Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [569]
49 “Just imagine”: Dallas Morning News, 3/8/39.
50 “Humph!”: Frank Tracy to Selden West.
51 “in a wheelchair”: Jane Feely Desmond to Selden West.
52 “highway accident”: New York Times, 9/9/38.
53 “The omission”: Los Angeles Times, 1/13/39.
54 “it is disrespectful”: Dillon, “Meet Father Tracy.”
55 “I could tell”: Ardmore, “Tracy,” n.d.
56 “I honestly do not feel”: Hollywood Citizen News, 2/24/39. The story that the name on the Oscar, due to an engraving error, was “Dick” Tracy instead of “Spencer” is apparently untrue. The origin of the story is unknown.
57 “all primed”: Gable, “My Pal, Spencer Tracy.”
58 “I didn’t see Boys Town”: ST to Pete Martin.
59 “Not dramatized enough”: Story conference notes, 6/16/37 (USC).
60 “Forget the silly business”: Philip Dunne, Take Two (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980), p. 58.
61 loose loan-out: In a letter dated 9/2/39, 20th Century-Fox agreed to compensate Loew’s Incorporated $75,111.11 for the loan of Tracy (FOX).
62 “He came to me”: King to Perry, Directors Guild Oral History.
63 “In vino veritas”: Henry King, as quoted by Larry Swindell to the author. The old Irish equivalent: “Alcohol takes the varnish off anything.”
64 “soundproof stages”: Los Angeles Evening Herald-Express, 3/18/39.
65 “I’m slowly improving”: Reid, “Even Barrymore Calls Him the Best.”
66 “tuck in his chin”: Hall, “You Can Only Defeat Yourself.”
67 “Do you realize”: Dallas Morning News, 3/8/39.
CHAPTER 15 A BUOYANT EFFECT ON THE AUDIENCE
1 “Next time I come”: New York Times, 11/1/38.
2 “The crowd that charged”: New York Times, 5/14/39.
3 “What am I doing in London?”: Unidentified clipping, 4/27/39 (SLT).
4 “think fast”: Film Weekly, 5/6/39.
5 “All the Kennedys”: Kanin, Tracy and Hepburn, p.65.
6 “Grapes of Wrath”: Hollywood Citizen News, 5/29/39.
7 “I had wires”: New York World-Telegram, 4/16/38.
8 “hope to do more”: Mook, “For More Than Money.”
9 “And it occurred”: Theresa Helburn to ST, 5/25/39 (TGC).
10 “motion picture business”: Interview with Ardmore, 7/5/72.
11 “Don’t worry”: Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, 7/31/39.
12 “well taken care of”: Nancy Dowd and David Shepard, King Vidor: A Directors Guild of America Oral History (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1988), p. 180.
13 “I’ll play him”: Sullivan, “A Prediction That Came Doubly True.”
14 “Hunt Stromberg”: Dowd and Shepard, King Vidor, p. 182.
15 “no complete story line”: King Vidor to Eddie Mannix, 5/17/39, as quoted in Rudy Behlmer, “To the Wilderness for Northwest Passage,” American Cinematographer, November 1987.
16 “At this time”: Dowd and Shepard, King Vidor, p. 182.
17 “unsavory characters”: Harrold A. Weinberger, unpublished autobiography, circa 1972 (USC).
18 “renovated camp”: Leonard Maltin, “Conversations: Robert Young,” Leonard Maltin’s Movie Crazy, spring 2003.
19 “include me out”: Walter Brennan, Oral History with Charles Higham, Columbia University, 8/11/71.
20 “Young, Brennan and I”: Hall, “You Can Only Defeat Yourself.”
21 “wearing buckskin”: Maltin, “Conversations: Robert Young.”
22 “He becomes so thoroughly”: John R. Wolfenden, “Spencer Tracy as Seen by His Best Friends,” Australian Women’s Weekly, 1/6/40.
23 “marvelous performance”: King Vidor to Selden West, Los Angeles, December 1977 (SW).
24 “SERIOUS CHANGES”: ST to Eddie Mannix, 7/20/39, as quoted in “To the Wilderness for Northwest Passage.”
25 “He had an expression”: King Vidor to Selden West.
26 “AGREE WITH YOU”: Hunt Stromberg to King Vidor, 8/3/39, King Vidor Papers, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
27 “HAVE SCREENED”: Hunt Stromberg to ST, 8/4/39, King Vidor Papers.
28 “he blamed himself”: David Caldwell to the author, via telephone, 11/4/06.
29 “a close friend”: Interview with Ardmore, 8/1/72 (JKA).
30 he was so “nervous”: Spencer Tracy, 1939 datebook (SLT).
31 “a very good eye”: Ardmore, “Tracy,” n.d. (JKA).
32 “motor running”: Frank Tracy to Selden West (SW).
33 “I was sorry”: Gable, “My Pal, Spencer Tracy.”
34 “It would be wonderful