The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda (52 page)

recounting their meeting:
FML,
128–29.

“I know I’m bad”:
Ogden Standard-Examiner,
7/7/1940.

“certainly not entertainment”: Custen, 273.

“high pressure salesmanship”:
Syracuse Herald-Journal,
7/14/1943.

“Did you ever hear”: Clark, 146–47.

“What is the conscience”: ibid., 66–67.

“I’ll be glad”: ibid., 309.

“I was a typical eager beaver”:
PB,
118.

staged fight:
Galveston Daily News,
12/5/1941.

Whether Roosevelt foresaw: Costello, 607–8; Vidal,
The Last Empire,
448–56, 457–65.

“shared disbelief”: Costello, 608.

“an escape”: Axel Madsen,
William Wyler: The Authorized Biography
(New York: Crowell, 1973), 258.

“He was genuinely patriotic”:
MLSF,
51.

“I’d like to be with the fellows”:
Charleston Gazette,
8/25/1942.

“Without the usual Hollywood fanfare”: ibid.

“It has been my desire”:
Wisconsin State Journal,
8/25/1942.

“I won World War II”:
FML,
138.

Henry finishes third in the class: F. S. Crosley to Lt. Cmdr. H. V. Bird, 8/25/1943, HF’s military file.

on the USS
Satterlee
:
FML,
143.

sworn in as a lieutenant: ibid., 144.

joint intelligence among the service branches: James D. Marchio, “Days of Future Past: Joint Intelligence in World War II,”
Joint Forces Quarterly
(Spring 1996): 116–23.

“should have had experience”: Crosley to Bird, 8/25/1943, HF’s military file.

“demonstrates officer-like qualities”: ibid.

“[I]t has been determined”: ibid.

“there was a favorable atmosphere”: Melville C. Branch,
Planning and the Human Condition: Conceptual Development, Prospective Conclusions
(Lincoln, NE: Writer’s Showcase, 2002), 13.

company’s drill instructor:
FML
, 144.

“Lieutenant (junior grade) Fonda”: Cmdr. E. K. Zitzewitz, Officer Fitness Report, 11/2–12/23/1943, HF’s military file.

graduates fourth: Crosley to Bird, 8/25/1943, HF’s military file.

“That impressed”:
PB,
120.

USS
Curtiss
: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, available at
www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c16/curtiss.htm
.

“Officers pored over”: Thomas, 155.

“our doctor has had to order him”:
Del Rio News-Herald,
3/15/1945.

“Lieutenant Fonda”:
El Paso Herald-Post,
4/23/1948.

“How many of us would have been killed”: Terkel, 47.

“It was an eerie sight”:
FML,
158.

“keen intelligence”: memo, Office of U.S. Pacific Fleet, Commander Marianas, 8/18/1945, HF’s military file.

“operating in the Southern Ryukyus Islands”: Office of Public Information report; available at
www.usscurtiss.com
.

on shore leave:
FML,
158.

Enola Gay
: Timothy Luke,
Museum Politics: Power Plays at the Exhibition
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 25.

Fonda knows, though not clearly: FML, 159.

“sort of took me back”:
PB,
120.

an estimated 140,000 people: Douglas Holdstock and Frank Barnaby,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Retrospect and Prospect
(London: Frank Cass, 1995), 2.

receiving the Bronze Star:
Council Bluffs Nonpareil,
8/13/1945;
Stars and Stripes,
8/14/1945.

The Navy Hour
: Sweeney, 219–20.

resigns his commission: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas S. Gates, Jr., to HF, 12/11/1953, HF’s military file.

“Reactions to combat stress”: Michael Sturma,
The USS Flier: Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine
(Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2008), 154.

“Peter lost it”:
PB,
120.

“Mrs. Henry Fonda is off”:
San Antonio Light,
11/10/1944.

“Mrs. Henry Fonda”: ibid., 12/18/1944.

affairs while Henry was at war:
FML,
155.

a man named Joe:
MLSF,
23–24.

the man recalled by Peter:
DTD,
10.

Frances begins administering the household:
FML,
173.

Barbara Thompson:
Dunkirk Evening Observer,
7/14/1943;
Lima News,
7/14/1943;
Nevada State Journal,
7/14/1943;
Yuma Daily Sun,
7/14/1943;
Lowell Sun,
7/15/1943;
Port Arthur News,
7/15/1943;
Ogden Standard-Examiner,
7/16/1943;
Sheboygan Press,
7/20/1943;
Modesto Bee,
9/7/1943;
Long Beach Independent,
10/5/1943;
Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin,
10/20/1943;
Yuma Daily Sun,
12/3/1946.

“my father began having affairs”:
MLSF,
50.

quoted an anonymous friend: FML, 121.

“They say his domestic affairs”:
Wisconsin State Journal
, 8/28/1945.

“angrily [denying] the divorce”:
Uniontown Morning Herald
, 9/26/1945.

Louella Parsons says:
Modesto Bee,
11/10/1945.

“lies in the fertilizer”:
Berkshire Evening Eagle
, 7/3/1948.

“was seriously into making”:
DTD,
16.

“the hottest”:
Ironwood Daily Globe,
10/21/1946.

April through June of 1946: McBride, 435.

“I screamed and yelled”:
DTD
, 28–29. See also
FML
, 173–74.

“In those days”:
FML
, 167.

stories of routine transgressions:
DTD,
13–14. See also
FML
, 167.

“a very difficult man”:
DTD,
17.

“Death in the guise”: This and subsequent quotes from the book are from Percy, 313–14.

6. A SORT OF SUICIDE

Fort Apache
: Wills, 175–76; William Darby,
John Ford’s Westerns: A Thematic Analysis, with a Filmography
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996), Chapter 6.

“mythopathic moment”: Herr, 47–48.

Tigertail pasture:
FML,
171–72;
DTD,
20–21.

has gotten Fox to increase: Dennis McDougal,
The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood
(New York: Da Capo, 2001 [1998]), 117.

“I look forward”:
Ironwood Daily Globe,
10/21/1946.

“the Burbank of Brentwood”:
Statesville Daily Record,
1/11/1947.

“Deftly, she tried”:
Joplin Globe,
7/29/1947.

“a city slicker”:
Ogden Standard-Examiner,
9/21/1947.

“the wonderman of the musical stage”: E. J. Kahn, Jr., “Profiles: The Tough Guy and the Soft Guy—II,”
The New Yorker,
4/11/1953, 65.

Here it is, he says: Logan, 207;
FML,
4.

“I was”: Gay Talese,
Fame and Obscurity
(New York: Dell, 1986), 104.

Mr.
Roberts
previews: Logan, 212.

“a gilt-edged investment”:
Nevada State Journal,
2/13/1948.

“There were too many curtain calls”: Logan, 216.

“standing on their seats”:
PB,
123.

The next day’s critical acclaim: Logan, 216;
Uniontown Morning Herald,
3/9/1948;
Cumberland Sunday Times
, 2/22/1948; John Lardner, “Roberts for President,”
The New Yorker,
2/28/1948, 48.

“bettering by several thousand”: Leggett, 398.

Antoinette Perry Award:
New York Times,
3/29/1948.

Atkinson will estimate:
New York Times,
5/21/1950.

“He always wanted”: E. J. Kahn, Jr., “Profiles: The Tough Guy and the Soft Guy—I,”
The New Yorker,
4/4/1953, 62.

“He’ll never be seduced”: ibid., 61–62.

Heggen has told Logan: Logan, 207.

“There are people”: Heggen, 211.

Both are: Leggett, 279.

“feeling, carried since his teens”: ibid., 315.

“feeling selfish”:
Uniontown Morning Herald,
3/9/1948.

By April, a house:
Wisconsin State Journal,
4/9/1948.

Pecksland Road: Brough, 101.

destroyed in the worst brush fire:
FML
, 277–78;
Long Beach Independent
, 11/7/1961.

Jane evokes Charles Addams:
MLSF,
9.

“musky, attic-like”:
DTD,
36.

“unknown darkness”: ibid., 41.

Peter contracts pneumonia:
DTD,
38, 42;
Portland Press Herald,
7/30/1949.

“Dad asked me”:
MLSF
, 10. See also
FML,
187–88.

Henry moves to the nearby town:
Portland Press Herald,
7/30/1949.

he buys each of his kids:
Logansport Press,
3/5/1948.

“She began to feel”:
FML,
188.

“there”:
DTD,
38.

Frances informs him:
FML,
190.

Austen Riggs Center:
www.austenriggs.org
. See also Lawrence S. Kubie, M.D.,
The Riggs Story: The Development of the Austen Riggs Center for the Study and Treatment of the Neuroses
(New York: Paul D. Hoeber, 1960).

“special hotels”: Chesler, 34.

Margaret Sullavan will experience: Hayward, 19.

“Perhaps”: Chesler, 35.

Susan Blanchard: Collier, 79–80.

becomes engaged: ibid., 79.

disturbed by the approach of grandmotherhood:
FML,
195.

“floating” kidney: Guiles, 33.

Tom Heggen’s body is found:
New York Times,
5/20/1949.