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1 Eleanor Lambert, “She,” Waterloo Sunday Courier (Waterloo, Iowa), July 19, 1964.
2 Elisabeth Laurence, “Lives of Style: Denise Hale,” The Examiner, June 2, 2007.
3 C. Robert Jennings, “The Hollywood Establishment,” Los Angeles Times, November 26, 1967.
4 Barbara Wilkins, “Who’s on Top in Hollywood? Only Joyce Haber’s Exercise Man Knows for Sure,” People, April 25, 1977.
5 Luis Estevez, interview with author.
6 Ibid.; Vincente Minnelli, with Hector Arce, I Remember It Well (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974).
7 “MGM to Remake ‘Four Horsemen,’” New York Times, March 3, 1960.
8 John Gay, interview with author.
9 Minnelli, I Remember It Well, 341; George Feltenstein, interview with author.
10 Brian Avery, interview with author.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
13 Letter from Harry Schein to Paul Kohner, December 31, 1960, archived at the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California.
14 Hank Moonjean, interview with author.
15 George Feltenstein, interview with author; Brian Avery, interview with author.
16 John Gay, interview with author.
17 Monika Henreid, interview with author.
18 Telegram from Bob Mochrie to Vincente Minnelli, December 22, 1961.
19 Paul V. Beckley, review of The Four Horsemen, New York Herald Tribune, March 10, 1962.
20 George Feltenstein, interview with author.
31. DON’T BLAME ME
1 Stephen Harvey, Directed by Vincente Minnelli (New York: Harper and Row, 1989).
2 George Hamilton, interview with author.
3 Peggy Moffit, interview with author.
4 Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse, as told to Dick Kleiner, The Two of Us (New York: Mason/Charter, 1976).
5 Kirk Douglas, The Ragman’s Son (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988).
6 Bosley Crowther, “Screen of Degradation: ‘Two Weeks in Another Town’ at Paramount,” New York Times, August 18, 1962.
7 Peter Bogdanovich, review of Two Weeks in Another Town, Film Culture, no. 26 (Fall 1962).
32. HAPPY PROBLEMS
1 John Hallowell, “Every Shift Swings at the Factory,” Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1968.
2 C. Robert Jennings, “The Hollywood Establishment,” Los Angeles Times, November 26, 1967; Joyce Haber, “Familiar Line in Another Go Around,” Los Angeles Times, December 16, 1968.
3 Interview with author. Interview subject prefers to remain anonymous.
4 Luis Estevez, interview with author.
5 Interview with author. Interview subject prefers to remain anonymous.
6 John Gay, interview with author.
7 Liza Minnelli on the recording Liza Minnelli at Carnegie Hall, Telarc International, 1987.
8 Ron Howard, interview with Brian Linehan for the series “City Lights,” part 3, 1982, Canada National Screen Institute website, www.nsi-canada.ca.
9 Stella Stevens, interview with author.
10 Carlos Losilla, translated by Amity Joy Phillips, “The Immobile Journey of Helen Corbett: On The Courtship of Eddie’s Father,” in Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment, edited by Joe McElhaney (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009).
11 Stella Stevens, interview with author.
12 Audio commentary on DVD edition of The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Warner Video/Turner Entertainment, 2003.
13 Ibid.
14 Stella Stevens, interview with author.
33. IDENTITY THEFT
1 Syd Cassyd, “MGM Pairs Art Freed, Irving Berlin Again,” Box Office, May 6, 1963.
2 Barbara Freed Saltzman, interview with author.
3 Quoted in Ms. magazine, August 1972. (The quote appeared a decade after Monroe’s death.)
4 Vincente Minnelli, with Hector Arce, I Remember It Well (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974).
5 “Theatre: Expanded Vaudeville Sketch,” New York Times, December 17, 1959; Minnelli, I Remember It Well.
6 Tony Curtis, interview with author.
7 Ellen Burstyn, Lessons in Becoming Myself (New York: Riverhead Books/Penguin Group, 2006), 127.
8 Tony Curtis, interview with author.
9 John Epperson, interview with author.
10 Tony Curtis, interview with author.
34. THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE
1 “Who Pays the Sandpiper Calls the Tune,” Life, July 16, 1965.
2 Unpublished notes for Vincente Minnelli’s autobiography, archived in the Minnelli collection at the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California.
3 Liz Smith, Natural Blonde: A Memoir (New York: Hyperion, 2000).
4 Robert Crutchfield, interview with author.
5 Ibid.
6 Richard Barrios, interview with author.
35. “AT BEST, CONFUSED”
1 Martin Charnin, interview with author.
2 Ibid.
3 Eugenia Sheppard, “Minnelli Spied on Mata Hari,” Washington Post and Times Herald, August 24, 1967.
4 Hugh Fordin, interview with author.
5 Ibid.
6 Antony DeVecchi, interview with author.
7 Martin Charnin, interview with author.
8 William Goldman, The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1969).
9 Antony DeVecchi, interview with author.
10 Variety, November 22, 1967; Variety, November 17, 1967; Martin Charnin, interview with author.
11 Bill Henry, “Window on Washington,” Los Angeles Times, November 29, 1967.
12 Antony DeVecchi, interview with author; Martin Charnin, interview with author.
36. ON A CLEAR DAY
1 Shaun Considine, Barbra Streisand: The Woman, the Myth, the Music (New York: Delacorte Press, 1985).
2 Rex Reed, People Are Crazy Here (New York: Delacorte Press, 1974).
3 John Poer, interview with author.
4 Lawrence Paull, interview with author.
5 Molly Haskell, “Film: On a Clear Day,” Village Voice, June 25, 1970; John Poer, interview with author; Lawrence Paull, interview with author.
6 Vincente Minnelli, with Hector Arce, I Remember It Well (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974).
7 Vincent Canby, “Screen: ‘On a Clear Day You Can See Forever’ Begins Its Run,” New York Times, June 18, 1970.
8 Stone Widney, interview with author.
9 Considine, Barbra Streisand; Jonathan Black, Streisand (New York: Nordon Publications, 1975).
10 Stuart Byron, “On a Clear Day You Can See Minnelli,” December 14, nos. 1-2 (1972).
11 Jeanine Basinger, interview with author.
12 Minnelli, I Remember It Well.
13 Howard Mandelbaum, interview with author.
14 Richard Schickel, interview with author.
37. A MATTER OF TIME
1 Vincente Minnelli, with Hector Arce, I Remember It Well (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974).
2 John Gay, interview with author.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Sam Arkoff, with Richard Trubo, Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1992).
6 Donald Spoto, Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman (New York: HarperCollins, 1997).
7 Clive Hirschhorn, interview with author.
8 Arkoff, Flying Through Hollywood.
9 Lorna Luft, Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir (New York: Pocket Books, 1998).
10 John Gay, interview with author.
11 Maurice Druon, The Film of Memory (New York: Scribner, 1955).
12 Arkoff, Flying Through Hollywood.
13 John Gay, interview with author; Joe McElhaney, interview with author.
14 Pauline Kael, When the Lights Go Down (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980).
38. LONELY FEET
1 “Earrings Worth
$35,000 Stolen,” Los Angeles Times, January 15, 1962.
2 Scotty Bowers, interview with author.
3 Robin Abcarian, “The Divine Mrs. M,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, August 22, 1999.
4 Ibid.
5 Wendy Leigh, Liza: Born a Star (New York: Dutton, 1993).
6 Ibid.
7 Jody Jacobs, “Caught the Bridal Bouquet: Minnelli-Anderson Vows Said,” Los Angeles Times, April 4, 1980.
8 Ibid.
9 “The Evening Hours,” New York Times, March 4, 1983.
10 Jody Jacobs, “Minnelli Tribute ‘A Show of Love,’” Los Angeles Times, February 21, 1983.
11 Ibid.
12 “Obituaries: Vincente Minnelli, Versatile Director of Acclaimed Musicals,” Chicago Tribune, July 27, 1986.
13 Jerry Belcher, “Minnelli’s Works Praised at Services,” Los Angeles Times, July 31, 1986.
14 A picture of the tombstone appears on the “Find a Grave” website at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=2106&PIpi=133663.
15 United Press International, “Minnelli Leaves Bulk of Estate to Liza: His Wish for Cremation Ignored,” August 1, 1986.
16 Leigh, Liza: Born a Star.
17 Liza Minnelli at Carnegie Hall, Telarc International, 1987.
18 Leigh, Liza: Born a Star.
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