Stories my father told me: notes from "The Lyons Den"

Stories my father told me: notes from "The Lyons Den"

Foreword

Introduction

Acknowledgments

'The Thirties'

Irving Berlin

George Burns

Sir Charlie Chaplin

Ty Cobb

Gary Cooper

Sir Noel Coward

Albert Einstein

J. Edgar Hoover

Sinclair Lewis

Groucho and his brothers

Harpo

Chico

W. Somerset Maugham

Pablo Picasso

George Bernard Shaw

The Duke of Windsor

'The Forties'

Thomas Hart Benton

Ingrid Bergman

Milton Berle

Tallulah Bankhead

David Ben-Gurion

Humphrey Bogart

Charles Boyer

Sir Winston Churchill

Joe DiMaggio

John Garfield

Sam Goldwyn

Cary Grant

Howard Hughes

George S. Kaufman

Danny Kaye

Helen Keller

Charles Laughton

Gypsy Rose Lee

Oscar Levant

Gen. George S. Patton

Edward G. Robinson

Carl Sandburg

John Steinbeck

President Harry S. Truman

Orson Welles

'The Fifties'

Lauren Bacall

Marlon Brando

Yul Brynner

Dr. Ralph Bunche

Marc Chagall

Salvador Dali

Kirk Douglas

Jackie Gleason

Sir Rex Harrison

Ernest Hemingway

Audrey Hepburn

Sir Alfred Hitchcock

Judy Holliday

Grace Kelly

Ethel Merman

James Michener

Marilyn Monroe

Lord Laurence Olivier

Otto Preminger

Rocky Marciano

William Saroyan

Phil Silvers

Frank Sinatra

'The Sixties'

Brendan Behan

Richard Burton

Truman Capote

Dustin Hoffman

President Lyndon B. Johnson

President John F. Kennedy

Sophia Loren

Paul Newman

Barbra Streisand

Billy Wilder

Shelly Winters

Sir Peter Ustinov

The Next Generation

Antonio Banderas

Javier Bardem

Cate Blanchett

Sir Michael Caine

George Carlin

George Clooney

Penelope Cruz

Dame Judi Dench

Clint Eastwood

Ralph Fiennes

Dennis Hopper

Samuel L. Jackson

Sir Ben Kingsley

Jay Leno

William Shatner

Epilogue .