The Most Beautiful Woman in the World (64 page)

28.
Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 152.

29.
Sheppard,
Elizabeth
, p. 218; Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 136; Spoto,
Passion for Life
, p. 141.

30.
Noel Coward,
The Noel Coward Diaries
, edited by Graham Payne and Sheridan Morley (Boston: Little, Brown, 1982), pp. 356, 358.

31.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 133.

32.
ET
, p. 78.

33.
Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 141; Todd and Todd,
Valuable Property
, p. 349.

34.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, pp. 128–129.

35.
Todd and Todd,
Valuable Property
, pp. 350, 363.

36.
Ibid., p. 305: Todd’s son says that his father’s interest in Dietrich was confined to her boiled beef, but added that E.T. told him that Eddie Fisher insisted Dietrich and Todd Sr. definitely had an affair.

37.
Sheppard,
Elizabeth
, p. 230.

38.
Ibid., p. 234. Logan elaborated on the anecdote to me when I acquired his memoirs for the Delacorte Press.

39.
Sheppard,
Elizabeth
, pp. 233, 236, 238–239; Heymann,
Liz
, p. 175; Todd and Todd,
Valuable Property
, p. 356; Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 135.

40.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 132.

41.
ET
, p. 81;
ETO
, p. 75; Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 143.

42.
Sheppard,
Elizabeth
, p. 237;
ETO
, p. 76; Heymann,
Liz
, p. 177.

43.
Walker,
Elizabeth
, pp. 193–194, quoting director Richard Brooks; Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 146; Reynolds and Columbia,
Debbie
, p. 188.

44.
ET, p. 93.

45.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 134.

46.
Guilaroff and Griffin,
Crowning Glory
, p. 193.

47.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 146.

48.
ET
, p. 83; Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 147.

49.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 136.

50.
Guilaroff and Griffin,
Crowning Glory
, p. 194; Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, pp. 148, 248; Holden,
Behind the Oscar
, p. 220; Sheppard,
Elizabeth
, p. 243; Hey-mann,
Liz
, p. 181.

51.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, pp. 150, 153; Nickens,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 75; Sheppard,
Elizabeth
, p. 245.

52.
Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 154.

Interviews with Ross Claiborne, Millard Kaufman, Edward Dmytryk, Jean Porter Dmytryk, and editorial notes from meetings with Joan Blondell and Joshua Logan at Delacorte Press and with Shelley Winters at Morrow.

Other books consulted: Joan Blondell,
Center Door Fancy
(New York: Delacorte, 1972); Joan Collins,
Past Imperfect
(New York: Berkley, 1985); Baker,
Baby Doll
, p. 200.

C
HAPTER
6

1.
Heymann,
Liz
, pp. 187–188; Wilding,
Wilding Way
, pp. 121–122;
ET
, pp. 61, 93; Reynolds and Columbia,
Debbie
, p. 170; Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 165.

2.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 145.

3.
Todd and Todd,
Valuable Property
, p. 361; Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 155.

4.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 153.

5.
Guilaroff and Griffin,
Crowning Glory
, p. 200; Sheppard,
Elizabeth
, p. 258; Reynolds and Columbia,
Debbie
, p. 172; Heymann,
Liz
, p. 170; Robin-Tani,
New Elizabeth
, p. 149.

6.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, pp. 126–127.

7.
Ibid., p. 15 (“never fall in love with a
shiksa
”), p. 244; Barrett,
Miss Rona
, pp. 54–60; Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger,
A Talent for Genius: The Life and Times of Oscar Levant
(New York: Villard, 1994) p. 392.

8.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 152.

9.
Ibid., p. 160.

10.
Ibid., p. 162. Eddie admits, “When they make the list of the worst fathers, I know my name will be right on the top.”

11.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 188; Debbie’s income boost: Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 151; “the best fuck . . . ruined everything”: Barrett,
Miss Rona
, p. 187.

12.
Donald Spoto,
The Kindness of Strangers
(New York: Ballantine, 1985), p. 66; Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 163: “I kept busy meeting with studio executives to discuss movies Elizabeth might make or I might produce. In fact, my real job was keeping Elizabeth happy”; “impotent”: Janet Charlton, “Star People,”
Star
, November 23, 1999, p. 14; “so-so”: Wayne Grover, “Tony Bennett’s Ex Tells All,”
National Enquirer
, November 2, 1999, pp. 60–61.

13.
Kelley,
Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 166; Heymann,
Liz
, p. 203; E.T.–Mankiewicz relationship: Heymann,
Liz
, p. 203 and Graham,
Hollywood Revisited
, pp. 179–180.

14.
Waterbury and Arceri,
Elizabeth Taylor
, pp. 175, 176; Holden,
Behind the Oscar
, p. 226; Spoto,
Kindness of Strangers
, p. 192.

15.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, pp. 63–64.

16.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 210.

17.
Ibid.

18.
Vermilye and Ricci,
Films of Elizabeth Taylor
, p. 151; Nickens,
Elizabeth Taylor
, pp. 84–86.

19.
Bernstein,
Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent
, p. 45.

20.
Sheppard,
Elizabeth
, p. 279.

21.
Bernstein,
Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent
, p. 55.

22.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 175; also see Heymann,
Liz
, p. 219.

23.
Guilaroff and Griffin,
Crowning Glory
, pp. 214–215; Shirley MacLaine,
You Can Get There From Here
(New York: Norton, 1975), p. 19.

24.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 177.

25.
Ibid., p. 176.

26.
Ibid., p. 177.

27.
CNN Today, February 1999.

28.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 123.

29.
Ibid., p. 182.

30.
Ibid., p. 183.

31.
Ibid., p. 186.

32.
ET
, p. 97.

33.
Heymann,
Liz
, p. 219.

34.
Collins,
Past Imperfect
, p. 188.

35.
Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 186.

36.
“lose my girl”: Spoto,
Passion for Life
, p. 189; in Fisher and Fisher,
Been There, Done That
, p. 186, Eddie Fisher revealed her crisis was “brought on by depressant drugs. Her pills. So I thought it very strange that they continued to treat her with other pills. For five days she slipped in and out of consciousness. I stayed with her day and night.”