Authors: Otto Friedrich
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4 Americanism (1942).
149Â Â Â Â
Jimmy Stewart quietly:
Richard R. Lingeman,
Don't You Know There's a War On?,
pp. 170, 179. Hector Arce,
The Secret Life of Tyrone Power,
pp. 155â9 (1980). Henry Fonda,
My Life,
p. 138.
149Â Â Â Â
Zanuck, who was:
Mel Gussow,
Darryl F. Zanuck,
pp. 97, 114, 99â100 (1980). Otto Preminger,
Preminger: An Autobiography,
p. 81 (1978).
150Â Â Â Â
Each celebrity's call:
Ronald Reagan and Richard C. Hubler,
Where's the Rest of Me?,
p. 122 (1981). Doug McClelland, ed.,
Hollywood on Reagan,
p. 32.
150Â Â Â Â
By October of 1942:
Lingeman,
Don't You Know,
p. 170.
151Â Â Â Â
Women were especially:
Ibid., p. 175. Hedy Lamarr,
Ecstasy and Me,
p. 115. Lana Turner,
Lana,
p. 76. Dorothy Lamour,
My Side of the Road,
p. 115.
151Â Â Â Â
It was all:
Lynn Tornabene,
Long Live the King: A Biography of Clark Gable,
pp. 265â6. Garson Kanin,
Hollywood,
p. 55.
151Â Â Â Â
Miss Lombard sold:
Tornabene,
Long Live the King,
pp. 267â81.
153Â Â Â Â
Los Angeles was:
Whitney Stine,
Mother Goddam,
pp. 175â7 (1975).
153Â Â Â Â
Miss Davis also:
Bette Davis,
The Lonely Life,
p. 212.
154Â Â Â Â
Bette Davis worked:
Lamarr,
Ecstasy and Me,
pp. 113â14.
154Â Â Â Â
Gene Tierney considered:
Gene Tierney,
Self-Portrait,
pp. 98, 12â14, 92 (1980).
155Â Â Â Â
Just before she left:
Ibid., pp. 99â100, 108.
156Â Â Â Â
These were individual:
Lingeman,
Don't You Know,
pp. 168, 210.
156Â Â Â Â
There were problems:
John Huston,
An Open Book,
p. 99 (1981).
157Â Â Â Â
The material demands:
Lingeman,
Don't You Know,
pp. 176â81.
158n   Â
Loo, who was born:
New York Times,
Nov. 22, 1983.
159Â Â Â Â
The reason for:
Peter Irons,
Justice at War,
p. 6.
159Â Â Â Â
This admirable advice:
Allan R. Bosworth,
America's Concentration Camps,
p. 60.
159Â Â Â Â
This may seem:
Roy Hoopes,
Americans Remember the Home Front,
pp. 175â6. Hoopes,
Cain,
p. 320.
160Â Â Â Â
This was largely:
Bruce Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
p. 72. Bosworth,
America's Concentration Camps,
pp. 63, 211, 68, 59â60. Carey McWilliams,
The Education of Carey McWilliams,
p. 102.
161Â Â Â Â
The Japanese who:
Irons,
Justice at War,
pp. 9â13.
162Â Â Â Â
The FBI and:
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,
Farewell to Manzanar,
p. 7.
162Â Â Â Â
The pressure for:
Bosworth,
America's Concentration Camps,
pp. 56, 71. Irons,
Justice at War,
p. 7. McWilliams,
Education,
p. 104. G. Edward White,
Earl Warren,
pp. 69â75. Cabell Phillips,
The 1940's,
p. 109.
163Â Â Â Â
California's other chief:
Bosworth,
America's Concentration Camps,
pp. 61, 100â1, 180. Donald I. Rogers,
Since You Went Away,
p. 82.
163Â Â Â Â
DeWitt was no:
Phillips,
The 1940's,
p. 110. Bosworth,
America's Concentration Camps,
pp. 116, 171.
164Â Â Â Â
Just as Hollywood:
Hoopes,
Americans Remember,
p. 264. Houston,
Farewell to Manzanar,
pp. 12â13.
165Â Â Â Â
Mineta and the rest:
Bosworth,
America's Concentration Camps,
p. 118. Hoopes,
Americans Remember,
pp. 260â1.
166Â Â Â Â
“Concentration camp”
is:
Houston,
Farewell to Manzanar,
pp. 28, 16.
167Â Â Â Â
While Pearl Harbor:
Leo C. Rosten,
Hollywood,
p. 379. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele,
Empire,
p. 105. This is the best of many books on Howard Hughes.
167Â Â Â Â
Though Glenn Martin:
Christopher Rand,
Los Angeles: The Ultimate City,
pp. 71â2. David Halberstam,
The Powers That Be,
p. 114. John Gunther,
Inside U.S.A.,
p. 27. Peter Wiley and Robert Gottlieb,
Empires in the Sun,
p. 27. Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
p. 75.
167Â Â Â Â
Pearl Harbor naturally:
Lingeman,
Don't You Know,
pp. 128, 132. Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
p. 106.
168Â Â Â Â
Through no foresight:
Carey McWilliams,
Southern California Country,
p. 339. Wiley and Gottlieb,
Empires in the Sun,
p. 110.
168Â Â Â Â
One of the few:
Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
pp. 107, 60â1, 63â7. John Keats,
Howard Hughes,
p. 58.
170Â Â Â Â
Hughes was nearly:
Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
pp. 66â8, 73â97. Keats,
Howard Hughes,
p. 9.
170n   Â
As often happened:
Lester Cole,
Hollywood Red,
p. 94.
172Â Â Â Â
On the other hand:
Gussow,
Zanuck,
p. 126. Turner,
Lana,
p. 77. Roland Flamini,
Ava,
p. 69 (1984).
172Â Â Â Â
Hughes apparently suffered:
Charles Higham,
Bette,
pp. 123â40 (1982).
174Â Â Â Â
This aspect of Hughes:
Veronica Lake,
Veronica,
p. 136.
174Â Â Â Â
The disastrous crash:
Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
pp. 106â10. Roland Flamini,
Scarlett, Rhett, and a Cast of Thousands,
p. 88.
174Â Â Â Â
The D-2 was:
Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
pp. 113, 115, 117, 156â7. Keats,
Howard Hughes,
pp. 165, 159.
175Â Â Â Â
He had other:
Ibid., p. 174. Ben Hecht,
A Child of the Century,
pp. 486â7.
175Â Â Â Â
Then came the:
Jane Russell,
My Path and My Detours,
pp. 1â8, 44. Keats,
Howard Hughes,
pp. 174, 182, 148, 151â2, 164, 170â3.
179Â Â Â Â
The greatest playwright:
James K. Lyon,
Bertolt Brecht in America,
pp. 45, 53â6, 59â62, 66â9. Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
p. 81. Ronald Hayman,
Brecht,
pp. 256â61, 204â5.
184Â Â Â Â
Like Detroit, Hollywood:
John Kobal,
Rita Hayworth,
p. 127. This is the best of several books on Miss Hayworth. Donald Spoto,
The Dark Side of Genius,
p. 252.
185Â Â Â Â
George M. Cohan:
James Cagney,
Cagney on Cagney,
p. 105. Patrick McGilligan,
Cagney,
pp. 145â6, 407.
186Â Â Â Â
William Cagney was:
Hal Wallis and Charles Higham,
Starmaker,
p. 103. McGilligan,
Cagney,
pp. 149â50. Also Doug Warren,
James Cagney,
pp. 142â7.
186Â Â Â Â
Cagney's impression:
Cagney on Cagney,
pp. 104â7. McGilligan,
Cagney,
pp. 155, 158, 161.
187n   Â
Miss Leslie was:
Michael Freedland,
The Warner Brothers,
p. 148.
188Â Â Â Â
Warners had planned:
McGilligan,
Cagney,
p. 158.
188Â Â Â Â
It was typical:
John Russell Taylor,
Strangers in Paradise,
p. 62.
New York Times,
April 12, 1962. Wallis and Higham,
Starmaker,
p. 25.
189Â Â Â Â
If Curtiz knew:
David Niven,
Bring on the Empty Horses,
p. 117 (1976). It is worth noting that Michael Korda attributes exactly this same line to his uncle Zoltan Korda (
Charmed Lives,
p. 208).
189Â Â Â Â
And there was more:
Wallis and Higham,
Starmaker,
p. 24.
Time,
April 20, 1962.
New York Herald Tribune,
June 16, 1940.
189Â Â Â Â
None of this:
New York Times,
April 12, 1962; Sept. 23, 1943.
190Â Â Â Â
Out of somewhere:
Wallis and Higham,
Starmaker,
pp. 83â4. Howard Koch,
As Time Goes By,
p. 77.
190n   Â
The standard Warners:
New York Times,
Oct. 10, 1985.
190n   Â
Raft eventually became:
Freedland,
The Warner Brothers,
p. 169.
191Â Â Â Â
Wallis also encountered:
Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess,
My Story,
pp. 78â9.
191Â Â Â Â
Selznick was perhaps:
Bergman and Burgess,
My Story,
pp. 87â8, 91, 102. Laurence Leamer,
As Time Goes By,
pp. 73, 79, 88, 103, 124.
193Â Â Â Â
Miss Bergman went:
Irene Mayer Selznick,
A Private View,
p. 230.
193Â Â Â Â
He rented Ingrid:
Wallis and Higham,
Starmaker,
p. 86. Koch,
As Time Goes By,
p. 78. I have altered this scene slightly to conform with an interview with Julius Epstein by Aljean Harmetz in the
New York Times,
Feb. 5, 1984.
194Â Â Â Â
The stars were:
Wallis and Higham,
Starmaker,
pp. 87â8. Rudy Behlmer,
Inside Warner Bros.,
p. 199.
194Â Â Â Â
And there was:
Koch,
As Time Goes By,
pp. 79â82. Behlmer,
Inside Warner Bros.,
p. 240.
195Â Â Â Â
The expensive cast:
Bergman and Burgess,
My Story,
p. 145.
195Â Â Â Â
Bogart seemed to:
Joe Hyams,
Bogie,
pp. 76â7 (1967).
196Â Â Â Â
In this state:
Paul Henreid,
Ladies' Man,
pp. 128â9.
197Â Â Â Â
Casablanca
came to:
Bergman and Burgess,
My Story,
p. 145.
197Â Â Â Â
Even that ending:
Wallis and Higham,
Starmaker,
pp. 91â2.
Â
5 Prejudice (1943).
199Â Â Â Â
Just after dark:
Time,
June 21, 1943. Rodolfo Acuña,
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos,
p. 327.
199Â Â Â Â
There was more:
Carey McWilliams,
North from Mexico,
p. 249. John D. Weaver,
Los Angeles,
p. 137.
200Â Â Â Â
And more:
Acuña,
Occupied America,
p. 327.
New York Times,
June 9, 10, 1943.
200Â Â Â Â
The irony was:
McWilliams,
North from Mexico,
p. 233. Acuña,
Occupied America,
p. 323.
201Â Â Â Â
That was because:
Nathanael West,
The Day of the Locust,
p. 137.
201Â Â Â Â
The reality was:
Acuña,
Occupied America,
p. 326.
202Â Â Â Â
The police attitude:
Ibid., pp. 323, 325. McWilliams,
North from Mexico,
p. 234.
202Â Â Â Â
Against that background:
McWilliams,
North from Mexico,
pp. 244â5. Julian Samora and Patricia Vandel Simon,
A History of the Mexican-American People,
p. 117.
202Â Â Â Â
The next night:
Acuña,
Occupied America,
p. 327. McWilliams,
North from Mexico,
pp. 246â8.
New York Times,
June 7, 1943.
204Â Â Â Â
The Los Angeles police:
Samora and Simon,
A History,
pp. 327â9.
New York Times,
June 10, 12, 1943.
204Â Â Â Â
The anti-Mexican riots:
McWilliams,
North from Mexico,
p. 256.
205Â Â Â Â
Washington was eager:
Charles Higham,
The Films of Orson Welles,
pp. 85, 87.
206Â Â Â Â
The only movie:
Henry Fonda,
My Life,
p. 178.
206Â Â Â Â
Hollywood's final verdict:
John Kobal,
Rita Hayworth,
pp. 18â20. I have relied mainly on Kobal's thorough work for the details of the young Rita Hayworth.