Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Jimmy Stewart 5
Early Days in Hollywood 11
Tweety, Mama, and Chris 13
Alfred Hitchcock and the Epaulets 15
Remembering the Early Days in New York 21
Stretching Pennies 23
The Dress 25
One Rainy Night 27
The Rehearsal Club Revue 30
John Foster Dulles and the Blue Angel Nightclub 32
Once upon a Mattress and George Abbott 37
Rumplemayer's and the Mean Hostess 41
Garry Moore's Variety Show 44
My Dog Bruce and The Office 50
Walking Alone at Night in New York City 55
Nanny and the Auditions 57
Nanny's Visit to New York 60
Aunt Iney 65
Viewer Discretion Advised 68
Fans 71
Lunchtime at the Turkey Farm 72
Tarzan and Bergdorf Goodman 74
John Steinbeck and the Twenty-fourth Floor 77
CBS vs. My Variety Show 79
Our Rep Players 83
Vicki Lawrence 85
Harvey Korman 91
Lyle Waggoner 99
Tim Conway 703
Conway's Cancellation 107
Australia 109
Bob Mackie 111
Jim Nabors 115
Talking to the Audience 118
The Writers' Room 125
Cary Grant 127
Cary, Harvey, and Tim at the Racetrack 133
Adrienne Lenore Weingardt 136
Carol Channing and Food for Thought 138
Lucy 147
Lucy, Zero, and Carol + 2 144
Dinner with Lucy at the Farmers' Market 149
Jody and Ray Charles 153
Erin and Diplomacy 156
My Chum Julie Andrews 158
A Very Bad Hair Day 165
Julie, Mike Nichols, and the Lady in the Elevator 170
Laurence Olivier 173
Walter Matthau 175
The Front Page and Mea Culpa 181
Restaurant Reservations 184
All My Children 186
Keeping Up with Pine Valley While in Europe 189
Joan Crawford 191
How Not to Make Small Talk with Royalty 196
Stanwyck and the Leprechaun 200
A Girl Named Kathy 203
The End of the Run 211
Annie and John Huston 214
Turbulence 219
Living in a High-Rise All Alone 222
Body by Jake 225
Dating 228
Marlon Brando 230
Mr. Computer 235
Beverly Sills 239
Questions and Answers on the Road 243
Brian 246
Pets 249
Hal Prince, Hollywood Arms, Carrie 254
Obituary 259
Carrie and the Fib 262
What's Next? 264
Acknowledgments 267