37. Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, pp. 12627.

38. Vik Greenfield to ES, September 18, 2006.

39. Hoopes, p. 170.

40. Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, pp. 12728.

41. Hoopes, p. 172.

42. Flanner, p. 24.

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

44. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 7 to December 28, 1942: Obringer to Warner May 14, 1942, and Wallis to Obringer, May 15, 1942.

45. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19411950, p. 2724.

46. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 165.

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

48. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 4 to November 8, 1945: Davis to Warner, February 20, 1945.

49. Kobal, p. 559.

50. Kennedy, p. 210.

51. Quirk, Norma, pp. 22930.

52. Kennedy, pp. 20910.

53. Ibid., p. 210.

54. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19411950, p. 1741.

55. Riese, p. 5.

56. Kobal, p. 560.

57. Sherman, pp. 12224.

58. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 176.

59. Kobal, p. 561.

60. Bogart, p. 230.

61. Sherman, p. 125.

62. Kobal, pp. 56162.

63. Sherman, p. 126.

64. Ibid., p. 128.

CHAPTER 14. FOR THE BOYS.

1. Eells, pp. 6364.

2. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19411950, pp. 106970.

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

4. Quirk, Fasten, p. 268.

5. Hoopes, p. 176.

6. Ibid.

7. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19411950, pp. 106970.

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

9. Hank Sartin to ES, December 30, 2005.

10. http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/gforum.cgi?do post_view&post 57466.

11. Thanks to Hank Sartin, David Germain, and Ethan Minovitz for their observations about Bette Davis's appearances in Warner Bros. animation.

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

13. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 180.

14. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 20 to June 24, 1943: contract dated June 7, 1943.

15. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19411950, p. 1759.

16. McCarthy, pp. 35257.

17. Beaver, p. 116, and www.imdb.com.

18. Kennedy, p. 221.

19. Lonely Life, p. 213.

20. Rogers St. Johns.

21. Quirk, Fasten, p. 261.

22. Spada, pp. 20515.

23. Sherman, pp. 13045.

24. Lonely Life, p. 214.

25. Vincent Sherman, interviewed on Mysteries and Scandals: "Bette Davis," E! Entertainment Television, 2000.

26. Sherman, p. 147.

27. McDougal, p. 98; Hoopes, p. 174.

28. Riese, p. 294.

29. Westmore and Davidson, p. 137.

30. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 184.

31. AMPAS, Jane Lockwood Ferrero's Hollywood Canteen diary, entries dated February 27, 1943, October 23, 1943, and November 20, 1943.

32. Hoopes, p. 173.

33. Lonely Life, p. 214.

34. USC, legal files, January 1 to August 31, 1940.

35. Ibid.: Wallis to Warner, March 7, 1941.

36. Ibid.: Trilling to Wallis, March 1, 1941, and Wallis to Trilling, April 14, 1941.

37. Sherman, p. 139.

38. Ibid.

39. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 186.

40. Ibid., p. 181.

41. Kobal, p. 562.

42. USC, Mr. Skeffington file: daily production and progress report.

43. Lonely Life, pp. 21415.

44. Freedland, Warner, p. 163.

45. Kobal, p. 563.

46. Ibid., p. 562.

47. Sherman, p. 148.

CHAPTER 15. COMMANDERS IN CHIEF.

1. USC, The Corn Is Green files: daily production and progress report.

2. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 190.

3. USC, The Corn Is Green file: progress reports.

4. Behlmer, Warner, p. 17.

5. David Chierichetti to ES, January 23, 2001.

6. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 190, quoting Dall's interview with Dorothy Hasking in Movie Story, August 1945.

7. Kobal, pp. 54243.

8. Lonely Life, p. 252.

9. Higham and Greenberg, Celluloid Muse, pp. 199200.

10. Anon., "Wallace Calls Roosevelt Better Fitted than Dewey," New York Times, September 22, 1944.

11. Ward, p. 335.

12. Lonely Life, pp. 21516; Ward, p. 335.

13. Hoopes, p. 175.

14. New York Times, September 28, 1944.

15. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 186.

16. Ibid.

17. Billingsley, p. 97; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ElectoralCollege1944 Large.png.