Robert Redford - Michael Feeney Callan [250]
I have refrained from citing reviews where I have used just a short quotation to convey the general critical reception to a particular film or play.
All major written and published materials referred to are listed in the bibliography.
Introduction America Is the Girl
1 “people need the chance to see”: Robert Redford, “Search for Common Ground,” Harvard Business Review, May–June 1987, 108.
2 “This rustic Xanadu and the ideals behind [it]”: Walter Kirn, “The Two Hollywoods,” The New York Times Magazine, November 16, 1997.
3 “a subtle blend of Owen Wister’s Trampas”: Laurence Luckinbill, “Oh, You Sundance Kid!” Esquire, October 1970, 160.
1. West
1 “our Manifest Destiny”: Thomas R. Hietala, Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003), 255.
2 California, especially, inspired heaven: James Kirby Martin et al., eds., America and Its People (New York: HarperCollins College, 1993), 432.
3 “California college girls are larger”: Timothy White, The Nearest Faraway Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience (New York: Henry Holt, 1994), 8.
4 as the Dust Bowl casualties came west: Ibid., 55.
5 It wasn’t unusual, if you were born: Interview with George Menard, March 26, 1995.
6 the Redfords, Saxon in origin, had split: Civic record documents, Manchester Central Library, including marriage of Peter Redford and Ann Mellor, July 17, 1820 (Public Record no. 44); Peter, son of Peter and Alice Redford, baptized May 20, 1792 (Public Record no. 18); Peter Radford [adapted to Redford] married Alice Burrow September 16, 1787 (Public Record no. 38). Occupation: muslin weaver. Other children of Peter and Alice include Ann, their firstborn, who was baptized twice at Salford Christ Church (King Street Bible Christian) and Manchester Cathedral. Other Redfords (and Radfords) indicate Catholic baptism services. Pre-1850, all signed documents by Redfords and marital partners are marked with an X, representing their signature.
7 Henry Redford, a merchant who became: James Alexander Manning, ed., The Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons, from the Time of King Edward III to Queen Victoria (London: G. Willis, 1851), 211.
8 In 1849, Presbyterian Elisha Redford married: Elisha Redford (1827–1904) Civic Record, Manchester, 1850. Elisha Redford born November 9, 1827, Manchester, England. Father Peter Redford, born, Manchester, England; mother Anne Bradshaw, born, Manchester, England. Elisha’s wife is listed as Ann McCreery [sic]. From Stonington, Rhode Island Register (Stonington Deaths, January–June, 1907 [sic], Vol. P).
9 By century’s end, Elisha was not much better off: Last Will and Testament of Elisha Redford, dated May 4, 1874. District of Stonington Probate Court. Book 36, page 288.
10 While the Harts drifted, the Greens built: Untitled documents in the Federal Archives Library, Forth Worth, Texas.
11 Along with three partners, he founded: Ibid. State Representative Libby Linebarger wrote to Robert Redford on September 25, 1990: “One of the counties I represent is Hayes County, a beautiful area along the eastern base of the Texas Hill Country.… A resident of Hayes County and former state representative, Bob Barton, has been doing a great deal of research on Hayes County’s earliest settlers and discovered that you are the great-great-grandson of two of Hayes County’s earliest settlers and Democratic elected officials.” On December 17, Redford responded: “Believe it or not, my knowledge of family history is limited. No one really ever gave it to me. Only a man named Eddie Gresin (Green) of San Marcos has kept me at all informed.”
12 His father, John Gabriel, was a traveling salesman: Genealogy from Missouri Records office, Travis County Records, Austin City Directory, Department of Commerce and Labor: twelfth national census June 1900; fourteenth national census, 1920, etc. Descendants of George Green and Pate-Green ancestor chart established by Peggy Blackmore Tombs, Marble Falls, Texas.
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