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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY 203 The Zachary Scott papers, housed in the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, offer a wealth of information on the actor’s life and career. Consisting of seventy-eight boxes, the collection includes family and professional correspondence, reviews of Scott’s films and plays, contracts and business records, photographs, most of the actor’s library, and a log from his voyage to England in 1934. Miscellaneous data in the Scott papers range from birth certificates to school report cards and notes of condolence to the family upon the actor’s death. Clipping files in the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles and the Billy Rose Theater Collection of the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center also contain valuable information on the actor’s career. The Columbia University Oral History Collection includes an interview with Scott, taped in 1959, and the Warner Bros. Archives and the Film and Television Library at the University of Southern California are major sources on his work in motion pictures. Particularly valuable is the actor’s legal file in the Warner Bros. material. Sketches of Scott’s life may be found in James Robert Parish and Lennard DeCarl, Hollywood Players: The Forties (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1976), 476–81; Dan Van Neste, “Zachary Scott: A Scoundrel with Style,” Classic Images, March 1998, 20–26; Anthony Cassa, “Zachary Scott, Superior Scoundrel,” Hollywood Studio Magazine, September 1982, 34–35; and an unpublished studio biography on file in the Constance McCormick Collection at USC. Background data on the golden age of Hollywood is supplied by Ronald L. Davis, The Glamour Factory: Inside Hollywood’s Big Studio System (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1993) and Thomas Schatz, The Genius of the System (New York: Pantheon, 1988). Introduction Much of the discussion on film noir was drawn from Paul Schrader, “Notes on Film Noir,” Film Comment 8 (Spring 1972), 8–13, although books on the genre abound. The observation that Zachary Scott looked as if he were born in a smoking jacket was made by Nel Richmond over dinner in Topeka, Kansas, on October 12, 2004. Chapter 1: Born into Wealth and Privilege The Austin History Center holds a great deal of primary source material on the Scott family , including the Civil War recollections of Dr. Zachary Scott’s father and random data in the center’s clipping files. My interview with Mary Lewis Scott Kleberg in San Antonio on March 25, 2002, proved helpful in piecing together the family’s background, and quotes from her in this chapter come from that meeting. Vertical files on the Scott family and Sweetbrush exist in the Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin, and articles on Dr. Zachary Scott appeared in the Austin American-Statesman on September 13, 1961, and February 16, 1969. An entry covering Dr. Scott’s life and accomplishments is also available in the New Handbook of Texas (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996). Fielding Lewis and Elizabeth Washington’s marriage and residence in Fredericksburg, Virginia, is substantiated by James T. Flexner, George Washington: The Forge of Experience (Boston: Little, Brown, 1965), Douglas Southall Freeman, George Washington (New York: Scribner’s, 1951), and W. E. Woodward, George Washington: The Image and the Man (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926). The Galveston hurricane of 1900 and Dr. Scott’s participation in rescue work as a medical student is detailed in John Edward Weems, A Weekend in September (New York: Henry Holt, 1957). The quote from Scott about the air after the storm being “as still as death” is from Weems’s book and comes from an interview the author conducted with the physician. Dr. Scott’s recollections of the hurricane also appeared in a news release, dated September 13, 1961, on file in the Austin History Center. Clifton, Texas, is described in William C. Pool, Bosque Territory: A History of an Agrarian Community (Kyle, Tex.: Chaparral Press, 1964) and in the New Handbook of Texas. R. L. Scott’s acreage is recorded in the 1890 Tax Rolls of Bosque County, which may be found in the Bosque County Collection in Meridian, Texas. Quotes regarding Drs. Scott and Carpenter’s practice in Clifton are from the Clifton Record, May 5 and September 15, 1905. Sallie Lee Masterson Scott’s remarks about her courtship, wedding, and son’s birth come from her diary, among the Scott papers at UT...

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