Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [581]
34 “In her practical way”: Minnelli, I Remember It Well, p. 238.
35 “Am very happy”: Pandro S. Berman to ST, 9/13/50, Turner Entertainment/SW.
36 “YOU MAY FORGET”: ST to Katharine Hepburn, undated telegram (KHLA).
37 outed the relationship: A 1948 profile in Movieland detailed “the most incredible sort of rumors” about Hepburn. “In Hartford, Connecticut, Miss Hepburn’s home town, a typist who works for the Aetna Life Insurance Company told me, ‘You know, of course, that she’s been madly in love with Spencer Tracy for years. Everyone knows that. But Mrs. Tracy won’t give him a divorce.’ ” But Richard Gehman’s 1950 assertions weren’t labeled as rumors.
38 “They are together”: Richard Gehman, “Hepburn,” Flair, December 1950.
39 “We started the evening”: Milwaukee Sentinel, 6/12/67.
40 “my first party”: Constance Collier to Katharine Hepburn, Monday (NYPL).
41 “anything was wrong”: Don Taylor to Selden West.
42 “last three comedies”: Arthur Frudenfeld, “Tracy Got Best Breaks on Walker Date at Cox.” Unidentified clipping (NYPL).
43 “not too successful”: W. Kendall Jones, “Pat and Mike” coverage, 3/4/50 (MGM).
44 “machinery of justice”: Eleazar Lipsky, “Johnny O’Hara’s Life,” story outline, 5/13/49 (MGM).
45 “It was traditional”: John Sturges to David Heeley and Joan Kramer, Los Angeles, 12/13/85 (TH).
46 “Five years later”: Norman, The Hollywood Greats, p. 90.
47 “chortled and howled”: Lawrence Weingarten to Dore Schary, 1/5/51, Turner Entertainment/SW.
CHAPTER 25 ROUGH PATCH
1 “great to see you”: John Tracy to Selden West, via fax, n.d. (SW).
2 “I kind of scouted”: William Self to the author.
3 “terrible little apartment”: Hepburn, Me, p. 398.
4 “Did Spence come?”: Constance Collier to Katharine Hepburn, Sunday (KHNY).
5 “I don’t know”: Constance Collier to Katharine Hepburn, 1/13/51 (KHNY).
6 “There was a time”: Darryl Hickman to the author, via e-mail, 4/5/07.
7 “By prearrangement”: William O. Douglas, Go East, Young Man (New York: Random House, 1974), p. 432.
8 “bane of my life”: Frank Tracy to Selden West.
9 “When he came”: Jimmy Lydon to the author, via telephone, 1/16/06.
10 “the Spence I knew”: Norman, The Hollywood Greats, pp. 81–82.
11 “I was confronted”: O’Brien, The Wind at My Back, p. 308.
12 “all business”: James Arness to the author, via telephone, 2/14/04.
13 “The thing I remember”: John Sturges to David Heeley and Joan Kramer, Los Angeles, 12/13/85 (TH).
14 “truly the culmination”: ST to Jenny Feely, Tuesday.
15 “received me”: Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, 7/8/51.
16 “I’m just a white-haired”: Daily Mirror (London), 5/28/51.
17 “awfully tough time”: Constance Collier to Theresa Helburn, 6/8/51 (TGC).
18 “M-G-M have a picture”: Constance Collier to Katharine Hepburn, 5/29/51 (KHNY).
19 “many nights”: John Huston, An Open Book (New York: Knopf, 1980), p. 202.
20 “terribly good friends”: Joan Fontaine to Anne Edwards, as quoted in A Remarkable Woman (New York: Morrow, 1985), p. 279.
21 “rough patch”: Katharine Houghton to the author, via e-mail, 11/4/06.
22 “Spence’s ulcer”: Constance Collier to Katharine Hepburn, 6/6/51 (KHNY).
23 “Dore Schary was sort of”: Lucinda Ballard, Southern Methodist University Oral History with Ronald L. Davis.
24 “Since Schary took over”: Vincent Sherman, Studio Affairs (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996), p. 227.
25 “I’ve been waiting”: Mervyn LeRoy, Southern Methodist University Oral History with Ronald L. Davis, 5/16/77.
26 “seeing her in Paris”: Lauren Bacall, By Myself and Then Some (New York: Harper Entertainment, 2005), p. 495.
27 “She plays tennis”: Kanin, Tracy and Hepburn, p. 169.
28 “intimately discussed”: John Kobal, People Will Talk (New York: Knopf, 1986), p. 338.
29 “all I need”: Kanin, Tracy and Hepburn, p. 177.
30 “He asked me”: Los Angeles Times, 4/6/52.
31 “an agony”: Katharine Hepburn to Heeley and Kramer.
32 “Too many pictures”: New York Times, 1/20/52.
33 “those conferences”: Kobal, People Will Talk, p. 338.
34 “put his glasses on”: Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg, The Celluloid Muse