Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [559]
18 “a little more absurd”: Los Angeles Times, 6/19/32.
19 “steadfast faith”: S. R. Mook, “The Man Who’s Had Everything,” Screenland, October 1943.
20 results of a survey: Variety, 8/23/32.
21 “If pressed”: Mook, “Tough to You.”
22 considerably richer: Details of Tracy’s loan-out to Warner Bros. are from his Fox Legal Department file.
23 “going to a picture”: Mook, “Spencer Tracy as I Know Him.”
24 “every possibility”: Lewis E. Lawes to Jack L. Warner, 8/12/32 (WB).
25 Warren Hymer: Hymer’s behavior on the set of 20,000 Years in Sing Sing is documented in the film’s production file (WB). Tracy’s handling of Hymer is described in S. R. Mook, “Every-Day Tracy,” Silver Screen, January 1933.
26 “crazy about my performance”: Whitney Stine, “I’d Love to Kiss You …”: Conversations with Bette Davis (New York: Pocket Books, 1990), p. 129.
27 “only George Arliss”: Stine, “I’d Love to Kiss You,” p. 131.
28 “joked his way through it”: Joan Bennett to David Heeley and Joan Kramer, New York, 11/20/85 (TH).
29 “giving medals”: Mook, “Spencer Tracy as I Know Him.”
30 “an atrocity”: Variety, 9/27/32.
31 “something about horses”: Thomas, “Movie Colony Glimpses and Inside Stuff.”
32 “He comes home”: Mook, “Tough to You.”
33 “people he liked”: Spencer Tracy, “My Pal, Will Rogers,” Hollywood, December 1935.
34 “first to the café”: New York Times, 8/25/35.
35 “feel about nightlife”: Mook, “Spencer Tracy as I Know Him.”
36 all-time low: Me and My Gal finished its week at the Roxy with a pallid $22,000 and fared no better in general release. An exhibitor in Harrisburg, Illinois, called it a “rough and ready comedy-drama that has its moments, and at times seems to show promise of getting somewhere but never reaches there, and when it’s over you have the feeling that it was just another little picture with detectives and bad bank robbers all mixed up with the wisecracks of Tracy and Bennett. We ran it on a Sunday and Monday and were sorry, as it drew very poor on these days” (Motion Picture Herald, 4/15/33). According to the research library of Karl Thiede, worldwide rentals totaled just $391,564. With a negative cost of $308,684, the film posted a loss of $82,550.
37 “very much makeup”: New York Sun, 2/24/33.
38 “The manuscript crackled”: Jesse L. Lasky (with Don Weldon), I Blow My Own Horn (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957), p. 246.
39 “predicate all our plans”: Variety, 1/17/33.
40 “They sent me the script”: Colleen Moore to the author, via telephone, 3/26/77.
41 “sex relationship”: Sidney Kent to Winfield Sheehan, 3/7/33.
42 “The schedule calls”: Preston Sturges to Solomon Sturges, 3/27/33, Preston Sturges Collection, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California Los Angeles.
43 “dialogue overlapped”: S. R. Mook, “Master Mugg,” Screenland, April 1933.
44 “This isn’t a business”: Philip Trent (Clifford Jones) to Selden West, via telephone, 9/29/93 (SW).
45 “I was 21 years old”: Lincoln W. Cromwell, M.D., Dear Spence: Letters to Spencer Tracy from His Medical Student, unpublished manuscript, 1980, preface, p. 1 (SW).
46 “four to eight films a year”: Mook, “Master Mugg.”
47 “ogling the poinsettias”: Tracy, “The Kid Brother.”
48 “go out and get drunk”: (Suspect Name Redacted), interview with victim’s former driver, 6/27/34, FBI file 7-749 (SW).
49 “the best of my recollection”: Colleen Moore to Selden West, 12/9/77 (SW).
50 “He just went on”: Colleen Moore to Selden West, via telephone, 12/15/77 (SW).
51 “when the latter picture is released”: Hollywood Reporter, 4/29/33.
52 “wandered off”: Frank Tracy to Selden West (SW).
53 “what Carroll needs”: Frank Tracy to Selden West, via telephone, February 1993 (SW).
54 “What are you dissatisfied about?”: Tracy, “Making Faces at Life” (Part V).
55 “complement his realities”: Fay Wray, On the Other Hand (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989), p. 145.
56 “most daring”: Hollywood Reporter, 6/19/33.
57 “frightened us”: Ibid., 6/20/33.
58 “most in all