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85. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, pp. 121–22.
86. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 229.
87. Ibid.
88. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 142.
89. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 106; Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 142.
90. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 230.
91. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 165.
92. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 231; Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 164.
93. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 306.
94. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 128.
95. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , pp. 166–67.
96. Ibid., pp. 167–68.
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97. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 132.
98. Schlesinger Jr. in Life, July 29, 1946.
99. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 131; Wiener in New Republic, March 31, 1986.
100. Time, September 9, 1946, “Political Notes: Glamour Pusses.”
101. Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 109.
102. Schlesinger Jr., A Life in the 20th Century, p. 409; Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 109.
103. Neil Reagan oral history, pp. 30–31.
104. Ibid., p. 31.
105. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 132; E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 234, 740; Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 249.
106. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 304–5.
107. Wills, Reagan’s America, pp. 246–47. See also Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, pp. 130, 278 (notes 49 and 50).
108. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 164.
109. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , pp. 169–70.
110. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 130.
111. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 111.
112. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 249; New York Times, May 6, 1993, “Disney Link to the F.B.I. and Hoover Is Disclosed”; Las Vegas Life, October 1999, “Billy Wilkerson: The First Big Link to Hollywood”; Las Vegas Sun, February 15, 2000, “Book Examines ‘The Man Who Invented Las Vegas.’” See also Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 130.
113. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 139.
114. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 300; Current Biography 1949, “Reagan, Ronald.”
115. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 129.
116. Ibid.
117. Ibid., p. 277 (note 43).
118. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 179.
119. Ibid., pp. 145–46.
120. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 138.
121. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, pp. 106–12; Current Biography 1953, “Reagan, Ronald.”
122. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 121.
123. Los Angeles Times, August 5, 2001.
124. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 159.
125. Wills, Reagan’s America, pp. 233–35; Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, pp.
138–39.
126. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, pp. 139, 282 (note 32).
127. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 239.
128. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 311; Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 139.
129. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 311.
130. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , pp. 171, 172–73; Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 140.
131. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , pp. 174–75.
132. Friedrich, City of Nets, p. 279; Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 139.
133. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, pp. 151, 332.
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134. Friedrich, City of Nets, p. 277.
135. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 139.
136. Robert Stack, to author, March 16, 2000.
137. Ibid.
138. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 243.
139. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 158.
140. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 155; New York Times, November 13, 1946, “Bomb Blasts Home of Film Technician”; New York Times, November 14, 1946, “Violence Spreads in Movie Dispute.”
141. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 140; Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 319.
142. E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 240, 741.
143. New York Times, November 16, 1946, “679 Pickets Seized in Film Strike After 1,500 Protest Injunctions.”
144. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 142.
145. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 183.
146. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 143.
147. Ibid., p. 133.
148. Lindfors, Viveka-Viveca, p. 154.
149. McClelland, Hollywood on Ronald Reagan, p. 152.
150. Current Biography 1949, “Wyman, Jane.”
151. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.
Chapter Eight: Nancy in New York, 1944–1949
1. Mantle, The Best Plays of 1944–1945, pp. 9–10.
2. Ibid., pp. 8–9.
3. Leamer, Make-Believe, p. 57.
4. Nancy Reagan, to author, April 7, 1998.
5. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 68; Kenneth Giniger, to author, April 11, 2003.
6. Nancy Reagan, to author, March 10, 2003, March 19, 2003.
7. Affron, Lillian Gish, p. 220.
8. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, pp. 84–85.
9. Kanin, Tracy and Hepburn, pp. 95–98; Davidson, Spencer Tracy, pp. 94–98.
10. Kanin, Tracy and Hepburn, p. 98.
11. Davidson, Spencer Tracy, pp. 100–102.
12. Richard Davis, to author, April 17, 2003.
13. Leamer, Make-Believe, p. 60; Anne Washburn, to author, May 7, 2003.
14. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, pp. 70–71.
15. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, pp. 85–86.
16. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 392.
17. Nancy Reagan, to author, March 10, 2003.
18. “Nancy Reagan,” A&E Biography, A&E Television Network, March 31, 1997.
19. Nancy Reagan, to author, November 27, 1997.
20. Richard Davis, to author, April 17, 2003.
21. Nancy Reagan, to author, October 27, 1997.
22. Anne Washburn, to author, May 7, 2003.
23. “Nancy Reagan,” A&E Biography, A&E Television Network, March 31, 1997.
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24. Leamer, Make-Believe, p. 61.
25. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 67.
26. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, pp. 68–69.
27. Leamer, Make-Believe, p. 61.
28. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 69.
29. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950, undated clipping from New York Mirror, “Only Human,” by Sidney Fields.
30. Kenneth Giniger, to author, April 11, 2003, April 15, 2003.
31. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950, clipping from an unidentified Boston newspaper, dated September 1, 1946.
32. Ibid., unidentified newspaper clipping, dated November 1946.
33. Ibid., unidentified newspaper clipping, dated December 3, 1946.
34. “Application for Class A Junior Membership,” Nancy Davis, dated at New York offices of the Screen Actors Guild, May 20, 1947, held at the current offices of the Screen Actors Guild, 5757 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.
35. Grobel, The Hustons, p. 237.
36. Weld, September Song, p. 190.
37. Nancy Reagan, to author, March 10, 2003.
38. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, pp. 68–69.
39. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1
946–1950.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid., clipping from Washington Post, July 19, 1947.
42. Ibid., unidentified newspaper clipping, dated July 31, 1947.
43. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950.
44. Ibid., clipping from Chicago Daily News, October 21, 1947.
45. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
46. Bruce McFarland, to author, February 14, 2002.
47. Nancy Reagan, to author, March 10, 2003.
48. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950.
49. Kenneth Giniger, to author, April 11, 2003.
50. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 69; Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook
#1, 1946–1950, unidentified newspaper clipping dated March 1948.
51. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 69; Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 86.
52. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 87; Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950, clippings dated October 1948.
53. Vidal in New York Review of Books, September 29, 1983.
54. Leamer, Make-Believe, p. 58; Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 69.
55. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, pp. 69–70.
56. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, pp. 86–87.
57. Leamer, Make-Believe, p. 58; Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held 5 3 2
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at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook
#1, 1946–1950, clippings dated October 1948.
58. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, pp. 87–88.
59. New York Times, March 28, 2002, “Milton Berle, TV’s First Star As ‘Uncle Miltie,’ Dies at 93”; Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 88.
60. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950; Mademoiselle, November 1948.
61. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 89.
Chapter Nine: Divorce, 1947–1948
1. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 322; Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 224.
2. McClelland, Hollywood on Ronald Reagan, p. 70.
3. New York Times, March 12, 1947, “7 Quit Film Guild Posts.”
4. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 321.
5. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 249; E. Morris, Dutch, p. 288.
6. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 322.
7. Schweizer, Reagan’s War, p. 14.
8. Wills, Reagan’s America, pp. 249, 427–28; Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 127.
9. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , pp. 156–57.
10. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 246.
11. Buhle and Wagner, Radical Hollywood, pp. 376–77; Gellman, The Contender, pp. 111–12.
12. Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 110; Hollywood Democratic Committee Records, 1942–1950, held at the University of Wisconsin library archives main stacks, MAD 3M/32/C2–3.
13. Schlesinger Jr., A Life in the 20th Century, p. 410.
14. Ibid., p. 412; Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 166.
15. Schlesinger Jr., A Life in the 20th Century, pp. 411, 413.
16. Ibid., p. 413.
17. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 167.
18. Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 110.
19. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, pp. 164–65.
20. Ibid., p. 161.
21. Ibid., p. 144.
22. Gellman, The Contender, p. 108.
23. Friedrich, City of Nets, pp. 299–300.
24. Gabler, An Empire of Their Own, p. 362; Friedrich, City of Nets, p. 303.
25. Eells, Hedda and Louella, p. 267.
26. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 340–41; Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p.
144; Tavistock College (UK) Media Department, “Perceived Communist Influence in Hollywood Film: The HUAC Years,” www.tavistockcollege
.devon.sch.uk.
27. Laurents, Original Story By, p. 84.
28. Thomas, Golden Boy, p. 11; E. Morris, Dutch, p. 252.
29. Allyson with Spatz Leighton, June Allyson, p. 95.
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30. Ibid., p. 94.
31. Ibid., pp. 94–96.
32. The “Kitchen Cabinet” oral history, Justin Dart, OH 1676, p. 37; New York Times, January 27, 1984, “Bluntest and Most Outspoken of Circle” (obituary).
33. Los Angeles Times, February 6, 1982, “For Justin Dart, No Time to Rest.”
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Current Biography 1946, “Dart, Justin.”
37. Los Angeles Times, February 6, 1982, “For Justin Dart, No Time to Rest.”
38. Ibid.
39. Current Biography 1946, “Dart, Justin.”
40. Sellmer in Business Week, July 13, 1946.
41. Los Angeles Times, February 6, 1982, “For Justin Dart, No Time to Rest.”
42. The “Kitchen Cabinet” oral history, Holmes Tuttle, OH 1675, p. 113.
43. Marsha Hunt interviewed by Glen Lovell in January 1998, from Spartacus Educational, “Marsha Hunt”: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhuntM.htm.
44. Author’s diary, July 28, 2000.
45. Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 63.
46. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.
47. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 324–25; Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 194.
48. Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter, p. 52.
49. E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 250–52; Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 195. Reagan says this is when his interest in wine began, as his doctor recommended a glass of wine with dinner to build up his strength.
50. New York Times, July 16, 1947, “Refugee Relief Unit Set Up in Hollywood.”
51. Michael Reagan with Hyams, On the Outside Looking In, p. 20; Quirk, Jane Wyman, pp. 101, 110.
52. McClelland, Hollywood on Ronald Reagan, pp. 68–70.
53. Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 99; Morella and Epstein, Jane Wyman, p. 111.
54. Morella and Epstein, Jane Wyman, p. 117; Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 111.
55. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 330.
56. Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 112.
57. Donnelly, Fade to Black, p. 44.
58. Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 101.
59. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 198.
60. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 161.
61. Current Biography 1949, “Reagan, Ronald.”
62. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 161; Edwards, Early Reagan, pp.
335–37; E. Morris, Dutch, p. 752.
63. Bentley, ed., Thirty Years of Treason, p. 110.
64. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 145.
65. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 743.
66. Gellman, The Contender, p. 117.
67. Buhle and Wagner, Radical Hollywood, p. 382.
68. P. Dunne, Take Two, p. 293.
69. Friedrich, City of Nets, p. 306.
70. Huston, An Open Book, p. 129.
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71. Grobel, The Hustons, p. 300.
72. Huston, An Open Book, pp. 131–32.
73. P. Dunne, Take Two, p. 201; Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 113; New York Times, October 26, 1947, “Hollywood Split by Hearings.”
74. P. Dunne, Take Two, p. 206.
75. Lester Cole, Hollywood Red, as quoted in McClelland, Hollywood on Ronald Reagan, pp. 190–92.
76. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 167.
77. New York Times, October 26, 1947, “Un-American Committee Puts on Its ‘Big Show�
�� ”; New York Times, October 20, 1947, “Radio, Television and Floodlights Will Open Red Film Inquiry Today.”
78. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 340.
79. Friedrich, City of Nets, pp. 314–15.
80. Ibid., pp. 311–16.
81. New York Times, October 23, 1947, “79 in Hollywood Found Subversive, Inquiry Head Says.”
82. Bentley, ed., Thirty Years of Treason, pp. 112, 118.
83. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 147.
84. New York Times, October 21, 1947, “Film Men Admit Activity by Reds; Hold It Is Foiled.”
85. New York Times, October 25, 1947, “Critics of Film Inquiry Assailed; Disney Denounces ‘Communists’ ”; New York Times, October 26, 1947, “Congress Is Urged to Alter Inquiries.”
86. Bentley, ed., Thirty Years of Treason, p. 140.
87. Ibid., pp. 124, 125.
88. Ibid., p. 131.
89. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 341; Cannon, Reagan, p. 82.
90. Cannon, Reagan, p. 83; E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 255–56.
91. Bentley, ed., Thirty Years of Treason, pp. 143–47; Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 349.
92. Nixon, In the Arena, p. 190; Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 166.
93. New York Times, October 24, 1947, “Hollywood Communists ‘Militant,’ but Small in Number, Stars Testify”; Cannon, Reagan, p. 84; Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 148.
94. New York Times, October 28, 1947, “Films of 11 U.S. Stars Are Banned by Rumania.”
95. Grobel, The Hustons, p. 304.
96. Bentley, ed., Thirty Years of Treason, p. 154.
97. Ibid., pp. 158–61.
98. Huston, An Open Book, p. 133.
99. Friedrich, City of Nets, p. 321.
100. New York Times, October 31, 1947, “The News of Radio: Hollywood Group Buys More Time on Air to Oppose Washington Hearing”; New York Times, November 2, 1947, “The Nation: Hollywood Fights Back.”
101. Friedrich, City of Nets, p. 326; Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 148; Huston, An Open Book, p. 134.
102. P. Dunne, Take Two, p. 202; Huston, An Open Book, p. 134; Friedrich, City of Nets, p. 237.
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103. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 200.
104. Friedrich, City of Nets, p. 333; Cannon, Reagan, p. 84.
105. Cannon, Reagan, p. 85.
106. Gabler, An Empire of Their Own, p. 373; New York Times, November 26, 1947,
“Movies to Oust Ten Cited for Contempt of Congress”; Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 200.
107. New York Times, November 26, 1947, “Movies to Oust Ten Cited for Contempt of Congress.”