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13
Algonquin Hotel:
Paris,
Louise Brooks
, 70.
14
“How old are you”:
Brooks,
Lulu in Hollywood
, 15.
15
Follies
girl
: Paris,
Louise Brooks
, 72.
16
Over one weekend:
Paris,
Louise Brooks
, 108–09.
17
“Scott Fitzgerald’s mind”:
Paris,
Louise Brooks
, 136.
18
San Simeon:
Brooks,
Lulu in Hollywood
, 39–41.

C
HAPTER
24: T
HE
D
REAMER’S
D
REAM
C
OME
T
RUE

1
“All their lives”:
Larry May,
Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 166.
2
“No romance”:
Heather Addison, “Hollywood and the Reducing Craze of the 1920s,” unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Kansas, 2001, 67.
3
“In the strange place”:
Addison, “Hollywood and the Reducing Craze,” 75.
4
“They build the swimming pools”:
Addison, “Hollywood and the Reducing Craze,” 76.
5
“splurged on homes”:
“Colleen Moore: The Original Flapper in Bel-Air,”
Architectural Digest
(April 1996): 216–21, 294.
6
It was exotic:
May,
Screening Out the Past
, 188–89.
7
“a paradise”:
May,
Screening Out the Past
, 185.
8
“just wild about you”:
Martha Meadows to Clara Bow, October 20, 1926, Clara Bow Letters, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills [hereafter CB Letters].
9
“you naughty girl”:
Connie Romero to Clara Bow, 1926, CB Letters.
10
“mad about your eyes”:
Audrey Ashuru to Clara Bow, undated, CB Letters.
11
“watching the actions”:
Garth S. Jowett, Ian C. Jarvie, and Kathryn H. Fuller, eds.,
Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 254.
12
“considerable … attention”:
Jowett, Jarvie, and Fuller, eds.,
Children and the Movies
, 279.
13
high school junior confessed:
Jowett, Jarvie, and Fuller, eds.,
Children and the Movies
, 288.
14
study of delinquent girls:
Peiss,
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture
(New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998), 191.
15
“No wonder”:
Jowett, Jarvie, and Fuller, eds.,
Children and the Movies
, 276.
16
“I saw Rudolph Valentino”:
Jowett, Jarvie, and Fuller, eds.,
Children and the Movies
, 247.
17
“Oh, what a life!”:
Jowett, Jarvie, and Fuller, eds.,
Children and the Movies
, 274.
18
Dorothy Dushkin:
Margaret A. Lowe, “From Robust Appetites to Calorie Counting: The Emergence of Dieting Among Smith College Students in the 1920s,”
Journal of Women’s History
7, no. 4 (Winter 1995): 241.
19
those who read the fan magazines:
Addison, “Hollywood and the Reducing Craze of the 1920s,” 232–34.
20
“thought Clara too plump”:
Untitled review, [
Chicago
]
American
, undated, Clara Bow Notebooks, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills [hereafter CB Notebooks].
21
“Diet!”:
Addison, “Hollywood and the Reducing Craze of the 1920s,” 59.
22
“Hollywood Eighteen-Day Diet”:
Addison, “Hollywood and the Reducing Craze of the 1920s,” 78.
23
“The slim figure”:
Addison, “Hollywood and the Reducing Craze of the 1920s,” 26.
24
“ ‘easy to be slender’ ”:
“Fashions & Fancies in Filmland,”
Picture Show
, April 19, 1924, Colleen Moore Scrapbook #11.
25
“What It Costs”:
Scott Pierce, “What It Costs to Be a Well-Dressed Flapper,” undated news clipping [ca. 1920s], Clara Bow Clippings File.
26
Colleen Moore perfume:
“Colleen Moore to Distribute Perfume,” Los Angeles
Express
, July 19, 1923, Colleen Moore Scrapbook #2.
27
Adele Hernández Milligan:
Vicki L. Ruiz, “Star Struck: Acculturation, Adolescence, and Mexican American Women, 1920–1950,” in Elliot West and Paula Petrik, eds.,
Small Worlds: Children & Adolescents in
America, 1850–1950
(Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1992), 67.
28
Chinese flapper:
Judy Yung, “ ‘It’s Hard to Be Born a Woman but Hopeless to Be Born a Chinese’: The Life and Times of Flora Belle Jan,”
Frontiers
18, no. 3 (1997): 66–91.

C
HAPTER
25: S
UICIDE ON THE
I
NSTALLMENT
P
LAN

1
“Ernest could be brutal”:
Nancy Milford,
Zelda: A Biography
(New York: Harper and Row, 1970), 117.
2
Dingo Bar:
Ernest Hemingway,
A Moveable Feast
(New York: Scribner, 1964), 150.
3
Carl Van Vechten:
Milford,
Zelda
, 98.
4
in for a surprise:
Hemingway,
A Moveable Feast
, 151.
5
“dirty singlet”:
Sara Mayfield,
Exiles from Paradise: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1971), 91.
6
Lalique turtle:
Mayfield,
Exiles
, 106.
7
$25,000:
Matthew J. Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
, rev. ed. 1993 (New York: Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich, 1981), 288.
8
Gertrude Stein:
Gertrude Stein to FSF, May 22, 1925 in Matthew J. Bruccoli and Margaret M. Duggan, eds.,
Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald
(New York: Random House, 1980), 164.
9
cavorting with the likes of:
FSF to Ernest Hemingway, November 30, 1925, in Matthew J. Bruccoli, ed.,
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters
(New York: Scribner, 1994), 130.
10
James Thurber and William Shirer:
Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur
, 276–77.
11
James Joyce:
Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur
, 311; Mayfield,
Exiles
, 135.
12
the destructive side:
Mayfield,
Exiles
, 115.
13
grabbed the wheel:
Mayfield,
Exiles from Paradise
, 115–16.
14
“inconvenient friends”:
Milford,
Zelda
, 115.
15
“I was quite ashamed”:
FSF to EH, November 30, 1925, in Bruccoli, ed.,
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters
, 130.
16
“phony as a rubber check”:
James R. Mellow,
Invented Lives: F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984), 241.
17
“bullfighting, bullslinging”:
Mayfield,
Exiles
, 112.
18
“well-laundered”:
Mellow,
Invented Lives
, 202.
19
“depressing … about a country”:
Milford,
Zelda
, 105.
20
“everybody was so young”:
Milford,
Zelda
, 105.
21
fourteen-room Moorish villa:
Mellow,
Invented Lives
, 253.
22
“Most people are dull”:
Gerald Murphy to FSF and ZSF, September 19, 1925, in Bruccoli and Duggan, eds.,
Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald
, 178.
23
“could write and didn’t”:
Mayfield,
Exiles
, 113.
24
reckless high dives:
Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur
, 296.
25
“no fun here anymore”:
Mayfield,
Exiles
, 132.
26
Juan-les-Pins casino:
Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur
, 295.
27
“pay and pay and pay”:
FSF to Ernest Hemingway, September 9, 1929, in Bruccoli, ed.,
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters
, 168–69.
28
“sparkle had gone”:
Mayfield,
Exiles
, 131.
29
“Zelda could be spooky”:
Milford,
Zelda
, 124.
30
“What Becomes of Our Flappers”:
F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, “What Becomes of Our Flappers and Our Sheiks?”
McCall’s
, October 1925, reprinted in Matthew J. Bruccoli and Mary Gordon, eds.,
Zelda Fitzgerald: The Collected Writings
(New York: Scribner, 1991), 397–99.

C
ONCLUSION
: U
NAFFORDABLE
E
XCESS

1
Clara’s good luck ran out:
“Clara Bow,” American National Biography.
2
“My [New York] friends”:
Barry Paris,
Louise Brooks: A Biography
(New York: Knopf, 1989), 187.
3
“the strangeness and excitement”:
Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, eds.,
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
(New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002), part three.

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