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Authors: Scott Eyman
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John Wayne: The Life and Legend (121 page)
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Feldman wrote his client
: Batjac Productions, Feldman to Wayne, 2-21-59.
UA further cut
: AMPAS,
The Alamo
file, “30 Mins. Shortened Alamo Out in March,”
Variety
, 2-8-61.
“In my opinion”
: Clark and Andersen, p. 139.
“This is sheer, unadulterated”
: Ibid., p. 145.
“an ode to a heroic era”
: Frank Thompson, “The Alamo Wayne’s Reel Heroes,”
American Cinematographer
, July 1990, p. 35.
“Duke didn’t have”
: Burt Kennedy to SE.
“Everybody made money”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Roy Newquist, “John Wayne Separates the Legend and the Myth,”
Chicago American Magazine
, 6-18-67.
Before the film was released
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jack Smith, “Wayne Plays Wayne Hard, Rides Fame Easy,”
Los Angeles Times
, undated but 1960.
By comparison
: All these figures come from Balio, p. 138.
The picture’s negative cost
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 3, folder 21, “File Alamo audit.”
“extraordinary miscellaneous charges”
: Wayne to Landesman, 2-77, courtesy of Joe Musso.
“it would be a crime”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 3, folder 17, Michael Wayne memo, 10-14-65.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
“Ward had many reputations”
: Robert Horton to SE. All subsequent quotes from Horton derive from this interview.
“steadfastness, courage, and clarity”
: AMPAS, Ward Bond file, partial clipping,
American Home
, August 1960.
He would start his day
: Vaughan, p. 93; Robert Fuller to SE.
John Ford knew
: Dan Ford to SE.
“Hold on,” blurted Wilson
: AMPAS, Ward Bond,
TV Guide
, undated, but November 1960.
Harry Carey and Ken Curtis sang
: AMPAS, Ward Bond, Jeff Davis, “500 Attend Funeral for Ward Bond,”
Los Angeles Mirror
, 11-7-60.
“I’ll tell you what you do”
: Lilley, Terry Wilson, CD companion to
Campfire Conversations
.
The only untoward thing
: Ibid.
“I had never seen him”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 486.
“funerals are so medieval”
: USC, Special Collections, Warga.
But the president of the Birch Society
: Rosenfeld, p. 304.
“What a bunch of horseshit”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 568.
“Actors are now directing”
: Behlmer, pp. 259–60.
Wayne came aboard
: McCarthy, p. 571.
“Listen kids”
: Ibid., p. 580.
“Duke, there’s a leopard”
: Munn, p. 237.
Martinelli also claimed
: McCarthy, p. 583.
“You take a different”
: McCarthy, p. 587.
“I remember his working”
: McGilligan,
Backstory 2
, p. 23.
“We should have done something”
: Bogdanovich, p. 292.
“I would appreciate”
: Batjac Productions, Wayne to Hawks, 6-12-61.
“There’s a hell of a role”
: Stuart Whitman to SE. All quotations from Whitman derive from this interview.
“Are you the fella”
: Tom Mankiewicz to SE.
“Duke directed
more
than half”
: Dean Smith to SE.
“Duke and George Sherman”
: Eyman,
Five American Cinematographers
, p. 135.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Wayne was getting
: Eyman,
Print the Legend
, p. 488.
He complained
: Bogdanovich, p. 290.
“James Edward Grant”
: Dan Ford to SE.
“Ford has been making bad”
: AMPAS,
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
production files, Mike Herr,
New Leader
, 7-9-62.
“I am writing this”
: Batjac Productions, Zanuck to Wayne, 6-28-61.
“I am shocked”
: Batjac Productions, Zanuck to Wayne, 9-8-61.
Zanuck directed all
: AMPAS,
The Longest Day
production files, letter from DFZ,
Saturday Review
, 12-15-62.
“Wayne never showed”
: Knox, p. 190.
Mickey Knox reported
: Knox, p. 191.
“[Ford] never should have used me”
: John Wayne to SE.
“Ford hired a friend”
: William Clothier to SE.
“John [Ford] called”
: Dorothy Lamour to SE.
“the screenplay”
: AMPAS,
Donovan’s Reef
files, Stanley Eichelbaum,
San Francisco Examiner
, 7-18-63.
“There was no pride”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Dean Jennings, “The Woes of the Box Office King,”
The Saturday Evening Post
, c. 1962.
Her appointments included
: John Wayne, p. 190.
“He liked to fish”
: Bert Minshall to SE. All subsequent quotes from Minshall derive from this interview.
“I need the space”
: Thomas B. Morgan, “God and Man in Hollywood,”
Esquire
, 5-63.
“I don’t want my boat”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Rich Roberts, “A Goose Flies Again,”
Los Angeles Times
, 10-21-92.
“I don’t trust a man”
: Minshall to SE.
Wayne took no salary
: Batjac Productions, David Picker wire to Feldman, 8-27-62.
After recoupment
: Batjac Productions, David Picker to Arthur Krim, 8-22-62.
“promised complete autonomy”
: AMPAS, Paramount Collection, Caffey notes, 9-12-62.
“Why not?”
: Lilley, p. 15.
“If you worked for Batjac”
: Stefanie Powers to SE. All subsequent quotes from Powers derive from this interview.
“C’mon, Maureen”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “John Wayne as the Last Hero,”
Time
, 8-8-69.
“He was a marvelous actor”
: Ed Faulkner to SE.
He also drove
: Ibid.
“Good God, Duke”
: Davis, p. 250.
“This town is full”
: USC, Batjac Collection, Grant to Mike Wayne, 2-18-63.
“The Boss is around back”
: Bob Shelton to SE. All subsequent quotes from Shelton derive from this interview.
“I almost crapped”
: Ibid.
The cotton was eventually
: Pattie, p. 50.
But now Wayne entered
: AMPAS, Paramount Collection, “Mr. Caffey” deal memo, 6-23-64.
Wayne was earning only $500,000
: AMPAS, Paramount Collection, Wayne contract abstract, 6-23-64.
“I came into it”
: Howard W. Koch to SE. All subsequent quotes from Koch derive from this interview.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
“It’s as if you put”
: USC, Batjac Collection, Grant to Mike Wayne, received 4-1-63.
“I didn’t realize”
: Capra, pp. 489–90.
“These people are all”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 16, Grant to M. Wayne, 6-24-63.
“We had gale forces”
: MOMA, John Wayne,
International Yachtsman
, 1978.
“I met Duke”
: Rod Taylor to SE. All subsequent quotes from Taylor derive from this interview.
“Never lose the common touch”
: Aissa Wayne, pp. 91–92.
“You didn’t have to be a Kennedy fan”
: USC, Special Collections, Warga Collection.
“There are so many”
: USC, Special Collections, “WW’s Notes Continued,” 5-16-71.
He and the politically liberal
: Heritage Auctions,
The Personal Property of John Wayne Auction Catalog
, Newman to Wayne, 12-20-61.
“Morrison looks dreadful”
: USC, Batjac Collection, Grant to Mike Wayne, 1-17-64.
“So maybe it’s six months off the end”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Dean Jennings, “John Wayne: The Woes of the Box Office King,”
The Saturday Evening Post
, c. 1962.
“I can use an earthquake”
: USC, Batjac Collection, Army Archerd, “Just for Variety,”
Variety
, 10-26-60.
“He had my respect”
: Fujiwara, p. 321.
“Look, John, anybody”
: Preminger, p. 161.
“the most cooperative actor”
: Fujiwara, p. 321.
“We would usually”
: Douglas, p. 379.
“He
looked
ill”
: Fujiwara, p. 322.
“I not only served on it”
: Kane manuscript, p. 46.
Kane sensed
: Kane manuscript, p. 12.
$600,000 plus
: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection,
The Sons of Katie Elder
file, Hazen to Karp, 6-26-64.
“Well, you know”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jane Ardmore, “Cancer Doesn’t Fight Fair,” 9-76.
“Well, Hal”
: Wallis, p. 157.
“All he could say”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Roy Newquist, “John Wayne Wins His Toughest Fight,”
Chicago American
, 6-25-67.
“Due to unforeseen”
: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection, Wallis to Nathan, 9-14-64.
He told Wayne
: Roberts and Olson, p. 510.
What Jones found
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Roy Newquist, “John Wayne Wins His Toughest Fight,”
Chicago American
, 6-25-67.
“It looked like”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jane Ardmore, “Cancer Doesn’t Fight Fair,”
Family Health
, 9-76.
“I’ll never work again”
: Aissa Wayne, p. 108.
“If we hold onto”
: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection, Hazen to Wallis, 10-20-64.
Wallis told them
: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection,
The Sons of Katie Elder
file, Wallis to Weltner, 11-11-64.
For years
: Roberts and Olson, p. 515.
“Sorry to hear”
: Heritage Auctions,
The Personal Property of John Wayne Auction Catalog
, Wayne to Cole, 11-22-64, p. 230.
“I felt sorry for the cabbie”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 521.
“Old Henry”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Roger Ebert, 12-7-68.
“the meanest man”
: USC, John Wayne, Roderick Mann, “John Wayne—A Natural as The Shootist,”
Los Angeles Times
, 3-7-76.
“That feeling . . . of being a burden”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, James Bacon, “Wayne’s Biggest Bout vs. Killer Cancer,”
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
, 3-14-65.
“I told [the public about the cancer]”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood,” 3-2-65.
“He had to be the macho man”
: Davis, p. 266.
“Duke was Duke”
: George Kennedy to SE. All subsequent quotes from Kennedy derive from this interview.
“He did not want to take a chance”
: Dean Smith to SE.
“We argued all day”
: Dennis Hopper to SE. All subsequent quotes from Hopper derive from this interview.
“Westerns are art”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Me? I Feel Fine,”
Los Angeles Times
, 1-18-65.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
“Wayne was approached”
: McGilligan,
Backstory 3
, p. 377.
“If God set out”
: Shavelson, p. 18.
“Just let me finish this”
: Kane manuscript, p. 29.
“Duke was essentially”
: Ibid.
“Wayne took the western”
: Shaw, p. 72.
“You’re not the reactionary”
: Ibid., p. 106.
“Duke would bring his”
: Cecilia deMille Presley to SE.
“Look at that changing scene”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Joseph N. Bell, “John Wayne’s Very Private World,”
Good Housekeeping
, 2-73.
The Solomonic decision
: Olsen, p. 123.
Wayne sued Roos
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “John Wayne vs. Manager,”
Los Angeles Times
, 6-12-65; “Star Complains Hotel Idea Costly,”
Hollywood Citizen-News
, 6-12-65.
“What makes you think”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 591.
He would burst
: Aissa Wayne, pp. 4–5.
“A lot of the time”
: Michael Wayne to SE.
“He was always fair”
: USC, Batjac Collection, taped interview with Michael and Pat Wayne, box 33, folder 23.
“To me, to lose a game”
: Ibid.
“Duke never, never”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 74.
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