Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [568]
2 “After reading”: Schary, Heyday, p. 93.
3 “I expected robes”: McGilligan, Film Crazy, p. 194.
4 “just a straight man”: Ardmore, “Tracy,” n.d.
5 “grimly alone”: Beaudry, “Tracy and Beaudry.”
6 “written in gold”: Rev. E. J. Flanagan to ST, 2/4/38 (BT).
7 “win space”: Rev. E. J. Flanagan to John Considine, Jr., 2/12/38 (BT).
8 “All actors”: Rt. Rev. Edward J. Flanagan, “I Meet Myself in Spencer Tracy,” Liberty, 10/8/38.
9 “do him good”: Variety, 4/27/38.
10 “the restless type”: Gable, “My Pal, Spencer Tracy.”
11 discovered bleeding: Details of William Powell’s 1938 battle with cancer are from an interview with the actor in Time, 5/10/63.
12 “pretty blue”: Spencer Tracy, 1938 datebook (SLT).
13 “what was left”: Kanin, Tracy and Hepburn, p. 146.
14 “I was sick”: Franc Dillon, “Meet Father Tracy,” Picture Play, December 1938.
15 “saw a figure coming”: Swindell, Spencer Tracy, p. 152.
16 “Tracy will sail”: Los Angeles Times, 4/17/38.
17 “huge supply of liquor”: David Wayne to James Fisher, 12/14/92, as quoted in James Fisher, Spencer Tracy: A Bio-Bibliography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994), p. 17.
18 “should not see”: Swindell, Spencer Tracy, p. 153.
19 a private plane: Details of Tracy’s evacuation from New York are in notes taken from Spencer Tracy’s M-G-M personnel files by Selden West in 1992, Turner Entertainment/SW. The same day, according to Lambs Club records, Tracy was suspended from the privileges of the club for violation of House Rule #13 “pending action by the Council.” A violation of House Rule #13 was “conduct unbecoming a member” (NYPL).
20 “able to find him”: Dore Schary in M-G-M: When the Lion Roars (Part Two—“The Lion Reigns Supreme”).
21 “Unfortunately”: John Considine, Jr., to Rev. E. J. Flanagan, 4/27/38 (BT).
22 “Mickey Rooney … was a pretty cocky”: Joseph L. Mankiewicz to Heeley and Kramer.
23 “darn near died”: James Reid, “Even Barrymore Calls Him the Best,” Motion Picture, November 1938.
24 “He was artless”: Gene Reynolds to the author, via telephone, 2/6/06.
25 “eyes bore into mine”: Dickie Moore, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), p. 161.
26 “one of the first scenes”: Tom and Jim Goldrup, Growing Up on the Set (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002), p. 306.
27 “can’t explain it”: Moore, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, p. 73.
28 “During lunch”: “The Story Behind the Movie: Alumni Remember Boys Town,” posted at boystownmovie.org.
29 “Tracy off the booze”: Beth Day Romulo to Selden West, 10/17/92 (SW).
30 “schooling was insufficient”: Tracy, “My Complicated Life,” Part 1.
31 “that’s the worst picture”: Robbin Coons, “Plain Guy,” Screen Guide, February 1948.
32 “Washington—no!”: Rev. E. J. Flanagan to Frank Whitbeck, 8/12/38 (BT).
33 “There was applause”: Motion Picture Herald, 9/10/38.
34 “Pure sentiment”: Daily Variety, 9/2/38.
35 “brilliant, restrained performance”: Hollywood Reporter, 9/2/38.
36 “dying hog”: Omaha Morning World-Herald, 9/8/38.
37 “If you have a diamond”: Howard Strickling to Lyn Tornabene, 10/25/73 (AMPAS).
38 “Early on”: Gary Carey, All the Stars in Heaven (New York: Dutton, 1981), p. 108.
39 “an honest question”: Washington Star, 9/17/40.
40 “like the children”: Hall, “Spencer Tracy Speaks His Mind.”
41 “world unto itself”: Maureen O’Sullivan in M-G-M: When the Lion Roars (Part Two—“The Lion Reigns Supreme”).
42 “In Howard’s book”: Ann Straus, Southern Methodist University Oral History with Ronald L. Davis.
43 “made it difficult”: June Caldwell to the author, Culver City, Calif., 9/22/04.
44 “I have often wondered”: Rev. E. J. Flanagan to ST, 11/1/38 (BT).
45 “Each detail of this film”: Josef von Sternberg, Fun in a Chinese Laundry (New York: Macmillan, 1965), p. 277.
46 “He wouldn’t stand”: Laraine Day to Barbara Hall, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History, January–March 1997 (AMPAS).
47 “There’s no mistaking”: Los Angeles Evening Herald-Express, 11/26/38.
48 “I Take This Woman”: Dallas Morning News,