City of Nets (94 page)

353    
She was not:
Bacall, By Myself,
pp. 112, 122, 141–3.

353    
So everything ended:
Blotner,
Faulkner,
pp. 1188–9, 1149, 1191, 1197, 1211, 1217.

356    
At the center:
Ronald Reagan and Richard C. Hubler,
Where's the Rest of Me?,
pp. 154–5. “More Trouble in Paradise,”
Fortune,
November 1946.

357    
Late in 1943:
Nancy Lynn Schwartz,
The Hollywood Writers' Wars,
p. 221.
Time,
Oct. 7, 1946.

357    
The War Labor Board:
Reagan and Hubler,
Where's the Rest,
p. 157. John Cogley,
Report on Blacklisting,
vol. 1, pp. 55, 61–7. Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 218.
New York Times,
March 5, 1948.

358    
Hollywood divided:
Salka Viertel,
The Kindness of Strangers,
p. 296.

359    
Once the battle:
Reagan and Hubler,
Where's the Rest,
pp. 158–9. Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 217. Cogley,
Report,
1, p. 64.
New York Times,
Oct. 6, 1945.

360    
Sorrell was back:
New York Times,
Oct. 7, 8, 1945.

361    
At three o'clock:
W. A. Swanberg,
Dreiser,
p. 518. I have relied heavily on Swanberg's solid biography.

361    
It was because:
Ibid., pp. 241–9, 369–77, 463–4, 470–5.

365    
It is strange:
Helen Dreiser,
My Life with Dreiser,
p. 307.

365    
There was one:
Swanberg,
Dreiser,
pp. 393, 510, 513–15.

366    
Shortly before Christmas:
Dreiser,
My Life with Dreiser,
pp. 310–12. Swanberg,
Dreiser,
pp. 520–1, 315–16.

367    
“Oh, space!”
The quotation here is taken from Swanberg,
Dreiser,
p. 525, who is quoting in turn from Dreiser's
Moods, Philosophical and Emotional
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935), but Helen Dreiser's memoirs include a photo of the plaque, on p. 285, with several short lines combined into longer ones.

 

8 Treachery (1946).

369    
In the summers:
Dean Jennings,
We Only Kill Each Other: The Life and Bad Times of Bugsy Siegel,
p. 148. This is somewhat slap-dash, but still the basic biography. Peter Wiley and Robert Gottlieb.
Empires in the Sun,
p. 191. Albert Fried,
The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America,
p. 230. Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, and Eli Landau,
Meyer Lansky,
p. 226. A remarkable book because Lansky, after a lifetime of silence, seems to have accepted these Israeli journalists as friends—or rather as compatriots—and to have talked quite freely for the first time.

369    
“We decided to”:
Ibid., p. 226.

370    
Bugsy was the nickname:
Hank Messick,
Lansky,
p. 19. Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau,
Meyer Lansky,
p. 51ff.

370    
Both Lansky and Siegel:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
p. 25. Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau,
Meyer Lansky,
p. 57. Stephen Birmingham,
“The Rest of Us”: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews,
pp. 153, 201.

371    
The end of Prohibition:
Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau,
Meyer Lansky,
pp. 79–80. Fried,
Jewish Gangster,
pp. 193–6, 234–8. Birmingham,
“The Rest of Us,”
p. 148.

371    
Lansky's friend Siegel:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
pp. 38, 47–8.

371    
In a society:
Frank MacShane,
The Life of Raymond Chandler,
p. 121 (1978).

372    
Siegel seems to:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
pp. 23, 39. Larry Swindell,
The Last Hero: A Biography of Gary Cooper,
p. 131.

372    
What Bugsy Siegel:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
pp. 45, 115. John Roeburt,
“Get Me Giesler,”
pp. 95–6.

373    
In the late 1930's:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
pp. 44, 142. Fried,
Jewish Gangster,
pp. 48, 258, 249.

373    
The only crime:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
pp. 83–4, 120–1, 141. Florabel Muir,
Headline Happy,
p. 80.

374    
The war years:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
p. 139.

374    
Las Vegas might:
Wiley and Gottlieb,
Empires in the Sun,
pp. 191–2. Jennings,
We Only Kill,
pp. 148–50.

375    
But that was:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
p. 150. Lana Turner,
Lana,
p. 38. Wiley and Gottlieb,
Empires in the Sun,
pp. 162, 184, 207.

375    
It should have:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
pp. 152–3, 86, 131, 112, 151–5, 159, 161–2. Birmingham,
“The Rest of Us,”
p. 287. (Birmingham identifies Mrs. Siegel as “the former Esther Krakauer.”) Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau,
Meyer Lansky,
p. 239.

378    
Even the gambling:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
pp. 165, 172–3. Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau,
Meyer Lansky,
pp. 232–3, 240.

380    
Siegel seemed to:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
pp. 199–203. Clinton H. Anderson,
Beverly Hills Is My Beat,
p. 145.

381    
One of the first:
Muir,
Headline Happy,
pp. 197–8.

381    
Within twenty minutes:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
p. 205. Eisenberg, Dan, and Landau,
Meyer Lansky,
p. 240.

381    
In contrast to:
Jennings,
We Only Kill,
p. 227.
New York Times,
Jan. 16, 1983.

382    
Marriage to the:
John Kobal,
Rita Hayworth,
pp. 219–20. Peter Cowie,
The Cinema of Orson Welles,
p. 242 (1983).

383    
Welles himself was:
James Naremore,
The Magic World of Orson Welles,
pp. 136–41.

383    
But Welles was:
Naremore,
Orson Welles,
p. 151. Bob Thomas,
King Cohn,
p. 221.

383    
Welles apparently had:
Joseph McBride,
Orson Welles,
p. 50.

384    
First, though, there:
Kobal,
Rita Hayworth,
p. 210. Naremore,
Orson Welles,
p. 207. Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein,
Rita,
p. 97.

384    
Miss Hayworth had:
Michael Wood,
America in the Movies,
p. 51.

384    
It was
Gilda:
Kobal,
Rita Hayworth,
pp. 159–60, 200. Morella and Epstein,
Rita,
p. 258.

384n    
Unfortunately for this:
Charles Higham,
Orson Welles,
p. 229.

385    
There was a peculiar:
Kobal,
Rita Hayworth,
pp. 192–213.

387    
The Lady from Shanghai:
Charles Higham,
The Films of Orson Welles,
pp. 111–17. Kobal,
Rita Hayworth,
pp. 215, 219. Naremore,
Orson Welles,
p. 152.

388    
His marriage to:
Morella and Epstein,
Rita,
pp. 102–4. Kobal,
Rita Hayworth,
p. 222.

389    
Thomas Mann's decision:
The New Yorker,
Dec. 13, 1941.

390    
Since Mann knew:
Nigel Hamilton,
The Brothers Mann,
p. 328.

390    
Joseph
was actually:
Samuel Marx,
Mayer and Thalberg,
p. 168. David O. Selznick,
Memo from David O. Selznick,
pp. 416, 419.

391    
While Thomas Mann:
Hamilton,
The Brothers Mann,
pp. 321, 328–9.

391    
Nelly got arrested:
Salka Viertel,
The Kindness of Strangers,
p. 279. Thomas Mann,
The Story of a Novel: The Genesis of Doctor Faustus,
p. 105.

392    
The idea had:
Mann,
Story of a Novel,
pp. 17–19.

392    
One problem in:
Thomas Mann,
Essays of Three Decades,
p. 353. Mann,
Story of a Novel,
p. 29.

393    
Schoenberg was now:
Arnold Schoenberg,
Letters,
pp. 213, 254. Mann,
Story of a Novel,
pp. 51–2.

393    
Mann's real teacher:
Mann,
Story of a Novel,
pp. 42–3, 48, 81, 117, 164–5.

395    
Schoenberg was even:
H. H. Stuckenschmidt,
Arnold Schoenberg,
p. 131.

395    
At dinner at:
Mann,
Story of a Novel,
p. 217.

396    
On January 29:
Hamilton,
The Brothers Mann,
pp. 335, 349.

396    
The most interesting:
Alma Mahler Werfel,
And the Bridge Is Love,
pp. 300–1.

397    
Schoenberg apparently asked:
Katia Mann,
Unwritten Memories,
pp. 123–4.

397    
Schoenberg didn't even:
Hamilton,
The Brothers Mann,
pp. 350–5. Mann,
The Story of a Novel,
p. 36.

398    
The ugly strike:
Hearings before a Special Subcommittee on Education and Labor,
pp. 44, 4.

398    
What Kahan airily:
New York Times,
Feb. 17, 1946.
Christian Science Monitor,
July 19, 1947.
New York Times,
March 5, 1948.

399    
While both Brewer:
George H. Dunne,
Hollywood Labor Dispute,
pp. 26–7.

399    
The first step:
PM,
Jan. 9, 1946.
New York Times,
Feb. 21, 1946; April 29, 1946.

399    
Throughout all this:
New York Times,
July 2, 1946.
Hearings,
pp. 20–1.
Time,
July 15, 1946.

400    
The most difficult:
Dunne,
Hollywood Labor Dispute,
p. 28.

400    
That report turned:
Ibid., p. 29.

401    
Now the carpenters:
Ibid., p. 34.

401    
Whether this represented:
New York Times,
Feb. 17, 1946; Sept. 27, 1946.

402    
Then began an:
Ronald Reagan and Richard C. Hubler,
Where's the Rest of Me?,
pp. 160, 170–1, 185, 200, 203.

402    
Reagan's committee included:
Ibid., pp. 170, 175.

403    
The membership of:
Lou Cannon,
Reagan,
p. 76. Walter Goodman,
The Committee: The Extraordinary Career of the House Committee on Un-American Activities,
p. 180. A compendious and admirable work.

403    
Important positions changed:
Ibid., pp. 169, 186. Cabell Phillips,
The Truman Presidency,
p. 360.

404    
In the narrow:
New York Times,
Nov. 16, 1946.

404    
Sorrel later charged:
New York Times,
March 6, 1948.

405    
Touhy naturally would:
Dunne,
Hollywood Labor Dispute,
p. 35.

405    
Then there were:
New York Times,
March 4, 1947.
PM,
March 5, 1947.

406    
This question dragged:
New York Times,
Feb. 27, 1948.

406    
By this time:
New York Times,
Feb. 27, 1948; March 6, 1948.

407    
The end came:
New York Times,
Oct. 28, 1947.

407    
So they all trickled:
New York Times,
April 1, 1951; Jan. 22, 1952; July 23, 1955.

408    
“How could this man”:
Charles Chaplin, Jr.,
My Father, Charlie Chaplin,
p. 312. John McCabe,
Charlie Chaplin,
p. 210.