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“the most iconic way”: Bogdanovich, interview with author.
“was always underrated”: Becoming John Ford, documentary.
“one of the most beautiful films”: Ibid.
“safeguard the perimeter”: Donovan, Way of Men, 1–3.
“I am convinced that the white people did more harm”: Tom Champion, quoted in Jo Ella Powell Exley, Frontier Blood: Saga of the Parker Family, 176.
“Ethan Edwards is not a villain”: Becoming John Ford, documentary.
“the audience doesn’t hate him”: Bogdanovich, interview with author.
“tribalism”: Searching for John Ford, documentary.
“picturing the complicated face of racism”: Bogdanovich, interview with author.
“community, tradition, ritual”: Ibid.
“peace and acceptance”: Becoming John Ford, documentary.
“the eternal outsider”: Bogdanovich, interview with author.
CHAPTER 5: LOVE AND POLITICS
“I was dancing barefoot”: Davis, Duke, 166–67.
“Like many fine artists”: Davis, John Ford, 8.
“If you don’t live up to it”: Pilar Wayne, John Wayne, 43.
“I was America to them”: Davis, Duke, 114.
“You know, our most decorated soldier”: Hartmann, quoted in ibid., 119.
“bully John Wayne”: Ibid., 117.
“He would become a ‘super patriot’ ”: Pilar Wayne, John Wayne, 43.
“A great, pale jungle moon”: Davis, Duke, 167.
“in fact…a high-class call girl”: Pilar Wayne, John Wayne, 170.
“Anyway I don’t give a four letter word”: Davis, Duke, 109.
“Duke…walked away”: Ibid., 110.
“My husband is one of the few persons”: Ibid., 124.
“physical and mental cruelty”: Ibid., 168.
“It was an embarrassing ordeal”: Davis, Duke, 178–79.
“To me, [Hispanic women] seem more warm”: Wayne quoted in ibid., 186.
“until they were ready to rot”: Leaming, Katharine Hepburn, 305–6.
“His family life was terrible”: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, featurette.
“Well, Ma, I sure fell in love”: John Ford to Mary Ford, JFP.
“The only things I miss”: Ibid.
“find a manlier occupation”: Leaming, Katharine Hepburn, 328.
“Abuse poured constantly”: Ibid., 312.
“a little frightened”: Ibid., 310.
“the more successful he became”: Ibid., 312.
“three drops of juniper juice”: Ibid., 310.
“Fearful of intimacy”: Davis, John Ford, 8–9.
“was not, for instance, homophobic”: Eyman, Print the Legend, 21.
“poked fun at Ford’s ‘infatuation’ ”: McBride, Searching for John Ford, 121.
“This may have been the first time”: Ibid.
“the gossip about Jack’s masculinity”: Ibid., 122.
“I walked into his office”: O’Hara, ’Tis Herself, 190.
“the separate bedrooms”: Ibid., 190–91.
“It was the fourth picture”: Ibid., 187–88.
“Well, did Herself”: Ibid., 188.
“His fantasies and crushes”: Ibid., 191.
“Father—I love my man dearly”: Ibid.
“still in Bel Air before he moved”: Bogdanovich, interview with author.
“like a fella”: McBride, Searching for John Ford, 451.
“an unquenchable need”: Davis, John Ford, 9.
“We make out of the quarrel”: John Butler Yeats, Anima Hominis.
“Ah, go on!”: Davis, John Ford, 162.
“I don’t think there is anyone”: Ibid., 244.
“undaunted by the vicious campaign”: PR for Big Jim McLain.
“One wonders about the future”: Quoted in Davis, Duke, 166.
“Whether he went overboard”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 6: LOST BATTLES
“That picture lost so much money”: Quoted in Davis, Duke, 233.
“Well, Wayne was the central character”: Bogdanovich, interview with author.
“He ate, slept, and dreamed that picture”: Patrick Wayne quoted in Davis, Duke, 224.
“had always been growly with us”: Roberson, quoted in Davis, John Ford, 298.
“It was the first time”: Ford quoted in ibid.
“I hope to go to Texas”: Davis, Duke, 227.
“Jesus Christ, Duke”: Ibid.
“I don’t think we used three cuts”: Ibid., 228.
“He had put every penny”: Ibid., 227.
“It will last forever, run forever”: Ibid., 231.
“I have great affection”: Ibid., 233.
“reawaken American patriotism”: Ibid., 220.
“response to all the flag burners”: Ibid.
“death was more than a dismal abstract”: Ibid., 235.
“The Hero Doesn’t Win”: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, featurette.
“I’d worked twenty years for no gain”: Davis, Duke, 234.
“I was scared to death”: Wayne quoted in Munn, John Wayne, 231.
“I’ll tell you why I love her”: Davis, Duke, 238.
“ ‘If I don’t make this movie’ ”: Aissa Wayne, John Wayne, My Father, 47.
“looked more like photography”: Directed by John Ford, documentary.
“There was one reason”: Munn, John Wayne, 232.
“Ford was a complete bastard”: Ibid., 233.
“How many times did you risk”: Ibid., 234.
“was in a foul mood”: Ibid., 232.
“rode Wayne so hard”: Ibid., 214.
“He beat up on Duke”: Bogdanovich, interview with author.
“Jimmy, you are not a coward”: Directed by John Ford, documentary.
“Heroes Don’t Brag”: Sign outside a U.S. Navy SEAL recruiting center in Chattanooga. New York Times, July 21, 2015.
“It’s one of the most ironic lines”: Bogdanovich, interview with author.
“Well, Wayne was the central character”: Ibid.
“It’s his last word on the West”: Ibid.
“It’s a haunted film”: Liberty Valance, featurette.
CHAPTER 7: JOURNEY TO MANHOOD: TEACHING THE NEXT GENERATION
“He could never forgive himself”: Davis, Duke, 262.
“If you give me the chance”: The Breaking of Boys and the Making of Men, featurette.
“wrestle with the little pups”: New York Times, June 6, 2015.
“His constant coughing”: Pilar Wayne, John Wayne, 180.
“I knew Duke was very sick”: Ibid., 177.
“neither of us was able to say the word”: Ibid., 178.
“you’ll never work again”: Ibid., 179.
“Duke wasn’t sure”: Ibid.
“He is like a son”: Ibid., 185.
the best screenplay he had ever read: Shepherd, Slatzer, and Grayson, Duke.
“I was weaned on stories”: “Marguerite Roberts,” http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0731387/quotes.
“There was a kind of beauty”: Davis, Duke, 286–87.
“Wow!…If I’d known what”: Ibid., 291.
“the story of True Grit”: McMurtry and Ossana, “Talking About ‘True Grit,’ ” 1.
“The political John Wayne never showed up”: The Breaking of Boys, featurette.
“If you give me the chance”: Ibid.
“He wanted it”: Ibid.
“He loved being pushed”: Ibid.
“John Wayne was a very impressive”: Ibid.
“felt he raised his acting level”: Ibid.
“Jack Ford treated me like that”: Ibid.
“country boys”: Ibid.
“thrilled to have the opportunity”: Ibid.
“the greatest experience of my life”: Ibid.
“He was very paternal and very loving”: Ibid.
“Anyone who’s ever directed”: Ibid.
“America will
hate you”: Ibid.
“It was hard on him”: Ibid.
“One could easily think that Warner Bros.”: Pauline Kael, New Yorker, Jan. 2, 1972, 83.
“The picture has a legendary quality”: Breaking of Boys, featurette.
“Wayne loved the script”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 8: GOING WEST: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
“I have a lust for…dignity”: Davis, Duke, 238.
“I’ve long wanted to do a story”: Davis, John Ford, 321.
“That’s when the whole thing”: Ibid., 326.
“Let’s do the goddamn thing”: Ibid., 331.
“I don’t like porn”: Ibid., 335.
“Come for the death watch”: Leaming, Katharine Hepburn, 505.
“I love you”: Bogdanovich, interview with author.
“He was Irish”: Hepburn on The Dick Cavett Show, Oct. 26, 1973.
“As soon as Wayne had the lead”: Miles Swarthout, introduction to The Shootist, by Glendon Swarthout, ix.
“It’s the kind of picture”: Davis, Duke, 315.
“Sometimes the irony of this film”: Ibid.
“I knew he felt rotten”: Bacall, Now.
“ ‘God, I can’t smoke anymore’ ”: Davis, Duke, 316.
“Wait a damn minute”: O’Brian quoted in The Shootist, Cast and Crew Interviews.
“John Wayne virtually dictated”: Swarthout, introduction to The Shootist, xxi.
“The Duke Is Dead”: L.A. Herald Examiner, June 12, 1979.
“Where are we gonna open”: Swarthout, introduction to The Shootist, xvi.
“Just when it seemed”: Ibid., xvii.
“Books is easily the star’s”: Ibid., xviii.
“Our country thrives on change”: Davis, Duke, 328.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nancy Schoenberger is a professor of English and director of creative writing at The College of William & Mary. She is the author of Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood and co-author, with her husband, Sam Kashner, of books on Oscar Levant, George Reeves, and the love affair, marriages, and working relationship of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The author of three award-winning books of poetry, Schoenberger divides her time between Williamsburg, Virginia, and New York City.
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