by J. R. Jones
Ryan, Robert, as told to Loney, Glenn. “In the Words of Robert Ryan.” Cue, January 11, 1970.
Ryan, Robert, as told to Pine, Dick. “The Trouble with Me Is …” Movieland, June 1951.
Schary, Dore. “Letter from a Movie-Maker: ‘Crossfire’ as a Weapon against Anti-Semitism.” Commentary, October 1947.
Scheuer, Philip K. “Robert Ryan Lifts Veil on Yugoslavia.” Los Angeles Times, August 11, 1964.
Schumach, Murray. “Art’s Call Heard by Robert Ryan.” New York Times, February 5, 1960.
Schweitzer, Albert. “Declaration of Conscience.” Saturday Review, May 18, 1957.
Scott, John L. “Good or Bad; Robert Ryan Plays Either.” Los Angeles Times, August 10, 1947.
——. “Play Features All-Star Cast.” Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1957.
——. “Ryan Lifts Self by His ‘Heels.’” Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1959.
Scott, Vernon. “Ryan Works Again Despite Cancer.” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, August 27, 1972.
Shuster, Alvin. “Robert Ryan Plays Othello Abroad for $150 a Week.” New York Times, October 18, 1967.
Skolsky, Sidney. “Tintypes.” Hollywood Citizen-News, October 16, 1947.
——. “Tintypes.” Hollywood Citizen-News, June 24, 1954; New York Post, June 27, 1954.
——. “Tintypes.” Hollywood Citizen-News, October 8, 1959.
Smallwood, Frank. “Ryan ’32 Tops Career as Crossfire’s Killer.” Dartmouth, January 28, 1948.
Smith, Cecil. “At the UCLA Theater Group, the Ordinary Was a Rarity.” Los Angeles Times, May 14, 1981.
——. “Medicine for ‘Tired and Shabby’ Theater.” Los Angeles Times, January 22, 1961.
Smith, Darr. Untitled column. Los Angeles Daily News, February 17, 1949.
Stein, Jeanne. “Robert Ryan: Unlike Most Handsome Actors He Was Willing to Be a Heavy.” Films in Review 9, no. 1 (January 1968).
Stinson, Charles. “UCLA to Present Eliot Masterpiece.” Los Angeles Times, January 17, 1960.
Surtees, Robert. “The Story of Filming Act of Violence.’” American Cinematographer, August 1948.
Thomas, Bob. “Male Cheesecake! Robert Ryan Comments on New Trend.” Hollywood Citizen-News, July 11, 1949.
——. “Tots’ School Begun by Film Star Thrives.” Los Angeles Mirror News, July 24, 1958.
Vallee, William Lynch. “Movie Life of Robert Ryan.” Dartmouth Varsity, ca. 1949.
Walker, Helen Louise. “Portrait of a Happy Man.” Movieland, December 1949.
Werba, Hank. “‘Billy Budd’ Budget Item: Dramamine.” Variety, June 28, 1961.
——. “Dmytryk Repeats History as ‘Anzio’ Restaged Yanks’ Liberation of Rome.” Variety, August 23, 1967.
Wershba, Joseph. “Outspoken Actor.” New York Post, March 7, 1963.
Wheatley, James H. “Boxing Team to ‘Set-up’ Is Circuit for Ryan ’32.” Dartmouth, April 30, 1949.
Whitman, Alden. “Robert Ryan, Actor, Dies at 63.” New York Times, July 12, 1973.
Williams, Dick. “Over Hill, Dale, A-Golfing We Go with Slicer Robert Ryan.” Los Angeles Mirror, February 8, 1950.
Williams, Whitney. “Be Smart: Send Screen Stars to Japan for Personals, Protect U.S. Films—Bob Ryan’s Advice.” Variety, March 30, 1955.
Zolotow, Sam. “‘Front Page’ Here as Benefit in May.” New York Times, January 8, 1969.
——. “New Group Forms at Theater on L.I.” New York Times, August 1, 1968.
——. “The Plumstead to Offer in Fall 3 Pulitzer Plays.” New York Times, May 21, 1969.
Zunser, Jesse. “Stratford: Ryan, Hepburn, et al.” Cue, July 30, 1960.
Zylstra, Freida. “From Chicago Sandhog to Hollywood Star: Robert Ryan.” Chicago Tribune, July 19, 1950.
Unpublished Manuscripts
Harmon, Sidney. “Robert Ryan.”
Jarlett, Franklin. Interview transcriptions for Robert Ryan: A Biography and Critical Filmography: Arvin Brown (September 3, 1986), Norman Cousins (June 1, 1987), Philip Dunne (June 12 and August 24, 1987), Evans Frankenheimer (May 30, 1987), John Frankenheimer (May 25, 1987), Albert Hackett (August 1986), John Houseman (spring 1986), Lamont Johnson (August 17, 1986), Harold J. Kennedy (March 20, 1986), Millard Lampell (March 10, 1987), Harold Mayer (August 1986), Cheyney Ryan (February 20 and March 15, 1986), Lisa Ryan (February 23, 1986, and September 1, 1987), Timothy Ryan (February 2 and March 20, 1986; June 6 and August 26, 1987), Virginie van Bark (March 5, 1986), Robert Wallsten (May 1986), Robert Wise (February 18, 1986), and Philip Yordan (October 27, 1986). In the case of discrepancies between the transcribed interviews and Jarlett’s published text, priority was given to the transcriptions.
McCarthy, Joe. “Antic Arts: Robert Ryan.” 1963.
Ryan, Jessica. “America—Dream or Nightmare?: American Myths of Power, Aggression and Violence,” ca. 1970.
——. “Campaign–’52, or A Camera’s-Eye View from Two Odd Birds,” notes and text, ca. 1970.
——. “If School Keeps,” ca. 1970.
——. “Recollections of a Pioneer Grandmother,” ca. 1970.
——. “Woman: The Mythless American,” outline and text, ca. 1970.
Ryan, Robert. “How Do You Remember All Those Words?,” n.d. Jane Ardman Papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California.
——. “The Next Time You Want to Do a Play.” 1971.
——. Untitled essay on American culture. 1968.
——. “What Makes an Actor Tick?,” n.d. Jane Ardman Papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California.
Selected Archival Resources
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE LIBRARY, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Dartmouth Boxing Club file: (1) Robert Ryan to Corey Ford, July 24, 1957. (2) Robert Ryan to Corey Ford, October 28, 1957.
Robert Ryan alumnus file: (1) Robert Ryan to A. J. Dickerson, mid-1945. (2) Five excerpts from Dartmouth College Class of 1932 newsletter, 1940–1947. (3) Excerpt from Dartmouth College Class of 1932 newsletter, March 19, 1962. (4) Dartmouth alumni office biographical data sheet, ca. 1956. (5) Dartmouth alumni records office questionnaire, ca. September 1967. (6) Robert Ryan to Mr. Kemeny of Dartmouth College alumni office, March 23, 1971. (7) Dartmouth College alumni records office questionnaire, ca. 1972.
MARGARET HERRICK LIBRARY, ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURES ARTS AND SCIENCES, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA.
Audiovisual archive: (1) Robert Ryan, interview with Tony Thomas, audio recording, ca. 1960. (2) Robert Ryan, interview with Bert Reisfeld for German radio program Wieder Wildwestfilme in Hollywood, ca. 1967.
Bert Granet Papers: Granet, unaddressed letter draft regarding production of Berlin Express, n.d.
Hedda Hopper Papers: Robert Ryan, interview with Hedda Hopper for column promoting King of Kings, June 14, 1960.
History of Cinema: Hollywood and the Production Code collection: Stephen S. Jackson to David Hopkins of Enterprise Productions regarding Caught, February 12, 1948.
John Huston Papers: (1) SANE letter from Robert Ryan and Steve Allen to Huston, February 9, 1960. (2) SANE document, “Suggestions for Platform Hearings of the Democratic National Committee,” July 7, 1960.
John Paxton Papers: (1) Clay Steinman to Paxton, June 29, 1977. (2) Clay Steinman and Keith Kelly, interview questions for Paxton, July 1, 1977. (3) Paxton to Clay Steinman and Keith Kelly, July 14, 1977. (4) Paxton to Clay Steinman, Keith Kelly, and Mario Falsetto, n.d.
John Sturges Papers: Sturges to cast and crew of The Law and Tombstone (aka Hour of the Gun), October 15, 1966.
Lincoln Quarberg Papers: Congressional statement of Congressman Richard M. Nixon on the release of Flying Leathernecks, August 27, 1951.
Motion Picture Association of America Production Code Administration Files: (1) Joseph I. Breen to William Gordon of RKO Radio Pictures regarding The Woman on the Beach, March 28, 1945. (2) Joseph I. Breen to Harold Me
lniker of RKO Radio Pictures regarding On Dangerous Ground, March 20, 1950; March 23, 1950; and May 2, 1950. (3) Geoffrey M. Shurlock to Hal Wallis of Paramount Pictures regarding About Mrs. Leslie, June 17, 1954. (4) Joseph I. Breen to Hal Wallis regarding About Mrs. Leslie, August 20, 1953. (5) Geoffrey M. Shurlock to Hal Wallis regarding About Mrs. Leslie, August 24, 1953.
Sidney Skolsky Papers: Interview with Robert Ryan for “Tintypes” column to promote The Ice Palace, ca. January 1960.
OAKWOOD SCHOOL, NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA.
1. Robert Ryan to parents in North Hollywood and Studio City, California, January 1951.
2. Material pertaining to background of the Ryan Center, The Robert and Jessica Ryan Memorial, 1972–1975.
PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
1. “Directed by John Frankenheimer: The Seminar.” Museum of Television and Radio Seminar Series. Video recording, January 18, 1996.
2. “A Conversation with John Frankenheimer.” Museum of Television and Radio Seminar Series. Video recording, September 24, 1997.
MAX REINHARDT ARCHIVES AND LIBRARY, SUNY–BINGHAMTON, BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.
Four addresses to students and faculty at the Max Reinhardt School of the Theater: June 1938; June 27, 1938; July 12, 1938; and September 12, 1938.
UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION ARCHIVE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
(1) A Call from… (aka A Call from the Stars). Video recording, February 10, 1960. Television Collection, inventory number DVD 4142 T. (2) It Could Be You. Video recording, November 7, 1959. Television Collection, inventory no. DVD 10465.
UCLA LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
Jean Renoir Papers: (1) Jessica Ryan to Dido and Jean Renoir, ca. March 1948. (2) Jessica Ryan to Dido and Jean Renoir, April 8, 1955. (3) Jessica Ryan to Jean Renoir, ca. May 1967. (4) Robert Ryan to Jean Renoir, ca. August 1968. (5) Jean Renoir to Robert Ryan, May 25, 1972. (6) Robert Ryan to Jean Renoir, July 20, 1972.
WISCONSIN CENTER FOR FILM AND THEATER RESEARCH, MADISON, WISCONSIN.
Patrick McGilligan Papers: Interview with Dore Schary.
Robert Ryan clipping file: Autographed fan questionnaire in Ryan’s hand, February 7, 1942.
Dore Schary Papers: (1) Peter Rathvon to Dore Schary regarding Crossfire, February 12, 1947. (2) Research on anti-Japanese violence for Bad Day at Black Rock, October 26, 1953. (3) Audience comments from preview of Bad Day at Black Rock, Encino Theatre, Encino, California, October 14, 1954. (4) MGM summary of British reviews for Bad Day at Black Rock, March 21, 1955. (5) Robert Ryan to Dore Schary, November 16, 1959. (6) Robert Ryan remarks to New York SANE event, Town Hall, New York City, March 10, 1963. (7) Robert Ryan to the chairman of “Stars for SANE,” ca. 1965. (8) Robert Ryan to Dore Schary, August 5, 1967. (9) SANE brochure, “Some Things You Should Know.” (10) Form letter from Robert Ryan and Steve Allen to Dore Schary, January 29, 1960. (11) SANE program for Steve Allen testimonial dinner, November 15, 1962.
Index
About Mrs. Leslie, 138–39, 139, 144
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 79, 279–80
acting of RR, x, 29, 59–60, 78; attitude toward “heavy” roles, x, 70, 99, 180, 192; attitude toward his career, xii–xiii, 164, 175, 195, 199, 247, 257; behavior on set, ix, 229; study of acting, 20–21, 23–25, 28, 38–39; technique, 106–107, 112, 118, 129, 142, 161–62, 209, 258; thoughts on acting, xii, 157, 260–61, 270–71
Act of Violence, 77, 83–86, 85, 90, 96, 126, 128, 181
Alaska Seas, 136, 138
Albee, Edward, 247
Aldrich, Robert, 223
Allen, Steve, 186, 197–98, 213
American Civil Liberties Union, 127, 188
American Friends Service Committee, 98, 170, 171, 188–89, 215, 250, 264
American International Pictures, 217
American Legion, 126, 130
American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 193–96
Andes, Keith. 121, 123
And Hope to Die, 261–62
Anthony, Susan B., 27
Anticommunism, 110, 168, 171–72, 197–98. See also Hollywood blacklist; House Un-American Activities Committee; Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals; Red Channels
Antony and Cleopatra, x, 193–96
Anzio, xi, 228
Astaire, Fred, 40, 43
athletics of RR, 8, 11
atomic bombing of Hiroshima, 51, 79
Avala Film, 214
Axelrod, George, 209, 273–74
Bacall, Lauren, 72, 131–32, 162, 216
Back from Eternity, 159
Bad Day at Black Rock, x, 145–48, 150, 151, 181, 221, 226, 271
“Bad Time at Honda,” 145–46
Baker, Joe Don, 273
Baker, Roy Ward, 134–35
Ballard, Lucien, 64–68, 75, 134, 236
Bamberger, Henry, 118–19, 136
Bankhead, Tallulah, 31–33, 34, 120, 123–24, 142, 252
Barker, Lex, 62
Battle of the Bulge, xi, 218, 224, 228, 245
Bed of Roses. See Born to Be Bad
Beery, Wallace, 6
Begley, Ed, 181, 183
Behind the Rising Sun, 40–41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 58, 91, 147
Belafonte, Harry, xi, 162, 180–83, 182, 197, 233, 234; friendship with RR, 208, 212, 254
Bel Geddes, Barbara, 86, 87–88
Bennett, Joan, 51–52, 54, 184
Berlin, Irving, 206
Berlin Express, 62–68, 65, 71, 74, 82, 134, 217
Bernstein, Elmer, 168
Berry, John, 88
Best of the Badmen, 108, 114, 129, 205n
Beware, My Lovely (working title: Day without End), 117–18, 120, 124, 138, 181
Beymer, Richard, 216
Bezzerides, A.I., 104, 106
Bickford, Charles, 52, 81, 159
Billy Budd (film), 199–203, 201, 211, 227, 258, 267, 270, 280
Billy Budd (novella), 199–200
Boetticher, Budd, ix, 125
Bogart, Humphrey, 72, 74, 84, 131–32, 162
Bombardier, xiii, 37–38, 39, 43
Bond, Ward, 105
Booke, Sorrell, 270, 271
Booth, Shirley, 138–39, 139
Borgnine, Ernest, 147–48, 224, 236, 239
Born to Be Bad (working title: Bed of Roses), 99–101, 102, 249
boxing of RR, 6, 11, 16, 17–18, 28, 91–92
Boy with Green Hair, The, 78–79, 95–96, 101, 175, 227
Brady, Leo, 246
Brando, Marlon, 269
Brecht, Bertolt, 71, 73, 78
Breen, Joseph, 105
Brennan, Walter, 147
Brick Foxhole, The, 48–49, 56, 218
Bridges, Beau, 268
Bridges, Jeff, 264, 265, 269–71, 271
Brodie, Steve, 57
Bronston, Samuel, 192–93
Brooks, Richard, xiii, 48, 50, 210, 218–19, 222, 272
Brown, Arvin, 256–58, 259–60, 261, 263, 266–67, 270
Brown, Marvin, 144, 149, 167
Burnett, W.R., 116
Busy Body, The, 225–26, 248
Cabeen, Ross, 110, 113, 119, 125, 138, 144
Cabeen, Wendy, 110, 113, 137
Caesar, Sid, 225
Cagney, James, 21, 23, 39, 183, 218
Caldwell, Erskine, 169
A Call from…, 188–89
Camp Pendleton: U.S. Marine Corps training base at, 45, 46, 48, 51, 112
Canadians, The, 196, 210
Cannes Film Festival, 81, 92–94, 151
Cannon, Dyan, 256
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, 247–48
Cardinale, Claudia, 221, 243
Cat Ballou, 221, 223, 230
Cat People, 52, 63
Caught, x, 87, 96, 97, 101, 135, 153–54
Cavanaugh, Frank, 42
Cermak, Anton, 14, 19
Champion, 92–94
Chandler, Raymond, 103
Chaplin, Charles, 5, 6, 71
Cheyney, George Washington
(grandfather-in-law), 26–27, 226
Chicago: 1919 race riot, 6
City beneath the Sea, 125–26
Clark, Mark V., 228
Clash by Night (film), 120–25, 122, 123, 138, 182
Clash by Night (play), 31–33, 34, 37, 120, 142, 253
Clément, René, 261–62
Clift, Montgomery, 84, 173, 174–75
Cobb, Lee J., 31–33, 120, 123, 253
Cohen, Eliot, 69
Cohn, Art, 90–91
Colbert, Claudette, 102
Collins, Judy, 213
Columbia Pictures, 218–19, 222, 228, 246
Committee for the First Amendment, 71, 72–73, 74, 94
Communist Party of America, 72, 100–101, 114, 198
Convy, Bert, 248
Conyers, John, 233
Coote, Robert, 64, 66
Coriolanus, x, 139–43, 187, 275
Costello, Frank, 115
Coughlin, Charles, 58
Cousins, Norman, 79, 170–71, 186, 197–98, 213, 233
Cradle of Fear. See Crossfire
Crawford, Joan, 218, 240
critical assessment of RR, ix, 59, 68, 143, 175, 188, 196, 230, 258–59
Cromwell, John, 96–97
Crooked Road, The, 214
Crossfire (working title: Cradle of Fear), ix, 57, 136, 145, 146, 180–81, 249, 275, 280; and Hollywood blacklist, 70, 73; impact of, 63, 68–70, 77, 79–81, 83, 120; production of, 56–61, 114
Crouse, Russel, 206
Cuban Missile Crisis, 207–208
Curtis, Tony, 129, 197
Curtiz, Michael, 190–91
Custer of the West, 228–29
Daily Worker, 58, 70, 71, 127
Dakota Building, 216, 263, 264, 266, 277
Daley, Richard J., 240
Dartmouth College, 10, 11, 48, 50, 78, 227, 239, 255
Day, Dorothy, 231
Day, Laraine, 97, 99
Day of the Outlaw, 176
Day without End. See Beware, My Lovely
Dee, Frances, 35
DeHaven, Carter, 274
Depinet, Ned, 35, 89, 118
Desirable Woman. See The Woman on the Beach
Detective Story, 104, 164
De Toth, André, xiii, 176–77
Devi, Indra, 98
Dewey, John, 110, 114
Dewey, Thomas, 94–95
Dirty Dozen, The, xi, 223–25, 225, 227, 236, 243