Goldwyn

by A. Scott Berg

  ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO: David Rose to ASB (I), Feb. 21, 1980; Douglas Fairbanks to David Rose (T), Oct. 30, Nov. 2, 1936; SG to Merritt Hulburd (T), Dec. 8, 1936; Douglas Fairbanks to SG, Mar. 19, 1937; David Rose to JAM (IOC), Nov. 4, 1936; Lana Turner, Lana (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982), pp. 32—3; Jock Lawrence to SG (IOC), Mar. 14, 1938; “‘The Flower of Flatbush’ Makes Good,” Life, Apr. 18, 1938, p. 29; Jock Lawrence to SG (IOC), press release for trade papers, June 21, 1937; WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981; SG, Inc., “Estimated Loss—‘Marco Polo,’” c. Mar. 1, 1939.

  THE COWBOY AND THE LADY: Kanin, Hollywood, pp. 82—96; Jock Lawrence to ASB (I), Oct. 17, 1982; Rocky Cooper Converse to ASB (I), June 14, 1984; WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981; SG, Inc., “Estimated Loss—‘Cowboy and the Lady,’” c. Mar. 1, 1939.

  THE REAL GLORY: Henry Hathaway to ASB (I), Feb. 5, 1980; David Rose to ASB (I), July 26, 1983.

  WUTHERING HEIGHTS: Hecht, Charlie, p. 228; Sylvia Sidney to ASB (I), Apr. 4, 1983; Helen Hayes to ASB (I), July 22, 1984; Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (New York: Triangle Books, 1939), published in conjunction with the release of the film, contained Currer Bell’s introduction, p. xxiv; (UN) in Time and Life morgue, “SG,” Nov. 12, 1952; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 31, 1983; WW to SG (T), Apr. 2, 1938; Bette Davis to ASB (I), Jan. 19, 1983; WW to ASB (I), Apr. 1, 1980; George Mitchell, “A Great Cameraman,” Films in Review, Dec. 1956, pp. 508—9; John Huston to ASB (I), Mar. 9, 1980; Jock Lawrence to Reeves Espy (IOC), May 31, 1938; Ben Hecht to SG (T), May 5, 1938; Laurence Olivier to Melvyn Bragg (transcript of interview presented on South Bank Show); Laurence Olivier to ASB (I), Mar. 26, 1980; Merle Oberon to Laurence Olivier (T), June 6, 1938; WW to SG (T), July 7, 1938; SG to WW (T), July 12, 1938; WW to SG (T), Aug. 20, 1938; SG to WW (T), Aug. 24, 1938; WW to SG (T), Aug. 25, 1938; Laurence Olivier, Confessions of an Actor: An Autobiography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), pp. 106—9; WW to SG (R), Aug. 31, 1938; SG to WW (T), Sept. 12, 1938; Jack Warner to SG, Dec. 15, 1938; SG to WW (T), Aug. 22, 1938; Niven, Moon, pp. 203—7; SG, Inc., “Summary of loss ... due to the illnesses of Merle Oberon and WW”; SG to WW (unsent letter and IOC), Dec. 20, 1938; SG to Merle Oberon, Feb. 17, 1939; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 31, 1983; SG, Inc., “Daily Production Report,” Feb. 27, 1939; SG to Laurence Olivier, Mar. 23, 1939; Jock Lawrence to SG (IOC), “Wuthering Heights Billing,” Dec. 30, 1938; Alfred Newman to SG, Oct. 16, 1937; Steiner, Film Composer , pp. 370—411; Jock Lawrence to ASB (I), Oct. 17, 1982.

  THEY SHALL HAVE MUSIC: SG to Jascha Heifetz, Oct. 1, 1937; SG to Miriam Howell (T), July 28, 1938; Miriam Howell to SG (IOC), Nov. 7, 1938; (M) of stipulations in Heifetz deal, n.d.; WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981; Miriam Howell to SG (T), Dec. 13, 1938; SG to Miriam Howell (T), Dec. 21, 1938; Miriam Howell to SG (T), Dec. 21, 1938; Joel McCrea to ASB (I), Apr. 30, 1980; SG to Jascha Heifetz (T), June 7, 1939; SG’s advertising orders appear in Jock Lawrence to Ben Washer (IOC), July 10, 1939; Deems Taylor, Jascha Heifetz (New York: United Artists Corporation, 1939), pp. 8—12; SG to R. J. O‘Donnell of Interstate Theatres (T), Sept. 16, 1939; Iphigene Sulzberger to ASB (I), Mar. 31, 1983; Thomas A. Pryor to ASB (I), Mar. 19, 1984; Bosley Crowcher, “They Shall Have Music,” New York Times, July 26, 1939, p. 7.

  HIRING JAMES ROOSEVELT; OPENING OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS: James Roosevelt to ASB (I), July 9, 1984; David Rose to ASB (I), Feb. 21, 1980; James Roosevelt, “For Monday A.M. Release” (press release), n.d.; “James Roosevelt, Film Official, Is on the Job—Looking for It,” New York World Telegram, Jan. 3, 1939; “Begins His Film Job,” New York Sun, Jan. 3, 1939; Julia McCarthy, “Jimmy, Goldwyn V.P., Sphinx About Movies,” New York Daily News, Jan. 4, 1939; John Hay Whitney to SG (T), Dec. 5, 1938; David O. Selznick to SG (T), Dec. 5, 1938; FG, “Dear Sam: Do You Remember?,” p. 81; Frank Nugent, “Wuthering Heights,” New York Times, Apr. 14, 1939, p. 28; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 31, 1983; WW to ASB (I), Apr. 1, 1980.

  Among the many newborns named Cathy that year was Wyler’s daughter.

  SG to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (T), Mar. 27, 1939; Kate Cameron to SG (T), Dec. 27, 1939; SG to Ben Hecht (T), Dec. 27, 1939.

  LOSING STARS; ELEVATING NIVEN: The Merle Oberon story about copies of her films was related by Robert Osborne to ASB (I), Nov. 25, 1981; Joel McCrea to ASB (I), April 30, 1980; SG to Bertram Block (IOC), Aug. 23, 1939; Reeves Espy to SG (IOC), Aug. 21, 1939; SG to JAM (IOC), Aug. 16, 1939; Edwin Knopf to Sam Wood (IOC), Aug. 18, 1939; Edwin Knopf to SG (IOC), Nov. 3, 1939; Niven, Moon, pp. 217—23; Dana Andrews to ASB (I), June 24, 1980; R. B. McIntyre to Mr. [Al] Evens (IOC), “Test Option for Dana Andrews,” Oct. 21, 1938; Frances Kroll Ring, Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald (Berkeley, Cal.: Creative Arts Book Company, 1985), pp. 55—6; Fitzgerald’s quote about SG appears in his notes for The Last Tycoon, Princeton University Library; Gary Cooper to SG (T), Sept. 6, 1939; SG to Gary Cooper (T), Sept. 6, 1939; WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981; SGJ to ASB (I), Feb. 21, 1988; David Niven to SG, n.d. (“Sunday,” c. Sept. 15, 1939); “Movies aren’t enough ...” is a quote Irving Hoffman was going to run in his column but did not: Irving Hoffman to W. R. Wilkerson, Oct. 10, 1939.

  SG BATTLES UA: Balio, United Artists, pp. 155—57; Walker, “Fortune Research—United Artists story,” Oct. 4, 8, 1940 (Time/Life files); “Statement to be Presented by Mr. James Roosevelt at a Meeting of The Board of Directors of United Artists Corporation,” Jan. 13, 1939; Reeves Espy to SG (IOC), May 9, 1939, discusses changing the name of the studio; SG to Sam Harris of Cinema Publication (T), Dec. 16, 1940.

  SG AND UNPOPULAR STANDS: SG, untitled press release, “SG, always two-fisted in his scanning of the celluloid scene...,” n.d., 4 pp., discusses block booking; SG, “Hollywood Is Sick,” Saturday Everring Post, July 13, 1940, pp. 18—19, 44, 48—49; SG to W. W. Clark of The Cinema, n.d.; SG, “I Believe in Colour, but—TELEVISION IS NEARER,” Film Weekly, Oct. 5, 1934, p. 7; much of SG’s intelligence about television was obtained from Reeves Espy to SG (IOC), Feb. 4, 1939; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 31, 1983; SG talking to the Time photographer comes from a Time office memorandum, Peter Stackpole to J. S. Billings (in Time morgue), Mar. 29, 1939.

  SG AND FAMILY LIFE: GC to ASB (I), Sept. 11, 1979; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 26, 31, 1983, and May 21, 1988; Mrs. Albert Lasker to ASB (I), June 15, 1984; SG to SGJ, July 17, 1934; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 16, 1981; Mrs. Ira Gershwin to ASB (I), July 2, 1983; Hilde Berl Halpern to ASB (I), Sept. 7, 1980; “The Promise of the Future Begins Today,” brochure of Fountain Valley School of Colorado, Colorado Springs; RGC to ASB (I), Oct. 13, 1979; McClure Capps to SG, n.d.; SG to Ben Fish, July 20, 1934; Richard Fish to ASB (I), Oct. 5, 1984; Sally Sherman to ASB (I), Oct. 8, 1984; Adele Austin and Paula Tygiers to ASB (I), Sept. 3, 1980; SG to Under Secretary of State, Home Office, London, Apr. 25, 1939; Sally Linden to SG (T), Nov. 28, 1939; “Tale of a City” (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942); SG to Bernard Fish, Mar. 13, 1940.

  JOSEPH P. KENNEDY: SGJ to ASB (I), Feb. 24, Mar. 25, 1988; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov. 19, 1940 (FDR Library, PSF: DIPLOMATIC: GREAT BRITAIN: KENNEDY); Hecht, A Child, p. 520; Richard J. Whalen, The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy (New York: New American Library, 1964), pp. 346—47; Michael R. Beschloss, Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance (New York: W. W. Norton, 1980), pp. 223—26.

  THE WESTERNER: Jock Lawrence to SG (IOC), Sept. 15, 1939; WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981; SG to Gary Cooper (T), Nov. 2, 1939; Reeves Espy to Gary Cooper (T), Nov. 2, 1939; SG to Gary Cooper, Oct. 19, 1939; Gary Cooper to SG, Nov. 18, 1939; SG to Gary Cooper, Nov. 29, 1939; SGJ to ASB (I), Feb. 21, 1988; that Walter Brennan did the best SG impersonation was confirmed by Joel McCrea to ASB (I), April 30, 1980; Reeves Espy to SG (IOC), Oct. 13, 1939; Dimitri Tiomkin to SG (T), Apr. 25, 1940; Daily Variety, Jan. 4, 1940, p. 4; Walker, Fortune research files, 1940; SG and SG Inc. v. United Artists Corporation, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1940.

  SG, A “LONE WOLF” AGAIN: SG to David O. Selznick (T), Mar. 1, 1940; David O. S
elznick to SG, Mar. 8, 1940; SGJ to ASB (I), Mar. 7, 1984; the “lone wolf” quote comes from an unpublished interview conducted by George Slaff c. June 1959 in preparation for Jack Smith’s five-part series on SG in the Los Angeles Times.

  17 “WE DID IT BEFORE AND WE CAN DO IT AGAIN”

  SG REENTERING PRODUCTION: SGJ, unpublished “Eulogy,” c. Feb. 1, 1974; the “Fort Lee” anecdote comes from the files of Irving Hoffman, sent in a letter to W. R. Wilkerson, Oct. 10, 1939, then forwarded to SG; Lynn Farnol to SG (IOC), Feb. 14, 1941; Thomas Brady, “Mr. Goldwyn Bows Out,” New York Times, Feb. 16, 1941, p. 29; “After It’s All Been Said and Done, Goldwyn May Release Through UA,” Variety, Mar. 26, 1941; David Rose to ASB (1), Feb. 21, 1980; Jewell, RKO, pp. 18—19, 140—43, 144, 156.

  THE LITTLE FOXES: Edwin Knopf to ASB (I), June 1, 1980; JAM to LH, Oct. 26, 1939; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 15, 1981; LH, Three, pp. 473—75; WW to SG, May 6, 1940; Reeves Espy to SG (IOC), May 3, 1940; Edwin Knopf to SG (IOC), May 3, June 10, 1940; Jock Lawrence to SG (IOC), n.d. (c. May 10, 1940); Niven Busch, Jr., to ASB (I), Aug. 31, 1981; WW to ASB (I), Apr. 1, 1980; Bette Davis to ASB (I), Jan. 19, 1983; Rudy Behlmer, ed., Inside Warner Bros. (1935—1951) (New York: Viking Penguin, 1985), p. 121; James Roosevelt to SG (discussing WW’s new contract), Feb. 2, 1940; Lynn Farnol to SG, Mar. 18, 1941; Bernie Harrison, “Director Wyler Here; Will Film ‘Little Foxes,”’ Washington, D.C., Times Herald, Mar. 19, 1941; Lasky, I Blow, pp. 252—60; Joel McCrea to ASB (I), April 30, 1980; SG to Jack Warner, June 6, 1940; Jack Warner to SG, n.d. (c. June 10, 1940); Reeves Espy to Harry Warner, Aug. 16, 1940; Jack Warner to SG, July 31, 1940; Jock Lawrence to SG, Mar. 8, 1941; Lynn Farnol to SG (T of press release re Teresa Wright), March 14, 1941; SG (ghostwritten unpub. article), “I Never Stop Looking,” Sept. 2, 1948; Niven Busch to ASB (I), Aug. 31, 1981 WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1979; Madsen, Wyler, pp. 209—10; Bankhead, Tallulah, p. 237; “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood,” transcript, May 21, 1941; Leonard Lyons, “The Lyons Den,” New York Post, May 16, 1965; Lynn Farnol to SG (T), Aug. 22, 1941; James Agee, Time, Sept. I, 1941, pp. 86—7.

  BALL OF FIRE: Edwin Knopf to SG, Dec. 13, 1939; Billy Wilder to ASB (I), July 8, 1983; William Dozier to ASB (I), Mar. 11, 1984; William Dozier to SG, July 3, 1942; SGJ to ASB (I: re Hawks), Oct. 26, 1983; Time, Jan. 12, 1942, p. 70; Jean Arthur to SG, n.d. (c. June 1941); Carole Lombard to SG, June 6, 1941; McBride, Hawks, p. 82; SG to Gary Cooper (T), Oct. 29, 1941; Billy Wilder to ASB (I), Dec. 2, 1982.

  PEARL HARBOR: WW to ASB (I), July 23, 1981; Albert Lasker to SG, Dec. 8, 1941.

  WARTIME CHARITIES: “J. Hutchings detailed notes” (unofficial minutes of meeting of Permanent Charities Committee), June 28, 1940; Hecht, A Child, pp. 538—40; Dawn of Liberation: Year Book of the United Jewish Welfare Fund of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Council (Los Angeles, 1944), PP. 30, 44, 69, 96.

  Even Mary Pickford contributed to the UJWF—$25.

  JS’S TROUBLES: F. E. Pelton to SG, “Conndential—Report of Producers’ Labor Negotiating Committee,” Sept. 4, 1941; Albert Fried, The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980), pp. 129—41, 169—71, 228n; Schwartz, Writers’ Wars, pp. 113—14, 124—25, 131—32; SGJ to ASB (I), Nov. 3, 1983; SG to JS (T), Apr. 24, 1941; Marcia Winn, “Bioff’s Shadow Is Still a Cloud on Hollywood,” Chicago Daily Tribune, July 28, 1943; SG to JS, May 7, 1942; SG to Arthur D. Wood, examiner of parole board, Aug. 10, 1942; Arthur D. Wood to SG, Aug. 15, 1942; SG to JS (T), Sept. 24, 1942.

  HOLLYWOOD GOES TO WAR: Editors of Look, Movie Lot to Beachhead (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1945), pp. 5, 59, 82—95, 228—29; Lowell Mellett, transcript of address delivered Feb. 17, 1943; several letters concerning “The Real Glory” appear in Harrison’s Reports (New York, 1942), vol. XXIV, no. 38, p. I; SG to Noel Coward (T), Nov. 19, 1942, SG to Secretary of the Navy, n.d. (c. Nov. 20, 1942); SG to Jack Warner, July 3, 1942.

  START OF “THE RUSSIAN PICTURE”: “Unproduced Story material,” Dec. 14, 1942; SG to Lowell Mellett (T), Dec. 10, 1941; LH, Three, pp. 135—39; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 15, 1981; WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981; SG to Darryl Zanuck, Mar. 25, 1942; Gregg Toland to SG, Mar. 22, 1942; SG to JS, July 2, 1942.

  PRIDE OF THE YANKEES: Niven Busch, Jr., to ASB (I), Aug. 31, 1981; New York Times, July 16, 1942, p. 23; Louella Parsons to SG, July 22, 1941; SG to JS, June 4, 1942; Daniel Mandell to ASB (I), May 5, 1980; Charles P. Skouras to SG, June 30, 1942; SG to Sam Wood (T), July 16, 1942; SG to JS, Aug. 12, 1942; SG to Abel Green, editor of Variety, Jan. 19, 1943; SG to Paul Gallico, June 1, 1942; SG, “What America Means to Me,” American Weekly, Jan. 27, 1952, p. 2; “Goldwyn-Gary Un-renewed Yet,” Variety, July 22, 1942, p. 2; Rocky Cooper Converse to ASB (I), June 14, 1984.

  THE NORTH STAR: LH to ASB (I), Nov. 15, 1981; LH, untitled first-draft screenplay of The North Star, Aug. 24, 1942; pp. 1, 61, 81; Don Hartman to SG, Oct. 22, 1942; Lewis Milestone to ASB (I), Feb. 4, 1980; Collier Young to SG, Oct. 22, 1942; LH, The North Star (revised final draft), Feb. 16, 1943, p. 126; SG to LH, July 15, 1943; LH to Lewis Milestone, Feb. 9, 19, 1943; SG to LH (T), Feb. 24, 1943; LH to SG, Feb. 27, 1943; SG to LH (T), Feb. 9, 1943; LH to SG (T), Feb. 10, 1943; LH to SG, Oct. 16, 1942; Ira Gershwin to ASB (I: through Michael Feinstein), June 28, 1983; LH quoted in Theodore Strauss, “The Author’s Case,” New York Times, Dec. 19, 1943, sec. II, p. 5; SG to LH (T), Dec. 3, 1942; LH to SG, Dec. 4, 1942; FG to LH, June 24, 1943; FG to LH (T), July 10, 1943; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 16, 1981; LH, Three, p. 139.

  SG, LH PART COMPANY: JAM to SG (IOC), Oct. 19, 1942; JAM to SG (IOC), June 4, 1942; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 15, 1981; JS to SG, July 17, 1943; SG to JS, July 28, 1943; “Agreement” between SG and LH, Sept. 14, 1944 (signed by LH on Sept. 18, 1944).

  RELEASE OF NORTH STAR: “Hollywood Inside,” Daily Variety, Sept. 23, 1943, p. 2; Terry McDaniel to Charles P. Skouras, Sept. 16, 1943; Dick Mears (manager of The Academy theater in Inglewood, Cal.) to SG, Sept. 15, 1943; SG to Charles Skouras (T), Nov. 10, 1943; SG to Arthur Sulzberger, Sept. 20, 1943; Bosley Crowther, “The North Star,” New York Times, Nov. 5, 1943, p. 23; “The New Pictures,” Time, Nov. 8, 1943, p. 54; James Agee, Agee on Film (New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958), pp. 56—8; the Goldwynism about this picture not making a dime was related by several people, LH to ASB (I), Nov. 16, 1981, among them; SG to W. R. Hearst, Sept. 29, 1943; W. R. Hearst to SG (T), Oct. 5, 1943; SG to W. R. Hearst (T), Oct. 6, 1943; SG to William Hebert (T), Nov. 9, 1943; Mrs. Hugo Black to SG, n.d. (c. Nov. 1943); WW to SG, Nov. 18, 1943.

  SWING TOWARD ESCAPIST PICTURES: Maurice Kann, “How Far with War Films?,” Boxoffice, Sept. 26, 1942 (tear sheet); SG to Joseph Bernhard, May 19, 1941.

  THEY GOT ME COVERED: Charles MacArthur to SG, Mar. 25, 1942; John Steinbeck, “Bob Hope Idol of War Camps, New York Tribune, July 27, 1943; Editors of Look, Movie Lot, p. 84.

  THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE: “Salaries,” Dec. 14, 1942; comments about Don Hartman appear in “Statement of Samuel Goldwyn—Questions by Grant B. Cooper,” May 17, 1944.

  SG’s FINANCES: M. Eisner to SG, Nov. 19, 1942; Ellsworth C. Alvord (of Alvord and Alvord), “Memorandum re Tax Consequences of Separate Incorporation of Pictures,” Apr. 10, 1943; SGJ to ASB (I), Aug. 27, 1984; Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. SG, “Petition to Review a Decision of the Tax Court of the United States,” No. 12,037, June 20, 1949; Sylvan Ostreicher to Head, Appellate Division, Bureau of Internal Revenue, n.d. (c. Feb. 1952); SG’s assets in “investments, cash, etc.” were valued in a report of Price Waterhouse & Company of Dec. 31, 1944, and sworn to in a deposition of SG when he agreed to sponsor his niece Pola Tajtel, July 23, 1946; “Exhibit ‘A’—SG Income Tax Payments on 1944 Income”; some of SG’s “collapsible corporations” include: Avalon, Regent, Beverly, and Trinity Productions.

  SIGNING DANNY KAYE; MAKING UP IN ARMS: John Hyde to William Morris, May 5, 1941; SG to Danny Kaye (T), Oct. 29, 1941; SG to Danny Kaye, Dec. 5, 1941; FG, “Dear Sam: Do You Remember?,” p. 88; Sylvia Fine Kaye to ASB (I), Oct. 7, 1983; Danny
Kaye to ASB (I), Oct. 18, 1980; SG to Irene Lee (T), June 26, 1942; Irene Lee to SG (T), June 27, 1942; Billy Rose to SG (T), Jan. 5, 1943; Lelia Alexander Arensma to ASB (I), May 20, 1980; Virginia Mayo to ASB (I), May 27, 1980; SG to Billy Rose, Jan. 6, 1943; Billy Rose to SG, Jan. 12, 1943; Eleanore King to SG (IOC), May 13, 1943; Eleanore King, “Memo for Virginia Mayo,” n.d. (c. Sept. 1943); Dana Andrews to ASB (I), May 20, 1980; SG’s appraisal of Lauren Bacall appears in Goldie Arthur to Robert McIntyre (IOC), Mar. 18, 1943; Agnes de Mille to ASB (I), Apr. 2, 1984.

  THE THEATER WARS: “United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., etc.,” Petition, Equity No. 80—273, filed July 20, 1938; “Petition and Brief of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers as Amicus Curiae,” Dec. 12, 1945; part of the Supreme Court’s decision is quoted in Gerald Mast, ed., The Movies in Our Midst: Documents in the Cultural History of Film in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), pp. 509—604; JAM to Loyd Wright, Sept. 1, 1944; Thurman Arnold to SG Productions, Inc. (M), n.d. (c. Oct. 1944); John C. Flinn to Loyd Wright, Nov. 4, 1943; Ben Fish to JAM, May 7, 1943; Louella O. Parsons, “Goldwyn Puts on Reno Show in Ballroom,” Los Angeles Examiner, Aug. 23, 1944; “An Explanation and Statement of Facts by the T. & D. Theatres of Reno,” advertisement, Reno Evening Gazette, Aug. 23, 1944; “The Battle of Reno,” Time, Sept. 4, 1944, pp. 78—80; “Goldwyn’s Crusade,” Reno Evening Gazette, Aug. 30, 1944, p. 4; “FBI Probes Goldwyn Charge,” Daily Variety, Aug. 29, 1944, pp. 1, 9; “FBI Probing Goldwyn’s Charges of Chain Control; Tieup with Decree,” Variety, Aug. 30, 1944, p. 7; “Trade Views,” Hollywood Reporter, Sept. 5, 1944, p. I; Lee Garling, “Divorcement Only Solution, Government Says in Appeal,” Boxoffce, Feb. 1947; Mary Pickford to SG, Dec. 16, 1944.