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Dark Victory_The Life of Bette Davis

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by Ed Sikov


  4. Bob Hofler to ES, October 30, 2003.

  5. Charles Pollack to ES, April 4 and August 9, 2004.

  6. James McCourt to ES, January 3, 2005.

  7. This and all other Greenfield recollections are from Vik Greenfield to ES, April 4 and August 9, 2004, and September 18, 2006.

  8. Martha Wallis to ES, February 9, 2006.

  9. Williamson, p. 90.

  10. Anthony Harvey to ES, March 31, 2006.

  11. Robert Lindsey, “Film Institute Honors Bette Davis,” New York Times, March 3, 1977.

  12. David Galligan to ES, April 2, 2004.

  13. Stricklyn, p. 198.

  14. “Could Your Husband Take It,” Ladies Home Journal, April 1942, p. 18.

  15. Dickman, pp. 30–31.

  16. Leaming, p. 300.

  17. Dotson Rader to ES, February 17, 2004.

  18. Mart Crowley to ES, May 1, 2006.

  19. This and all other Kaplan recollections are from Mike Kaplan to ES, September 22, 2004.

  20. Harmetz, p. 621.

  21. Gary Springer to ES, September 26, 2004.

  22. James McCourt to ES, January 3, 2005.

  23. Harmetz, p. 621.

  24. Lambert, Lindsay Anderson, p. 293.

  25. Charles Busch to ES, May 26, 2004.

  26. Harmetz, p. 621.

  27. Lambert, Lindsay Anderson, p. 293.

  28. Ibid.

  Obituary

  1. Last Will and Testament of Bette Davis (copy), dated September 2, 1987, and admitted to probate on February 15, 1990.

  2. Ken Hall, “Ken’s Korner,” Antiques and Collecting Magazine 108, no. 1 (March 2003): 18, and Heathcliff Rothman, “I’d Really Like to Thank My Pal at the Auction House,” New York Times, February 12, 2006.

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