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17 “Ava Gardner on Thanksgiving”: Dorothy Manners, syndicated column, Nov. 26, 1953.
18 “You know, Harold”: The Golden Years of Classic Television: The Colgate Comedy Hour, Vol. 1 (Miracle Picture, 2005), DVD.
19 “ev’ry time your lips”: Lyrics from “That Old Black Magic,” words by Johnny Mercer, music by Harold Arlen (New York: Famous Music, 1942).
20 “SINATRA ADMITS HURTING WRIST”: Lubbock (Tex.) Morning Avalanche, Dec. 10, 1953.
21 “I think it’s a good song”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 114.
22 “Fairy tales”: Lyrics from “Young at Heart,” words by Carolyn Leigh, music by Johnny Richards (New York: Sunbeam Music, 1954).
23 “I could have told you”: Lyrics from “I Could Have Told You So,” words by Carl Sigman, music by James Van Heusen (New York: Music Sales, 1953).
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SOURCE NOTES
1 “The breakup of the sultry”: Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel, Nov. 11, 1953.
2 “F. Sinatra is taking”: Edith Gwynn, syndicated column, Dec. 1, 1953.
3 “Of all Greenson’s”: Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, p. 427.
4 “Special Problems in Psychotherapy”: Ibid., p. 426.
5 “It wouldn’t surprise me”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, Dec. 16, 1953.
6 “I’ll be so happy”: United Press, Dec. 23, 1953.
7 “I’m going to spend”: Ibid.
8 “She was not a little”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 283.
9 “AVA GARDNER”: Newport (R.I.) Daily News, Dec. 30, 1953.
10 “trying to work”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 182.
CHAPTER 39
1. Who, to complete the slightly absurd polygon, would marry Walter Chiari’s former fiancée, Lucia Bosé, later that year.
SOURCE NOTES
2 “You may have heard”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, transcribed from Zanesville (Ohio) Times Recorder, Jan. 23, 1954.
3 “in a chilly studio”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 115.
4 “He literally moved”: Kelley, His Way, p. 233.
5 “I come home”: Ibid., p. 235.
6 “Nancy Sinatra’s pals”: Erskine Johnson, syndicated column, Jan. 24, 1954.
7 “You’re the sittin’-est”: Gardner, Ava, p. 221.
8 “I like a little”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 284.
9 “On the morning”: Ibid. 693 “I saw Frankie”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, Jan. 30, 1954.
10 “craved class”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 50.
11 “Sinatra was like”: Ibid., p. 40.
12 “I stayed a night”: Bacall, By Myself and Then Some, p. 241.
13 “I had to perform”: Gardner, Ava, p. 348.
14 “When we got there”: Sciacca, Sinatra, p. 171.
15 “Frank Sinatra—who’s collecting”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Feb. 8, 1954.
16 “There’s a tug-of-war”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Feb. 12, 1954.
17 “QUADRANGLE”: New York Daily News wire report, Feb. 16, 1954.
18 “Frank Sinatra and Artie Shaw”: Walter Winchell, syndicated column, Feb. 26, 1954.
19 “I’m a saloon singer”: Bob Thomas, syndicated column, March 14, 1954.
20 “What does Ava”: Laura Lee, syndicated column, March 14, 1954.
CHAPTER 40
1. Fred Zinnemann, who had won the Best Director Oscar, also said as much: “The picture never could have won these honors without Montgomery Clift. He was the heart of the whole movie” (United Press, March 26, 1954).
SOURCE NOTES
2 “an ocean’s roar”: Lyrics from “Day In, Day Out,” words by Johnny Mercer, music by Rube Bloom (New York: Bregman, Vocco, and Conn, 1939).
3 “In working out”: Shaw, Entertainer, p. 27.
4 “Just for the record”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, March 11, 1954.
5 “Ava was sure”: Leonard Lyons, syndicated column, March 15, 1954.
6 “Frank Sinatra’s excuse”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, March 14, 1954.
7 “Frank Sinatra off to Italy”: Jimmie Fidler, syndicated column, March 18, 1954.
8 “Frank Sinatra, an intimate”: Wisconsin State Journal, March 16, 1954.
9 “Sinatra’s participation”: Westbrook Pegler, syndicated column, March 16, 1954.
10 “Willie Moretti”: Ibid.
11 “Bring back that Oscar”: Kelley, His Way, p. 238.
12 “To Daddy—all our love”: Ibid., p. 237.
13 “After being exiled”: Walter Winchell, syndicated column, March 23, 1954.
14 “NEWCOMER IS HOT FAVORITE