32. Today's Cinema, September 9, 1936; Referee, September 13, 1936.

33. Sunday Express, September 13, 1936.

34. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 11: Daily Express.

35. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 13.

36. Warner with Jennings, p. 250.

37. Lonely Life, p. 162.

38. "Law Report, Oct. 16," Times (London), October 17, 1936.

39. "K. C. Calls Contract a 'Life Sentence' on Film Star," Daily Telegraph, October 16, 1936.

40. Evening News, October 14, 1936.

41. Lonely Life, pp. 16364.

42. "K. C. Calls Contract a 'Life Sentence' on Film Star," Daily Telegraph, October 16, 1936.

43. Lonely Life, p. 164.

44. Ibid., pp. 16768.

45. USC, legal files, October 1 to December 24, 1936.

46. Freedland, Warner, p. 84.

47. BU, box 1: Ludovico Toeplitz to Bette Davis, August 27, 1936.

48. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 10: card from George Arliss dated October 27, 1936.

49. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 82.

50. "Miss Bette Davis Judgment on Monday," Daily Telegraph, October 17, 1936.

51. USC, legal files, October 1 to December 24, 1936.

52. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 81.

53. USC, legal files, October 1 to December 24, 1936: Roy Obringer to Eric Fletcher of Denton, Hall & Burgin, November 20, 1936.

54. USC, legal files, October 1 to December 24, 1936.

55. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 11: Standard and Daily Telegraph, October 19, 1936.

56. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 10.

57. Thanks to Martin Shingler for this observation.

58. Martin Shingler to ES, August 20, 2004.

59. Anon., "Freedom Fighter."

60. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 67.

CHAPTER 7. "IN THE WARNER JAIL".

1. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 17.

2. Lonely Life, p. 169.

3. Leaming, p. 134.

4. Dotson Rader to ES, February 18, 2004.

5. Leaming, p. 134.

6. Ibid., p. 135.

7. Spada, Davis, p. 130.

8. Powell, p. 69.

9. Ibid., p. 127.

10. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19311940, pp. 132930.

11. Lonely Life, p. 171.

12. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 17: "Glamorous Bette-Marked Woman," unsigned fanzine article.

13. Behlmer, Warner, p. 39.

14. Spada, Davis, pp. 13031.

15. Sperber and Lax, p. 105.

16. Wallis and Higham, p. 47.

17. Lonely Life, p. 172.

18. Sperber and Lax, p. 203.

19. Lonely Life, p. 172.

20. McGilligan, Backstory 1, p. 300.

21. Variety, June 9, 1937.

22. Leaming, p. 37.

23. Ibid., pp. 37, 4142, 9293, 9899.

24. Ibid., pp. 110, 121.

25. Lonely Life, p. 153.

26. Los Angeles Examiner, June 13, 1937.

27. Lonely Life, p. 153.

28. Ibid., p. 170.

29. Leaming, p. 136.

30. USC, legal files, January 8 to June 30, 1937: Obringer to Perkins, January 14 and March 10, 1937.

31. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19311940, pp. 94243.

32. Lonely Life, p. 157.

33. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 96.

34. Warner with Jennings, p. 253.

35. Lonely Life, p. 174.

36. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19311940, p. 803.

37. Ibid.

38. Lonely Life, p. 174.

39. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 13.

40. Ibid.

41. Lambert Gavin, "The Making of Gone with the Wind," Atlantic Monthly, February 1973.

42. Warner with Jennings, p. 253.

43. Lonely Life, p. 174.

44. Behlmer, Selznick, pp. 16467.

45. USC, legal files, January 8 to June 30, 1937: Bette Davis to Jack Warner, July 17, 1937.

46. Ibid.: Bette Davis to Jack Warner, July 26, 1937.

47. Flanner, p. 23.

48. USC, legal files, July 6 to December 6, 1937: Bridget Price to Jack Warner, July 30, 1937.

49. Radie Harris, "The Fear That Is Haunting Bette Davis," November 1937.

50. Leaming, p. 139.

51. Boston Globe, January 16, 1933.

52. Lonely Life, p. 152.

53. Ibid., p. 173.

54. Leaming, p. 122.

55. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 9.

56. Spada, Bette Davis, p. 110.

57. Ibid., p. 116.

58. Williamson, p. 79.

59. Spada, Bette Davis, p. 138; Screen Guide, "Home Life of a Movie h.e.l.lcat," undated.

60. Spada, Bette Davis, p. 135.

61. Bette Davis, "Uncertain Glory," p. 118.

CHAPTER 8. THE SECOND OSCAR.

1. Herman, pp. 118, 17475.

2. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19311940, pp. 106466.