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18. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 17: Gladys Hall, ”Divorce Is Making Her Miserable,” undated.

19. Spada, Bette Davis, p. 148.

20. BU, box 25: Screen Guide, January 1939.

21. Lonely Life, p. 197.

22. Quirk, Fasten, p. 179.

23. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 32.

24. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 43: Boston Globe, August 20, 1939.

25. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 127.

26. Lonely Life, p. 199; Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 127.

27. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 33: Louella Parsons, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, March 6, 1940.

28. Lonely Life, p. 199.

29. BU, box 2, folder 6: Zaida, ”Bette Davis,” (Honolulu) Ka Moae.

30. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 27: various clippings, including Peggy Bairos, ”Bette Davis Receives Rousing Island Welcome”; James T. Hamada, ”On the Screen,” Honolulu, May 1, 1940; Jimmy Fidler, Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1940; Dorothy Kilgallen, New York Journal American, May 6, 1940; Sidney Skolsky, Citizen News, June 21, 1940.

31. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 138.

32. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 17: ”It's Idle Gossip,” Modern Screen, January 1941.

33. Schultz, p. 19.

34. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 140, quoting contemporary interview with Jack Holland.

35. USC, The Great Lie files: Wallis to Warner, November 18, 1940.

36. Ibid.: Wallis to Blanke, January 29, 1940.

37. Ibid.: Warner to Blanke, February 20, 1940.

38. USC, legal files, September 5 to December 30, 1940: Davis to Wallis, undated; Wallis to Blanke, September 21, 1940.

39. Kennedy, p. 200.

40. Astor, My Story, pp. 2012.

41. Ibid., p. 202.

42. Astor, A Life on Film, p. 152.

43. Ibid., p. 153.

44. Astor, My Story, p. 203.

45. Ibid., p. 204.

46. Wiley and Bona, p. 120.

47. USC, legal files, September 5 to December 30, 1940: Davis to Warner, undated.

48. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 117.

49. Flanner, p. 22.

50. Ibid.

51. BU, sc.r.a.pbook 52.

52. BU, box 25: Boston Sunday Post, August 4, 1940.

53. Stine and Davis, Mother G.o.ddam, p. 146.

54. Ibid., p. 143.

55. Ibid.

56. New York Times, April 6, 1941.

57. BU, box 2, folder 6: Manchester Union, April 5, 1941.

58. ”Life Goes to a Birthday Party,” Life, April 28, 1941, pp. 12629.

CHAPTER 12. BREAKDOWN AND RECOVERY.

1. Lonely Life, p. 208.

2. Louella Parsons, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, July 22, 1940.

3. Berg, Goldwyn, p. 357.

4. USC, legal files, January 1 to August 31, 1940, and September 5 to December 30, 1940.

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