American Titan: Searching for John Wayne (63 page)

Sennett, Mack, 110

Sergeant, Quay, 207

Sergeant Rutledge,
237

Sergeant York,
162, 332n

Sersen, Fred, 50

Settle, A. P., 228n

Seven Sinners,
110, 111–12, 172

7 Women,
328

Seven Year Itch, The,
229n

Shadow of the Eagle,
59–60, 61

Shakespeare, William, 220, 238, 296

Shane,
248

Shaughnessy, Mickey, 274

Shavelson, Melville, 302, 303, 304, 305

Sheehan, Winfield “Winnie,” 46, 49, 55

Sheen, Martin, 273n

Shenandoah,
300n

Shepherd of the Hills,
117–18, 284

Sheridan, Maggie, 165

Sheriff, Paul, 203n

Sherman, George, 97, 193n, 324

Sherwood, Robert E., 107

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,
173, 174–76, 180n, 197, 198, 200

Shootist, The,
332–34

Shuken, Leo, 91n

Siegel, Don, 205, 332, 333

Sight and Sound,
244

Silverstein, Elliot, 300n

Sinatra, Frank, 258n, 271, 273, 303, 331

Sirk, Douglas, 243n

Six-Gun Cinema,
172

Skelton, Red, 116, 268n

Skolsky, Sidney, 278

Skouras, Spyros, 284, 293

Slate, Jeremy, 320n

Small, Edward, 166

Snake Pit, The,
161

So Dear to My Heart,
163

Somewhere in Sonora,
63n

Sons of Katie Elder,
298, 300

Sons of the Pioneers, 205

Sorrell, Herb, 151

Soul Herder, The,
33

Sound of Music, The,
300n

Southern California Prompter,
276–77

Spartacus,
273n, 280, 303

Speakeasy,
40

Spencer, Dorothy, 91n

Spielberg, Steven, 244

Spoilers, The,
123, 125, 172

Stack, Robert, 218

Stacy, Jim, 319

Stacy, Pat, 327–28, 329–30, 336, 337

Stagecoach,
6, 48n, 78–80, 81–91, 95, 96, 97, 99, 103, 110, 118, 120, 134, 145, 157, 162, 172, 185, 198, 205–6, 235, 245, 258n

Stallings, Laurence, 174

Stanwyck, Barbara, 149

Star Packer, The,
64n

Star Wars,
244

State Fair,
290n

Steamboat Round the Bend,
71

Steiger, Rod, 258n

Steinbeck, John,
The Grapes of Wrath,
102

Steiner, Max, 72

Stephens, Jess E., 133

Sterling, Jan, 218

Sternberg, Josef von, 45, 81, 109–10, 195

Stevens, George, 87, 187, 228, 243, 294

Stewart, Donald Ogden, 107

Stewart, Jimmy, 4, 91, 106, 120, 217, 227, 234, 238, 249, 261, 277, 300n

in
Destry Rides Again,
81, 110

in
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence,
286, 288, 289, 290, 291, 333

in
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
90, 129

Stoloff, Benjamin, 40

Story of G.I. Joe, The,
228

Stout, Archie, 203, 213

Strayer, Frank, 76

Streisand, Barbra, 7, 8, 322, 323n

Strode, Woody, 328

Strong Boy,
40

Studio Directors Playhouse,
233

Sturges, John, 327

Sun Shines Bright, The,
231–32

Surtees, Bruce, 332

Swarthout, Miles Hood, 332

Tall in the Saddle,
134, 138

Tall Men, The,
234

Tashlin, Frank, 243n

Taurog, Norman, 149

Taxi Driver,
244

Taylor, Elizabeth, 5, 8, 192n, 255, 309n, 337

Taylor, Robert, 142, 149, 234, 249

Taylor, Rod, 326

Tearle, Conway, 60

Technicolor, 118, 199, 233, 288

Telegraph Trail,
63n

Temple, Shirley, 160

Ten Commandments, The,
243

Tetzlaff, Ted, 248

Texas Cyclone,
59, 60

Texas Rangers, The,
79

Texas Terror,
64n

“That’ll Be the Day,” 245

They Made Me a Criminal,
63n

They Were Expendable,
121, 142–44, 157, 185

Thomas, August, 57n

Thomas, Bob, 85n

Thomas, Danny, 191

Thomas, Parnell, 190

Thompson, Charles S., 203

3 Bad Men,
78

Three Faces West,
99–100, 104

Three Girls Lost,
56, 61

3 Godfathers,
170–71, 172

Three Leaves of Shamrock,
231

Three Mesquiteers, The,
97

Three Musketeers, The,
63n

3:10 to Yuma,
257–58

Time,
167, 194, 196, 202, 208, 277, 321

Tinling, James, 40

Tin Star, The,
234

Tiomkin, Dmitri, 149, 204, 205, 218, 278, 307

Todd, Mike, 255

Todd, Richard, 180, 181

To Hell and Back,
229n

To Kill a Mockingbird,
320

Toland, Gregg, 91n, 103

Topol, 303

Tornado,
33

Touboff, Alexander, 91n

Towers, Constance, 261

Tracy, Spencer, 4, 106, 142, 193n, 217, 228

Trail Beyond, The,
64n

Train Robbers, The,
326

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The,
161

Trevor, Claire, 79, 81, 82, 86, 96, 97, 98, 99, 134, 205, 218

Trouble Along the Way,
209, 211

True, John, 228n

True Grit,
1, 2, 4, 6–7, 245, 318–21, 324, 325, 330–31, 333

Truffaut, François, 89, 343

Truman, Harry S, 325

Trumbo, Dalton, 107, 273n

Turner, Lana, 223

Twain, Mark, 71

12 O’Clock High,
180

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,
284

Twentieth Century-Fox, 52, 111n, 158, 169, 221n, 231, 249, 250, 274, 279, 293

Twist, John, 147

Two-Fisted Law,
63n

Two Rode Together,
277, 288

Tycoon,
147–48

Tyler, Tom, 83, 85

UFA (Universum Film-Aktien Gesellschaft), 109

Undefeated, The,
321

United Artists (UA), 71, 161, 166, 221n, 260, 263, 276, 294, 329

United States National Film Registry, 168n

Universal Studios, 30n, 32, 33, 71, 76–77, 110, 125, 221n, 306, 325, 330

University of Southern California (USC), 25, 27, 28, 29, 35–36, 41

Uris, Leon, 314

U.S. Marine Corps, 178–79, 197, 308

U.S. Navy, 42, 143, 232

USO tours, 130–31, 307

U.S. Supreme Court, 153

Ustinov, Peter, 280

Valiant Virginians, The,
233–34, 248–49

Vanderbilt, William, 158n

Van Enger, Richard L., 180n

Variety,
32, 56, 76, 77, 87, 134, 150, 167, 177n, 186, 196, 243, 256, 259, 279, 290, 304, 309, 316, 333

Varno, Roland, 99

Vaughn, Alberta, 67n

Vélez, Lupe, 116

Vertes, Marcel, 203n

Vertigo,
238

Vidor, Charles, 229n

Vidor, King, 28, 30n, 79, 149, 243n

Vietnam War, 300, 301–2, 304, 307–8, 313–14, 315–17, 323, 325

Vinton, Bobby, 326

Virginian, The,
45, 204

Viva Zapata!,
203n

Voight, Jon, 1, 7

von Sydow, Max, 294

Vorhaus, Bernard, 99–100, 115

Wadleigh, Michael, 323

Waggner, George, 177, 196

Wagner, Robert, 236

Wagon Master,
197

Wagon Train,
277, 294

Wake of the Red Witch,
171, 172, 218

Waldorf Statement, 153, 154n, 191, 279

Wallace, George, 325

Wallace, Richard, 147

Wallis, Hal, 97, 298, 319–20, 330

Walsh, Maurice, 188

Walsh, Raoul, 44–52, 55, 79, 97–98, 180n, 231, 234, 314

Walters, Charles, 243n

Wanger, Walter, 82, 85n, 103, 104, 106

War and Peace,
243

Warden, Jack, 295

Warner, Jack L., 120, 196, 213, 222, 257, 262, 313–14, 316

Warner Bros, 27–28, 52, 61, 63, 97–98, 172, 173, 208–9, 221n, 222–23, 234, 257, 318, 322

Warner Color, 217, 222

War Wagon, The,
306–7, 309

Washington, Ned, 218n

Washington Merry-Go-Round,
82

Wasserman, Lew, 232

Waterbury, Ruth, 126

Wayne, Aissa (daughter), 4, 245, 252, 255–56, 260, 271, 285, 296, 297, 336, 339

Wayne, John:

and Academy Awards, 1–9, 91, 161, 169, 179–80, 181, 185, 203, 247, 278–80, 322, 323, 325, 331–32, 336, 339–40

and aging, 318, 326, 329, 331, 332, 340

as American icon, 2–3, 4, 137, 202, 270, 276, 308, 324, 337, 341

as anti-Communist,
see
Communism

birth and early years,
see
Morrison, Marion Robert

in B movies, 55, 58, 59, 62–63, 64, 66–67, 70, 75, 77, 78, 87, 91, 145, 172

and cancer, 221, 298–300, 309, 330, 337

children of, 4–5, 66, 127, 131, 133, 134, 199, 207, 223–24, 250, 286, 303–4, 326, 330

Congressional medal to, 337, 341

death of, 341

and financial matters, 75, 116–17, 134, 173, 178, 189, 196, 211–12, 215, 216–17, 243, 247–48, 263, 267–68, 274, 280, 310, 318

health problems of, 298, 300, 329–30, 331, 334–35, 336–37

movies of,
see specific titles

and MPA, 3, 5, 129, 149–50, 152–54, 169, 172, 173, 204n, 295

name of, 44, 47

popularity of, 129, 157, 172–74, 185, 197, 202, 203, 207, 217, 227, 247, 263, 306, 309, 317, 323, 334

and Republican Party, 295

unpublished memoir of, 52

walk of, 7, 48n, 180, 287

wives of,
see
Baur, Esperanza; Pallete, Pilar; Saenz, Josephine Alicia

and World War II, 106, 120, 121–22, 129, 130–31, 134–35, 137, 141, 142–43, 154, 192–93

Wayne, John Ethan (son), 4–5, 286, 304, 315, 324

Wayne, Marisa Carmela (daughter), 5n, 303–4, 315

Wayne, Mary Antonia “Toni” (daughter), 5n, 69, 80, 127, 133, 199, 224, 250, 310n

Wayne, Melinda (daughter), 5n, 80, 127, 133, 199, 224

Wayne, Michael (son), 5n, 66, 80, 127, 133, 199, 218, 269, 308, 313, 324, 326, 329, 336, 337

Wayne, Patrick (son), 5n, 80, 127, 133, 189, 199, 224, 234, 248, 271, 285, 324, 336

Wayne-Fellows, 145, 177–78, 208–9, 212–13, 217–18

Wead, Frank “Spig,” 142, 143, 251–52, 253

Webb, Millard, 30n

Webster, Andy, 167

Webster, Fred Francis, 278

Wedemeyer, Albert Coady, 337

Weiler, A. H., 290, 304

Weissmuller, Johnny, 74, 116, 170

Weldy, Richard, 210, 211, 212

Welles, Orson, 89, 103, 291

Wellman, William, 63n, 179n, 180n, 212, 217, 218n, 227, 228

West of the Divide,
64n

What Price Glory?,
231

Wheeler, Lyle, 91n

White, Pearl, 57

White, W. L., 141

White Heat,
180n

White Native,
170

Whitman, Philip, 63n

Whitman, Stuart, 285

Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt “Sonny,” 233–34, 235, 248

Whitney, John Hay, 233

Widmark, Richard, 258n, 270, 277, 288

Wilder, Billy, 3, 186, 229n, 280, 283

Wild Goose, The
(yacht), 295, 297, 302, 305, 327, 336

Williams, Dick, 278

Williams, Don, 28–29

Wills, Chill, 278–79, 280

Wills, Garry, 121

Wilmington, Michael, 244

Winchell, Walter, 179

Winds of the Wasteland,
64n

Wings of Eagles, The,
193n, 251–53, 269

Winners of the West,
23

Winston, Arthur, 88

Wise, Robert, 322

Withers, Grant, 79, 277

Wizard of Oz, The,
87, 90, 238

Wood, Lana, 237, 240n

Wood, Natalie, 6, 237, 240n, 244

Wood, Sam, 3, 87, 90, 106, 107, 129, 162

Woodstock,
323

Words and Music,
40–41, 44

World War II:

D-Day, 129, 142

end of, 134–35

films of, 3, 99, 103, 104, 105, 124–25, 130, 135, 137, 143–44, 178, 180, 196–97, 223, 231, 273, 293, 297–98, 324

impending onset of, 73, 98–99, 100, 113

Pearl Harbor, 100, 119, 120, 125, 196, 297

USO shows, 130–31

Wray, Fay, 57n

Wright, Harold Bell, 118

Wright, Mack V., 63

Wright, Tenny, 63n

Written on the Wind,
243n

Wurtzel, Harry, 71

Wurtzel, Sol, 49, 55

Wuthering Heights,
87, 90, 91n

Wyler, William, 87, 90, 103, 107, 144, 157, 180n, 186, 187, 234

Wyman, Jane, 161, 227

Yale Foundation, 272

Yates, Herbert, 66–67, 98n, 115, 153

and Academy Awards, 180n

and Ford, 188, 190, 198–99, 201, 231–32

and Ralston, 137, 177

and Republic,
see
Republic Pictures

and Wayne’s contracts, 74, 75n, 96–97, 129, 134, 144, 145, 177–78, 190, 262

and Wayne’s relationships, 128, 132, 138

and World War II, 122, 125, 129, 130

Young, Felix, 219

Young, Loretta, 56, 61, 63, 250

Young Cassidy,
295

Young Land, The,
248

Young Mr. Lincoln,
67, 102

Zanuck, Darryl F., 52, 111n, 158, 165n, 193, 237, 279, 281, 293

Zinnemann, Fred, 186, 203n, 204n, 206, 229n, 259

Zolotow, Maurice, 55, 85n, 86, 99, 105, 112n, 117, 121, 225