I believe Bob's Uncle Barney is the man who fired Miss Frances Farmer in 1942 from Paramount.
Yes I also believe this is correct.....although not with the same panache as Jack Warner and Bette Davis later on in 1948....
Bette: Jack, this director is crucifying me. I cannot work with him. Jack - it's him or me.
Jack: (short pause) Okay, Bette. It's you.
And then of course ten years later when Davis was out on the tent circuit, a man stopped by and told Bette that Warner's was doing THE HELEN MORGAN STORY and wanted her to play Helen's mother. Bette was taken aback - but work is work. She wired Jack Warner: "Hear you are interested in me for mother in Helen Morgan Story."
Jack wired back: "No Bette. We never even thought of you."