Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [588]
17 “all that schmaltz”: Jane Feely Desmond to the author.
18 “getting old”: Johnson, notes for Time.
19 “ ‘Kate’ ”: Dina Merrill to Scott Eyman, 4/12/05. In her column of March 28, Dorothy Kilgallen erroneously reported that Hepburn and her “long-time Great Love” had been “making the scene on the tropical island of Martinique.”
20 “new low”: New York Herald Tribune, 12/29/59.
21 “I earn”: Dallas Morning News, 1/8/60.
22 “The young actors”: Johnson, notes for Time.
23 “really gifted”: Higham and Greenberg, The Celluloid Muse, p. 56.
24 “a sort of slightly affected”: Cukor to Higham, Time-Life History of the Movies.
25 “Our company”: Dmytryk, It’s a Hell of a Life, p. 205.
26 “He covers up”: Ezra Goodman, The Fifty Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961), p. 269.
27 “an actor is normally trained”: Laraine Day to Barbara Hall.
28 “easy to imitate”: John McCabe, Cagney (New York: Knopf, 1997), p. 256.
29 “the kind of actor”: Truman Capote, “The Duke in His Domain,” New Yorker, 11/9/57.
30 back to the original: First published by the National Book Company of Cincinnati in 1925, the transcripts of “the world’s most famous court trial” were readily available.
31 “improve and sharpen”: Stanley Kramer to Fredric March, 9/8/59, Fredric March Papers, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison.
32 “more topical”: Walter Wagner, You Must Remember This (New York: Putnam, 1975), pp. 289–90.
33 supporting cast: Dick York was a last-minute choice for the role of Cates. Kramer originally envisioned Anthony Perkins in the part, later Roddy McDowell.
34 “first exchange”: New York Times, 11/1/59.
35 “We were rehearsing”: Stanley Kramer, unpublished interview with Pete Martin, December 1960 (USC).
36 “doing waltzes”: Donna Anderson to the author, Los Angeles, 1/16/05.
37 “fine powder”: Stanley Kramer, Southern Methodist University Oral History with Ronald L. Davis.
38 “I had been warned”: Stanley Kramer to Pete Martin.
39 “sort of petrified”: Jimmy Boyd to the author, via telephone, 8/27/05.
40 “extras as spectators”: Stanley Kramer to Pete Martin.
41 “Better stand up”: New York Herald Tribune, 12/29/59.
42 “fucking fan”: Robert Wagner to Scott Eyman.
43 “lot of fun”: ST to Pete Martin.
44 “I could understand”: Clive Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984), p. 229.
45 “quite a system”: Stanley Kramer to Pete Martin.
46 “Tracy was so good”: Elliott Reid to the author, Los Angeles, 10/21/03.
47 “very funny”: Stanley Kramer to Pete Martin.
48 “At one performance”: Lauren Bacall, By Myself (New York: Knopf, 1979), p. 301.
49 “a pair of hands”: Martin Gottfried to Selden West.
50 “struck me as fantastic”: Abby Mann, Judgment at Nuremberg (London: Cassell, 1961), p. v.
51 “Kate … was out”: Philip Langner to the author, via telephone, 3/31/05.
52 “tremendous responsibility”: New York Times, 1/31/60.
53 “our greatest actor”: Newsweek, 6/13/60.
54 “the thing she didn’t admire”: William Self to the author.
55 “Mervyn LeRoy said to me”: Frank Sinatra to Heeley and Kramer.
56 “a certain amount”: Bertha Calhoun to the author.
57 “ringing phrases”: Hollywood Reporter, 6/28/60.
58 “casting genius”: Daily Variety, 6/29/60.
59 “reviews I could have written”: Stanley Kramer to Heeley and Kramer.
60 “enjoyed the movie”: John T. Scopes and James Presley, Center of the Storm (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967), p. 270.
61 “reprehensible”: Los Angeles Times, 2/9/60.
62 “The first day”: Kerwin Matthews to the author, 2/26/04.
63 “never interfered”: Mervyn LeRoy, Mervyn LeRoy: Take One (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1974), p. 211.
64 “near perfect”: Gregoire Aslan, unpublished interview with Pete Martin, December 1960 (USC).
65 “Tracy’s turn”: Bob Yager, unpublished interview with Pete Martin, December 1960 (USC).
66 “The problem”: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Sun and Shadow (New York: Norton, 1977), p. 198.
67 “particularly horny”: George Jacobs and William Stadiem, Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra (New York: Harper Entertainment, 2003), p.