1. Details of Eddie Mannix's position at MGM can be found in Douglas GomeryThe Hollywood Studio SystemLondon1986 68 71Marx, Samuel(1988)Mayer and Thalberg: The Make Believe Saints(Hollywood), pp. 72–73 and p. 100; andSchatz, Thomas(1988)The Genius of the System(New York), pp. 44–45.
2. See Marx S.Mayer and Thalberg: The Make Believe SaintsHollywood1988 254 265
3. Thomas Schatz provides production cost and gross earnings figures (from the Arthur Freed Collection) onThe Wizard of OzandBabes in Arms, and these figures are exactly the same as those found in the Mannix ledger. See Schatz T.The Genius of the SystemNew York1988 262 268 Schatz also provides a chart of the domestic and foreign earnings of eight of MGM's top-grossing films of the mid-1930s (found in the David Selznick Collection). The domestic earnings indicated in Schatz's chart are all within $19,000 of the figures found in the Mannix ledger. The foreign earnings are another story but each of Schatz's foreign grosses is less than the foreign grosses indicated in the ledger. Thus, the discrepancy may be due to the fact that foreign earnings took longer to filter back to the studio, and the Schatz/Selznick figures cited were incomplete. SeeSchatz, T. (1988) op. cit., p. 174.
4. See Schatz T.The Genius of the SystemNew York1988 41 41 55 and 168. The budgeted costs are not the same as the final costs indicated in the ledger, but they are close.The Scarlet Letter, for examples was budgeted at $430,290, but the ledger indicates that its final cost was $417,000; whileDavid Copperfieldwas budgeted at $1,069,254, but had a final cost of $1,073,000.