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John Wayne: The Life and Legend (116 page)
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Glendale News-Press
, 6-13-79.
“By winning today’s”
: Batjac Productions,
Explosion
, November 7, 1924.
“Glendale’s varsity”
: Batjac Productions,
Explosion
, October 31, 1924.
“I studied”
: John Wayne to SE.
“The worst things”
: John Wayne to SE.
“He was just”
: Glendale Library, Special Collections,
Glendale News-Press
, 6-13-79.
Duke spelled it out
: Glendale Library, Special Collections, Margaret Gibson, “John Wayne’s Friend Recalls Earlier Days,”
Glendale Ledger
, 5-30-79.
Clyde turned his son
: Glendale Library, Special Collections, Los Angeles
Daily News
, 11-17-88.
“He was mature and conservative”
: Glendale Library, Special Collections, Jay Dean, “Wayne Memory Remains Alive,”
Glendale News-Press
, 6-13-79.
“fine student”
: Glendale Library, Special Collections,
Glendale News-Press
, 6-13-79.
“never in trouble”
: Glendale Library, Special Collections,
Glendale Ledger
, 5-30-79.
Another close friend
: Glendale Library, Special Collections, Esther DeBar, “They Called Him Duke,”
Mature Living
, 6-81.
By the time Duke graduated
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jack Smith, “Wayne Plays Wayne Hard, Rides Fame Easy,”
Los Angeles Times
, undated but February 1960.
“This so-called last”
: Michael Wayne to SE.
“A pimply-faced kid”
: Combines Michael Wayne to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives, and MOMA, John Wayne, Joseph N. Bell, “John Wayne’s Scrapbook,”
Good Housekeeping
, 6-76.
“One thing”
: Glendale Library, Special Collections,
Glendale News-Press
, 6-13-79.
CHAPTER TWO
“The training table”
: USC, Constance McCormick Collection, box five, folder 11, Rick Jewell, “John Wayne: An American Icon,”
Trojan Family
, Autumn 2008.
“Last year”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, John Wayne as told to Maurice Zolotow, “It Happened Like This,”
American Weekly
, 11-14-54.
“Duke never really”
: Kane manuscript, p. 21.
“What am I”
: Kane manuscript, p. 38.
“I had been running”
: Roderick Mann, “John Wayne—A Natural as The Shootist,”
Los Angeles Times
, 3-7-76.
Sam White
: Bruskin, p. 200.
“He sat there”
: Bogdanovich, p. 277.
He resorted to selling
: USC, Special Collections, Warga, draft of tape 4A, April 1971.
“It’s unlikely”
: Munn, p. 18.
“I had borrowed money”
: Joe McInerney, “John Wayne Talks Tough,”
Film Comment
, 9/10-72.
“He had to go to work”
: Glendale Library, Special Collections, Margaret Gibson, “John Wayne’s Friend Recalls Earlier Days,”
Glendale Ledger
, 5-31-79.
“Duke was in bad shape”
: USC, Constance McCormick Collection, box five, folder 11, Rick Jewell, “John Wayne: An American Icon,”
Trojan Family
, Autumn 2008.
“[Duke] was down”
: Lindsley Parsons to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
“Their friends”
: Gretchen Wayne to SE. All subsequent quotes from Gretchen Wayne in this book derive from our interviews.
“I think the lesson”
: MOMA, John Wayne, Joseph N. Bell, “John Wayne’s Scrapbook,”
Good Housekeeping
, 6-76.
After several takes
: Bogdanovich, p. 279.
“There had been”
: John Wayne to Kevin Brownlow, Brownlow archives.
“Another fella”
: Bogdanovich, p. 285.
one of his more demeaning jobs
: USC, Special Collections, Warga, WW’s Notes Continued, 5-16-71.
“He was a labored”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 73.
“Everybody that I was in school with”
: John Wayne to SE.
“There were a lot of tough guys”
: Kane manuscript, p. 27.
He also casually mentioned
: Jeff Morey to SE.
“young and handsome”
: Kotsilibas-Davis, p. 58.
“Our two blankety-blank”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Gladwin Hill, “Tale of a Horse Opera Hot Shot,”
New York Times
, 11-7-48.
“I could see”
: MOMA, John Wayne, “The Wages of Virtue,”
Time
, 3-3-52.
“You could operate”
: Kazanjian and Enss, p. 29.
In 1929
:
Heritage Magazine
, Vol. 14, Summer/Fall 2011, p. 57.
CHAPTER THREE
“the male lead”
: Evarts, p. 18.
“I don’t want”
: Evarts, p. 20.
“He was in his early 20s”
: AMPAS,
The Big Trail
file, undated article in the Etowah, Tennessee,
Morning Telegraph
, bylined by Raoul Walsh from
Talking Picture
magazine.
Duke believed
: Bogdanovich, p. 282.
“The part wasn’t”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Donald Hough, “I Can’t Act,”
Los Angeles Times
, 6-29-41.
But in 1946
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Louella Parsons,
Los Angeles Examiner
, 9-8-46.
There was no script
:
American Weekly
stories, 11-21-54.
Raoul Walsh claimed
: Walsh, p. 241.
“It took me a long time”
: F. Anthony Macklin, “I Come Ready,”
Film Heritage
, Summer 1975, p. 11.
Walsh decided
: Evarts, p. 7. Most of the background for
The Big Trail
derives from this document.
“After a 30 mile”
: Evarts, p. 14.
“John Wayne was born”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Biography of John Wayne, Playing Breck Coleman in The Big Trail.”
“a youth who bids fair”
: AMPAS, “Big Trail,”
Dynamo
(Fox studio newspaper), 7-15-30.
“I selected Morrison”
: Parrish,
Growing Up in Hollywood
, p. 176.
Clemente explained
:
The Big Trail
pressbook, Leroy “Skip” Bawel Collection. Many thanks to Skip for the loan of this artifact.
Fox had been personally
: Solomon, p. 123.
In the spring of 1930
: Ibid., p. 146.
“My first scene”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “
Playboy
interview: John Wayne,” May 1971.
Darcy came to believe
: Darcy O’Brien to SE.
One night there was a fight
: Parrish,
Growing Up in Hollywood
, p. 65.
“The picture is coming along”
: Guiles, p. 92.
“A sturdy race”
: Evarts, p. 2.
The filmmakers found
: Arthur Edeson, “Wide Film Cinematography,”
American Cinematographer
, September, 1930, author’s collection.
“Expert packers”
: Evarts, p. 24.
“Lowering wagons and stock”
: Ibid., p. 65.
During the take
: Parrish,
Growing Up in Hollywood
, p. 69.
On the train ride back
: Kane manuscript, p. 16.
In attendance
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Big Trail Star Will Be Honored,”
Hollywood Daily Citizen
, 10-14-30.
An article in
Motion Picture
: Carol Standish, “Luck Isn’t with Them,”
Motion Picture
, 12–30.
“Photography soars”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Elizabeth Yeaman, “Epic of Pioneer Days Starts Run Here at Chinese,”
Hollywood Daily Citizen
, 10-3-30.
Sime Silverman
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Sime,” “The Big Trail,”
Variety
, 10-28-30.
“He does not
throw
her”
: Wills, p. 16.
“I was the fellow”
: F. Anthony Macklin, “I Come Ready,”
Film Heritage
, Summer 1975.
“the best advice I ever got”
: Munn, p. 31.
CHAPTER FOUR
“It was a goddamned lie”
: Wayne to SE.
“Buck Jones was”
: John Wayne to Kevin Brownlow, Brownlow archives.
“We were asked”
: Fernett, p. 55.
Mascot had been formed
: Tuska,
The Vanishing Legion
, p. 8.
“You’ll like him”
: Canutt, p. 88.
“We had a party”
: John Wayne to SE.
By 1930
: Barrier, p. 157.
Wayne suggested
: USC, Special Collections, Warga, draft of tape 6a, April 1971.
“I had only dealt”
: John Wayne to SE.
“I made $250 a week”
: I have combined two quotations. The first is from the Kane manuscript, p. 11, the second is from P. F. Kluge, “First and Last, a Cowboy,”
Life
, 1-28-72.
“Nothing is so discouraging”
: Batjac Productions, column by L. O. Robertson, “Reeling Around,” undated, but about 1935.
“There are no outstanding”
: AMPAS,
His Private Secretary
file,
Motion Picture Herald
, 6-10-33.
The ceremony
: Heritage Auctions,
The Personal Property of John Wayne Catalog
, certificate of marriage, 6-24-33, p. 94.
“Split my lip”
: Kane manuscript, p. 23.
“I don’t do light bulbs”
: Gretchen Wayne to SE.
“mainstream womanizer”
: Munn, p. 32.
Yakima Canutt would
: Canutt to SE.
Wayne looked at Canutt
: Canutt, p. 92.
“It was good experience”
: Conflation of two quotes, the first USC, John Wayne,
Motion Picture
, Vol. 78, No. 4; the second Kazanjian and Enss, p. 50.
“I saw a couple of them”
:
The Saturday Evening Post
, August 1979, p. 5.
“Paul Fix is”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 12, folder 57, “Cowboy Wayne Won’t Be Fading into Any Sunsets,” 12-19-72.
“His main trouble”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, James Bacon,
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
, undated, but 1969.
“I felt many”
: Tuska,
The Filming of the West
, p. 373.
“Later on sometimes”
: Lindsley Parsons to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives. All subsequent quotes from Parsons derive from this interview.
“I was tall, curly haired”
: MOMA, John Wayne, “The Wages of Virtue,”
Time
, 3-3-52.
“He was pretty tall”
: Cecilia Parker to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives. All subsequent quotes from Parker derive from this interview.
“I was one step up”
: George Kennedy,
Trust Me
, p. 29.
“was pleasant”
: Sammy McKim to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
It was on one
: USC, Special Collections, Warga, draft of tape 1A, April 1971.
“He had something”
: Cecilia Parker to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
“Well, I
was
sleepy”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Louella Parsons,
Los Angeles Examiner
, 9-8-46.
“I thought he was”
: Ann Rutherford to SE.
None grossed more
: USC, “Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. Comparison of Negative Costs and Gross Income on 1932–33 Productions to August 31, 1944,” p. 19.
In 1935
: Tuska,
The Vanishing Legion
, p. 183.
“I never expected”
: Davis, p. 63.
“The quickie [pictures]”
: Bogdanovich, p. 288.
CHAPTER FIVE
“This production is another”
: AMPAS, John Wayne,
Motion Picture Herald
, 11-13-37.
“Considering the number”
: USC, Universal Pictures Collection, Trem Carr Productions files, M. F. Murphy to J. P. Normanly, 3-23-37 and 4-9-37.
“exceptionally difficult one”
: Ibid., 6-29-37.
“We had 4
:30 calls”: William Bakewell to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
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