Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [550]
EH Ernest Hemingway Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston
ES Edward Streeter Collection, Fales Library, New York University
FOX 20th Century-Fox Collection, Theatre Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles
FXSC 20th Century-Fox Script Collection, Cinematics Arts Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
JKA Jane Kesner Ardmore Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles
JTC John Tracy Clinic, Los Angeles
KHLA Katharine Hepburn Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles
KHNY Katharine Hepburn Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
LOC Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer script collection at the Cinematics Arts Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
NYPL Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
PC Playwrights’ Company Collection, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison
RC Ripon College Archives, Ripon, Wisconsin
SK Stanley Kramer Papers. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles
SLT Spencer and Louise Tracy Collection, Los Angeles
SW Selden West Collection, Los Angeles
TGC Theatre Guild Correspondence, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
TH Top Hat Productions, New York
UCLA Film and Television Archives, University of California, Los Angeles
USC Cinematics Arts Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
WB Warner Bros. Archives, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
CHAPTER 1 GENERAL BUSINESS
1 The first time: Louise Tracy interview with Jane Kesner Ardmore, 6/27/72 (JKA). See also J. P. McEvoy, “Will They Get Wise to Him?” This Week, 5/24/42.
2 “delightfully cultured”: Undated ad, Daily Reporter (SLT).
3 “If you saw him”: Mrs. Spencer Tracy (guest columnist), “Walter Winchell,” Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, 7/31/39.
4 dead center of the stage: Jules Eckert Goodman, The Man Who Came Back, unpublished playscript, 1916 (NYPL).
5 Business improved: Details of the Wood Players in White Plains are from Variety, 4/19, 5/3, and 5/10/23; and Billboard, 6/9/23.
6 “The way he did it”: McEvoy, “Will They Get Wise to Him?”
7 “Great Lover type”: Walter Ramsey, “Life Story of a Real Guy,” Part 2, Modern Screen, July 1934.
8 Gedney Farm Hotel: Details of the Palace Theatre and the Gedney Farm Hotel are from Reneda Hoffman, It Happened in Old White Plains (White Plains, N.Y.: Efficiency Printing Co., 1989); and Hoffman, Yesterday in White Plains: A Picture History of a Vanished Era (Tuckahoe, N.Y.: Little Art Graphics, 2003).
9 “Mother loved the theatre”: Louise Tracy’s history of the Treadwell family is from an interview with Jane Kesner Ardmore, 6/15/72 (JKA).
10 Campbell gave her work: Although Louise Treadwell’s film appearances were unbilled, the Bebe Daniels comedies directed by Maurice Campbell during her time in California were Two Weeks With Pay (1921), The March Hare (1921), and One Wild Week (1921). The William deMille feature was likely After the Show (1921).
11 “My father”: Ardmore, 6/15/72.
12 In Fall River: Details of the Wood Players in Fall River are from Billboard, 6/23 and 7/14/23; New York Times, 6/26/23; and Variety, 6/28 and 7/19/23.
13 “If you don’t marry”: Ramsey, “The Life Story of a Real Guy,” Part 2.
14 “dispensation”: The church required six instructions for the non-Catholic, and Louise took these in Milwaukee. John Tracy, who was upset by the requirement—thought they were being too hard on her—accompanied her.
15 “Mrs. Brown”: McEvoy, “Will They Get Wise to Him?”
16 “Arthur Hopkins”: Edward G. Robinson (with Leonard Spigelgass), All My Yesterdays (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973), p. 72.
17 “He had one line”: Ethel Barrymore, Memories (New York: Harper, 1955), p. 250.
18 “a rice pudding diet”: S. R. Mook,