18. Lippman, pp. 1314.

19. Ha.s.sett, pp. 300302.

20. Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, pp. 17374.

21. BU, box 25: various clippings, including Boston Post, November 26, 1945.

22. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 68.

23. New York Times, November 29, 1945.

24. Ibid., November 30, 1945.

25. Staggs, All About, p. 69, quoting Modern Screen.

26. Riese, p. 389.

27. Lonely Life, p. 218.

28. Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, p. 174.

29. Westmore and Davidson, p. 177.

30. Thomas, Crawford, p. 151; Madsen, p. 222.

31. Schatz, p. 417.

32. O'Toole, "Whatever Happened," p. 170.

33. Behlmer, Warner, p. 269.

34. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19411950, p. 1375.

35. Swindell, Garfield, p. 204.

36. Kobal, pp. 56364.

37. Bernhardt and Kiersch, p. 110.

38. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 5 to December 18, 1944.

39. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 195.

40. Ibid., pp. 19596.

41. Bernhardt, p. 112.

42. Ibid., p. 110.

43. Steven DeRosa to ES, January 17, 2006.

44. Lonely Life, p. 219.

45. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 195.

46. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 4 to November 8, 1945.

47. Bernhardt and Kiersch, p. 113.

48. USC, Bette Davis legal files, February 26 to December 29, 1947: A Stolen Life accounting statement to July 5, 1947, dated August 11, 1947.

49. Sperber and Lax, p. 310.

50. "SAC, Los Angeles" to "Director, FBI," FBI office memorandum dated December 12, 1951.

51. McBride, Ford, p. 370.

52. BU, box 25: Jack Ashland, "Invitation to the Wedding of Bette and William Grant Sherry," Photoplay, February 1946, p. 27.

53. USC, Bette Davis legal files, February 26 to December 29, 1947.

54. Ibid., January 4 to July 31, 1946: contract dated February 4, 1946.

55. Ibid., January 4 to July 31, 1946.

56. Elizabeth Wilson, "Battling Bette," Liberty, February 1947, pp. 3233.

57. Ibid.

CHAPTER 16. DECEPTIONS.

1. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 209.

2. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 4 to July 31, 1946.

3. Higham and Greenberg, Celluloid Muse, p. 203.

4. Mandelbaum and Myers, p. 64.

5. Henreid with Fast, pp. 17677.

6. Lonely Life, p. 218.

7. Ibid., p. 220.

8. USC, Bette Davis legal files, August 9 to December 28, 1946.

9. BU, box 2, folder 7: Hedda Hopper, "Welcome Stranger!" Modern Screen.

10. Lonely Life, p. 220.

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

12. Time, May 5, 1947.

13. Lonely Life, p. 219.

14. Ibid.

15. AMPAS, Gladys Hall Collection, folder 141 (Bette Davis): ma.n.u.script of "What Has Happened to Bette Davis?" Modern Screen, January 14, 1940.

16. BU, box 25: Jack Ashland, "Invitation to the Wedding of Bette and William Grant Sherry," Photoplay, February 1946, p. 27.

17. Lonely Life, p. 219.

18. Spada, Bette Davis, p. 252.

19. Lonely Life, p. 222.

20. Buford, p. 90.

21. USC, Bette Davis legal files, February 26 to December 29, 1947, January 5 to October 15, 1948, and January 15 to December 7, 1949.

22. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 211.

23. Lonely Life, pp. 194, 195, 222.

24. Reynolds, pp. 5354.

25. AMPAS, Marty Weiser Collection, correspondence, 1948: Gil Golden to Weiser, September 24, 1948, and Weiser to Golden, November 5, 1948.

26. Chierichetti, p. 87.

27. AMPAS, Hedda Hopper Collection, file 506 (Bette Davis): Ted Hodges to Hopper, January 2, 1948.

28. Ibid.: Ted Hodges to Hopper, February 1, 1948.

29. Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, p. 175.

30. Ibid., p. 176.

31. Spada, Bette Davis, pp. 25455.

32. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 5 to October 15, 1948.

33. Ibid.

34. Warner with Jennings, p. 251.

35. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 5 to December 7, 1949.

36. Wisconsin Historical Society archives, United Artists Corporation records, series 1.7, Warner Bros. contract and legal files, box 6: Beyond the Forest contract dated January 27, 1949.

37. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 15 to December 7, 1949: Davis to Jack Warner, January 14, 1949.

38. USC, Bette Davis legal files, January 15 to December 7, 1949.

39. Ibid.

40. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19411950, pp. 19798.

41. Ibid.

42. Arkadin (John Russell Taylor), pp. 15152.

43. O'Toole, "Whatever Happened," p. 169.

44. Albee, pp. 35.

45. Arkadin (John Russell Taylor), pp. 15152.

46. USC, Beyond the Forest file, pressbook.

47. Vidor, Dowd, and Shepard, p. 242.

48. Ibid., p. 243.

49. Ibid., pp. 24243.

50. Lonely Life, p. 222.

CHAPTER 17. FAST FORWARD.

1. Staggs, All About, p. 102.

2. Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, p. 44.