Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [289]
he proposed a deal: BBTBI.
bold new full-page ads: Letter to IP, October 10, 1943 (LOAR, p. 174).
$25,000 for The Glass Key: Figures courtesy of Greg Walsh at the Margaret Herrick Library.
made a hefty profit: In 1934, Universal Studios, which paid AR $700 for Red Pawn, traded it to Paramount Pictures in exchange for an E. Phillips Oppenheimer story that had cost Paramount $20,000 (TPOAR, p. 106). In 1938 or 1939, MGM sold The Night of January 16th to RKO for $10,000, significantly more than it had paid AR in 1934. A year later, MGM resold the rights to Paramount for $35,000 (Paramount Production Records); Paramount released a film under that name in 1941 (American Film Institute archives).
made the hoped-for offer: Contracts negotiated on AR’s behalf by Alan Collins of Curtis Brown, Ltd., are on file in the Curtis Brown Archives at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library. I was denied access to those files by the ARI. This account was relayed by AR to BB in 1960–61.
They stayed awake all night: BBTBI.
moment would not have been as sweet: BBTBI.
she jested to her friend: Letter to Ruth Alexander, October 22, 1943 (LOAR, p. 99).
“Money is the root of all good”: AS, pp. 380–85.
considered both ponderous and ludicrouslymystical: TPOAR, p. 101.
send a signed copy of The Foun-tainhead: Author interview with FB, March 18, 2004.
an oversight that was not forgotten: Author interview with FB, June 21, 2004.
Now I can pay: BBTBI.
That notion quickly gave way: BBTBI.
“You can choose any kind of coat”: TPOAR, p. 184.
modeled the coat: The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 289, based on Cox’s interview with IP’s assistant Gertrude Vogt.
“I couldn’t find any purpose”: AS, pp. 346–47.
EIGHT: FAME: 1943–1946
“I decided to become a writer”: “To the Readers of The Fountainhead,” 1945 (LOAR, 669).
Warner Bros. had sent them to Chicago: Letter to Archibald Ogden, December 18, 1943 (LOAR, p. 105).
“The only advantage of poverty”: TPOAR, p. 184.
Tartalia, Russian for “Turtle Cat”: Interview with Thaddeus Ashby, June 20, 2005.
not far from Hollywood Boulevard: Howard Koch, As Time Goes By (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1979), p. 90.
“Only my wife”: BBTBI.
“mink-coat” conditions: Letter to Archibald Ogden, December 18, 1943 (LOAR, p. 105).
“I didn’t know you were this way”: As Time Goes By, p. 90.
her new boss, Henry Blanke: BBTBI.
“It’s magnificent”: TPOAR, p. 184.
By early February, she had completed: United Artists Collection, Series 1.2, Warner Bros. Scripts, the Wisconsin Historical Society, box 138, folder 4. JB, on p. 68 of AR, mistakenly reports that the first script was 283 pages long; that was the length of the second script, dated February 25, 1947, according to studio records. In taped biographical interviews from 1961, AR recalled that the first screenplay had been 380-some-odd pages long (BBTBI).
preserved all the novel’s major characters: BBTBI.
her impassioned love scenes and her styled dialogue: Letter to Archibald Ogden, December 18, (LOAR, p. 105).
put The Fountainhead on hold: Letter to Nick Carter, October 5, (LOAR, p. 166).
keep the dark-eyed beauty’s dialogue: BBTBI.
co-invented and patented: Joseph Carr, The Technician’s Radio Receiver Handbook (Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001), p. 233.
hated Hollywood as both shabby and vicious: Letter from IP quoting a letter from AR, December 15, 1943, Isabel Paterson Papers, Herbert Hoover Memorial Presidential Library, box 4.
“Frank says what I love is not the real city”: Letter to Archibald Ogden, December 18, 1943 (LOAR, p. 105). On her assumed return to New York, AR intended to go back to work on weekends for Richard Meland at Paramount, in spite of her new wealth (letter from IP, March 21, 1944, Isabel Paterson Papers, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, box 4).
invited Rand to join him as his first employee: BBTBI.
second was Lillian Hellman: Letter to Archibald Ogden, July 19, 1944 (LOAR, p. 148).
“lost no opportunity to