Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [592]
41 “dropped 35 pounds”: Yuma Daily Sun, 7/7/64.
42 “good or better”: Newark Evening News, 7/14/64.
43 “I’m from M-G-M”: Marshall Schlom to the author, via e-mail, 8/15/06.
44 “feel of a western”: David Weddle, If They Move … Kill ’Em! (New York: Grove Press, 1994), p. 257.
45 “in his dressing gown”: Ring Lardner, Jr., to Charles Higham.
46 “bellyache”: Spencer Tracy, 1964 datebook (in Katharine Hepburn’s hand) (SLT).
47 “disquieting”: George Cukor to Katharine Hepburn, 9/30/64 (KHLA).
48 “hard to know”: Tracy, 1964 datebook (in Katharine Hepburn’s hand).
49 “Spence very thrown”: Ibid.
50 “Don’t EVER do this”: Susie Tracy to the author.
51 “always some reason”: Dr. Mitchel Covel to Selden West, 8/18/92 (SW).
52 “familiar grin”: Jared Brown, Alan J. Pakula: His Films and His Life (New York: Back Stage Books, 2005), pp. 64–65.
53 “tiny little life”: Hepburn, Me, pp. 405–06.
54 Tracy was groggy: Dr. Covel consulted his notes to provide details on Tracy’s worsening condition.
CHAPTER 33 A LION IN A CAGE
1 “We needed prayers”: Louise Tracy to Mary Kennedy Taylor, 9/22/65, Taylor Collection.
2 “When Louise would come”: Dr. Mitchel Covel to Selden West.
3 “hated to be sick”: Interview with Ardmore, 7/5/72.
4 “bumped into her”: Virginia Thielman to Jane Ardmore, 8/1/72 (JKA).
5 “shake hands”: John Tracy to Selden West, via fax, 3/23/98 (SW).
6 “If I hadn’t known”: Frank Tracy to Selden West, via telephone, October 1995 (SW).
7 “sort of an invalid”: Katharine Houghton to the author, via e-mail, 8/12/08.
8 “all major problems”: Dr. Mitchel Covel to Selden West. It should be noted that Dr. Covel did not consider his patient a hypochondriac. “A hypochondriac is somebody who imagines they have illness,” he said. “He had illness, and would react violently to some of his symptoms. But, mind you, he had a lot of problems, a lot of physical problems. His heart, diabetes.”
9 “Bullshit”: McCabe, Cagney, p. 330.
10 “Your letter”: Eugene Cullen Kennedy, “Just Above Sunset, Off Doheny,” unpublished manuscript (courtesy of Eugene Kennedy).
11 “The substance”: Deposition of Stanley Kramer in Joseph Than and Elick Moll v. Columbia Pictures Corp., etc., Stanley Kramer, Sidney Poitier, William Rose, et al., 1/20/69, (SK).
12 “they budgeted it”: Stanley Kramer to Heeley and Kramer.
13 “I pointed out”: Deposition of William Arthur Rose in Joseph Than and Elick Moll v. Columbia Pictures Corp., etc., Stanley Kramer, Sidney Poitier, William Rose, et al.
14 “He took the ball”: Stanley Kramer deposition.
15 “Stanley, who was in California”: William Arthur Rose deposition.
16 “My suggestions”: Stanley Kramer deposition.
17 “One of the things”: William Arthur Rose deposition.
18 “first ‘live’ time”: ST to William Dozier, 8/26/66.
19 “I’ll do a Batman”: Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 9/26/66.
20 “now president of Fox”: William Self to the author.
21 “no thought of going”: Swindell, Spencer Tracy, p. 263.
22 “The anticipation”: Stanley Kramer deposition.
23 “I feel great”: Details of the news conference are from Los Angeles Times, 9/26/66; Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 9/26/66; and Long Beach Independent, 9/26/66.
24 “a gasp”: Laraine Day to Barbara Hall.
25 “taken aback”: Susie Tracy to the author, Brentwood, 5/13/05.
26 “see my niece”: Newquist, A Special Kind of Magic, pp. 42–43.
27 “my trepidation”: Stanley Kramer deposition.
28 “ ‘can she act?’ ”: Karen Kramer to the author, North Hollywood, 7/21/04.
29 “lucky girl”: Los Angeles Times, 2/3/67.
30 “pretty well controlled”: Dr. Mitchel Covel to Selden West.
31 “When I arrived”: Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2000), pp. 121–22.
32 “colored person”: Newquist, A Special Kind of Magic, pp. 91–92.
33 “decent folks”: Poitier, The Measure of a Man, pp. 122–23.
34 “delicious meal”: Sidney Poitier, This Life (New York: Knopf, 1980), pp. 285–86.
35 “once-over”: Katharine Houghton to the author, via e-mail, 5/29/09.
36 “chopping block”: Higham, Kate, p. 198.
37 “His idea”: Marshall Schlom to the author.
38 makeup test: According