City of Nets (93 page)

280    
The one star:
Higham,
Sisters,
pp. 135ff., 144–5. Ronald Reagan and Richard C. Hubler,
Where's the Rest of Me?,
p. 123.

281    
What happened was:
Tony Thomas,
The Films of Olivia de Havilland,
pp. 35–7. Higham,
Sisters,
pp. 146, 148.

282    
There was another:
Garth Jowett,
Film: The Democratic Art,
p. 276.

282    
The long and complicated:
Charles Higham,
Hollywood at Sunset,
pp. 22–3.

283    
The suit served:
Jowett,
Film,
pp. 277–8. Higham,
Sisters,
pp. 24–7.

284    
Thunder and lightning:
Author's notes on a TV broadcast.

285    
It is Boris:
Dennis Gifford,
Karloff,
pp. 267–8.

286    
Absurdity:
John Brosnan,
The Horror People,
p. 253. Stephen King,
Stephen King's Danse Macabre,
p. 155.

286    
It is hard to tell:
Cynthia Lindsay,
Dear Boris,
pp. 47–52. Gifford,
Karloff,
p. 37.

287    
Then along came:
Brosnan,
Horror People,
pp. 69, 43. Gifford,
Karloff,
pp. 37–43, 47. Lindsay,
Dear Boris,
p. 54.

290    
It was an enormous:
Gifford,
Karloff,
pp. 190–230, 44, 57. Brosnan,
The Horror People,
pp. 73, 287. Carlos Clarens,
An Illustrated History of the Horror Film,
pp. 73ff.

290    
Karloff, who appeared:
Gifford,
Karloff,
p. 58.

291    
The one man:
Brosnan,
Horror People,
pp. 73–6. Gifford,
Karloff,
p. 269.

294    
One last question:
Brosnan,
Horror People,
p. 287. Clarens,
Illustrated
History,
pp. 63–69.

295    
The Hays Office:
James Curtis,
Between Flops: A Biography of Preston Sturges,
p. 180. I have relied on Curtis's splendid biography for most of the details on Sturges's life. See pp. 189, 8–9, 11, 17–19, 21, 26, 29, 50, 55, 62, 67, 58, 66–7, 74, 77, 79, 82–3, 88, 303–9, 116, 125, 128, 131, 135, 119, 109, 175.

301    
At Paramount, though:
André Bazin,
The Cinema of Cruelty,
p. 42.

301    
More important, Sturges:
Charles Lockwood,
The Guide to Hollywood and Beverly Hills,
p. 14. Curtis,
Between Flops,
pp. 118, 120, 137–8, 151, 312–16, 178.

303    
A movie about:
Jowett,
Film,
p. 311.

304    
Like any good:
Richard R. Lingeman,
Don't You Know There's a War On?,
pp. 183, 185–8, 193, 181. Jowett,
Film,
p. 312. Curtis,
Between Flops,
p. 181.

305    
While DeSylva dithered:
Curtis,
Between Flops,
pp. 185–91, 198–9.

307    
Hughes had in fact:
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele,
Empire,
pp. 132–4.

308    
Hughes recovered:
Curtis,
Between Flops,
pp. 216–18.

 

7 Breakdowns (1945).

309    
When David Selznick:
Bob Thomas,
Selznick,
p. 224 (1972).

309    
Now, one night:
Irene Mayer Selznick,
A Private View,
pp. 265, 267.

311    
Phyllis Walker had:
David O. Selznick,
Memo from David O. Selznick,
pp. 311, 313, 317.

312    
She had been born:
Thomas,
Selznick,
pp. 198–9.

312    
The Walkers had:
Hedda Hopper,
The Whole Truth and Nothing But,
pp. 177–8. June Allyson,
June Allyson,
p. 53.

312    
It had been several:
Thomas,
Selznick,
pp. 194–7, 209. Selznick,
Memo,
p. 317. Stephen Farber and Marc Green,
Hollywood Dynasties,
p. 69.

313    
“This girl
is”:
Thomas,
Selznick,
pp. 212–13. Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess,
My Story,
p. 197.

313    
There was also:
Thomas,
Selznick,
pp. 217–18, 222.

314    
Walker never recovered:
Allyson,
June Allyson,
pp. 53–4. Hopper,
The Whole Truth,
pp. 180–1, 183.

314    
That was in 1951:
Bosley Crowther,
Hollywood Rajah,
pp. 23–4.

315    
It was a psychological:
Selznick,
Memo,
p. 262. Samuel Marx,
Mayer and Thalberg,
pp. 224–5.

316    
Mayer explained:
Crowther,
Hollywood Rajah,
p. 263. Marx,
Mayer and Thalberg,
pp. 226, 228–31.

318    
Then began Mayer'
s:
Crowther,
Hollywood Rajah,
pp. 262, 267. Gary Carey,
All the Stars in Heaven,
p. 264.

319    
Before she decided:
Selznick,
Memo,
pp. 235–6. Thomas,
Selznick,
p. 207. Paul Roazen,
Freud and His Followers,
p. 507.

319    
It is a little hard:
Marie Jahoda, “The Migration of Psychoanalysis: Its Impact on American Psychology,” in Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn, eds.,
The Intellectual Migration, Europe and America, 1930–1960,
pp. 423–5. Russell Jacoby,
The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians,
p. 3.

320    
The psychoanalysts driven:
Jacoby,
The Repression,
pp. 8, 27, 64, 122, 128. Anthony Heilbut,
Exiled in Paradise,
p. 167.

321    
What attracted the:
Crowther,
Hollywood Rajah,
p. 245.

321    
Artie Shaw, who spent:
Artie Shaw,
The Trouble with Cinderella,
p. 92. Roland Flamini,
Ava,
p. 82.

322    
One unfortunate victim:
Jacoby,
The Repression,
pp. 122–3, 132.

323    
But Hollywood found:
Selznick,
Memo,
p. 236.

323    
One predictable outcome:
Donald Spoto,
The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock,
pp. 286–7.

324    
Hitchcock's customary method:
Ben Hecht,
A Child of the Century,
p. 482.

324    
It involved a:
John Russell Taylor,
Hitch,
p. 175.

324n    
“MacGuffin” was Hitchcock's:
Spoto,
The Dark Side,
pp. 159–60.

325    
Selznick had grandiose:
Thomas,
Selznick,
p. 225. Spoto,
The Dark Side,
pp. 288, 291.

325    
The most striking:
Ibid., p. 292. Ronald Haver,
David O. Selznick's Hollywood,
pp. 346–8.

326    
But what had happened:
Taylor,
Hitch,
p. 177.

327    
Selznick did his best:
Spoto,
The Dark Side,
p. 289.

327    
When Selznick originally:
Thomas,
Selznick,
pp. 225–8. Selznick,
Memo,
p. 360.

327    
The main reason:
Selznick,
Memo,
p. 368.

328    
This constant interference:
Thomas,
Selznick,
pp. 228–30, 239–40. Taylor,
Hitch,
p. 177. Selznick,
Memo,
p. 292.

329    
After a lifetime:
Frank MacShane,
The Life of Raymond Chandler,
p. 110. But this is really John Houseman's tale. John Houseman,
Front and Center,
pp. 135, 132, 112, 137–41.

332    
This may sound:
John Houseman, “Lost Fortnight,” originally published in
Harper's
in August 1965, republished as an Introduction to paperback edition of Raymond Chandler,
The Blue Dahlia,
p. 14. Also Houseman,
Front and Center,
pp. 142–3.

333    
A. Two Cadillac:
Houseman,
Front and Center,
pp. 143–4.

334    
Houseman, who dropped:
Chandler,
The Blue Dahlia,
p. 207. Beverly Linet,
Ladd,
p. 106 (1980).

334    
“The film was”:
Houseman,
Front and Center,
p. 146. Linet,
Ladd,
pp. 86, 106.
New York Times,
Aug. 17, 1944. Houseman letter to author, Aug. 6, 1984.

335    
Another problem:
MacShane,
Raymond Chandler,
p. 114.

335    
In a strange:
Linet,
Ladd,
pp. 76, 84.

336    
Chandler had prepared:
Chandler,
The Blue Dahlia,
p. 32.

337    
This idea of:
MacShane,
Raymond Chandler,
p. 117.

337    
Chandler grumblingly accepted:
Houseman,
Front and Center,
p. 113. Passages from
The Little Sister
quoted from
The Midnight Chandler,
ed. Joan Kahn, pp. 304–6.

338    
James M. Cain:
Roy Hoopes,
Cain,
p. 238.

339    
The Postman Always:
Ibid., pp. 247, 352, 378.

339    
“They hang you”:
James M. Cain,
The Postman Always Rings Twice,
p. 14 (1978).

339n    
In the midst:
Arthur Knight,
The Liveliest Art,
p. 239.

340    
The Johnston Office:
Lana Turner,
Lana,
pp. 83–5.

340    
The “handsome dark man”:
Larry Swindell,
Body and Soul,
p. 202.

340n    
Eric Johnston:
“More Trouble in Paradise,”
Fortune,
Nov. 1946. Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund,
The Inquisition in Hollywood,
p. 247.

341    
It almost didn't:
Turner,
Lana,
pp. 86–7. Also Tay Garnett,
Light Your Torches and Pull Up Your Tights.

342    
If there was:
Joseph Blotner,
Faulkner,
p. 1162. Tom Dardis,
Some Time in the Sun,
pp. 77, 80.

342    
M-G-M's story editor:
Samuel Marx,
Mayer and Thalberg,
p. 176. Dardis,
Some Time,
pp. 81, 93–4, 104, 107.

344    
Hal Wallis, the:
Blotner,
Faulkner,
pp. 1155–56, 1129–39. Dardis,
Some Time,
p. 120.
The DeGaulle Story,
a compilation of drafts, outlines and scripts, was published by the University of Mississippi Press in December 1984.

345    
It was perhaps:
Mel Gussow,
Darryl F. Zanuck,
p. 74. Jack Warner,
My First Hundred Years in Hollywood,
pp. 309–10. Dardis,
Some Time,
p. 87.

345    
The one important man:
Gerald Mast,
Howard Hawks, Storyteller,
pp. 7–11.

345    
Hawks had discovered:
Joseph McBride,
Hawks on Hawks,
pp. 56–7, 94–5. Mast,
Howard Hawks,
p. 250.

345n    
For that matter:
Jesse Lasky, Jr.,
Whatever Happened to Hollywood?,
p. 229. Norman Zierold,
The Moguls,
p. 158.

347    
Hawks had apparently:
Lauren Bacall, By Myself,
pp. 71, 77, 95, 86, 93. McBride,
Hawks,
pp. 100–2, 78, 104. Mast,
Howard Hawks,
p. 269.

350    
Chandler liked the idea:
MacShane,
Raymond Chandler,
p. 126. Raymond Chandler,
The Big Sleep,
p. 141 (1971).

351    
That wouldn't do:
McBride,
Hawks,
p. 103. Chandler,
The Big Sleep,
pp. 48, 213. Mast,
Howard Hawks,
p. 271.

351    
Chandler could hardly:
MacShane,
Raymond Chandler,
pp. 126, 125. McBride,
Hawks,
pp. 104–5.