by Marc Eliot
The first Green Beret comes on speaking German, to show his versatility in languages. When the VC have just been sprayed with flames, a Green Beret is asked about his apparent affinity for this kind of thing. “When I was a kid,” he says modestly, “my dad gave me a chemistry set. And it got bigger than both of us.” When the VC, nonetheless, win the Special Forces camp in hand-to-hand combat, a soldier calls in air support. “It’ll only take a minute,” he says, like a dentist, as the VC are mowed down from the air. The journalist, “the former skeptic about the war,” the press kit synopsis chooses to say at this point, “leaves to write about the heroic exploits of the American and South Vietnamese forces.”
The point is that Wayne is using spoken German, lunatic chemistry sets, machine killing of men who have won fairly hand-to-hand, without apparently noticing that this is not exactly the stuff of which heroic fantasies are made. This is crazy. If the left-wing extremist’s nightmare of what we already are has become the right-wing extremist’s ideal of what we ought to be we are in steeper trouble than anyone could have imagined. The movie opened yesterday at the Warner Theater.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
324 “If you’re gonna . . .” The anecdote and quotes of Wayne showing Chris Mitchum how to handle a gun are from Bogdanovich, Who the Devil Made It, p. 244.
326 “Ooh, they’re going to hate you,” and “Maybe, . . .” from an interview with Bruce Dern, Entertainment Weekly, January 24, 2014.
326 “In about three months . . .” Ethan Wayne, in his preface to John Wayne: The Genuine Article, August 2012.
327 “Hell, it’s over with Pilar . . .” John Wayne to Wayne Warga, from the John Wayne Collection of papers at the University of Oregon, reprinted in John Wayne: The Genuine Article, p. 17.
327 “We finished shooting . . .” Pat Stacy, from a televised interview with Connie Martinson, 1983.
330 “From then on . . .” Pilar Wayne, John Wayne, pp. 261–262.
336 “He was thin . . .” Pilar Wayne, John Wayne, p. 268.
EPILOGUE
339 “Hell, I’d have gotten sick . . .” John Wayne, quoted by Wiley and Bona, John Wayne: American, p. 562.
341 “I really prayed . . .” Pilar Wayne, John Wayne Biography. executive producer Ken Burns, made in association with Van Ness Productions, Fox Star Productions and 20th Century-Fox, 1996.
Index
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Abbott, Bud, 28, 172
Abe Lincoln in Illinois, 106
Academy Awards: (1935), 72–73; (1939), 90–91; (1940), 106–7; (1948), 161; (1949), 179–81, 185; (1952), 203–7; (1954), 218; (1956), 243; (1960), 275, 278–80; (1970), 1–9, 322, 323; (1975), 331–32; (1979), 337, 339–40
Acuff, Roy, 177
Adair, “Red,” 318
Adler, Buddy, 249, 250, 254, 283, 284
Adler, Luther, 171
Adler, Renata, 316, 325
Adventure’s End, 77
Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, The, 159n
African Queen, The, 331
Agar, John, 160, 236
Airport, 217
Alamo, The, 3, 177–78, 197, 199, 210, 220, 221, 247, 258, 260, 262–63, 267–80, 283, 285, 294, 316, 317
Aldrich, Robert, 217
Allegheny Uprising, 97, 98, 100
Allen, Elizabeth, 295
Allen, Fred, 63n
Allen, Woody, 334
All Quiet on the Western Front, 128
All the King’s Men, 3, 169, 180, 204
Altman, Robert, 323
American Film Institute, 244, 328
Ames, Stephen, 147
Amos and Andy, 236
Anderson, Michael, 243n
Ando, Eiko, 254–55
Andrews, Julie, 309n, 322
Andriot, Lucien, 50
Angel and the Badman, 64n, 145–46, 171, 215
Anne of the Thousand Days, 1
Annie Laurie, 30n
Ann-Margret, 326
Anthony, Stewart, 118
Apartment, The, 3, 280
Araner, The (boat), 67, 75, 78, 79, 176
Archer, Eugene, 274
Ardrey, Robert, 243
Argosy Pictures, 103, 158, 159, 172, 174, 187, 197, 231, 232, 233
Arizona, 57n
Arliss, Georg, 4
Armendáriz, Pedro, 170
Arnaz, Desi, 219n, 221
Arness, James, 208, 223, 234–35
Around the World in Eighty Days, 243
Arrowsmith, 71
Arthur, Jean, 129
Ashburn, Allen W., 212
Astaire, Fred, 193n
Astor, Mary, 232
Atkinson, Buddy, 336
Auer, John H., 115
Autry, Gene, 65, 67n, 98n, 105, 120
Avalon, Frankie, 271
Ayres, Lew, 128, 161
Baby Face, 63n
Bacall, Lauren, 219n, 227, 333
Bach, Stephen, 111n, 112n
Back to Bataan, 135–36, 137
Bacon, James, 299
Bad and the Beautiful, The, 203n
Balaban, Bob, 280
Ball, Lucille, 221, 308
Bancroft, George, 79, 83
Barbarian and the Geisha, The, 254–55, 256, 268, 269
Bardelys the Magnificent, 28, 30n
Bardot, Brigitte, 284
Barnes, Binnie, 123–24
Barnes, Howard, 161
Barnett, Beverly, 80, 207–8
Barrett, James Lee, 308
Barrymore, Lionel, 4
Barzman, Ben, 135
Bataan, 135n
Batjac, 3, 218, 227, 228, 249, 251, 253, 267–68, 271–72, 275, 278, 296–97, 303, 305, 306, 308, 313–14, 319, 323, 329
Battle Cry, 314
Battleground, 179n, 180n
Battle of Little Bighorn, 159
Battle of Midway, 141
Baur Diaz Ceballos, Esperanza “Chata,” 5n, 126, 128, 131–32
and her mother, 132, 138, 147, 201, 207
separation and divorce, 201–2, 207–8, 209, 211–12, 213–17, 223
spending money, 178, 189, 215
unhappiness of, 138–39, 145, 147, 176, 194, 199, 201
wedding of Wayne and, 137–39, 141
Baxter, Warner, 4, 44–45
Bazin, André, What Is Cinema?, 88–89
BBC4, 205
Beau John, 336
Beckley, Paul V., 290
Beebe, Ford, 60
Belcher, Frank, 211–12, 216, 223
Bellah, James Warner, 159, 174, 188, 233, 288
Beneath the Planet of the Apes, 323
Benjy, 159n
Bennison, Andrew, 44
Berger, Senta, 303
Berman, Ted, 302
Bernstein, Elmer, 332
Berry, John, 249
Best Years of Our Lives, The, 144, 157
Big Jake, 193n, 324, 325
Big Jim McLain, 208–9, 227, 269
Big Punch, The, 33–34
Big Sky, The, 234
Big Stampede, The, 63n
Big Trail, The, 45–52, 55, 56, 58, 76, 78, 79, 82, 87, 91, 96, 97, 118n, 119–20, 204, 242
Birdwell, Russell, 275, 277, 278, 279
Birth of a Nation, 33, 44, 70
Bitter Tea of General Yen, The, 82
Blackie (dog), 255
Black Watch, The, 41, 71
Blane, Sally, 75
Blood Alley, 227–29, 247, 248, 269, 305, 333
Bloomberg, Daniel, 203
Blue Angel, The, 81, 109, 111
Blue Steel, 64n
Blyth, Ann, 250
Bogart, Humphrey, 4, 52, 57, 98, 120, 161, 219n, 228, 254, 331
Bogdanovich, Peter, 88n, 89–90, 170, 175n, 239, 244, 251, 285, 286, 291, 306
Bond, Mary Lou, 278
Bond, Ward, 83, 104, 115, 126, 134, 137, 142, 149, 160, 187, 196, 197, 258
; death of, 277–78, 281, 294
early film work of, 41, 58
friendship with Wayne, 67, 74, 75, 127, 131, 131–32, 138, 173, 250
in Quiet Man, 198, 200
in The Searchers, 237, 239
in 3 Godfathers, 170, 171
in Wings of Eagles, 252
Boomtown, 106
Booth, Shirley, 203n
Borgnine, Ernest, 4
Born Reckless, 44
Bosworth, Patricia, 86, 164
Bowie, Jim, 262, 270, 277
Box Office Management, 334
Boyle, Marie, 50
Brackett, Leigh, 305
Bradbury, Robert N., 64
Brand, Max, 110
Brando, Marlon, 4, 165, 204n, 220, 227
Brandon, Henry, 240
Brandt, James, 146
Brandt, Joe, 57
Brannigan, 329, 331
Brassac, Virginia, 77
Brazzi, Rosanno, 253
Breaking Point, The, 170
Breaking the Sound Barrier, 203n
Breen, Joe, 87
Brennan, Walter, 163, 166, 258, 259
Brewer, Roy, 150
Bridge on the River Kwai, 252–53, 261
Bridges, Lloyd, 206
Bringing Up Baby, 162
Britt, May, 271
Bronson, Charles, 334
Brooks, Mel, 334
Brooks, Richard, 270
Browder, Earl, 149
Brown, Francis Li, 223
Brown, Harry, 171, 178, 305
Brown, Pat, 307
Brown of Harvard, 28, 30n, 334
Bruce, David, 158n
Brynner, Yul, 4, 220, 243, 303
Bullitt, 327
Burks, Robert, 213
Burton, Richard, 1, 5, 7, 8–9, 309n
Bushman, Francis X., 28, 59
Bus Stop, 243n
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 7
Buttolph, David, 124
Caan, James, 305, 306, 310
Cabot, Bruce, 307
Cagney, James, 4, 52, 98, 191, 231, 258n
Cahiers du Cinéma, 244, 343
Cahill, U.S. Marshall, 326
Caine Mutiny, The, 137, 236n
California Straight Ahead, 77
Campbell, Glen, 6–7, 320n
Cane, Joseph, 134
Cannes Film Festival, 232
Canutt, Enos Edward “Yakima”; “Yak,” 48n, 59, 65, 67n, 74, 85
Capra, Frank, 3, 57n, 72–73, 82, 87, 90, 129, 187
Capucine, 274, 283, 284
Cardinale, Claudia, 297
Carey, Harry, 23–24, 33, 59, 78n, 83, 117, 123, 145, 170
death of, 163
filling the role of, 34, 68, 71, 85, 240
Carey, Harry Jr. “Dobie,” 48n, 76, 163, 170, 171, 175
in The Searchers, 237, 239, 241
Carey, Olive, 138, 237
Carr, Trem, 64, 76, 77
Carradine, John, 79, 83
Carson, Johnny, 339, 340
Carter, Jimmy, 295, 334–35, 336, 341
Cartoonists Guild, 151n
Casablanca, 99, 120
Cassidy, Hopalong, 172
Cast a Giant Shadow, 302–3, 304, 305, 309
Cat Ballou, 300n
Central Airport, 63n
Ceplair, Larry, 150
Champion, 180
Champlin, Charles, 321
Chaplin, Charlie, 23, 31, 55, 106, 219n
Chase, Borden, 147, 162
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 78n
Cheer Up and Smile, 44
Cherrill, Virginia, 55, 56
Chisholm Trail, The, 162
Chisum, 321–22
Christmas at Mojave Tank, 170n
Churchill, Marguerite, 48, 49, 51, 52, 55, 56
Churubusco Studios, 300
Cimino, Michael, 340
Cinecittà Studios, 253, 303
Circus World, 286, 297
Cisco Kid, 44–45
Citizen Kane, 89, 103
City Lights, 55
Clark, Colbert, 63
Clemente, Steve, 48
Cleopatra, 293
Clift, Montgomery, 145, 163–65, 167, 168, 204n, 241, 258n
Cline, Eddie, 41
Clothier, William, 269, 271–72, 278, 285, 307, 326
Cohn, Harry, 57–58, 59, 61, 82, 169, 204n, 234, 271
Colbert, Claudette, 96, 102
Coleman, George, 228
Coleman, Ronald, 125
Collier’s, 78
Columbia Pictures, 57–59, 82, 169, 192, 204n, 221n
Comancheros, The, 285
Come Back, Little Sheba, 203n
Communism:
anti-Communist films, 195
and anti-Semitism, 186–87
and FBI, 191, 267
and Hollywood blacklist, 3–4, 135, 153–55, 170, 174, 185–87, 190–93, 202, 204n, 205, 249–50, 278, 281, 284, 307
and Hollywood Ten, 100, 204n, 273
and HUAC, see HUAC
and MPA, 129–30, 149–50, 152–54, 169, 186, 191, 204n
and unions, 73, 100–102, 149, 150–51
and Vietnam War, 300
Waldorf Statement, 153, 154n, 191, 279
Wayne against, 3, 5, 74, 101, 105, 129, 135, 136, 144, 148, 149–55, 169, 173, 174, 185–87, 202, 205, 208, 227, 249–50, 262, 272, 278, 300
Compulsion, 284
Conflict, 64, 76
Conners, Mike, 212
Connery, Sean, 309n
Conqueror, The, 210, 220–22, 248, 250–51, 269
Conway, Jack, 28, 30n, 106
Cooper, Gary, 3, 8, 45, 51, 81, 82, 98, 109, 149, 162, 196, 203–6, 210, 227, 235
Cooper, James Fenimore, 102
Cooper, Merian C., 72, 81, 186, 203, 233, 234
Corey, Jeff, 320n
Cornell, Kathleen, 334
Cosmopolitan, 287
Costello, Lou, 28, 172
Couderc, Pierre, 50n
Coward, Noel, 124
Cowboys, The, 325–26
Crabbe, Buster, 58
Craig, Yvonne, 248
Crawford, Broderick, 3, 4, 111, 169, 180, 181
Crawford, Joan, 116, 125
Crisp, Donald, 149
Cristal, Linda, 273
Crockett, Davy, 177, 212, 236, 247, 262, 270, 272–77, 301, 302, 317
Cromwell, John, 106
Cronkite, Walter, 315
Crosby, Bing, 131, 172, 202, 227
Crowther, Bosley, 98, 161, 167, 171, 208, 243, 276
Cruze, James, 82
Cukor, George, 2, 87, 106, 107
Cumming, Irving, 44
Curtis, Ken, 237, 248, 271
Curtiz, Michael, 2, 40, 170, 209, 285
Custer, George, 159
Dailey, Dan, 248, 252
Dakota, 137
Darby, Kim, 319, 320
Dark Command, The, 97, 98
Darkness at Noon, 152
Dark Victory, 90
Dassin, Jules, 125, 280
Daves, Delmer, 257
Davis, Bette, 90, 107
Davis, Ron, 189
Davis, Sammy Jr., 271, 331, 340
Dawn Rider, The, 64n
Day, Doris, 309n
Day, Laraine, 147–48, 218
Days of Wine and Roses, The, 290n
Dean, James, 165, 197, 209, 243
Deceiver, The, 58
December 7, 141n
Dee, Frances, 115
Deep Throat, 7
Deer Hunter, The, 340
de Havilland, Olivia, 161, 206
Dekker, Albert, 123–24, 128
De Laurentiis, Dino, 332, 333
Del Rio, Delores, 158
DeMille, Cecil B., 110, 119, 149–50, 179n, 185–87, 188, 192, 203n, 243n
Dern, Bruce, 325–26
Desert Trail, The, 64n
Desilu Productions, 221
Destry Rides Again, 81, 87, 110, 284
Devine, Andy, 40, 79, 82, 83, 177, 286, 289, 335
De Wilde, Brandon
, 248
Dickinson, Angie, 258, 259
Dieterle, William, 150
Dietrich, Marlene, 45, 96, 116, 125–26, 204, 205, 283
and Destry, 81, 110, 184
and Pittsburgh, 125
and Spoilers, 123
Wayne’s affair with, 107, 109–13, 115, 118, 122–23, 125
Directors Guild, 72–73, 101, 103, 186, 187, 190
Dirty Harry, 205, 329
Disney, Walt, 3, 106, 129, 151–52, 163, 177, 212, 236, 247, 262, 276, 284
Dmytryk, Edward, 135, 136, 236n, 294
Doctor Bull, 71
Doering, Otto C. “Ole” Jr., 158
Donen, Stanley, 2, 180n, 192n
Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,” 131, 158n
Donovan’s Reef, 286, 295–96
Dors, Diana, 252
Dorsey, Tommy, 143
Douglas, Kirk, 179n, 180, 181, 229, 249, 273n, 297, 303, 307
Douglas, Paul, 180
Driscoll, Bobby, 163
Drop Kick, The, 30n
Dru, Joanne, 165, 175, 241
Drums Along the Mohawk, 87, 102
Duke (dog), 21
Dunne, Irene, 96, 97, 149
Dunne, Phillip, 105
Durocher, Leo, 147–48
Duvall, Robert, 320
Dwan, Allan, 3, 178–79, 180
Earp, Wyatt, 157–58
East of Eden, 243n
Eastwood, Clint, 205, 235, 249, 323n, 329, 334, 340
Easy Rider, 5, 245, 329
Edelman, Louis, 196
Edeson, Arthur, 50
Edison, Thomas A., 73
Edison Trust, 46
Edwards, Blake, 290n
El Dorado, 305–6, 309, 310, 323, 333
Eldridge, Florence, 105
Elmer Gantry, 270
Englund, Steven, 150–51
Enright, Ray, 123
Erickson, A. F., 41, 44
Evarts, Hal G., 50
Everson, William K., 23, 88, 98
Exodus, 279, 280
Eyles, Allen, 118
Fabian, 274
Fairbanks, Douglas Jr., 63
Falk, Peter, 280
Famous Artists Corporation, 96
Far Country, The, 234
Farrow, John, 212, 222, 223, 229n
Farrow, Mia, 319
Fast, Howard, 273n
FBI, 191, 267
Feldman, Charles K., 96–97, 99, 111, 119, 123, 125, 153, 163, 166, 169, 219, 249, 283–84, 298, 306
Fellows, Robert, 145, 218
Fenton, Frank, 253
Ferrer, Jose, 4, 290n
Feurer, Cy, 124
Fidler, Jimmie/Jimmy, 112
Field, Betty, 117, 118
Fighting Kentuckian, The, 174, 176–77
Fighting Seabees, The, 130, 131, 137, 172, 208
Fitzgerald, Barry, 104
Fitzgerald, Ella, 219n
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 41
