A Gambler’s Instinct: The Story of Broadway Producer Cheryl Crawford

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203 notes 1. Three Brothers and a Sister 1. Cheryl Crawford, One Naked Individual: My Fifty Years in the Theatre (Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1977), 9. 2. Crawford, 6. 3. Crawford, 9. 4. Crawford, 9. 5. Author conversation with Elinor Jones, March 15, 2005. 6. Crawford, 13. 7. From the unpublished journal of Elinor Jones, dated July 1982. 8. From the unpublished journal of Elinor Jones, dated July 1982. 9. Crawford, 10. 10. Crawford, 6. 11. Janet Flanner, “Profiles: A Woman in the House,” The New Yorker 24 (May 8, 1948): 44. 12. From the unpublished journal of Elinor Jones, July 1982. 13. Crawford, 13. 14. Crawford, 13. 15. Crawford, 11. 16. From the unpublished journal of Elinor Jones, July 1982. 17. Jay Plum, “Cheryl Crawford: One Not So Naked Individual,” in Passing Performances : Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History, ed. Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), 239–61. 18. Crawford, 8. 19. Plum, 242–45. 20. Crawford, 13. 21. Crawford, 10. 22. Crawford, 14. 23. Crawford, 14. 24. Quoted in the unpublished journal of Elinor Jones, July 1982. 2. Signs of a Calling 1. Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (New York: Penguin Books, 1991), 11–36. 2. Crawford, 15. 3. Crawford, 15. 4. Crawford, 17. 5. Crawford, 17. 6. Crawford, 17. 204 Notes to Pages 13–27 7. Florence Ramon, “Cheryl’s Chock Full of Swell Stage Ideas,” Morning Telegraph, N. Y., May 30, 1941, in clippings file, Cheryl Crawford Papers, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, NYPL. 8. Crawford, 19. 9. Crawford, 20. 10. Arthur and Barbara Gelb, O’Neill (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1962), 543. Desire Under the Elms opened at the Greenwich Village Theatre on November 1, 1924, and transferred to Broadway in January. 11. Crawford, 21. 12. Crawford, 22. 13. Crawford, 22. 14. Crawford, 23. 15. Crawford, 23. 16. Crawford, 23. 17. Crawford, 24. 18. Plum, 246. See also American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race since the Civil War, ed. John C. Fout and Maura Shaw Tantillo (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993). 19. Faderman, 5. 20. Crawford, ix. 21. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, “Books of the Times,” New York Times, April 26, 1977, 37. 22. Crawford, 27. 23. Crawford, 24. 24. Quoted in Crawford, 25. 25. Quoted in Crawford, 25. 26. Newspaper clipping, dated June 12, 1925, in the Smith College Archives. 27. Quoted in Crawford, 26. 3. The Producer’s Apprentice 1. Crawford, 27. 2. Quoted in Crawford, 29. 3. Crawford, 28. 4. Crawford, 29. 5. Quoted in Crawford, 29. 6. Crawford, 29. 7. See Theresa Helburn, A Wayward Quest: The Autobiography (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1960). 8. New York Times, August 19, 1959. 9. Crawford, 29. 10. Crawford, 31. 11. Crawford, 31. 12. Helburn, 178. 13. Quoted in Crawford, 32. 14. Crawford, 33. 15. Crawford, 41. 16. See Morgan Y. Himelstein, Drama Was a Weapon—The Left Wing Theatre in New York, 1929–1941 (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1963), 128. 205 Notes to Pages 28–37 17. New York Times, January 27, 1931. 18. Crawford, 34. 19. Crawford, 37, 40. See also Margot Peters, Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne: A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), 99. 20. Crawford, 35. Also see Jared Brown, The Fabulous Lunts: A Biography of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (New York: Atheneum, 1986), 148. 21. Crawford, 38. 22. Roy S. Waldau, The Vintage Years of the Theatre Guild 1928–1939 (Cleveland, Ohio: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1972), 31. 23. Crawford, 37–38. 24. See Faderman, 67–72. Also Crawford, 39. 25. Crawford, 40. 26. Crawford, 40. 27. Flanner, 37. 28. Crawford, 42–43. 29. Quoted in Flanner, 27. 30. New York Times, April 28, 1929. 31. Crawford, 38. 32. Crawford, 39. 33. Crawford, 45–46. 34. Helburn, 218–19. 35. Crawford, 52. 36. Helen Krich Chinoy, “REUNION: A Self Portrait of the Group Theatre,” Educational Theatre Journal 28.4 (December 1976): 490. Also Crawford, 51. 37. Harold Clurman, The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties, rpt. (New York: Da Capo, Press, 1983), 15, 27–28. 38. Clurman, Fervent Years, 66. 39. Crawford, 45. 40. Quoted in Crawford, 49. 41. Crawford, 49. 42. Lawrence Langner, The Magic Curtain: The Story of a Life in Two Fields (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...