Pictures at a Revolution (65 page)

17.
Davidson, Bill.
Spencer Tracy: Tragic Idol
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1987); and Leaming, Barbara.
Katharine Hepburn
(New York: Crown, 1995).

18.
AI with Karen Sharpe Kramer.

19.
Weiler, A. H. “On the Run Toward the ‘Money.'”
New York Times
, December 19, 1965.

20.
Thompson, Howard. “Unafraid of ‘Virginia Woolf.'”
New York Times
, September 5, 1965.

21.
Bragg, Melvyn.
Rich: The Life of Richard Burton
(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988), p. 206.

22.
Ibid., p. 309.

23.
Thompson, “Unafraid of ‘Virginia Woolf,'” op. cit.

24.
Bragg,
Rich
, op. cit., p. 204.

25.
AI with Nichols. A different account can be found in “Play into Film: ‘Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'” (op. cit.), in which Leonard J. Leff cites an opening scene in an early draft by Lehman in which two dogs were shown fighting and notes that Jack Warner thought the scene was “good action,” something he felt the dialogue-driven play needed.

26.
“Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton: The Night of the Brawl.”
Look
, February 8, 1966.

27.
O'Steen,
Cut to the Chase
, op. cit.

28.
AI with Nichols; Nichols on
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
commentary track, op. cit.

29.
AI with Henry.

30.
Webb,
The Graduate
, op. cit., p. 102.

31.
Ibid., p. 59.

32.
Ibid., p. 182.

33.
AI with Henry.

34.
Ibid.

35.
Webb,
The Graduate
, op. cit., p. 99.

36.
AI with Turman.

37.
Webb,
The Graduate
, op. cit., p. 49.

38.
Alpert, Hollis. “‘The Graduate' Makes Out.”
Saturday Review
, July 6, 1968.

39.
AI with Henry.

40.
Henry, interviewed by Terry Gross, National Public Radio, 1997.

CHAPTER 10

1.
Dunne,
The Studio
, op. cit., p. 33.

2.
Cable from Richard Zanuck to Arthur Jacobs, July 28, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

3.
“Treatment for Doctor Dolittle” by Leslie Bricusse, July 14, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

4.
Lofting, Hugh.
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
(originally published 1920) and
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
(originally published 1922).

5.
Author interview with Christopher Lofting.

6.
Letter from Josephine Lofting to Bernard Silbert, July 20, 1965 (misdated July 20, 1964), Jacobs Collection.

7.
AI with Jewison.

8.
Fleischer, Richard.
Just Tell Me When to Cry: A Memoir
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1993), pp. 238–239.

9.
Dunne,
The Studio
, op. cit., p. 33.

10.
Bricusse,
The Music Man
, op. cit., pp. 162–165.

11.
Memo from Rex Harrison to Arthur Jacobs, July 22, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

12.
Accounts of Roberts's struggle with mental illness and alcoholism come from Alexander Walker's
Fatal Charm: The Life of Rex Harrison
(op. cit.), from Walker's
No Bells on Sunday: The Rachel Roberts Journals
(New York: Harper & Row, 1984), and from interviews with those who knew her.

13.
Bricusse,
The Music Man
, op. cit., pp. 166–167.

14.
Fleischer,
Just Tell Me When To Cry
, op. cit., pp. 240–241.

15.
Goudsouzian,
Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon
, op. cit.

16.
Fleischer,
Just Tell Me When to Cry
, op. cit., pp. 243–246.

17.
Letter from Rex Harrison to Arthur Jacobs, September 28, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

18.
Bart, Peter. “Hollywood Finds Harmony Paying.”
New York Times
, May 14, 1966.

19.
AI with Mort Abrahams; see also Bricusse,
The Music Man
, op. cit.

20.
AI with Abrahams.

21.
AI with Brown.

22.
Fleischer,
Just Tell Me When to Cry
, op. cit., p. 247.

23.
Unsigned memo dated November 1, 1965, retroactive to August 30, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

24.
Unsigned memo dated November 2, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

25.
Handwritten initialed note by Richard Zanuck on memo from Owen McLean to Zanuck, Jacobs, and Fleischer, November 2, 1965, Richard Fleischer Collection, USC.

26.
Letter from Owen McLean to Richard Zanuck, November 4, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

27.
Undated handwritten note by Arthur Jacobs, Jacobs Collection.

28.
Telegrams from L. Arnold Weissberger to Anthony Newley, November 18 and November 19, 1965, Anthony Newley Papers, Boston University; letter from Owen McLean to Richard Zanuck, November 22, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

29.
Geist, Kenneth L.
Pictures Will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(New York: Scribner, 1978), pp. 351–352.

30.
Letter from Richard Fleischer to Rex Harrison, November 22, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

31.
Memo from National Weather Institute to 20th Century-Fox, December 6, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

32.
AI with Abrahams.

33.
Memo from Arthur Jacobs to Richard Zanuck, December 7, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

34.
Mosley,
Zanuck: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Last Tycoon
, op. cit., pp. 235–236.

35.
Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck to Richard Zanuck, December 12, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

36.
Cable from Richard Zanuck to Darryl F. Zanuck, December 16, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

37.
Cable from Darryl F. Zanuck to Richard Zanuck, December 12, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

38.
Cable from Ted Ashley to Richard Zanuck, December 27, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

39.
Fleischer,
Just Tell Me When to Cry
, op. cit., pp. 249–252.

40.
Cable from Rex Harrison to Richard Zanuck, December 30, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

41.
Telegram from Richard Zanuck to Rex Harrison, December 31, 1965, Jacobs Collection.

CHAPTER 11

1.
Steinberg, Cobbett.
Reel Facts: The Movie Book of Records
(New York: Vintage, 1982), p. 24.

2.
Author interview with Beatty.

3.
AI with Towne.

4.
AI with Beatty.

5.
De Baecque and Toubiana,
Truffaut
, op. cit., p. 212.

6.
AI with Jones.

7.
Ibid.

8.
AI with Wright.

9.
AI with Jones and Wright.

10.
AI with Wright.

11.
Variety
, September 8, 1965.

12.
AI with Beatty.

13.
AI with Benton.

14.
AI with Wright.

15.
AI with Jones.

16.
“The Fingers of God,”
Time
, August 9, 1963.

17.
AI with Pollack.

18.
Stirling Silliphant, interviewed by Nat Segaloff in
Backstory 3: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 60s
, edited by Patrick McGilligan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), pp. 344–345.

19.
Ibid.

20.
“Poitier to Play Film Detective.”
New York Times
, June 19, 1965, op. cit.

21.
Ball, in press notes for
In the Heat of the Night
, Norman Jewison Collection.

22.
Ball,
In the Heat of the Night
, op. cit., p. 17.

23.
Ibid., pp. 172–173 and 185.

24.
“In the Heat of the Night Character Notes and Step Outline,” December 15, 1965, Stirling Silliphant Collection, UCLA.

25.
Bart, Peter. “Liberals vs. Their Movies.”
New York Times
, August 29, 1965.

26.
Kenworthy, E. W. “200,000 March for Civil Rights in Orderly Washington Rally; President Sees Gain for Negro.”
New York Times
, August 29, 1963.