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“Men commit actions”: Chesler, 48.
“immediate trigger”: FML, 208.
“in a mood”: ibid.
“arranged this solution”: ibid., 209.
Dr. Knight: Clinician and Therapist: Selected Papers of Robert P. Knight, ed. Stuart C. Miller (New York: Basic Books, 1972), includes recollections by colleagues Erik Erikson and Margaret Brenman-Gibson, and a portrait of the doctor by his neighbor and patient Norman Rockwell.
“disposes of an estate”: Kingsport Times, 5/11/1950.
“a tactless woman”: Sheilah Graham, Confessions of a Hollywood Columnist (New York: Bantam, 1970 [1969]), 225.
“It was just a bore”: PB, 122.
7. THE RIGHT MAN
“‘In the middle of the journey’”: Alvarez, 169.
suburb of Darien: Bridgeport Sunday Post, 9/9/1951.
four-story brownstone: Olean Times Herald, 9/6/1950.
a custody bid: MLSF, 78.
guardianship: Traverse City Record-Eagle, 7/3/1950.
shoots himself in the abdomen: MLSF, 72–73; DTD, 51–56.
“very favorable condition”: Idaho State Journal, 1/8/1951.
Jane has her doubts: MLSF, 73.
Henry believes him: PB, 128.
“No one ever talked”: DTD, 46.
“She remained cool”: Lowell Sun, 1/8/1951.
torn knee cartilage: Cedar Rapids Gazette, 10/4/1950.
“was almost unable to go on speaking”: Olean Times Herald, 11/6/1950.
“This is my first tour”: Wisconsin State Journal, 3/6/1951.
snowstorm: Madison Capitol Times, 3/20/1951.
“If I get a chance”: Cedar Rapids Gazette, 3/26/1951. See also Council Bluffs Nonpareil, 3/26/1951; Wisconsin State Journal, 3/26/1951.
“I don’t feel it”: Logan, 262–63; FML, 217–18.
“had become so identified”: E. J. Kahn, Jr., “Profile: The Tough Guy and the Soft Guy—I,” The New Yorker, 4/4/1953, 62.
“will charge $8”: San Mateo Times, 9/21/1951.
advance ticket sale: Uniontown Evening Standard, 12/20/1951.
show sells out: Marion Star, 11/3/1951.
“absorbing and generally entertaining”: Nevada State Journal, 11/16/1951.
Potter: Hayward interview transcript.
Kazan: ibid.
“feeling that I was cheating”: ibid.
“an honest second act”: FML, 222.
The notices are glumly approving: Osborn, dust jacket.
“deep beneath the waters”: John P. Marquand, Point of No Return (New York: Bantam, 1952 [1949]), 492.
“There was nothing to explain”: ibid., 458–59.
“A single light”: Osborn, 139.
“My life has been peppered”: FML, x.
the tour in Baltimore: Cedar Rapids Gazette, 12/14/1952.
“is not the greatest play”: Oakland Tribune, 4/8/1953.
he rejects: FML, 226; Cedar Rapids Gazette, 7/12/1953; Sheboygan Press, 5/28/1954; Waterloo Daily Courier, 7/9/1954.
three options he is given: FML, 227.
“One-nighters”: Bradford Era, 10/2/1953.
headquarters of the American Federation of Musicians: San Antonio Express, 9/4/1953; Joplin Globe, 10/3/1953.
to cede partial rights: Callow, 225.
“What do you know”: ibid., 227.
“I consider Fonda”: http://theatreisterritory.com/tag/charles-nolte.html. Nolte had previously played a crew member in Mister Roberts.
Henry Fonda has “the gift”: El Paso Herald-Post, 11/5/1953.
advance Broadway ticket sale: Cedar Rapids Gazette, 12/2/1953.
“and is eager”: Oakland Tribune, 10/16/1953.
“aloof”: Lowell Sun, 12/9/1953.
“What direction?”: Charleston Gazette, 12/10/1953.
“[We’re] just one happy family”: Charleston Gazette, 12/14/1953.
“At least five people”: ibid.
“I got into a slight squabble”: Tucson Daily Citizen, 1/16/1954.
putting his fist through a door: Nevada State Journal, 10/27/1953.
acclaim across the board: Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, 1/30/1954.
“one of the great shows”: Uniontown Morning Herald, 1/27/1954.
“a throat-grabbing chunk”: Waterloo Daily Courier, 7/9/1954.
“I am in that near-comatose state”: Beckley Post-Herald, 3/3/1954.
“Queeg deserved better”: Wouk, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, 128.
“the toughest scene”: Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 2/21/1954.
cries onstage: FML, 228.
Caribbean locations: Portland Press-Herald, 9/11/1948.
“homosexual”: McBride, 543–44.
Brando’s involvement: Albuquerque Journal, 2/19/1954.
“who has aged”: ibid.
“Bullshit!”: FML, 230.
“I had no intention”: Long Beach Independent, 7/30/1954.
“an Irish”: McBride, 547.
“screw up”: ibid., 548.
Fonda feels a blow: Norman, 88; PB, 123.
Ford appears at Henry’s door: Norman, 89.
“Just a great actor”: Ford interview on Criterion Collection DVD of Young Mr. Lincoln.
Ward Bond: McBride, 550.
“I despised that film”: ibid., 552.
half of all American homes: Whitfield, 153.
thirty-nine episodes: www.tv.com/shows/henry-fonda-presents-the-star-and-the-story/season/?season=all.
“appalling to see an actor”: Waterloo Daily Courier, 7/27/1959.
“I am an actor”: Valparaiso Videlio-Messenger, 7/22/1954.
“vast wasteland”: Newton N. Minow, Equal Time: The Private Broadcaster and the Public Interest (New York: Atheneum, 1964), 45.
“secret ambition”: News Television and Radio Guide (Lima, OH), 3/12/1955.
“I want to do the picture”: Portsmouth Herald, 11/10/1954.
eighty thousand dollars: News Television and Radio Guide (Lima, OH), 3/12/1955.
“astoundingly restrictive”: DTD, 78, 85.
Susan admits to being fearful: Norman, 91.
“Don’t cry”: ibid., 71.
“probably the biggest movie”: El Paso Herald Post, 5/23/1955.
David O. Selznick and Mike Todd: ibid.
The movie will have: ibid.
six million dollars: ibid.
“You understand, don’t you”: Brough, 124.
Henry finds his daily pages: Oakland Tribune, 10/27/1959.
“If I’d seen it”: Lebanon Daily News, 8/2/1956.
“It was as if we were”: Norman, 90.
granted a divorce decree: Newport News, 12/8/1955; Long Beach Independent, 5/3/1956.
Anita Ekberg: Salt Lake Tribune, 5/24/1959; NBN, 8; Collier, 99.
Venice Film Festival: Humboldt Standard, 8/27/1955.
“laughing” with Italian starlet Loren Pastini: San Antonio Light, 10/27/1955.
She and Henry meet: NBN, 2.
“There was something pure”: ibid.
“barbaric and primeval”: ibid., 30.
Augusto Torlonia: “Italy: Lord of the Earth,” Time, 7/4/1949; available at www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,888539,00.html.
“Eurotrash”: DTD, 109.
Franchetti history: NBN, 43–44, 116–17.
beaten by her brutish brother: ibid., 43.
she had inspired: Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (New York: Scribner’s, 1969), 486.
“She’s a character”: PB, 127.
“sad and boring”: NBN, 34.
8. THE WRONG MAN
O’Hara: FML, 4.
current reading: Henry Fonda, “My Current Reading,” Saturday Review of Literature, 7/31/1948, 29.
“in the old days”: John O’Hara to H. N. Swanson, 9/29/1963; O’Hara to Swanson, 2/5/1965; Swanson to O’Hara, 3/18/1969. Contents synopsized in the Calendar of the John O’Hara Letters to H. N. Swanson, 1955–1970, Penn State University Archives, available at www.libraries
.psu.edu/digital/speccolls/FindingAids/oharaswanson.frame.html.
Hitchcock: Patrick McGilligan, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2004), 535. See also Devin McKinney, “The Right Man,” The Believer, March/April 2008, 13, 27.
“the somnambulistic quality”: Herbert Brean, “A Case of Identity,” Life, 6/19/1953, 97.
Hitchcock reckoned this a misjudgment: François Truffaut, Hitchcock (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967), 177–83.
scissoring her eyes: FML, 254.
villa on the Mediterranean: FML, 256–57; DTD, 107–14.
“a dentist’s waiting room”: NBN, 53.
realistic oil studies: Abilene Reporter-News, 1/5/1962.
“renting period”: DTD, 120.
amount of business logged: Oakland Tribune, 7/10/1956; Abilene Reporter-News, 6/31/1956; Austin Daily Herald, 10/17/1956; Fresno Bee, 9/13/1956; Long Beach Independent, 2/28/1957.
“Medics are warning”: Burlington Daily Times-Herald, 10/22/1956.
“Each achievement”: NBN, 74.
Southwest Airways: Hayward, 69.
Oklahoma oil: Ada Evening News, 11/15/1953.
independent production deal: New York Times, 2/11/1955.
never star in a TV series: Long Beach Independent, 4/28/1957.
“save a dollar”: Connellsville Daily Courier, 1/4/1960.
handpicked by the star: Kittanning Leader-Times, 6/22/1959.
“looked so startlingly”: Oakland Tribune, 9/16/1959.
“I guess he doesn’t plan”: ibid.
“underwritten”: Gibson, 21.
“Start it rolling”: ibid., 24–25.
a quarter of it Fonda’s own money: ibid.
Henry is miscast as Jerry: ibid., 57.
When Henry meets Dr. Brenman-Gibson: ibid., 108.
“with a fixed”: ibid., 36.
“zest and fine realism”: Corpus Christi Times, 12/6/1957.
a nauseous Bancroft: Gibson, 106.
shouting at the playwright: FML, 263; Gibson, 107; Henry Fonda and Glenn Loney, “In the Words of Henry Fonda,” Cue, 12/20/1969, 12.
“the most odious experience”: Gibson, 107.
“the birth of a star”: Mansfield News-Journal, 1/25/1958.
selling his quarter share: Winnipeg Free Press, 9/27/1965.
“can’t stomach Hollywood”: Long Beach Independent, 5/28/1957.
“I imagine if we could hear”: Anderson, Silent Night, Lonely Night, 34.
“excessively verbose”: New York Times, 12/4/1959.
“that I find this talky”: San Mateo Times, 12/22/1959.
Gena Rowlands: Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, 11/8/1960.
“I was discovering myself”: NBN, 107.
“the father I never had”: ibid., 174.
“If it had been maybe ten years later”: Norman, 94.
“Just the slightest of slaps”: NBN, 72.
“if he had done it more often”: ibid.
“completely friendly”: Fresno Bee, 3/16/1961.
“I can only reproach myself”: Long Beach Independent, 3/16/1961.
she and a traveling companion: New York Times, 8/1/1966; Bridgeport Post, 8/1/1966; Bucks County Courier-Times, 11/10/1966; Bridgeport Telegram, 11/11/1966.
rented a Bel Air house: Albuquerque Journal, 6/29/1961.
“I made my first picture”: Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 9/10/1961.
“the greatest acting challenge”: Cumberland Sunday Times, 11/26/1961.
“about a writer”: Greeley Tribune, 12/18/1961.
“to the radiologist’s”: Corpus Christi Times, 3/16/1962.
“We talked”: Mansfield News-Journal, 1/28/1962.
rudiments of the classical guitar: ibid.
“that the theatre”: New York Times, 3/4/1962.
“is a long time to watch”: Bridgeport Post, 1/30/1962.
“party” block: ibid.
“Lael!”: Kanin, 75–77.
“I love you”: ibid., 150.
“just the God damnedest”: Springer, 38.
Critics too are uncertain: ibid.; New York Times, 2/23/1962; Time, 3/2/1962, available at www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939893,00.html; Harold Clurman, The Collected Works of Harold Clurman: Six Decades of Commentary on Theatre, Dance, Music, Film, Arts and Letters, ed. Marjorie Loggia and Glenn Young (New York: Applause, 2000), 475; Oakland Tribune, 3/11/1962.
covered with bruises: Anderson Daily Bulletin, 3/28/1962.
a film version is rumored: Salina Journal, 6/15/1962.
A small item appears: San Mateo Times and Daily News Leader, 10/31/1935.
Another version of the same incident: Galveston Daily News, 11/16/1935.
9. NEW FRONTIER AND HIDDEN AGENDA
vital center: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949).
“in the air”: William Safire, Safire’s Political Dictionary (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 465–66.
“tracked the trajectory”: Hoberman, 117.
“political party”: California Voter Registry, Los Angeles City Precinct No. 1674; available at www.ancestry.com.
Anti-Nazi League: Charles J. Maland, Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star Image (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), 162.
“the most prominent manifestation”: ibid.
Vittorio Mussolini, Leni Riefenstahl: Corpus Christi Times, 11/30/1938; Salt Lake Tribune, 12/1/1938; Las Vegas Daily Optic, 12/2/1938; Kalispell Daily Inter-Lake, 1/7/1939.
“a front for the Communist Party”: Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund, The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930–1960 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003), 109.
“challenging it to substantiate”: Logansport Press, 8/18/1938.
“lack of funds”: Ceplair and Englund, 110–11.
“‘Red’ really means”: Leslie Fiedler, An End to Innocence: Essays on Culture and Politics (Boston: Beacon, 1966 [1955]), 13.
spies inside the U.S.government: see R. Bruce Craig, Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004); Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era (New York: Random House, 1999); and Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997), A-37.
“many fine people”: Ronald Reagan, An American Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), 114.
an FBI informant: Friedrich, 320.
Committee for the First Amendment: John Cogley, Report on Blacklisting—I: Movies (New York: Fund for the Republic, 1956), 6.
“The accused men”: Stefan Kanfer, A Journal of the Plague Years (New York: Atheneum, 1973), 79.
“It was a sorry performance”: Friedrich, 326.
“of what in the United States”: Greil Marcus, The Manchurian Candidate (London: British Film Institute, 2002), 61.
Edward Dmytryk: Nicholas Christopher, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City (New York: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006), 76.
Larry Parks: Randy Roberts and James S. Olson, John Wayne, American (New York: Free Press, 1995), 346.
Jane Fonda will later criticize: MLSF, 67.
become a bitter detractor: PB, 136.
Ike from Abilene: Uniontown Evening Standard, 6/6/1952.
a public defection: Harrisburg Daily Register, 10/13/1952.
“Eisenhower seems to have”: Steinbeck, America and Americans, 222.
HUAC hearings: Stephen E. Ambrose, Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913–1962, vol. 1 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), 157–60.
“she had spurned”: ibid., 209.
antilynching bill: Zoe Trodd, ed., American Protest Literature (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006), 279–80.
Gahagan, Downey, Boddy: Ambrose, 209–10.
symphony of smear: Herbert S. Parmet, Richard Nixon and His America (Bost
on: Little, Brown, 1990), 186.
“Long after Watergate”: ibid.
“Such fuckin’ lies”: PB, 136.
“can be seen”: Feeney, 52–53.
“If you ever saw”: ibid., 92.
“It is the sum”: Barnard Bulletin, 10/27/1952.
cross-country fund-raiser: Charleston Gazette, 10/7/1956; Austin Daily Herald, 10/17/1956.
“Henry Fonda looked”: Butte Montana Standard, 10/28/1956.
“intimately”: PB, 136.
“is withdrawn”: Vidal, United States, 799.
Puerto Rican houseboy: Syracuse Post-Standard, 7/31/1963.
high campaign gear: Provo Daily Herald, 7/14/1960; Oxnard Press-Courier, 6/28/1960; Long Beach Independent, 9/17/1960; Oxnard Press-Courier, 9/30/1960; Hayward Daily Review, 10/27/1960; Florence Morning News, 11/2/1960. Fonda’s PT-109 ad is at http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1960/henry-fonda.
The Ed Sullivan Show: Syracuse Post-Standard, 2/11/1961.
National Cultural Center: Alice Goldfarb Marquis, Art Lessons: Learning from the Rise and Fall of Public Arts Funding (New York: Basic Books, 1995), 55.
the president will thank him: New York Times, 5/20/1962.
“a registered Republican”: Sarris, Confessions of a Cultist, 52.
Alger Hiss trial: Fiedler, An End to Innocence, 3–24; Whitfield, 27–31; Allen Weinstein, Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Trial (New York: Knopf, 1978).
Ronald Reagan: Edward M. Yager, Ronald Reagan’s Journey: From Democrat to Republican (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), 98.
“There is something a bit wicked”: Andrew Sarris, “Film Fantasies, Left and Right,” Film Culture (Fall 1964): 34.
based on Stevenson and Nixon: Burlington Daily Times-News, 10/24/1963.
“a couple of lines”: Auburn Citizen-Advertiser, 8/30/1963.
will likewise vanish: Marcus, 61.
“Gentlemen, the president”: John Baxter, Stanley Kubrick: A Biography (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1997), 189–91.
“I’m beginning to feel”: San Antonio Light, 3/19/1963.
sitting in a dentist’s chair: FML, 284.
The courage of life: John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage—50th Anniversary Edition (New York: HarperCollins, 2006 [1956], 225.
“What makes it a ‘Western’”: Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 42.
“Long before he even suspected”: Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (New York: Dell, 1974 [1961]), 85.
Democratic Study Group: Julian E. Zelizer, On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences, 1948–2000 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 104.