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12 Throughout 1942 and 1943 Japanese bombing scares: Bastem, Santa Monica Bay, 182.
13 David was a sergeant in the Third Army: After Action Report, Third Army, August 1, 1944–May 9, 1945. Staff Section, Volume 11. Unclassified, dated 10/29/1984. Includes Top Secret letter from Headquarters, Third United States Army, APO 403, dated January 1, 1945, signed by Brigadier General Hobart R. Gray, Chief of Staff, detailing special ops, including “(d.) Continue to hold present line, including Saarlautern bridge-head, withdrawing only on Army order … by command of Lieutenant General Patton.” U.S. Army Military History Institute, PA. Also letter from the American Battle Monuments Commission, Washington, D.C., regarding final resting place of 1SGT David G. Redford 39157314, April 10, 1997.
3. Krazy in Brentwood
1 Charlie particularly was wary of national paranoia: Interview with George Menard, February 9, 1996.
2 Douglas aircraft manufacturing had boomed: Fred E. Bastem, Santa Monica Bay (Los Angeles: General Publishing Group, 1997), 181.
3 The previous year, HUAC had forced Rossen: Interview with Carol Rossen, December 2, 1997.
4 Coomber remembers their first meeting: Interview with Bill Coomber, July 7, 1995.
5 Her fortune came from her father: Interview with Elizabeth “Lala” Brady, September 30, 1996.
6 In the Emerson school newspaper: The Emersonian, dated September 1949.
4. East of Eden
1 Back home the adventuring with Coomber: Interview with Bill Coomber, July 7, 1995.
2 In November the Redfords moved to the Valley: Interview with Kathleen “Kitty” Andrews, March 4, 1996.
3 Kitty knew Redford was slipping away: Ibid.
4 Charlie continued to believe his son’s: Interview with George Menard, March 26, 1995.
5 Redford started out brooding and isolated: Interview with Jack Brendlinger, April 14, 1998.
6 Redford’s insularity swung to extroversion: Interview with Pat Ader, January 22, 1997.
7 In May 1955, Martha died: Certificate of Death No. 6253. Martha W. Redford, May 2, 1955, 1:30 p.m. At St. Joseph’s Hospital, 501 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, Los Angeles. Cause of death: Unnoted. Signed by physician, John M. Thomson, who lists he has been treating her for seven days. Burial: Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
5. Behind the Mirror
1 In November, Lena died: Certificate of death No. 18734. Lena Taylor Redford, died November 1, 1955, aged seventy years.
2 In Manhattan, they bought round-trip tourist-class tickets: Interview with Jack Brendlinger, May 28, 1997.
3 There, for $40, they rented a Moorish villa: Diary journal, Robert Redford Papers, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University.
4 In October the friends returned to Paris: Interview with Jack Brendlinger, May 28, 1997.
5 They arrived back in the United States: Diary journal, Robert Redford Papers, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University.
6 On his first sight of New York … Miller wrote: Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1970), 12.
7 Here, instantly, Redford’s mood changed: In “Varwood,” a journal of his stay at the apartment complex in the summer of 1957, twenty-seven pages, dated 1958, Robert Redford Papers, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University.
8 “Our relationship got off to a better start”: Lola Redford interview, Provo Herald, April 13, 1971.
9 One of the Provo roommates didn’t approve: Interview with Jack Brendlinger, May 28, 1997.
10 On May 3, he had written off: Letter on file, from Robert Redford, May 3, 1957. Sundance archive.
11 Redford and Brendlinger were evicted: Interview with Jack Brendlinger, May 28, 1997.
12 “Kindly look with favor upon my stepson”: Letter to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts from Helen Redford, dated August 1, 1957. Sundance archive.
13 On September 1 he mailed the requested check: Letter on file, from Robert Redford, September 1, 1957. Sundance archive.
6. At the Academy
1 The graduate course was a two-year program: Interview with Harry Mastrogeorge, April 18, 1999.
2 Francis Lettin, the senior rehearsal instructor: