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25 “Only parts”: Fisher, Spencer Tracy: A Bio-Bibliography, p. 56.
26 “quite a wingding”: Dmytryk, It’s a Hell of a Life, p. 205.
27 “first inkling”: Susie Tracy to the author.
28 “next six days”: Dmytryk, It’s a Hell of a Life, p. 206. Tracy’s datebook indicates three days “on the town,” not six as Dmytryk remembered it. On day four (not seven) Tracy was under a doctor’s care. He did, however, resume work on the fourteenth, just as Dmytryk has it in his book.
29 “an old bastard”: Jack Hirshberg, questionnaire for Spencer Tracy (AMPAS).
30 “prompted the tops”: Carle, “Magnificent Katharine Hepburn.”
31 “I’m not retiring”: Shearer, “Spencer Tracy: Hollywood’s Least-Known Star.”
32 “whole thing evaporated”: Frank Tracy to Selden West.
33 “terrible picture”: Gallagher, “Claire Trevor.”
34 “older brother”: “Edward Dmytryk.”
35 “long scene”: Dmytryk, It’s a Hell of a Life, p. 205.
36 “What’s the matter?”: Rosemary Clooney, Girl Singer (New York: Doubleday, 1999), p. 141.
37 “good feeling”: Fred Zinnemann to Ernest Hemingway, 12/23/55 (AMPAS).
38 “some sort of shape”: Ernest Hemingway to Fred Zinnemann, 1/3/56 (NYPL).
39 “near Katharine Hepburn”: Fred Zinnemann to Ernest Hemingway, 12/23/55 (AMPAS).
40 “disappointed”: Spencer Tracy, 1956 datebook (SLT).
41 “He said he didn’t know”: Don Page to Charles Greenlaw, 4/17/56, Jack Warner Collection, Cinematic Arts Library, University of Southern California.
42 “behaving fairly well”: Fred Zinnemann to Ernest Hemingway, 4/24/56 (AMPAS).
43 “LOOKED EXCELLENT”: Jack L. Warner to Fred Zinnemann, 5/1/56, Jack Warner Collection, University of Southern California.
44 “We notify you”: Leland Hayward to ST, 5/12/56 (NYPL).
45 “BYGONES”: Leland Hayward, ST, and Fred Zinnemann to Steve Trilling, 5/14/56, Jack Warner Collection.
46 “triumph of man’s spirit”: Fred Zinnemann, A Life in Movies: An Autobiography (New York: Scribner, 1992), p. 148.
47 “Hemingway hated it”: Ibid, p. 150.
48 “tadpole”: Viertel, Dangerous Friends, p. 279.
49 “some difficulty”: Baker, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, p. 855.
50 “most certainly a problem”: Fred Zinnemann to Selden West, 5/20/92 (SW).
51 “He seemed malevolent”: Fred Zinnemann to Selden West, 9/9/92 (SW).
52 “SAW DAILIES”: Jack L. Warner to Fred Zinnemann, 6/15/56 (AMPAS).
53 “studio tank”: Zinnemann, A Life in Movies, p. 150.
54 “argument had nothing”: Los Angeles Examiner, 6/23/56.
55 “One time at Romanoff’s”: Jean Porter Dmytryk to the author, Encino, 11/17/04.
56 “one damned thing”: Kanin, Tracy and Hepburn, p. 108.
57 “My elusive tenant”: George Cukor to Katharine Hepburn, 2/26/54 (AMPAS).
58 “He knew the way”: Katharine Hepburn, at “A Tribute to Spencer Tracy,” Majestic Theatre, New York, 3/3/86 (courtesy of American Academy of Dramatic Arts).
59 “Kate very attractive”: Joseph L. Mankiewicz to Selden West.
60 “little wop”: Rex Harrison, Rex (London: Macmillan, 1974), p. 173.
61 “lifted a few”: Frank Sinatra, at “A Tribute to Spencer Tracy.”
62 “in a sailor suit”: Frank Sinatra to David Heeley and Joan Kramer, Los Angeles, 12/12/85 (TH).
63 “he did love her”: Seymour Gray to Selden West.
CHAPTER 29 THE LAST HURRAH
1 “no more than adequate”: Daily Variety, 9/27/56.
2 “an actor”: Dmytryk, It’s a Hell of a Life, p. 206.
3 “hard to determine”: New York Times, 11/15/56.
4 “We made inquiries”: Carle, “Magnificent Katharine Hepburn.”
5 “It is regrettable”: Los Angeles Times, 8/26/56.
6 “That morning”: Henry Ephron, We Thought We Could Do Anything (New York: Norton, 1977), p. 184.
7 “great with Bogie”: Lauren Bacall to the author.
8 “For one thing”: Los Angeles Times, 11/25/56.
9 “the whole scene”: Ephron, We Thought We Could Do Anything, p. 188.
10 “desperately ill”: Katharine Hepburn in Bacall on Bogart, Educational Broadcasting Corporation/Turner Entertainment Co., 1988.
11 “deliver the eulogy”: Lauren Bacall to the author.
12 “blocking and rehearsing”: Dina Merrill to Scott Eyman, 4/12/05 (courtesy of Scott Eyman).
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