Steve McQueen - Marc Eliot [146]
6. “honoring Miss Gina Lollobrigida” Invitation for the reception. Herrick, Special Collections.
7. “I kind of dig him” McQueen, Los Angeles Times, 5.12.59.
8. Hedda Hopper article Original draft from the Academy Library Hedda Hopper collection. The article, “Steve McQueen: Storm Center,” appeared nationally. It was, typically, a Sunday supplement front cover story.
9. “Everybody was watching” McQueen, quoted in “Steve McQueen: He Did It His Way,” Hollywood Then and Now, October 1981.
10. “Frank Sinatra kept saying” McQueen, quoted in “Steve Always Wants to Win,” by Erskine Johnson, Los Angeles Mirror-News, 9.29.59.
11. “It’s all yours, kid!” Toffel, p. 87.
12. “It was the beginning of the end” Carpenter, accompanying DVD booklet The Making of The Magnificent Seven, p. 107.
13. “a little accident” Hilly Elkins, AI.
14. “He promptly” Elkins, quoted in femalefirst.co.uk, 11.06.05, p. 110.
15. “Not only” Ibid., p. 111.
16. “mystified” Eli Wallach, quoted in ibid.
17. “In all the cowboy pictures” Wallach, p. 201.
18. “Eli became as attached” Relyea, pp. 136–37.
19. “After that” Vaughn, quoted in Louis Heaton’s Guns for Hire: The Making of the Magnificent Seven, MGM, 2001.
20. “The film had to be cast” James Coburn, quoted in ibid.
21. “The film was important” Elkins, AI.
22. “We only had three” Relyea, p. 139.
23. “In one scene” Vaughn, p. 221.
24. “Brynner turned around” Brad Dexter, quoted in Vaughn, p. 221.
25. “No, we didn’t get along” McQueen, quoted in Sunday Express (London), 9.17.61, article by Roderick Mann.
26. “When you work” McQueen, quoted by Erskine Johnson in his syndicated column, Los Angeles Mirror-News, 4.26.61.
27. “one of the finest” Brad Dexter, quoted in Vaughn, p. 185.
28. “I said to Steve” Vaughn, p. 164.
29. “I was in Spain” Elmer Bernstein, interviewed by Roger Friedman on the red carpet at the 2003 Oscars.
30. “from name to face to star” Andrew Sarris, “King of Cool,” American Classics, 3.98.
31. “He races to get the garbage out” Steve Ferry, quoted in Look, 10.11.60.
32. “I’m going to be” McQueen, quoted in Spiegel, p. 106. No further attribution or source given by Spiegel.
33. “Hi, let’s be friends” Toffel, pp. 98–99.
34. “I knew I wouldn’t be” Ibid.
CHAPTER 6
1. “I’ve been through” McQueen, quoted in Los Angeles Herald-Examiner by Harold Heffernan, 9.22.60.
2. “Now I don’t have to lean” McQueen, quoted by Erskine Johnson in his syndicated column, Los Angeles Mirror-News, 4.26.61.
3. “I take full credit” Elkins, quoted in Terrill, p. 69.
4. “go to the high desert” and “put the stuff” Toffel, pp. 101–2.
5. “What the hell’s the matter with you?” This and the dialogue that follows are from Siegel, pp. 229–30.
6. The description and dialogue of the meeting Siegel, pp. 230–31.
7. “For one scene” Siegel, p. 234.
8. “Siegel’s most successful films” Sarris, p. 137.
9. Kubrick telegram On file at the Herrick Academy Library.
10. “Hell Is for Heroes” Elkins, AI.
11. “Steve and his wife” Moss, quoted in Terrill, pp. 74–75.
12. “getting gassed and bounding” and “Balderdash … Somebody hollered fire” are from Charles Denton’s column, “TV,” which appeared in the Los Angeles Examiner, 10.20.61.
13. “The servants make me nervous” McQueen, writing to Hedda Hopper, 10.17.61.
14. “England’s fun” McQueen, letter to Hedda Hopper, 12.5.61.
15. Skolsky Tintype 12.23.61 The McQueen Tintype was revised and rerun several times after its initial appearance in 1959.
16. “This production of John Hersey’s novel” Variety, 1.1.62 (based on the British release, which preceded by several months the American release).
17. “The War Lover goes to remarkable trouble” Richard Coe, Washington Post, date unknown.
18. “It was a very tough decision” McQueen, quoted in Nolan, p. 47.
19. “It really twisted me up” McQueen, quoted in Hedda Hopper, “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood,” 6.10.62.
20. “Everything went wrong” McQueen, quoted by Bob Thomas, “Hands of a Mechanic,” syndicated, 5.62.
21. “I tried to make it” Sturges, The Great Escape movie featurette, 12.5.07.