Goldwyn

by A. Scott Berg

  NATIONAL CRISIS AND STEN’S PAY CUT: Balio, United Artists, pp. 97—9; carbon copy of letter from Arch Reeve to Charles E. McCarthy of Fox Film Corp., sent to SG, Mar. 8, 1933; SG to AL (T), Mar. 9, 1933; AL to SG (T), Mar. 9, 1933; AL to SG (T), Mar. 10, 1933; SG to AL (T), Mar. 11, 1933; Anna Sten to SG, Mar. 11, 1933; SG to Anna Sten (T), Mar. 13, 1933; Anna Sten to SG, Mar. 15, 1933; AL to SG (T), Mar. 16, 1933; AL to SG (T), Mar. 17, 1933; AL to Anna Sten (T), Mar. 21, 1933.

  PROMOTION OF ANNA, PRODUCTION OF NANA: SG to Lynn Farnol (IOC), Jan. 20, 1933; Lynn Farnol to SG (IOC), Jan. 24, 1933; Condé Nast to SG, Jan. 18, 1934; Oppenheimer, View, pp. 109—11; Kobal, People, p. 135; AL to Robert Fairbanks, Sept. 19, 1933; Gersdorf, “Passionate Peasant,” part 5, pp. 1—5; GC to E. J. Mannix, Sept. 8, 1933; GC to ASB (I), Nov. 27, 1981; Gerald Peary and Karyn Kay, “Interview with Dorothy Arzner” in The Work of Dorothy Arzner: Towards a Feminist Cinema, ed. Claire Johnston (London: British Film Institute, 1975), pp. 19—29; “Dorothy Arzner Is Dead at 82,” New York Times, Oct. 12, 1979, sec. II, p. 79; Mollie Merrick, “Goldwyn Has Faith in Soviet Actress,” Buffalo Evening News, Oct. 21, 1933; “SG’s Bright New Star from Red Russia!” brochure, Department of Advertising and Publicity, United Artists Corporation; the Sten advertisements with a different adjective each day ran in the Los Angeles Timer and the Herald, Feb. 22—28, 1934; SG to AL (T), Jan. 16, 1934; SG to William Randolph Hearst (T), Jan. 19, Feb. 5, 1934; W. R. Hearst to SG (T), Feb. 6, 1934; SG to AL (T), Feb. 1, 1934; Alfred Newman to SG (T), Feb. 2, 1934; SG to Alfred Newman, Feb. 5, 1934; AL to SG (DL), Feb. 6, 1934; Literary Digest, Feb. 17, 1934, p. 47; the story about Zola’s heirs appeared in Hollywood Reporter, May 18, 1934, p. 1.

  WE LIVE AGAIN: SG to John Balaban of Balaban & Katz Corp., May 17, 1934; SG to Leland Hayward (T), Dec. 2, 1933; Leland Hayward to SG, Dec. 30, 1933; Sidney Howard to Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Mar. 16, 1933; George Oppenheimer to SG (IOC), Dec. 13, 1933; SG to George Oppenheimer (IOC), Dec. 16, 1933; “Tolstoi’s Heirs Can’t Complain,” undated newspaper clipping; “Cinema,” Time, Nov. 12, 1934, p. 42; Rouben Mamoulian to ASB (I), May 15, 1984; Willard Mack to SG, n.d. (c. Jan. 1, 1934); Willard Mack to SG, Jan. 14, 1934; Willard Mack to SG, “Wednesday,” n.d. (c. Feb. 1, 1934); James Curtis, Between Flopr (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982), pp. 95—6; Sidney Howard to SG (T), June 5, 1934; Oppenheimer, View, pp. 111—12; laundry list of writers’ requests appears in Nancy Lynn Schwartz, The Hollywood Writers’ Wars (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), p. 30; “Preview—We Live Again,” Variety, Sept. 22, 1934; GC to ASB (I), Nov. 27, 1981.

  THE WEDDING NIGHT: Edwin Knopf to ASB (I), June 1, 1980; AL to SG (IOC), Aug. 22, 1934; KV, A Tree, pp. 205, 207—9; Rocky Cooper Converse to ASB (I), June 14, 1984; KV to ASB (I), June 11, 1980; Newsweek, Mar. 23, 1935, p. 29; Paul Holt, “Anna Sten Walks Out,” London Daily Express, May 21, 1935 , p. 1; Kobal, People, pp. 140—41; Rouben Mamoulian to ASB (I), May 15, 1984.

  GOLDWYNS AT HOME: GC to ASB (I), Nov. 27, 1981; FG’s secretary to Cartier, Oct. 27, 1932; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 17, 20, 1983, Mar. 7, 1984; Anna Sten to ASB (I), Oct. 25, 1980; SG to Richard Jaeckel of H. Jaeckel & Sons, Nov. 19, 26, 1934; SG to Jules Glaenzer of Cartier (T), Apr. 14, 1937; Rocky Cooper Converse to ASB (I), June 14, 1984; FG, “Dear Sam: Do You Remember?,” p. 81; FG, menu books; SG’s secretary, “Guest list—New Years Eve party—December 31, 1935”; Katharine Hepburn to ASB (I), Apr. 8, 1983; Dorothy Hirshon to ASB (I), June 12, 1984; William S. Paley to ASB (I), June 13, 1983; Averell Harriman to ASB (I), May 3, 1982; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 15, 1981; F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1941), p. 3; Hilde Berl Halpern to ASB (I), Sept. 7, 1980; Neill Lehr to ASB (I), July 13, 1983; SGJ is quoted in ”The risky business of Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.,“ Women’s Wear Daily, Feb. 20, 1986, p. 16; Mary Ellin Barrett to ASB (I), Oct. 1, 1980.

  MUSICALS AND ROMAN SCANDALS: “SG will make a radical departure ... ,” press release, c. 1932; transcript of interview between Howard Teichman and SG, May 2, July 17, 1962; George S. Kaufman to SG, Jan. 10, 1932; John Mason Brown, Sherwood, p. 297; “Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, Robert Sherwood, Plaintiff, against SG, Inc., Defendant,” Jan. 8, 1934; identical papers were filed with George S. Kaufman as plaintiff; SG to Charles Schwartz, May 26, 1933; George S. Kaufman to SG, Oct. 19, 1933; SG to George S. Kaufman, Oct. 30, 1933; Oppenheimer, View, pp. 91, 99—103; SG to Louella Parsons, May 18, 1933; Lucille Ball to ASB (I), June 5, 1980; SG to Lynn Farnol (IOC), Dec. 1, 1933; Cantor, Take My Life, p. 160; “Memorandum of substance of conversations between Mr. Goldwyn, Mr. Berkeley and Mr. Zanuck,” n.d.; Bruce Humberstone to ASB (I), Mar. 11, 1984; “Two Producers Quit Hays Group,” New York Times, Oct. 24, 1933, p. 23; “Assails Salary Stand,” Variety, Oct. 27, 1933, pp. 1, 6; “My resignation from the Association of Motion Picture Producers ... ,” press release, c. Oct. 28, 1933; SGJ to ASB (I), Feb. 21, 1988; JS to SG, Apr. 10, 1934.

  KID MILLIONS: Eddie Cantor to SG (T), Feb. 24, 1934; SG to Eddie Cantor, Feb. 26, 1934; Cantor, Take My Life, p. 160; Oppenheimer, View, pp. 97—8; Ethel Merman (with George Eells), Merman, an Autobiography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978), pp. 65—66; Eddie Cantor to SG, Nov. 26, Dec. 6, 1934.

  STRIKE ME PINK AND CANTOR RIFT: Merman, Merman, p. 77—78; Cantor, Take My Life, pp. 160—61; SG to Eddie Cantor (T), Jan. 22, 1935; Eddie Cantor to SG (T), Jan. 23, Sept. 14, 1935; SG to Eddie Cantor, Sept. 14, 1935.

  DARK ANGEL, OBERON, AND KORDA: SG to Murray Silverstone (T), Dec. 18, 1934; a source who swears he paid $100 to spend the night with Merle Oberon and who wishes to remain anonymous, to ASB (I), 1980; Charles Higham and Roy Moseley, Princess Merle: The Romantic Life of Merle Oberon (New York: Coward-McCann, 1983), pp. 17—26; Michael Korda, Charmed Lives (New York: Random House, 1979), pp, 17—24; 35—47, 51, 78—89; JS to SG (T), Aug. 7, 1934; FG and SG to JS (T), Aug. 7, 1934; RGC to ASB (I), Oct. 13, 1979; Merle Oberon to Alexander Korda (T), Jan. 11, 1935; Merle Oberon to SG (T), Feb. 13, 1935; Merle Oberon to Alexander Korda (T), Mar. 6, 1935; JS to SG (T), Jan. 17, 1935; SG to Alexander Korda (T), Jan. 11, 1935; JS to SG, Jan. 30, 1935; Alexander Korda to Merle Oberon (T), Mar. 5, 1935; Alexander Korda to SG (T), Jan. 16, 1935; SG to Alexander Korda (T), Mar. 6, 1935; Alexander Korda to SG (T), Mar. 9, 1935; SG to JS (unsent), Mar. 12, 1935; JS to SG, Mar. 14, 1935; Alexander Korda to SG (R), Oct. 4, 1935; SG to Alexander Korda (T), Oct. 7, 1935; Alexander Korda to SG (T), Jan. 4, 8, 1936; two worksheets, headed “Our Proposal” and “Korda’s Proposal”; Al Kaufman of Myron Selznick & Co., Inc., to SG, Aug. 14, 1936; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 16, 1981; Lillian Hellman, Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time (Boston: Little, Brown, 1979), pp. 466—67; Sidney Franklin to SG (T), Mar. 11, 1935; JAM to SG (IOC), Jan. 14, 1935; the director who said “Goldwyn wanted everything clean about Merle ...” WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981.

  OTHER NEW PLAYERS AND BARBARY COAST: SG, (UN) for interview, Dec. 8, 1952; David Niven, The Moon’s a Balloon (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1972), pp. 183—93; Joseph I. Breen to SG, Aug. 27, 1934, in which he points out: “The ruling of the Code ... is quite clear—‘Sexual immorality ... should never be introduced as subject matter unless absolutely essential to the plot.... It must not be presented as attractive and beautiful ... and it must not be made to seem right and permissible ...”; Joel McCrea to ASB (I), Apr. 30, 1980; Robinson, Yesterdays, pp. 156—61; Joseph McBride, Hawks on Hawks (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), pp. 106—9; Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur to SG (T), June 14, 1935.

  ACADEMY AWARDS: Osborne, 50 Golden Years, pp. 10—11, 15; Marion, Off with Their Heads!, p. 241; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 20, 1983.

  THE GAY DECEPTION: Joel McCrea to ASB (I), Apr. 30, 1980.

  15 “THE GOLDWYN TOUCH”

  ww: Joel McCrea to ASB (I), May 13, 1980; WW to ASB (1), APR. 1, 1980; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 15, 1981; Axel Madsen, William Wyler (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1973), p. 116.

  SIGNING LH AND THESE THREE: Richard Layman, Shadow Man: The Lif
e of Dashiell Hammett (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981), p. 135; LH, Three, pp. 456, 465—66, 467—68; A Code to Govern the Making of Motion and Talking Pictures (New York: Motion Picture Association of America, 1948), p. 7; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 15, 1981; Joseph I. Breen to SG, July 31, 1935; Frank S. Nugent, review of These Three, New York Times, Mar. 29, 1936, p. 22; WW to ASB (I), Apr. 1, 1980; Thalberg’s reference to WW as “Worthless Willy” was often told by SG to SGJ, who related it to ASB (I), Oct. 26, 1983; “Agreement” between WW and SG, Sept. 19, 1935; “Agreement” between LH and SG, Jan. 4, 1936; Hecht, A Child, p. 482. GOLDWYN STAFF AND “GOLDWYN TOUCH”: LH, p. 468; Scott Meredith, George S. Kaufman and His Friends (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974), pp. 193—94; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 20, 1983; WW to ASB (I), Apr. 1, 1980; Johnston, Great Goldwyn, pp. 15, 23; LH, Three, p. 468; SGJ to ASB (I), Mar. 7, 1984.

  MAKING THESE THREE: Merritt Hulburd to SG (IOC), Oct. 30, 1935; WW to ASB (I), Apr. 1, 1980; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 16, 1981; Madsen, Wyler, p. 137; Joel McCrea to ASB (I), Apr. 30, May 13, 1980; Daniel Mandell to ASB (I), May 5, 1980.

  The anecdote whose punch line is “Since when are we making pictures for kids?” is one of the most popular Goldwyn stories, told by many people who claimed to have been there when SG said it. Garson Kanin said it occurred during the making of Dead End; director Henry Hathaway remembered Goldwyn’s saying it to him during the making of The Real Glory; SGJ recalls a similar scene during the making of The Adventurer of Marco Polo. Alfred Newman to SG (IOC), Feb. 22, 1936; Graham Greene, “These Three,” The Spectator, May 1, 1936.

  UNITED ARTISTS POWER SHIFT: Balio, United Artists, pp. 125, 127—41; Irving Thalberg to SG and Mary Pickford, Feb. 7, 1936; David Rose to ASB (I), July 26, 1983; Fortune research files, for article on SG and UA published Dec. 1940.

  SG’S SEARCH FOR MATERIAL: “Memo: From G.B.S. to S.G.,” unidentified clipping, poss. Variety, Sept. 27, 1936; George Bernard Shaw to Mary Grey, Oct. 25, 1932; SG to Murray Silverstone (T), Oct. 31, 1934; SG to Murray Silverstone (T), Oct. 11, 1934; SG to George Bernard Shaw, Aug. 6, Sept. 14, 1936; Oppenheimer, View, pp. 112—14; unsigned (M), “Marco Seeks ‘Oz’ Yarns for Screen,” discussed purchase price by SG; Moss Hart to SG (T), Oct. 18, 1933; Vincent Youmans to SG (T), Mar. 15, 1934.

  COME AND GET IT: Edna Ferber to SG (T), Oct. 28, 1936; Julie Goldsmith Gilbert, Ferber (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978), p. 332; many of Miss Ferber’s feelings about the script appear in Merritt Hulburd to SG (IOC), Nov. 6, 1935; McBride, Hawks, pp. 10, 78, 96—8; Frances Farmer, Will There Really Be a Morning? (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1972), pp. 160—65; Joel McCrea to ASB (I), May 13, 1980.

  SG PREPARES TO SAIL FOR EUROPE: JAM to Betty Goldsmith (IOC), Jan. 23, 1936; KV to ASB (I), June 11, 1980; Ernest C. Fishbaugh, M.D. to SG, “Diet and General Directions,” Feb. 6, 1935.

  DODSWORTH PREPRODUCTION: WW to ASB (I), Apr. 1, 1980; Johnston, Great Goldwyn, p. 23; “Themes from ‘Dodsworth,”’ n.d.; Sidney Howard to Ann Watkins, Oct. 5, 1935; Sidney Howard to SG, Oct. 6, 1935; Merritt Hulburd to Ann Watkins (T), Oct. 5, 10, 1935; Max Gordon (play’s producer) to SG, Oct. 4, 1935; Sidney Howard to SG, July 19, 1935; Merritt Hulburd to SG (T), Nov. 16, 1935; R. B. McIntyre to SG (T), Mar. 4, 1936; Merritt Hulburd to SG, Oct. 21, 1935; Sidney Howard to Merritt Hulburd, Mar. 14, 1936.

  OBTAINING DEAD END: Merritt Hulburd to SG, Nov. 22, 1935; WW to ASB (I), Apr. 1, 1980; Johnston, Great Goldwyn, p. 23.

  GOLDWYNS‘ TRIP TO EUROPE; SG LANDS IN HOSPITAL: FG, “Dear Sam: Do You Remember?,” pp. 81, 88; FG to Douglas Fairbanks (T), Apr. 17, 1936; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 26, 31, 1983, Feb. 20, 1988; Neill Lehr to ASB (I), July 13, 1983; RGC to ASB (I), Jan. 30, 1988; SG to A. H. Giannini (T), May 7, 1936; Mary Pickford to FG, May 9, 1936.

  PRODUCTION OF COME AND GET IT: Merritt Hulburd to SG c/o FG (T), Apr. 30, 1936; McBride, Hawks, p. 106; AL to FG (T), June 8, 1936; JAM to AL (T), June 9, 1936; Merritt Hulburd to FG (T), June 5, 1936; Merritt Hulburd to SG c/o FG (T), Apr. 30, 1936.

  PRODUCTION OF DODSWORTH: Sidney Howard to Merritt Hulburd, Mar. 14, 1936; Sidney Howard to George Haight, Mar. 22, 1936; Sidney Howard to Merritt Hulburd, Apr. 21, 1936; Merritt Hulburd to Sidney Howard, Apr. 7, 1936; WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981; Niven, Moon, pp. 199—200; Mary Astor, A Life on Film (New York: Delacorte Press, 1971), pp. 118—22, 125.

  SG REACTS TO COME AND GET IT: McBride, Hawks, p. 85; SG to Edna Ferber, Oct. 27, 1936; Joel McCrea to ASB (I), Apr. 30, 1980; WW to ASB (I), Apr. 1, 1980; “Mr. Wyler does the retakes ...,” unsigned memorandum, n.d.; Jock Lawrence to SG (IOC), Aug. 21, 1936; Edna Ferber to SG, Oct. 31, 1936; Merritt Hulburd to SG (IOC), Sept. 30, 1936.

  MARY ASTOR SCANDAL: Astor, A Life, pp. 125—27, Mary Astor, My Story: An Autobiography (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959), pp. 166—71.

  DODSWORTH KUDOS; THALBERG DEATH: Sinclair Lewis to SG (T), Sept. 18, 1936; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 31, 1983; Samuel Marx, Mayer and Thalberg, pp. 248—51; Rabbi Edgar I. Magnin to ASB (I), May 27, 1983; WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981; SG to Norma Shearer (T), Sept. 14, 1936; Miriam Hopkins to SG (T), Sept. 15, 1936.

  BELOVED ENEMY AND AL’S DEPARTURE: Merritt Hulburd to JAM (T), June 10, 1936; Variety, Aug. 25, 1936, p. I; New York Times, Aug. 25, 1936, p. 23; Neill Lehr to ASB (I), July 13, 1983.

  “REIGN OF TERROR”: SGJ to ASB (I), Feb. 20, 1988; SG’s secretary to Raymond F. Stevens (manager of Sun Valley Lodge), Dec. 4, 1936; Samuel Marx to ASB (I), Feb. 24, 1984; Garson Kanin, Hollywood (New York: Limelight Editions, 1984), pp. 1—8; Garson Kanin to ASB (I), June 13, 1984; Joshua Logan, Movie Stars, Real People, and Me (New York: Delacorte Press, 1978), pp. 23, 34—41; Joshua Logan to SG, Aug. 1, 1957 (with separate cover letter to FG, same date); Niven, Moon, pp. 201—2; WW to SG (T), Sept. 24, 1936; “Woman Chases Man,” Time, May 31, 1937, p. 26; WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981; Joel McCrea to ASB (I), Apr. 30, 1980; WW to SG (T), Nov. 9, 1936.

  DEAD END: Merritt Hulburd to Sidney Howard, Sept. 30, 1936; Sidney Howard to Merritt Hulburd (T), Oct. 14, 1936; Merritt Hulburd to Sidney Howard, Oct. 5, 1936; Lewis Milestone to SG (T), Sept. 3, 1936; SG to LH, Oct. 16, 1936; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 16, 1981; LH to SG, Nov. 5, 1936; Fred Kohlmar to SG (IOC), Oct. 23, 1936; Sylvia Sidney to ASB (I), Apr. 4, 1983; WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981; AL is quoted in Reeves Espy to SG (IOC), July 25, 1936; Lewis Yablonsky, George Raft (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974), pp. 97—8; Sidney Kingsley, Dead End (New York: Random House, 1936), pp. 84—5; “‘Dead End,’ Comparison of Estimate & Cost,” July 13, 1937; FG, “Dear Sam: Do You Remember?,” p. 88.

  STELLA DALLAS: Joel McCrea to ASB (I), May 13, 1980; Zeppo Marx is quoted in Paul D. Zimmerman and Burt Goldblatt, The Marx Brothers at the Movier (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968), p. 98; Fred Kohlmar to Reeves Espy (IOC), Nov. 23, 1936; KV to ASB (I), June 11, 1980; KV, A Tree, p. 210; KV to SG (T), July 23, 1937; Marion Davies and W. R. Hearst to SG (T), Aug. 10, 1937; Olive Higgins Prouty to SG (T), July 27, 1937; Henry King to ASB (I), May 28, 1980.

  THE HURRICANE: John Ford to SG (T), Oct. 31, 1936; Ford, Pappy, pp. 100—1, 102; Charles Nordhoff to SG, Feb. 1, 1936; Jock Lawrence, Show (privately printed magazine promoting The Hurricane ), vol. 3, 1937—38, pp. 3—5, 9—11, 21; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 31, 1983; Hecht, A Child, p. 488; Joel McCrea to ASB (I), Apr. 30, 1980; Jock Lawrence to ASB (I), Oct. 17, 1982; Astor, A Life, pp. 134—35: “The Hurricane,” Life, Oct. 25, 1937, p. 107; Ira Gershwin (through Michael Feinstein) to ASB (I), June 23, 1983.

  PLANNING THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES: Griffith, Goldwyn, pp. 31—2; SG to Murray Silverstone (T), Aug. 7, 1936; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 26, 1983; Archibald Selwyn to SG, Feb. 11, 1936; George Gershwin to Isaac Goldberg, May 12, 1937, quoted in Edward Jablonski and Lawrence D. Stewart, The Gershwin Years (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973), pp. 276, 282; SG to Freddy Kohlmar (IOC), Jan. 3, 1936; Fred Kohlmar to Reeves Espy (IOC), Aug. 29, 1936; Vera Zorina to ASB (I), Mar. 19, 1984; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 15, 1981.

  UA TAKEOVER ATTEMPT: Balio, United Artists, pp. 142—55; David Rose to ASB (I), July 26, 1983; Neil
S. McCarthy to Douglas Fairbanks, Mar. 18, 1938; JS to Mary Pickford, Mar. 16, 1938; Fortune research files, 1940.

  FIRING ASSISTANTS: Kanin, Hollywood, pp. 13—14, 16—22, 258; Samuel Marx to ASB (I), Feb. 24, 1984; Garson Kanin to ASB (I), June 13, 1984.

  PRODUCING THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES: Jablonski and Stewart, Gershwin, pp. 289—96; Mrs. Ira Gershwin to ASB (I), July 2, 1983; Vernon Duke, Passport to Paris (Boston : Little, Brown, 1955), pp. 350—58; “Tough Break for Goldwyn,” London Daily Mail, Aug. 2, 1937; Kanin, Hollywood, pp. 108—9; Jock Lawrence to ASB (I), Oct. 17, 1982; Vera Zorina to ASB (I), Mar. 19, 1984; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 15, 1981; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 26, 1983; GC to ASB (I), Nov. 27, 1981.

  RGC remembered FG’s boasting of SG’s “private list” of women, to ASB (I), Oct. 13, 1979.

  Sam Marx to SG (IOC), June 1, 1937; David O. Selznick to SG, June 1, 1937; Ben Hecht to SG, n.d. (c. late 1937).

  THE GREAT GOLDWYN: Johnston, Great Goldwyn, pp. 94, 99; WW to ASB (I), Apr. 1, 1980.

  16 ANNUS MIRABILIS

  BEATON: SGJ to ASB (I), Mar. 25 and 26, 1988; Frank Crowninshield, “The New Left Wing in American Society,” Vogue, Feb. 1, 1938, pp. 72—73, 165—67; Seebohm, Man Who Was Vogue, pp. 209—212; Irene Mayer Selznick to ASB (I), Mar. 27, 1988.

  THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRY: Will H. Hays, “Enlarging Scope of the Screen,” Annual Report to the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. (MPPDA), New York, Mar. 27, 1939, pp. 1—8; SG to CC (unsent letter), Mar. 2, 1938; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 31, 1983; Rocky Cooper Converse to ASB (I), June 14, 1984.

  Universal’s founder, Carl Laemmle, died in September 1939.

  SG’S PROPOSED PROJECTS: SG to George Bernard Shaw, Mar. 3, 1938; George Bernard Shaw to SG, Mar. 29, 1938; Miriam Howell to SG (IOC), Nov. 4, 1938; David O. Selznick to SG (T and letter), Jan. 24, 1939; SG to David O. Selznick, Jan. 25, 1939; SG to LH, Aug. 15, 1939; Edwin Knopf to SG (IOC), Apr. 21, 1939; LH to SG (T), Apr. 24, 1939; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 16, 1981; Miriam Howell to SG (IOC), Sept. 22, 1938; Katharine Hepburn to ASB (I), Apr. 6, 1983; Edwin Knopf to SG, Nov. 29, 1939; SG to Katharine Hepburn (T), Jan. 6, 1940; Sidney Howard to SG, Feb. 20, 1939, and Feb. 14, Mar. 1, Mar. 2, 1939; SG to Edwin Knopf (T), Dec. 12, 1939; Edwin Knopf to SG (T), Dec. 14, 1939; Miriam Howell to SG (T), Jan. 17, Feb. 22, 1939; Edwin Knopf to SG, Dec. 1, 1939.