Dark Victory: The Life Of Bette Davis - Part 19
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3. Aherne, p. 280.

4. Ibid., p. 255.

5. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 115.

6. Jerome Lawrence, pp. 353, 356.

7. Lonely Life, pp. 18687.

8. USC, The Old Maid files: daily production and progress report.

9. Life, August 21, 1939.

10. Wide World Special: The d.i.c.k Cavett Show, ABC, September 19, 1974.

11. Lonely Life, p. 188.

12. Pittsburgh Press, May 17, 1939.

13. USC, legal files, January 4 to August 31, 1939.

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid.

16. Flynn, pp. 26061.

17. USC, Private Lives file: daily production and progress report.

18. Harrison Carroll, Herald Express, June 10, 1939.

19. Olivia de Havilland, interviewed in The Adventures of Errol Flynn, dir. David Heeley, Turner Cla.s.sic Movies, 2005.

20. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19311940, pp. 4142.

21. Swindell, Boyer, p. 158.

22. Lonely Life, p. 200.

23. USC, All This and Heaven, Too files.

24. Dody, p. 156; Lonely Life, p. 200.

25. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 130.

26. Quirk, Colbert, p. 100.

27. Swindell, Boyer, pp. 16061.

28. Ibid., p. 158.

29. Ibid., p. 163.

30. USC, All This and Heaven, Too files; Swindell, Boyer, p. 158.

31. Los Angeles Times, June 14, 1940.

32. Lonely Life, p. 201.

CHAPTER 11. MORE BATTLES AND TWO RETREATS.

1. USC, The Letter files: Walter MacEwen to Breen and Breen to MacEwan, both April 16, 1938.

2. Ibid.: Bob Lord to Wallis, December 20, 1939.

3. Morley, Cooper, p. 116.

4. USC, The Letter files: Warner to Wallis, June 8, 1940, and June 20, 1940.

5. Ibid.: Wyler to Wallis, June 12, 1940.

6. Lonely Life, p. 204.

7. Callahan, http://www.toxicuniverse.com/review.php?rid 10005377.

8. See O'Toole, "Whatever Happened to Bette Davis?"

8. USC, The Letter files: Wallis to Lord, October 11, 1940.

10. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 140.

11. Flanner, p. 20.

12. Wiley and Bona, p. 105.

13. Stine, Kiss, p. 126.

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

15. Shingler, "Masquerade," quoting Gladys Hall in Modern Screen, undated.

16. BU, box 25: "Home Life of a Movie h.e.l.lcat,"Screen Guide, 1938.

17. http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/scottishterrier.htm.

18. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 17: Gladys Hall, "Divorce Is Making Her Miserable," undated.

19. Spada, Bette Davis, p. 148.

20. BU, box 25: Screen Guide, January 1939.

21. Lonely Life, p. 197.

22. Quirk, Fasten, p. 179.

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

24. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 43: Boston Globe, August 20, 1939.

25. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 127.

26. Lonely Life, p. 199; Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 127.

27. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 33: Louella Parsons, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, March 6, 1940.

28. Lonely Life, p. 199.

29. BU, box 2, folder 6: Zaida, "Bette Davis," (Honolulu) Ka Moae.

30. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 27: various clippings, including Peggy Bairos, "Bette Davis Receives Rousing Island Welcome"; James T. Hamada, "On the Screen," Honolulu, May 1, 1940; Jimmy Fidler, Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1940; Dorothy Kilgallen, New York Journal American, May 6, 1940; Sidney Skolsky, Citizen News, June 21, 1940.

31. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 138.

32. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 17: "It's Idle Gossip," Modern Screen, January 1941.

33. Schultz, p. 19.

34. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 140, quoting contemporary interview with Jack Holland.

35. USC, The Great Lie files: Wallis to Warner, November 18, 1940.

36. Ibid.: Wallis to Blanke, January 29, 1940.

37. Ibid.: Warner to Blanke, February 20, 1940.

38. USC, legal files, September 5 to December 30, 1940: Davis to Wallis, undated; Wallis to Blanke, September 21, 1940.

39. Kennedy, p. 200.

40. Astor, My Story, pp. 2012.

41. Ibid., p. 202.

42. Astor, A Life on Film, p. 152.

43. Ibid., p. 153.

44. Astor, My Story, p. 203.

45. Ibid., p. 204.

46. Wiley and Bona, p. 120.

47. USC, legal files, September 5 to December 30, 1940: Davis to Warner, undated.

48. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 117.

49. Flanner, p. 22.

50. Ibid.

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

52. BU, box 25: Boston Sunday Post, August 4, 1940.

53. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 146.

54. Ibid., p. 143.

55. Ibid.

56. New York Times, April 6, 1941.

57. BU, box 2, folder 6: Manchester Union, April 5, 1941.

58. "Life Goes to a Birthday Party," Life, April 28, 1941, pp. 12629.

CHAPTER 12. BREAKDOWN AND RECOVERY.

1. Lonely Life, p. 208.

2. Louella Parsons, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, July 22, 1940.

3. Berg, Goldwyn, p. 357.

4. USC, legal files, January 1 to August 31, 1940, and September 5 to December 30, 1940.