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50. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 10.
51. Chicago Tribune, November 14, 1965.
52. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 34.
53. Ibid., p. 64.
54. Ibid., p. 55.
55. Ibid., p. 103.
56. Ibid., p. 155.
57. Nicholas Wetzel, to author, April 11, 2001.
58. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, pp. 186–87.
59. Nicholas Wetzel, to author, April 11, 2001; Who’s Who in America, 1980–1981
(Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who, 1981), p. 816.
60. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 221.
61. Nicholas Wetzel, to author, April 11, 2001.
62. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, pp. 226–27.
63. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
64. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 26.
65. Los Angeles Times, January 20, 1981, “Nancy Reagan’s Early Years: A Matter of Relativity”; People, July 18, 1983, “A Find at a Flea Market Sheds Light on Nancy Reagan’s Life with Her Real Father,” p. 25.
66. Mantle, ed., The Best Plays of 1927–28, p. 402; clipping of theater review from an unidentified Chicago newspaper, April 1928.
67. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 34.
68. Mantle, ed., The Best Plays of 1928–29, pp. 377–78; New York Evening Post, September 22, 1928; Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
69. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 228.
70. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
71. Nancy Reagan, to author, June 4, 2000.
72. Charlotte Galbraith Ramage, to author, April 19, 2001.
73. Mantle, ed., The Best Plays of 1928–1929, pp. 377–78; Lardner, The Lardners, p. 179.
74. Grobel, The Hustons, p. 122.
75. Author’s diary, April 3, 2001.
76. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
77. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 73.
78. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 36.
79. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 228.
80. Nancy Reagan, to author, March 26, 1998.
81. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
82. Spatz Leighton, The Search for the Real Nancy Reagan, p. 16.
83. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, pp. 76–77.
84. Ibid., p. 76.
85. Lambert, Nazimova, p. 320.
86. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 74.
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Notes
87. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, “Dr. Loyal Davis, In Memoriam.”
88. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, “Letters/Dr. Loyal Davis.”
89. People, July 18, 1983, “A Find at a Flea Market Sheds Light on Nancy Reagan’s Life with Her Real Father,” pp. 23–24; Los Angeles Times, January 20, 1981,
“Nancy Reagan’s Early Years: A Matter of Relativity.” Both stories were illustrated with photographs from a Robbins family album that was put together by Patsie Robbins and later surfaced in a New Jersey flea market.
90. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 35.
91. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 25.
92. People, July 18, 1983, “A Find at a Flea Market Sheds Light on Nancy Reagan’s Life with Her Real Father,” pp. 23–24; Los Angeles Times, January 20, 1981,
“Nancy Reagan’s Early Years: A Matter of Relativity.”
93. Richard Davis, to author, September 29, 2000.
94. Nancy Reagan, to author, April 30, 2001.
95. Jean Wescott Marshall, to author, April 19, 2001.
96. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 242.
97. Ibid., pp. 238–40.
98. Dunning, Tune in Yesterday, pp. 61–62; Lackmann, The Encyclopedia of American Radio, p. 38.
99. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 37.
100. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 231.
101. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
102. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, “Mrs. Loyal Davis (Edith), In Memoriam.”
Chapter Three: Iowa, 1933–1937
1. “B. J. Palmer’s Epigrams,” from the Web site of Palmer Chiropractic University, www.palmer.edu/pfch/Epigrams.htm.
2. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, “Letters/Nelle Reagan, Reagan family letters (early),”
“My New Year Poem, 1935–36,” by Nelle Reagan.
3. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 17.
4. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 43.
5. Nachman, Raised on Radio, p. 16.
6. E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 37, 693.
7. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , pp. 42–43.
8. Ibid., pp. 43–44; Ronald Reagan, An American Life, pp. 59–60.
9. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, pp. 59–60.
10. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 45.
11. Ibid., p. 46.
12. Ibid.
13. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 63. Garry Wills says that it was an “old Chevrolet” (Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 59).
14. Cannon, Reagan, p. 44; Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 121–23.
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15. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 124.
16. Ibid., pp. 125–26. Lou Cannon differs slightly, saying that Reagan’s room cost $18 per month (Cannon, Reagan, p. 44).
17. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 55.
18. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 66.
19. Ibid., pp. 66–67.
20. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 61.
21. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 138–39.
22. Ibid., pp. 133, 143.
23. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , pp. 56–58; Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 99.
24. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 97.
25. Ibid., pp. 97, 99.
26. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 24.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid., pp. 23–25.
29. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 71; E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 116, 708.
30. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 48.
31. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 131.
32. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 75; Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 134–35.
33. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 45.
34. E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 122, 709.
35. Neil Reagan oral history, pp. 13–16.
36. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 143–44.
37. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 59.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid., p. 60.
40. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 110.
41. Cannon, Reagan, p. 46.
42. Wills, Reagan’s America, pp. 112–13.
43. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 74.
44. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 145; Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , pp. 67–68.
45. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 113; Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 134. Note that her surname has been withheld at the request of her family.
46. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 119; Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 114.
47. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 149.
48. Ibid.
49. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 108.
50. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 150–51.
51. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 124.
52. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 70.
53. Ibid., p. 72; Ronald Reagan, An American Life, pp. 78–79.
54. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 72; Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 114.
55. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, pp. 79–80; E. Morris, Dutch, p. 131.
56. Ronald Reagan with
Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 74.
57. Ibid.
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Notes
58. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 166; Dixon Telegraph, April 16, 1937, “Thrilled: Ronald Reagan Reveals His Reaction Over Success.”
59. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 114.
60. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 76.
61. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, “Letters/Nelle Reagan, Reagan family letters (early).”
Chapter Four: East Lake Shore Drive, 1933–1939
1. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 39.
2. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 78.
3. Barbara A. Chernow and George A. Vallasi, eds., The Columbia Encyclopedia: Fifth Edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), p. 450.
4. Biles, Big City Boss in Depression and War, p. 21.
5. Ibid., p. 24.
6. Nicholas Wetzel, to author, April 11, 2001.
7. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, “N. Reagan—Letters,” undated letter to Loyal Davis from Nancy at Camp Ketchuwa.
8. Jean Wescott Marshall, to author, April 19, 2001.
9. China Ibsen Oughton, to author, February 21, 2001.
10. Ibid.
11. Bruce McFarland, to author, February 14, 2002.
12. China Ibsen Oughton, to author, February 21, 2001.
13. Angie Johnson Galbraith, to author, February 27, 2001.
14. Jean Wescott Marshall, to author, April 19, 2001.
15. “Nancy Reagan,” A&E Biography, A&E Television Network, March 31, 1997.
16. Jean Wescott Marshall, to author, April 19, 2001.
17. Bruce McFarland, to author, February 14, 2002.
18. Chicago Tribune, June 13, 1980.
19. Jean Wescott Marshall, to author, April 19, 2001.
20. Vita Scholae, The Girls Latin School of Chicago, June 1948, p. 48.
21. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 182.
22. Grobel, The Hustons, p. 168.
23. Lambert, Nazimova, p. 346.
24. Ibid., pp. 347–48.
25. Nancy Reagan, to author, March 25, 2002.
26. Lambert, Nazimova, pp. 356–57.
27. Grobel, The Hustons, p. 176.
28. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 62.
29. Grobel, The Hustons, pp. 122–23.
30. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
31. Huston, An Open Book, p. 182.
32. Grobel, The Hustons, p. 175.
33. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
34. Weld, September Song, pp. 130–31; Grobel, The Hustons, p. 188.
35. Nancy Reagan, to author, March 19, 2003.
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36. Moore, Silent Star, p. 250.
37. Ibid., pp. 22–24.
38. Los Angeles Times, January 26, 1988, “Colleen Moore, Film Star of Flapper Age, Dies at 87.”
39. Moore, Silent Star, pp. 231–45.
40. Ibid., p. 245.
41. Ibid., pp. 252–55.
42. Homer Hargrave Jr., to author, February 22, 2002.
43. Abra Rockefeller Wilkin, to author, January 17, 2002.
44. Homer Hargrave Jr., to author, February 22, 2002.
45. Judy Hargrave Coleman, to author, January 28, 2002.
46. Ibid.
47. Homer Hargrave Jr., to author, February 22, 2002.
48. Judy Hargrave Coleman, to author, January 28, 2002.
49. Unidentified clipping from Chicago American, article by Lois Baur, from clippings file at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
50. Abra Rockefeller Wilkin, to author, January 17, 2002.
51. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 306.
52. Nancy Reagan, to author, February 4, 2002, March 25, 2002.
53. Nancy Reagan, to author, March 25, 2002.
54. Judy Hargrave Coleman, to author, January 28, 2002.
55. “Nancy Reagan,” A&E Biography, A&E Television Network, March 31, 1997.
56. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 41.
57. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
58. Ibid.
59. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, pp. 37–38.
60. Biles, Big City Boss in Depression and War, p. 28.
61. Ibid., p. 39.
62. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 294.
63. Ibid., p. 249.
64. Dunning, On the Air, pp. 636–37.
65. Vita Scholae, The Girls Latin School of Chicago, 1937, p. 27.
66. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
67. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, pp. 74–75.
68. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 27.
69. Cannon, Reagan, p. 142.
70. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 75.
71. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 42.
72. Abra Rockefeller Wilkin, to author, January 17, 2002.
73. Marjorie Everett, to author, September 25, 1999.
74. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, pp. 30–31.
75. Ibid., p. 25.
76. Los Angeles Times, January 20, 1981, “Nancy Reagan’s Early Years: A Matter of Relativity.”
77. Ibid.
78. Nancy Reagan, to author, August 25, 2001.
79. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 78.
80. Nancy Reagan to author, August 25, 2001.
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Notes
81. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 231.
82. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 43.
83. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 74.
84. Grobel, The Hustons, p. 198.
85. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, pp. 80–81.
86. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, pp. 62–63.
87. Ibid., p. 63.
88. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 82.
89. Vita Scholae, The Girls Latin School of Chicago, 1939, p. 12.
90. Homer Hargrave Jr., to author, February 22, 2002.
91. Ibid.
92. Vita Scholae, The Girls Latin School of Chicago, 1939, p. 12.
93. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 55; Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, pp. 52–53; Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 389.
94. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, pp. 56–57.
Chapter Five: Warner Bros., 1937–1941
1. Pitt and Pitt, Los Angeles A to Z, pp. 339–40.
2. Ibid., p. 403.
3. Population figures for various cities from Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1960
edition.
4. M. Davis, City of Quartz, p. 118.
5. New York Times, July 7, 2002, “The Endless City vs. Its Closing Frontier.”
6. Pitt and Pitt, Los Angeles A to Z, p. 578.
7. Mike Davis, City of Quartz, p. 25.
8. New York Review of Books, May 28, 1998, “Angels of L.A.,” pp. 17–18.
9. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1960 edition, “Los Angeles.”
10. Mike Davis, City of Quartz, p. 160.
11. Higham, Merchant of Dreams, pp. 434, 201.
12. Ibid., p. 215.
13. Warner with Jennings, My First Hundred Years in Hollywood, p. 223.
14. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 163, 578.
15. Des Moines Dispatch, June 13, 1937, “The Making of a Movie Star,” by Ronald
“Dutch” Reagan.
16. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 83.
17. Ogden, Legacy, pp. 135–38; Cooney, The Annenbergs, pp. 71–73, 382.
18. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 84; Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 176.
19. Neil Reagan oral history, p. 18.
20. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 143.
21. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 178; Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 88.
22. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 173.
23. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 89.
24. Edwards,
Early Reagan, p. 184.
25. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 89.
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26. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 183.
27. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, Reagan family letters, “Letters/Nelle Reagan.”
28. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 720; Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 182–84.
29. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 164.
30. Los Angeles Times, October 3, 1948.
31. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 188–90; E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 153, 717–18.
32. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 188–89.
33. Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 13.
34. Ibid., p. 14.
35. Morella and Epstein, Jane Wyman, pp. 6–8; Quirk, Jane Wyman, pp. 13–14.
36. Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 13; Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 189.
37. Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 14.
38. Morella and Epstein, Jane Wyman, p. 7.
39. Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 14
40. Ibid., p. 16; Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 190.
41. Morella and Epstein, Jane Wyman, p. 9; Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 18.
42. 1964 Guidepost Magazine interview, quoted in Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 17.
43. Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 16.
44. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 190–91.
45. Quirk, Jane Wyman, pp. 16–17.
46. Ibid., p. 25.
47. Morella and Epstein, Jane Wyman, p. 14; Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 32.
48. E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 140, 715.
49. Quirk, Jane Wyman, pp. 30–31.
50. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 192.
51. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 157.
52. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.
53. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 161.
54. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 88.
55. Richard Gully, to author, October 1, 1999.
56. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 718; Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 192.
57. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 720.
58. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 193; Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 43.
59. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 145.
60. Quirk, Jane Wyman, p. 42.
61. McClelland, Hollywood on Ronald Reagan, p. 46 (citing a 1944 Movieland article co-authored by Jane Wyman).
62. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 193.
63. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 87.
64. McClelland, Hollywood on Ronald Reagan, p. 6.
65. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 162.
66. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 197–98.
67. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 163.
68. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 199–200. See also E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 161–64; Eells, Hedda and Louella, pp. 190–91.