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16 “not calculated”: John F. Wharton, Life Among the Playwrights (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times, 1974), p. 137.
17 “Spencer was superb”: S. N. Behrman, People in a Diary: A Memoir (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972), pp. 226–27.
18 “something was amiss”: Wharton, Life Among the Playwrights, p. 137.
19 “iron this out”: Los Angeles Daily News, 2/16/46.
20 “never nervous”: Katharine Hepburn to Heeley and Kramer.
21 “delivers the goods”: Katharine Hepburn to Emil Levigne, n.d. (courtesy of Judy Samelson).
22 “party going on”: Irene Mayer Selznick, A Private View (New York: Knopf, 1983), p. 278.
23 “didn’t amount”: Ardmore, “Tracy,” n.d.
24 “ten days”: Kanin, Tracy and Hepburn, p. 97.
25 “basket case”: ST to Pete Martin.
26 “She and Spencer”: Katharine Hepburn to Charles Higham, circa 1975 (Charles Higham Collection, USC).
27 “It touched him”: Katharine Hepburn to Heeley and Kramer.
28 “Spencer rose”: Kanin, Tracy and Hepburn, p. 98.
29 “No newspaper man”: New York Times, 11/12/45.
30 “mistaken a stage”: The New York dailies all ran their reviews of The Rugged Path on 11/12/45. The Time notice appeared in its issue of 11/19/45.
31 Andrew Tracy: Frank Tracy to Selden West, 10/18/95 (SW).
32 “same goddamn lines”: Edward Dmytryk, Southern Methodist University Oral History with Ronald L. Davis, 12/2/79.
33 “worst blows”: Robert E. Sherwood to Victor Samrock, 1/11/46 (PC).
34 Poverty: Sherwood put $18,000 into The Rugged Path, a 25 percent stake in the production. In a statement to him dated April 30, 1946, the play showed losses and expenses of $87,476.66 and an operating profit on Broadway of $18,671.01. Sherwood’s share of the loss amounted to $17,201.41; for his investment he received a refund of $798.59. See also Ed Sullivan’s column of 11/25/55.
35 “legitimate gross”: Robert E. Sherwood to ST, 12/12/45 (PC).
36 “your problems”: Robert E. Sherwood to ST, 12/18/45 (PC).
37 top five stars: Bing Crosby headed the list again, as he had in 1944. Van Johnson appeared in second place, Greer Garson in third, and Betty Grable in fourth.
38 “the great man tonight”: Victor Samrock to Robert E. Sherwood, 1/2/46 (PC).
39 “My record is good”: Variety, 1/9/46.
40 “increase business”: Victor Samrock to Robert E. Sherwood, 1/9/46 (PC).
41 “notable achievements”: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., My Dinner of Herbs (New York: Limelight Editions, 2003), p. 59.
42 “full impact”: Victor Samrock to Robert E. Sherwood, 1/21/46 (PC).
43 “I appreciate it”: Robert E. Sherwood to Victor Samrock and William Fields, 1/24/46 (PC).
CHAPTER 22 STATE OF THE UNION
1 “very happy”: Interview with Ardmore, 7/5/72.
2 “I got tired”: John Tracy, “My Complicated Life” (Part Two), Volta Review, July 1946.
3 “the BEST story”: R. B. Wills, “The Sea of Grass” coverage, 9/18/36 (MGM).
4 “Its Western setting”: Loy, Being and Becoming, p. 192.
5 “worked with Hepburn”: McGilligan, Tender Comrades, p. 578.
6 “fascinating and unusual”: New York Times, 4/21/46.
7 “bad at negotiating”: Robert M.W. Vogel Oral History (AMPAS).
8 “pretty good businessman”: Hall, “Spencer Tracy Faces Forty.”
9 “just a chance”: Zeitlin, “Manuel the Lovable.”
10 “every charitable organization”: Dorothy Gopadze, “Pardon My Pink Slip,” unpublished manuscript, n.d. (courtesy of Tina Gopadze Smith).
11 “very handsome”: Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald, 2/21/47.
12 “not lost weight”: Elia Kazan, Kazan: A Life (New York: Knopf, 1988), p. 309.
13 “watch Her Highness?”: Wilson, Hot Times, p. 38.
14 “in take one”: Jeff Young, Kazan: The Master Discusses His Films (New York: Newmarket Press, 1999), p. 31.
15 “bursts of energy”: Melvyn Douglas and Tom Arthur, See You at the Movies (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1986), p. 149.
16 “lovers”: Young, Kazan, p. 31.
17 “don’t sell yourself”: Lawrence Langner to Katharine Hepburn, 5/18/46 (TGC).
18 “Everyone here is talking”: Lawrence Langner to ST, 6/6/46 (TGC).
19 “under obligation”: F. L. Hendrickson, internal memo, 6/25/46, Turner Entertainment/SW.
20 “going very well”: ST to Lawrence Langner, 7/15/46