1 New York’s public television station, WNET, has always been known by its channel number.
2 The West Side Waltz, a play by Ernest Thompson, went on tour before opening in New York on November 19th, 1981, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
3 She asked for Spencer Tracy, whom she didn’t yet know, and Clark Gable, but neither of them was available. So Louis B. Mayer, the head of the studio, hired freelance actor, Cary Grant, and assigned the other male lead to one of MGM’s own contract players, James Stewart.
4 Details of the Henry Fonda interview are in “Henry and Jane and Ted and Peter.”
5 A few years later he designed the costumes for Gone With The Wind, and won a “Best Costume Design” Oscar for An American In Paris.
6 A Bill of Divorcement in 1931.
7 As with Fred Astaire, he controlled the use of clips from his films.
8 See “A Few That Got Away.”