My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir (30 page)

L
INDBERGH
, C
HARLES
– the first man to fly the Atlantic solo nonstop.

L
OQUASTO
, S
ANTO
– set and costume designer. Dance,
Don Quixote
. Stage,
Bullets Over Broadway, A Delicate Balance, Wit.
Film,
Bullets Over Broadway, Radio Days, Zelig
.

L
ORAYNE
, H
ARRY
– magician, memory-training specialist and writer. Called “The Yoda of Memory Training” by
Time
magazine.

L
ORTEL
, L
UCILLE
– producer, owned and operated the Theatre de Lys, later renamed the Lucille Lortel.

L
OUDON
, D
OROTHY
– Broadway actress and singer, winner of the Tony Award for her performance as Miss Hannigan in
Annie.

L
OY
, M
YRNA
– Hollywood star, Nora Charles in
The Thin Man
series,
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Cheaper By the Dozen, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, Lonelyhearts, Midnight Lace, Just Tell Me What You Want.

L
UCKINBILL
, L
AURENCE
– actor, stage and film. Plays,
Poor Murderer, A Prayer for My Daughte
r. Films,
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

L
UPONE
, P
ATTI
– Broadway and London musical star. Original productions of
Evita
,
Les Misérables, Sunset Boulevard
. Tony winner for revival of
Gypsy
.

M
AHER
, J
OE
– actor. Stage,
Loot, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, King Henry V, The Royal Family
, and
Night and Day.
Film,
Heaven Can Wait, Sister Act.

M
ANN
, T
ED
– producer, director, co-founder with Jose Quintero of Circle in the Square Theater.

M
ARSH
, J
EAN
– British actress, writer, co-created and starred in the TV series
Upstairs, Downstairs
, co-created the television series
The House of Eliott.

M
ARSHALL
, M
ORT
– Uncle Jocko in the original
Gypsy
. Films,
Kiss Me Deadly, The Longest Yard.

M
ARTIN
, N
ICHOLAS
– stage director,
Full Gallop, Betty’s Summer Vacation, Hedda Gabler, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
.

M
ARX
, G
ROUCHO
– Hollywood and television star. Film,
Monkey Business, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races.
Television,
You Bet Your Life
.

M
AXWELL
, E
LSA
– professional hostess from the 20s through the 50s, mingling royalty, high society and movie stars.

M
AY
, E
LAINE
– actress, screenwriter, director.
W
rote, directed and starred in
A New Leaf
. Screenplays,
Ishtar, Heaven Can Wait, Primary Colors, Birdcage.

M
AZOR
, B
OAZ
– fashion presence, sales director for Oscar de la Renta.

M
ACGRAW
, A
LI
– actress, achieved sudden stardom in the film
Love Story.

M
EADOW
, L
YNNE
– producer, director. Artistic director of The Manhattan Theater club.

M
EISNER
, S
ANFORD
– actor and acting coach, long associated with the Neighborhood Playhouse.

M
ENDES
, S
AM
– director, theater and film. Stage, revivals of
Cabaret, Oliver, Company, Gypsy.
Film,
American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Skyfall.

M
ENGERS
, S
UE
– agent, shaped Hollywood moviemaking in the 1970’s.

M
ERCER
, M
ABEL
– British-born singer, star of Manhattan cabaret for 40 years, influenced stylings of Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Barbara Cook, Bobby Short, Frank Sinatra.

M
ERMAN
, E
THEL
– musical comedy legend,
Girl Crazy, Anything Goes, DuBarry Was a Lady, Happy Hunting, Call Me Madam, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy
.

M
YERS
, M
IKE
– actor, screenwriter. Television, S
aturday Night Live.
Film,
Wayne’s World
,
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,
voice of
Shrek.

M
ILLER
, A
NN
– Hollywood star of MGM musicals,
Easter Parade, On the Town,
and
Kiss Me Kate.
Later on Broadway with Mickey Rooney in
Sugar Babies
.

M
ILLER
, A
RTHUR
– playwright and screenwriter. Stage,
All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible,
and
A View from the Bridge
. Film,
The Misfits.

M
ILLER
, R
OGER
– singer, songwriter, Broadway and pop. Hits include
King of the Road.
Theater, composer/lyricist/actor,
Big River.

M
INNELLI
, L
IZA
– Hollywood, television and concert star. Film,
Cabaret (
Oscar),
Arthur, New York, New York, The Sterile Cuckoo.
Television,
Liza With a Z.
Concert, Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall.

M
INOR
, P
HILIP
– actor, director, specializing in Shaw Plays. Sheridan Square Playhouse, Circle in the Square Theater.

M
IRABELLA
, G
RACE
– former editor-in-chief of
Vogue,
replaced Diana Vreeland.
S
ubsequently founded
Mirabella
magazine.

M
ITCHELL
, J
ONI
– singer, songwriter. Hits include:
Both Sides Now, Chelsea Morning, Big Yellow Taxi and Woodstock.

M
ONK
, J
ULIUS
– impresario of the New York cabaret scene, created satiric revues in a series of supper clubs: the Ruban Bleu in the early 1940s, the Downstairs, the Upstairs at the Downstairs and, in the late 1960s, Plaza 9 at the Plaza Hotel.

M
ONT
, I
RA
– stage manager of over 15 Broadway shows, including
The Producers, Young Frankenstein, A Little Night Music, The Norman Conquests, Cinderella.

M
OORE
, G
ARY
– pioneer in early television, introduced Carol Burnett, Don Knotts, Alan King and Jonathan Winters.

M
ORENO
, R
ITA
– actress, singer, stage, film and television.
Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Ritz, The Odd Couple, West Side Story, Carnal Knowledge, Oz.

M
ORSE
, R
OBERT
– actor, star of both original Broadway production and movie version of
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
and the one-man show
Tru
. Television,
Mad Men.

M
ULLIGAN
, G
ERRY
– musician, baritone saxophonist. With trumpeter Chet Baker, credited with creating the Cool School of jazz.

N
ABORS
, J
IM
– television actor, Gomer Pyle on
The Andy Griffith Show
and the spin-off
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

N
EAL
, P
ATRICIA
– Hollywood star,
Hud, The Fountainhead, The Subject Was Roses, A Face in the Crowd, In Harm’s Way.

N
EDERLANDER
, A
MY
– Broadway producer,
The Diary of Anne Frank, Salome, Whoopi, Democracy, Thurgood, The Merchant of Venice.

N
ICHOLS
, M
IKE
– director, producer. Film,
The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Catch-22, Silkwood, Working Girl, The Birdcage
. Television,
Wit, Angels in America.
Stage,
Spamalot, Death of a Salesman,
for which he accepted a Tony Award at age 80.

N
ICHOLSON
, J
ACK
– Hollywood star,
Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Chinatown, The Shining, Reds, A Few Good Men, Terms of Endearment, Prizzi’s Honor, About Schmidt, The Departed.

N
OONE
, J
AMES
– set designer,
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Three Tall Women, Full Gallop, Fully Committed, Jekyll & Hyde, A Class Act.

N
YKVIST
, S
VEN
– Swedish cinematographer, associated with Ingmar Bergman, winning Academy Awards for work on two Bergman films,
Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander.

O’B
RIEN
, J
ACK
– Broadway director, producer. Musicals,
Damn Yankees
,
The Full Monty, Hairspray.
Plays
, The Piano Lesson, The Coast of Utopia, Hamlet.
Opera,
Il Trittico
at the Metropolitan Opera. Three Tony Awards.

O’H
ARE
, D
ENIS
– actor. Stage,
Cabaret, Take Me Out, Sweet Charity, An Iliad.
Film,
Charlie Wilson’s War, Milk, Changeling, The Dallas Buyers Club
. Television,
True Blood, American Horror Story
.

O
LDMAN
, G
ARY
– film actor,
Sid and Nancy, Prick Up Your Ears
,
JFK, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Harry Potter
series,
Dark Knight
trilogy,
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
.

O
LIVIER
, S
IR
L
AURENCE
– English stage and film star. Stage, original
Private Lives
. Film,
Henry V, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, The Entertainer, Marathon Man.

O
NASSIS
, J
ACQUELINE
K
ENNEDY
– widow of President John F. Kennedy. Subsequently a book editor. Instrumental in saving Grand Central Terminal from demolition.

O
SMOND
, D
ONNY
– singer, teamed with sister in the TV variety show
Donny & Marie.

P
AGE
, G
ERALDINE
– stage and film star. Stage,
Summer and Smoke
,
Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Agnes of God.
Film,
The Trip to Bountiful
(Oscar)
, Sweet Bird of Youth
.

P
APP
, J
OSEPH
– producer, founder of The New York Shakespeare Festival and The Public Theater.

P
ARKER
, D
OROTHY
– poet, short story writer, satirist associated with
The New Yorker
and the Algonquin Round Table.

P
ARKER
, G
ILBERT
– literary agent, represented major American playwrights.

P
ARKER
, S
UZY
– the first supermodel. Active from 1947 into the early 1960s, first to earn $100,000 a year.

P
ATCHETT
, J
EAN
– fashion model, 1940s through 60s. Credited with introducing the image of the remote, unattainable woman in fashion advertising.

P
ECK
, G
REGORY
– Hollywood star of the 50s and 60s.
To Kill A Mockingbird
(Oscar)
,
G
entleman’s Agreement, Twelve O’Clock High
.

P
ENN
, S
EAN
– actor. Films,
Dead Man Walking, Mystic River
(Oscar),
Milk
(Oscar).

P
ERELMAN
, S.J.
– writer, humorist primarily associated with
The New Yorker
. Also stage
The Beauty Part
and film
Around The World in 80 Days
and Marx Brothers movies,
Horse Feathers, Monkey Business
.

P
HILLIPS
, M
ACKENZIE
– actress, film and television,
American Graffiti, One Day at a Time
.

P
IAZZOLLA
, A
STOR
– Argentine tango composer, created “nuevo tango” incorporating elements of jazz and classical into traditional tango music.

P
LIMPTON
, G
EORGE
– journalist, writer, literary editor, founder of the
Paris Review
.

P
ORCELLI
, C
ARMINE
– fashion executive, best known in the industry as Director of Licensing for Esprit in New York City.

P
ORTER
, C
OLE
– legendary composer, Broadway musicals,
Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate, High Society, Can-Can.