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notes

Certain minor sources not in the bibliography are included in these notes. Although I consulted several Web sites, I have not noted them here for two reasons: (1) the vicissitudes of the net and (2) the widespread unreliability of many such sites. All citations from Elisabeth Bergner, Michel Ciment, and Pascal Mérigeau are my translations. The following abbreviations are used:

PERSONS

Lee Adams—LA

Gary Carey—GC

Richard Challis—RC

Betty Comden—BC

Arlene Dahl—AD

Mary Diveny—MD

Penny Fuller—PF

Kenneth Geist—KG

Joseph Hansen—JH

Tom Hatten—TH

Harry Haun—HH

Celeste Holm—CH

Martina Lawrence—ML

Garrett Lewis—GL

Diane McAfee—DM

Rosemary Mankiewicz—RM

Tom Mankiewicz—TM

Sidney Michaels—SM

Mary Orr—MO

Nancy Davis Reagan—NDR

Lee Roy Reams—LRR

Charles Strouse—CS

INSTITUTIONS

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center—NYPL

Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University—BU

Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—AMPAS

DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas—SMU

American Film Institute, Los Angeles—AFI

Dallas Public Library—DPL

CHAPTER 1

A terse headline—
Variety
, Sept. 27, 1951

“Intellectual fog belt”—Geist, p. 218

“Make my pitch”—unsourced clipping, NYPL

“Why the hell”—CH to SS, Oct. 5, 1995

“When you’re”—KG to SS, Jan. 4, 1996

“I’m not a dinosaur”—
LA Herald-Examiner
, June 4, 1976

“Forgive me”—Carey, p. 100