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4 Americanism (1942).

149    
Jimmy Stewart quietly:
Richard R. Lingeman,
Don't You Know There's a War On?,
pp. 170, 179. Hector Arce,
The Secret Life of Tyrone Power,
pp. 155–9 (1980). Henry Fonda,
My Life,
p. 138.

149    
Zanuck, who was:
Mel Gussow,
Darryl F. Zanuck,
pp. 97, 114, 99–100 (1980). Otto Preminger,
Preminger: An Autobiography,
p. 81 (1978).

150    
Each celebrity's call:
Ronald Reagan and Richard C. Hubler,
Where's the Rest of Me?,
p. 122 (1981). Doug McClelland, ed.,
Hollywood on Reagan,
p. 32.

150    
By October of 1942:
Lingeman,
Don't You Know,
p. 170.

151    
Women were especially:
Ibid., p. 175. Hedy Lamarr,
Ecstasy and Me,
p. 115. Lana Turner,
Lana,
p. 76. Dorothy Lamour,
My Side of the Road,
p. 115.

151    
It was all:
Lynn Tornabene,
Long Live the King: A Biography of Clark Gable,
pp. 265–6. Garson Kanin,
Hollywood,
p. 55.

151    
Miss Lombard sold:
Tornabene,
Long Live the King,
pp. 267–81.

153    
Los Angeles was:
Whitney Stine,
Mother Goddam,
pp. 175–7 (1975).

153    
Miss Davis also:
Bette Davis,
The Lonely Life,
p. 212.

154    
Bette Davis worked:
Lamarr,
Ecstasy and Me,
pp. 113–14.

154    
Gene Tierney considered:
Gene Tierney,
Self-Portrait,
pp. 98, 12–14, 92 (1980).

155    
Just before she left:
Ibid., pp. 99–100, 108.

156    
These were individual:
Lingeman,
Don't You Know,
pp. 168, 210.

156    
There were problems:
John Huston,
An Open Book,
p. 99 (1981).

157    
The material demands:
Lingeman,
Don't You Know,
pp. 176–81.

158n    
Loo, who was born:
New York Times,
Nov. 22, 1983.

159    
The reason for:
Peter Irons,
Justice at War,
p. 6.

159    
This admirable advice:
Allan R. Bosworth,
America's Concentration Camps,
p. 60.

159    
This may seem:
Roy Hoopes,
Americans Remember the Home Front,
pp. 175–6. Hoopes,
Cain,
p. 320.

160    
This was largely:
Bruce Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
p. 72. Bosworth,
America's Concentration Camps,
pp. 63, 211, 68, 59–60. Carey McWilliams,
The Education of Carey McWilliams,
p. 102.

161    
The Japanese who:
Irons,
Justice at War,
pp. 9–13.

162    
The FBI and:
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,
Farewell to Manzanar,
p. 7.

162    
The pressure for:
Bosworth,
America's Concentration Camps,
pp. 56, 71. Irons,
Justice at War,
p. 7. McWilliams,
Education,
p. 104. G. Edward White,
Earl Warren,
pp. 69–75. Cabell Phillips,
The 1940's,
p. 109.

163    
California's other chief:
Bosworth,
America's Concentration Camps,
pp. 61, 100–1, 180. Donald I. Rogers,
Since You Went Away,
p. 82.

163    
DeWitt was no:
Phillips,
The 1940's,
p. 110. Bosworth,
America's Concentration Camps,
pp. 116, 171.

164    
Just as Hollywood:
Hoopes,
Americans Remember,
p. 264. Houston,
Farewell to Manzanar,
pp. 12–13.

165    
Mineta and the rest:
Bosworth,
America's Concentration Camps,
p. 118. Hoopes,
Americans Remember,
pp. 260–1.

166    
“Concentration camp”
is:
Houston,
Farewell to Manzanar,
pp. 28, 16.

167    
While Pearl Harbor:
Leo C. Rosten,
Hollywood,
p. 379. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele,
Empire,
p. 105. This is the best of many books on Howard Hughes.

167    
Though Glenn Martin:
Christopher Rand,
Los Angeles: The Ultimate City,
pp. 71–2. David Halberstam,
The Powers That Be,
p. 114. John Gunther,
Inside U.S.A.,
p. 27. Peter Wiley and Robert Gottlieb,
Empires in the Sun,
p. 27. Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
p. 75.

167    
Pearl Harbor naturally:
Lingeman,
Don't You Know,
pp. 128, 132. Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
p. 106.

168    
Through no foresight:
Carey McWilliams,
Southern California Country,
p. 339. Wiley and Gottlieb,
Empires in the Sun,
p. 110.

168    
One of the few:
Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
pp. 107, 60–1, 63–7. John Keats,
Howard Hughes,
p. 58.

170    
Hughes was nearly:
Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
pp. 66–8, 73–97. Keats,
Howard Hughes,
p. 9.

170n    
As often happened:
Lester Cole,
Hollywood Red,
p. 94.

172    
On the other hand:
Gussow,
Zanuck,
p. 126. Turner,
Lana,
p. 77. Roland Flamini,
Ava,
p. 69 (1984).

172    
Hughes apparently suffered:
Charles Higham,
Bette,
pp. 123–40 (1982).

174    
This aspect of Hughes:
Veronica Lake,
Veronica,
p. 136.

174    
The disastrous crash:
Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
pp. 106–10. Roland Flamini,
Scarlett, Rhett, and a Cast of Thousands,
p. 88.

174    
The D-2 was:
Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
pp. 113, 115, 117, 156–7. Keats,
Howard Hughes,
pp. 165, 159.

175    
He had other:
Ibid., p. 174. Ben Hecht,
A Child of the Century,
pp. 486–7.

175    
Then came the:
Jane Russell,
My Path and My Detours,
pp. 1–8, 44. Keats,
Howard Hughes,
pp. 174, 182, 148, 151–2, 164, 170–3.

179    
The greatest playwright:
James K. Lyon,
Bertolt Brecht in America,
pp. 45, 53–6, 59–62, 66–9. Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
p. 81. Ronald Hayman,
Brecht,
pp. 256–61, 204–5.

184    
Like Detroit, Hollywood:
John Kobal,
Rita Hayworth,
p. 127. This is the best of several books on Miss Hayworth. Donald Spoto,
The Dark Side of Genius,
p. 252.

185    
George M. Cohan:
James Cagney,
Cagney on Cagney,
p. 105. Patrick McGilligan,
Cagney,
pp. 145–6, 407.

186    
William Cagney was:
Hal Wallis and Charles Higham,
Starmaker,
p. 103. McGilligan,
Cagney,
pp. 149–50. Also Doug Warren,
James Cagney,
pp. 142–7.

186    
Cagney's impression:
Cagney on Cagney,
pp. 104–7. McGilligan,
Cagney,
pp. 155, 158, 161.

187n    
Miss Leslie was:
Michael Freedland,
The Warner Brothers,
p. 148.

188    
Warners had planned:
McGilligan,
Cagney,
p. 158.

188    
It was typical:
John Russell Taylor,
Strangers in Paradise,
p. 62.
New York Times,
April 12, 1962. Wallis and Higham,
Starmaker,
p. 25.

189    
If Curtiz knew:
David Niven,
Bring on the Empty Horses,
p. 117 (1976). It is worth noting that Michael Korda attributes exactly this same line to his uncle Zoltan Korda (
Charmed Lives,
p. 208).

189    
And there was more:
Wallis and Higham,
Starmaker,
p. 24.
Time,
April 20, 1962.
New York Herald Tribune,
June 16, 1940.

189    
None of this:
New York Times,
April 12, 1962; Sept. 23, 1943.

190    
Out of somewhere:
Wallis and Higham,
Starmaker,
pp. 83–4. Howard Koch,
As Time Goes By,
p. 77.

190n    
The standard Warners:
New York Times,
Oct. 10, 1985.

190n    
Raft eventually became:
Freedland,
The Warner Brothers,
p. 169.

191    
Wallis also encountered:
Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess,
My Story,
pp. 78–9.

191    
Selznick was perhaps:
Bergman and Burgess,
My Story,
pp. 87–8, 91, 102. Laurence Leamer,
As Time Goes By,
pp. 73, 79, 88, 103, 124.

193    
Miss Bergman went:
Irene Mayer Selznick,
A Private View,
p. 230.

193    
He rented Ingrid:
Wallis and Higham,
Starmaker,
p. 86. Koch,
As Time Goes By,
p. 78. I have altered this scene slightly to conform with an interview with Julius Epstein by Aljean Harmetz in the
New York Times,
Feb. 5, 1984.

194    
The stars were:
Wallis and Higham,
Starmaker,
pp. 87–8. Rudy Behlmer,
Inside Warner Bros.,
p. 199.

194    
And there was:
Koch,
As Time Goes By,
pp. 79–82. Behlmer,
Inside Warner Bros.,
p. 240.

195    
The expensive cast:
Bergman and Burgess,
My Story,
p. 145.

195    
Bogart seemed to:
Joe Hyams,
Bogie,
pp. 76–7 (1967).

196    
In this state:
Paul Henreid,
Ladies' Man,
pp. 128–9.

197    
Casablanca
came to:
Bergman and Burgess,
My Story,
p. 145.

197    
Even that ending:
Wallis and Higham,
Starmaker,
pp. 91–2.

 

5 Prejudice (1943).

199    
Just after dark:
Time,
June 21, 1943. Rodolfo Acuña,
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos,
p. 327.

199    
There was more:
Carey McWilliams,
North from Mexico,
p. 249. John D. Weaver,
Los Angeles,
p. 137.

200    
And more:
Acuña,
Occupied America,
p. 327.
New York Times,
June 9, 10, 1943.

200    
The irony was:
McWilliams,
North from Mexico,
p. 233. Acuña,
Occupied America,
p. 323.

201    
That was because:
Nathanael West,
The Day of the Locust,
p. 137.

201    
The reality was:
Acuña,
Occupied America,
p. 326.

202    
The police attitude:
Ibid., pp. 323, 325. McWilliams,
North from Mexico,
p. 234.

202    
Against that background:
McWilliams,
North from Mexico,
pp. 244–5. Julian Samora and Patricia Vandel Simon,
A History of the Mexican-American People,
p. 117.

202    
The next night:
Acuña,
Occupied America,
p. 327. McWilliams,
North from Mexico,
pp. 246–8.
New York Times,
June 7, 1943.

204    
The Los Angeles police:
Samora and Simon,
A History,
pp. 327–9.
New York Times,
June 10, 12, 1943.

204    
The anti-Mexican riots:
McWilliams,
North from Mexico,
p. 256.

205    
Washington was eager:
Charles Higham,
The Films of Orson Welles,
pp. 85, 87.

206    
The only movie:
Henry Fonda,
My Life,
p. 178.

206    
Hollywood's final verdict:
John Kobal,
Rita Hayworth,
pp. 18–20. I have relied mainly on Kobal's thorough work for the details of the young Rita Hayworth.