Kaminsky, Kate Brookman (“Kitty”) (mother)
Kaminsky, Leonard (brother)
Kaminsky, Maximilian (father)
Kaminsky, Melvin. See Brooks, Mel
Kaminsky, Shlaimie (Samuel) (grandfather)
Karloff, Boris
Karras, Alex
Kasdan, Lawrence
Katayev, Yevgeny. See Ilf, Ilya
Kaye, Danny
Kazan, Lainie
Keaton, Buster
Keep Your Seats Please (film)
Keller, Sheldon
Kelly (play)
Kelly, Gene
Kelly, Glen
Kent, Allegra
Kidman, Nicole
King, Larry
“King of Broadway, The” (song)
Kinoy, Ernest
Kitt, Eartha
Klein, Larry
Kleinsinger, George
Kline, Kevin
Kopell, Bernie
Korman, Harvey
Kroll, Alex
Kubrick, Stanley
Kutcher, Benjamin
Ladd, Alan, Jr.
Ladies’ Man, The (film)
Lady Vanishes, The (film)
Laine, Frankie
Lancaster, Bill
Lane, Nathan
Lange, Hope
Lange, Jessica
Langella, Frank
Last Movie, The (film)
Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)
Laughter on the 23rd Floor (play)
Laughter on the 23rd Floor (TV show)
Lavar, Bob
Lawrence, Carol
Lawrence, Peter
Lawrence of Arabia (film)
Lawrence Welk Show, The (TV series)
Leachman, Cloris
Lean, David
Lee, Ngoot
Lengyel, Melchior
Lester, Dick
Les Visiteurs (film)
Levine, Joseph E.
Levinson, Barry
Lewis, Jerry
Lewis, Richard
Liebman, Max
Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, The (film documentary)
Life Stinks (film)
Linn-Baker, Mark
Lipstick (film)
Lipton, James
Little, Cleavon
Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
Little Prince, The (film)
Little Rascals, The (film)
Livingston, Ben
Lloyd, Christopher
Lloyd, Norman
Logan, Joshua
Lollobrigida, Gina
Lombard, Carole
Look Who’s Talking Too (film)
Love at First Bite (film)
Lubitsch, Ernst
Lucas, George
Lugosi, Bela
Lumet, Sidney
Lunt, Alfred
Lupiano, Vincent A.
Lynch, David
Lynde, Paul
MacLaine, Shirley
MacNicol, Peter
Mad (magazine)
Mad About You (TV series)
Make Mine Manhattan (play)
Marne (play)
Mandel, George
Man from U.N.C.L.E., The (TV series)
Manhattan (film)
Mann, Hummie
Man of La Mancha (play)
Marceau, Marcel
March, Hal
“Marian” (song)
Marno, Anne. See Bancroft, Anne
Marquis, Don
Marriage Is a Dirty Rotten Fraud (screenplay)
“Married I Can Always Get” (song)
Mars, Kenneth
Martin, Dean
Martinet, Katharine
Marx Brothers, The
M*A*S*H (film)
Mason, Jackie
Mason, James
Mata and Hari (dance team)
Matheson, Tim
May, Elaine
May, Martin A.
Mayer, Edwin
Mazursky, Paul
McCarty, Mary
McLaren, Norman
Me and My Gal (play)
Medavoy, Mike
Meehan, Thomas
Meet John Doe (film)
Meir, Golda
Melnick, Daniel
Meredith, Lee
Merman, Ethel
Merrick, John
Merrill, Robert
Midler, Bette
Mike Douglas Show, The (TV series)
Milk and Honey (play)
Miller, George
Miner, Worthington
Minnelli, Liza
Miracle Worker, The (film)
Miracle Worker, The (play)
Mobley, Roger
Moby Dick (book)
Monroe, Marilyn
Montague, Percy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (film)
Moody, Ron
Moonstruck (film)
Moore, Mary Tyler
Moranis, Rick
Morons from Outer Space (film)
Morris, Howard (“Howie”)
Morris, John
Morrison, Toni
Mostel, Kate
Mostel, Zero
Mother Courage and Her Children (play)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (film)
Mrs. Miniver (film)
“Mrs. Robinson” (song)
Muni, Paul
Muppet Movie, The (film)
Murphy, Brianne
Murphy, Eddie
Murray, Jan
Mussolini, Benito
My Favorite Year (film)
My Son, the Hero (TV series)
Nabokov, Vladimir
Nadja (film)
Naked Gun (film series)
National Association of Theater Owners
National Lampoon (magazine)
Native Son (play)
NBC Saturday Night Revue (TV series)
Neal, Patricia
Nelson, Mark
New Faces (film) (1954)
New Faces of 1937 (film)
New Faces of 1952 (play)
Newhart, Bob
Newman, Paul
Newman, Rabbi
Nichols, Mike
Nielsen, Leslie
Nightfall (film)
Nikolic, Djordje
Niven, David
No Laughing Matter (book)
“Nonentities in the News” (comedy skit)
North by Northwest (film)
Noto, Lore
Nowhere to Go But Up (play)
Nude Bomb, The (film)
Nutt House, The (TV series)
Nye, Louis
Oblong Club, The. See The Gourmet Club
Ockrent, Mike
Odd Couple, The (play)
Of Father and Sons (play)
“Of Fathers and Sons” (comedy skit)
Oh, Godl (book)
Oliver! (film)
Oliver! (play)
Olsen, Alfa-Betty
One of the Boys at the Globe Is a Girl (projected film)
Open End (TV series)
Oppenheimer & Co.
Orbach, Ron
O’Reilly, Rosemary
Oscar, Brad
Osterwald, Bibi
O’Toole, Peter
Ouspenskaya, Maria
Padula, Edward
Paper Moon (film)
Paris, Jerry
Parkington, Arthur
Parsons, Louella
Password (TV series)
Paxton, Bill
Peerce, Jan
Penn, Arthur
Perelmuth, Jacob Pincus. See Peerce, Jan
Persky, Bill
Peters, Bernadette
Petrov, Evgeny
Phil Silvers Show, The (TV series)
“Physical Fitness” (song)
Piazza, Marguerite
Picasso, Pablo
Pickens, Slim
Pillot, Leo
Pintoff, Ernest
Places Please (TV series)
Planet Moron, The (film). See Spaceballs (film)
; Platt, Edward
Playhouse (TV series)
Pnin (book)
Pollack, Sydney
Polly Bergen Show, The (TV series)
Pons, Lily
Porter, Cole
Poston, Tom
Prager, Stanley
Prince of Egypt, The (film)
Prisoner of Second Avenue, The (film)
“Prisoners of Love” (song)
Producers, The (film) (1968)
Producers, The (film) (2005)
Producers, The (play)
Producers, The (TV documentary) (2001)
Producers: The Book, Lyrics, and Story Behind the Biggest Hit on Broadway!, The (book)
“Professor, The” (comedy skit)
“Professor and the Jungle Boy, The” (comedy skit)
Professor Fodorski (book)
Pryce, Jonathan
Pryor, Richard
Psycho (film)
Pullman, Bill
Pumpkin Eater, The (film)
Pushkin, Aleksandr
Putney Swope (film)
“Puttin’ on the Ritz” (song)
Puzo, Mario
Raid, The (film)
Randolph, Ann
Random Harvest (film)
Rashômon (film)
Raye, Martha
Reagan, Ronald
Rees, Roger
Reik, Theodor
Reiner, Carl
Reiner, Estelle
Reiner, Rob
Reiser, Paul
Reitman, Ivan
Reno, Jean
Return of Maxwell Smart, The (film)
Return to Horror High (film)
Reynolds, Burt
Rich, Buddy (Bernard)
Rich, Micky
Richmond, Bill
Ritz Brothers, The
Rivera, Chita
Rivers, Joan
Road Warrior, The (film)
Robbins, Gale
Robertson, Cliff
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (film)
“Robin Hood: Men in Tights” (song)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (film)
Robinson, Edward G.
Robots (film)
Rogers, Ginger
Roman Scandals (film)
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (TV movie)
Romeo and Juliet (play)
Roney, John
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roseanne
Rosenblum, Ralph
Rowe, Misty
Ruben, Aaron
Rubinek, Saul
Saake, James
Salkin, Leo
Sandler, Adam
Sanford, Charles
Sanger, Jonathan
Sargent, Herbert
Saturday Night Live (TV series)
Scared to Death (projected film)
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schwartz, Alan
Scott, Ridley
Screw Loose (film)
Seinfield, Jerry
Sellers, Peter
Separate Rooms (play)
Seven Women (film)
Sex, logner (5* videovald (film)
Shaffer, Peter
Shakespeare, William
Shane (film)
Shapiro, J. David
Shaw, Artie
Shawn, Dick
Shear, Barry
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Sherman, Thomas
“Sherwood Forest Rap” (song)
She Stoops to Conquer (play)
Shinbone Alley (play)
Shirley, Bill
Shoes, The (film)
Shore, Dinah
Shore, Sammy
Short, Martin
Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce, The (record album)
Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special (TV show)
Sid Caesar Invites You (TV series)
Silence of the Hams, The (film)
Silent Movie (film)
Silent Running (film)
Sillman, Leonard
Silverman, Fred
Simon, Danny
Simon, Neil
Simon, Paul
Simpsons, The (TV series)
Sims, Alastair
Sinatra, Frank
Singin’ in the Rain (film)
“Singin’ in the Rain” (song)
60 Minutes (TV series)
Sledge Hammer (TV series)
Slender Thread, The (film)
S.N.A.F.U. (projected film)
Solarbabies (film)
Something Happened (book)
South Pacific (play)
Spaceballs (film)
Spaceballs (projected animated TV series)
Spanglish (film)
Spellbound (film)
Spencer, Alan
Springtime for Hitler (projected book)
Springtime for Hitler (projected screenplay)
“Springtime for Hitler” (song)
Squeeze Box (play)
St. Raymond, Anne. See Bancroft, Anne
Stalag (play)
Stalin, Joseph
Stanley, Kim
Starbuck, James
Star Wars (film)
Star Wars (film series)
Stein, Joe
Steinberg, Norman
Stephanson, Pamela
Stern, Leonard
Steve Allen Show, The (TV series)
Stewart, Michael
Stewart, Patrick
Stiles, Norman
Stoppard, Tom
Storch, Arthur
Straw Hat Revue, The (play)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (film)
Streisand, Barbra
Strickfaden, Ken
Strouse, Charles
Studio One (TV series)
Sturges, Preston
Subject Was Roses, The (film)
Sullivan, Ed
Sullivan’s Travels (film)
Sumac, Yma
Susann, Jacqueline
Susskind, David
“Sweet Georgia Brown” (song)
Swerdlow, Ezra
Take Me Along (play)
Tambor, Jeffrey
Tar Baby (book)
Tars and Spars (film)
Taylor, Renee
Taylor, Robert Lewis
Tebet, David
Ten Commandments, The (film)
Tenderloin (play)
from Your Show of Shows (film)
Teresa (film)
Terry-Thomas
Texaco Star Theater (TV series)
Tex X (projected film)
That Was the Week That Was (TV series)
Thelma & Louise (film)
“There’s Nothing Like a Show on Broadway” (song)
There’s Something About Mary (film)
Steps, The (film)
This Is Your Life (TV series)
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Mario
Three Men and a Baby (film)
Three Stooges, The
Thurman, Uma
“Til Him” (song)
Tinker, Grant
Titans, The (film)
To Be or Not to Be (film) (1942)
To Be or Not to Be (film) (1983)
Tolkin, Mel
Tolstoy, Leo
Tomlin, Lily
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The (TV series)
Tony Orlando d* Dawn (TV series)
Top Banana (play)
Torrence, Dean
Troublemaker, The (film)
tummler, definition of
Turning Point, The (film)
Twelve Chairs, The (film)
Twiggy
Two for the Seesaw (film)
Two for the Seesaw (play)
Two’s Company (play)
2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
2000 and One Years With Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks (recording)
2000 Year Old Man, The (animated TV series)
2000 Year Old Ma
n, The (recordings)
2000 Year Old Man Goes to School (book/CD set)
2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 (book)
2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 (recording)
2000 Years With Carl Reiner Mel Brooks (recording)
Two Women (film)
Tynan, Kenneth
Uger, Alan
Ullman, Tracey
Uncle Harry (play)
Ustinov, Peter
Vagrant, The (film)
Vampire in Brooklyn (film)
Van Patten, Dick
Van Sloan, Edward
Vertigo (film)
Vogel, Irving “Speed,”
Von Sydow, Max
Voutsinas, Andreas
Walk the Proud Land (film)
Wallace, Mike
Wallach, Eli
Warren, Lesley Ann
Wasserman, Lew
Wayne, David
Weaver, Fritz
Weaver, Sylvester “Pat,”
Weber, Steven
Webster, Tony
Welles, Orson
West, Mae
Whale, James
What’s Up, Doc? (film)
When the Shooting Stops, the Cutting Begins: A Film Editor’s Story (book)
When Things Were Rotten (TV series)
“When We Clean the Latrine” (song)
Where’s Charley? (play)
Wilder, Gene
Wilk, Max
Williams, Andy
Williams, Billy
Williams, Robin
Williams, Tennessee
Wingfield, Peter
Wings (TV series)
Winters, Jonathan
Wish You Were Here (play)
Wizard of Oz, The (film)
Wolf Man, The (film)
Women Who Run the Show (book)
Writers Guild of America
Wyner, George
Yasbeck, Amy
Yiddish Philosopher, The (radio series)
Young Frankenstein (film)
Young Frankenstein (projected play)
Young, Gig
“You’re the Top” (song)
Your Show of Shows (TV series)
Zelenka, Sydney
Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, The (book)
Zucker, David
Zucker, Jerry
Zuckerman, Buck Henry. See Henry, Buck
Zuniga, Daphne
About the Author
James Robert Parish, a former entertainment reporter, publicist, and book series editor, is the author of many biographies and reference books about the entertainment industry, including The Hollywood Book of Breakups; Fiasco: A History of Hollywood’s Iconic Flops; Katharine Hepburn: The Untold Story; The Hollywood Book of Scandals; Whitney Houston; The Hollywood Book of Love; Hollywood Divas; Hollywood Bad Boys; The Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups in Hollywood; Jet Li; The Hollywood Book of Death; Gus Van Sant; Jason Biggs; Whoopi Goldberg; Rosie O’Donnells Story; The Unofficial “Murder, She Wrote’ Casebook; Let’s Talk! America’s Favorite TV Talk Show Hosts; Gays and Lesbians in Mainstream Cinema; The Great Cop Pictures; Ghosts and Angels in Hollywood Films; Prison Pictures from Hollywood; The Hollywood Reliables; The RKO Gals; and Hollywood’s Great Love Teams.
Mr. Parish is a frequent on-camera interviewee on cable and network TV for documentaries on the performing arts both in the United States and in the United Kingdom. He resides in Studio City, California. Visit his Web site, www.jamesrobertparish.com.