by Lorna Luft
CHAPTER FOUR:
A STAR IS REBORN
1. Janet Staiger, “The Logic of Alternative Readings: A Star Is Born” in Staiger, Interpreting Films (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992), 154–177.
2. Judy Garland, “Judy Garland’s Own Story: There’ll Always Be an Encore, Part II,” McCall’s 91, no. 5 (February 1964): 178.
3. Henry Pleasants, The Great American Popular Singers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974), 286.
4. George Cukor to Gene Allen in a letter dated January 25, 1979, Gene Allen papers, file 172, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
5. Sid Luft, Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2017), 449.
6. Finch, 201.
7. Ronald Haver, A Star Is Born: The Making of the 1954 Movie and Its 1983 Restoration (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 255.
8. David Denby, “A Star Comes Back,” New York (July 25, 1983): 67.
9. Haver, 274.
10. Ibid.
11. Gerald Clarke, Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (New York: Random House, 2000), 327.
12. Janet Maslin, “Restoration: Save It for the Loveable Movies,” New York Times (August 28, 1983): H15.
13. Luft, 300.
14. Mickey Rooney, interview with Jeffrey Vance, 2010.
15. Margaret O’Brien, interview with Jeffrey Vance, 2010.
16. Angela Lansbury, interview with Jeffrey Vance, 2010.
17. Lauren Bacall, interview with Jeffrey Vance, 2010.
18. John Fricke, Judy Garland: A Legendary Film Career (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2010), 313.
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AUTHOR’S INTERVIEWS
Gene Allen, interview with Jeffrey Vance, 2010.
Lauren Bacall, interview with Jeffrey Vance, 2010.
Tony Bennett, interview with Jeffrey Vance, 2010.
Leslie Caron, interview with Jeffrey Vance, 2011.
Carleton Carpenter, interview with Jeffrey Vance, 2011.
Olivia de Havilland, interview with Jeffrey Vance, 2011.
Norman Jewison, interview with Jeffrey Vance, 2011.