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easily imagine that he said that. I don’t know, but I could imagine. He NEEDED her. You know, these daily telephone calls and so on. I think that all indicated a need for her help. Whether she was still his wife actually or not.”

31 “good-bye Charlie”: Garson Kanin to ST, 12/1/52, Gordon-Kanin Papers/SW.

32 “difficult to get information”: ST to Ruth Gordon, n.d. (LOC).

33 “not my best”: Scott Eyman, “Clarence Brown: Garbo and Beyond,” Velvet Light Trap, spring 1978.

34 “cards wonderful”: Dore Schary to ST, 7/23/52, Dore Schary Papers, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison.

35 “simply great”: Dore Schary to ST, 7/31/52, Dore Schary Papers, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison.

36 “thoroughly respectful”: New York Times, 11/14/52.

37 “the kind of film”: New York Herald Tribune, 11/14/52.

38 total billings: The figures for Plymouth Adventure are from the Mannix ledger.

39 “It sank!”: Dore Schary to Selden West, New York, 1/5/78 (SW).

40 “not at all convinced”: Garson Kanin to George Cukor, 8/18/51, Gordon-Kanin Papers/SW.

41 shot a test: Reynolds’ test was shot on the fly, sandwiched between rehearsals of the musical numbers for I Love Melvin (1953).

42 “exceptional enough”: George Cukor to Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, 9/26/52 (LOC).

43 “superficial nonsense”: Garson Kanin to George Cukor, 12/10/52 (AMPAS).

44 “MEETING”: ST to Garson Kanin, 11/19/52, Gordon-Kanin Papers/SW.

45 “sense of humor”: Jean Simmons to the author, via telephone, 1/10/05.

46 “MAD”: Ruth Gordon to George Cukor, 11/27/52 (AMPAS).

47 “extremely interested”: Garson Kanin to ST, 7/9/51, Gordon-Kanin Papers/SW.

48 “have some edge”: George Cukor to Ruth Gordon, 10/10/52 (AMPAS).

49 “a lot of talk”: Levy, George Cukor, p. 210.

50 “wonderful woman”: George Cukor to Charles Higham, Time-Life History of the Movies, 6/22/71, Columbia University.

51 “going along well”: ST to Garson Kanin, 12/21/52 (LOC).

52 “pretty deep stuff”: Garson Kanin to ST, 9/25/52, Gordon-Kanin Papers/SW.

53 “organized my hotel”: Dally-Watkins, The Secrets Behind My Smile, p. 104.

54 “Talk about people”: Lambert, On Cukor, p. 212.

55 “He loved”: Schickel, The Men Who Made the Movies, p. 177.

56 “In the play”: George Cukor to Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, 9/26/52 (LOC).

57 “devastating”: Richard Burton to Dick Cavett, September 1980.

58 “Evelyn Keyes”: Garson Kanin to ST, 1/1/53, Gordon-Kanin Papers/SW.

59 “stinkin’ ”: Leland Hayward to Ernest Hemingway, 3/10/53 (EH).

60 “disturbing element”: Lawrence Weingarten to George Cukor, 2/25/53 (AMPAS).

61 clashed bitterly: Cukor’s objections are outlined in a letter to Weingarten, 3/2/53 (AMPAS).

62 “At first they think”: George Cukor to Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, 4/24/53 (LOC).

63 “Hollywood people”: Leland Hayward to Ernest Hemingway, 12/3/52 (NYPL).

64 “he looks great”: Leland Hayward to Ernest Hemingway, 1/16/53 (NYPL).

65 The deal: Details of the agreement to film The Old Man and the Sea are contained in a letter to Leland Hayward from Robert M. Coryell of the William Morris Agency, 3/2/53 (NYPL); and in an M-G-M meeting memorandum by F. L. Hendrickson, 8/12/53, Turner Entertainment/SW.

66 “talk things over”: Ernest Hemingway to Leland Hayward, 3/15/53 (EH).

67 “Hemingway … was afraid”: Dallas Morning News, 11/13/55.

68 “big fight”: Carlos Baker, ed., Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917–1961 (New York: Scribner, 1981), p. 817.

69 “practical time”: Ernest Hemingway to Leland Hayward, 4/23/53 (NYPL).

70 “He believes”: Faith Service, “His Son Made Spencer Tracy What He Is Today!” Movie Classic, August 1933.

71 “people thought”: Ardmore, “John,” n.d.

72 “I only saw him”: Seymour Gray to Selden West.

73 “I went to Las Vegas”: Susie Tracy to the author, Brentwood, 1/28/05.

74 “STILL HERE”: ST to Ruth Gordon, 4/13/53, Gordon-Kanin Papers/SW.

75 “he was joking”: Gottfried Reinhardt to Garson Kanin, 4/27/53, Gordon-Kanin Papers/SW.

76 “on a European train”: Lambert, On Cukor, p. 217.

77 “real, honest story”: Schickel, The Men Who Made the Movies, p. 235.

78 “absolutely convinced”: