With [Spencer] Tracy, he was upset always, just staying on location, and he was threatening me always that he was going to go home and quit. So I had to figure out that what had to be done was to have some attractive-looking woman sitting there admiring him and telling him how great he was. So we employed a woman to do that. In fact, we sent to Boise, Idaho, and got her clothes and everything, a whole wardrobe. He didn’t know that. An attractive woman who was there, a vacationer or something, that was excited by watching him and all that. So that kept him out of threats, from saying he was
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