NOTES.

PROLOGUE.

1. Warner with Jennings, p. 147.

2. Bogart, p. 230, quoting a 1953 London Daily Mirror interview.

3. Ellen Hanley to Ed Sikov (ES), June 2, 2006.

CHAPTER 1. AN INFANT'S ALb.u.m.

1. The Bette Davis Collection, the Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University (BU), sc.r.a.pbook 62: Ruth Elizabeth Davis's baby book.

2. BU, box 22.

3. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 32.

4. Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, p. 19. (Hereafter cited as Lonely Life.) 5. Ibid.

6. Williamson, p. 72.

7. BU, box 9: Paul Favor, "Bette Davis," section 2, by Ruth Favor Davis, p. 16.

8. Lonely Life, pp. 1213.

9. Bette Davis, "Uncertain Glory," p. 17.

10. BU, box 9: Paul Favor, "Bette Davis," section 2, by Ruth Favor Davis, p. 16.

11. Ibid., p. 17.

12. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 17: Lyle Rooks, "I'm Tired of Hag Roles," unsourced, undated.

13. Lonely Life, p. 20.

14. BU, box 9: Paul Favor, "Bette Davis," section 2, by Ruth Favor Davis, pp. 1718.

15. Leaming, p. 24.

16. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 32.

17. Ibid.

18. Lonely Life, p. 23.

19. Ibid., p. 22.

20. Ibid., p. 21.

21. Ibid.

22. Ibid.

23. Ibid., p. 22.

24. Madsen, p. 73.

25. Lonely Life, p. 22.

26. Ibid., p. 23.

27. Ibid., p. 20.

28. Ibid., pp. 12, 24.

29. Ibid., pp. 2425; BU, box 9: Paul Favor, "Bette Davis," section 2, by Ruth Favor Davis, p. 19.

30. Lonely Life, p. 24.

31. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 52.

32. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 17: Gladys Hall, "Bette Davis's True Life Story," undated.

33. Lonely Life, p. 25.

34. Ibid.

35. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 32.

36. BU, box 3, folder 8: Boston Sunday Globe, April 5, 1936.

37. Lonely Life, p. 26; Bette Davis, "Uncertain Glory," p. 107; Leaming, p. 31.

38. Lonely Life, p. 27.

39. Ibid.

40. Ibid., p. 28.

41. BU, box 4.

42. Lonely Life, pp. 2829.

43. Brophy, p. 225.

44. Lonely Life, p. 29.

45. Ibid., p. 30.

46. Leaming, p. 33.

47. Lonely Life, pp. 3334.

48. Leaming, p. 42.

49. Lonely Life, p. 37.

50. Bette Davis, "Uncertain Glory," p. 108.

51. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 57.

52. BU, box 2, folder 3: program for Alice D. Miller and Robert Milton, The Charm School.

53. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 63.

54. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 57.

55. James McCourt to ES, January 3, 2005.

56. BU, box 9: Paul Favor, "Bette Davis," p. 15.

57. Lonely Life, p. 23.

58. Leaming, p. 25.

59. McCourt, Queer Street, p. 505.

60. Leaming, p. 25; Davis with Davidson, November 25, 1955, p. 99.

61. Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, p. 97.

62. Lonely Life, p. 34.

63. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 57.

64. Lonely Life, p. 38.

65. Ibid., p. 46.

66. Ibid., p. 47.

67. Fonda and Teichmann, p. 35.

68. BU, box 1: Bette Davis's speech at Loomis School.

69. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 57.

CHAPTER 2. LESSONS.

1. BU, box 9.

2. Sheldon Harnick to ES, October 15, 2003.

3. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 23: Boston Transcript, April 22, 1939; Lonely Life, pp. 5152.

4. Leaming, p. 59.

5. http://www.peterboroughhistory.org/new_page_3.htm; Leaming, p. 46.

6. Lonely Life, pp. 4243.

7. Leaming, p. 47.

8. http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp55949.

9. http://www.dancespirit.com/backissues/march02/legends.shtml.

10. Bette Davis, "Uncertain Glory," p. 109.

11. Lonely Life, p. 54.

12. The d.i.c.k Cavett Show, ABC, November 17, 1971.

13. Lonely Life, p. 54.

14. Ibid., p. 55.

15. Ibid.

16. Bette Davis, "Uncertain Glory," p. 110.