The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda (53 page)

“I do know”: Logan, 253.

“I don’t much like”: Leggett, 283.

He was earning:
New York Times,
5/20/1949.

“The most terrible enemy”: Heggen and Logan, 159–60.

“They just cut me”: Guiles, 33.

“my better half”: ibid., 34.

socializing at the Stork Club:
Aiken Standard and Review,
7/6/1949.

asks her for a divorce:
FML,
195–96.

“The shock of Hank”:
DTD,
43.

“I could see”: Sylvia Plath,
The Bell Jar
(New York: Bantam, 1972 [1971]), 104–5.

she has a new will: Guiles, 40.

lapses into psychosis:
FML
, 197–98;
MLSF
, 15.

Frances returns to Riggs: FML, 198.

Pan gives birth:
Joplin Globe,
12/14/1949.

“Pan lost her baby”: Collier, 79.

“She seemed all right”:
DTD,
43.

“as soon as it is legally possible”:
New York Journal American
, 12/29/1949.

Kilgallen has gotten the scoop: Guiles, 37.

Craig House:
FML,
199–200.

Zelda Fitzgerald: Matthew J. Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
2nd rev. ed. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002 [1981]), 361.

“I wanted to do everything”: Plath, 105.

improvements in her condition:
FML,
202.

Frances takes a day trip home:
DTD,
44.

“I’m very sorry”:
San Mateo Times,
4/15/1950.

suicide verdict is summarily entered:
Salt Lake Tribune,
4/15/1950.

ashes interred:
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9795853
.

“She was making a wonderful recovery”:
San Mateo Times,
4/15/1950.

Brooke Hayward’s insistence: Hayward, 18.

“Probably”:
PB,
122.

his own sober decision:
FML
, 205–6.

“too numb”:
PB
, 122.

“apparently killed herself”:
San Mateo Times
, 4/15/1950.

“pale with fatigue”:
Kingston Daily Freeman,
4/15/1950.

“He was even sharper”: ibid.

performance is essentially identical:
FML,
206.

“He went on”: Norman, 86.

“I think he didn’t know”: ibid.

“When [Fonda]”: Collier, 83.

“Men commit actions”: Chesler, 48.

“immediate trigger”:
FML,
208.

“in a mood”: ibid.

“arranged this solution”: ibid., 209.

Dr. Knight:
Clinician and Therapist: Selected Papers of Robert P. Knight
, ed. Stuart C. Miller (New York: Basic Books, 1972), includes recollections by colleagues Erik Erikson and Margaret Brenman-Gibson, and a portrait of the doctor by his neighbor and patient Norman Rockwell.

“disposes of an estate”:
Kingsport Times,
5/11/1950.

“a tactless woman”: Sheilah Graham,
Confessions of a Hollywood Columnist
(New York: Bantam, 1970 [1969]), 225.

“It was just a bore”:
PB,
122.

7. THE RIGHT MAN

“‘In the middle of the journey’”: Alvarez, 169.

suburb of Darien:
Bridgeport Sunday Post
, 9/9/1951.

four-story brownstone:
Olean Times Herald,
9/6/1950.

a custody bid:
MLSF,
78.

guardianship:
Traverse City Record-Eagle,
7/3/1950.

shoots himself in the abdomen:
MLSF,
72–73;
DTD,
51–56.

“very favorable condition”:
Idaho State Journal,
1/8/1951.

Jane has her doubts:
MLSF,
73.

Henry believes him:
PB,
128.

“No one ever talked”:
DTD,
46.

“She remained cool”:
Lowell Sun,
1/8/1951.

torn knee cartilage:
Cedar Rapids Gazette,
10/4/1950.

“was almost unable to go on speaking”:
Olean Times Herald,
11/6/1950.

“This is my first tour”:
Wisconsin State Journal,
3/6/1951.

snowstorm:
Madison Capitol Times,
3/20/1951.

“If I get a chance”:
Cedar Rapids Gazette,
3/26/1951. See also
Council Bluffs Nonpareil,
3/26/1951;
Wisconsin State Journal,
3/26/1951.

“I don’t feel it”: Logan, 262–63;
FML
, 217–18.

“had become so identified”: E. J. Kahn, Jr., “Profile: The Tough Guy and the Soft Guy—I,”
The New Yorker
, 4/4/1953, 62.

“will charge $8”:
San Mateo Times,
9/21/1951.

advance ticket sale:
Uniontown Evening Standard,
12/20/1951.

show sells out:
Marion Star,
11/3/1951.

“absorbing and generally entertaining”:
Nevada State Journal,
11/16/1951.

Potter: Hayward interview transcript.

Kazan: ibid.

“feeling that I was cheating”: ibid.

“an honest second act”:
FML,
222.

The notices are glumly approving: Osborn, dust jacket.

“deep beneath the waters”: John P. Marquand,
Point of No Return
(New York: Bantam, 1952 [1949]), 492.

“There was nothing to explain”: ibid., 458–59.

“
A single light
”: Osborn, 139.

“My life has been peppered”:
FML,
x.

the tour in Baltimore:
Cedar Rapids Gazette,
12/14/1952.

“is not the greatest play”:
Oakland Tribune,
4/8/1953.

he rejects:
FML,
226;
Cedar Rapids Gazette,
7/12/1953;
Sheboygan Press,
5/28/1954;
Waterloo Daily Courier,
7/9/1954.

three options he is given:
FML,
227.

“One-nighters”:
Bradford Era,
10/2/1953.

headquarters of the American Federation of Musicians:
San Antonio Express,
9/4/1953;
Joplin Globe,
10/3/1953.

to cede partial rights: Callow, 225.

“What do you know”: ibid., 227.

“I consider Fonda”:
http://theatreisterritory.com/tag/charles-nolte.html
. Nolte had previously played a crew member in
Mister Roberts.

Henry Fonda has “the gift”:
El Paso Herald-Post,
11/5/1953.

advance Broadway ticket sale:
Cedar Rapids Gazette,
12/2/1953.

“and is eager”:
Oakland Tribune,
10/16/1953.

“aloof”:
Lowell Sun,
12/9/1953.

“What direction?”:
Charleston Gazette,
12/10/1953.

“[We’re] just one happy family”:
Charleston Gazette,
12/14/1953.

“At least five people”: ibid.

“I got into a slight squabble”:
Tucson Daily Citizen,
1/16/1954.

putting his fist through a door:
Nevada State Journal,
10/27/1953.

acclaim across the board:
Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune,
1/30/1954.

“one of the great shows”:
Uniontown Morning Herald,
1/27/1954.

“a throat-grabbing chunk”:
Waterloo Daily Courier,
7/9/1954.

“I am in that near-comatose state”:
Beckley Post-Herald,
3/3/1954.

“Queeg deserved better”: Wouk,
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,
128.

“the toughest scene”:
Corpus Christi Caller-Times,
2/21/1954.

cries onstage:
FML
, 228.

Caribbean locations:
Portland Press-Herald,
9/11/1948.

“homosexual”: McBride, 543–44.

Brando’s involvement:
Albuquerque Journal,
2/19/1954.

“who has aged”: ibid.

“Bullshit!”:
FML
, 230.

“I had no intention”:
Long Beach Independent,
7/30/1954.

“an Irish”: McBride, 547.

“screw up”: ibid., 548.

Fonda feels a blow: Norman, 88; PB, 123.

Ford appears at Henry’s door: Norman, 89.

“Just a great actor”: Ford interview on Criterion Collection DVD of
Young Mr. Lincoln.

Ward Bond: McBride, 550.

“I despised that film”: ibid., 552.

half of all American homes: Whitfield, 153.

thirty-nine episodes:
www.tv.com/shows/henry-fonda-presents-the-star-and-the-story/season/?season=all
.

“appalling to see an actor”:
Waterloo Daily Courier,
7/27/1959.

“I am an actor”:
Valparaiso Videlio-Messenger,
7/22/1954.

“vast wasteland”: Newton N. Minow,
Equal Time: The Private Broadcaster and the Public Interest
(New York: Atheneum, 1964), 45.

“secret ambition”:
News Television and Radio Guide
(Lima, OH), 3/12/1955.

“I want to do the picture”:
Portsmouth Herald,
11/10/1954.

eighty thousand dollars:
News Television and Radio Guide
(Lima, OH), 3/12/1955.

“astoundingly restrictive”:
DTD,
78, 85.

Susan admits to being fearful: Norman, 91.

“Don’t cry”: ibid., 71.

“probably the biggest movie”:
El Paso Herald Post,
5/23/1955.

David O. Selznick and Mike Todd: ibid.

The movie will have: ibid.

six million dollars: ibid.

“You understand, don’t you”: Brough, 124.

Henry finds his daily pages:
Oakland Tribune,
10/27/1959.

“If I’d seen it”:
Lebanon Daily News,
8/2/1956.

“It was as if we were”: Norman, 90.