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NOTES TO PAGES 133–139
1. The fi lm was moderately successful at the box offi ce but received mixed reviews,
including a negative review in the New York Times. Bosley Crowther, “In a Glass House,”
New York Times, July 17, 1949, X1; “Ayn Rand Replies to Criticism of Her Film,” New York
Times, July 24, 1949, X4. For academic analyses of the fi lm, see Robert Spadoni, “Guilty
by Omission: Girding the ‘Fountainhead’ for the Cold War (Ayn Rand),” Literature-Film
Quarterly 27, no. 3 (1999): 223–32; Merrill Schleier, “Ayn Rand and King Vidor’s Film The
Fountainhead: Architectural Modernism, the Gendered Body, and Political Ideology,”
Journal of The Society of Architectural Historians 61, no. 3 (2002): 310–31; Merrill Schleier,
Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film (Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 2009). In addition to analyzing the gender dynamics of the fi lm and
book and their relation to architectural modernism, Schleier provides deep detail on
Rand’s creative process, but curiously suggests that Roark dynamited Cortland Homes
with the intent of erecting a skyscraper in its place (vii). For more on the making of
the fi lm, see Jeff Britting, “Adapting the Fountainhead to Film,” in Essays on Ayn Rand’s
The Fountainhead, ed. Robert Mayhew (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007); Barbara
Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1986),
208–13; Biographical Interview 12, January 22, 1961.
2. Biographical Interview 16, April 19, 1961.
3. Ruth Hill, Oral History, ARP; Jack Portnoy, Oral History, ARA.
4. Biographical Interview 17.
5. AR to Archie Ogden, April 10, 1949, Letters, 374; AR to Mimi Sutton, March 20,
1948, Letters, 391; AR to Archie Ogden, April 23, 1949, Letters, 438.
6. Biographical interview 17.
7. Ake and Jane Sandler, Oral History, ARP.
8. Micky Wright, Oral History, ARP.
9. Nathaniel Branden, Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand (Boston: Houghton
Miffl in, 1989), 51.
10. Barbara Branden, Objectivist History Project DVD, volume 2, “A Movement
Is Launched.” This CD is sold by an organization called The Objectivist Center, www.
objectivistcenter.org.
11. Nathaniel Blumenthal and Barbara Weidman, letter to the editor, UCLA Daily
Bruin, May 8, 1950, Box 117–06C, ARP.
12. The incident is described in N. Branden, Judgment Day, 94–96. The importance
of Matthiessen to the literary left and the controversy surrounding his suicide is covered
in Arthur Redding, “Closet, Coup, and Cold War: F. O. Matthiessen’s From the Heart of
Europe,” boundary 2 33, no. 1 (2006): 171–201.
13. Nathaniel Branden to AR, August 24, 1950, ARP 019–01B and August 28, 1951, ARP
019–01C.
14. AR to Nick Carter, October 5, 1944, Letters, 165.
15. Rose Wilder Lane to Jasper Crane, March 13, 1963, March–July 1963
Correspondence, Box 4, Hoover NARA; Rose Wilder Lane to AR, undated (Sunday),
ARP 143-LO3.
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