Ronnie and Nancy (98 page)

84.
New York Times
, October 21, 1947, “Film Men Admit Activity by Reds; Hold It Is Foiled.”

85.
New York Times
, October 25, 1947, “Critics of Film Inquiry Assailed; Disney Denounces ‘Communists’ ”;
New York Times
, October 26, 1947, “Congress Is Urged to Alter Inquiries.”

86. Bentley, ed.,
Thirty Years of Treason
, p. 140.

87. Ibid., pp. 124, 125.

88. Ibid., p. 131.

89. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 341; Cannon,
Reagan
, p. 82.

90. Cannon,
Reagan
, p. 83; E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 255–56.

91. Bentley, ed.,
Thirty Years of Treason
, pp. 143–47; Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 349.

92. Nixon,
In the Arena
, p. 190; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 166.

93.
New York Times
, October 24, 1947, “Hollywood Communists ‘Militant,’ but Small in Number, Stars Testify”; Cannon,
Reagan
, p. 84; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 148.

94.
New York Times
, October 28, 1947, “Films of 11 U.S. Stars Are Banned by Rumania.”

95. Grobel,
The Hustons
, p. 304.

96. Bentley, ed.,
Thirty Years of Treason
, p. 154.

97. Ibid., pp. 158–61.

98. Huston,
An Open Book
, p. 133.

99. Friedrich,
City of Nets
, p. 321.

100.
New York Times
, October 31, 1947, “The News of Radio: Hollywood Group Buys More Time on Air to Oppose Washington Hearing”;
New York Times
, November 2, 1947, “The Nation: Hollywood Fights Back.”

101. Friedrich,
City of Nets
, p. 326; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 148; Huston,
An Open Book
, p. 134.

102. P. Dunne,
Take Two
, p. 202; Huston,
An Open Book
, p. 134; Friedrich,
City of
Nets
, p. 237.

Notes

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103. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 200.

104. Friedrich,
City of Nets
, p. 333; Cannon,
Reagan
, p. 84.

105. Cannon,
Reagan
, p. 85.

106. Gabler,
An Empire of Their Own
, p. 373;
New York Times
, November 26, 1947,

“Movies to Oust Ten Cited for Contempt of Congress”; Billingsley,
Hollywood
Party
, p. 200.

107.
New York Times
, November 26, 1947, “Movies to Oust Ten Cited for Contempt of Congress.”

108. Ibid.

109.
New York Times
, November 30, 1947, “ ‘Safe and Sane’ Films New Hollywood Rule.”

110. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial
, p. 186.

111. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 154; Cannon,
Reagan
, p. 85.

112. “Statement Proposed by Ronald Reagan Discussed at the Board Meeting of December 8, 1947, for Further Discussion at Special Meeting December 12, 1947.” Document 3414, from Screen Actors Guild files, held at SAG offices, 5757 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.

113. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 261.

114. Wills,
Reagan’s America
, p. 253.

115. Huston,
An Open Book
, p. 135.

116. Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, pp. 185–87; E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 278, 748–49.

117. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 201.

118. Nancy Reagan, to author, October 1, 1999.

119. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.

120. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 201.

121. Leamer,
Make-Believe
, p. 115.

122. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 353.

123. Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, p. 121.

124. E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 258, 744.

125. Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, p. 122.

126. Ibid., p. 123; McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan
, p. 74.

127. Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 113; Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, p. 123.

128. E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 259, 744.

129. Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, pp. 123–24.

130. Ibid., p. 124; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 230; McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan
, p. 74.

131. McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan
, p. 164.

132. Ibid., pp. 78–80.

133. Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, p. 125; Quirk,
Jane Wyman
, p. 113; Cannon,
Reagan
, p. 64.

134. Scheer in
Playboy
, August 1980. See also Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 355.

135. Cannon,
Reagan
, p. 64.

136. Maureen Reagan,
First Father, First Daughter
, p. 68.

137. McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan
, p. 80.

138. Allyson with Spatz Leighton,
June Allyson
, p. 96.

139. Cannon,
Reagan
, p. 64.

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Notes

Chapter Ten: Ronnie and Nancy in Hollywood, 1949–1952

1. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 91.

2. Ibid.; Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, p. 70.

3. Nancy Reagan, to author, May 29, 2003.

4. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.

5. Higham,
Merchant of Dreams
, p. 132.

6. Ibid., pp. 308, 174; Donnelly,
Fade to Black
, pp. 231–32; Associated Press, July 5, 1983, “Former Studio Executive Dead at 84”;
Los Angeles Times
, July 6, 1983,

“Film Executive Benjamin Thau Is Dead at 93.”

7. Nancy Reagan, to author, May 29, 2003.

8. Richard Davis, to author, May 30, 2003.

9. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950, photo entitled “Phoenicians, Visitors Turn Out for Play.” The caption states it was taken during the intermission of
Born Yesterday
“at the new Sombrero Playhouse.” The photograph is undated in the scrapbook, but it appears on a page with several other items from early 1949. Ann Lee Harris, the founder of the Sombrero Playhouse, confirmed that the Sombrero opened in January 1949, with the first off-Broadway production of Garson Kanin’s
Born Yesterday
(to author, May 29, 2003).
The Best Plays of 1948–1949
also states that
Born Yesterday
played at the Sombrero Playhouse in the winter of 1948–49 (Mantle, ed., p. 51).

10. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 393–94; Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, pp. 70–71; Leamer,
Make-Believe
, pp. 63–65.

11. Leamer,
Make-Believe
, p. 63; Mantle, ed.,
The Best Plays of 1945–1946
, p. 406.

12. Nancy Reagan, to author, May 17, 2003, May 29, 2003.

13. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 393.

14. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950, unidentified clipping.

15. Kenneth Giniger, to author, April 11, 2003.

16. Leamer,
Make-Believe
, p. 65.

17. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, p. 71.

18. Ibid.

19. Nancy Reagan, to Sydney Guilaroff, April 15, 1992. Unpublished material from Sydney Guilaroff ’s memoir,
Crowning Glory
, published 1996. Obtained courtesy of Cathy Griffin.

20. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, pp. 91–92.

21. Levy,
George Cukor, Master of Elegance
, p. 325.

22. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, p. 72; Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 92; Nancy Reagan with Novak,
My Turn
, p. 88.

23. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 92.

24. McDaniel in
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
, October 27, 1980, “Part 2: Hurray for Hollywood”; Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, pp. 72–73; Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 376.

25. Laurents,
Original Story By
, p. 81.

26. Ann Rutherford, to author, January 22, 2001.

27. Higham,
Merchant of Dreams
, pp. 70, 2.

28. Nancy Reagan,
I Love You, Ronnie
, p. 18.

Notes

5 3 7

29. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950,
Cleveland
Plain Dealer
, February 12, 1950, “M-G-M, Mum on Television, Signs Video Star Anyhow.”

30. Bill Fine, to author, January 10, 2001.

31. Nancy Reagan, to author, March 22, 2000.

32. James Galanos, to author, October 12, 1999.

33. Nancy Reagan, to author, March 22, 2000.

34. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950, unidentified clipping from a Chicago newspaper, dated August 10, 1949.

35. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 95.

36. Bruce McFarland, to author, February 14, 2002.

37. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950,
Cleveland
Plain Dealer
, February 12, 1950, “M-G-M, Mum on Television, Signs Video Star Anyhow.”

38. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.

39. Armand Deutsch, to author, September 30, 1999.

40. Deutsch,
Me and Bogie
, pp. 11, 126–27, 197.

41. Williams with Diehl,
The Million Dollar Mermaid
, p. 186.

42. Connie Wald, to author, July 24, 2003.

43. Author’s diary, November 23, 2001.

44. Richard Davis, to author, May 30, 2003.

45. Ibid.

46. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950,
Modern
Screen
, June 1949, “Which Girl Has the Gable?”

47. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, p. 74.

48. Leonora Hornblow, to author, February 10, 2000.

49. Leamer,
Make-Believe
, p. 65.

50. Richard Davis, to author, May 30, 2003.

51. E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 280.

52. LeRoy with Kleiner,
Take One
, p. 192.

53. Laurents,
Original Story By
, p. 91.

54. Gottlieb and Wolt,
Thinking Big
, p. 301; Digital History, “Chronology of Film History,” available online at: www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_

chron.cfm?#anticommunism.

55. “The Enemy Pool,” from Myron Fagan,
Red Stars in Hollywood: Their Helpers . . .

Fellow Travelers . . . and Co-conspirators
(St. Louis: Patriotic Tract Society, 1948), available online from the Michigan State University Digital Library at http://

digital.lib.msu.edu/onlinecolls/subcollection.cfm?CID=1&SCID=9.

56. Higham,
Merchant of Dreams
, p. 387; Friedrich,
City of Nets
, p. 377; Gabler,
An Empire of Their Own
, pp. 371–72.

57.
Hollywood Reporter
, October 28, 1949, “Signers of Appeal to High Court for Lawson, Trumbo.”

58. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950.

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Notes

59. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, p. 110.

60. McDaniel in
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
, October 27, 1980, “Part 2: Hurray for Hollywood.”

61. Nancy Reagan with Libby,
Nancy
, pp. 110–11; Nancy Reagan with Novak,
My
Turn
, p. 94.

62. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, p. 235.

63. Leamer,
Make-Believe
, p. 147.

64. Ibid., p. 148.

65. Kelley,
Nancy Reagan
, pp. 85–88.

66. Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, p. 131.

67. Doris Lilly in
Quest
magazine, October 1988, “All for the Love of Ronnie,”

quoted in E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 279, 749.

68. McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan
, p. 86.

69. Leamer,
Make-Believe
, p. 148; Richard Gully, to author, October 1, 1999.

70. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 370; Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, p. 128.

71. Morella and Epstein,
Jane Wyman
, p. 147; Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 356.

72. Connie Wald, to author, July 24, 2003.

73. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, pp. 362–63; Vaughn,
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood
, p. 231; Leamer,
Make-Believe
, p. 149.

74.
New York Times
, April 21, 1949, “Reagan Refusing Role at Columbia.”

75.
New York Times
, April 30, 1949, “Reagan Signs Pact to Make U-I Films”; Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 395; Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of
Me?
, p. 213.

76. Nancy Reagan,
I Love You, Ronnie
, p. 13; E. Morris,
Dutch
, pp. 278, 748; Michael Reagan with Hyams,
On the Outside Looking In
, p. 20.

77. Edwards,
The Reagans
, pp. 17–18; Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 394.

78. Ronald Reagan with Hubler,
Where’s the Rest of Me?
, pp. 222–27. Reagan made at least two trips to New York before late October.

79. Minutes from SAG board meeting, August 14, 1950, held at SAG offices, 5757

Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. See also E. Morris,
Dutch
, p. 280.

80. Edwards,
Early Reagan
, p. 394.