His first sex had been: FML, 29.
“is made to look delighted”: Haskell, 150.
head shot: Brooke Hayward Papers.
“Casa Gangrene”: FML, 70–71; Brough, 52.
“stooging”: Hayward interview transcript.
Inspector Enderby: Portsmouth Herald, 9/6/1932.
“a sentimental romance”: Barnard Bulletin, 10/21/1932.
Forsaking All Others: www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=11729.
Love Story: Sweeney, 176.
All Good Americans: FML, 77; www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=11804.
Mr. Goldfarb: FML, 73.
“a potpourri”: New York Times, 2/22/1985.
“Finances had to be pooled”: Piqua Daily Call, 5/4/1934.
“lacks pace”: “The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan,” Time, 3/2/1934; available at www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,747250,00.html.
“a fairly witty”: San Antonio Daily News, 4/1/1934.
March through July 1934: http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=11849.
Dwight Deere Wiman: FML, 84–85.
Henry introduces Hayward: Hayward interview transcript.
“Hayward has the agent’s habit”: Margaret Case Harriman, “Profiles: Hollywood Agent,” The New Yorker, 7/11/1936, 24.
“It wasn’t my ambition”: FML, 85; Hayward, 134–35.
Walter Wanger: Bernstein.
Wanger would introduce Siegel: Bernstein, 163; David Weddle, “If They Move … Kill ‘Em!”: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah (New York: Grove, 1994), 109, 116.
“a fine and daring producer”: Bernstein, 123.
“a daring experimenter”: ibid., 128.
“one of the fanciest”: Otis Ferguson, The Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1971), 265.
“I could go back”: Hayward, 135.
Henry will not recall him warmly: PB, 118.
Joel McCrea or Gary Cooper: Cole and Farrell, 21.
loan-out fee: FML, 95.
star gets approval: Bernstein, 112.
“I had no ambition”: PB, 118.
The President Vanishes: Bernstein, 97.
“Wouldn’t he be wonderful”: Roberts and Goldstein, 44.
“He was patently ideal”: Brough, 58.
the good sense to compliment Connelly: FML, 87.
“a manly, modest performance”: Cole and Farrell, 21.
“an extraordinarily simple”: ibid.
“will be transferred”: Syracuse Herald, 11/8/1934.
warned by the director, Victor Fleming: FML, 97–98.
dies in Omaha: Lincoln Star, 10/8/1934. To make it worse, the notice identifies Herberta’s son as “Harry Fonda of New York.” See also FML, 88–89.
Henry rents a bungalow with Jimmy Stewart: FML, 99–102; Michael Wilmington, “Small-Town Guy,” Film Comment, March–April 1990, 52.
Martin bomber: FML, 99.
Ross Alexander and Aleta Freel: ibid., 96.
Freel shoots herself: San Antonio Express, 12/8/1935.
“The day following”: Waterloo Daily Courier, 12/10/1935.
Ronald Reagan: Ronald Reagan, Reagan: A Life in Letters, ed. Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson (New York: Free Press, 2003), 30–31.
“a generation of favorites”: Thomson, The Whole Equation, 154.
“Youth is a time”: Houghton, 259.
4. THE BIG SOUL
“The only actor of the era”: Baldwin, 21.
“first conscious calculation”: ibid., 28.
Shirley Ross: Middlesboro Daily News, 10/31/1935; http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743841/; FML, 98.
“Henry Fonda says it is”: San Mateo Times, 3/21/1936.
“One of the most personable”: Cooke, ed., 72.
He lodges at: HF to Sullavan, 7/1/1936, Brooke Hayward Papers.
She is related by marriage: New York Times, 8/24/1936.
“an alcoholic”: Andersen, 23.
“a part-time poet”: Guiles, 4.
paranoid schizophrenic: MLSF, 25.
She claimed to have been molested: ibid., 26.
Clare Boothe: Andersen, 24.
“descend on Wall Street”: MLSF, 28.
an impatient Frances suggesting to Brokaw: Guiles, 4.
cash bequest: FML, 119.
yearly income in excess: New York Times, 11/9/1935.
“When a woman”: Guiles, 4.
“I’ve always gotten”: MLSF, 37.
“Dearest Peggy”: HF to Sullavan, 7/1/1936, Brooke Hayward Papers. (Dating contradicts sources that say HF did not leave for England until 7/10.)
“THEY’LL BE MARRIED”: Lowell Sun, 8/24/1936.
a reception: New York Times, 9/9/1936; FML, 118.
“blundering fool”: HF to Sullavan, 9/9/1936, Brooke Hayward Papers.
The wedding: New York Times, 9/17/1936.
“Mrs. Robert Kane”: Waterloo Sunday Courier, 10/4/1936.
Fonda admits that he has begun to secede: FML, 120.
“expressed certain feelings”: Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 49–50.
“I was barely aware”: PB, 102.
“In a way”: Baldwin, 25.
“And because they were lonely”: Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 264.
“The right to be let alone”: Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, “The Right to Privacy,” Harvard Law Review, 12/15/1890, 193.
“the America of the murders and rapes”: Wilson, Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and 40s, 519.
Blockade (1938): Bernstein, 129–32.
“The story does not attempt”: John Walker, ed., Halliwell’s Film Guide 1994 (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), 137.
“I have read a book”: Port Arthur News, 1/21/1940.
was sold, days after publication: Fresno Bee, 4/21/1939.
“The shadow”: Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 187.
“Maybe all men”: ibid., 33.
“an organization of the unconscious”: ibid., 135.
“They’s stuff”: ibid., 236–37.
“people in flight”: ibid., 166.
5. WAYS OF ESCAPE
“Death in the guise”: Percy, 313.
she especially wants a boy: Andersen, 28; MLSF, 41.
leaping with excitement: FML, 121.
provision written into: FML, 122–23.
“Dad was so emotionally distant”: MLSF, 50.
“Protestant rages”: ibid.
“We were all afraid”: Brough, 80.
“children, operations”: Kiernan, 20; Anderson, 28–29.
“quarantined”: FML, 124.
Bell Telephone: Hayward interview transcript.
purchase the property: FML, 133; MLSF, 49.
“in increments”: DTD, 8.
“a bare hill”: Hayward interview transcript.
“In those days”: Hayward, 138.
“Probably the most carefully planned home”: Marva and Lloyd Shearer, “The Fondas’ Formula for Successful Living,” House Beautiful, July 1948, 40.
the styling of the house: Ross and Ross, 93.
she retreats for three weeks: Andersen, 32; FML, 134.
he left his virginity: Gussow, 11.
“a little melodrama”: ibid., 57.
“would transform himself”: Custen, 227.
“divided allegiance”: Gussow, 21.
“Henry Fonda is fast becoming”: Syracuse Herald, 11/20/1939.
“We intend to follow”: Gussow, 84.
“one casting decision”: Custen, 233.
recounting their meeting: FML, 128–29.
“I know I’m bad”: Ogden Standard-Examiner, 7/7/1940.
“certainly not entertainment”: Custen, 273.
“high pressure salesmanship”: Syracuse Herald-Journal, 7/14/1943.
“Did you ever hear”: Clark, 146–47.
“What is the conscience”: ibid., 66–67.
“I’ll be glad”: ibid., 309.
“I was a typical eager beaver�
�: PB, 118.
staged fight: Galveston Daily News, 12/5/1941.
Whether Roosevelt foresaw: Costello, 607–8; Vidal, The Last Empire, 448–56, 457–65.
“shared disbelief”: Costello, 608.
“an escape”: Axel Madsen, William Wyler: The Authorized Biography (New York: Crowell, 1973), 258.
“He was genuinely patriotic”: MLSF, 51.
“I’d like to be with the fellows”: Charleston Gazette, 8/25/1942.
“Without the usual Hollywood fanfare”: ibid.
“It has been my desire”: Wisconsin State Journal, 8/25/1942.
“I won World War II”: FML, 138.
Henry finishes third in the class: F. S. Crosley to Lt. Cmdr. H. V. Bird, 8/25/1943, HF’s military file.
on the USS Satterlee: FML, 143.
sworn in as a lieutenant: ibid., 144.
joint intelligence among the service branches: James D. Marchio, “Days of Future Past: Joint Intelligence in World War II,” Joint Forces Quarterly (Spring 1996): 116–23.
“should have had experience”: Crosley to Bird, 8/25/1943, HF’s military file.
“demonstrates officer-like qualities”: ibid.
“[I]t has been determined”: ibid.
“there was a favorable atmosphere”: Melville C. Branch, Planning and the Human Condition: Conceptual Development, Prospective Conclusions (Lincoln, NE: Writer’s Showcase, 2002), 13.
company’s drill instructor: FML, 144.
“Lieutenant (junior grade) Fonda”: Cmdr. E. K. Zitzewitz, Officer Fitness Report, 11/2–12/23/1943, HF’s military file.
graduates fourth: Crosley to Bird, 8/25/1943, HF’s military file.
“That impressed”: PB, 120.
USS Curtiss: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, available at www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c16/curtiss.htm.
“Officers pored over”: Thomas, 155.
“our doctor has had to order him”: Del Rio News-Herald, 3/15/1945.
“Lieutenant Fonda”: El Paso Herald-Post, 4/23/1948.
“How many of us would have been killed”: Terkel, 47.
“It was an eerie sight”: FML, 158.
“keen intelligence”: memo, Office of U.S. Pacific Fleet, Commander Marianas, 8/18/1945, HF’s military file.
“operating in the Southern Ryukyus Islands”: Office of Public Information report; available at www.usscurtiss.com.
on shore leave: FML, 158.
Enola Gay: Timothy Luke, Museum Politics: Power Plays at the Exhibition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 25.
Fonda knows, though not clearly: FML, 159.
“sort of took me back”: PB, 120.
an estimated 140,000 people: Douglas Holdstock and Frank Barnaby, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Retrospect and Prospect (London: Frank Cass, 1995), 2.
receiving the Bronze Star: Council Bluffs Nonpareil, 8/13/1945; Stars and Stripes, 8/14/1945.
The Navy Hour: Sweeney, 219–20.
resigns his commission: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas S. Gates, Jr., to HF, 12/11/1953, HF’s military file.
“Reactions to combat stress”: Michael Sturma, The USS Flier: Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2008), 154.
“Peter lost it”: PB, 120.
“Mrs. Henry Fonda is off”: San Antonio Light, 11/10/1944.
“Mrs. Henry Fonda”: ibid., 12/18/1944.
affairs while Henry was at war: FML, 155.
a man named Joe: MLSF, 23–24.
the man recalled by Peter: DTD, 10.
Frances begins administering the household: FML, 173.
Barbara Thompson: Dunkirk Evening Observer, 7/14/1943; Lima News, 7/14/1943; Nevada State Journal, 7/14/1943; Yuma Daily Sun, 7/14/1943; Lowell Sun, 7/15/1943; Port Arthur News, 7/15/1943; Ogden Standard-Examiner, 7/16/1943; Sheboygan Press, 7/20/1943; Modesto Bee, 9/7/1943; Long Beach Independent, 10/5/1943; Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin, 10/20/1943; Yuma Daily Sun, 12/3/1946.
“my father began having affairs”: MLSF, 50.
quoted an anonymous friend: FML, 121.
“They say his domestic affairs”: Wisconsin State Journal, 8/28/1945.
“angrily [denying] the divorce”: Uniontown Morning Herald, 9/26/1945.
Louella Parsons says: Modesto Bee, 11/10/1945.
“lies in the fertilizer”: Berkshire Evening Eagle, 7/3/1948.
“was seriously into making”: DTD, 16.
“the hottest”: Ironwood Daily Globe, 10/21/1946.
April through June of 1946: McBride, 435.
“I screamed and yelled”: DTD, 28–29. See also FML, 173–74.
“In those days”: FML, 167.
stories of routine transgressions: DTD, 13–14. See also FML, 167.
“a very difficult man”: DTD, 17.
“Death in the guise”: This and subsequent quotes from the book are from Percy, 313–14.
6. A SORT OF SUICIDE
Fort Apache: Wills, 175–76; William Darby, John Ford’s Westerns: A Thematic Analysis, with a Filmography (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996), Chapter 6.
“mythopathic moment”: Herr, 47–48.
Tigertail pasture: FML, 171–72; DTD, 20–21.
has gotten Fox to increase: Dennis McDougal, The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood (New York: Da Capo, 2001 [1998]), 117.
“I look forward”: Ironwood Daily Globe, 10/21/1946.
“the Burbank of Brentwood”: Statesville Daily Record, 1/11/1947.
“Deftly, she tried”: Joplin Globe, 7/29/1947.
“a city slicker”: Ogden Standard-Examiner, 9/21/1947.
“the wonderman of the musical stage”: E. J. Kahn, Jr., “Profiles: The Tough Guy and the Soft Guy—II,” The New Yorker, 4/11/1953, 65.
Here it is, he says: Logan, 207; FML, 4.
“I was”: Gay Talese, Fame and Obscurity (New York: Dell, 1986), 104.
Mr. Roberts previews: Logan, 212.
“a gilt-edged investment”: Nevada State Journal, 2/13/1948.
“There were too many curtain calls”: Logan, 216.
“standing on their seats”: PB, 123.
The next day’s critical acclaim: Logan, 216; Uniontown Morning Herald, 3/9/1948; Cumberland Sunday Times, 2/22/1948; John Lardner, “Roberts for President,” The New Yorker, 2/28/1948, 48.
“bettering by several thousand”: Leggett, 398.
Antoinette Perry Award: New York Times, 3/29/1948.
Atkinson will estimate: New York Times, 5/21/1950.
“He always wanted”: E. J. Kahn, Jr., “Profiles: The Tough Guy and the Soft Guy—I,” The New Yorker, 4/4/1953, 62.
“He’ll never be seduced”: ibid., 61–62.
Heggen has told Logan: Logan, 207.
“There are people”: Heggen, 211.
Both are: Leggett, 279.
“feeling, carried since his teens”: ibid., 315.
“feeling selfish”: Uniontown Morning Herald, 3/9/1948.
By April, a house: Wisconsin State Journal, 4/9/1948.
Pecksland Road: Brough, 101.
destroyed in the worst brush fire: FML, 277–78; Long Beach Independent, 11/7/1961.
Jane evokes Charles Addams: MLSF, 9.
“musky, attic-like”: DTD, 36.
“unknown darkness”: ibid., 41.
Peter contracts pneumonia: DTD, 38, 42; Portland Press Herald, 7/30/1949.
“Dad asked me”: MLSF, 10. See also FML, 187–88.
Henry moves to the nearby town: Portland Press Herald, 7/30/1949.
he buys each of his kids: Logansport Press, 3/5/1948.
“She began to feel”: FML, 188.
“there”: DTD, 38.
Frances informs him: FML, 190.
Austen Riggs Center: www.austenriggs.org. See also Lawrence S. Kubie, M.D., The Riggs Story: The Development of the Austen Riggs Center for the Study and Treatment of the Neuroses (New York: Paul D. Hoeber, 1960).
“special hotels
”: Chesler, 34.
Margaret Sullavan will experience: Hayward, 19.
“Perhaps”: Chesler, 35.
Susan Blanchard: Collier, 79–80.
becomes engaged: ibid., 79.
disturbed by the approach of grandmotherhood: FML, 195.
“floating” kidney: Guiles, 33.
Tom Heggen’s body is found: New York Times, 5/20/1949.
“I do know”: Logan, 253.
“I don’t much like”: Leggett, 283.
He was earning: New York Times, 5/20/1949.
“The most terrible enemy”: Heggen and Logan, 159–60.
“They just cut me”: Guiles, 33.
“my better half”: ibid., 34.
socializing at the Stork Club: Aiken Standard and Review, 7/6/1949.
asks her for a divorce: FML, 195–96.
“The shock of Hank”: DTD, 43.
“I could see”: Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (New York: Bantam, 1972 [1971]), 104–5.
she has a new will: Guiles, 40.
lapses into psychosis: FML, 197–98; MLSF, 15.
Frances returns to Riggs: FML, 198.
Pan gives birth: Joplin Globe, 12/14/1949.
“Pan lost her baby”: Collier, 79.
“She seemed all right”: DTD, 43.
“as soon as it is legally possible”: New York Journal American, 12/29/1949.
Kilgallen has gotten the scoop: Guiles, 37.
Craig House: FML, 199–200.
Zelda Fitzgerald: Matthew J. Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2nd rev. ed. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002 [1981]), 361.
“I wanted to do everything”: Plath, 105.
improvements in her condition: FML, 202.
Frances takes a day trip home: DTD, 44.
“I’m very sorry”: San Mateo Times, 4/15/1950.
suicide verdict is summarily entered: Salt Lake Tribune, 4/15/1950.
ashes interred: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9795853.
“She was making a wonderful recovery”: San Mateo Times, 4/15/1950.
Brooke Hayward’s insistence: Hayward, 18.
“Probably”: PB, 122.
his own sober decision: FML, 205–6.
“too numb”: PB, 122.
“apparently killed herself”: San Mateo Times, 4/15/1950.
“pale with fatigue”: Kingston Daily Freeman, 4/15/1950.
“He was even sharper”: ibid.
performance is essentially identical: FML, 206.
“He went on”: Norman, 86.
“I think he didn’t know”: ibid.
“When [Fonda]”: Collier, 83.
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