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65 no memory: Pat Newcomb to Selden West, via telephone, 7/16/93 (SW). Newcomb said that she would have remembered any talk of Hepburn “because everyone was interested in that.”
66 “local reporters”: Joe Hyams to Selden West.
67 “You son of a bitch!”: Newquist, A Special Kind of Magic, p. 153.
68 Produced on a budget: Figures on Judgment at Nuremberg are from the Stanley Kramer Collection. As of May 11, 1966, United Artists was showing a loss of $1,585,900 for the picture.
CHAPTER 32 SOMETHING A LITTLE LESS SERIOUS
1 “tired of controversy”: Newsweek, 10/17/60.
2 “less serious”: According to Karen Kramer, it was Bosley Crowther who made the suggestion.
3 “monster chase story”: New York Times, 11/17/63.
4 “weeks and weeks”: Tania Rose to Stanley Kramer, n.d. (SK).
5 “From the onset”: New York Times, 11/17/63.
6 “The script and the casting”: New York Times, 11/17/63.
7 “I am eager”: Stanley Kramer to William Rose, 6/14/62, (SK).
8 “Tracy has never appeared”: Stanley Kramer to William Rose, 7/11/62 (SK).
9 “staring contest”: New York Times, 11/17/63.
10 “too much, too strenuous”: Ardmore, “Tracy,” n.d.
11 The deal: According to production records, Milton Berle and Ethel Merman were the highest-paid cast members apart from Tracy—each got $155,000 for doing the film. Sid Caesar was paid $135,000, Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney $105,000 each.
12 “We didn’t know”: Los Angeles Times, 3/29/01.
13 “The comedians”: Marshall Schlom to the author.
14 “made me flash back”: Sid Caesar (with Eddy Friedfeld), Caesar’s Hours (New York: Public Affairs, 2003), p. 276.
15 “Everyone knew”: Dorothy Provine to the author, via telephone, 11/17/05.
16 “Monroe had died”: Caesar, Caesar’s Hours, p. 276.
17 “We had rubber masks”: Los Angeles Times, 12/3/63.
18 “During the filming”: Deschner, The Films of Spencer Tracy, p. 17.
19 “The people whose memories”: ST to Pete Martin.
20 “It had been budgeted”: Marshall Schlom to the author, via e-mail, 12/16/07.
21 Youngstein: In Berlin, Max Youngstein told the assembled press that Kramer possessed the simple idea that a picture could be good and yet be successful. “We are a world-wide industry,” he said. “We must get smart and back the Stanley Kramers of the world, who have more guts and talent than the others put together.”
22 “get rid of the comics”: Los Angeles Times, 11/18/62.
23 “a project”: According to clinic records, Tracy donated $32,650 for the year 1962. In the years 1963 and 1964—years in which he did not work—his contributions amounted to $16,800 and $19,300, respectively.
24 “He smiled”: Hepburn, Me, pp. 56–57.
25 “specific memories”: Katharine Houghton to the author, via e-mail, 4/11/09.
26 “enjoying the rain”: Katharine Hepburn to Ella Winter, “Christmas” [1962], Ella Winter Collection, Columbia University.
27 “read a great deal”: Katharine Hepburn to Heeley and Kramer.
28 “greatly calmed”: Brownlow, David Lean, pp. 485–86.
29 “should have quit”: Ardmore, “Tracy.”
30 “It was so hard”: Kennedy, “Spencer Called Her Kath.”
31 “I would appreciate”: John Ford to ST, 6/10/63 (SLT).
32 “very quiet”: Katharine Hepburn to Ella Winter, 6/2/63, Ella Winter Collection.
33 “Be calm”: Details of Tracy’s edema attack are from Los Angeles Times, 7/22, 7/23, 7/24, and 8/3/63; Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 7/22 and 8/2/63; and Selden West’s interview with Sally Erskine.
34 “SEE WHAT HAPPENS”: George Cukor to ST, 7/23/63 (SLT).
35 “thinking about Spencer”: Tim Durant to Katharine Hepburn, 8/7/63 (KHLA).
36 “have her choice”: New Castle News, 9/14/63.
37 “It wouldn’t do”: James Prideaux, Knowing Hepburn (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1996), p. 23.
38 “soccer players”: Frank Sinatra, at “A Tribute to Spencer Tracy,” Majestic Theatre, New York, 3/3/86 (courtesy of American Academy of Dramatic Arts).
39 “Mr. Tracy is funny”: New York Times, 11/19/63.
40 “director’s chair”: Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 6/24/64.