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Authors: Ellis Amburn

8.
Burton as Jett Rink: David Dalton,
The Mutant King
(New York: St. Martin’s, 1974), p. 292; Ladd as Jett Rink: Marceau Devillers,
James Dean
(Singapore: Chartwell, n.d.), p. 43.

9.
Marvin H. Schenck to Henry Ginsberg, April 4, 1956, AMPAS.

10.
ET
, p. 51.

11.
Stricklyn,
Angels and Demons
, p. 31.

12.
Ibid, p. 66.

13.
Hudson and Davidson,
Rock Hudson
, p. 93.

14.
ET
, p. 55.

15.
Joe Hyams with Jay Hyams,
James Dean
(New York: Warner, 1992), p. 227.

16.
Hadleigh,
Hollywood Gays
, p. 250; Nick Adams opening fly, associating with gays, and death: Barrett,
Miss Rona
, pp. 197–198.

17.
Stricklyn,
Angels and Demons
, p. 61.

18.
Hyams and Hyams,
James Dean
, pp. 79, 80.

19.
Ibid., p. 120.

20.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 103.

21.
Hadleigh,
Hollywood Gays
, p. 250.

22.
Dalton,
Mutant King
, p. 302.

23.
Wilding,
Wilding Way
, p. 113.

24.
Hudson and Davidson,
Rock Hudson
, p. 94.

25.
John Davis, M.D., to A. Morgan Maree, March 12, 1956, George Stevens archive, casting file, AMPAS.

26.
John Davis, M.D., to A. Morgan Maree, August 9, 1955, George Stevens archive, AMPAS.

27.
Tom Andre to George Stevens, July 30, 1955, AMPAS.

28.
Tom Andre to Eric Stacey, August 2, 1955, AMPAS.

29.
Tom Andre to Eric Stacey, August 8, 1955, AMPAS.

30.
Tom Andre to Eric Stacey, August 11, 1955, AMPAS;
ET
, p. 52; Tom Andre to Eric Stacey, August 12, 1955, AMPAS.

31.
Henry Ginsberg to Loew’s, August 12, 1955, AMPAS; Tom Andre to Eric Stacey with copies to George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg, August 31, 1955, AMPAS; Henry Ginsberg to Loew’s, September 14, 1955, AMPAS.

32.
Hyams and Hyams,
James Dean
, p. 227.

33.
Ibid., p. 242.

34.
Roberts,
Man Who Listens to Horses
, p. 104.

35.
ET
, p. 56.

36.
Hyams and Hyams,
James Dean
, p. 255.

37.
Tom Andre to Eric Stacey, October 4, 1955, AMPAS.

38.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 102; Spoto,
Passion for Life
, p. 116.

39.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 97.

40.
Tom Andre to Eric Stacey, October 3, 1955, AMPAS; John Davis, M.D., to A. Morgan Maree, March 12, 1956, AMPAS; Tom Andre to Eric Stacey, October 3, 1955, AMPAS.

41.
Tom Andre to Eric Stacey, 12 noon, October 4, 1955, AMPAS; F. E. Witt to Tom Andre, October 4, 1955, AMPAS.

42.
John H. Davis, M.D., and Robert Buckley, M.D., 20 S. Lasky Drive, Beverly Hills, to Henry Ginsberg, November 10, 1955.

43.
Hudson and Davidson,
Rock Hudson
, pp. 98, 104, 187.

44.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 135.

45.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 125.

46.
Kitty Kelley,
His Way
(New York: Bantam, 1986), p. 236; Esther Williams interview on
Today Show
, NBC, September 17, 1999.

47.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 134; Esther Williams interview on
Today Show
, NBC, September 17, 1999.

48.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 135.

49.
Wilding,
Wilding Way
, pp. 117–118.

50.
Dmytryk added during our interview, “Then they gave me the script of
The Young Lions
and I said, ‘There’s only one guy who can play Noah in this.’ I sent Monty the script and got back a telegram in two days. He said yes, and he never lost me a day on that picture. It was a long picture—I had Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando in the same picture, and they’re both time losers. It was entirely my choice to cast Monty. We had a producer who had been an executive in the New York office. They retired him, and gave him a production deal. He died before the picture came out. He took no part in casting at all. When I took it, they had what I call a number two cast lined up for it—second rate people for all the major parts. I was the first one to get Monty, I got Dean Martin, who had never played in anything like that. He had to work with Clift a lot. I wanted Clift to be a happy man on this one, didn’t want any problems. I called him on the phone and said, ‘What about Dean Martin for this part?’ He said, ‘Dean Martin? Oh, no, no, no!’ [Martin had been doing slapstick with Jerry Lewis.] They had had Tony Randall for the part. I said, ‘The other choice is Tony Randall.’ I told him Tony was in a current picture with Ginger Rogers and Monty said, ‘I’ll go see him.’ He went to see it and called me the next day and said, ‘Get Dean Martin.’” Interviews: Ray Stricklyn, Millard Kaufman, Edward Dmytryk, Frank Taylor, Jack Larson, Jean Porter, Dorris Halsey.

Other books and articles consulted: Robert Lacey,
Grace
(New York: Putnam’s, 1994); Hoskyns,
Montgomery Clift
; Bosworth,
Montgomery Clift
;
ET
; Baker,
Baby Doll
, p. 129; Sessums, “Elizabeth Taylor Tells the Truth,”
POZ
.

C
HAPTER
5

1.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 160; Todd and Todd,
Valuable Property
, pp. 280, 286: “You know, I have a speech im-p-p-pediment, and Mike so took me by surprise I couldn’t get a word out.”

2.
Heymann,
Liz
, pp. 137, 166.

3.
ET
, p. 60.

4.
Wilding,
Wilding Way
, p. 121.

5.
As unwittingly revealed in Fisher’s 1999 memoir,
Been There, Done That
, passim and pp. 307–309; Debbie Reynolds and David Patrick Columbia,
Debbie
(New York: Pocket, 1988), p. 169.

6.
Dr. Max Jacobson died in 1978 after New York State took away his license to practice medicine in 1975.

7.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 63; Reynolds and Columbia,
Debbie
, pp. 160, 165, 169.

8.
Todd and Todd,
Valuable Property
, p. 311.

9.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, pp. 111–112.

10.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 147.

11.
Ibid., p. 129.

12.
Ibid., p. 149, quoting Gwin Tate, an acquaintance of E.T.’s who lives in Natchez. Tate also related the story of E.T. and Montgomery Clift running through downtown Natchez.

13.
Blondell’s nervous breakdown: Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 125; broken arm: Graham,
Hollywood Revisited
, p. 184. Also see Earl Wilson quoted in Heymann,
Liz
, p. 146.