Ronnie and Nancy (95 page)

Authors: Bob Colacello

Notes

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26. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 183.

27. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, Reagan family letters, “Letters/Nelle Reagan.”

28. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 720; Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 182–84.

29. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 164.

30.
Los Angeles Times
, October 3, 1948.

31. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 188–90; E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 153, 717–18.

32. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 188–89.

33. Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 13.

34. Ibid., p. 14.

35. Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, pp. 6–8; Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, pp. 13–14.

36. Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 13; Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 189.

37. Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 14.

38. Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, p. 7.

39. Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 14

40. Ibid., p. 16; Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 190.

41. Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, p. 9; Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 18.

42. 1964
Guidepost Magazine
interview, quoted in Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 17.

43. Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 16.

44. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 190–91.

45. Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, pp. 16–17.

46. Ibid., p. 25.

47. Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, p. 14; Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 32.

48. E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 140, 715.

49. Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, pp. 30–31.

50. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 192.

51. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 157.

52. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.

53. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 161.

54. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 88.

55. Richard Gully, to author, October 1, 1999.

56. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 718; Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 192.

57. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 720.

58. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 193; Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 43.

59. Wills,
Reagan’s America
, p. 145.

60. Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 42.

61. McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan
, p. 46 (citing a 1944
Movieland
article co-authored by Jane Wyman).

62. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 193.

63. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 87.

64. McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan
, p. 6.

65. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 162.

66. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 197–98.

67. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 163.

68. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 199–200. See also E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 161–64; Eells,
Hedda and Louella
, pp. 190–91.

69. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.

70. Maureen Reagan,
First Father, First Daughter
, p. 36.

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Notes

71. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 200–201; E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 165–66; Fine Collins in
Vanity Fair
, April 1997, p. 368.

72. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.

73. Eells,
Hedda and Louella
, p. 23.

74. Jane Wyman, to author, February 21, 1999.

75. Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 45.

76. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 213; E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 725.

77. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 185.

78.
Movie-Radio Guide
, September 20, 1941, “The Ten Richest Women in Movies,”

quoted in Schultz,
Irene Dunne
, p. 253, entry B-319.

79. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 86.

80. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 185.

81. Nancy Reagan, to author, July 10, 2000.

82. Schary Zimmer (now Jill Robinson),
With a Cast of Thousands
, p. 110.

83.
Current Biography 1941
, “Benny, Jack.”

84. McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan
, p. 26.

85. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.

86. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 230.

87. Maureen Reagan,
First Father, First Daughter
, pp. 27–28.

88. William Frye, to author, October 27, 1999.

89. Wright Cobb and Willems,
The Brown Derby Restaurant
, pp. 7, 72–73.

90. Robert Stack, to author, March 16, 2000.

91. Ibid.

92. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, pp. 105–6. Other sources say that the film’s budget was $750,000.

93. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, pp. 97–98.

94. Ibid., p. 81.

95. Maureen Reagan,
First Father, First Daughter
, pp. 60–61.

96. Ibid., p. 61; E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 177.

97. Maureen Reagan,
First Father, First Daughter
, p. 61.

98. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 39.

99. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 245–50.

100. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood,
p. 39.

101. Spada,
Ronald Reagan
, p. 39.

102. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 184.

103. Ann Rutherford, to author, January 22, 2001.

104. PBS Online,
American Experience: Lindbergh
, special features, “Fallen Hero: Charles Lindbergh in the 1940s,” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/

sfeature/fallen.html.

105. Affron,
Lillian Gish
, pp. 285–86.

106. Schlesinger Jr.,
A Life in the 20th Century
, p. 242.

107. Gabler,
An Empire of Their Own
, pp. 351–53.

108. Billingsley,
Hollywood Party
, pp. 70–71; Koch,
Double Lives
, pp. 78, 225.

109. Billingsley,
Hollywood Party
, p. 75; Koch,
Double Lives
, p. 225.

110. Gabler,
An Empire of Their Own
, p. 354.

111. Buhle and Wagner,
Radical Hollywood
, p. 56.

112. Lardner Jr.,
I’d Hate Myself in the Morning
, p. 98.

113. E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 157–59, 719.

Notes

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114. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.

115. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 93.

116. Affron,
Lillian Gish
, p. 291.

117. Gabler,
An Empire of Their Own
, p. 345;
New York Times
, September 12, 1941,

“Lindbergh Sees a ‘Plot’ for War.”

118. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 258.

119. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, pp. 99–100.

120. Ibid., p. 34.

121. Ibid., p. 35.

122. Ibid., p. 67.

123. Ibid., p. 79.

124. Ibid., p. 72.

125. Ibid., p. 70.

126. Ibid., p. 67.

127. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 102.

128. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 68.

129. Ibid., p. 102.

Chapter Six: Nancy at Smith, 1939–1944

1. Nancy Reagan with Novak,
My Turn
, p. 82.

2. Richard Davis, to author, September 29, 2000, April 25, 2002.

3. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.

4. Horowitz,
Alma Mater
, p. 70.

5. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, p. 49.

6. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 52.

7. China Ibsen Oughton, to author, February 12, 2001.

8. Nancy Reagan with Novak,
My Turn
, pp. 82–83.

9. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 52.

10. “Nancy Reagan: An American Story,” Fox News Channel, July 6, 2002.

11. Letter from Loyal Davis to Nancy Davis, postmarked December 6, 1939, provided courtesy of Nancy Reagan.

12. L. Davis,
A Surgeon’s Odyssey
, p. 252.

13. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.

14. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.

15. “Nancy Reagan,”
A&E Biography
, A&E Television Network, March 31, 1997.

16. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.

17. Lambert,
Nazimova
, p. 370.

18. “Nancy Reagan,”
A&E Biography
, A&E Television Network, March 31, 1997.

19. Grobel,
The Hustons
, p. 176.

20. Affron,
Lillian Gish
, p. 200.

21. Ibid., pp. 20–21, 39.

22. Ibid., p. 270.

23. Ibid., pp. 272, 389.

24. Ibid., p. 158.

25. Ibid., p. 175.

26. Ibid., p. 287.

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Notes

27. Ibid., p. 289.

28. Moore,
Silent Star
, p. 66.

29. Affron,
Lillian Gish
, pp. 286, 391.

30. Ibid., p. 290.

31. Berg,
Lindbergh
, pp. 421–22.

32. Ibid., p. 419.

33. McDaniel in
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
, October 28, 1980, “Dr. Loyal Davis—the Stepdaddy of Kingmakers.”

34. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.

35. Homer Hargrave Jr., to author, February 22, 2002.

36. Higham,
Merchant of Dreams
, pp. 270–71; Lardner Jr.,
I’d Hate Myself in the
Morning
, p. 89.

37. Homer Hargrave Jr., to author, February 22, 2002.

38. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.

39. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.

40. Brown and Brown,
Reagan
, p. 165.

41. Nancy Reagan, to author, October 27, 1997.

42. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.

43. Barbara A. Chernow and George A. Vallasi, eds.,
The Columbia Encyclopedia:
Fifth Edition
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), p. 1092.

44. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, p. 39.

45. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.

46. Mike Wallace, to author, May 30, 2002.

47. Nicholas Wetzel, to author, April 11, 2001.

48. Richard Davis, to author, September 29, 2000.

49. Nicholas Wetzel, to author, April 11, 2001.

50. L. Davis,
A Surgeon’s Odyssey
, pp. 10–11.

51. Nancy Reagan with Novak,
My Turn
, p. 75.

52. Cannon,
Ronnie and Jesse
, p. 158.

53. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, p. 39.

54. Nicholas Wetzel, to author, April 11, 2001.

55. Daniel Ruge, to author, April 11, 2001.

56. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.

57. Biles,
Big City Boss in Depression and War
, p. 107.

58. Ibid., p. 145.

59. Nancy Reagan, to author, April 30, 2001.

60. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002; April 10, 2001.

61. L. Davis,
A Surgeon’s Odyssey
, p. 294.

62. Leamer,
Make-Believe
, p. 46.

63.
New York Times
, December 11, 1941, “Mrs. Davis Named to Smith Dean-ship”;
New York Times
, July 24, 1969, “Hallie Flanagan Davis Is Dead; Headed Federal Theater in 30’s.”

64. Leamer,
Make-Believe
, pp. 52–53.

65. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950.

66. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 64.

67. Martin Manulis, to author, May 4, 2002.

68. Ibid.

Notes

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69. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 64.

70. Ibid., p. 65.

71.
People,
July 18, 1983, “A Find at a Flea Market Sheds Light on Nancy Reagan’s Life with Her Real Father”;
Los Angeles Times
, January 20, 1981, “Nancy Reagan’s Early Years: A Matter of Relativity.”

72. Jean Wescott Marshall, to author, April 19, 2001.

73. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, pp. 51–52.

74. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.

75. Ibid.

76. Nancy Reagan with Novak,
My Turn
, p. 82.

77. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 53.

78. Bruce McFarland, to author, February 14, 2002.

79. Gauss Jackson and Haydn,
The Papers of Christian Gauss
, pp. 118–20.

80. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 390, quoting
Daily Princetonian
, December 16, 1941.

81. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, pp. 57–59.

82. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 390.

83. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, p. 57.