3. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 100: Los Angeles Times Calendar, undated clipping.

4. Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, p. 26.

5. Robert Lantz to ES, November 20, 2003.

6. BU, box 28: Robert Osborne, Hollywood Reporter, September 1, 1989, p. 4.

7. Riese, p. 386.

8. Gina Piccalo, "Celebrity Personal a.s.sistants Win Time in Spotlight," Orlando Sentinel, December 14, 2003.

9. http://astrology.yahoo.com/us/astrology/profile/aries.html.

10. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 79.

11. Stardust: The Bette Davis Story, dir. Peter Jones, Turner Cla.s.sic Movies, 2006.

12. Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, p. 42.

13. Charles Pollack and Vik Greenfield to ES, April 4, 2004.

14. Williamson, p. 79.

15. Bernhardt and Kiersch, p. 148.

16. Higham and Greenberg, The Celluloid Muse, p. 52.

17. Bernhardt and Kiersch, pp. 15051.

18. Williamson, p. 79.

19. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, pp. 23839.

20. Ibid., p. 228.

21. Greenfield to ES, April 4, 2004.

22. Greenfield to ES, August 9, 2004.

23. Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, p. 177.

24. New York Times, June 8, 1950.

25. Ibid., July 4, 1950, and Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, p. 177.

26. AMPAS, Hedda Hopper Collection, file 506 (Bette Davis).

27. Staggs, All About, pp. 11314.

28. Israel, p. 269.

29. Bankhead, p. 278.

30. Kanfer, p. 198.

31. Hanson, AFI Catalog, 19411950, p. 50.

32. Ibid.

33. Custen, p. 339.

34. Chierichetti, p. 114.

35. Staggs, All About, p. 84.

36. Merrill, p. 90.

37. Staggs, All About, p. 104.

38. Ibid., pp. 11314.

39. Lonely Life, p. 227.

40. Merrill, p. 88.

41. Staggs, All About, p. 78.

42. Ibid., pp. 73, 88.

43. Geist, p. 169.

44. Staggs, All About, p. 89.

45. Kenneth Geist to ES, May 27, 2004.

46. Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, pp. 17778.

47. Riese, p. 136.

48. Bernstein, pp. 22426.

Chapter 18. wife and mother.

1. British Film Inst.i.tute (BFI), Special Collections, Val Guest Collection, sc.r.a.pbook, item 3, box 3: various clippings, including Sunday Dispatch, February 18, 1951.

2. Merrill, p. 97.

3. Ibid., p. 98.

4. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 240.

5. Merrill, p. 99.

6. http://www.greatfosters.co.uk/pdfs/history_house.pdf.

7. Merrill, p. 100.

8. BFI, Special Collections, Val Guest Collection, sc.r.a.pbook, item 3, box 3: Socialist Leader, December 1, 1951.

9. Wiley and Bona, pp. 20910.

10. Warren G. Harris, Natalie and R.J, p. 24.

11. Wood, pp. 1112.

12. Williamson, p. 79.

13. Finstad, p. 100.

14. Lonely Life, p. 238.

15. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 52: various clippings.

16. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 53: clipping.

17. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 53.

18. Ibid.: unsourced clipping.

19. Merrill, pp. 9697.

20. BU, box 1, ma.n.u.script of "The Story of Our Daughter, Margot, r.e.t.a.r.ded!" by Bette Davis, as told to Adele Whitely Fletcher, November 20, 1959.

21. Ibid.

22. Lonely Life, p. 243.

23. Merrill, p. 108.

24. Lonely Life, p. 243.

25. Merrill, pp. 12122.

26. Davis with Herskowitz, This 'n That, pp. 16465.

27. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 71.

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid.

30. Merrill, p. 127.

31. Ibid., p. 128.

CHAPTER 19. ONSTAGE, ONSCREEN, AND ON TV.

1. Merrill, p. 105; Radie Harris, Los Angeles Times, August 17, 1952.

2. Radie Harris, Los Angeles Times, August 17, 1952.

3. Merrill, p. 111.

4. Ibid., p. 113.

5. Sheldon Harnick to ES, October 15, 2003.

6. Logan, p. 288.

7. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 51: undated note from Ogden Nash to Bette Davis.

8. NYPLLC, John Murray Anderson clipping file, unsourced clipping.

9. Sheldon Harnick to ES, October 15, 2003.

10. Merrill, p. 114.

11. Lonely Life, p. 234.

12. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 248.

13. BU, box 2, folder 7: Collier's, undated clipping.

14. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 51, and BU, box 1.

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