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5 “rest cure”: Lowell Sun, 1/18/43.
6 “Miss Hepburn is Hepburn”: Variety, 12/16/42.
7 “garden-variety love story”: New York Times, 2/21/43.
8 “most important”: New York Times, 2/21/43.
9 “horrible scenes”: Katharine Hepburn to Donald Ogden Stewart, 12/15/42 (DOS).
10 “can’t vouch”: “Donald Ogden Stewart,” Focus on Film, November–December 1970.
11 “It was winter”: James Harvey, “Irene Dunne Remembers,” Film Comment, January– February 1980.
12 Tracy’s relationship: In 1971 Irene Dunne told Roddy McDowell that Tracy was difficult at the start of A Guy Named Joe “because he wanted Kate.” McDowell repeated what she said to Selden West in a phone conversation on 2/23/97 (SW). Given her prior commitments, it is unlikely that Hepburn could have done the film; she was appearing on Broadway in Without Love when Dunne’s casting was announced in December 1942.
13 “first few days”: James Bawden, “A Visit with Irene Dunne,” American Classic Screen, September–October 1977.
14 “too old”: Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, 3/13/43.
15 “As the star appeared”: New York Times, 8/6/67.
16 “refusal to rehearse”: Harvey, “Irene Dunne Remembers.”
17 “always boss”: Los Angeles Times, 3/16/73.
18 “enjoyed working”: Ibid. Dunne told David Chierichetti she thought A Guy Named Joe was “one of the finest pictures I ever made.”
19 “walking trip”: Eddie Lawrence to Selden West.
20 “We’re alike”: “A Director Named Fleming,” The Lion’s Roar, January 1944.
21 “the first take”: Van Johnson in Spencer Tracy: Triumph and Turmoil, Peter Jones Productions/A&E Network, 1999.
22 “liked young actors”: Barry Nelson, Southern Methodist University Oral History with Ronald L. Davis.
23 “My face”: Pete Martin, “Bobby-Sox Blitzer,” Saturday Evening Post, 6/30/45.
24 “Hollywood Presbyterian”: Van Johnson, undated interview clip for Turner Classic Movies.
25 “I can remember Mr. Tracy”: Doris Chambers to Jane Ardmore, 7/10/72 (JKA).
26 “a great mistake”: Ardmore, “Clinic.”
27 “dirty floors”: Ogden Standard-Examiner, 4/7/43.
28 “She would put my hand”: Carol Lee Barnes to the author, via e-mail, 6/16/05.
29 “give all this money”: Ardmore, “Clinic.”
30 “off the sauce”: Doug Warren (with James Cagney), James Cagney: The Authorized Biography (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983), p. 132.
31 “never announced”: Frank McHugh to Ralph Bellamy.
32 “All the wives”: Dorothy McHugh to Selden West.
33 “lived the characters”: David Chierichetti, “Irene Dunne Today,” Film Fan Monthly, February 1971.
34 “art of reacting”: Barry Nelson Oral History.
35 “seldom lost myself”: Ardmore, “Tracy,” n.d.
36 “I’m no good”: Adela Rogers St. Johns, “Man of Conflict,” Photoplay, February 1945.
37 “Here’s Kenny”: Edgers, “The Spencer Tracy We Knew.”
38 “no saying no”: Cromwell, Dear Spence, p. 298.
39 “ ‘What do you expect’ ”: Katharine Hepburn to Phil Donahue.
40 “All of my men”: William Self to Selden West, Beverly Hills, 8/3/93 (SW).
41 “destroyed Spencer”: Katharine Hepburn to Selden West, Fenwick, 10/18/91 (SW).
42 “dessert with rum”: David Caldwell to the author.
43 “intimate relationship”: Norman, The Hollywood Greats, p. 83.
44 “We spent the night”: Cromwell, Dear Spence, p. 301.
45 “never met him”: Hal Elias, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History (AMPAS).
46 “hovering ghosts”: Edward L. Munson, Jr., as quoted in American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films 1941–1950, Film Entries A–L, p. 967.
47 “lighting took hours”: Hume Cronyn, A Terrible Liar (New York: William Morris, 1991), p. 168.
48 “Freund was anything”: Fred Zinnemann, An Autobiography (New York: Scribner, 1992), p. 52.
49 “Zinnemann was first chosen”: Katharine Hepburn to Heeley and Kramer.
50 “very important”: Gabriel Miller, ed., Fred Zinnemann Interviews (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005), p. 58.
51 “feeling morose”: Cronyn, A Terrible Liar, pp. 169–70.
52 “he’d had a few”: Katharine Hepburn to Phil Donahue.
53 “done two things”: Joseph L. Mankiewicz to Selden West.
54 “I have no idea”: Hepburn,