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245 S NOTES Chapter 1. Life without Father 3 “in any number of places”: Information about Loretta’s life and family comes from a variety of sources: the invaluable Gladys Hall Collection, Folder 506, and the Jane Ardmore Papers, Folders 14 and 15, both of which are in Special Collections, Margaret Herrick Library, the Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study; the Loretta Young Clippings File, Margaret Herrick; the Constance McCormick Collection, Vols. 1–3 (1935), Cinema–Television Library, University of Southern California; obituaries in the Hollywood Reporter International Edition, 15 August 2000, 22; New York Times, 13 August 2000, 39; Daily Variety, 14 August 2000, 8, 16; People, 28 August 2000, 117; Samuel Grafton, “The Loretta Young Story,” Good Housekeeping, March 1955, 65, 234–40; Dean Jennings, “Indestructible Glamour Girl,” Saturday Evening Post, 28 May 1960, 20, 108, 111, 113; Judy Lewis, Uncommon Knowledge (New York: Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, 1995); “Loretta Young,” Biography, A&E, hosted by Peter Graves, first aired 24 February 1995. Loretta wrote an autobiography of sorts, The Things I Had to Learn, As Told to Helen Ferguson (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1961), in which she says little about her career. Exactly what she had to learn, apart from having to “think” through a role, as Capra taught her, is never clear. The studio biographies in the Loretta Young Clippings File are mostly on target. Joan Wester Anderson’s “authorized biography,” Forever Young: The Life, Loves and Enduring Faith of a Hollywood Legend (Allen, TX: Thomas Moore, 2000) is cloyingly reverential. Anderson became Loretta’s biographer because Loretta was taken with her books on angels and wanted such an author to tell her story. Still, there is information in it that is not available elsewhere. Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein’s popular biography, Loretta Young: An Extraordinary Life (New York: Delacorte, 1986), is readable but lacks both notes and a bibliography, in addition to being incomplete. 4 “a large number of businesspersons”: Craig Fuller, Associate Editor, Utah Historical Society, email to author, 15 April 2009. 5 “Universal released films”: Bernard F. Dick, City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997), 40–41. 7 “‘one less mouth to feed’”: Lewis, Uncommon Knowledge, 47. N O T E S 246 7 “according to Loretta’s daughter”: ibid 8 “she was going to be a movie star”: “Loretta Young,” Biography, A&E, 1995. 8 “priests were frequent dinner guests”: “Interview with Ricardo Montalban, Polly Ann Young, Sally Blane,” Jane Ardmore Papers, folder 14, Margaret Herrick Library, Special Collections. 9 “steel butterfly”: James Robert Parish, The Fox Girls (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1972), 202. Chapter 2. The Creation of Loretta Young 10 “Norma Jean Baker became Marilyn Monroe”: Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe (New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1993), 140. 10 “the most beautiful little girl I had ever seen”: Colleen Moore, Silent Star (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 162. 11 “I named her”: ibid., 163. 11 “as her Paramount salary showed”: The Magnificent Flirt, Paramount Collection, #101. Margaret Herrick Library, Special Collections. 12 “She was my first discovery”: Mervyn LeRoy, Take One (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1974), 91 12 “he must have been very surprised”: Lewis, Uncommon Knowledge, 52. 12 “For Marry Loretta received”: Broken Dishes (Too Young to Marry) production file. 2722A, USC, Warner Bros. Archives. 13 “weekly check,” “That’s up to God,” “Interview,” Jane Ardmore Papers, box 28, folder 14, Margaret Herrick Library, Special Collections. 14 “her talent as an actress”: rev. of Laugh, Clown, Laugh, New York Times, 28 May 1928, 23.2. 14 “the finest speaking voice”: Hedda Hopper Collection, #3622, USC, Cinema– Television Library. 16 “stupid and useless,” “he even threw a chair”: Anderson, Forever Young, 39. 16 “hot fudge sundae”: Loretta Young, “I Like (These) Men,” Movieland, August 1945, 62. 16 “First National, then Associated First National”: David Cook, A History of the Narrative Film, 4th ed. (New York: Norton, 2004), 38, 170; Clive Hirschhorn, The Warner Bros. Story (New York: Crown, 1979), 59. 17 “often until 3:30 a.m.”: Jane Ardmore Papers, Box 28, folder 14, Margaret Herrick Library, Special Collections. Chapter 3. LORETTA TALKS! 18 “a major player in the movie business”: see Cari Beauchamp Joseph P. Kennedy: The Hollywood Years (New York: Knopf, 2009). 18 “created his own”: ibid., 59. 21 “for which First National paid”: The Squall, story file, #222A, USC, Warner Bros. Archives. 22 “big bucks for a seventeen-year-old”: Loose Ankles, ibid. 23 “she received $4500”: The Truth about Youth, file...
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