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: Fagen, p. 20.
“wonderful possibilities”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Hedda Hopper, “Wayne for the Money,”
Chicago Tribune
, 2-13-49.
“In the family gossip”
: Gretchen Wayne to SE.
“It sure changes you”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Louella Parsons,
Los Angeles Examiner
, 9-8-46.
The reviews were
: Both quotes from AMPAS, Special Collections, Gail Russell scrapbooks.
“[Wayne] finally had to”
: USC, Special Collections, Warga, draft of Tape 6(A), April 1971.
“All the offices had bars”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, T. F. James, “The Man Who Talks Back to John Wayne,”
Cosmopolitan
, 8-60.
“In my dad’s opinion”
: Patrick Wayne to SE.
“James Edward Grant was born”
: USC, Batjac Collection, folder marked “Grant, James E.—writer—Misc.”
“After my dad died”
: Colin Grant to SE. All further quotes from Colin Grant derive from this interview.
“I see him”
: Kane manuscript, p. 40.
“I went in”
: Gene Autry to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
“He’s a man whose judgment”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Hedda Hopper,
Chicago Tribune
, 5-11-47.
“One man should serve”
: Ibid.
The first issue featured
: AMPAS, Motion Picture Alliance files,
The Vigil
, April 1946.
“Expedite”
: Rosenfeld, p. 129.
Quinn made an appointment
: Knox, pp. 87–88.
the FBI had a list
: Sbardellati, p. 128.
“Always be careful”
: Leaming,
Orson Welles
, p. 508.
“In some cases”
: Dewey, p. 289.
the Hearst columnist Westbrook Pegler
: Humphries, p. 95.
The Alliance had sufficient
: AMPAS, Motion Picture Alliance files, “N.Y. Trial to Bare Red Spy Facts, Stripling Says,”
Hollywood Citizen News
, 3-30-49.
“He regretted not serving”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 338.
Wayne responded with a blistering
: Ibid., p. 327.
“You are entitled to your opinion”
: Batjac Productions, Feldman to Wayne, 10-22-48.
“If any words”
: AMPAS, Motion Picture Alliance files, “Meeting of Minds,”
New York Times
, 9-17-50.
The Alliance passed a resolution
: AMPAS, Motion Picture Alliance files, “M.P. Alliance Demands City Register All Communists,” 7-20-50.
“Three leaders of the MPA”
: AMPAS, Hedda Hopper Collection,
ALERT
, Issue 154, 1-4-51.
“He’d give you a steak”
: Kane manuscript, p. 26.
She made a genuine effort
: Kane manuscript, p. 13.
“I know he loved her”
: Ibid., p. 17.
“anti-democratic”
: Sherman, p. 225.
Hawks paid Chase
: McCarthy, p. 408.
Wayne’s salary was set
: Ibid., p. 412.
“I knew nothing”
: Coleen Gray to SE. All quotes from Gray derive from this interview.
“Something would catch his eye”
: William Self to SE. All quotes from Self derive from this interview.
“You’re an actor”
: Bosworth, p. 107.
“You’re right”
: Ibid., p. 108.
“We never saw any bear”
: McCarthy, p. 422.
“Wayne never read”
: Munn, pp. 106–7.
Clift would tell
: Bosworth, p. 109.
“Mr. Hawks took”
: Lilley, p. 187.
“Christ, my goddamn kid”
: Michael Wayne to SE.
“Monty drove him nuts”
: Harry Carey Jr. to SE.
“It’s true that Howard”
: F. Anthony Macklin, “I Come Ready,”
Film Heritage
, Summer 1975, p. 13.
“Here was a man”
: Dave Kehr,
New York Times
, 5-27-11.
“the dark pleasure”
: Jonathan Lethem, “The Darkest Side of John Wayne,”
Salon
, July 1997.
“He’s serious, Eddie”
: USC, Edward Small Collection, autobiography.
Also removed
: AMPAS,
Red River
file, “400 Cut Prints of ‘River’ Rushed East by UA,”
Variety
, 8-23-48.
“John was already”
: Stephen Longstreet to SE.
“I was petrified”
: John Agar to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
Ford dominated
: Parrish,
Growing Up in Hollywood
, p. 176.
“I can’t wait”
: Burt Kennedy to SE.
“No, I think”
: F. Anthony Macklin, “I Come Ready,”
Film Heritage
, Summer 1975, pp. 4–5.
“Henry Fonda could do”
: Mark Rydell to SE.
Fonda enjoyed recalling
: Bogdanovich, p. 312.
“Jack, you’ve got to”
: Darcy O’Brien to SE.
“A son of a bitch”
: Eyman,
Print the Legend
, p. 335.
“I spent two weeks”
: Ibid.
CHAPTER NINE
“I was never sick”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jane Ardmore, “Cancer Doesn’t Fight Fair,”
Family Health
, 9-76.
“Willy would never”
: Eddie Albert to SE.
“He went right”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 309.
In Bond’s telling
: Robert Horton to SE.
“There was lightning”
: John Agar to SE.
“I don’t think we ever”
: P. F. Kluge, “First and Last, a Cowboy,”
Life
, 1-28-72.
“He was always testing”
: AMPAS, Winton Hoch file, John Gallagher, “Winton Hoch: Master of Technicolor,”
American Classic Screen
, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1982.
the autographed picture of Ford
: Heritage Auctions,
The Personal Property of
John Wayne
Auction Catalog
, p. 143.
“Duke, you should have”
: Coleen Gray to SE.
CHAPTER TEN
“The audience would just”
: All this is from USC, Constance McCormick Collection, John Wayne, Vol. X, Michael F. Blake, “He Was Their Stage Coach,”
Los Angeles Times
, 5-28-99.
“Duke and I”
: James Lydon to SE. All subsequent quotes from Lydon derive from this interview.
“I don’t want to malign her”
: McClelland, p. 417.
“They handed me the script”
: Batjac Productions, Allan Dwan interview, undated, but 1980.
Grant earned $12,500
: Mathis, p. 119.
“There wasn’t a feeling”
: Cassell to Maltin, Maltin archives.
“They wanted to do it”
: Suid, p. 120.
Richard Jaeckel remembered
: Richard Jaeckel to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
“We had long conversations”
: Batjac Productions, Allan Dwan interview, undated, but 1980.
“It was survival training”
: Suid, p. 121.
“Wayne was terrific”
: William Self to SE.
“a great American”
: Fribourg to Maltin, Maltin archives.
Fort Apache
had amassed
: Eyman,
Print the Legend
, p. 373.
Throughout the 1940s
: McCarthy and Flynn, p. 32.
In January 1950
: Ibid., p. 371.
“Moab was much better”
: Michael Wayne to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
“Ford adored Maureen”
: Claude Jarman Jr. to SE.
“vicious . . . extremely severe”
: O’Hara, p. 65.
“quit messing around”
: Claude Jarman Jr. to SE.
“didn’t have the same oomph”
: Michael Wayne to Maltin, Maltin archives.
“Wayne would close all”
: Eisenschitz, p. 163.
“I thought the Broadway”
: Ray,
I Was Interrupted
, p. 224.
“
Jet Pilot
was the first time”
: Janet Leigh to SE.
Principal photography
: Landesman, p. 175.
“Everybody will be looking”
: Brown and Broeske, p. 289.
“ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN”
: USC, Batjac Collection, folder marked “Grant, James E.—writer—Misc.”
“Duke is the best actor”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Gladwin Hill, “Tale of a Horse Opera Hot Shot,”
New York Times
, 11-7-48.
“I don’t have a capital gains”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Hedda Hopper, “Wayne for the Money,” 2-13-49.
“I hope he doesn’t kill himself”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Pete Martin, “The Ladies Like ’Em Rugged,”
The Saturday Evening Post
, 12-22-50.
“When Ford’s daughter”
: Syd Kronenthal to SE. All subsequent quotes from Kronenthal derive from this interview.
“The trick is”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Pete Martin, “The Ladies Like ’Em Rugged,”
The Saturday Evening Post
, 12-22-50.
“DEAR JAMES”
: USC, Batjac Collection, folder marked “Grant, James E.—writer—Misc.”
“Duke and I disagreed”
:
Moving Image
Pinewood Dialogues with Budd Boetticher, movingimagesource.us./files/dialogues.
“Jesus Christ, Bob”
: Munn, p. 136.
“Wayne didn’t believe”
: Sean Axmaker, “Budd Boetticher, Lost Interview with a True Hollywood Maverick,”
Filmfax
, 2/3-11.
“Duke couldn’t box”
: Fagen, p. 92.
The stranger explained
: Colin Grant to SE.
“You must have some reason”
: Kane manuscript, p. 37.
“the man gathering the money”
: Cass Warner Sperling to SE.
“She went out of her mind”
: Maureen O’Hara to SE.
“It’s a silly little Irish”
: Maureen O’Hara to SE.
“Duke came to work”
: Maureen O’Hara to SE.
After shooting ended
: Andrew McLaglen to SE.
“I was only eleven”
: Patrick Wayne to SE.
“Soldiering is a trade”
: Patrick Ford’s script courtesy of Dan Ford.
“I guess he meant”
: Batjac Productions, Sam Norton to Jack Gordean, 2-10-49.
“I get so mad”
: USC, Special Collection, Warga, draft of tape 3, April 1971.
“the best director”
: Mathis, p. 427.
“I can’t spend all my time”
: Mathis, p. 428.
“So I repeat”
: Mathis, p. 431.
Yates’s jaw was working
: Roberts and Olson, p. 370.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
“A lot of us”
: Kevin Brownlow to SE.
“I would rather”
: Cooper to Brownlow.
“a typical John Wayne part”
: Buford, p. 108.
“The longer they were married”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 382.
Putting two and two together
: Gretchen Wayne to SE.
Wayne’s first offer
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Tell Wife’s Drinking,” 10-20-53.
Then he offered
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Wayne Drops Silent Role,”
Los Angeles Herald Express
, 10-28-53.
“I have never”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Never Struck Wife, John Wayne Testifies,”
Los Angeles Times
, 6-2-53.
“Why is your father”
: Gretchen Wayne to SE.
“How come that son of a bitch”
: Kane manuscript, p. 27.
“don’t make me ordinary”
: Ibid., p. 17.
“I didn’t know exactly”
: Ibid., p. 18.
“The Grants lived”
: Gretchen Wayne to SE.
“Our format is basically”
: AMPAS, Robert Fellows file, Howard McClay,
Los Angeles Daily News
, 9-1-52.
“Lots of guys”
: USC, Warner Bros. archives,
Big Jim McLain
file,
Pageant
, 6-52.
“The only hitch”
: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, Blumestock to Kalmenson, 6-27-52.
Giving the money
: USC, Motion Picture Alliance file,
Los Angeles Times
, 6-4-53.
“[
Trouble Along the Way
] made it sound”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, James Bacon, “John Wayne—King of Strong Silent Types,”
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
, 4-13-69.
“I was a very good guitar player”
: John Wayne, pp. 20–21.
“the gun fell from my hand”

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