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“which are climaxed”: LAT, May 7, 1950.
“a tough little”: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
379 “A once in a lifetime”: Variety, June 7, 1950.
“‘The Next Voice’”: Cue, July 1, 1950.
“I never was really”: Look, October 31, 1967.
“I’m Southern”: Edith Luckett to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
380 “I had no lines”: Ibid.
“He asked me”: Ibid.
381 “You do the damnedest”: Ibid.
383 “In those days”: O’Brien, p. 61-62.
384 “Spencer was darling”: Edith Luckett to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
“Nancy was good”: Ibid.
(fn) “the family estate”: Learner, p. 36.
385 “She came to live”: Edith Luckett to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
“I remember one time”: Loyal Davis to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
(fn) “[Edith] came to”: Wallace, p. 2.
(fn) “… my driving”: Davis, p. 85.
386 “Edith… taught me”: Davis, p. 228.
“rock-hard”: Wallace, p. 6.
“Dad never raised”: Ibid., p. 7.
387 “Nancy always handled”: Edith Luckett to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
388 “pretty is as”: Ibid.
“I can remember”: Ibid.
“Nancy was never”: PI, Gottlieb.
“Whenever I was asked”: Edith Luckett to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
389 “Always wanted”: MGM Archives.
390 “the train pulled out”: Jackson, p. 120.
“saw the victim”: The Daily Princetonian, December 16, 1941.
“It is odd”: Jackson, p. 120.
“a Factory Follies”: SCAN, May 21, 1943.
391 “the Glamour Gal”: Ibid.
“a dreary piece”: New York newspaper P. M., January 6, 1944.
392 “She had been hired”: PI, John Houseman.
“a road jaunt”: Variety, August 28, 1946.
“nicely sweetened”: Chicago Herald-American, October 21, 1947.
“blighting bores”: Variety, August 28, 1946.
“Sure, I’ll see”: PI.
393 “The girl knows how”: Ibid.
“Nancy was a lady”: Edith Luckett to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
394 “There was a lot or’: PI, Jill Robinson.
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396 “He was an”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
“It was like”: SAG Archives, S785.
“You don’t seem to”: SAG Archives.
397 “for which I”: LAT, October 22, 1949.
“Rogers… will be”: USC Archives, June 28, 1949.
“This is the kind”: Warner Archives.
“Note outfit Brando”: Ibid.
“We have seen”: Ibid.
(fn) “I told [Warner]”: LAT, October 22, 1949.
(fn) “Ronald Reagan’s clothes”: Ibid.
398 “lick the KKK”: Ibid.
“There were two”: Day, p. 121.
“[It was] the only”: Ibid.
(fn) “the entire consular corps”: LAT, December 15, 1949.
(fn) “2,800 people”: Warner Archives.
399 “That’s what turned”: Warner Archives.
“idealistic”: Ibid.
“There before you”: Ibid.
401 “was very much”: Reagan, p. 266.
“indicated her”: SAG Archives, 3957.
“Lee Bowman”: Ibid.
“confusion and distress”: SAG Archives.
402 “It looks”: PI.
403 “slovenly and”: SAG Archives.
“Hollywood and the”: LAT, February 10, 1950.
“One morning I awoke”: Reagan interview.
(fn) “… of course”: SAG Archives.
404 “America is insisting”: Warner Archives.
(fn) “… Day after day”: “Inside Labor,” published in Themis, official magazine for Zeta Tau, 1950.
405 “[he] could telephone”: The Mirror, January 5, 1950.
“Dear Ronnie”: Warner Archives.
406 “Reagan felt he”: Ibid.
“I don’t know”: Ibid.
407 “I talked to Reagan”: Ibid.
408 “I’ve never seen”: Reader, November 2, 1984.
“package deal”: Ibid.
“a staggering compilation”: Saturday Evening Post, August 10, 1946.
409 “a good and healthy”: Reagan, p. 245.
410 “A good idea”: Universal Archives.
“[Louisa] must be”: Ibid.
411 “He grabbed her”: Ibid.
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412 “preview showing”: DMR, August 17, 1950.
“all done up”: Ibid.
“They didn’t tell”: Ibid.
“So many memories”: Ibid.
413 “I have another”: Ibid.
“Now that was what”: Ibid.
“There was quite a”: Welcome Home Mr. President, February 6, 1984.
“a firm grip!”: Ibid.
414 “Such an experience”: Ibid.
“A banquet was”: Ibid.
“You must be”: DET, August 24, 1950.
415 “There’s nothing wrong,” Bob Thomas, p. 257.
“It is not the”: Ibid., p. 258.
“The secret of: Lambert, p. 257.
“Did you know”: Chicago Tribune, September 16, 1950.
416 “decidedly pink”: Berkeley Oral History.
“pink shading into”: Ibid.
“If he could win”: Douglas, p. 301.
“[Helen] had been”: Berkeley Oral History.
417 “It took the”: Ibid.
“particularly vicious”: Douglas, p. 323.
“The Pink Lady”: Perrett, Dream, p. 250.
“A telephone rang”: McClelland, p. 229.
419 “a breeding ground”: Perrett, Dream, p. 203.
“He was the master”: Esquire, August 1958.
“One night in January”: Perrett, Dream, p. 204.
420 “he suddenly brandished”: Ibid.
“McCarthyism”: Ibid., p. 205.
“did everything wrong”: Reagan, p. 268.
421 “inner workings”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
“made him an interested”: Ibid.
“jovial little picture”: NYT, October 25, 1950.
422 “an animal starrer”: Newsweek, March 12, 1957.
“They haven’t a”: NYT, April 6, 1951.
“Reagan gives”: NYT, January 6, 1951.
“We had a rather”: PI, Gene Nelson.
423 “IT IS OUR”: Warner Archives.
“YOUR TELEGRAM”: Ibid.
424 “Jack, when I got”: Reagan, p. 247.
“Marlon Brando”: Graham, Confessions of a Hollywood Columnist, p. 257.
“quiet, very quiet”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
“I don’t know”: Ibid.
425 “rapt attention”: Ibid.
“I am addressing”: Variety, March 16, 1951.
427 “The Board of: SAG board to Sondergaard, Hollywood Reporter, March 20, 1951.
428 “I think… it”: Trumbo, p. 570.
“throwing from the”: Reagan, p. 272.
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430 “He telephoned once”: Edith Luckett to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
431 “Meeeting… the doctor”: Reagan, p. 273.
“I’m always being”: Edith Luckett to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
“To hell with this”: Reagan, p. 269.
“It’s about time”: Ibid.
432 “Matters to Review”: Universal Archives, January 15, 1952.
433 “rambling, obscure”: Hollywood Reporter, April 9, 1951.
“an awful lot”: LAT, April 13, 1951.
434 “a pulp fiction”: Variety, December 17, 1952.
“or was it”: NYT, April 5, 1952.
“
bring the money”: Reagan, p. 281.
435 “He wouldn’t get”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
“We [SAG] were”: Ibid.
436 “Well, we were”: Ibid.
437 “I must tell you”: Freedom of Information Act.
(fn) “At the time”: Laurence Beilenson, letter to Edwards, October 22, 1986.
438 “The waiver was”: SAG Archives.
439 “The deal vaulted MCA”: Freedom of Information Act.
440 “Westerns will never”: LADN, May 28, 1953.
“Reagan handles”: Variety, April 8, 1953.
441 “He wanted to”: Ibid.
“His hatred of: Ibid.
442 “Mr. Eisenhower”: Sherman Adams, p. 25.
“accustomed to”: Perrett, Dream, p. 247.
“had there been”: Ibid., p. 250.
“into a swift”: Ibid.
443 “a Communist smear”: Ibid.
“NO MINK COATS”: Ibid.
“There has been a”: Esquire, August 1969.
“tack on, at the end”: Ibid.
“You will have”: Ibid.
“tear-choked”: Perrett, Dream, p. 250.
“I am submitting”: Ibid.
444 “scores of dog”: Ibid.
“blue-eyed smile”: Ibid.
“because of the threat”: LADN, May 1, 1953.
“I turned the offer”: Ibid.
445 “brutal beatings”: Variety, March 24, 1954.
“The MCA”: Reagan, p. 283.
“another source”: Ibid.
446 “I’ll introduce”: Newslife, October 11, 1953.
“the stars into”: Hollywood Citizen, February 15, 1954.
“against the”: Ibid.
“We expected to”: LA Magazine, April 1983.
447 “to have to suffer”: PI.
“Never again”: PI.
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451 “like playing cowboy”: Reagan, p. 286.
“great northwest”: Ibid.
“a great actress”: Ibid.
452 “MCA promised us”: Berkeley Oral History.
“communicator”: Ibid.
“audience participation”: Ibid.
“They were really”: Ibid.
(fn) “New General Electric”: Ibid.
“MCA was fantastically”: Ibid.
453 “extensive’Employee and’”: Reagan, p. 286.
“We had been”: Berkeley Oral History.
“There was nothing”: Ibid.
454 “We very carefully”: Ibid.
“He couldn’t see”: Ibid.
“generally having a”: Reagan, p. 293.
“The people were most”: Berkeley Oral History.
455 “In Erie”: Ibid.
456 “a bull of the”: Ibid.
“highfalutin”: Ibid.
“They might ask”: Ibid.
457 “a walking symbol”: Ibid.
“Is what I’m saying”: Ibid.
“some people at”: Ibid.
“had turned the”: Ibid.
“growing liberal”: Ibid.
“left-wing liberal”: Ibid.
458 “raucous mining town”: Ibid.
“I went over”: Edith Luckett to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
“someone seriously”: Hollywood Reporter, November 1955.
459 “From my own viewpoint”: Ibid., April 4, 1956.
“everything electric”: Chicago Tribune, February 26, 1956.
460 “Nancy and Ronnie”: Edith Luckett to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
“The Speech”: Reader, November 2, 1984.
“Government—staffed”: Life, May 1967.
“There was a joke”: Graham, Confessions of a Hollywood Columnist, p. 258-59.
461 “a dual personality”: Broadcast Pioneers Library.
“the Ambassador”: Berkeley Oral History.
“the unwashed public”: Ibid.
“and don’t you”: Ibid.
462 “wretched Skid Row”: Broadcast Pioneers Library.
“a member of the”: Ibid.
“because I was so”: Berkeley Oral History.
“verboten on the”: Reagan, p. 329.
463 “jingoistic potboiler”: Halliwell, Film Guide, p. 630.
“life long tendency”: Reagan, p. 328.
464 “that the exclusion”: Ibid.
“for real”: Time, November 24, 1975.
(fn) “… sacred as motherhood”: Reagan, p. 345.
465 “We knew that”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
“Convinced as I was”: Reagan, p. 313.
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466 “charm the hell”: Berkeley Oral History.
“An air of dignity”: Reagan, Sincerely, p. 109.
“never one of the”: Ibid.
“Funny thing about”: PI.
467 “He felt that”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
“Who the hell”: Ibid.
“We [the actors]”: SAG Archives.
468 “Mr. Skouras”: Ibid.
469 “There was a lot or’: PI, Kim Felner.
“Once we were”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
“decked out in a”: Reagan, p. 316.
“wrecking the business”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
“Walsh came in”: Ibid.
470 “a stormy session”: Variety, October 30, 1980.
“a heavy”: PI, Madelaine Lee.
“vividly”: SAG Archives.
“The people who”: Ibid.
471 “There are no”: PI, Chet Migden.
“soup and salad”: Reagan, p. 320.
“where some two”: Ibid., p. 319.
“exactly what the”: Ibid., p. 320.
“Vogel fancied”: PI, Migden.
472 “It was about June”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
473 “a fighting conservative”: Perrett, Dream, p. 58.
474 “too young, too rich”: Ibid., p. 562.
“daunting obstacle”: Ibid.
“effective, intelligent”: Ibid., p. 563.
(fn) “Our country cannot”: Ibid., p. 569.
475 “The Communist party”: Speech by Ronald Reagan, Phoenix, Arizona, March 30, 1961.
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477 “that MCA’s unique”: Reader, November 2, 1984.
478 “The whole notion”: Undated article.
“his kind of work”: Ibid.
“The old boy”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
479 “One day in walks”: Ibid.
“It worked out”: Ibid.
480 “automatically, because”: Saturday Evening Post, June 4, 1966.
“Ron can’t be pushed”: Ibid., June 1, 1968.
“Nancy Reagan”: Ibid.
“I gauge everything”: Look, October 31, 1968.
“Remember when”: Ibid.
481 “one brief shining moment”: Camelot.
“who spoke their”: Perrett, Dream, p. 595.
“Get the U.S.”: Ibid.
482 “Many predict that”: Washington Post, July 16, 1964.
“His nerves broke”: Ibid.
(fn) “The first time”: Ibid.
484 “I got a call”: Neil Reagan to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
485 “You and I have”: “Encroaching Control” speech.
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487 “not the smoke”: P.I.
488 “We don’t intend”: LAT, November 11, 1964.
“big-issues guy”: Washington Post, February 2, 1981.
“habitually littered”: Ibid.
“maneuvering behind”: Ibid.
489 “I don’t think he’s”: Ibid.
“tense and cautious”: Graham, Confessions of a Hollywood Columnist, p. 258-59.
“a telephone call”: Ibid.
“… he held out”: Neil Reagan to Jean Kinney on “Around About.”
490 “I have no style”: Life, October 14, 1966.
“Ronald called me”: Neil Reagan to Jean Kinney on “Around
About.”
491 “so splurged with”: Undated article.
“Every once in a”: Ibid.
REPOSITORIES FOR EARLY REAGAN MATERIAL
Ronald Reagan Home, Dixon, IL
Ronald Reagan Society, Dixon Public Library, Dixon, IL
Private Collection of William C. and Jean Thompson, Dixon, IL
Eureka College, Alumni Files, Eureka, IL
Warner Brothers Film Archives at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Film and Photo Archive, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Warner Brothers Film Archives at University of Southern California
Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood, CA
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, CA
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, CA
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
The New York Public Library, Newspaper Collection, New York, NY
The Billy Rose Theater Collection, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Museum of Broadcasting, New York, NY
CBS/Broadcast Group, New York, NY
Television Information Office, New York, NY
Broadcast Pioneers Library, Washington, D.C.
British Film Institute, London, England
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