by Scott Eyman
“After my dad died”: Colin Grant to SE. All further quotes from Colin Grant derive from this interview.
“I see him”: Kane manuscript, p. 40.
“I went in”: Gene Autry to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
“He’s a man whose judgment”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Hedda Hopper, Chicago Tribune, 5-11-47.
“One man should serve”: Ibid.
The first issue featured: AMPAS, Motion Picture Alliance files, The Vigil, April 1946.
“Expedite”: Rosenfeld, p. 129.
Quinn made an appointment: Knox, pp. 87–88.
the FBI had a list: Sbardellati, p. 128.
“Always be careful”: Leaming, Orson Welles, p. 508.
“In some cases”: Dewey, p. 289.
the Hearst columnist Westbrook Pegler: Humphries, p. 95.
The Alliance had sufficient: AMPAS, Motion Picture Alliance files, “N.Y. Trial to Bare Red Spy Facts, Stripling Says,” Hollywood Citizen News, 3-30-49.
“He regretted not serving”: Roberts and Olson, p. 338.
Wayne responded with a blistering: Ibid., p. 327.
“You are entitled to your opinion”: Batjac Productions, Feldman to Wayne, 10-22-48.
“If any words”: AMPAS, Motion Picture Alliance files, “Meeting of Minds,” New York Times, 9-17-50.
The Alliance passed a resolution: AMPAS, Motion Picture Alliance files, “M.P. Alliance Demands City Register All Communists,” 7-20-50.
“Three leaders of the MPA”: AMPAS, Hedda Hopper Collection, ALERT, Issue 154, 1-4-51.
“He’d give you a steak”: Kane manuscript, p. 26.
She made a genuine effort: Kane manuscript, p. 13.
“I know he loved her”: Ibid., p. 17.
“anti-democratic”: Sherman, p. 225.
Hawks paid Chase: McCarthy, p. 408.
Wayne’s salary was set: Ibid., p. 412.
“I knew nothing”: Coleen Gray to SE. All quotes from Gray derive from this interview.
“Something would catch his eye”: William Self to SE. All quotes from Self derive from this interview.
“You’re an actor”: Bosworth, p. 107.
“You’re right”: Ibid., p. 108.
“We never saw any bear”: McCarthy, p. 422.
“Wayne never read”: Munn, pp. 106–7.
Clift would tell: Bosworth, p. 109.
“Mr. Hawks took”: Lilley, p. 187.
“Christ, my goddamn kid”: Michael Wayne to SE.
“Monty drove him nuts”: Harry Carey Jr. to SE.
“It’s true that Howard”: F. Anthony Macklin, “I Come Ready,” Film Heritage, Summer 1975, p. 13.
“Here was a man”: Dave Kehr, New York Times, 5-27-11.
“the dark pleasure”: Jonathan Lethem, “The Darkest Side of John Wayne,” Salon, July 1997.
“He’s serious, Eddie”: USC, Edward Small Collection, autobiography.
Also removed: AMPAS, Red River file, “400 Cut Prints of ‘River’ Rushed East by UA,” Variety, 8-23-48.
“John was already”: Stephen Longstreet to SE.
“I was petrified”: John Agar to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
Ford dominated: Parrish, Growing Up in Hollywood, p. 176.
“I can’t wait”: Burt Kennedy to SE.
“No, I think”: F. Anthony Macklin, “I Come Ready,” Film Heritage, Summer 1975, pp. 4–5.
“Henry Fonda could do”: Mark Rydell to SE.
Fonda enjoyed recalling: Bogdanovich, p. 312.
“Jack, you’ve got to”: Darcy O’Brien to SE.
“A son of a bitch”: Eyman, Print the Legend, p. 335.
“I spent two weeks”: Ibid.
CHAPTER NINE
“I was never sick”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jane Ardmore, “Cancer Doesn’t Fight Fair,” Family Health, 9-76.
“Willy would never”: Eddie Albert to SE.
“He went right”: Roberts and Olson, p. 309.
In Bond’s telling: Robert Horton to SE.
“There was lightning”: John Agar to SE.
“I don’t think we ever”: P. F. Kluge, “First and Last, a Cowboy,” Life, 1-28-72.
“He was always testing”: AMPAS, Winton Hoch file, John Gallagher, “Winton Hoch: Master of Technicolor,” American Classic Screen, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1982.
the autographed picture of Ford: Heritage Auctions, The Personal Property of John Wayne Auction Catalog, p. 143.
“Duke, you should have”: Coleen Gray to SE.
CHAPTER TEN
“The audience would just”: All this is from USC, Constance McCormick Collection, John Wayne, Vol. X, Michael F. Blake, “He Was Their Stage Coach,” Los Angeles Times, 5-28-99.
“Duke and I”: James Lydon to SE. All subsequent quotes from Lydon derive from this interview.
“I don’t want to malign her”: McClelland, p. 417.
“They handed me the script”: Batjac Productions, Allan Dwan interview, undated, but 1980.
Grant earned $12,500: Mathis, p. 119.
“There wasn’t a feeling”: Cassell to Maltin, Maltin archives.
“They wanted to do it”: Suid, p. 120.
Richard Jaeckel remembered: Richard Jaeckel to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
“We had long conversations”: Batjac Productions, Allan Dwan interview, undated, but 1980.
“It was survival training”: Suid, p. 121.
“Wayne was terrific”: William Self to SE.
“a great American”: Fribourg to Maltin, Maltin archives.
Fort Apache had amassed: Eyman, Print the Legend, p. 373.
Throughout the 1940s: McCarthy and Flynn, p. 32.
In January 1950: Ibid., p. 371.
“Moab was much better”: Michael Wayne to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
“Ford adored Maureen”: Claude Jarman Jr. to SE.
“vicious . . . extremely severe”: O’Hara, p. 65.
“quit messing around”: Claude Jarman Jr. to SE.
“didn’t have the same oomph”: Michael Wayne to Maltin, Maltin archives.
“Wayne would close all”: Eisenschitz, p. 163.
“I thought the Broadway”: Ray, I Was Interrupted, p. 224.
“Jet Pilot was the first time”: Janet Leigh to SE.
Principal photography: Landesman, p. 175.
“Everybody will be looking”: Brown and Broeske, p. 289.
“ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN”: USC, Batjac Collection, folder marked “Grant, James E.—writer—Misc.”
“Duke is the best actor”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Gladwin Hill, “Tale of a Horse Opera Hot Shot,” New York Times, 11-7-48.
“I don’t have a capital gains”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Hedda Hopper, “Wayne for the Money,” 2-13-49.
“I hope he doesn’t kill himself”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Pete Martin, “The Ladies Like ’Em Rugged,” The Saturday Evening Post, 12-22-50.
“When Ford’s daughter”: Syd Kronenthal to SE. All subsequent quotes from Kronenthal derive from this interview.
“The trick is”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Pete Martin, “The Ladies Like ’Em Rugged,” The Saturday Evening Post, 12-22-50.
“DEAR JAMES”: USC, Batjac Collection, folder marked “Grant, James E.—writer—Misc.”
“Duke and I disagreed”: Moving Image Pinewood Dialogues with Budd Boetticher, movingimagesource.us./files/dialogues.
“Jesus Christ, Bob”: Munn, p. 136.
“Wayne didn’t believe”: Sean Axmaker, “Budd Boetticher, Lost Interview with a True Hollywood Maverick,” Filmfax, 2/3-11.
“Duke couldn’t box”: Fagen, p. 92.
The stranger explained: Colin Grant to SE.
“You must have some reason”: Kane manuscript, p. 37.
“the man gathering the money”: Cass Warner Sperling to SE.
“She went out of her mind”: Maureen O’Hara to SE.
“It’s a silly little Irish”: Maureen O’Hara to SE.
“Duke came to work”: Maureen O’Hara to SE.
After shooting
ended: Andrew McLaglen to SE.
“I was only eleven”: Patrick Wayne to SE.
“Soldiering is a trade”: Patrick Ford’s script courtesy of Dan Ford.
“I guess he meant”: Batjac Productions, Sam Norton to Jack Gordean, 2-10-49.
“I get so mad”: USC, Special Collection, Warga, draft of tape 3, April 1971.
“the best director”: Mathis, p. 427.
“I can’t spend all my time”: Mathis, p. 428.
“So I repeat”: Mathis, p. 431.
Yates’s jaw was working: Roberts and Olson, p. 370.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
“A lot of us”: Kevin Brownlow to SE.
“I would rather”: Cooper to Brownlow.
“a typical John Wayne part”: Buford, p. 108.
“The longer they were married”: Roberts and Olson, p. 382.
Putting two and two together: Gretchen Wayne to SE.
Wayne’s first offer: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Tell Wife’s Drinking,” 10-20-53.
Then he offered: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Wayne Drops Silent Role,” Los Angeles Herald Express, 10-28-53.
“I have never”: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Never Struck Wife, John Wayne Testifies,” Los Angeles Times, 6-2-53.
“Why is your father”: Gretchen Wayne to SE.
“How come that son of a bitch”: Kane manuscript, p. 27.
“don’t make me ordinary”: Ibid., p. 17.
“I didn’t know exactly”: Ibid., p. 18.
“The Grants lived”: Gretchen Wayne to SE.
“Our format is basically”: AMPAS, Robert Fellows file, Howard McClay, Los Angeles Daily News, 9-1-52.
“Lots of guys”: USC, Warner Bros. archives, Big Jim McLain file, Pageant, 6-52.
“The only hitch”: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, Blumestock to Kalmenson, 6-27-52.
Giving the money: USC, Motion Picture Alliance file, Los Angeles Times, 6-4-53.
“[Trouble Along the Way] made it sound”: AMPAS, John Wayne, James Bacon, “John Wayne—King of Strong Silent Types,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 4-13-69.
“I was a very good guitar player”: John Wayne, pp. 20–21.
“the gun fell from my hand”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Phil Levine, “Scandal Editor Shot; A Slip, Says Hunter,” New York Daily News, 9-6-56.
“The South American”: USC, Batjac Collection, Los Angeles Herald Express, 2-20-53.
“He’s still angry at me”: Aissa Wayne, p. 58.
“She was a tiny thing”: Gretchen Wayne to SE.
He told her: Roberts and Olson, p. 387.
“My racket isn’t writing letters”: McGivern, pp. 56–57.
After eight years: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, box 17, folder 21, Fellows to Warner, 3-2-54; also USC, Batjac Collection, memorandum of Warner deal, 11-26-52.
“I know you”: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, Operation Pacific.
In May 1953: USC, Batjac Collection, Wayne to Schaefer, 5-12-53.
“I’ve profited by the mistakes”: USC, Batjac Collection, box 51, folder 19, Bob Thomas, “Wayne-Fellows Show Way to Indie Profits,” Hollywood Citizen-News, 12-14-53.
“I never had a more difficult”: James Lydon to SE.
“Ran Island in the Sky”: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, Warner and Trilling to Wayne, 4-29-53.
“Had wonderful preview”: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, Island in the Sky file, Warner and Trilling to Wayne, 7-3-53.
“I was under the impression”: Batjac Productions, box FOD 1230, Wayne to Warner, 9-18-53.
“all media” camera: MOMA, John Wayne, Thomas Wood, “Hollywood Ends Mexican’s Siesta,” New York Herald Tribune, 7-19-53.
“We had a wonderful”: Batjac Productions, Wayne to Warner, 6-12-53.
“We are throwing away”: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, box 16, folder 16, Wayne to Warner, 6-17-53.
“Saw three reels”: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, Hondo file, Warner to Wayne, 6-18-53.
“Farrow has done everything”: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, Hondo file, Wayne to Warner, 6-20-53.
“She thought that was cute”: Kane manuscript, p. 36.
“I went out with the boys”: Lilley, Terry Wilson interview, CD Companion to Campfire Conversations.
“Every morning”: Davis, p. 175.
“for the first time”: USC, Batjac Collection, Feldman to Wayne, 7-8-53.
“I am goddamned sick and tired”: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, box 16, folder 16, Wayne to Trilling, 7-7-53.
“ ‘Aw, Geraldine’ ”: Roberts and Olson, p. 402.
Wayne’s accountant: AMPAS, John Wayne, Los Angeles Herald-Express, “Alimony Suit Holds Up Film,” 5-29-53.
the court filings revealed: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Mrs. John Wayne Tells Court Rep Paid Her 78G as ‘Spending Money,’ Variety, 5-28-53.
Wayne turned red: AMPAS, John Wayne, “John Wayne Enraged by ‘Liar’ Charge,” Los Angeles Examiner, 5-23-53.
“Why doesn’t someone”: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Tell Wife’s Drinking,” 10-20-53.
“We were making the picture”: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Wayne Fidgets and Squirms, Tells Drinking, Quarrels with Chata,” Los Angeles Herald-Express, 10-28-53.
“From the fact”: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Mrs. Wayne Loses, Gets Only $1,100,” Hollywood Citizen News, undated.
“John took me home”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Louella Parsons, “Gail Russell Shocked, Denies Impropriety,” Los Angeles Examiner, 10-21-53.
Entered into evidence: AMPAS, John Wayne, James Bacon, “Divorce for Each in John Wayne Case,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 10-29-53.
Wayne was obligated: Olsen, p. 113.
“Hondo screening last night”: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, Hendricks to Warner, 11-12-53.
“That’s the finest woman”: Kane manuscript, p. 26.
“There’s nothing”: Ibid., p. 24.
“He was very tenacious”: Liesl Bradner, “The Duke, Unguarded,” Los Angeles Times, 10-16-11.
“It got big laughs”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Maurice Zolotow, “Well, There Were These Two Fellers, Dean Martin and Paul Keyes,” TV Guide, 11-11-72.
“too good to be”: Clothier to SE.
“Bill Clothier was like my father”: Michael Wayne to SE.
“The men around me”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Helen Itria, “Big John,” Look, 8-53.
“What do you people”: Kane manuscript, pp. 37–38.
“He had to sing”: Maureen O’Hara to SE.
“Jack Warner was a”: Vincent Sherman to SE.
“Jack Warner was a rude”: James Garner to SE.
“There were times”: Vincent Sherman to SE.
Hopper’s own belief system: Jennifer Frost, “Hedda Hopper, Hollywood Gossip and the Politics of Racial Representation in Film, 1946-1948,” Journal of African American History, 2008.
“You can’t get into”: Batjac Productions, John Lee Mahin interview, undated but 1980.
“Duke really went into the work”: Thomas Morgan, “God and Man in Hollywood,” Esquire, 5-63.
“My agent”: Vincent Sherman to SE.
“He was a very”: Vincent Sherman to SE.
Wayne estimated the membership: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, “Trouble Along the Way,” UPI, 11-2-51.
“They were really American”: Sean Axmaker, “Budd Boetticher,” Filmfax, 6/7-11.
“Hell, Duke didn’t know”: MOMA, John Wayne, “The Wages of Virtue,” Time, 3-3-52.
CHAPTER TWELVE
MGM had just accepted: James Curtis to SE.
Wellman took runs: AMPAS, The High and the Mighty file, Aline Mosby, “Stars Nix Air Saga, Regret It,” Los Angeles Daily News, 7-7-54.
“I didn’t know”: Eyman, Five American Cinematographers, p. 131.
“Wellman directed”: Karen Sharpe Kramer to SE.
“I thought to myself”: McGivern, p. 88.
“Wellman scared”: Robert Stack to SE.
Billy Wilkerson: USC, Batjac Collection, box 51, folder 19, W. R. Wilkers
on, “Trade Views,” Hollywood Reporter, 4-29-54.
Only half joking: Kane manuscript, p. 22.
“his behavior has shaken”: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Fellows to Wayne, 2-10-54.
Fellows suggested: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Fellows to Wayne, 2-10-54.
“The picture may be bad”: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Grant to Wayne, 2-10-54.
“I feel that”: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Wayne to Grant, 2-10-54.
“You take up too much”: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Wayne to Grant, 2-12-54.
“Liquor got to Bill”: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Fellows to Wayne, 2-15-54.
The company drafted: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Fellows to Hungate, 2-16-54.
“I knew suddenly”: USC, Batjac Collection, folder marked “Grant, James E.—writer—Misc.”
“The most remarkable”: Lilley, Jack Williams interview, CD. Companion to Campfire Conversations.
“I knew I was never”: Karen Sharpe Kramer to SE.
In three years: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 7, Wayne to Allenberg, 6-21-56.
“Perhaps some actors”: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, box 17, folder 4, Wayne to Trilling, 9-15-54.
“Long dialogue at the beginning”: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, “Notes from John Wayne on Sea Chase,” undated.
“The sparks often fly”: Tab Hunter to SE.
“He was a consummate pro”: Hunter, p. 105, rest of quote, Tab Hunter to SE.
“Speed it up”: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, The Sea Chase, cutting notes.
Wayne persuaded William Wellman: All this from USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, box 17, folder 21, Robert Fellows to Jack Warner, 3-2-54.
“My father wasn’t really”: Colin Grant to SE.
Fellows would be out: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, The Sea Chase, Fellows to Hurson, 5-24-56.
In the breakup: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 7, Fellows to Batjac, 11-12-63.
“Everybody’s got to get”: Kane manuscript, p. 40.
“You won’t believe it”: Ibid., p. 42.
Hughes agreed to pay: Batjac Productions, Obringer to Wayne, 4-29-54.
“$100,000 does not even start”: Batjac Productions, Wayne to Hughes, 4-29-54.
Wayne harbored feverish fantasies: Batjac Productions, Wayne to Feldman, 11-4-55.
