The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda (54 page)

granted a divorce decree:
Newport News,
12/8/1955;
Long Beach Independent,
5/3/1956.

Anita Ekberg:
Salt Lake Tribune,
5/24/1959;
NBN
, 8; Collier, 99.

Venice Film Festival:
Humboldt Standard,
8/27/1955.

“laughing” with Italian starlet Loren Pastini:
San Antonio Light,
10/27/1955.

She and Henry meet:
NBN,
2.

“There was something pure”: ibid.

“barbaric and primeval”: ibid., 30.

Augusto Torlonia: “Italy: Lord of the Earth,”
Time,
7/4/1949; available at
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,888539,00.html
.

“Eurotrash”:
DTD,
109.

Franchetti history:
NBN,
43–44, 116–17.

beaten by her brutish brother: ibid., 43.

she had inspired: Carlos Baker,
Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story
(New York: Scribner’s, 1969), 486.

“She’s a character”:
PB,
127.

“sad and boring”:
NBN,
34.

8. THE WRONG MAN

O’Hara:
FML,
4.

current reading: Henry Fonda, “My Current Reading,”
Saturday Review of Literature,
7/31/1948, 29.

“in the old days”: John O’Hara to H. N. Swanson, 9/29/1963; O’Hara to Swanson, 2/5/1965; Swanson to O’Hara, 3/18/1969. Contents synopsized in the Calendar of the John O’Hara Letters to H. N. Swanson, 1955–1970, Penn State University Archives, available at
www.libraries.psu.edu/digital/speccolls/FindingAids/oharaswanson.frame.html
.

Hitchcock: Patrick McGilligan,
Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
(San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2004), 535. See also Devin McKinney, “The Right Man,”
The Believer,
March/April 2008, 13, 27.

“the somnambulistic quality”: Herbert Brean, “A Case of Identity,”
Life,
6/19/1953, 97.

Hitchcock reckoned this a misjudgment: François Truffaut,
Hitchcock
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967), 177–83.

scissoring her eyes:
FML
, 254.

villa on the Mediterranean:
FML,
256–57;
DTD,
107–14.

“a dentist’s waiting room”:
NBN,
53.

realistic oil studies:
Abilene Reporter-News,
1/5/1962.

“renting period”:
DTD,
120.

amount of business logged:
Oakland Tribune,
7/10/1956;
Abilene Reporter-News,
6/31/1956;
Austin Daily Herald
, 10/17/1956;
Fresno Bee,
9/13/1956;
Long Beach Independent,
2/28/1957.

“Medics are warning”:
Burlington Daily Times-Herald,
10/22/1956.

“Each achievement”:
NBN,
74.

Southwest Airways: Hayward, 69.

Oklahoma oil:
Ada Evening News,
11/15/1953.

independent production deal:
New York Times,
2/11/1955.

never star in a TV series:
Long Beach Independent
, 4/28/1957.

“save a dollar”:
Connellsville Daily Courier,
1/4/1960.

handpicked by the star:
Kittanning Leader-Times,
6/22/1959.

“looked so startlingly”:
Oakland Tribune,
9/16/1959.

“I guess he doesn’t plan”: ibid.

“underwritten”: Gibson, 21.

“Start it rolling”: ibid., 24–25.

a quarter of it Fonda’s own money: ibid.

Henry is miscast as Jerry: ibid., 57.

When Henry meets Dr. Brenman-Gibson: ibid., 108.

“with a fixed”: ibid., 36.

“zest and fine realism”:
Corpus Christi Times,
12/6/1957.

a nauseous Bancroft: Gibson, 106.

shouting at the playwright:
FML,
263; Gibson, 107; Henry Fonda and Glenn Loney, “In the Words of Henry Fonda,”
Cue,
12/20/1969, 12.

“the most odious experience”: Gibson, 107.

“the birth of a star”:
Mansfield News-Journal,
1/25/1958.

selling his quarter share:
Winnipeg Free Press,
9/27/1965.

“can’t stomach Hollywood”:
Long Beach Independent
, 5/28/1957.

“I imagine if we could hear”: Anderson,
Silent Night, Lonely Night
, 34.

“excessively verbose”:
New York Times,
12/4/1959.

“that I find this talky”:
San Mateo Times,
12/22/1959.

Gena Rowlands:
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,
11/8/1960.

“I was discovering myself”:
NBN,
107.

“the father I never had”: ibid., 174.

“If it had been maybe ten years later”: Norman, 94.

“Just the slightest of slaps”:
NBN,
72.

“if he had done it more often”: ibid.

“completely friendly”:
Fresno
Bee,
3/16/1961.

“I can only reproach myself”:
Long Beach
Independent
, 3/16/1961.

she and a traveling companion:
New York Times
, 8/1/1966;
Bridgeport Post,
8/1/1966;
Bucks County Courier-Times,
11/10/1966;
Bridgeport Telegram,
11/11/1966.

rented a Bel Air house:
Albuquerque Journal,
6/29/1961.

“I made my first picture”:
Corpus Christi Caller-Times,
9/10/1961.

“the greatest acting challenge”:
Cumberland Sunday Times,
11/26/1961.

“about a writer”:
Greeley Tribune,
12/18/1961.

“to the radiologist’s”:
Corpus Christi Times,
3/16/1962.

“We talked”:
Mansfield News-Journal,
1/28/1962.

rudiments of the classical guitar: ibid.

“that the theatre”:
New York Times,
3/4/1962.

“is a long time to watch”:
Bridgeport Post,
1/30/1962.

“party” block: ibid.

“Lael!”: Kanin, 75–77.

“I love you”: ibid., 150.

“just the God damnedest”: Springer, 38.

Critics too are uncertain: ibid.;
New York Times,
2/23/1962;
Time,
3/2/1962, available at
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939893,00.html
; Harold Clurman,
The Collected Works of Harold Clurman: Six Decades of Commentary on Theatre, Dance, Music, Film, Arts and Letters
, ed. Marjorie Loggia and Glenn Young (New York: Applause, 2000), 475;
Oakland Tribune,
3/11/1962.

covered with bruises:
Anderson Daily Bulletin,
3/28/1962.

a film version is rumored:
Salina Journal,
6/15/1962.

A small item appears:
San Mateo Times and Daily News Leader,
10/31/1935.

Another version of the same incident:
Galveston Daily News,
11/16/1935.

9. NEW FRONTIER AND HIDDEN AGENDA

vital center: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949).

“in the air”: William Safire,
Safire’s Political Dictionary
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 465–66.

“tracked the trajectory”: Hoberman, 117.

“political party”: California Voter Registry, Los Angeles City Precinct No. 1674; available at
www.ancestry.com
.

Anti-Nazi League: Charles J. Maland,
Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star Image
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), 162.

“the most prominent manifestation”: ibid.

Vittorio Mussolini, Leni Riefenstahl:
Corpus Christi Times,
11/30/1938;
Salt Lake Tribune,
12/1/1938;
Las Vegas Daily Optic,
12/2/1938;
Kalispell Daily Inter-Lake,
1/7/1939.

“a front for the Communist Party”: Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund,
The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930–1960
(Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003), 109.

“challenging it to substantiate”:
Logansport Press,
8/18/1938.

“lack of funds”: Ceplair and Englund, 110–11.

“‘Red’ really means”: Leslie Fiedler,
An End to Innocence: Essays on Culture and Politics
(Boston: Beacon, 1966 [1955]), 13.

spies inside the U.S.government: see R. Bruce Craig,
Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004); Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev,
The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era
(New York: Random House, 1999); and
Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997), A-37.

“many fine people”: Ronald Reagan,
An American Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), 114.

an FBI informant: Friedrich, 320.

Committee for the First Amendment: John Cogley,
Report on Blacklisting—I: Movies
(New York: Fund for the Republic, 1956), 6.

“The accused men”: Stefan Kanfer,
A Journal of the Plague Years
(New York: Atheneum, 1973), 79.

“It was a sorry performance”: Friedrich, 326.

“of what in the United States”: Greil Marcus,
The Manchurian Candidate
(London: British Film Institute, 2002), 61.

Edward Dmytryk: Nicholas Christopher,
Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City
(New York: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006), 76.

Larry Parks: Randy Roberts and James S. Olson,
John Wayne, American
(New York: Free Press, 1995), 346.

Jane Fonda will later criticize:
MLSF,
67.

become a bitter detractor:
PB,
136.

Ike from Abilene
:
Uniontown Evening Standard,
6/6/1952.

a public defection:
Harrisburg Daily Register,
10/13/1952.

“Eisenhower seems to have”: Steinbeck,
America and Americans,
222.