Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [560]
59 Sheehan got $3,000: Details of Tracy’s loan-out to Columbia are from his Fox Legal Department file.
CHAPTER 9 THE AMOUNT OF MARRIAGE WE’VE EXPERIENCED
1 “The situation was not”: Frederick Lewis, “Spencer Tracy Conquers Himself,” Liberty, 10/9/1937.
2 “They had decided”: Lorraine Foat Holmes to Selden West.
3 “Borzage had a way”: James Bawden, “Loretta Young,” Films in Review, November 1987.
4 “Irritable as a bear”: Mook, “Tough to You.”
5 “Her diction”: Jane Feely Desmond to the author.
6 “Louise and I stood up”: Carter Bruce, “I’m Glad I Married Before I Came to Hollywood,” Modern Screen, October 1933.
7 “The papers forced us”: S. R. Mook, “The Truth About the Tracy Separation,” Movie Mirror, November 1933.
8 “I gave them a statement”: Mook, “Tracy Talks!”
9 “very susceptible”: New York Times, 3/30/95.
10 “Spencer and I”: Jack Grant, “Get Your Heart Broken Early,” Movie Classic, March 1934.
11 “Such fire”: Bawden, “Loretta Young.”
12 “Spencer asked me”: Grant, “Get Your Heart Broken Early.”
13 “The story was a trifle”: Bawden, “Loretta Young.”
14 “conscious of Loretta”: Gladys Hall, “Spencer Tracy’s Love Confession,” Movie Mirror, March 1934.
15 “gorgeous person”: Howard Sharpe, “The Adventurous Life of Spencer Tracy” (Part 3), Photoplay, April 1937.
16 “meant Lee Tracy”: Joan Wester Anderson, Forever Young (Allen, Tex.: Thomas More Publishing, 2000), p. 70.
17 “grows in stature”: New York American, 8/17/33.
18 “a more exacting role”: New York Daily Mirror, 8/17/33.
19 “No more convincing performance”: New York Times, 8/17/33.
20 “its first seven days”: Figures for The Power and the Glory are from Variety, 8/22, 8/29, 9/5, and 9/12/33. “A very good picture, but a box office flop,” reported an exhibitor in Elvins, Missouri. “Marvelous acting by Spencer Tracy. Too depressing and slow for the masses” (Motion Picture Herald, 11/11/33).
21 “going to the set”: Jane Feely Desmond to the author.
22 “Her dining tete-a-tete”: Los Angeles Examiner, 9/14/33.
23 “I’ve been in love”: Grant, “Get Your Heart Broken Early.”
24 Madge Evans admitted: Larry Swindell to the author.
25 “not a devout Catholic”: Jane Feely Desmond to the author.
26 “I hope you’re not”: Jane Feely Desmond to Selden West (SW).
27 “What could I say”: Leatrice Joy to Selden West, via telephone, September 1977 (SW).
28 “Securely held”: Los Angeles Examiner, 9/22/33.
29 “anything of this sort”: Sharpe, “The Adventurous Life of Spencer Tracy,” Part 3.
30 “so cheesy”: Claire Trevor to Selden West, New York City, 10/4/95 (SW).
31 “He liked the way”: John Gallagher, “Claire Trevor,” Films in Review, November 1983.
32 “run a story”: S. R. Mook, “Tracy Fights Through,” Screenland, May 1935.
33 “I’d known Louise and Spencer”: Mook, “The Truth About the Tracy Separation.”
34 “good time”: Mook, “Spencer Tracy As I Know Him.”
35 “There’s nothing about it”: Mook, “The Truth About the Tracy Separation.”
36 “The talk”: Jack Oakie, Jack Oakie’s Double Takes (San Francisco: Strawberry Hill Press, 1980), p. 160.
37 “The studio believes”: MPPDA memorandum, 6/6/33 (AMPAS).
38 “impossible to eliminate”: Sam Briskin to Dr. James Wingate, 7/22/33 (AMPAS).
39 “a fine and tender picture”: Dr. James Wingate to Harry Cohn, 10/13/33 (AMPAS).
40 “matter-of-fact sincerity”: Hollywood Reporter, 10/11/33.
41 “enchanted with the romance”: Wray, On the Other Hand, p. 230.
42 “off-set scenes”: Undated clip, December 1933 (SLT).
43 “How could it?”: Hall, “Spencer Tracy’s Love Confession.”
44 “The superintendent”: Ramsey, “Life Story of a Real Guy,” Part 2.
45 “doing arithmetic”: Tracy, The Story of John, p. 112 (SLT).
46 “being deaf”: Tracy, “My Complicated Life,” Part 1.
47 “domestic rentals”: According to the research library of Karl Thiede, domestic rentals for Man’s Castle totaled $388,000 in its initial release.
48 “the name of Spencer Tracy”: Hollywood Reporter, 1/23/34.
49 “put on the shelf”: Ibid., 1/25/34.
50 The script: Mankiewicz also received credit for adapting the play at Paramount. That