John Wayne: The Life and Legend (122 page)
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Authors: Scott Eyman
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“That’s not a question”
: Joe McInerney, “John Wayne Talks Tough,”
Film Comment
, 9/10-72.
Breakfast at a restaurant
: USC, Special Collections, Warga Collection, Gene Siskel, “Duke’s for Real—Bigger Than Life,”
Chicago Tribune
, 7-5-70.
“It’s a cake”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Molly Haskell, “Wayne, Westerns and Women,”
Ladies’ Home Journal
, 7-76.
“When I’d ride horses”
: John Wayne Collector’s Edition,
American Cowboy
, 2010–2011, p. 20.
“Every night I’m gone”
: Aissa Wayne, p. 31.
“a marvelous father”
: Harry Carey Jr. to SE. All subsequent Harry Carey Jr. quotes derive from this interview.
“He was a friendly man”
: Dan Ford to SE.
“What are you doing?”
: Ed Faulkner to SE.
“any kind of heavy red meat”
: Aissa Wayne, p. 129.
“[Dean]
Rusk
was with Stilwell”
: Thomas B. Morgan, “God and Man in Hollywood,”
Esquire
, 5-63.
“I never had a build-up”
: MOMA, John Wayne, Bill Kelly, “John Wayne: Still Tall in the Saddle,”
Real West
, undated but 1978.
“Get it out of doors”
: USC, Universal Pictures Collection,
Jet Pilot
file, 12-30-49, box 435, folder 13395.
“He was terribly unlucky”
: Maureen O’Hara to SE.
“I knew Josie”
: Harry Carey Jr. to SE.
When he met Michael Caine
: Caine,
What’s It All About
? p. 235.
“If they didn’t want to come up”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, William Reynolds, “John Wayne’s Legacy,”
Cowboys & Indians
, 12-05.
“It’s not being natural”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jack Smith, “Wayne Plays Wayne Hard, Rides Fame Easy,”
Los Angeles Times
, undated, but 1960.
“It is quite obvious”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Joseph McBride, “Wayne, Stewart and ‘Shootist’—A Sense of History in the Making,”
Variety
, 1-29-76.
“I can’t play anything”
: Ray Hagen, “Henry Fonda: In His Own Words,”
Films of the Golden Age
, Spring 2011, p. 52.
“You are just paint”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Aline Mosby, “Producer Stupidity Profitable,”
Hollywood Citizen News
, 10-6-56.
Wayne decreed January 15
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Dorothy Manners, “John Wayne Is a Father Too,”
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
, 6-15-69.
“He went as far”
: Kane manuscript, p. 29.
His grandson Matthew Munoz
: MOMA, John Wayne, “John Wayne’s Grandson Reflects on his Priesthood,”
St. Anthony Messenger
, undated.
“You’re off the hook”
: Kane manuscript, p. 19.
“He really didn’t give”
: Patrick Wayne to SE.
Every year he sent his mother
: Roberts and Olson, p. 8.
“God, there sure were”
: Kane manuscript, p. 22.
“His relationship”
: Patrick Wayne to SE.
“He holds no malice”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, George Coleman oral history, 6-8-64.
“If you had an opinion”
: Ed Faulkner to SE.
“If you ever want anything”
: USC, Special Collections, Warga Collection, “Barkis Is Willing,” book proposal.
CHAPTER TWENTY
“The only reason”
: Burt Kennedy to SE.
“If you don’t get that faggot”
: Burt Kennedy,
Hollywood Trail Boss
, p. 11.
“Duke loved it”
: Harry Carey Jr. to SE.
In Keel’s memory
: Howard Keel to SE.
“I’m watching this”
: Clothier to SE.
“Duke doesn’t mean anything”
: Eyman,
Five American Cinematographers
, p. 135.
“He defined the word”
: Robert Walker Jr. to SE. All further quotes from Walker derive from this interview.
“We’re waiting for our star”
: Burt Kennedy to SE.
“Duke was tough”
: Ibid.
“It was uncanny”
: Ibid.
“I remember, after”
: Burt Kennedy,
Hollywood Trail Boss
, p. 20.
“If you were directing”
: Dean Smith to SE.
“He just couldn’t”
: Hal Needham to SE.
“It isn’t a cold picture”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Roy Newquist, “John Wayne Separates the Legend and the Myth,”
Chicago American Magazine
, 6-18-67.
“You never knew which Mitchum”
: Andrew Fenady to SE. All subsequent quotes from Fenady derive from this interview.
Johnny Crawford remembered
: McCarthy, p. 621.
the picture had been shooting for eighty-four days
: All this from AMPAS Special Collections, Paramount Collection files,
El Dorado.
“Goddamn it, Mitch”
: Server, p. 398.
“Duke will do anything”
: Server, p. 411.
“The second of two pictures”
: Rod Taylor to SE.
“I knew Ford was in town”
: Bob Shelton to SE.
“I’d love to do it”
: Dan Ford to SE.
“Mind if I hit”
: USC, Special Collections, Warga Collection, “Notes from New Mexico, April, 1971.”
“Duke and I”
: Pattie, p. 64.
“Duke had something”
: Stefanie Powers to SE.
“My husband is one of the few”
: MOMA, John Wayne, “The Wages of Virtue,”
Time
, 3-3-52.
“Pilar was very introverted”
: Rod Taylor to SE.
“I have no authority”
: Bob Shelton to SE.
“It’s some friends of Pilar’s”
: Joseph N. Bell, “John Wayne: He Found His Home Base,”
Los Angeles Times
, 6-10-88.
“My God, you sound great”
: Kane manuscript, p. 4.
“I’ve been through the most harrowing”
: Batjac Productions, Feldman to Wayne, 10-4-66.
“What got my goat”
: Munn, 267.
“My company and I”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 29, folder 14, Wayne to Stevens, 12-29-65.
George Stevens Jr. spoke to Johnson’s assistant Jack Valenti
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 29, folder 14, Stevens Jr. to Stevens, 1-6-66.
“The most effective way”
: Batjac Productions, Wayne to Johnson, 12-28-65.
Three weeks later
: Batjac Productions, Moyers to Wayne, 1-18-66.
“We feel confident”
: Batjac Productions, Wayne to Moyers, 2-18-66.
he received a Montagnard bracelet
: Batjac Productions, “The Drop,” a Special Forces publication, 9-81.
“I was actually afraid”
: Suid, p. 250.
“I urged them to go all out”
: USC, Batjac Collection,
The Green Berets
files, Valenti to Wayne, 4-3-67.
“Like yourself”
: Ed Faulkner to SE.
Batjac also spent $305,000
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 26, folder 31; also see Lawrence Suid, “Coppola Stages His Vietnam War,”
Los Angeles Times
, 10-23-77 ; and Richard Bellamy, “Flick Scene,”
Tolucan-Magnolian
, 7-2-69, same files.
For directing the picture
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 23, folder 15, contract dated 6-26-67.
“I respect your opinion”
: Takei, p. 250.
According to LeRoy
: LeRoy, p. 218.
David Janssen told
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 27, folder 22.
“Mervyn was a nice man”
: Ed Faulkner to SE.
“There were three directors”
: AMPAS, Winton Hoch file, John Gallagher, “Winton Hoch, Master of Technicolor,”
American Classic Screen
, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1982.
“On August 21”
: Ed Faulkner to SE.
“We have had seven”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 23, folder 14, Lukather to Meyers, 9-13-67.
Warners tried to add $150,000
: USC, Batjac Collection,
The Green Berets
file, Shuman to Carpenter, 12-31-67.
“to make an exciting”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, John Wayne, “His Hat Is Off to ‘Green Berets,’ ”
Los Angeles Times
, 1-28-68.
“immoral . . . a simple-minded”
: AMPAS,
The Green Berets
files, Michael Korda,
Glamour
, October 1968.
“a cliché-ridden throw-back”
: AMPAS,
The Green Berets
files, John Mahoney,
The Hollywood Reporter
, 6-17-68.
“a filmmaker of truly monstrous”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Renata Adler, “The Absolute End of the ‘Romance’ of War,”
New York Times
, 6-30-68.
Mike Wayne wrangled
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 23, folder 14, M. Wayne to Kiwitt, 10-14-70.
“They overkilled it”
: Suid, p. 256.
“All I know”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Will Tusher, “John Wayne’s View of Movies a Fooler,”
The Hollywood Reporter
, 2-5-75.
“It’s Cowboys and Indians”
: AMPAS,
The Green Berets
files, Ronald Gold, “Wayne Hopes to Avoid Politics,”
Variety
, 11-1-67.
“I know he was right-wing”
: Bertrand Tavernier to SE.
“I’m about as political”
: Batjac Productions, Official Report of the 29th Republican National Convention.
“I could get John Wayne”
: Mike Wayne to SE.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
“Dad was on vacation”
: Michael Wayne to SE.
“You’re a pretty smart”
: Henry Hathaway to SE.
“I looked for weeks, literally”
: Ibid.
“Old Henry”
: Dean Smith to SE.
“My problem with her”
: Ibid.
“I studied his films”
: Dennis Hopper to SE.
“I’m sure this one”
: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection,
True Grit
files, Wayne to Wallis, 10-14-68.
“If they’d been real bullets”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Angela Fox Dunn, “Ten Stars Remember the Duke,”
New York Times
syndication, 1989.
“It’s not an easy thing”
: Lilley, Gary Combs interview, p. 46.
“It was a courtroom scene”
: Patrick Wayne to SE.
“Acting in the movie business”
: George Kennedy to SE.
“I plead with you”
: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection,
True Grit
, Wayne to Wallis, 1-28-69.
“Usually, I attend”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, John Wayne as told to Maurice Zolotow, “It Happened Like This,”
American Weekly
, 11-7-54.
“very drunk”
: Bragg, p. 329.
“Westerns are different today”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Frank Barron, “John Wayne, The Iron Duke, Sets 2-4 Pics for Next Year,”
The Hollywood Reporter
, 5-28-68.
“There is nothing”
: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection, Hazen to Davis, 9-30-69.
“Rooster Cogburn”
: Cecilia deMille Presley to SE.
“For my father”
: Michael Wayne to SE.
“the best dancer ever”
: Lee Meriwether to SE.
“Look at that face”
: Aissa Wayne, p. 161.
“When we got through shooting”
: Eyman,
Five American Cinematographers
, p. 144.
“He had huge hands”
: Lilley, Christopher Mitchum interview, p. 131.
“Aren’t we getting”
: Andrew Fenady to SE.
“Are you a professional”
: Fagen, p. 198.
“Who is the smart son of a bitch”
: Michael Wayne to SE.
“It wasn’t a script”
: Ed Faulkner to SE.
“Wayne had a hard time”
: McBride, p. 118.
They scoured the set
: Anthony Petkovich, “Mike Henry: From James Bond to Tarzan to John Wayne’s Green Berets,”
Filmfax
, October/November 2011.
“You know what your uncle did?”
: Aissa Wayne, p. 105.
“still as tough”
: Dean Smith to SE.
“Doing anything tonight?”
: Ed Faulkner to SE.
“Well, why don’t we go”
: Lilley, Christopher Mitchum interview, p. 133.
“Don’t worry”
: Bob Shelton to SE.
“I see pay-TV”
: USC, John Wayne, Arthur Lewis, “The Duke Copters in for a Chat—And Talks Tough About the Movies,”
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