Spencer Tracy_ A Biography - James C. Curtis [594]
75 “made me wild”: Katharine Hepburn to Heeley and Kramer.
76 “The party”: Details of the party are from Daily Variety, 5/29/67; Los Angeles Times, 6/12/67; and Bob Thomas’ AP dispatch, 5/31/67.
77 “Finished!”: New York Times, 6/25/67.
78 “very pleased”: Interview with Ardmore, 7/5/72.
79 “No bunk”: Miscellaneous handwritten notes for Chester Erskine’s proposed documentary on Tracy, evidently made between June and December 1967 (KHLA).
80 “Eddie Leonard”: Los Angeles Times, 6/12/67.
81 “I went to see him”: Dr. Mitchel Covel to Selden West.
82 “He would wear”: Susie Tracy to the author.
83 “Sometimes he would carry”: Interview with Ardmore, 7/5/72.
84 “give it a push”: Hepburn, Me, p. 402.
85 the phone rang: Susie Tracy to the author, Brentwood, 5/13/05.
86 “peculiar spot”: Hepburn, Me, p. 404.
87 “Some idiot called”: Jean Simmons to the author.
88 “up to par”: Jean Porter Dmytryk to the author.
89 “state of shock”: Milwaukee Journal, 6/11/67.
90 “true to himself”: Dallas Morning News, 6/15/67.
CHAPTER 34 A HUMBLE MAN
1 “seen his face”: Hepburn, Me, p. 408.
2 “Nobody gets out”: Frank Tracy to Selden West.
3 “don’t like anything”: Newsweek, 6/19/67.
4 “strong and vibrant”: New York Times, 6/18/67.
5 “I can’t explain”: Stanley Kramer, “He Could Wither You With a Glance,” Life, 6/30/67.
6 “fine example”: Katharine Hepburn to William O. Douglas, 6/18/67 (LOC).
7 “What can one say”: Katharine Hepburn to Joan Blondell, 6/23/67 (courtesy of Judy Samelson).
8 “unique creature”: Katharine Hepburn to Anne Pearce Kramer, 6/17/67 (courtesy of Judy Samelson).
9 “there is silence”: Katharine Hepburn to Jack Hamilton, 6/27/67 (courtesy of Judy Samelson).
10 “Do you remember”: Dorothy Gopadze to Katharine Hepburn, 6/14/67 (KHLA).
11 “DEAREST GIRL”: Vivien Leigh to Katharine Hepburn, 6/10/67 (KHLA).
12 “blinded with sorrow”: Vivien Leigh to Katharine Hepburn, Saturday (KHLA).
13 “wholehearted devotion”: J. J. Cohn to Katharine Hepburn, 6/13/67 (KHLA).
14 “Your letter”: Katharine Hepburn to J. J. Cohn, 6/12/67 (courtesy of Judy Samelson).
15 “The estate”: Details of the Tracy estate are from Los Angeles Probate File P523809.
16 “terrible shock”: Carroll Tracy to Katharine Hepburn, 3/11/68 (KHLA).
17 “run out of gas”: Robert C. Jones to the author, via telephone, 5/20/09.
18 “How possible”: Sidney Poitier, in AFI’s 100 Years 100 Cheers (Gary Smith Company), 2006.
19 “Who says”: Spoto, Stanley Kramer, Film Maker, p. 277.
20 “I’m getting nicer”: New York Times, 10/27/67.
21 “one of the finest”: Los Angeles Times, 11/26/67.
22 “HOW WONDERFUL”: Barry Day, ed., The Letters of Noël Coward (New York: Knopf, 2007), p. 747.
23 “torrid b.o.”: Variety, 12/6/67.
24 “glisten with style”: Harper’s Magazine, January 1968.
25 “faultless”: New Yorker, 12/16/67.
26 “gives his blessings”: Newsweek, 12/25/67.
27 “repeats the charge”: Village Voice, 12/6/67.
28 “I liked him”: Interview with Ardmore, 7/5/72.
29 “pat on the back”: Katharine Hepburn to Lewis W. Douglas, 5/5/68, Lewis W. Douglas Collection, University of Arizona, Tucson.
30 “disgusted”: Katharine Hepburn to Ella Winter, n.d., Ella Winter Collection.
31 “I think”: Stanley Kramer to Katharine Hepburn, 5/7/68 (KHLA).
32 “can be friends”: Details of the call are from Hepburn, Me, p. 407; and Susie Tracy, who remembered her mother’s account of it.
33 “straighten things out”: Hepburn, Me, p. 407.
34 “Spencer’s faith”: Eugene Kennedy to the author, via e-mail, 2/3/10.
35 “always thrilled”: Katharine Houghton to the author, via e-mail, 2/18/10.
36 “enormously vulnerable”: Anthony Harvey to the author, via phone, 10/25/07.
37 “fulfilled something deep”: Katharine Houghton to the author.
38 “last speech”: Katharine Houghton to the author, via e-mail, 10/4/05.
39 “Is anyone coming?”: Hepburn, Me, p. 409.
40 “fuss”: In interviews, Katharine Hepburn always