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30. Ibid., p. 176.
31. Spada, Bette Davis, pp. 254–55.
32. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 5 to October 15, 1948.
33. Ibid.
34. Warner with Jennings, p. 251.
35. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 5 to December 7, 1949.
36. Wisconsin Historical Society archives, United Artists Corporation records, series 1.7, Warner Bros. contract and legal files, box 6: Beyond the Forest contract dated January 27, 1949.
37. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 15 to December 7, 1949: Davis to Jack Warner, January 14, 1949.
38. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 15 to December 7, 1949.
39. Ibid.
40. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 1941–1950, pp. 197–98.
41. Ibid.
42. Arkadin (John Russell Taylor), pp. 151–52.
43. O’Toole, “Whatever Happened,” p. 169.
44. Albee, pp. 3–5.
45. Arkadin (John Russell Taylor), pp. 151–52.
46. USC, Beyond the Forest file, pressbook.
47. Vidor, Dowd, and Shepard, p. 242.
48. Ibid., p. 243.
49. Ibid., pp. 242–43.
50. Lonely Life, p. 222.
CHAPTER 17. FAST FORWARD
1. Staggs, All About, p. 102.
2. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 44.
3. BU, scrapbook 100: Los Angeles Times Calendar, undated clipping.
4. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 26.
5. Robert Lantz to ES, November 20, 2003.
6. BU, box 28: Robert Osborne, Hollywood Reporter, September 1, 1989, p. 4.
7. Riese, p. 386.
8. Gina Piccalo, “Celebrity Personal Assistants Win Time in Spotlight,” Orlando Sentinel, December 14, 2003.
9. http://astrology.yahoo.com/us/astrology/profile/aries.html.
10. BU, scrapbook 79.
11. Stardust: The Bette Davis Story, dir. Peter Jones, Turner Classic Movies, 2006.
12. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 42.
13. Charles Pollack and Vik Greenfield to ES, April 4, 2004.
14. Williamson, p. 79.
15. Bernhardt and Kiersch, p. 148.
16. Higham and Greenberg, The Celluloid Muse, p. 52.
17. Bernhardt and Kiersch, pp. 150–51.
18. Williamson, p. 79.
19. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, pp. 238–39.
20. Ibid., p. 228.
21. Greenfield to ES, April 4, 2004.
22. Greenfield to ES, August 9, 2004.
23. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 177.
24. New York Times, June 8, 1950.
25. Ibid., July 4, 1950, and Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 177.
26. AMPAS, Hedda Hopper Collection, file 506 (Bette Davis).
27. Staggs, All About, pp. 113–14.
28. Israel, p. 269.
29. Bankhead, p. 278.
30. Kanfer, p. 198.
31. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 1941–1950, p. 50.
32. Ibid.
33. Custen, p. 339.
34. Chierichetti, p. 114.
35. Staggs, All About, p. 84.
36. Merrill, p. 90.
37. Staggs, All About, p. 104.
38. Ibid., pp. 113–14.
39. Lonely Life, p. 227.
40. Merrill, p. 88.
41. Staggs, All About, p. 78.
42. Ibid., pp. 73, 88.
43. Geist, p. 169.
44. Staggs, All About, p. 89.
45. Kenneth Geist to ES, May 27, 2004.
46. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, pp. 177–78.
47. Riese, p. 136.
48. Bernstein, pp. 224–26.
Chapter 18. wife and mother
1. British Film Institute (BFI), Special Collections, Val Guest Collection, scrapbook, item 3, box 3: various clippings, including Sunday Dispatch, February 18, 1951.
2. Merrill, p. 97.
3. Ibid., p. 98.
4. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 240.
5. Merrill, p. 99.
6. http://www.greatfosters.co.uk/pdfs/history_house.pdf.
7. Merrill, p. 100.
8. BFI, Special Collections, Val Guest Collection, scrapbook, item 3, box 3: Socialist Leader, December 1, 1951.
9. Wiley and Bona, pp. 209–10.
10. Warren G. Harris, Natalie and R.J, p. 24.
11. Wood, pp. 11–12.
12. Williamson, p. 79.
13. Finstad, p. 100.
14. Lonely Life, p. 238.
15. BU, scrapbook 52: various clippings.
16. BU, scrapbook 53: clipping.
17. BU, scrapbook 53.
18. Ibid.: unsourced clipping.
19. Merrill, pp. 96–97.
20. BU, box 1, manuscript of “The Story of Our Daughter, Margot, Retarded!” by Bette Davis, as told to Adele Whitely Fletcher, November 20, 1959.
21. Ibid.
22. Lonely Life, p. 243.
23. Merrill, p. 108.
24. Lonely Life, p. 243.
25. Merrill, pp. 121–22.
26. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, pp. 164–65.
27. BU, scrapbook 71.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Merrill, p. 127.
31. Ibid., p. 128.
CHAPTER 19. ONSTAGE, ONSCREEN, AND ON TV
1. Merrill, p. 105; Radie Harris, Los Angeles Times, August 17, 1952.
2. Radie Harris, Los Angeles Times, August 17, 1952.
3. Merrill, p. 111.
4. Ibid., p. 113.
5. Sheldon Harnick to ES, October 15, 2003.
6. Logan, p. 288.
7. BU, scrapbook 51: undated note from Ogden Nash to Bette Davis.
8. NYPLLC, John Murray Anderson clipping file, unsourced clipping.
9. Sheldon Harnick to ES, October 15, 2003.
10. Merrill, p. 114.
11. Lonely Life, p. 234.
12. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 248.
13. BU, box 2, folder 7: Collier’s, undated clipping.
14. BU, scrapbook 51, and BU, box 1.
15. BU, scrapbook 51.
16. Lonely Life, p. 234.
17. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 251.
18. Sheldon Harnick to ES, October 15, 2003.
19. Koster and Atkins, p. 139.
20. Ibid., p. 140.
21. Ibid.
22. Lonely Life, p. 239.
23. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 258.
24. Davis and Davidson, Collier’s, p. 29.
25. Ibid., p. 257.
26. BU, scrapbook 53: various clippings.
27. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 267.
28. Henreid with Fast, p. 226.
29. Brophy, p. 225.
30. Merrill, p. 163.
31. Frye, p. 226.
32. Merrill, p. 142.
33. BU, scrapbook 53: various clippings.
34. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 276.
35. Brochu, pp. 152–53.
36. Warren G. Harris, Lucy and Desi, pp. 230–31.
37. Jim Brochu to ES, April 1, 2004.
38. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 266.
39. Merrill, p. 142.
40. Ibid., p. 143.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43. Frye, pp. 226–28.
44. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 267.
45. Frye, pp. 226–28.
46. Merrill, p. 154.
47. Ibid.
48. Stardust: The Bette Davis Story, dir. Peter Jones, Turner Classic Movies, 2006.
49. Merrill, p. 154.
50. Ibid., p. 145.
51. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 184.
52. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 267.
53. BU, box 4: diary of trip to Europe.
54. Lonely Life, p. 195.
55. Read, p. 310.
56. BFI, Special Collections,
Michael Balcon Collection.
57. Merrill, p. 156.
58. BU, box 2, folder 6: Miami Herald, January 25, 1960.
59. Merrill, p. 156.
60. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 275.
61. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 186.
CHAPTER 20. TROUBLES AND A TRIUMPH
1. Dody, pp. 134–35.
2. Merrill, p. 176.
3. Ibid., p. 199.
4. Ibid., p. 185.
5. AMPAS, Hedda Hopper Collection, file 506 (Bette Davis): transcript dated July 16, 1962.
6. Merrill, p. 192.
7. Capra, p. 477.
8. Riese, p. 352.
9. Lonely Life, p. 219.
10. Leaming, pp. 21–23.
11. BU, box 25: Boston Globe, August 28, 1949.
12. BU, scrapbook 17: Virginia Maxwell, “Ruthie Was Right,” circa late 1930s.
13. BU, scrapbook 71.
14. BU, scrapbook 53: clipping dated May 23, 1957; BU, scrapbook 71.
15. Dody, p. 161.
16. Charles Pollack to ES, April 4, 2004.
17. Stricklyn, pp. 90–91.
18. BU, box 18: “This Is Your Life—Bette Davis,” bound script.
19. Riese, p. 128.
20. Dr. Ivin Prince to ES, June 10, 2004; all subsequent quotes from this interview.
21. Dody, p. 168.
22. Wood, p. 181.
23. Time, December 8, 1961, p. 82.
24. Williams and St. Just, p. 176.
25. Williams, pp. 182–83.
26. Logan, p. 289.
27. BU, scrapbook 76.
28. Ibid.
29. Wood, p. 183.
30. Winters, pp. 389, 395, 455 (paperback edition).
31. Williams and St. Just, pp. 179–80.
32. Winters, pp. 389, 395, 455 (paperback edition).
33. Martin Shingler to ES, August 20, 2004.
34. Robert Lantz to ES, November 20, 2003.
35. BU, box 9: Paul Favor, “Bette Davis,” section 2 by Ruth Favor Davis, p. 25.
36. Martin Shingler to ES, August 20, 2004.
37. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, pp. 134–35.
38. Ibid., p. 135.
39. Ibid.
40. Martin Baum to ES, December 1, 2004.
41. Frye, p. 230.
42. McCourt, Queer Street, p. 494.
43. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 137.
44. Ibid., pp. 137–38.
45. Greenberg, p. 49.
46. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 138.
47. Ibid., pp. 138–39.
48. Look, December 18, 1962.
49. Thomas, Crawford, p. 226.
50. Vik Greenfield to ES, August 9, 2004.
51. Frye, p. 230.
52. Ibid.
53. Graham, p. 29.
54. Quirk and Schoell, p. 205.
55. Bernhardt, p. 121.
56. Sherman, pp. 200, 218.
57. Thomas, Crawford, p. 225.
58. Silver and Ursini, pp. 256–57; Alleman, pp. 92–93.
59. Thomas, Crawford, p. 223.
60. Silver and Ursini, p. 24.
61. Bogdanovich, p. 789.
62. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 290; Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, pp. 140–41.
63. Warner with Jennings, p. 252.
64. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 293, quoting Hollywood Reporter, undated.
65. USC, Bette Davis legal files: accounting statement dated June 1, 1963.
66. Ibid.: accounting statement dated August 31, 1963.
67. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 141.
CHAPTER 21. “SITUATION WANTED”
1. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, pp. 291–92.
2. Martin Baum to ES, December 1, 2004.
3. Ibid.
4. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 291.
5. Charles Pollack to ES, August 9, 2004.
6. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 141.
7. Wiley and Bona, p. 352.
8. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 141.
9. Frye, p. 230.
10. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 150.
11. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 302.
12. Marchant, p. 84.
13. Warren G. Harris, Loren, p. 193.
14. AMPAS, Paul Henried Collection, Bette Davis file: Davis to Henreid, September 16, 1963.
15. Marchant, p. 84.
16. “Existential Momism,” Time, April 17, 1964.
17. Ibid., p. 305.
18. Staggs, All About, p. 102.
19. AMPAS, Paul Henried Collection, Bette Davis file: Bette to Paul, August 18, 1964.
20. Silver and Ursini, p. 24.
21. Sauvage, p. 62.
22. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, pp. 308–9.
23. Silver and Ursini, p. 264.
24. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 142.
25. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 313.
26. Sherman, p. 216.
27. Thomas, Crawford, p. 231.
28. Ibid.
29. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 144.
30. Arkadin (John Russell Taylor), pp. 151–52.
31. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 313.
32. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, pp. 152–53.
33. Frye, p. 257.
34. BU, scrapbook 59.
35. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, pp. 165–66.
36. Ibid., p. 160.
37. BU, scrapbook 79: Westport News, June 8, 1973.
38. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 161.
39. Intellius.com.
40. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 86.
41. Michael Merrill to ES, July 2, 2004.
42. BU, box 1: Bette Davis, as told to Adele Whitely Fletcher, “The Story of Our Daughter, Margot, Retarded!” November 20, 1959 (unedited manuscript).
43. Merrill, p. 201.
44. BU, scrapbook 59: Jerry Asher, “It Could Happen to You,” undated clipping.
45. AMPAS, Hedda Hopper Collection, file 506 (Bette Davis).
46. Merrill, pp. 199–200.
47. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 164.
48. Vik Greenfield to ES, August 9, 2004.
49. Spada, p. 397.
50. BU, scrapbook 59: Daily Mirror, April 1, 1965.
51. Wendy Craig to ES, December 16, 2004.
52. BU, scrapbook 59, unsourced clipping.
53. Arkadin (John Russell Taylor), pp. 151–52.
54. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 318.
55. O’Toole, “Whatever Happened,” p. 170.
56. Alvin Rakoff to ES, November 20, 2003.
CHAPTER 22. LOSSES
1. AMPAS, Paul Henreid Collection, Bette Davis file: letters from Henreid to Davis dated April 15 and May 18, 1955.
2. Baskette, p. 32.
3. Fraser-Cavasson, p. 206.
4. Meyer, p. 197.
5. Edward Albee to ES, July 12, 2006.
6. Interview with Richard Sherman, San Francisco Chronicle, December 26, 2005.
7. Lionel Larner to ES, November 3, 2004.
8. Dame Eileen Atkins to ES, October 30, 2003.
9. http://www.michaelgiltz.com/articles/Dominick_Dunne_transcript.htm.
10. The following recollections are from Mart Crowley to ES, May 1, 2006.
11. Lionel Larner to ES, November 3, 2004.
12. Alvin Rakoff to ES, November 20, 2003.
13. The following recollections are all from Vik Greenfield to ES, September 18, 2006.
14. Reggie Schwartzwalder to ES, September 19, 2006.
15. Ellen Hanley to ES, June 2 and July 21, 2006.
16. Don Bachardy to ES, April 12, 2004, and Bachardy, pp. 15–26.
17. Ann Kaufman Schneider to ES, December 6, 2003.
18. Logan, p. 295.
19. Chuck Pollack to ES, August 9, 2004.
/> 20. The following account is from Logan, pp. 296–309, including interview with Rex Reed.
21. Robert Lantz to ES, November 20, 2003.
22. Williamson, p. 80.
23. Gary Springer to ES, September 26, 2004.
24. Anon., “What a Dump,” New Yorker, February 17, 1973, p. 32.
25. “Bette Davis Launches British Tour,” Times (London), October 3, 1975.
26. Martha Wallis to ES, February 9, 2006.
27. Margot Webb to ES, December 16, 2004.
28. Gary Springer to ES, September 26, 2004.
29. Riese, p. 384.
30. Mel Gussow, “Bette Davis: One of the First to Look Like ’a Real Person,’” New York Times, January 19, 1977.
31. Williamson, p. 88.
32. Vik Greenfield to ES, August 9, 2004.
33. Riese, p. 118.
34. www.findadeath.com.
35. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 88.
36. Williamson, p. 88.
37. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, pp. 103–6.
38. Stine and Davis, Mother Goddam, p. 328.
39. Ibid., p. 331.
40. Ibid., p. 332, quoting Film Facts, vol. 19.
41. Vincent Canby, New York Times, October 19, 1971.
CHAPTER 23. BETRAYAL
1. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, pp. 77–78.
2. The following recollections are all from Anthony Harvey to ES, March 31, 2006.
3. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 78.
4. The following recollections are all from John Guillermin to ES, June 29, 2004.
5. This anecdote, and all others from Betty Buckley, are from Betty Buckley to ES, October 20, 2004.
6. John Kuri to ES, October 26, 2004.
7. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 102.
8. Williamson, pp. 88–90.
9. Waris Hussein to ES, October 17, 2003.
10. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 29.
11. Riese, p. 230.
12. Williamson, p. 79.
13. Chambers, p. 40.
14. Robert Lantz to ES, November 20, 2003.
15. Merrill, p. 256.
16. Charles Pollack to ES, April 4, 2004.
17. Ellen Hanley to ES, July 21, 2006.
18. Chambers, p. 40.
19. Look, December 18, 1962.
20. Merrill, p. 257.
21. Lonely Life, p. 243.
22. Owens, pp. 6–7.
23. BU, box 1.
24. BU, scrapbook 79; BU, box 4.
25. BU, box 4: 1971 daybook.
26. BU, scrapbook 79.
27. Ibid.
28. Davis with Herskowitz, This ’n That, p. 166.
29. Charles Busch to ES, May 26, 2004.
30. Chambers, p. 40.
CHAPTER 24. WAR’S END
1. This and all other Pollack recollections are from Charles Pollack to ES, April 4 and August 9, 2004.
2. Dotson Rader to ES, February 17, 2004.
3. Mart Crowley to ES, May 1, 2006.