3. Higham, p. 98.

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

5. Herman, p. 17475.

6. Ibid., p. 176.

7. Lonely Life, p. 175.

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

9. Herman, p. 177.

10. Lonely Life, p. 175.

11. Higham, Bette, p. 107.

12. Wallis and Higham, p. 50.

13. Spada, Bette Davis, p. 134.

14. Herman, p. 178.

15. Lonely Life, p. 175.

16. Ibid.

17. Herman, p. 178.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid., p. 180.

20. Ibid.

21. USC, Jezebel file: daily production and progress report.

22. David Chierichetti to ES, January 23, 2006.

23. USC, legal files, July 6 to December 6, 1937; memo dated November 30, 1937.

24. Higham, Bette, p. 108.

25. Malcolm, pp. 89.

26. www.ibdb.com; Lonely Life, p. 82; Bette Davis, "Uncertain Glory," p. 113.

27. Lonely Life, p. 82.

28. Ibid., p. 83; Bette Davis, "Uncertain Glory," p. 113.

29. BU, box 2, folder 3.

30. Lonely Life, p. 83.

31. Ibid., pp. 8384.

32. Ibid., p. 85.

33. Ibid., pp. 8586.

34. Leaming, p. 49.

35. Ibsen, p. 196.

36. Higham, Bette, p. 33.

37. Spada, Bette Davis, p. 64.

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

39. Lonely Life, pp. 12, 24.

40. Ibid., pp. 8889.

41. Boston Post, January 3, 1938; USC, Jezebel file: daily production and progress report.

42. Boston Post, January 3, 1938.

43. USC, Jezebel file: daily production and progress report.

44. Schatz, p. 225.

45. Herman, p. 182.

46. Ibid.

47. Photoplay, January 1938.

48. The Academy changed its regulations in 1944 to allow only five films to be nominated for Best Picture.

49. Boston Globe, February 26, 1939.

50. Lonely Life, p. 178.

CHAPTER 9. "A GIRL WHO DIES".

1. USC, legal files, August 3 to December 16, 1938. Retakes were shot on August 22.

2. The d.i.c.k Cavett Show, ABC, December 31, 1969.

3. Westmore and Davidson, p. 84.

4. Lonely Life, pp. 18081.

5. Thomson, p. 522.

6. Lonely Life, p. 181.

7. Ibid.

8. Higham, Bette Davis, pp. 11011.

9. Higham, p. 111.

10. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 21.

11. Spada, Bette Davis, pp. 14345.

12. Vik Greenfield to ES, August 9, 2004.

13. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 21: various clippings dated August 30, 1938, and later that fall.

14. BU, box 2, folder 4: Complaint for Divorce, dated November 22, 1938, Harmon Oscar Nelson Jr., plaintiff, versus Ruth Elizabeth Nelson, defendant.

15. BU, box 1: anonymous letter dated November 27, 1938.

16. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 17: Gladys Hall, "If I Had Six Months to Live."

17. Lonely Life, p. 182.

18. NYPLLC, Dark Victory (play) clippings.

19. Zierold, p. 212; Swanson, p. 450.

20. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19311940, p. 465.

21. Lonely Life, p. 183.

22. Charles Busch to ES, May 26, 2004.

23. Sperber and Lax, p. 104; Kennedy, pp. 17980.

24. USC, Dark Victory files: Hal Wallis to Edmund Goulding, October 27, 1938.

25. Douglas Churchill, New York Times, November 6, 1938.

26. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 43: Screen Gossip, undated.

27. Kennedy, p. 178.

28. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 17: Dorothy Manners, "Hollywood's Next Great Love Story."

29. The d.i.c.k Cavett Show, ABC, March 11, 1971.

30. Kennedy, p. 181.

31. Meyers, p. 102, quoting production memos in the Warner Bros. archive at USC.

32. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 112.

33. AMPAS, Gladys Hall Collection, folder 141: "Bette Davis," Modern Screen, January 28, 1939.

34. Mann, Behind the Screen, p. 171, quoting Ezra Goodman, New York Times, June 28, 1942.

35. USC, Dark Victory files: Casey Robinson to Hal Wallis, August 19, 1938.

36. BU, box 28: Geraldine Fitzgerald to Harold (Schiff?), undated.

37. USC, Dark Victory files: "Story-Changes" file.

38. Ibid.: David Lewis to Hal Wallis, November 4, 1938.

39. Ibid.: Hal Wallis's cutting notes, December 9, 1938.

40. Ibid.: A. C. Blumenthal to Hal Wallis, March 9, 1939.

41. Ibid.: Dark Victory pressbook.

42. New York Times, March 19, 1939.

CHAPTER 10. FEUDS.

1. MEYER, P. 127.

2. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 116; BU, sc.r.a.pbook 22: unsourced clipping.