ABC (American Broadcasting Company), 190–194, 250–251
Adler, Emanuel “Buddy,” 22, 154, 165–166
alcoholism, xiii, 13, 140–142, 225–227, 275–277
Alemán Valdés, Miguel, 63
Almazán, Juan, 63
Antonioni, Michelangelo, 253
Arrowhead Springs Hotel, 82–83
Astaire, Fred, 120
Aubrey, James T., Jr., x, 191, 250–255
Ayres, Lew, 122
Bacon, James, 276–277
Balaban, Barney, 199
Ball, Lucille, 250
Bari, Lynn, 170
Barker, Jess, 238–239
Barker, Lex, 127–128
Barnes, Pancho, 246
Bautzer, Blanche Buckhout (mother), 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 25, 27, 55, 226
Bautzer, Edward F. (grandfather), 4–5, 6–7
Bautzer, Edward H. (father), 3–9
Bautzer, Mark Regan (son), 257, 270, 285
birth of, 166
father’s alcoholism and, 225, 275–276
father’s death and, 279
parents’ separation and, 229–231
relationship with, 224–226, 229, 230–231, 276
Bautzer, Paul (uncle), 4–5, 7–8, 226
Beatty, Warren, 285
Begelman, David, 255–256
Bennett, Sam, 4
Benny, Jack, 96, 151, 183, 250
Benson, Nancy C. (grandmother), 4–5
Bergman, Ingrid
custody battle of, 129–132, 134–139
divorce of, 107–117
Howard Hughes and, 109, 112, 175
later career of, 139
Berlin, Irving, 72
Berman, Jules, 239
Bernheimer, Sally Wright and Earle, 103
Bernstein, Freeman, 19
Beteta, Mario Ramón, 63
Bioff, Willie, 81–82
Bistro, the, 236–237
Blanchard, Mari, 126–127, 128, 159
Blau, Louis, 12
Bluhdorn, Charles, x, 241–242, 243, 259, 262, 263
Bogart, Humphrey, 143–144
Bonder, Lisa, 283
Brasselle, Keefe, 250
Brice, Fanny, 40
Brilhante, Patti, 47
Brinkman, Paul, 204–207
Brinn, Lawrence, 112
Britton, “Brit,” 19
Broccoli, Albert R. “Cubby,” 44n
Bronfman, Edgar M., x, 248, 249
Brooks, Paul. See Brinkman, Paul
Brooks, Richard, 172
Brown, Edmund “Pat,” 165
Brown, Horace G., Jr., 213
Bruce, Carol, 145
Bull, Ingall W., 53
Burke, Barbara Lee, 278
Burke, Edward, 174
Burrill, Charles H., 159
Byrne, C. E., 112
Cabot, Susan, 162
Caddo Company, 168
Cagney, James, 165
Cannonball Run, 261–264
Capa, Robert, 115
Carroll, Diahann, 274
Caulfield, Joan, 98
Cavalier, Dan, 69
Chan, Jackie, 262
Chandler, Dorothy, 259
Chaney, Lon, 235
Chaplin, Charlie, 16, 42, 51, 52
Chapman, Marguerite, 121, 126, 145
Chapman, Patrizia. See Cobb, Buff
Christensen, Terry, 258, 281, 282, 283
Clark, Mel, 238
Clarke, Thurmond, 131
Clifford, Clark, 187
Clooney, Rosemary, 268
clothing, importance of, 17–18, 284
Cobb, Bob, 47
Cobb, Buff (Patrizia Chapman), 73–75, 76
Coca-Cola, 38
Cocke, William, 113
Coffman, Nellie, 216
Cohn, Art, 111
Cohn, Marta, 135
Columbia Pictures, 16, 37, 199
Begelman scandal at, 255–256
Communism, alleged Hollywood ties to, 101–102, 173, 174
Condos, Nick, 102
Confidential magazine, 238–239
Cook, Raymond, 178
Corwin, Sherill, 174
Cosmopolitan Productions, 213–214
Coward, Noel, 95–96
Crane, Steve, 98
Crawford, Christina, 105–106
conflict with, 96–101, 103–106
other women and, 31–32, 99–100, 121, 122
romancing of, 92–95
sex and, 97–98
Crowther, Bosley, 147
Cuffman, Nancy, 274
Curtis, Tony, 44, 186, 236, 239
Dantine, Helmut, 274
Dantine Bautzer, Niki Schenck.
See Schenck Dantine
Bautzer, Niki
Darvi, Bella, 153
Davidson, Sara, 208
Davis, Chester C., 180–181, 188
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 262
Day, Laraine, 102
Del, Ernest, 247, 258, 259–260, 268, 271
DeLorean, John, 281
Di Cicco, Pasquale “Pat,” 44, 169–170, 186
Dietrich, Marlene, 63, 95, 145, 147
Dietrich, Noah, 190
Diller, Barry, 261, 262, 263, 264
Disney, Walt, 151
Dockweiler, John F., 69
Dorso, Dick, 96, 100, 163, 275
Douglas, Kirk, 240
Douras, Barney, 216
Downey, Sheridan, 116
Dugan, Johnny, 100–101
Durocher, Leo, 102
Eisenhower, Dwight, 217
Eisner, Michael, 261, 262, 263
Erpicum, Bernard, xi, xii, 277
ethics, legal, 127–128
Evans, Charles, 243
Fahey, John, 70–71
Fairbanks, Douglas, 42
Federal Communications
Commission (FCC), 191–192, 193, 194
Fein, Ronald L., 281–282
Fidelity Pictures Corporation, 147
Flamingo Hotel and Casino, 84–86, 87–91, 246
Fleming, Victor, 115
Folsom, Margaret M., 83–85
Fontaine, Joan, 100
gambling, 38–39, 40, 43–44, 82–83, 109, 163
Gano, Richard C., Jr., 195–196
Garcia, Lehua May, 267
Gardner, Ava, 98, 169, 200–201, 202, 235
Garfield, John, 95
Gates, Phyllis, 207–209
Gates, Walter S., 45–46
Giancana, Sam (“Sam Mooney”), 202–204, 239–240
Gibbons, Cedric, 53
Giesler, Jerry, 20, 21, 70, 86, 108, 117, 137
Glaser, Patricia, 258, 265, 282–283
Glynco Naval Air Station, 70–71
Goddard, Paulette, 50–52, 71, 99, 102–103
Goldberg, Arthur, 248
Goldman, Allan, 265
Goldwyn, Sam, 200
Goodman, Ezra, 188
Goodrich, Verne A. and Martha, 5–6
Grable, Betty, 34
Granger, Stewart, 171
Grant, Arnold, 117–118, 151, 152, 174, 201, 284
Grant, Cary, 139
Haber, Joyce, 254
Haig, Alexander, 266n
Haines, William “Billy, 94, 95
Hamilton, George, 144–145
Hannah, Dick, 187
Harlow, Jean, 168
Harris, Richard S., xiii–xiv, 12, 197–198
Harrison, Bob, 239
Harrison, Rex, 53
Hayward, Susan, 238–239
Hayworth, Rita, 98
Hearst, Millicent, 210, 211, 212, 214
Hearst, Randolph Apperson, 212
Hearst, William Randolph, 160, 210–213
Hendricks, James R., 102
Hepburn, Katharine, 151
Higham, Charles, 62
Holliday, Raymond, 178–180, 193–194
Holm, Celeste, 96
Hoover, J. Edgar, 59, 62, 63, 64, 88
on Bautzer’s relationships, 30, 94, 97, 99, 119, 121–122, 126, 157, 160
Joan Crawford and, 94, 96, 97, 99
on Mark Bautzer, 224–225
hospitalizations, Bautzer’s, 49–50, 180, 275, 276
Houseman, John, 250
Huber, John J. “Jack,” 9, 47, 65
Hudson, Rock, 151, 165, 207–209
Hughes, Ella, 167
Hughes, Howard, 39, 125–126, 141, 248, 255, 283
ABC takeover attempt by, 190–194
acting contracts with, 171–172, 176–177, 185–186
background of, 167–169
Bautzer’s introduction to, 169–171
death of, 195
demands of, 125, 179–180, 181, 182–188, 228
friendship with, x, 167, 182, 184, 195, 197–198
Ingrid Bergman and, 109, 112, 175
last will and testament of, 195–197
Paradise Island Casino purchase attempt by, 194–195
RKO sale attempt by, 173–175, 183, 239
romantic relationships of, 44, 120, 145, 169–170, 185–187, 219–220, 221
TWA and, 177–181
unauthorized biographies of, 187–190
value as client, ix–x, 167, 172, 247
Hughes, Howard, Sr., 168
Hughes, Rupert, 168
Hunt, Willis, Jr., 52–53
Huntington, Collis, 3
Hussein, King of Jordan, 162
Huston, John, 143
Hyams, Joe, 190
Inchon!, 265–266
Ingram, J. H. (navy admiral), 75
International Alliance of
Theatrical and Stage
Employees (IATSE), 81
Irving, Clifford, 189–190
Irwin, Woody, 151
Ishii, Mitsuhara, 265–266
Jacks, Randall, 68
Jacobs, Randall, 66
Jaffe, Herb, 249–250
Jarrico, Paul, 174
Jewell, Isabel, 19
Johnson, Edwin O., 115–116, 132
Johnson, Nunnally, 143
Jones, Jennifer, 207
Jones, Roger, 208
Jordan, Dorothy, 120
Joseph Schenck Enterprises, 218–222
Katzenberg, Jeffrey, 261, 262–263, 264
Kay, Herbie, 48
Keats, John, 189
Keischnick, William, 278
Kelly, Gene, 151
Kempton, Murray, 251
Kennedy, George, 86–87
Kennedy, John F. and Jacqueline Bouvier, 214
Kerkorian, Kirk, 276, 281, 282, 283
background of, 245–246
Bautzer’s introduction to, 246–247
David Begelman and, 256
James Aubrey and, 251–252, 254
MGM Grand fire and, 265
MGM takeover by, ix, x, 247–250, 252–257
Kilgallen, Dorothy, 100
Knapp, Charles, 197
Knight, Edwin, 217
Kohner, Susan, 144
Koolish, Abe, 174–175
Korshak, Sidney, 174–175, 236–239, 242, 243, 244, 245, 259
Kovacs, Ernie, 229
Krim, Arthur, 254
Kroll, Fred, 76
Kruger, Hilda, 59–64
Kuchel, Thomas H., 65, 245, 258, 278–279
Laemmle, Carl, 16
Lake, Neil, 196–197
Lamour, Dorothy, 34, 47–50, 55, 56
Landis, Carole, 52–53
Lansky, Meyer, 85–86, 87, 239–240
Lanza, Mario, 151
Last, Richard, 97
Laurel, Stan, 54
law practice
father’s, 7
founding of, 17–18
growth of, 117–118, 151–152, 244–245, 258–259
later years of, 270–272, 281–282
See also specific lawyers and clients
Lawrence, Florence, 15–16
Lazar, Irving, “Swifty,” 143
Lederer, Charles, 156–157, 161, 163, 210, 213
Lee, Peggy, 125–126
Leopold, Fred, 151
Levant, June and Oscar, 96
Levy, Michael I., xii–xiii, 241, 246, 260, 273
Liberace, 240
Life magazine, 187
Lillie, Mildred L., 130, 131, 135, 136–137, 138
Lindström, Petter, 107–117, 129, 131, 134–137
Lindström, Pia
custody battle and, 129, 131, 132–139
parents’ divorce and, 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 116, 117
Lipsky, Gerald, 117, 151, 205–206, 284
Loew, Marcus, 41–42
Lollobrigida, Gina, 176–177
Loomis, Robert, 189
Loren, Sophia, 151
Loy, Myrna, 101–102
LTA (lighter-than-air) naval division, 67–68, 72–73, 77
Luce, Henry and Clare Boothe, 73–74
Maass, Herbert, xiv, 268, 269–270, 275
MacDonald, Monroe, 108–109, 110–111
MacNamara, Paul, 18, 140, 142–143, 145, 278–279, 284
Magna Corporation, 218
Maheu, Robert, 162n, 181, 193–194, 195, 228n
Majors, Lee, 266
Mannix, Edward, 72
Mansfield, Jayne, 268
Martin, Charles, 99
Martin, Tony, 95–96
Marx, Sam, 253
Marx, Zeppo, 28
Mason, James, 103
Mason, Pamela, 268
Matthews, Blaney, 45
Maxwell, Marilyn, 98
Mayer, Louis B., 29–30, 103, 248
McDougall, Charles, 75–76
McGraw-Hill, 189–190
McIntire, Ross T., 66
McKay, Margaret, 19
McMahon, Brien, 65
Melnick, Dan, 253
Meredith, Burgess, 102–103
Merman, Ethel, 120
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 16, 72, 201, 213–214, 266, 281, 283
Kerkorian takeover of, ix, x, 247–250, 252–257
Lana Turner and, 29–30, 32, 34
See also Mayer, Louis B.; Schenck, Nicholas; Thalberg, Irving
Milestone, Lewis, 168
Miller, Louis “Skip,” 258, 282
Mitchum, Robert, 108, 151, 227–228
Mommie Dearest, 105
Montague, John (LaVerne Moore), 20–22
Montgomery, Robert, 14
Moon, Sun Myung, 265
Moore, Roger, 262
Morgan, Andre, xi, xii, 256, 259, 261–264
Morton, Moe, 239
Muto, Anthony, 65–66
National Theaters Inc., 147
naval career, Bautzer’s, 65–68, 70–73, 75–78
Navratilova, Martina, 261
Newhart, Bob, 161–162
Nixon, Richard, 217
Norman, Barry, 96
Oberon, Merle, 98, 151, 183, 239
O’Brien, Brian, 218
O’Driscoll, Martha, 53
oratorical contests, 10–11, 12
Pacht, Isaac, 114–115, 116–117, 130, 131–132, 135–136, 137, 138
Page, Patti, 151
Paley, William S., 82, 250, 257
Palm Springs Desert Inn, 216
Pan, Hermes, 121
Paradise Island Casino, 194–195
Paramount Pictures, 16, 199, 254
Cannonball Run dispute and, 261–264
Robert Evans and, 235, 241–243
See also Bluhdorn, Charles
Parretti, Giancarlo, 283
Parsons, Louella, 48–49, 112, 158, 160, 207, 211
Paterson, Josephine “Pat,” 170
Patrick, Gail, 47
Pauley, Edwin, 217
Payton, Barbara, 145
Peckinpah, Sam, 253
Pekham, Ralph, 45–46
Pellicano, Anthony, 283
Pettengill, George, 66
Pfaelzer, Marianna, 276
Phelan, James, 190
Pickford, Mary, 42
Polk, Louis F. “Bo,” Jr., x, 249
Powell, Dick, 173
practical jokes, 156–157
pro bono work, 267–268
Pryor, Thomas M., 237
Rakow, Jay, 282
Randolph, Jane, 145
Random House, 189
Ransohoff, Martin, 250
Raye, Martha, 102
Reagan, Nancy Davis, 122, 164–165
Reynolds, Burt, 261, 262–263, 264
Rice, Alan, 19
Richards, Renee, 260–261
Howard Hughes’s attempted sale of, 173–175, 183
Of God’s Earth/Stromboli and 109, 112, 116
Simmons contract with, 171, 172
Roach, Marguerite, 53–54
Robertson, Cliff, 256
Rocamora, Wynn, 49
Rodgers, Richard, 153
Rogers, Ginger, 119–122, 123–125, 147, 169, 268
Rogers, Henry, 94, 95, 97–98, 169, 237, 246
Rogers, Roz, 278
Romanoff, Mike, 236
Roosevelt, Theodore, 5
Rose of Washington Square, 40
Rosendahl, Charles E. (navy vice admiral), 66–67, 68, 72–73, 75, 77
Rosendahl, Jean, 74
Rosenfelt, Frank, 255–256, 257
Rossellini, Roberto
character assessments of, 116, 131–132, 134, 135
Ingrid Bergman and, 107, 109–110, 111, 112–113, 135, 139
Pia Lindström and, 116, 133–134, 135, 139
Rothberg, G. Harry, 85–86
Rothermere, Esmond, 154
Cannonball Run dispute and, 261–262, 263
as firm partner, 245, 258, 259
Ruddy, Albert S., x, xii, 242, 261–264, 285
Russell, C. F., 67
Russell, Jane, 169
Russell, Rosalind, 93
Rutherford, Ann, 146
Ryan, G. Bentley, 43, 45, 52, 53
as firm partner, 17, 25, 81, 284
personal life and relationships of, 47, 53, 74, 121, 126
WWII and, 65
Ryan, Ray, 174
Savage, Ann, 124
Arnstein lawsuit against, 40–41, 43
background of, 41–43
Bautzer’s introduction to, 40, 43
Billy Wilkerson and, 40, 43, 82, 85
Dana Wynter and, 159, 160–161, 221
death of, 221–222
as friend and mentor, 43, 44–45, 51, 81, 159
Joseph Schenck Enterprises and, 218–219, 221
Schenck, Nicholas, 41–42, 218, 220, 248, 274
Schenck Dantine Bautzer, Niki, 274–275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 282
Schulberg, Budd, 36
Schutzbank, Jerald S., 151, 248, 284
Schwartz, Bernard “Bernie,” 176–177, 219–221
Schwartz, Robert “Bobby,” 270
Selznick, David O., 51, 107–108, 109, 111, 131, 156, 163, 207
Shaw, Artie, 32–35
Shaw, Peter, 98
Shearer, Norma, 235
Shepherd, Howard, 114
Shepherd, Richard, 255
Sherman, Mandel, 136
Shore, Dinah, 96
Sickel, H. G., 66
Siegel, Benjamin “Bugsy,” 86–91, 101, 108
Siegel, Lee, 170
Siegel, Simon B., 191
Silbert, Bernard, 18, 25, 65, 117–118, 151, 213, 284
Silbert, Stephen, 281
Simini, Francis, 161
Simon, Simone, 29
Sinatra, Frank, 200–202, 204, 241
Sinatra, Nancy Barbato, 200–202
Smith, Cecile Bautzer (aunt), 4–5, 71
Smith, Charles M. (stepfather), 13
Sorrel, Herbert, 45–46
Spitzel, H. (navy lieutenant commander), 66
St. Johns, Adela Rogers, 93, 97
Stadelman, Richard, 87
Stanley, Ashton A., 159
Steele, Alfred, 147
Steele, Joe, 112
Stein, Stanton “Larry,” 258
Steinbeck, John, 103
Stern, Martin, 246
Stewart, G. V., 68
Stolkin, Ralph E., 173–174, 175
Stroock, Stroock & Lavan, 269–270
Stuart, Betty Ann, 261
Stuart, Lyle, 188
Sturdevant, Charles O., 136
Howard Hughes and, 179, 181, 182, 183, 184, 196, 197
Susann, Jacqueline, 251
Suskind, Richard, 190
Talmadge, Norma, 42
Taylor, Elizabeth, 185
television
Dana Wynter and, 153, 166, 231
impact on film studios, 214, 247–248
See also ABC; CBS; Joseph Schenck Enterprises
Tenney, Charles H., 248–249
Terrail, Patrick, xi, xii, 259
Terry, Philip, 92
This Man’s Navy, 72
Thompson, Tommy, 189
Thyssen, Baron von, 276
Tobias, Herb, 160
Todd, Mike, 218
Tone, Franchot, 32, 93n, 95, 104–105, 122
Topping, Henry J. “Bob,” 121
Trans World Airlines (TWA), 169, 177–181
Trousdale, Virginia, 14
Turner, Lana, 48, 86, 119, 121, 128
and Artie Shaw, 32–35
Billy Wilkerson and, 28–29, 37, 39
engagement to, 29, 30–32, 33–34
Howard Hughes and, 170
Joan Crawford and, 31–32, 96, 98–99
post-breakup relationship, 35, 92, 98–99, 170
romancing of, 26–27
Turner, Ted, 256–257
TWA (Trans World Airlines), 169, 177–181
Twentieth Century-Fox, 16, 43, 147, 199, 258–259, 264
Arnstein lawsuit against, 40–41, 43
See also Adler, Emanuel
“Buddy”; Schenck, Joseph; Zanuck, Darryl F.
United Artists, 16, 42–43, 254, 256–257
Universal Studios, 16, 208–209, 254
See also Wasserman, Lew
Wagner, Robert, vii–viii, 165, 199
Wallace, Mike, 76
Warner, Jack, x, 42–43, 199, 236
unlawful arrest lawsuit against, 45–46
See also Warner, Jack
Warren, Earl, 165
Wasserman, Lew, x, 237, 247, 259
Webb, Del, 87
Weber, Roberta Swaffield, 19
Weidemann, Fritz, 63
Weintraub Ferrer, Lori, 271–272
Wellman, William, 72
What Makes Sammy Run (Schulberg), 36
Wheeler, Irving, 52
White, Andrew, 258
White, Stephen, 3
Wilcox, Pansy, 274
Wilder, Audrey, 269
Wilkerson, William R. “Billy,” 171
Arrowhead Springs Hotel and, 82–83
background of, 37–39
Bautzer’s introduction to, 37, 39
death of, 222
as FBI informant, 59, 60–62, 64
Flamingo construction and, 83–86, 87–91
as friend and mentor, 45, 65, 81
gambling addiction of, 39, 82, 83, 91
Joe Schenck and, 40, 43, 82, 85
Lana Turner and, 28–29, 37, 39
Loy libel suit against, 101–102
Wilkerson, William R. “Willie,” III, 84, 91
Wilson, Henry, 207
Winters, Shelley, 200
World War II, 47, 56, 169, 246.
See also Kruger, Hilda;
naval career, Bautzer’s
Wright, Cobina, 152
Wyman, Eugene, 197, 239, 244–245, 258, 259
Wyman, Jane, 122–123
Wynter, Dana, 199, 207, 239, 275
background of, 152–154
Bautzer’s alcoholism and, 225–227
career of, 153–154, 165–166, 231
courtship of, 152, 154–156, 157–158
engagement to, 158–159
Frank Sinatra and, 202–204
Howard Hughes and, 184–185, 228
Joe Schenck and, 159, 160–161, 221
Mark Bautzer and, 166, 224–225, 229
marriage to, 159–161, 163–164, 215
other women and, 157, 158–159, 161, 224
practical jokes by, 156–157
on Robert Evans, 240, 241, 242
separation from, 229–231, 274, 276
Young, Audrey, 145
Youngman, Gordon, 117–118, 151, 174
Zanuck, Darryl F., x, 40–41, 42–43, 153–154, 199–200, 235
Zinnemann, Fred, 253
Zukor, Adolph, 247