Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [579]
21 “Mrs. Spencer Tracy”: Tina Gopadze Smith to the author, Milwaukee, 7/9/06.
22 “I can’t live”: William Self to the author, Los Angeles, 2/20/04.
23 “two years hence”: Los Angeles Times, 8/11/46.
24 “come on the set”: Paul Henreid, Ladies Man (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984), p. 178.
25 “I find my feeling”: New Republic, 3/17/47.
26 “not all great”: Jane Feely Desmond to the author.
27 “unsuccessful screenplay”: Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Columbia University Oral History, March 1959.
28 “falls in love”: Donald Ogden Stewart, By a Stroke of Luck (New York: Paddington Press, 1975), p. 285.
29 “Tracy wants”: Harold Hecht to Donald Ogden Stewart, 4/13/47 (DOS).
30 “Tracy … had refused”: Ella Winter to Jessie Weingarten, n.d. (DOS).
31 “In the book”: New York Sun, 9/10/47.
32 “their baby’s perambulator”: Royle, unpublished autobiography, p. 55.
33 “I’m getting old”: Frank Capra, The Name Above the Title (New York: Macmillan, 1971), p. 388.
34 “plenty of suits”: Larry Keethe, “I Call It Heart,” Photoplay, September 1948.
35 “very tricky scene”: Angela Lansbury to David Heeley and Joan Kramer, Los Angeles, 12/13/85 (TH).
36 “I was backstage”: McGilligan, Tender Comrades, p. 413.
37 “she got mad”: Murray, “Kate, the Untamed Shrew.”
38 “the speech that almost”: Newquist, A Special Kind of Magic, p. 66.
39 Hedda Hopper took care: Los Angeles Times, 9/1/47.
40 “had a real peeve on”: Los Angeles Evening Herald-Express, 9/9/47. By December the studio was denying rumors that Hepburn’s contract had been abrogated. “Don’t be surprised,” wrote Harrison Carroll, “if she comes out with a statement similar to the one made by Humphrey Bogart. She has already stated her views in an interview with a radio commentator a few days ago, in which she said she was not a communist sympathizer.”
41 “What the hell happened?”: Higham, Kate, p. 132.
42 “Claudette I knew”: Katharine Hepburn to Heeley and Kramer.
43 “No contract”: Higham, Kate, p. 133.
44 “We all knew”: Al Weisel, “An Uncommon Woman,” Premiere, September 2003.
45 “ ‘bag of bones’ ”: Capra, The Name Above the Title, p. 390.
46 “Their personalities”: Swindell, Spencer Tracy, p. 208.
47 “Bob Thomas worked”: Emily Torchia to Selden West (SW).
48 “surprise of the picture”: Variety, 11/5/47.
49 “Mr. Tracy never talked”: Emily Torchia to Selden West.
CHAPTER 23 ADAM’S RIB
1 “He read that play”: Katharine Hepburn to Heeley and Kramer.
2 “live through”: Arthur and Barbara Gelb, O’Neill (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), p. 885.
3 “red hot”: Variety, 3/24/48.
4 “President Truman”: Variety, 1/5/49.
5 “more attractive-looking”: New York Times, 4/23/48.
6 “ ‘He’s a prick’ ”: ST to Pete Martin.
7 “If somebody approached”: June Caldwell to the author.
8 “dinner meeting”: Ardmore, “Clinic.”
9 “very attracted”: Dr. Alathena Smith to Jane Ardmore, 7/26/72 (JKA).
10 “I watched my father”: Jane Feely Desmond to the author.
11 “I’m not going to be”: Frank Tracy to Selden West.
12 “NOT MUCH I CAN SAY”: ST to Patrick Norton, 5/19/48 (BT).
13 “I’ve come to work”: Daily Express, 5/28/48.
14 “appeared grumpy”: Eric Braun, Deborah Kerr (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978), p. 118.
15 “disconcerting to me”: Richard Schickel, The Men Who Made the Movies (New York: Atheneum, 1975), p. 177.
16 “largely Spencer”: George Cukor to Signe Hasso, 7/13/48 (AMPAS).
17 “long takes”: Freddie Young, Seventy Light Years (London: Faber and Faber, 1999), p. 74.
18 “do you mind”: Emanuel Levy, George Cukor: Hollywood’s Legendary Director and His Stars (New York: Morrow, 1994), p. 171.
19 “thrilled”: Katharine Hepburn to George Cukor, 8/10/48.
20 “real dirt”: Ibid.
21 “remember me”: Schary, Heyday, p. 180.
22 “wore himself out”: Bergman, Ingrid Bergman, My Story, p. 181.
23 “Mike Romanoff”: Susie Tracy to the author, Brentwood, 12/15/04.
24 “He and Gable”: Darryl Hickman to the author.
25 “That’s all right”: New York Daily News, 7/9/49.
26 “all hands and feet”: Sidney Fields, “Stewart Sticks to Movies,” undated clipping (SW).
27 “This normally would be”: Undated clipping (SW).