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“I wrote ’em for Duke”
: Burt Kennedy to SE.
“One day at Lone Pine”
:
Moving Image
Pinewood Dialogues, David Schwartz and Budd Boetticher, movingimagessource.us/files/dialogues.
“Borzage had been hanging around”
: Clothier to SE.
“Wayne got into”
: Eyman,
Five American Cinematographers
, p. 132.
“Jack was funny”
: Angie Dickinson to SE.
“Nobody came out”
: McGilligan,
Backstory
, p. 107.
Wayne turned down an overture
: Batjac Productions, Feldman to Wayne, 12-17-56.
“You really oughta bring”
: Michael Wayne to SE.
“You people have no pride”
: Kane manuscript, p. 18.
“I’ll can your ass”
: Ibid., p. 31.
there was also an agreement with Fox
: Batjac Productions, Feldman to Sokolov, 5-13-56.
Bob Hope was getting
: AMPAS, John Wayne,
The Hollywood Reporter
, 6-26-56.
“After 30 years”
: USC, John Wayne, James Bacon,
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, 3-22-58.
“There is no love”
: USC, MGM Collection,
The Wings of Eagles
script, Red to Phil, 11-1-54.
“Two minutes after”
: Maureen O’Hara to SE.
“The deal is either worth it”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 53, folder 18, Wayne to Blumofe, 9-13-56.
“I said it was like”
: Marsha Hunt to SE.
“The Sahara desert”
: Cardiff, p. 192.
he believed she was
: Roberts and Olson, p. 434.
“We are working”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, W. R. Wilkerson, “Trade Views,”
Hollywood Reporter
, 2-7-57.
“I hope Pilar”
: Davis, p. 210.
“They asked me about it”
: Heritage Auctions,
The Personal Property of John Wayne Auction Catalog
, Ford to Wayne, 1-25-57.
“communistic or subversive”
: Ibid., Ford to Wayne, undated but 1956, p. 104.
“Christ, Kirk”
: Douglas, p. 268.
“I feel that on the whole”
: USC, 20th Century Fox Script Collection,
The Barbarian and the Geisha
, Adler to Huston, 9-18-57.
“I ask him”
: Grobel, p. 449.
“It’s a little frustrating”
: Davis, p. 212.
“They had nothing”
: Grobel, p. 449.
“Are you serious?”
: AMPAS, John Huston Collection, Huston to Adler, 12-17-57.
“to give [the character of Harris] some vitality”
: AMPAS, John Huston Collection, Frenke to Huston, 5-14-58.
“When I brought it back”
: Huston, p. 267.
“I found it impossible”
: John Wayne to SE.
Autry was no stranger
: Gene Autry to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
Wayne gave the bride away
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Film Notables Throng Toni Wayne’s Wedding,”
Los Angeles Times
, 5-27-56.
Henaghan turned to his boss
: Shaw, pp. 20–21.
“146 Int.”
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, script for
Rio Bravo.
“The dialogue in the finished film”
: McCarthy, p. 552.
For the rest of the cast
: All payroll information derives from the USC, Warner Bros. Collection,
Rio Bravo
file.
“I remember third shows”
: Lewis, p. 128.
whose Armada Productions
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection,
Rio Bravo
file, contracts dated 3-18-58 and 4-1-58.
“I had done one good movie”
: Angie Dickinson to SE. All subsequent quotes from Dickinson derive from this interview.
“Wayne is better”
: Thomas B. Morgan, “God and Man in Hollywood,”
Esquire
, 5-63.
“self-respect, self-control”
: McCarthy, p. 565.
“I was going to come down”
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, Warner to Wayne, 7-18-58.
“Jack got to the point”
: Vincent Sherman to SE.
“It’s all my fault”
: Kane manuscript, p. 28.
“polluting the bloodstream”
: Fraser-Cavassoni, p. 212.
“Well, Duke. Duke”
: Mirisch, p. 105.
Pilar slashing her wrists
: Aissa Wayne,
John Wayne, My Father
, p. 35.
“I liked Duke Wayne”
: Walter Mirisch to SE.
“my career, my personal fortune”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 2, folder 14, Wayne to Cates, 8-6-59.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
“Jim powdered”
: Lilley, Andrew McLaglen, CD companion to
Campfire Conversations.
He also capped
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 3, folder 6, Murchison to Wayne, 7-8-58 and 7-2-59.
Wayne would later estimate
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Dean Jennings, “John Wayne: The Woes of the Box Office King,”
Saturday Evening Post
, c. 1962.
“and we argued”
: Shahan to Frank Thompson, Thompson archives.
On the last day
: Clark and Andersen, p. 25.
“All I want”
: Shahan to Frank Thompson, Thompson archives.
“When John Wayne saw it”
: Al Ybarra interview with Frank Thompson, courtesy of Thompson.
Wayne called Shahan
: James T. Shahan interview with Frank Thompson, courtesy of Thompson.
In April 1959
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “John Wayne Shocked at Charges on Arias,”
Los Angeles Times
, 4-22-59.
The implication was
: FOIA report, John Wayne file, document addressed to J. Edgar Hoover, 5-5-59.
Wayne estimated
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “
Playboy
Interview: John Wayne,”
Playboy
, May 1971.
In addition
: AMPAS,
Alamo
files, Zeitlin,
Life
magazine backgrounders.
Each animal
: Clark and Andersen, p. 38.
“Take that down”
: Ybarra to Frank Thompson, Thompson archives.
Ybarra wasn’t happy
: Clark and Andersen, p. 41.
“was the only man”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood,” “John Wayne,” 10-23-60.
“my adding machine’s broken”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 3, folder 7, Wayne to McCullough, 6-3-59.
“To be frank”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 3, folder 21, Skouras to Wayne, 7-11-59.
A few days later
: Batjac Productions, Feldman to Wayne, 7-16-59.
“Picture that being”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 3, folder 21, Wayne to Skouras, 7-11-59.
“If Spyros didn’t put”
: Batjac Productions, Feldman to Wayne, 2-25-59.
“once you sign the
papers
”
: Batjac Productions, Feldman to “Jack, Frank and Harry,” 7-16-59.
Batjac forwarded a balance sheet
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 3, folder 6, Davis to Spradley, 9-4-59.
On July 3, 1959
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 3, folder 6, Jenkens to Wayne, 7-3-59.
“I have to defend Wayne”
: James T. Shahan to Frank Thompson.
“[Wayne] should have done”
: Al Ybarra to Frank Thompson.
“Frank came over”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Bill Kelly, “John Wayne,”
South Bay
, 7-81.
“I told them”
: Dean Smith to SE. All subsequent quotes from Smith derive from this interview.
“Bob Relyea”
: Robert Relyea to SE. All subsequent quotes from Relyea derive from this interview.
“When we walked”
: Eyman,
Five American Cinematographers
, p. 145.
He was up for 7.5 percent
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 3, folder 20, John Wayne contract, 9-1-59.
“Duke knew that script backwards”
: Clothier to SE.
“we are working”
: USC, Batjac Collection, Wayne to Feldman, 9-21-59.
“He plunked himself”
: Eyman,
Five American Cinematographers
, p. 134.
In July 1959
: AMPAS,
The Alamo
file, “400 Acre Alamo Set on Texas Ranch Will Cost $1.5 million,”
Hollywood Reporter
, 7-29-59.
“Goddamn it”
: Clothier to SE.
“Gentlemen, I want to tell you something”
: Lilley, John Hudkins interview, p. 100.
“We thought Ford was gonna”
: Ibid., p. 101.
“Ford went out”
: Clothier to SE.
Richard Widmark remembered
: Wills, p. 224.
“You men, pour in here”
: AMPAS,
The Alamo
file,
Life
reports, 7-21-60.
One of the few accidents
: Thompson, p. 77.
Each of the eight
: AMPAS,
The Alamo
file,
Life
reports, 7-21-60.
During one shot
: Clark and Andersen, p. 80.
Wayne had agreed
: Roberts and Olson, p. 466.
Jimmy Grant was standing nearby
: USC, Batjac Collection, T. F. James, “The Man Who Talks Back to John Wayne,”
Cosmopolitan
, 8-60.
“Duke’s only problem”
: Eyman,
Five American Cinematographers
, pp. 133–34.
“All the fans”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Grant to Wayne, 10-11-59.
“Don’t let this”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Grant to Wayne, 12-4-59.
“was an opinionated guy”
: Shahan to Frank Thompson, Thompson archives.
“It looks like”
: Clothier to SE.
“There really weren’t any”
: Burt Kennedy to SE.
“Let’s see if you can make it”
: Relyea to SE.
UA refused to advance
: Clark and Andersen, p. 93.
“You know how they treat”
: Karen Sharpe Cramer to SE.
“Filthy minds and filthy words”
: AMPAS,
The Alamo
file,
Beverly Hills Citizen
, 1-12-60.
“Let’s go over to Lucey’s”
: Kane manuscript, p. 44.
“They had a great relationship”
: Ibid., p. 20.
“The emphasis”
: Clark and Andersen, p. 103.
Grant wrote that
: USC, Batjac Collection, folder marked “Grant, James E.—writer—Misc.”; Grant to Leiber, 3-22-60.
That same month
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 3, folder 3, “Comparative Summary of Production Costs,” 3-22-60.
Variety
reported
: USC, Batjac Collection, Army Archerd,
Variety
, 10-26-60.
“Ford didn’t do enough”
: Dan Ford to SE.
Not only that
: USC, Batjac Collection, “Loan and Security agreement,” box 6, folder 3.
The ad budget
: Clark and Andersen, p. 128.
“I have to admit”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Grant to Wayne (apparently), 8-16-60.
On September 24
: USC, Batjac Collection, Grant to Wayne, 9-24-60.
The rough outline
: Batjac Productions, Feldman to Jurow, 7-14-61.
The Alamo
premiered
: AMPAS,
The Alamo
file, Erskine Johnson, “Rip-Snortin’ Texas Premiere Opens Wayne’s Alamo Film,”
Los Angeles Mirror
, 10-25-60.
He told
The Hollywood Reporter 
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “John Wayne Lashes
Last Summer
and
Cordura
as Poison Polluting the Bloodstream of Hollywood,”
Hollywood Reporter
, 1-11-60.
“A great deal”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Philip K. Scheuer, “Alamo Wayne Dream Realized,”
Los Angeles Times
, 10-27-60.
“The word of mouth”
: Thomas Morgan, “God and Man in Hollywood,”
Esquire
, 5-63.
On November 4
: AMPAS,
The Alamo
file,
Hollywood Reporter
, 11-4-60.
“There doesn’t seem”
: USC, Batjac Collection, Grant to Wayne, 12-12-60.
“is kicking hell out of us”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Grant to Wayne, 12-13-60.
“
North to Alaska
business”
: Batjac Productions, Feldman to Wayne, 11-30-60.

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