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38 “He said that Katie”: Anne Francis, quoted in Glenn Lovell, Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), p. 103.
39 “disturbing observation”: Millard Kaufman, “A Vehicle for Tracy: The Road to Black Rock,” Hopkins Review, Winter 2008.
40 “never rehearsed”: Ernest Borgnine to Scott Eyman.
41 “on the porch”: John Ericson to the author, via telephone, 6/24/05.
42 “Ryan is bristling”: Millard Kaufman to the author.
43 “great script”: John Ericson to the author.
44 “a grownup CinemaScope”: Variety, 7/28/54.
45 “my old man”: Marshall, Blueprint on Babylon, p. 252.
46 “almost no film”: Sturges commentary track.
47 “rather apologetic”: Millard Kaufman to the author.
48 “I wondered”: Ernest Borgnine to Scott Eyman.
49 “We were interested”: John Sturges to Heeley and Kramer.
50 “He listened”: Millard Kaufman to the author.
51 “ ‘ideas in your head’ ”: John Ericson to the author.
52 “a smoker”: Millard Kaufman to the author.
53 “winning streak”: Leo Durocher (with Ed Lynn), Nice Guys Finish Last (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975), p. 327.
54 “been on the trip”: King Vidor to Selden West.
55 “Perfect!”: Spencer Tracy, 1954 datebook (SLT).
56 “I was there”: Susie Tracy to the author, via telephone, 1/31/08.
57 “ ‘wonderful place’ ”: Ardmore, “Tracy,” n.d.
58 “firm offer”: Bert Allenberg to Eddie Mannix, 1/7/55, Turner Entertainment/SW.
59 “one of the finest”: John O’Hara, “Appointment with O’Hara,” Collier’s, 3/18/55.
60 “selling me”: Robert Wise to Selden West, via telephone, 4/30/96 (SW).
61 “not trying to be difficult”: Los Angeles Times, 3/8/55.
62 “Poor Spence”: Constance Collier to Katharine Hepburn, 4/2/55 (KHLA).
63 “talked to Spence”: Constance Collier to Katharine Hepburn, 4/16/55 (KHNY).
64 “almost impossible”: Kevin Brownlow, David Lean (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), p. 486.
65 “Wonderful set”: Spencer Tracy, 1955 datebook (SLT).
66 “no merit”: Katharine Hepburn to Phyllis Wilbourn, n.d. (KHLA).
67 “in a better position”: F. L. Hendrickson, memorandum, 6/14/55, Turner Entertainment/SW.
68 “arranged our shooting”: Sergio Leemann, Robert Wise on His Films (Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 1995), p. 131.
69 “That’s crazy”: Dore Schary to Selden West.
70 “take it down”: Joseph J. Cohn Oral History.
CHAPTER 28 THE MOUNTAIN
1 “I bet”: Interview with Ardmore, 7/5/72.
2 “interested in working”: “Cagney”: James Cagney, Cagney by Cagney (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), p. 146.
3 “Who cares?”: Spencer Tracy, 1955 datebook (SLT).
4 “Is there a romance”: Sydney Sun, 6/5/55 (courtesy of Kerrie Tickner).
5 “I saw a report”: Sun Herald, 8/5/55 (courtesy of Kerrie Tickner).
6 “first waking thought”: Brisbane Telegraph, 7/18/55.
7 “We miss Constance”: Theresa Helburn to Katharine Hepburn, 6/29/55 (TGC).
8 “the next day”: Jane Feely Desmond to the author, via telephone, 4/6/04.
9 “simple story”: Harry Mines, draft press release, n.d. (AMPAS).
10 “a primal contest”: Marshall, Blueprint on Babylon, p. 308.
11 “a good relationship”: Dmytryk, It’s a Hell of a Life, p. 200.
12 “extraordinary”: Robert Wagner to the author.
13 “I can’t do it”: Dmytryk, It’s a Hell of a Life, p. 201.
14 “He wore it”: Robert Wagner, “My Hat’s Off to Spencer Tracy,” Movie Mirror, July 1956.
15 “He was leaving”: Bert Allenberg to Katharine Hepburn, 8/22/55 (KHLA).
16 “very unhappy”: Harry Caplan to Hugh Brown, 8/20/55 (AMPAS).
17 “Our unit”: Harry Caplan to Hugh Brown, 8/22/55 (AMPAS).
18 “giving them trouble”: Robert Wagner to the author.
19 “short line”: Margaret Shipway to Katharine Hepburn, 8/29/55 (KHLA).
20 “Those damn things”: Dmytryk, It’s a Hell of a Life, p. 204.
21 “From our viewpoint”: Frank Westmore (with Muriel Davidson), The Westmores of Hollywood (New York: Lippincott, 1976), p. 188.
22 “Conditions”: Harry Caplan to Hugh Brown, 9/3/55 (AMPAS).
23 “the word ‘job’ ”: Lloyd Shearer, “Spencer Tracy: Hollywood’s Least-Known Star,” Parade, 12/11/55.
24 “Young man”: Edward Dmytryk, as quoted in