by J. R. Jones
2. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, September 22, 2012.
3. Jessica Ryan, “Woman: The Mythless American” (ca. 1970), private collection.
4. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, September 22, 2012.
5. Cheyney Ryan, telephone interview with author, September 26, 2009.
6. Robert Ryan, “I Didn’t Want to Play a Bigot,” Ebony, (November 1959): 68–69.
7. Don Alpert, “Ryan: 1 in 50 Critics Knows,” Los Angeles Times, December 3, 1961.
8. Harry Belafonte, telephone interview with author, October 10, 2012.
9. Ibid.
10. Ryan, “I Didn’t Want to Play a Bigot,” 69.
11. Robert Wise, interview with Franklin Jarlett, February 18, 1986, private collection.
12. Shelley Winters, Shelley II: The Middle of My Century (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), 263–64.
13. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, September 22, 2012.
14. Robert Ryan, “The Full Text of Ryan’s Letter,” Chicago Reader, October 29, 2009, http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/actor-robert-ryans-letter-to-his-children/Content?oid=1223014.
15. Lisa Ryan, interview with author, San Francisco, California, April 17, 2011.
16. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, April 15, 2011.
17. Lamont Johnson, interview with Franklin Jarlett, August 17, 1986, private collection; also Franklin Jarlett, Robert Ryan: A Biography and Critical Filmography (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990), 48.
18. Sidney Skolsky, “An Interview with Robert Ryan,” n.d., n.p., Sidney Skolsky Papers, Margaret Herrick Library Special Collections, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California.
19. Bill Becker, “Focus on the Forty-Ninth State,” New York Times, September 27, 1959, sec. 2, p. 7.
20. Skolsky, “An Interview with Robert Ryan.”
21. John L. Scott, “Ryan Lifts Self by His ‘Heels,’” Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1959, E1.
22. “Film Stars Join in Nuclear Plea,” New York Times, October 20, 1959, 45.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. John Houseman, Final Dress (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982), 196.
26. T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1935), 83.
27. Philip K. Scheuer, “Eliot Verse Play Well Staged, Acted,” review of Murder in the Cathedral, Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1960, C9.
28. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, 49.
29. Cecil Smith, “At the UCLA Theater Group, the Ordinary Was a Rarity,” Los Angeles Times, May 14, 1981, Q7.
30. Harold Hildebrand, “Robert Ryan Speaks Out,” Los Angeles Examiner, October 11, 1961.
31. Marsha Hunt, telephone interview with author, February 9, 2011.
32. “Directed by John Frankenheimer: The Seminar,” Museum of Television and Radio Seminar Series, Paley Center for Media, Los Angeles, January 18, 1996. Video recording.
33. “A Conversation with John Frankenheimer,” Museum of Television and Radio Seminar Series, Paley Center for Media, Los Angeles, September 24, 1977. Video recording.
34. “Directed by John Frankenheimer: The Seminar.”
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Alpert, “Ryan: 1 in 50 Critics Knows.”
38. Harold Hildebrand, “Ryan’s ‘Between’ Films,” Los Angeles Examiner, October 8, 1961.
39. Bernard Eisenschitz, Nicholas Ray: An American Journey (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990), 369.
40. C. Gregory Jensen, “The Actor Who Will Play Christ,” Family Weekly, December 25, 1960, 11–13.
41. Lisa Ryan, interview with author, San Francisco, California, April 17, 2011.
42. Jesse Zunser, “Stratford: Ryan, Hepburn, et al.,” Cue, July 30, 1960, 8.
43. Raymond J. Buck, “A Rare Kind of Movie Star,” Dartmouth Varsity, October 1960, 30.
44. Judith Crist, “Katharine Hepburn Stars in ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’” New York Herald Tribune, August 1, 1960, 8.
45. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, April 15, 2011.
46. Rich, review of The Canadians, Variety, March 8, 1961, 6.
47. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, April 15, 2011.
48. Norman Cousins, interview with Franklin Jarlett, June 1, 1987, private collection.
49. Milton S. Katz, Ban the Bomb: A History of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, 1957–1985 (New York: Greenwood Press, 1986), 61.
50. Mike Metzger, telephone interview with author, March 9, 2011.
51. Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1977), 311.
52. Herman Melville, Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales (New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2006), 40.
53. Melville, Billy Budd, 41–42.
54. Louis O. Coxe and Robert Chapman, Billy Budd (New York: Hill and Wang, 1962), 30, 33.
55. Terence Stamp, audio commentary, Billy Budd, Warner Bros., 2007, DVD.
56. Hank Werba, “‘Billy Budd’ Budget Item: Dramamine,” Variety, June 28, 1961, 17.
twelve The Longest Day
1. Milwaukee Journal, January 13, 1963.
2. Lisa Ryan, telephone interview with author, May 4, 2010.
3. Cheyney Ryan, telephone interview with author, October 17, 2013.
4. Joseph Wershba, “Outspoken Actor,” New York Post, March 7, 1963.
5. Marsha Hunt, telephone interview with author, February 9, 2011.
6. “Actor Threatened with Bomb Attack,” Hollywood Citizen-News, February 5, 1962.
7. Ibid.
8. Philip Dunne, Take Two: A Life in Movies and Politics (New York: Limelight Editions, 1992), 268.
9. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, April 15, 2011.
10. Sue Chambers, “Robert Ryan—Heavy and Hero,” Milwaukee Journal, January 13, 1963.
11. Dorothy Manners, “His Knees Knock in Broadway Tempo,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, July 8, 1962.
12. Joshua Logan, Movie Stars, Real People, and Me (New York: Delacorte Press, 1978), 173–74.
13. Bob Lardine, “This Dove Is a Tough Bird,” New York Sunday News, August 27, 1967, 4.
14. Logan, Movie Stars, Real People, and Me, 177.
15. Les Carpenter, “‘Mr. Prez’ Leaves D.C. Better Than When JFK Saw It,” Variety, October 17, 1962.
16. Cornelia Otis Skinner, Life with Lindsay and Crouse (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985), 226.
17. Jessica Ryan, America—Dream or Nightmare? (ca. 1970), private collection.
18. Harry Belafonte, telephone interview with author, October 10, 2012.
19. Joe McCarthy, “Antic Arts: Robert Ryan” (ca. 1963), private collection.
20. Lisa Ryan, interview with author, San Francisco, California, April 17, 2011.
21. McCarthy, “Antic Arts: Robert Ryan.”
22. Robert Wallsten, interview with Franklin Jarlett, June 14, 1986, private collection; also Franklin Jarlett, Robert Ryan: A Biography and Critical Filmography (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990), 126.
23. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, September 22, 2012.
24. Ibid.
25. Harry Belafonte, telephone interview with author, October 10, 2012.
26. “Establish Free Southern Theatre for Summer Sked in Jackson, Miss., Then Local Groups, Touring Units,” Variety, April 8, 1964, 79, 82.
27. “November 22, 1963: In Search of an Answer,” Executive Action, Warner Bros., 2007, DVD.
28. Lisa Ryan, interview with author, San Francisco, April 17, 2011.
29. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, April 15, 2011.
30. Philip K. Scheuer, “Robert Ryan Lifts Veil on Yugoslavia,” Los Angeles Times, August 11, 1964.
31. Ibid.
32. Robert Ryan to chairman, Stars for SANE (ca. July 1964), Dore Schary Papers, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Madison, Wi
sconsin.
33. Millard Lampell, interview with Franklin Jarlett, March 10, 1987, private collection.
34. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, April 15, 2011.
35. Scheuer, “Robert Ryan Lifts Veil on Yugoslavia.”
36. Harriet Parsons, “Battle-Scarred Ryan Is Home,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, December 12, 1965, 5. Parsons, daughter of gossip columnist Louella Parsons, earlier had produced Ryan’s RKO feature Clash by Night (1952).
37. Lampell, interview with Franklin Jarlett.
38. Philip Yordan, interview with Franklin Jarlett, October 27, 1986, private collection; also Jarlett, Robert Ryan, 135.
39. Lampell, interview with Franklin Jarlett; also Jarlett, Robert Ryan, 90.
thirteen One of the Boys
1. Woody Strode and Sam Young, Goal Dust: The Warm and Candid Memoirs of a Pioneer Black Athlete and Actor (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1990), 227.
2. Douglass K. Daniel, Tough as Nails: The Life and Films of Richard Brooks (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), 166.
3. Strode, Goal Dust, 230.
4. Phil Yordan, interview with Franklin Jarlett, October 27, 1986, private collection.
5. Philip Dunne, interview with Franklin Jarlett, August 24, 1987, private collection; also Michael Winner, Winner Take All: A Life of Sorts (London: Robson Books, 2004), 63.
6. Gary Fishgall, Against Type: The Biography of Burt Lancaster (New York: Scribner’s, 1995), 244.
7. Virginia E. Rodgers, “Robert Ryan: ‘A Most Un-Actor-Like Actor,’” New Bedford (Massachusetts) Standard-Times, July 22, 1965.
8. Lisa Ryan, interview with author, San Francisco, April 17, 2011.
9. Richard T. Stout, People (New York: Harper and Row, 1970), 43.
10. Jessica Ryan, notes for “Campaign–’52” (ca. 1970), private collection.
11. Margaret McManus, “Robert Ryan Speaks Out on Reagan,” Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram, November 6, 1966.
12. Jessica Ryan, notes for “Campaign–’52.”
13. Dwayne Epstein, Lee Marvin: Point Blank (Tucson: Schaffer Press, 2013), 171.
14. Lisa Ryan, interview with author, San Francisco, California, April 17, 2011.
15. Bert Reisfeld, Wieder Wildwestfilme in Hollywood, radio broadcast (ca. November 1967), Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California. Audio recording.
16. McManus, “Robert Ryan Speaks Out on Reagan.”
17. Ken Furie, “Robert Ryan on Everything but Birth Control,” Dartmouth, April 21, 1967.
18. Jessica Ryan to Jean Renoir (ca. May 1967), Jean Renoir Papers, UCLA Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
19. Philip Yordan, interview with Franklin Jarlett, October 27, 1986, private collection; also Franklin Jarlett, Robert Ryan: A Biography and Critical Filmography (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990), 142.
20. Lisa Ryan, interview with author, San Francisco, California, April 17, 2011.
21. Philip Yordan, interview with Franklin Jarlett; also Jarlett, Robert Ryan, 77.
22. Robert Ryan to Dore Schary, August 5, 1967, Dore Schary Papers, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Madison, Wisconsin.
23. Furie, “Robert Ryan on Everything but Birth Control.”
24. Daniel Rosenthal, “Fifty Years at the Cutting Edge,” London Times, February 19, 1999, 35.
25. Alvin Shuster, “Robert Ryan Plays Othello Abroad for $150 a Week,” New York Times, October 18, 1967, 37.
26. John Peter, “John Neville as Iago,” review of Othello, London Times, September 22, 1967, 7.
27. John Peter, “Embattled Family,” review of Long Day’s Journey into Night, London Times, September 28, 1967, 6.
28. “Legitimate: Asides and Ad-Libs,” Variety, April 12, 1967, 70.
29. Robert Ryan to Lisa Ryan (ca. November 1967), private collection.
30. Bob Lardine, “This Dove Is a Tough Bird,” New York Sunday News, August 27, 1967, 4.
31. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, April 15, 2011.
32. Millard Lampell, interview with Franklin Jarlett, March 10, 1987, private collection.
33. Ibid.
34. Lisa Ryan, interview with author, San Francisco, April 17, 2011.
35. Lampell, interview with Franklin Jarlett; also Jarlett, Robert Ryan, 144.
36. Patricia Bosworth, “Robert Ryan: In Search of Action,” New York Times, June 1, 1969, sec. 2, pp. 1, 7.
37. Hersh, telephone interview with author.
38. Arthur Herzog, McCarthy for President (New York: Viking Press, 1969), 10.
39. “Unforeseen Eugene,” Time, March 22, 1968, 15.
40. Hersh, telephone interview with author.
41. Stout, People, 177.
42. Marshall Fine, Bloody Sam: The Life and Films of Sam Peckinpah (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1991), 130.
43. Movie Body Counts Boards, accessed September 10, 2012, http://moviebodycounts.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=finished&action=display&thread=629.
44. Bob Thomas, Golden Boy: The Untold Story of William Holden (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983), 166.
45. Robert Ryan to Jean Renoir (ca. August 1968), Jean Renoir Papers, UCLA Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
46. Cheyney Ryan, telephone interview with author, September 26, 2009.
fourteen My Good Bad Luck
1. Jessica Ryan, “My Name Is Robert Ryan” (ca. 1969), private collection.
2. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (New York: Dell, 1983), 21.
3. “Understanding and Coping with Anxiety—Rollo May,” www.existentialanalysis.org.uk/assets/articles/Understanding_and_Coping_with_Anxiety_Rollo_May_transcription_Martin_Adams.pdf.
4. Jessica Ryan, Woman—The Mythless American (ca. 1970), private collection.
5. Ibid.
6. Ramona Lampell, telephone interview with author, May 18, 2012.
7. Ibid.
8. Millard Lampell, interview with Franklin Jarlett, March 10, 1987, private collection.
9. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, April 15, 2011.
10. Lampell, interview with Franklin Jarlett.
11. Harold J. Kennedy, No Pickle, No Performance: An Irreverent Theatrical Excursion from Tallulah to Travolta (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978), 136.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Bob Lardine, “This Dove Is a Tough Bird,” New York Sunday News, August 27, 1967, 4.
15. Lisa Ryan, interview with Franklin Jarlett, February 23, 1986, private collection.
16. William MacAdams, Ben Hecht: The Man Behind the Legend (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1990), 107.
17. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, The Front Page (New York: Samuel French, 1928), 30.
18. Walter Kerr, “After 41 Years, It’s Still Page One,” New York Times, May 25, 1969, D1.
19. Patricia Bosworth, “Robert Ryan: In Search of Action,” New York Times, June 1, 1969.
20. Lenore Rottenberg, “No Wonder,” New York Times, August 17, 1969, D23.
21. Aljean Harmetz, “‘Man Was a Killer Long Before He Served a God,’” New York Times, August 31, 1969, D9.
22. Darwin Willard, “Just a Movie,” New York Times, September 14, 1969, D36.
23. Arnold M. Auerbach, “The Wildest Bunch of All,” New York Times, August 17, 1969, D11.
24. Vincent Canby, “Violence and Beauty Mesh in ‘Wild Bunch,’” New York Times, June 26, 1969, 45.
25. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, April 11, 2011.
26. Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President (New York: Penguin Books, 1988), 240–41.
27. Jessica Ryan, America—Dream or Nightmare?: American Myths of Power, Aggression and Violence (ca. 1970), private collection.
28. “Acts of Birth: Robert Ryan,” Films and Filming, March 1971, 26.
29. William Otterburn-Hall, “A Good Bad Man Is Hard to Find,” Louisville Courier-Journal, June 7, 1970, E4.
30. Arthur Miller, Collected Plays 1964–1972, ed. Tony Kushner (New York: Library of America, 2012), 283.
31. Ibid., 281.
32. Ibid., 285.
33. “The Harmony Game” (video documentary) on Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia/Legacy Video, 2011, CD/DVD.
34. Otterburn-Hall, “A Good Bad Man Is Hard to Find.”
35. Michael Winner, Winner Take All: A Life of Sorts (London: Robson Books, 2004), 143.
36. Harry Belafonte, telephone interview with author, October 10, 2012.
37. Jessica Ryan, “Campaign–’52, or A Camera’s-Eye View from Two Odd Birds” (ca. 1970), private collection.
38. Robert Wallsten, interview with Franklin Jarlett, May 1986, private collection.
39. “Acts of Birth: Robert Ryan,” Films and Filming, March 1971, 26.
40. Robert Ryan to Mr. Kemeny, March 23, 1971, Dartmouth Alumni File, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
41. Lisa Ryan, interview, “Lucy Talks Movies,” www.podtech.net/home/3848/robert-ryan-and-dana-andrews-had-daughters.
42. Cheyney Ryan, interview with author, Eugene, Oregon, April 15, 2011.
43. Bob Thomas, “Robert Ryan Fights Back After Tragic Two Years,” Milwaukee Journal, August 25, 1972.
44. James Naughton, telephone interview with author, July 18, 2012.
45. Arvin Brown, interview with Franklin Jarlett, September 3, 1986, private collection; also Franklin Jarlett, Robert Ryan: A Biography and Critical Filmography (Jefferson, NC: McFarland: 1990), 59.
46. Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956), 150.
47. Brown, interview with Franklin Jarlett; also Jarlett, Robert Ryan, 162.
48. Naughton, telephone interview with author.
49. Brown, interview with Franklin Jarlett.
50. Walter Kerr, “Do the Tyrones Live Here?,” New York Times, May 2, 1971, D3.
51. Arvin Brown, interview with Franklin Jarlett; also Franklin Jarlett, Robert Ryan, 160.
52. Naughton, telephone interview with author.
53. Stacy Keach, telephone interview with author, July 18, 2012; Naughton, telephone interview with author.
54. Arvin Brown, telephone interview with author, November 1, 2012.
55. Lisa Ryan, interview with author, San Francisco, California, April 17, 2011.