205 “seeking control of Lewislor”: Hollywood Citizen-News, 14 March 1958, 13.
205 “he agreed to relinquish”: Los Angeles Times, 8 April 1958, 88.
205 “He filed suit”: Los Angeles Mirror, 14 March 1958, 10.
205 “finally dismissed”: Los Angeles Times, 16 March 1966, D18.
205 “with Loretta receiving a dollar”: Los Angeles Times, 21 August 1969, C2.
205 “nice,” “tough”: Lewis, Uncommon Knowledge, 344–45.
205 “dreadful profession”: ibid., 296.
Chapter 21. The Road to Retirement
207 “estranged husband, “their estrangement”: Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 10 September 1962, D1.
208 “front-page news”: Los Angeles Times, 28 April 1957, 1.
208 “had assumed an aura”: Gregory Speck, “Loretta Young,” Interview, May 1987, 60.
209 “I must say,” “One could”: ibid., 63.
215 “shouting orders”: Los Angeles Times, 3 August 1962, C14.
215 “Dear Portland”: ibid.
216 “nothing dramatic happened”: ibid., 6 April 1965, 3.
216 “The case was resolved”: ibid, 17 April 1965.
Chapter 22. A New Life
219 “creative differences”: Los Angeles Times, 12 April 1985, 22.
220 “$559,000”: ibid., 18 January 1972, 3.
220 “a series of letters”: ibid., 24 January 1972, B6.
221 “depicts unnatural sex acts”: ibid., 2 August 1970, B2.
221 “The subject is me”: Chicago Tribune, 31 May 1985, 5.
222 “Each time I pass”: phone conversation with Donald Spoto, 11 May 2008.
222 “Oh! Don’t sit there!”: email from Dennis Dolph, former Sony executive and founder of Sony Pictures Classics, 2 January 2010.
222 “God gave me”: TV Guide, 16 May 1959, 19.
223 “career retrospective”: Los Angeles Times, 11 April 1981, D7.
223 “other than actresses”: Variety, 6 June 1988, 8.
223 “Ten of the sixteen”: Judith Mayne, Directed by Dorothy Arzner (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974), 204.
224 “You … bring your sensitivity”: Variety, 6 June 1988, 8.
224 “braided,” “demanding,” “So tonight”: Variety, 27 June 1988, Loretta Young Clippings File, Margaret Herrick Library.
225 “My belief”: Peter Swet, “The Secret Strength of Loretta Young,” Parade, 28 January 1990, 9.
227 “an awfully big adventure”: James M. Barrie, Peter Pan, in The Plays of J.M. Barrie (New York: Scribner’s, 1956 rpt.), 308.
228 “It took out”: Tom Green, “Loretta Young, Forever a Lady,” USA Today, 11 December 1989, 3D.
Chapter 23. The Last Reel
232 “strapless black satin gown”: Tom Gilatto and Anne Marie Otey, “The Gift of Garb,” People, 12 May 1997, 44.
234 “designed by Garrett Van Pelt”: Donald Spoto, “Loretta Young: The Farmer’s Daughter on Sunset Boulevard,” Architectural Digest, April 1994, 216–19.
234 “Tiffany lamps,” “silver crucifix”: Lena Williams, “At Home with Loretta Young, Life Waltzes On,” New York Times 30 March 1995, C3.
236 “supposedly did for other actresses”: conversation with former publicist Walter Seltzer, 31 May 2009.
237 “revealed the names,” “spelled the end”: Donald Stenn, Clara Bow, Runnin’ Wild (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000), 217, 222.
237 “The headline,” “Colorado senator”: Samantha Barbas, The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), 293, 296.
238 “elephant ears,” “Dumbo”: Lewis, Uncommon Knowledge, 144.
240 “the essence of Mama”: Jill Spalding, Only the Best (New York: Harry Abrams, 1985), Loretta Young Clippings File, Margaret Herrick Library.
241 “If I could talk,” “Daughter of Deception”: People, 18 April 1994, 54.
243 “Wyman converted to Catholicism”: Lawrence J. Quirk, Jane Wyman: The Actress and the Woman, An Illustrated Biography (New York: Dembner Books, 1986), 118, 119.
243 “She was my fairy godmother”: Bruce Fessier, “Loretta Young remembered as a special friend,” The Desert Sun, 17 August 2000, 1.
244 “she was ready to die”: ibid.
244 “on 7 October”: James Robert Parish, The Hollywood Book of the Dead (New York: Contemporary Books/McGraw-Hill, 2002), 247.
FILMOGRAPHY
C = Columbia Pictures
FN = First National
FFC = Fox Film Corporation
MGM = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
PAR = Paramount Pictures
RKO = RKO Radio Pictures
TC = Twentieth Century
TCF = Twentieth Century-Fox
UA = United Artists
U = Universal Pictures
UI = Universal-International
WB = Warner Bros.
* = uncredited
MAJOR RADIO APPEARANCES
Margaret Herrick Library,
Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study, Beverly Hills
Lux Radio Theatre (tapes)
Jezebel (25 November 1940)
The Lady from Cheyenne (16 June 1941)
The Great Lie (2 March 1942)
Algiers (14 December 1942)
The Philadelphia Story (14 June 1943)
And Now Tomorrow (21 May 1945)
Love Letters (22 April 1946)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (9 September 1946)
The Farmer’s Daughter (5 June 1948)
Paley Center for Media, Beverly Hills
Theodora Goes Wild (Campbell’s Playhouse, 14 June 1940)
Jane Eyre (Lux Radio Theatre, 5 June 1944)
Audio Classics Archive (Terry Salomonson, Audio Classics Archives,
P.O. Box 347, Howell MI, 48884-0347)
The Perfect Marriage (Screen Directors’ Playhouse, 20 March 1947)
Family Theatre
“Flight from Home” (13 February 1947)
“Dear Mr. American” (4 March 1948)
“The Happy Prince” (12 October 1949)
“The Littlest Angel” (21 December 1949, repeated 27 December 1950)
“The Treasury of Holmes” (14 February 1951, repeated 13 February 1957)
“Talk about the Weather” (24 October 1951)
“Heritage of Home” (13 February 1952, repeated 18 February 1953)
“Just for Tonight” (19 November 1952)
“The Longest Hour “ (1 July 1953)
“The Man Who Bought the Phone Company” (3 February 1954)
“The Hound of Heaven” (27 October 1954)
“The Outing” (9 September 1956)
OTRCAT.com (Old Time Radio Show Catalog). Note: MP3 format.
Lux Radio Theatre
Polly of the Circus (30 November 1936)
The Old Maid (30 October 1939)
China (22 November 1943)
The Farmer’s Daughter (5 January 1948)
The Accused (28 March 1949)
Everything for the Boys
Blithe Spirit (1943 or 1944)
MAJOR TELEVISION APPEARANCES
www.videocollection.com
The Loretta Young Show, Season 1 (1953–54). 30 episodes. 3 DVDs. KKMDY064433.
The Loretta Young Show, Season 2 (1954–55). 30 episodes. 3 DVDs. KKMDY067293.
The Loretta Young Show, Seasons 3 and 4 (1955–57). 30 episodes. 3 DVDs. KKMDY063445.
The New Loretta Young Show. 26 episodes (1962–63). 4 DVDs. KKVC1008453.
The Road to Lourdes and Other Miracles of Faith (“The Road,” “Three and Two Please,” “Sister Ann,” “Faith, Hope and Mr. Flaherty”) VCI Entertainment, 2007.
The Paley Center for Media, Beverly Hills, CA
The Loretta Young Show
“I Remember the Rani” (Season 1, 1 May 1955)
“The Pearl” (Season 3, 12 February 1956)
“Incident in India” (Season 6, 25 January 1959)
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“The Prettiest Girl in Town” (Season 6, 6 March 1959)
INDEX
Abbey of Regina Laudis, 155, 159–60
Abel, Michael, 160
Accused, The (1948), 141–43, 167
Aherne, Brian, 122, 132
Akins, Zoë, 90–91
Albert, Eddie, 141
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 212
Algiers (radio version), 174–75
Along Came Jones (1945), 124, 135–36, 146, 152
Ameche, Don, 65, 94–95, 96, 99–100, 109, 183, 186
And Now Tomorrow (1944), 133–34
Annabella, 69, 107
Arbuckle, Fatty, 74
Arliss, Florence, 60
Arliss, George, 58
Arthur, Jean, 141, 213
Arzner, Dorothy, 186, 223
Asther, Nils, 15, 16
Astor, Mary, 79
Awful Truth, The (1937), 120, 192
Baker, Norma Jean. See Monroe, Marilyn
Ball, Lucille, 186, 189
Barnes, Binnie, 104
Barrymore, Ethel, 146
Barthelmess, Richard, 36, 65
Baxter, Warner, 100, 101, 103, 104
Beau Ideal (1931), 24
Because of You (1952), 167–68
Bedtime Story (1941), 120–21
Belcher, Ernest, 119
Bells of St. Mary’s, The (1945), 157, 237
Belzer, George, 8–9
Belzer, Georgiana (half sister), 8
as Mrs. Ricardo Montalban, 111, 192
Bennett, Constance, 90
Bennett, Joan, 115, 129
Benson, Sally, 156
Bergman, Ingrid, 146, 237
Berkeley Square (1933), 44, 48
Beverly Wilshire Hotel, 222
Bickford, Charles, 147
Big Business Girl (1931), 28–29
Bishop’s Wife, The (1947), 69, 143–46
as postwar spiritual renewal film, 144–45
Blane, Sally, 3, 8–9, 11–12, 13, 111, 149, 150, 234, 244
Bleak House (Dickens), 86
Blithe Spirit (radio version), 177
Born to Be Bad (1934), 55–56, 69
Borzage, Frank, 3, 41–44, 115, 195
Bosco, Antoinette, 158
Bow, Clara, 237
Boyer, Charles, 57, 63, 65, 115, 175, 204
Breen, Joseph Ignatius, 73–74, 160–61
Brennan, Walter, 108, 109
Brenon, Herbert, 14, 15–16, 24, 222
Brent, George, 30, 79
Bridal Showcase International, 221–22
Brokow, Norman, 167, 203, 212, 219, 243
Brower, Otto, 107
Bruce, Virginia, 100–101, 132
Buckner, William R., 85–86
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934), 56–57
Burns and Allen Show, The (radio), 178–79
Busch, Niven, 194
Café Metropole (1937), 97–98
Cagney, James, 33, 34
Cain, James M., 103–4, 133
Calhern, Louis, 30
Call of the Wild, The (1935), 71–74, 163, 164, 209, 230
Campbell’s Playhouse, 173–74
Capra, Frank, 39–41, 43, 162, 194
Caravan (1934), 57–58
Career in C Major (Cain), 103–4
Casablanca (1942), 139
Cause for Alarm! (1951), 165–66
Champion, Marge, 119
Chandler, Jeff, 167, 168
Chandler, Raymond, 132–33
Chaney, Lon, 14–16
Channing, Carol, 243
Charral, Erik, 57
Cheat, The (1915), 6
China (1943), 126–27, 132
Christmas Eve (TV movie), 225–28
Christmas Holiday (radio version), 175–76
Church of the Good Shepherd, 183, 216, 232
Citizen Kane (1941), 137–38, 151
Clive of India (1935), 61–62
Cohn, Harry, 39, 42, 43, 54, 116, 231
relationship with Loretta, 116–17, 123
Colbert, Claudette, 6, 125, 127, 150, 153, 171, 203, 204
Colman, Ronald, 23, 61, 65, 143, 166
Columbia Pictures, 39, 41, 166, 186, 224, 231
Come to the Stable (1949), 125, 154–60
radio version, 185
Cooper, Gary, 65, 135
Cooper, Gladys, 145, 146, 155
Corey, Wendell, 140, 142
Cotten, Joseph, 138, 146, 148, 161, 162
Coward, Noël, 100, 177
Crain, Jeanne, 115
Crawford, Joan, 45, 127, 148, 168, 192, 213, 218, 222, 235–36
Crosby, Bing, 215
Crowther, Bosley, 123
Crusades, The (1936), 76–78
historical accuracy of, 76–77
Cukor, George, 74, 237
Cummings, Constance, 23, 143
Cummings, Robert, 142
Daniell, Henry, 89
Dark Shadows, 219
Dassin, Jules, 161, 186
Davis, Bette, 47, 79, 125, 127, 135, 150, 168, 170, 172, 213, 218, 235–36
deHavilland, Olivia, 218, 219
DeMille, Cecil B., 6, 75–78, 171
Desilu, 189
Devil to Pay, The (1930), 23, 143
Devil’s in Love, The (1933), 50–51
Dick, Douglas, 139, 142
Dieterle, William, 50, 51
Dietrich, Marlene, 143, 233
Dinelli, Mel, 163
“dish night,” 26
Dmytryk, Edward, 161
Doctor Takes a Wife, The (1940), 117–18
Double Indemnity (1944), 132, 133
Douglas, Melvyn, 17–18
Dunne, Irene, 156, 168, 173, 192, 203, 207, 213
Durbin, Deanna, 175–76
Dwan, Allan, 14, 107
Eagle Squadron (1942), 128–29
Elwes, Sir Simon, 240
Employees Entrance (1933), 35–36
Erwin, Stuart, 91, 92, 100
Everybody Does It (film and novella), 104
Everything for the Boys (radio show), 177
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 22, 24, 32, 65
Family Theatre, 181–85, 190–91, 231
Famous Players-Lasky, 5, 6, 48
Farmer’s Daughter, The (1947), 125, 146–48, 159, 168
Farrell, Glenda, 31
Fast, Howard, 151
Faye, Alice, 113
Ferguson, Helen, 187–88, 203
Field, Rachel, 132
Field, Virginia, 116, 141
Film Booking Office, 18–19
film editors, female, 223–24
First National, 10, 13, 16, 19, 20, 22
Fitzgerald, Geraldine, 129
Florey, Robert, 193–94, 195
Flynn, Errol, 237
Fonda, Henry, 109–10
Fontaine, Joan, 174, 202, 219
Ford, John, 105, 115
Forsythe, John, 169
Foster, Norman: as actor, 28, 150
as director, 150–51, 195
Four Men and a Prayer (1938), 105–6
Four-Star Playhouse, 185, 204
Fox, William, 63
Fox Film Corporation, 53
Freeland, Thornton, 29–30
Frings, Ketti, 142, 168
Frost, Lindsay, 228
Frye, William, 232
Gable, Clark, 29, 34, 65–66, 71–74, 76, 78, 92, 163, 164, 171, 209, 235, 236, 237, 241
Gabriel over the White House (1933), 114
Garbo, Greta, 20, 47, 135
Garnett, Tay, 96, 165, 196
Garson, Greer, 125, 127, 155
Gaynor, Janet, 90
George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The (TV), 200–201
Goetz, Edith, 135
Goetz, William, 54, 135
Going My Way (1944), 157, 199
Goldwyn, Samuel, 23, 24, 90, 138, 143
Grable, Betty, 112, 113
Grand Slam (1933), 51
Grant, Cary, 55, 69, 135, 144, 145, 192
Gr
eat Guns (1941), 221
Great Lie, The (radio version), 79
Greeks Had a Word for It, The (play and film), 90–91
Greene, Richard, 105, 108, 109
Half Angel (1951), 148, 154, 160–62
Hall, Alexander, 119, 120, 121
Hall, Gladys, 67
Hanalis, Blanche, 225–26, 232
Harlow, Jean, 40, 41
Hatchet Man, The (1932), 34–35, 199
Haver, June, 113
Hays, Will, 90–91
Hayward, Susan, 115, 129, 134, 148
Hayworth, Rita, 232
He Stayed for Breakfast (1940), 118–19
He Who Gets Slapped (1924), 14–15
Head, Edith, 126, 133, 142
Head Man (1928), 13, 14
Henie, Sonja, 69, 93–94, 107, 146
Hepburn, Audrey, 155
Hepburn, Katharine, 170, 172, 173
Her Wild Oat (1927), 10
Heroes for Sale (1933), 36–38, 45
Hill, Arthur, 226, 227
His Girl Friday (1940), 120
Hitchcock, Alfred, 136, 138, 212–13
Holden, William, 150, 151, 175
Holleran, Dr. Walter, 80, 81, 88
Holliday, Judy, 150, 233, 237
Hollywood, corporate, 228
Hollywood Hotel (radio show), 83
Holm, Celeste, 155, 157
Holy Cross Cemetery, 244
Hopkins, Miriam, 140
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 151
House of Rothschild, The (1934), 59–61
Howard, Trevor, 226, 227
Hughes, Howard, 163
Hussey, Ruth, 183
Huston, John, 137, 138
Huston, Walter, 65
I Like Your Nerve (1931), 24–25
I Love Lucy, 186
International Pictures: films of, 135
merger with Universal, 135
It Happens Every Thursday (1953), 168–69
Jack Benny Show, The, 187
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 94–95
Jane Eyre (radio version), 174
Jane Wyman Show, The, 243
Jean-Louis, 232–34
Johnson, Nunnelly, 136
Johnson, Van, 154, 155, 202
Jones, Jennifer, 125, 155, 175
Jory, Victor, 50, 140
June Allyson Show, The, 214
Karloff, Boris, 59, 63
Kaye, Celia, 216
Keith, Brian, 223
Keller, Harry, 195–96
Kennedy, Joseph P., 18–19, 20
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