The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda (51 page)

“I pride myself”:
Waterloo Evening Courier,
2/24/1926.

He sees, by his account:
FML,
35;
PB,
104.

Bette Davis:
FML
, 35–36. Davis relates the incident in Charlotte Chandler,
The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis, A Personal Biography
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 117–19, though curiously not in her autobiography,
The Lonely Life
(New York: Putnam, 1962).

The Barker
: Ross and Ross, 86.

“a high, strangulated sob”: Logan, 21.

“some odd human animal”: ibid.

Elmer: ibid., 27–28.

“Several years ago”: Houghton, 109.

“[Now] he was aware”: ibid., 120.

He spends the winter months: Sweeney, 169–74;
FML,
54–55, 58–59.

“stimulating plays”:
New York Times,
1/8/1935.

“She intrigued me”: Hayward, 185. See also Houghton, 84.

The Devil in the Cheese
: Hayward, 185–86.

“By the time I am thirty-five”: Collier, 31.

“cream”:
FML
, 91.

“Hank was much in love”: Houghton, 161.

“Fonda”: Brough, 43.

marriage license: Brooke Hayward Papers, Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Fonda initially objects: Houghton, 240.

“They fought so terribly”: Brough, 37.

the two marry: rector’s receipt, Brooke Hayward Papers.

Jed Harris: Martin Gottfried,
Jed Harris: The Curse of Genius
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1984), 145–46.

divorce proceedings: unedited transcript of HF’s 1975 interview with Brooke Hayward (hereafter given as Hayward interview transcript), Brooke Hayward Papers.

stranger in a Christian Science reading room:
FML,
66–67.

“unable to give the role”:
New York Times,
1/2/1960.

Death comes: ibid.

She dies only nine months:
New York Times,
10/19/1960.

His first sex had been:
FML
, 29.

“is made to look delighted”: Haskell, 150.

head shot: Brooke Hayward Papers.

“Casa Gangrene”:
FML,
70–71; Brough, 52.

“stooging”: Hayward interview transcript.

Inspector Enderby:
Portsmouth Herald,
9/6/1932.

“a sentimental romance”:
Barnard Bulletin,
10/21/1932.

Forsaking All Others
:
www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=11729
.

Love Story
: Sweeney, 176.

All Good Americans
:
FML,
77;
www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=11804
.

Mr. Goldfarb:
FML,
73.

“a potpourri”:
New York Times,
2/22/1985.

“Finances had to be pooled”:
Piqua Daily Call
, 5/4/1934.

“lacks pace”: “The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan,”
Time,
3/2/1934; available at
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,747250,00.html
.

“a fairly witty”:
San Antonio Daily News,
4/1/1934.

March through July 1934:
http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=11849
.

Dwight Deere Wiman:
FML,
84–85.

Henry introduces Hayward: Hayward interview transcript.

“Hayward has the agent’s habit”: Margaret Case Harriman, “Profiles: Hollywood Agent,”
The New Yorker,
7/11/1936, 24.

“It wasn’t my ambition”:
FML,
85; Hayward, 134–35.

Walter Wanger: Bernstein.

Wanger would introduce Siegel: Bernstein, 163; David Weddle,
“If They Move … Kill ‘Em!”: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah
(New York: Grove, 1994), 109, 116.

“a fine and daring producer”: Bernstein, 123.

“a daring experimenter”: ibid., 128.

“one of the fanciest”: Otis Ferguson,
The Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1971), 265.

“I could go back”: Hayward, 135.

Henry will not recall him warmly:
PB,
118.

Joel McCrea or Gary Cooper: Cole and Farrell, 21.

loan-out fee:
FML
, 95.

star gets approval: Bernstein, 112.

“I had no ambition”:
PB,
118.

The President Vanishes
: Bernstein, 97.

“Wouldn’t he be wonderful”: Roberts and Goldstein, 44.

“He was patently ideal”: Brough, 58.

the good sense to compliment Connelly:
FML,
87.

“a manly, modest performance”: Cole and Farrell, 21.

“an extraordinarily simple”: ibid.

“will be transferred”:
Syracuse Herald,
11/8/1934.

warned by the director, Victor Fleming:
FML
, 97–98.

dies in Omaha:
Lincoln Star
, 10/8/1934. To make it worse, the notice identifies Herberta’s son as “Harry Fonda of New York.” See also FML, 88–89.

Henry rents a bungalow with Jimmy Stewart:
FML
, 99–102; Michael Wilmington, “Small-Town Guy,”
Film Comment
, March–April 1990, 52.

Martin bomber:
FML,
99.

Ross Alexander and Aleta Freel: ibid., 96.

Freel shoots herself:
San Antonio Express,
12/8/1935.

“The day following”:
Waterloo Daily Courier,
12/10/1935.

Ronald Reagan: Ronald Reagan,
Reagan: A Life in Letters
, ed. Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson (New York: Free Press, 2003), 30–31.

“a generation of favorites”: Thomson,
The Whole Equation,
154.

“Youth is a time”: Houghton, 259.

4. THE BIG SOUL

“The only actor of the era”: Baldwin, 21.

“first conscious calculation”: ibid., 28.

Shirley Ross:
Middlesboro Daily News
, 10/31/1935;
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743841/
;
FML,
98.

“Henry Fonda says it is”:
San Mateo Times,
3/21/1936.

“One of the most personable”: Cooke, ed., 72.

He lodges at: HF to Sullavan, 7/1/1936, Brooke Hayward Papers.

She is related by marriage:
New York Times,
8/24/1936.

“an alcoholic”: Andersen, 23.

“a part-time poet”: Guiles, 4.

paranoid schizophrenic:
MLSF,
25.

She claimed to have been molested: ibid., 26.

Clare Boothe: Andersen, 24.

“descend on Wall Street”:
MLSF,
28.

an impatient Frances suggesting to Brokaw: Guiles, 4.

cash bequest:
FML,
119.

yearly income in excess:
New York Times,
11/9/1935.

“When a woman”: Guiles, 4.

“I’ve always gotten”:
MLSF,
37.

“Dearest Peggy”: HF to Sullavan, 7/1/1936, Brooke Hayward Papers. (Dating contradicts sources that say HF did not leave for England until 7/10.)

“THEY’LL BE MARRIED”
:
Lowell Sun,
8/24/1936.

a reception:
New York Times,
9/9/1936;
FML,
118.

“blundering fool”: HF to Sullavan, 9/9/1936, Brooke Hayward Papers.

The wedding:
New York Times,
9/17/1936.

“Mrs. Robert Kane”:
Waterloo Sunday Courier,
10/4/1936.

Fonda admits that he has begun to secede:
FML,
120.

“expressed certain feelings”: Kael,
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,
49–50.

“I was barely aware”:
PB,
102.

“In a way”: Baldwin, 25.

“And because they were lonely”: Steinbeck,
The Grapes of Wrath
, 264.

“The right to be let alone”: Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, “The Right to Privacy,”
Harvard Law Review,
12/15/1890, 193.

“the America of the murders and rapes”: Wilson,
Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and 40s
, 519.

Blockade
(1938): Bernstein, 129–32.

“The story does not attempt”: John Walker, ed.,
Halliwell’s Film Guide 1994
(New York: HarperCollins, 1994), 137.

“I have read a book”:
Port Arthur News,
1/21/1940.

was sold, days after publication:
Fresno Bee,
4/21/1939.

“The shadow”: Steinbeck,
The Grapes of Wrath
, 187.

“Maybe all men”: ibid., 33.

“an organization of the unconscious”: ibid., 135.

“They’s stuff”: ibid., 236–37.

“people in flight”: ibid., 166.

5. WAYS OF ESCAPE

“Death in the guise”: Percy, 313.

she especially wants a boy: Andersen, 28;
MLSF,
41.

leaping with excitement:
FML,
121.

provision written into:
FML,
122–23.

“Dad was so emotionally distant”:
MLSF,
50.

“Protestant rages”: ibid.

“We were all afraid”: Brough, 80.

“children, operations”: Kiernan, 20; Anderson, 28–29.

“quarantined”:
FML,
124.

Bell Telephone: Hayward interview transcript.

purchase the property:
FML,
133;
MLSF,
49.

“in increments”:
DTD,
8.

“a bare hill”: Hayward interview transcript.

“In those days”: Hayward, 138.

“Probably the most carefully planned home”: Marva and Lloyd Shearer, “The Fondas’ Formula for Successful Living,”
House Beautiful
, July 1948, 40.

the styling of the house: Ross and Ross, 93.

she retreats for three weeks: Andersen, 32;
FML,
134.

he left his virginity: Gussow, 11.

“a little melodrama”: ibid., 57.

“would transform himself”: Custen, 227.

“divided allegiance”: Gussow, 21.

“Henry Fonda is fast becoming”:
Syracuse Herald,
11/20/1939.

“We intend to follow”: Gussow, 84.

“one casting decision”: Custen, 233.