Ronnie and Nancy (96 page)

98. Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, Vol. 67, No. 10 (October 1982), p. 3 (from main clippings file at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library).

99. L. Davis,
A Surgeon’s Odyssey
, pp. 263–69.

100. Richard Davis, to author, September 29, 2000.

101. Dunning,
On the Air
, pp. 81, 636, 420.

102. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.

103. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, pp. 61–62.

104. Biles,
Big City Boss in Depression and War
, p. 119.

105. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 390–91.

106. Ibid.

107. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, p. 60.

108. Ibid., p. 62; Leamer,
Make-Believe
, p. 54.

109. Leamer,
Make-Believe
, pp. 54–55.

110. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, pp. 63, 536.

111. Nancy Reagan with Novak,
My Turn
, p. 77.

112. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.

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Notes

113. Grobel,
The Hustons
, p. 176.

114. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002; Jean Wescott Marshall, to author, April 19, 2001; Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, p. 64.

115. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 32.

116. Ibid., p. 66.

117. L. Davis,
A Surgeon’s Odyssey
, pp. 278–80.

118. Ibid., pp. 281–82.

119. Ibid., pp. 283–86.

120. Shepherd in
The American
(Chicago), November 11, 1962.

121. L. Davis,
A Surgeon’s Odyssey
, pp. 292–93.

122. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.

123. Ibid.

124. Daniel Ruge, to author, April 11, 2001.

125. Davidson,
Spencer Tracy
, p. 2.

126. Nancy Reagan, to author, June 4, 2000.

127. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.

128. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 53; Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, pp. 64–65; Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.

129. Nancy Reagan, to author, May 3, 2002.

130. Lambert,
Nazimova
, pp. 288, 7.

131. Ibid., pp. 382–83.

132. Leamer,
Make-Believe
, p. 55; Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, p. 65.

133. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 54.

134. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.

135. Robert Higdon, to author, May 2002.

136. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, pp. 66–67.

137. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 391.

138.
Chicago Tribune
, June 8, 1963, “Zasu Pitts, 63, Film Comedienne, Is Dead.”

139. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy,
p. 67.

140. Nancy Reagan, to author, June 4, 2000.

Chapter Seven: Ronnie and Jane, 1941–1946

1. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 168.

2. Leamer,
Make-Believe
, p. 119.

3. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 37.

4. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, pp. 99–100.

5. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 180.

6. Jacques Mapes, to author, September 29, 1999.

7. E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 184–85, 189.

8. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.

9. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 261; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 108.

10. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 727.

11. Leamer,
Make-Believe
, pp. 119–20; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, pp.

108–9.

12. Wright Cobb and Willems,
The Brown Derby Restaurant
, p. 115.

Notes

5 2 7

13. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 107; Ronald Reagan,
An
American Life
, p. 97.

14. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, pp. 111–12.

15. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 192.

16. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, pp. 109–10; E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 192.

17. McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan
, p. 34.

18. Bowman,
Los Angeles
, pp. 330–35. Pitt and Pitt, in
Los Angeles A to Z
, say that the battle was three nights later (p. 579).

19. Bowman,
Los Angeles
, pp. 330–31; Pitt and Pitt,
Los Angeles A to Z
, p. 558.

20. Wills,
John Wayne’s America
, pp. 107, 105.

21. Friedrich,
City of Nets
, p. 105.

22. Benjamin and Simon in
New York Review of Books
, December 20, 2001.

23. Friedrich,
City of Nets
, p. 106.

24. Brownstein,
The Power and the Glitter
, p. 80.

25. Friedrich,
City of Nets
, pp. 108, 158.

26. Ibid., pp. 106–7; Donnelly,
Fade to Black
, p. 368; E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 729.

27. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 117.

28. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, pp. 112–13.

29. Ibid., p. 116.

30. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 113.

31. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 202; Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, p. 58; Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 267–68.

32. Ronald Reagan,
An American Life
, p. 102; E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 207, 731.

33. Thomas,
Golden Boy
, p. 49.

34. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 274–75.

35. E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 209, 732.

36. McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan
, p. 109; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in
Hollywood
, pp. 117–18.

37. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 281; Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, pp. 74–75.

38. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 119.

39. Ibid.

40. Ibid., pp. 123–24.

41. Ronald Reagan,
An American Life
, pp. 101–2; Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, pp. 124–25.

42. Wills,
Reagan’s America
, p. 245.

43. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 179.

44. Billingsley,
Hollywood Party
, pp. 95, 89–90.

45. E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 205–6.

46. Brownstein,
The Power and the Glitter
, pp. 81–82.

47. Ibid., p. 81.

48. Ibid., pp. 87–90; Friedrich,
City of Nets
, pp. 167–68; Billingsley,
Hollywood
Party
, p. 111.

49. Friedrich,
City of Nets
, p. 168.

50. Excerpt from
Hollywood Renegades: The Society of Independent Motion Picture
Producers
, by J. A. Aberdeen, available on the Web site of Cobblestone Entertainment Publishers at http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/huac_

alliance.htm.

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Notes

51.
New York Times
, April 23, 1944, “Tempest in Hollywood.”

52. Brownstein,
The Power and the Glitter
, pp. 100–101.

53. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 124.

54. Neil Reagan oral history, p. 22.

55. E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 215, 733.

56. Ibid., p. 216.

57. Ibid., p. 737.

58. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 138.

59. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 198.

60. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 202.

61. Michael Reagan with Hyams,
On the Outside Looking In
, pp. 7, 14–15, 275.

62. McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan
, p. 52.

63. Maureen Reagan,
First Father, First Daughter
, pp. 49–50.

64. Ibid., p. 51.

65. E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 218, 734.

66. Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, pp. 87–88; Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 285.

67. Neil Reagan oral history, p. 37.

68. Maureen Reagan,
First Father, First Daughter
, pp. 39–41; p. 44.

69. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 220.

70. Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, pp. 86–87.

71. McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan
, pp. 52–54.

72. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 187.

73. Ibid., p. 188.

74. Ibid., pp. 141, 191.

75. Kotkin and Grabowicz in
Esquire
, August 1980, p. 27.

76. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 294, 583.

77. Ibid.

78. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, pp. 162–63; E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 222.

79. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 141.

80. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 163; E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 222, 735.

81.
Time
, September 9, 1946, “Political Notes: Glamour Pusses”; Vaughn,
Ronald
Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 123.

82.
Time
, September 9, 1946, “Political Notes: Glamour Pusses.”

83. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 141.

84. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 228.

85. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, pp. 121–22.

86. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 229.

87. Ibid.

88. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 142.

89. Ronald Reagan,
An American Life
, p. 106; Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s
the Rest of Me?
, p. 142.

90. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 230.

91. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 165.

92. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 231; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 164.

93. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 306.

94. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 128.

95. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, pp. 166–67.

96. Ibid., pp. 167–68.

Notes

5 2 9

97. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 132.

98. Schlesinger Jr. in
Life
, July 29, 1946.

99. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 131; Wiener in
New Republic
, March 31, 1986.

100.
Time
, September 9, 1946, “Political Notes: Glamour Pusses.”

101. Brownstein,
The Power and the Glitter
, p. 109.

102. Schlesinger Jr.,
A Life in the 20th Century
, p. 409; Brownstein,
The Power and
the Glitter
, p. 109.

103. Neil Reagan oral history, pp. 30–31.

104. Ibid., p. 31.

105. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 132; E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 234, 740; Wills,
Reagan’s America
, p. 249.

106. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 304–5.

107. Wills,
Reagan’s America
, pp. 246–47. See also Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, pp. 130, 278 (notes 49 and 50).

108. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 164.

109. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, pp. 169–70.

110. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 130.

111. Ronald Reagan,
An American Life
, p. 111.

112. Wills,
Reagan’s America
, p. 249;
New York Times
, May 6, 1993, “Disney Link to the F.B.I. and Hoover Is Disclosed”;
Las Vegas Life
, October 1999, “Billy Wilkerson: The First Big Link to Hollywood”;
Las Vegas Sun
, February 15, 2000, “Book Examines ‘The Man Who Invented Las Vegas.’” See also Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan
in Hollywood
, p. 130.

113. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 139.

114. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 300;
Current Biography 1949
, “Reagan, Ronald.”

115. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 129.

116. Ibid.

117. Ibid., p. 277 (note 43).

118. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 179.

119. Ibid., pp. 145–46.

120. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 138.

121. Billingsley,
Hollywood Party
, pp. 106–12;
Current Biography 1953
, “Reagan, Ronald.”

122. Billingsley,
Hollywood Party
, p. 121.

123.
Los Angeles Times
, August 5, 2001.

124. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 159.

125. Wills,
Reagan’s America
, pp. 233–35; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, pp.

138–39.

126. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, pp. 139, 282 (note 32).

127. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 239.

128. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 311; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 139.

129. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 311.

130. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, pp. 171, 172–73; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 140.

131. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, pp. 174–75.

132. Friedrich,
City of Nets
, p. 279; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 139.

133. Billingsley,
Hollywood Party
, pp. 151, 332.

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Notes

134. Friedrich,
City of Nets
, p. 277.