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8. “Until he got after me” TV World, 6.59.
9. “We did scenes together” Casey St. Charnez, p. 15.
10. “They put me on the stage” Ibid., p. 40.
CHAPTER 3
1. “I’m not a prodigy” McQueen, quoted in TV Life, 4.59.
2. “If I hadn’t” McQueen, quoted in Silver Screen, 6.60.
3. “I spoke five languages” Toffel, interviewed by Marjorie Farnsworth, New York Journal-American, 5.8.57.
4. “I made the chorus” Toffel, p. 26.
5. “I was coming out of” Toffel, during an interview at Lincoln Center following a screening of Love with the Proper Stranger, 3.22.09.
6. Background on Midtown theatrical restaurants “Old and Sold,” Antiques, 1959.
7. “As I sat down” Toffel, speaking at Lincoln Center, following a screening of Love with the Proper Stranger, 3.22.09.
8. Steve’s salary of $20 a day for Somebody Up There Likes Me Hollywood Reporter, 7.20.81.
9. Steve’s height The subject of much early speculation, but after TV Guide (5.30.59) listed it as 5′11″, 178 lbs, it apparently settled into 5′8″ in most subsequent reports and profiles.
10. “Sorry, buddy, but all’s fair” Toffel, pp. 34–35.
11. “I wanted to marry Neile” McQueen, quoted by Sidney Skolsky, “Hollywood Is My Beat,” syndicated, 1.28.60.
12. “Poor kid” Ibid.
13. McQueen trip to Cuba Some of the background is from Toffel, pp. 44–47.
14. “The phone bills” Toffel, interviewed by Fred Dickenson, Sunday Mirror Magazine, 4.21.57.
15. “She was doing very well” Elkins, interview with author (henceforth AI). The middle part of the quote is from femalefirst.co.uk, 11.06.05.
16. “One thing” Sid Shalit, New York Daily News, 2.27.57.
17. “had ever read” Pat Knopf, quoted in Wikipedia.
18. “That turkey” McQueen, quoted in Terrill, p. 35. Original source attribution unclear.
19. Steve and Lita “signaled” Christopher Sandford, quoted in Wilson, p. 92.
20. “Steve told me” Toffel, pp. 67–68.
CHAPTER 4
1. “I like John Wayne” McQueen, quoted in TV Life, 4.59.
2. Dick Powell telegram The Herrick Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library, Special Collections.
3. “I’d done one or two” McQueen, quoted in TV Guide, 5.30.59.
4. Steve’s gun considered a lethal weapon by LAPD TV Guide, 5.30.59.
5. “Steve McQueen, as Josh Randall” From a full-page ad placed by the network in TV and Movie Western, 2.59.
6. “Stanislavski … to the TV West” Johnson, 11.13.58.
7. “Brando on Horseback” The title of an article ostensibly written by McQueen, “as told to Electra Yourke,” TV Picture Life, 4.59.
8. “When you’re hot” McQueen, quoted in Amy Lewis’s magazine profile of him called “The Defiant One,” Silver Screen, 6.60.
9. Reviews for Wanted: Dead or Alive From Toffel, but beyond their being quoted, no further source information is supplied, although they are all likely from the named publications that appeared shortly after the show went on the air, between September and November 1958.
10. “a violent” CBS/Four Star press release. Herrick, Special Collections.
11. “He looked at me” David Foster, AI.
12. Clara Bow blurb Various newspapers. The quip was syndicated nationally.
13. McQueen driving incident Los Angeles Times, 11.21.58.
14. “one of the reasons I’m in successville” The uses of hipster language are from plants by David Foster in two articles in which Steve is “quoted.” They are “Hollywood TV Closeup,” by Erskine Johnson, NEA services, 11.13.58, and “Confessions of an Ex-Beatnik,” by John Quinlan, TV Screen Life, 6.57.
15. “Of course!” McQueen, quoted in TV World, 6.59.
16. “I get up at 5:30” McQueen, quoted by Sidney Skolsky, “Hollywood Is My Beat,” syndicated, 1.28.60.
17. “We can look down” and “And we can see coyotes” McQueen and Toffel, quoted in “A Rebel Is Anchored,” Louella Parsons, syndicated, 7.3.60.
18. “ecstatic” and “barefoot and pregnant” Toffel, p. 78.
19. “one in the oven” Toffel, p. 85.
CHAPTER 5
1. “One of the main reasons” McQueen, quoted in TV World, 6.59.
2. “I may blow” McQueen, quoted by Hal Humphrey, Los Angeles Mirror-News, 6.24.59.
3. “I remember” Ibid.
4. “That was it for Sammy” Peter Lawford, quoted in Kelley, p. 279.
5. “Earlier