stuart, Eddy, 518
Stuart, Gloria, 233
Sturges, Preston, 412
Sublett, John “Bubbles,” 373, 387, 397. See also Buck and Bubbles
Sudden Fear (film), 473
“Sugar,” 116
Sullivan, Ed, 211, 446, 519
Sullivan, John L., 73
Sullivan, Maxine, 120, 301, 328, 331, 346–47, 446
“Summertime,” 428, 467
Sumner, Cid Ricketts, 431
Sun City Scandals (TV show), 534
Sunshine Sammy. See Morrison, Ernest
“Supper Time,” 84, 213, 221, 224–25, 227–28, 244, 250, 256, 307, 466, 524
Swanson, Gloria, 75, 176, 179
“Sweet Georgia Brown,” 116, 120
“Sweet Man,” 116
Swing Harlem Swing, 285–86
Syncopation (film), 354, 355
Tabron, Ruth, 534, 535
“Taint Nobody’s Business If I Do,” 35–36
“Takes Two to Tango,” 119
“Take What You Want,” 156
“Take Your Black Bottom Outside,” 116–17, 136, 145
“Taking a Chance on Love,” x, 173, 340, 344, 384, 393, 422, 466, 542
Tales of Manhattan (film), 360–62, 370, 377–79, 388, 392, 395
Taliaferro, Bessie, 109
Tan Town Topics, 107–14, 121
Taper, Bernard, 339
Taradash, Dan, 471
Tarto, Joe, 173
Taylor, Elizabeth, 176, 179, 502–3
“T.B. Blues,” 60
Teagarden, Jack, 328
Temple, Shirley, 50
Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (TV show), 504
Tenth Cavalry (Buffalo Soldiers), 374
Texaco Star Theatre (TV show), 466
Tex and Jinx (TV show), 478–79, 496
Thalberg, Irving, 173
“That Da Da Strain,” 66, 88
That’s Entertainment Part 2 (film), 537
“That’s What Harlem Means to Me,” 281
“That Thing Called Love,” 59
“There’ll Be some Changes Made,” 66
There’s No Business Like Show Business (film), 227
“They Say,” 305
“Thief in the Night, A,” 262
Thin Man, The (film), 368
This Is Show Business (TV show), 466
Thomas, Dollie, 505
Thomas, Edna, 141, 142, 148, 298–99, 321
Thompson, Dorothy, 130
Thompson, Ulysses S. “Slow Kid,” 111, 116
Thomson, Virgil, 500
Thunderbolt (film), 172
Thurman, Wallace, 52
Timbers, Emily Ann, 8
Timbers, James, 8
Time, 269, 396, 495
Time of Your Life, The (Saroyan), 332
“Time’s Drawing Nigh,” 310, 312
Titanic (film), 218
Titheradge, Dion, 260
Tizol, Juan, 420
“To Be or Not to Be,” 220, 227, 250
Today Show (TV show), 479
To Kill a Mockingbird (film), 511
To Me It’s Wonderful (autobiography), 530–31
Tone, Franchot, 466, 481
Tonight Show (TV show), 479, 484
Too Bad, 121
Toomer, Jean, 52
“Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye,” 167
Tormé, Mel, 120
Torrence, Ridgely, 315
Toscanini, Arturo, 313
Tracy, Spencer, 368
Treadwell, George, 422
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (play), 435
Trip to Coontown, A, 138
Tropics and Le Jazz Hot, 340
Truman, Harry S., 495
Tubman, Harriet, 519
Tucker, Sophie, 49, 56, 59, 80, 106, 152–54, 169, 214, 308
Turner, Big Joe, 120
Turner, C. H., 78
Turner, Charles, 305
Turner, Charles McKinley “Fat Man,” 327, 331
Tutt, J. Homer, 89–91
Tyler, Lottie, 91
Tyson, Cicely, 483
Uggams, Eloise, 195, 250, 459
Uggams, Leslie, 250, 459–60, 475
Ulric, Lenore, 142, 149
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (play), 137
“Underneath a Harlem Moon,” 241, 282
“Under the Bamboo Tree,” 139
Urban, Joseph, 210
Urban League, 348
U.S. Supreme Court, 4, 421, 426, 447
Vacation Playhouse (TV show), 523
Valentino, Rudolph, 336
Vallee, Rudy, 49, 193, 328, 331
Van Dyke, W. S. “Woody,” II, 367–69, 383
Vanities, 188
Vanity Fair, 52, 125–27
Vann, Sammy, 395
Van Vechten, Ada Fitch, 123–24
Van Vechten, Anna E. Snyder, 124
Van Vechten, Carl, 21, 51, 112, 123–32, 143–45, 148–49, 151, 157–58, 165, 179–84, 193, 196, 211, 222, 281, 284, 286, 295, 299, 304, 313–17, 346, 361–62, 365, 368, 370, 374, 388–92, 407, 409, 413–14, 423, 427, 487, 507, 522, 533
Van Vechten, Charles, 124
Varden, Evelyn, 445
Variety, 72, 181, 324, 329,
418, 454
Vaughan, Sarah, 257
Victoria, queen of England, 24
Victoria Regina (TV show), 511
Vidor, King, 168–69, 173
Vodery, Will, 109, 221, 299, 313
Vogue, 319
Wagner, Sidney, 380
Wald, Jerry, 502
Waldron, Eric, 121, 149
Walker, Aida Overton “Ada,” 24–25, 31, 105, 108, 140, 147, 149
Walker, Frank, 115
Walker, George, 24, 50, 139–40, 141
Walker, James J., 193
Walker, Jimmy, 308
Walker, Joseph, 360
Wallace, Coley, 483
Wallace, Mike, 485–87
Waller, Fats, 51, 68, 80, 189, 238, 254, 398
Walton, Lester, 62, 70, 78–79, 81, 83, 149, 152
Ward, Aida, 123, 155, 211, 238
Ward, Carrie Mae, 80
Ward, Richard, 483, 500
Warfield, William, 125
Washington, Booker T., 4
Washington, Dinah, 120, 283
Washington, Ford Lee, 373. See also Buck and Bubbles
Washington, Fredi, 52, 62, 64, 143, 168, 298–99, 301, 310, 312–13, 322–23, 325, 329, 334–35, 341–42, 355, 373, 423, 433, 436, 441, 445–46, 485
Washington, George Dewey, 211, 214, 221
Washington, Hazel, 490, 504
Washington, Isabel, 52, 62, 64
Washington, Kenny, 433, 437
Washington, Leon, 377
Washington, Mildred, 168
Washington Post, 196
“Washtub Rhapsody (Rub-sody),” 196, 201
Wasserman, Edward, 149
Watch Your Step, 217
Waters, Benjamin (brother), 407
Waters, Carlos (brother), 8
Waters, Charles Elvi (brother), 8, 12
Waters, Crystal (great-niece), 12
Waters, Ethel
achievements and influence of, 68–69, 119–21, 541–42
acting talent of, 199
adopted children and, 236–38, 257, 281
adopted daughter Algretta Holmes and, 165–66, 174, 175, 181, 187, 222, 233, 236–38, 267
advertising and, 150, 161, 523
affairs and “husbands,” xi, xii, 166–67, 424–25, 462, 466–68
affairs in early years on road, 33–34, 41–42
affairs in old age, 517, 527–28
affairs with men vs. women, 95
affair with Earl Dancer, and push for Broadway and “white time,” 82, 97–106, 109, 115–16, 123, 132–36, 143–48, 150–58, 160–67, 172, 175–76, 183
affair with Eddie Mallory, 239–40, 246–49, 252, 284–85, 291–94, 297, 304–5, 325–27, 337, 346–47, 356–57, 361, 364–65, 462
affair with Eddie Matthews, 166–67, 174–78, 181, 183, 187, 203–5, 208, 213, 215, 221–22, 233
affair with Eddie Matthews, and “divorce,” 235–37
affair with Ethel Williams, 56–58, 71, 90–91, 94–95, 102, 462
affair with “Pretty Eddie,” 517
affair with Tommy Brookins, 408–9, 411
agents fired by, 29
age of, and birthdays, 20, 267
