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118. Nancy Reagan, to author, October 1, 1999.
119. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.
120. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 201.
121. Leamer, Make-Believe, p. 115.
122. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 353.
123. Morella and Epstein, Jane Wyman, p. 121.
124. E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 258, 744.
125. Morella and Epstein, Jane Wyman, p. 122.
126. Ibid., p. 123; McClelland, Hollywood on Ronald Reagan, p. 74.
127. Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 113; Morella and Epstein, Jane Wyman, p. 123.
128. E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 259, 744.
129. Morella and Epstein, Jane Wyman, pp. 123–24.
130. Ibid., p. 124; Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 230; McClelland, Hollywood on Ronald Reagan, p. 74.
131. McClelland, Hollywood on Ronald Reagan, p. 164.
132. Ibid., pp. 78–80.
133. Morella and Epstein, Jane Wyman, p. 125; Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 113; Cannon, Reagan, p. 64.
134. Scheer in Playboy, August 1980. See also Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 355.
135. Cannon, Reagan, p. 64.
136. Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter, p. 68.
137. McClelland, Hollywood on Ronald Reagan, p. 80.
138. Allyson with Spatz Leighton, June Allyson, p. 96.
139. Cannon, Reagan, p. 64.
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Notes
Chapter Ten: Ronnie and Nancy in Hollywood, 1949–1952
1. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 91.
2. Ibid.; Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 70.
3. Nancy Reagan, to author, May 29, 2003.
4. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.
5. Higham, Merchant of Dreams, p. 132.
6. Ibid., pp. 308, 174; Donnelly, Fade to Black, pp. 231–32; Associated Press, July 5, 1983, “Former Studio Executive Dead at 84”; Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1983,
“Film Executive Benjamin Thau Is Dead at 93.”
7. Nancy Reagan, to author, May 29, 2003.
8. Richard Davis, to author, May 30, 2003.
9. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950, photo entitled “Phoenicians, Visitors Turn Out for Play.” The caption states it was taken during the intermission of Born Yesterday “at the new Sombrero Playhouse.” The photograph is undated in the scrapbook, but it appears on a page with several other items from early 1949. Ann Lee Harris, the founder of the Sombrero Playhouse, confirmed that the Sombrero opened in January 1949, with the first off-Broadway production of Garson Kanin’s Born Yesterday (to author, May 29, 2003). The Best Plays of 1948–1949 also states that Born Yesterday played at the Sombrero Playhouse in the winter of 1948–49 (Mantle, ed., p. 51).
10. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 393–94; Kelley, Nancy Reagan, pp. 70–71; Leamer, Make-Believe, pp. 63–65.
11. Leamer, Make-Believe, p. 63; Mantle, ed., The Best Plays of 1945–1946, p. 406.
12. Nancy Reagan, to author, May 17, 2003, May 29, 2003.
13. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 393.
14. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950, unidentified clipping.
15. Kenneth Giniger, to author, April 11, 2003.
16. Leamer, Make-Believe, p. 65.
17. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 71.
18. Ibid.
19. Nancy Reagan, to Sydney Guilaroff, April 15, 1992. Unpublished material from Sydney Guilaroff ’s memoir, Crowning Glory, published 1996. Obtained courtesy of Cathy Griffin.
20. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, pp. 91–92.
21. Levy, George Cukor, Master of Elegance, p. 325.
22. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 72; Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 92; Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 88.
23. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 92.
24. McDaniel in Los Angeles Herald Examiner, October 27, 1980, “Part 2: Hurray for Hollywood”; Kelley, Nancy Reagan, pp. 72–73; Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 376.
25. Laurents, Original Story By, p. 81.
26. Ann Rutherford, to author, January 22, 2001.
27. Higham, Merchant of Dreams, pp. 70, 2.
28. Nancy Reagan, I Love You, Ronnie, p. 18.
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29. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950, Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 12,