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Authors: Ellis Amburn

7.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 55.

8.
Zsa Zsa Gabor,
Zsa Zsa Gabor, My Story, Written for Me
by Gerold Frank
(Cleveland: World, 1960), pp. 109, 114, 119, 147, 151–152; Zsa Zsa described her institutionalization: “I was released through a writ of habeas corpus, charging that I was being wrongfully detained.”

9.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 84.

10.
Gabor,
Zsa Zsa Gabor
, p. 127: “My husband locked his door against me.” pp. 128–129: Conrad sent Father Kelly to Zsa Zsa; he told her, “Conrad’s wife is still alive . . . Conrad knows that he is living in sin with you.”

11.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 55.

12.
Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, pp. 60, 63.

13.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 85.

14.
Gabor,
Zsa Zsa Gabor
, p. 119.

15.
Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 132; Spoto,
Passion for Life,
p. 72.

16.
Nickens,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 26.

17.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 57.

18.
Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 63.

19.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 86; Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 62; Walker,
Elizabeth
, p. 101; Nickens,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 26.

20.
Walker,
Elizabeth
, pp. 102, 103.

21.
Spoto,
Passion for Life
, p. 73.

22.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 60.

23.
Sheppard,
Elizabeth
, p. 98.

24.
Nickens,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 32.

25.
Spoto,
Passion for Life
, p. 76. E.T. employee Raymond Vignale said she told him the marriage was not consummated until the third night.

26.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 102.

27.
Walker,
Elizabeth
, p. 114–115.

28.
Ibid., pp. 118–120.

29.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 104. Nicky Hilton slugged E.T., according to Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 288.

30.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 70.

31.
Final days of Hilton marriage: Theroux, “Ms. Taylor Will See You Now,” p. 214; Eddie Fisher with David Fisher,
Been
There, Done That
(New York: St. Martin’s, 1999), p. 123; Harris,
Natalie and R. J.
, p. 48; Nickens,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 32; Brad Darrach “If the Knife Slips Tomorrow, I’ll Die Knowing I’ve Had an Extraordinary Life”
Life
, April 1997, pp. 78-88.

32.
Walker,
Elizabeth
, p. 123.

33.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 72.

34.
Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 85.

35.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, pp. 77–78.

36.
Matthew Bernstein,
Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 273–274.

37.
Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, pp. 80, 86, 98; Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 74; Vermilye and Ricci,
Films of Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 87; “lost one ball”: Paul Rosen-field,
The Club Rules
(New York: Warner, 1992), p. 68; Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, pp. 86, 98.

38.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 117.

39.
Wilding,
Wilding Way
, p. 75.

40.
Ibid., pp. 26, 75.

41.
Maria Riva,
Marlene Dietrich
, (New York: Knopf, 1993), p. 626.

42.
Elaine Dundy, Tynan’s wife at the time, said that Ken did not have an affair with Marlene.

43.
Hadleigh,
Hollywood Gays
, p. 210.

44.
Ray Stricklyn,
Angels and Demons
(Los Angeles: Belle, 1999), pp. 65, 101; Charles Winecoff,
Split Image
(New York: Dutton, 1996), pp. 106, 110, 122, 136.

45.
Walker,
Elizabeth
, p. 136.

46.
David and Robbins,
Richard and Elizabeth
, p. 88.

47.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 113.

48.
Walker,
Elizabeth
, p. 133.

49.
Wilding,
Wilding Way
, p. 76.

50.
Patricia Bosworth,
Montgomery Clift
(New York: Bantam, 1979), pp. 32, 74.

51.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 113.

52.
Ibid., p. 114.

53.
Wilding,
Wilding Way
, pp. 108–109.

54.
Graham,
Hollywood Revisited
, p. 68.

55.
Wilding,
Wilding Way
, pp. 108–109.

56.
Hadleigh,
Hollywood Gays
, p. 279; Hopper’s son gay: Ibid., p. 42.

57.
Wilding,
Wilding Way
, pp. 109, 125.

58.
Walker,
Elizabeth
, p. 137.

59.
Wilding,
Wilding Way
, pp. 73, 76.

60.
Walker,
Elizabeth
, p. 136.

61.
Ibid., p. 138.

62.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 120.

63.
Wilding,
Wilding Way
, pp. 106–107; “Those shitassed”: Heymann, Liz, p. 171; E T. and Finch: Walker,
Elizabeth
, pp. 150–151.

64.
Nickens,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 50.

65.
David and Robbins,
Richard and Elizabeth
, p. 86.

66.
Ibid.

67.
Baker,
Baby Doll
, p. 136.

Interviews: Jack Larson, Joanne Jacobson, Elaine Dundy, Edward Dmytryk, Jean Porter, Cy Egan (
New York Post
), Dorris Halsey, Jerry O’Connell (
Show
magazine), and editorial notes from meetings with Joan Bennett while editor-in-chief of the Delacorte Press and senior editor at Morrow; with Zsa Zsa Gabor while collaborating on her book,
One Lifetime Is Not Enough
, for Patricia Soliman at the Delacorte Press; with Stewart Granger as his editor at G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

Other books consulted for this chapter: Conrad Hilton,
Be My Guest
(New York, Prentice-Hall, 1957); Anne Edwards,
Vivien Leigh
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977); Anthony Holden,
Laurence Olivier
(New York: Atheneum, 1988);
ETO
; Elizabeth Taylor,
Elizabeth Taylor
(New York: Harper and Row, 1964) (hereafter
ET
); Leigh,
There Really Was a Hollywood
, p. 147; Hedy Lamarr,
Ecstasy and Me
(New York: Fawcett, 1966), p. 69; Cooper and Kleiner,
Please Don’t Shoot My Dog
, p. 68.

C
HAPTER
4

1.
Stevens’s correspondence and Warner memos are in the George Stevens archive, Special Collections, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).