301 More important, Sturges: Charles Lockwood, The Guide to Hollywood and Beverly Hills, p. 14. Curtis, Between Flops, pp. 118, 120, 137–8, 151, 312–16, 178.
303 A movie about: Jowett, Film, p. 311.
304 Like any good: Richard R. Lingeman, Don’t You Know There’s a War On?, pp. 183, 185–8, 193, 181. Jowett, Film, p. 312. Curtis, Between Flops, p. 181.
305 While DeSylva dithered: Curtis, Between Flops, pp. 185–91, 198–9.
307 Hughes had in fact: Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Empire, pp. 132–4.
308 Hughes recovered: Curtis, Between Flops, pp. 216–18.
7 Breakdowns (1945).
309 When David Selznick: Bob Thomas, Selznick, p. 224 (1972).
309 Now, one night: Irene Mayer Selznick, A Private View, pp. 265, 267.
311 Phyllis Walker had: David O. Selznick, Memo from David O. Selznick, pp. 311, 313, 317.
312 She had been born: Thomas, Selznick, pp. 198–9.
312 The Walkers had: Hedda Hopper, The Whole Truth and Nothing But, pp. 177–8. June Allyson, June Allyson, p. 53.
312 It had been several: Thomas, Selznick, pp. 194–7, 209. Selznick, Memo, p. 317. Stephen Farber and Marc Green, Hollywood Dynasties, p. 69.
313 “This girl is”: Thomas, Selznick, pp. 212–13. Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess, My Story, p. 197.
313 There was also: Thomas, Selznick, pp. 217–18, 222.
314 Walker never recovered: Allyson, June Allyson, pp. 53–4. Hopper, The Whole Truth, pp. 180–1, 183.
314 That was in 1951: Bosley Crowther, Hollywood Rajah, pp. 23–4.
315 It was a psychological: Selznick, Memo, p. 262. Samuel Marx, Mayer and Thalberg, pp. 224–5.
316 Mayer explained: Crowther, Hollywood Rajah, p. 263. Marx, Mayer and Thalberg, pp. 226, 228–31.
318 Then began Mayer’s: Crowther, Hollywood Rajah, pp. 262, 267. Gary Carey, All the Stars in Heaven, p. 264.
319 Before she decided: Selznick, Memo, pp. 235–6. Thomas, Selznick, p. 207. Paul Roazen, Freud and His Followers, p. 507.
319 It is a little hard: Marie Jahoda, “The Migration of Psychoanalysis: Its Impact on American Psychology,” in Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn, eds., The Intellectual Migration, Europe and America, 1930–1960, pp. 423–5. Russell Jacoby, The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians, p. 3.
320 The psychoanalysts driven: Jacoby, The Repression, pp. 8, 27, 64, 122, 128. Anthony Heilbut, Exiled in Paradise, p. 167.
321 What attracted the: Crowther, Hollywood Rajah, p. 245.
321 Artie Shaw, who spent: Artie Shaw, The Trouble with Cinderella, p. 92. Roland Flamini, Ava, p. 82.
322 One unfortunate victim: Jacoby, The Repression, pp. 122–3, 132.
323 But Hollywood found: Selznick, Memo, p. 236.
323 One predictable outcome: Donald Spoto, The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock, pp. 286–7.
324 Hitchcock’s customary method: Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century, p. 482.
324 It involved a: John Russell Taylor, Hitch, p. 175.
324n “MacGuffin” was Hitchcock’s: Spoto, The Dark Side, pp. 159–60.
325 Selznick had grandiose: Thomas, Selznick, p. 225. Spoto, The Dark Side, pp. 288, 291.
325 The most striking: Ibid., p. 292. Ronald Haver, David O. Selznick’s Hollywood, pp. 346–8.
326 But what had happened: Taylor, Hitch, p. 177.
327 Selznick did his best: Spoto, The Dark Side, p. 289.
327 When Selznick originally: Thomas, Selznick, pp. 225–8. Selznick, Memo, p. 360.
327 The main reason: Selznick, Memo, p. 368.
328 This constant interference: Thomas, Selznick, pp. 228–30, 239–40. Taylor, Hitch, p. 177. Selznick, Memo, p. 292.
329 After a lifetime: Frank MacShane, The Life of Raymond Chandler, p. 110. But this is really John Houseman’s tale. John Houseman, Front and Center, pp. 135, 132, 112, 137–41.
332 This may sound: John Houseman, “Lost Fortnight,” originally published in Harper’s in August 1965, republished as an Introduction to paperback edition of Raymond Chandler, The Blue Dahlia, p. 14. Also Houseman, Front and Center, pp. 142–3.
333 A. Two Cadillac: Houseman, Front and Center, pp. 143–4.
334 Houseman, who dropped: Chandler, The Blue Dahlia, p. 207. Beverly Linet, Ladd, p. 106 (1980).
334 “The film was”: Houseman, Front and Center, p. 146. Linet, Ladd, pp. 86, 106. New York Times, Aug. 17, 1944. Houseman letter to author, Aug. 6, 1984.
335 Another problem: MacShane, Raymond Chandler, p. 114.
335 In a strange: Linet, Ladd, pp. 76, 84.
336 Chandler had prepared: Chandler, The Blue Dahlia, p. 32.
337 This idea of: MacShane, Raymond Chandler, p. 117.
337 Chandler grumblingly accepted: Houseman, Front and Center, p. 113. Passages from The Little Sister quoted from The Midnight Chandler, ed. Joan Kahn, pp. 304–6.
338 James M. Cain: Roy Hoopes, Cain, p. 238.
339 The Postman Always: Ibid., pp. 247, 352, 378.
339 “They hang you”: James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice, p. 14 (1978).
339n In the midst: Arthur Knight, The Liveliest Art, p. 239.
340 The Johnston Office: Lana Turner, Lana, pp. 83–5.
340 The “handsome dark man”: Larry Swindell, Body and Soul, p. 202.
340n Eric Johnston: “More Trouble in Paradise,” Fortune, Nov. 1946. Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund, The Inquisition in Hollywood, p. 247.
341 It almost didn’t: Turner, Lana, pp. 86–7. Also Tay Garnett, Light Your Torches and Pull Up Your Tights.
342 If there was: Joseph Blotner, Faulkner, p. 1162. Tom Dardis, Some Time in the Sun, pp. 77, 80.
342 M-G-M’s story editor: Samuel Marx, Mayer and Thalberg, p. 176. Dardis, Some Time, pp. 81, 93–4, 104, 107.
344 Hal Wallis, the: Blotner, Faulkner, pp. 1155–56, 1129–39. Dardis, Some Time, p. 120. The DeGaulle Story, a compilation of drafts, outlines and scripts, was published by the University of Mississippi Press in December 1984.
345 It was perhaps: Mel Gussow, Darryl F. Zanuck, p. 74. Jack Warner, My First Hundred Years in Hollywood, pp. 309–10. Dardis, Some Time, p. 87.
345 The one important man: Gerald Mast, Howard Hawks, Storyteller, pp. 7–11.
345 Hawks had discovered: Joseph McBride, Hawks on Hawks, pp. 56–7, 94–5. Mast, Howard Hawks, p. 250.
345n For that matter: Jesse Lasky, Jr., Whatever Happened to Hollywood?, p. 229. Norman Zierold, The Moguls, p. 158.
347 Hawks had apparently: Lauren Bacall, By Myself, pp. 71, 77, 95, 86, 93. McBride, Hawks, pp. 100–2, 78, 104. Mast, Howard Hawks, p. 269.
350 Chandler liked the idea: MacShane, Raymond Chandler, p. 126. Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, p. 141 (1971).
351 That wouldn’t do: McBride, Hawks, p. 103. Chandler, The Big Sleep, pp. 48, 213. Mast, Howard Hawks, p. 271.
351 Chandler could hardly: MacShane, Raymond Chandler, pp. 126, 125. McBride, Hawks, pp. 104–5.
353 She was not: Bacall, By Myself, pp. 112, 122, 141–3.
353 So everything ended: Blotner, Faulkner, pp. 1188–9, 1149, 1191, 1197, 1211, 1217.
356 At the center: Ronald Reagan and Richard C. Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me?, pp. 154–5. “More Trouble in Paradise,” Fortune, November 1946.
357 Late in 1943: Nancy Lynn Schwartz, The Hollywood Writers’ Wars, p. 221. Time, Oct. 7, 1946.
357 The War Labor Board: Reagan and Hubler, Where’s the Rest, p. 157. John Cogley, Report on Blacklisting, vol. 1, pp. 55, 61–7. Ceplair and Englund, The Inquisition, p. 218. New York Times, March 5, 1948.
358 Hollywood divided: Salka Viertel, The Kindness of Strangers, p. 296.
359 Once the battle: Reagan and Hubler, Where’s the Rest, pp. 158–9. Ceplair and Englund, The Inquisition, p. 217. Cogley, Report, 1, p. 64. New York Times, Oct. 6, 1945.
360 Sorrell was back: New York Times, Oct. 7, 8, 1945.
361 At three
o’clock: W. A. Swanberg, Dreiser, p. 518. I have relied heavily on Swanberg’s solid biography.
361 It was because: Ibid., pp. 241–9, 369–77, 463–4, 470–5.
365 It is strange: Helen Dreiser, My Life with Dreiser, p. 307.
365 There was one: Swanberg, Dreiser, pp. 393, 510, 513–15.
366 Shortly before Christmas: Dreiser, My Life with Dreiser, pp. 310–12. Swanberg, Dreiser, pp. 520–1, 315–16.
367 “Oh, space!” The quotation here is taken from Swanberg, Dreiser, p. 525, who is quoting in turn from Dreiser’s Moods, Philosophical and Emotional (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935), but Helen Dreiser’s memoirs include a photo of the plaque, on p. 285, with several short lines combined into longer ones.
8 Treachery (1946).
369 In the summers: Dean Jennings, We Only Kill Each Other: The Life and Bad Times of Bugsy Siegel, p. 148. This is somewhat slap-dash, but still the basic biography. Peter Wiley and Robert Gottlieb. Empires in the Sun, p. 191. Albert Fried, The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America, p. 230. Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, and Eli Landau, Meyer Lansky, p. 226. A remarkable book because Lansky, after a lifetime of silence, seems to have accepted these Israeli journalists as friends—or rather as compatriots—and to have talked quite freely for the first time.
369 “We decided to”: Ibid., p. 226.
370 Bugsy was the nickname: Hank Messick, Lansky, p. 19. Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, Meyer Lansky, p. 51ff.
370 Both Lansky and Siegel: Jennings, We Only Kill, p. 25. Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, Meyer Lansky, p. 57. Stephen Birmingham, “The Rest of Us”: The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews, pp. 153, 201.
371 The end of Prohibition: Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, Meyer Lansky, pp. 79–80. Fried, Jewish Gangster, pp. 193–6, 234–8. Birmingham, “The Rest of Us,” p. 148.
371 Lansky’s friend Siegel: Jennings, We Only Kill, pp. 38, 47–8.
371 In a society: Frank MacShane, The Life of Raymond Chandler, p. 121 (1978).
372 Siegel seems to: Jennings, We Only Kill, pp. 23, 39. Larry Swindell, The Last Hero: A Biography of Gary Cooper, p. 131.
372 What Bugsy Siegel: Jennings, We Only Kill, pp. 45, 115. John Roeburt, “Get Me Giesler,” pp. 95–6.
373 In the late 1930’s: Jennings, We Only Kill, pp. 44, 142. Fried, Jewish Gangster, pp. 48, 258, 249.
373 The only crime: Jennings, We Only Kill, pp. 83–4, 120–1, 141. Florabel Muir, Headline Happy, p. 80.
374 The war years: Jennings, We Only Kill, p. 139.
374 Las Vegas might: Wiley and Gottlieb, Empires in the Sun, pp. 191–2. Jennings, We Only Kill, pp. 148–50.
375 But that was: Jennings, We Only Kill, p. 150. Lana Turner, Lana, p. 38. Wiley and Gottlieb, Empires in the Sun, pp. 162, 184, 207.
375 It should have: Jennings, We Only Kill, pp. 152–3, 86, 131, 112, 151–5, 159, 161–2. Birmingham, “The Rest of Us,” p. 287. (Birmingham identifies Mrs. Siegel as “the former Esther Krakauer.”) Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, Meyer Lansky, p. 239.
378 Even the gambling: Jennings, We Only Kill, pp. 165, 172–3. Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, Meyer Lansky, pp. 232–3, 240.
380 Siegel seemed to: Jennings, We Only Kill, pp. 199–203. Clinton H. Anderson, Beverly Hills Is My Beat, p. 145.
381 One of the first: Muir, Headline Happy, pp. 197–8.
381 Within twenty minutes: Jennings, We Only Kill, p. 205. Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau, Meyer Lansky, p. 240.
381 In contrast to: Jennings, We Only Kill, p. 227. New York Times, Jan. 16, 1983.
382 Marriage to the: John Kobal, Rita Hayworth, pp. 219–20. Peter Cowie, The Cinema of Orson Welles, p. 242 (1983).
383 Welles himself was: James Naremore, The Magic World of Orson Welles, pp. 136–41.
383 But Welles was: Naremore, Orson Welles, p. 151. Bob Thomas, King Cohn, p. 221.
383 Welles apparently had: Joseph McBride, Orson Welles, p. 50.
384 First, though, there: Kobal, Rita Hayworth, p. 210. Naremore, Orson Welles, p. 207. Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, Rita, p. 97.
384 Miss Hayworth had: Michael Wood, America in the Movies, p. 51.
384 It was Gilda: Kobal, Rita Hayworth, pp. 159–60, 200. Morella and Epstein, Rita, p. 258.
384n Unfortunately for this: Charles Higham, Orson Welles, p. 229.
385 There was a peculiar: Kobal, Rita Hayworth, pp. 192–213.
387 The Lady from Shanghai: Charles Higham, The Films of Orson Welles, pp. 111–17. Kobal, Rita Hayworth, pp. 215, 219. Naremore, Orson Welles, p. 152.
388 His marriage to: Morella and Epstein, Rita, pp. 102–4. Kobal, Rita Hayworth, p. 222.
389 Thomas Mann’s decision: The New Yorker, Dec. 13, 1941.
390 Since Mann knew: Nigel Hamilton, The Brothers Mann, p. 328.
390 Joseph was actually: Samuel Marx, Mayer and Thalberg, p. 168. David O. Selznick, Memo from David O. Selznick, pp. 416, 419.
391 While Thomas Mann: Hamilton, The Brothers Mann, pp. 321, 328–9.
391 Nelly got arrested: Salka Viertel, The Kindness of Strangers, p. 279. Thomas Mann, The Story of a Novel: The Genesis of Doctor Faustus, p. 105.
392 The idea had: Mann, Story of a Novel, pp. 17–19.
392 One problem in: Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, p. 353. Mann, Story of a Novel, p. 29.
393 Schoenberg was now: Arnold Schoenberg, Letters, pp. 213, 254. Mann, Story of a Novel, pp. 51–2.
393 Mann’s real teacher: Mann, Story of a Novel, pp. 42–3, 48, 81, 117, 164–5.
395 Schoenberg was even: H. H. Stuckenschmidt, Arnold Schoenberg, p. 131.
395 At dinner at: Mann, Story of a Novel, p. 217.
396 On January 29: Hamilton, The Brothers Mann, pp. 335, 349.
396 The most interesting: Alma Mahler Werfel, And the Bridge Is Love, pp. 300–1.
397 Schoenberg apparently asked: Katia Mann, Unwritten Memories, pp. 123–4.
397 Schoenberg didn’t even: Hamilton, The Brothers Mann, pp. 350–5. Mann, The Story of a Novel, p. 36.
398 The ugly strike: Hearings before a Special Subcommittee on Education and Labor, pp. 44, 4.
398 What Kahan airily: New York Times, Feb. 17, 1946. Christian Science Monitor, July 19, 1947. New York Times, March 5, 1948.
399 While both Brewer: George H. Dunne, Hollywood Labor Dispute, pp. 26–7.
399 The first step: PM, Jan. 9, 1946. New York Times, Feb. 21, 1946; April 29, 1946.
399 Throughout all this: New York Times, July 2, 1946. Hearings, pp. 20–1. Time, July 15, 1946.
400 The most difficult: Dunne, Hollywood Labor Dispute, p. 28.
400 That report turned: Ibid., p. 29.
401 Now the carpenters: Ibid., p. 34.
401 Whether this represented: New York Times, Feb. 17, 1946; Sept. 27, 1946.
402 Then began an: Ronald Reagan and Richard C. Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me?, pp. 160, 170–1, 185, 200, 203.
402 Reagan’s committee included: Ibid., pp. 170, 175.
403 The membership of: Lou Cannon, Reagan, p. 76. Walter Goodman, The Committee: The Extraordinary Career of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, p. 180. A compendious and admirable work.
403 Important positions changed: Ibid., pp. 169, 186. Cabell Phillips, The Truman Presidency, p. 360.
404 In the narrow: New York Times, Nov. 16, 1946.
404 Sorrel later charged: New York Times, March 6, 1948.
405 Touhy naturally would: Dunne, Hollywood Labor Dispute, p. 35.
405 Then there were: New York Times, March 4, 1947. PM, March 5, 1947.
406 This question dragged: New York Times, Feb. 27, 1948.
406 By this time: New York Times, Feb. 27, 1948; March 6, 1948.
407 The end came: New York Times, Oct. 28, 1947.
407 So they all trickled: New York Times, April 1, 1951; Jan. 22, 1952; July 23, 1955.
408 “How could this man”: Charles Chaplin, Jr., My Father, Charlie Chaplin, p. 312. John McCabe, Charlie Chaplin, p. 210.
408 Chaplin had found: McCabe, Charlie Chaplin, p. 212. Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, p. 471.
408 Serious critics: Dwight Macdonald, On Movies, p. 118 (1981).
409 None of Chaplin’s: Roger Manvell, Chaplin, p. 204. Chaplin, My Autobiography, p. 473.
410 The censors listed: Chaplin, My Autobiography, pp. 474, 479, 481–4.
412 The New York premiere: Chaplin, My Autobiography, p. 489.
412n By Rankin’s standards: Goodman, The Committee, p. 173.
413 The next day: Film Comment, Winter 1969. The transcript of the entire press conference appears on pp. 34ff. Chaplin’s very inaccurate account is in his autobiography, pp. 486ff.
414 Agee praised: James Agee, Agee on Film, vol. 1, pp. 371–2, 252–3.
415 Monsieur Verdoux did well: Chaplin, My Autobiography, pp. 490–1.
416 Here is one last note: Author’s notes on a visit to Las Vegas.
9 Un-Americanism (1947).
419 Charles Laughton was: Bruce Cook, Brecht in Exile, p. 174.
419 And it was quite: James K. Lyon, Bertolt Brecht in America, p. 196. John Houseman, Front and Center, pp. 240–1.
420 That ambiguous night: Klaus Völcker, Brecht Chronicle, p. 87. Lyon, Brecht in America, pp. 72–5.
420 His only sale: Lyon, Brecht in America, pp. 104–5, 78, 102, 112.
421 The most important: Ibid., pp. 107ff. Cook, Brecht in Exile, pp. 165ff. Charles Higham, Charles Laughton, pp. 118–25.
421 Here it was: Bertolt Brecht, Poems, 1913–1956, p. 393.
422 Laughton’s acerbic wife: Elsa Lanchester, Elsa Lanchester Herself, p. 193. John Willett, ed., Brecht on Theatre, p. 166.
422 Laughton was proud: Brecht, Poems, p. 397.
422 Laughton and Brecht: Bertolt Brecht, Seven Plays, p. 398.
423 There is a theory: Frederic Ewen, Bertolt Brecht, pp. 340–1 (1969).
423 The first thing: Lyon, Brecht in America, pp. 171, 173–4. Brecht, Poems, p. 405.
424 Brecht’s journal: Houseman, Front and Center, p. 230.
424 Galileo’s crime?: Brecht, Seven Plays, pp. 398–400.
425 But Brecht was: Lyon, Brecht in America, pp. 176, 178–9, 184–5. Houseman, Front and Center, pp. 218ff.
426 Brecht, as usual: Abe Burrows, Honest Abe, p. 75.
427 That kind of dialogue: Lyon, Brecht in America, p. 186. Houseman, Front and Center, pp. 235–6, 238–9.
City of Nets Page 73