Mamoulian: Life on Stage and Screen

Notes

157 Notes Introduction 1. Dated August 7, 1967, Rouben Mamoulian Papers, Library of Congress , Washington, D.C.; Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 17, 1927. 2. Paul Horgan, A Certain Climate: Essays in History, Arts, and Letters (Middleton, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1988), 207, 208. 3. Andrew Sarris, The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929–1968 (New York: Dutton, 1968), 160. 4. David Thompson, Have You Seen . . . ? A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films (New York: Knopf, 2008), 45. 1. Caucasian Youth 1. The 1886 Russian census reported 55,000 Armenians in Tiflis out of a population of 145,000. H. F. B. Lynch, Armenia: Travels and Studies, vol. 1 (London: Longmans Green, 1901), 449. 2. Richard G. Hovannisian, Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), 42. 3. Mark Spergel, Reinventing Reality: The Art and Life of Rouben Mamoulian (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1993), 18, 26, 28. 4. Nishan Parlakian and S. Peter Cowe, eds., Modern Armenian Drama (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), xi–xiv. 5. Catherine A. Schuler, Women in Russian Theatre: The Actress in the Silver Age (London: Routledge, 1996). 6. Hovannisian, Armenia, 15. 7. Victor Yezefovich, Aram Khachaturyan (New York: Sphinx, 1985), 4. Notes to Pages 10–18 158 8. Unpublished notes by Rouben Mamoulian, quoted in Spergel, Reinventing Reality, 20–21. 9. Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg, The Celluloid Muse: Hollywood Directs (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1969), 129. 10. Andrew Sarris, Hollywood Voices: Interviews with Film Directors (London: Secker & Warburg, 1971), 67. 11. Margaret Case Harriman, “Mr. Mamoulian, of Tiflis and ‘Oklahoma !’” New York Times Magazine, July 25, 1943; George Stevens Jr., ed., Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute (New York: Knopf, 2006), 183. 12. Rouben Mamoulian, 1958 interview, Columbia University Oral History Collection, New York; Bennett Oberstein, “The Broadway Directing Career of Rouben Mamoulian” (Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1977). 13. Spergel, Reinventing Reality, 16, 25; Harriman, “Mr. Mamoulian.” 14. Hovannisian, Armenia, 17–21. 15. “Dialogue on Film: Rouben Mamoulian,” American Film, January 1983; Paul Horgan, “Rouben Mamoulian: The Start of a Career,” Films in Review, August–September 1973. 16. “Conversations with Rouben Mamoulian,” unpublished manuscript, Department of Theatre and Drama, Indiana University, Bloomington. 17. Stevens, Conversations, 168–69. 18. David Robinson, “Painting the Leaves Black: Rouben Mamoulian Interviewed,” Sight and Sound 30 (Summer 1961): 124; “Rouben Mamoulian on the Exciting Revolution in Musicals,” Times (London), June 17, 1960; Harry A. Hargrave, “Interview with Rouben Mamoulian,” Literature /Film Quarterly 10, no. 4 (1982): 265. 19. “Conversations with Rouben Mamoulian.” 20. Ronald G. Suny, “The Revolution in Transcaucasia,” in Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914–1921, ed. Edward Acton, Vladimir Cherniaev, and William G. Rosenberg (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1997), 719–27; Hovannisian, Armenia, 205–6. 2. From West End to Rochester 1. Maurice Zolotow, “Hollywood’s Armenian Yankee Doodle Dandy,” Saturday Evening Post, December 13, 1947. 2. Adrian Cedric Boult, My Own Trumpet (London: Hamish Hamilton , 1973), 48; Oliver M. Sayler, The Russian Theatre (New York: Brentano ’s, 1922), 181, 184. 3. Robinson, “Painting the Leaves Black”; Zolotow, “Hollywood’s Ar- Notes to Pages 18–23 159 menian Yankee Doodle Dandy”; Rouben Mamoulian, “Bernhardt versus Duse,” Theatre Arts, September 1957. 4. William J. Becvar, “The Stage and Film Career of Rouben Mamoulian ” (Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas, 1975), 20; Robinson, “Painting the Leaves Black.” 5. Becvar, “The Stage and Film Career of Rouben Mamoulian,” 21. 6. Sarris, Hollywood Voices, 61. 7. Robinson, “Painting the Leaves Black”; Becvar, “The Stage and Film Career of Rouben Mamoulian,” 24; Raymond Rohauer, A 40th Anniversary Tribute to Rouben Mamoulian, 1927–1967 (New York: Gallery of Modern Art, 1967), Theatre Collection, New York Public Library. 8. Sarris, Hollywood Voices, 62; Becvar, “The Stage and Film Career of Rouben Mamoulian,” 36. 9. J. P. Wearing, The London Stage, 1920–1929: A Calendar of Plays and Players, vol. 1 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1984), 320–21; Sydney W. Carroll, “The Dramatic World,” Sunday Times, November 12, 1922; Paul Ibell, Theatreland: A Journey through the Heart of London’s Theatre (London : Continuum, 2009), 172–73. 10. Nicolas Slonimsky, Perfect Pitch: A Life Story (London, Oxford University Press, 1988), 84; For a summary of the Eastman School’s early years, see Elizabeth Brayer, George Eastman: A Biography (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 442–67. 11. Horgan, “Rouben Mamoulian.” In Horgan’s roman à clef...