Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [298]
his eye on Jennifer Jones: BBTBI.
In early June: Patricia Neal, p. 58.
a twenty-two-year-old ingenue: Hedda Hopper, “Looking at Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, June 21, 1948, p. 16.
she was horrified: BBTBI.
“After dinner we never saw the two of them again”: Stuart M. Kaminsky, Coop: The Life and Legend of Gary Cooper (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980), p. 154.
completed the screenplay in late June: Letter to John L. B. Williams, June 26, 1948 (LOAR, p. 398).
a quarry near Fresno: Letter to Archibald Ogden, July 10, 1948 (LOAR, p. 402).
remained on the lot: TPOAR, p. 209.
turned in her script in a blaze of glory: Letter to Archibald Ogden, June 26, 1948 (LOAR, p. 398).
promised not to make any changes: Letter to Henry Blanke, June 26, 1948 (LOAR, p. 397).
was an excellent director: Letter to Archibald Ogden, June 26, 1948 (LOAR, p. 398).
ended with her plot and theme intact: She saw a rough cut the week of October 2 (letter to Ross Baker, October 2, 1948 [LOAR, p. 407]).
“For the first time in Hollywood history”: Letter to John Chamberlain, November 27, 1948, LOAR, p. 415.
were in an uproar of excitement: Letter to Alan Collins, January 8, 1949 (LOAR, p. 419).
“The whole thing was an enormously miserable experience”: TPOAR, p. 210.
constantly caved in to pressure: BBTBI.
on time and under budget: BBTBI.
no more changes made to the script: AR:SOL, DVD.
she defied them all: TPOAR, p. 211.
one line had been cut in final editing: BBTBI.
wrote a second article: Bosely Crowther, “The Screen in Review” and “In a Glass House,” NYT, July 9 and July 17, 1949, pp. 8 and XI, respectively. AR wrote and the Times published a long rebuttal, in which she said, confusingly, “My script was shot verbatim; this, to my knowledge, was the first and only instance of its kind in Hollywood” (“Ayn Rand Replies to Criticism of Her Film,” NYT, July 24, 1949, p. X4).
“Cooper in Race for Longest-Speech Oscar”: Harold Heffernan, The Bell Syndicate, 1949.
“In all the years I knew her”: Barbara Branden, “It’s a Dirty Job, But …,” unpublished essay, 2007, courtesy of the author.
It was the trip of a lifetime: Letters to IP, February 7 and February 14, 1948 (LOAR, pp. 188–96).
contacted her good pal: The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 304.
didn’t mention her former mentor’s help: Author interview with BB, December 16, 2005.
“I have seldom enjoyed anything”: Letter to IP, February 7 (LOAR, p. 188).
“It was the security of being first”: AS, p. 225; italics the author’s.
the greatness of man: Letter to IP, April 24, 1948 (LOAR, p. 212).
she reminded Paterson: Letter to IP, May 8, 1948 (LOAR, p. 211).
Altruism was like sawdust: Letter from IP to AR, May 13, 1948 (LOAR, p. 214).
She conceded to having: Letter to IP, May 17, 1948 (LOAR, pp. 215–17).
raise money for a new magazine: BBTBI.
in honor of Albert Jay Nock’s 1920s libertarian weekly: A Life with the Printed Word, pp. 136–37.
She wrote to the older woman: Letter to IP, May 17, 1948 (LOAR, p. 216).
She had not enjoyed the flight: The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 312.
would never really work again: The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 322.
The first hint of trouble: Summary of Paterson’s 1948 visit based on BBTBI.
After Ryskind left: TPOAR, p. 203.
The next incident took place: BBTBI.
“[That woman] ought to be kept out of sight”: The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 313.
Rand suspected: “I suspect that [Paterson] really hated The Fountainhead,” Rand once told Barbara Branden, “that she liked certain aspects of it dutifully, or rather that she talked herself into liking it” (BBTBI).
According to Rand’s later account: BBTBI.
She didn’t like the sex: Author interview with NB, May 5, 2004.
was “gone” … was “no good”: BBTBI.
in February 1959: Author interview with Muriel Hall, July 4, 2004.
she also hoped: The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 381.
admitted that she had reservations: The Woman and the Dynamo, p. 382.
He couldn’t imagine: Author interview with NB, May 5, 2004.
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