by Scott Eyman
“promised complete autonomy”: AMPAS, Paramount Collection, Caffey notes, 9-12-62.
“Why not?”: Lilley, p. 15.
“If you worked for Batjac”: Stefanie Powers to SE. All subsequent quotes from Powers derive from this interview.
“C’mon, Maureen”: AMPAS, John Wayne, “John Wayne as the Last Hero,” Time, 8-8-69.
“He was a marvelous actor”: Ed Faulkner to SE.
He also drove: Ibid.
“Good God, Duke”: Davis, p. 250.
“This town is full”: USC, Batjac Collection, Grant to Mike Wayne, 2-18-63.
“The Boss is around back”: Bob Shelton to SE. All subsequent quotes from Shelton derive from this interview.
“I almost crapped”: Ibid.
The cotton was eventually: Pattie, p. 50.
But now Wayne entered: AMPAS, Paramount Collection, “Mr. Caffey” deal memo, 6-23-64.
Wayne was earning only $500,000: AMPAS, Paramount Collection, Wayne contract abstract, 6-23-64.
“I came into it”: Howard W. Koch to SE. All subsequent quotes from Koch derive from this interview.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
“It’s as if you put”: USC, Batjac Collection, Grant to Mike Wayne, received 4-1-63.
“I didn’t realize”: Capra, pp. 489–90.
“These people are all”: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 16, Grant to M. Wayne, 6-24-63.
“We had gale forces”: MOMA, John Wayne, International Yachtsman, 1978.
“I met Duke”: Rod Taylor to SE. All subsequent quotes from Taylor derive from this interview.
“Never lose the common touch”: Aissa Wayne, pp. 91–92.
“You didn’t have to be a Kennedy fan”: USC, Special Collections, Warga Collection.
“There are so many”: USC, Special Collections, “WW’s Notes Continued,” 5-16-71.
He and the politically liberal: Heritage Auctions, The Personal Property of John Wayne Auction Catalog, Newman to Wayne, 12-20-61.
“Morrison looks dreadful”: USC, Batjac Collection, Grant to Mike Wayne, 1-17-64.
“So maybe it’s six months off the end”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Dean Jennings, “John Wayne: The Woes of the Box Office King,” The Saturday Evening Post, c. 1962.
“I can use an earthquake”: USC, Batjac Collection, Army Archerd, “Just for Variety,” Variety, 10-26-60.
“He had my respect”: Fujiwara, p. 321.
“Look, John, anybody”: Preminger, p. 161.
“the most cooperative actor”: Fujiwara, p. 321.
“We would usually”: Douglas, p. 379.
“He looked ill”: Fujiwara, p. 322.
“I not only served on it”: Kane manuscript, p. 46.
Kane sensed: Kane manuscript, p. 12.
$600,000 plus: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection, The Sons of Katie Elder file, Hazen to Karp, 6-26-64.
“Well, you know”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jane Ardmore, “Cancer Doesn’t Fight Fair,” 9-76.
“Well, Hal”: Wallis, p. 157.
“All he could say”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Roy Newquist, “John Wayne Wins His Toughest Fight,” Chicago American, 6-25-67.
“Due to unforeseen”: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection, Wallis to Nathan, 9-14-64.
He told Wayne: Roberts and Olson, p. 510.
What Jones found: AMPAS, John Wayne, Roy Newquist, “John Wayne Wins His Toughest Fight,” Chicago American, 6-25-67.
“It looked like”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jane Ardmore, “Cancer Doesn’t Fight Fair,” Family Health, 9-76.
“I’ll never work again”: Aissa Wayne, p. 108.
“If we hold onto”: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection, Hazen to Wallis, 10-20-64.
Wallis told them: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection, The Sons of Katie Elder file, Wallis to Weltner, 11-11-64.
For years: Roberts and Olson, p. 515.
“Sorry to hear”: Heritage Auctions, The Personal Property of John Wayne Auction Catalog, Wayne to Cole, 11-22-64, p. 230.
“I felt sorry for the cabbie”: Roberts and Olson, p. 521.
“Old Henry”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Roger Ebert, 12-7-68.
“the meanest man”: USC, John Wayne, Roderick Mann, “John Wayne—A Natural as The Shootist,” Los Angeles Times, 3-7-76.
“That feeling . . . of being a burden”: AMPAS, John Wayne, James Bacon, “Wayne’s Biggest Bout vs. Killer Cancer,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 3-14-65.
“I told [the public about the cancer]”: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood,” 3-2-65.
“He had to be the macho man”: Davis, p. 266.
“Duke was Duke”: George Kennedy to SE. All subsequent quotes from Kennedy derive from this interview.
“He did not want to take a chance”: Dean Smith to SE.
“We argued all day”: Dennis Hopper to SE. All subsequent quotes from Hopper derive from this interview.
“Westerns are art”: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Me? I Feel Fine,” Los Angeles Times, 1-18-65.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
“Wayne was approached”: McGilligan, Backstory 3, p. 377.
“If God set out”: Shavelson, p. 18.
“Just let me finish this”: Kane manuscript, p. 29.
“Duke was essentially”: Ibid.
“Wayne took the western”: Shaw, p. 72.
“You’re not the reactionary”: Ibid., p. 106.
“Duke would bring his”: Cecilia deMille Presley to SE.
“Look at that changing scene”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Joseph N. Bell, “John Wayne’s Very Private World,” Good Housekeeping, 2-73.
The Solomonic decision: Olsen, p. 123.
Wayne sued Roos: AMPAS, John Wayne, “John Wayne vs. Manager,” Los Angeles Times, 6-12-65; “Star Complains Hotel Idea Costly,” Hollywood Citizen-News, 6-12-65.
“What makes you think”: Roberts and Olson, p. 591.
He would burst: Aissa Wayne, pp. 4–5.
“A lot of the time”: Michael Wayne to SE.
“He was always fair”: USC, Batjac Collection, taped interview with Michael and Pat Wayne, box 33, folder 23.
“To me, to lose a game”: Ibid.
“Duke never, never”: Roberts and Olson, p. 74.
“That’s not a question”: Joe McInerney, “John Wayne Talks Tough,” Film Comment, 9/10-72.
Breakfast at a restaurant: USC, Special Collections, Warga Collection, Gene Siskel, “Duke’s for Real—Bigger Than Life,” Chicago Tribune, 7-5-70.
“It’s a cake”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Molly Haskell, “Wayne, Westerns and Women,” Ladies’ Home Journal, 7-76.
“When I’d ride horses”: John Wayne Collector’s Edition, American Cowboy, 2010–2011, p. 20.
“Every night I’m gone”: Aissa Wayne, p. 31.
“a marvelous father”: Harry Carey Jr. to SE. All subsequent Harry Carey Jr. quotes derive from this interview.
“He was a friendly man”: Dan Ford to SE.
“What are you doing?”: Ed Faulkner to SE.
“any kind of heavy red meat”: Aissa Wayne, p. 129.
“[Dean] Rusk was with Stilwell”: Thomas B. Morgan, “God and Man in Hollywood,” Esquire, 5-63.
“I never had a build-up”: MOMA, John Wayne, Bill Kelly, “John Wayne: Still Tall in the Saddle,” Real West, undated but 1978.
“Get it out of doors”: USC, Universal Pictures Collection, Jet Pilot file, 12-30-49, box 435, folder 13395.
“He was terribly unlucky”: Maureen O’Hara to SE.
“I knew Josie”: Harry Carey Jr. to SE.
When he met Michael Caine: Caine, What’s It All About? p. 235.
“If they didn’t want to come up”: AMPAS, John Wayne, William Reynolds, “John Wayne’s Legacy,” Cowboys & Indians, 12-05.
“It’s not being natural”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jack Smith, “Wayne Plays Wayne Hard, Rides Fame Easy,” Los Angeles Times, undated, but 1960.
“It is quite obvious”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Joseph McBride, “Wayne, Stewart and ‘Shootist’—A Sense of History in the Making,
” Variety, 1-29-76.
“I can’t play anything”: Ray Hagen, “Henry Fonda: In His Own Words,” Films of the Golden Age, Spring 2011, p. 52.
“You are just paint”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Aline Mosby, “Producer Stupidity Profitable,” Hollywood Citizen News, 10-6-56.
Wayne decreed January 15: AMPAS, John Wayne, Dorothy Manners, “John Wayne Is a Father Too,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 6-15-69.
“He went as far”: Kane manuscript, p. 29.
His grandson Matthew Munoz: MOMA, John Wayne, “John Wayne’s Grandson Reflects on his Priesthood,” St. Anthony Messenger, undated.
“You’re off the hook”: Kane manuscript, p. 19.
“He really didn’t give”: Patrick Wayne to SE.
Every year he sent his mother: Roberts and Olson, p. 8.
“God, there sure were”: Kane manuscript, p. 22.
“His relationship”: Patrick Wayne to SE.
“He holds no malice”: AMPAS, John Wayne, George Coleman oral history, 6-8-64.
“If you had an opinion”: Ed Faulkner to SE.
“If you ever want anything”: USC, Special Collections, Warga Collection, “Barkis Is Willing,” book proposal.
CHAPTER TWENTY
“The only reason”: Burt Kennedy to SE.
“If you don’t get that faggot”: Burt Kennedy, Hollywood Trail Boss, p. 11.
“Duke loved it”: Harry Carey Jr. to SE.
In Keel’s memory: Howard Keel to SE.
“I’m watching this”: Clothier to SE.
“Duke doesn’t mean anything”: Eyman, Five American Cinematographers, p. 135.
“He defined the word”: Robert Walker Jr. to SE. All further quotes from Walker derive from this interview.
“We’re waiting for our star”: Burt Kennedy to SE.
“Duke was tough”: Ibid.
“It was uncanny”: Ibid.
“I remember, after”: Burt Kennedy, Hollywood Trail Boss, p. 20.
“If you were directing”: Dean Smith to SE.
“He just couldn’t”: Hal Needham to SE.
“It isn’t a cold picture”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Roy Newquist, “John Wayne Separates the Legend and the Myth,” Chicago American Magazine, 6-18-67.
“You never knew which Mitchum”: Andrew Fenady to SE. All subsequent quotes from Fenady derive from this interview.
Johnny Crawford remembered: McCarthy, p. 621.
the picture had been shooting for eighty-four days: All this from AMPAS Special Collections, Paramount Collection files, El Dorado.
“Goddamn it, Mitch”: Server, p. 398.
“Duke will do anything”: Server, p. 411.
“The second of two pictures”: Rod Taylor to SE.
“I knew Ford was in town”: Bob Shelton to SE.
“I’d love to do it”: Dan Ford to SE.
“Mind if I hit”: USC, Special Collections, Warga Collection, “Notes from New Mexico, April, 1971.”
“Duke and I”: Pattie, p. 64.
“Duke had something”: Stefanie Powers to SE.
“My husband is one of the few”: MOMA, John Wayne, “The Wages of Virtue,” Time, 3-3-52.
“Pilar was very introverted”: Rod Taylor to SE.
“I have no authority”: Bob Shelton to SE.
“It’s some friends of Pilar’s”: Joseph N. Bell, “John Wayne: He Found His Home Base,” Los Angeles Times, 6-10-88.
“My God, you sound great”: Kane manuscript, p. 4.
“I’ve been through the most harrowing”: Batjac Productions, Feldman to Wayne, 10-4-66.
“What got my goat”: Munn, 267.
“My company and I”: USC, Batjac Collection, box 29, folder 14, Wayne to Stevens, 12-29-65.
George Stevens Jr. spoke to Johnson’s assistant Jack Valenti: USC, Batjac Collection, box 29, folder 14, Stevens Jr. to Stevens, 1-6-66.
“The most effective way”: Batjac Productions, Wayne to Johnson, 12-28-65.
Three weeks later: Batjac Productions, Moyers to Wayne, 1-18-66.
“We feel confident”: Batjac Productions, Wayne to Moyers, 2-18-66.
he received a Montagnard bracelet: Batjac Productions, “The Drop,” a Special Forces publication, 9-81.
“I was actually afraid”: Suid, p. 250.
“I urged them to go all out”: USC, Batjac Collection, The Green Berets files, Valenti to Wayne, 4-3-67.
“Like yourself”: Ed Faulkner to SE.
Batjac also spent $305,000: USC, Batjac Collection, box 26, folder 31; also see Lawrence Suid, “Coppola Stages His Vietnam War,” Los Angeles Times, 10-23-77 ; and Richard Bellamy, “Flick Scene,” Tolucan-Magnolian, 7-2-69, same files.
For directing the picture: USC, Batjac Collection, box 23, folder 15, contract dated 6-26-67.
“I respect your opinion”: Takei, p. 250.
According to LeRoy: LeRoy, p. 218.
David Janssen told: USC, Batjac Collection, box 27, folder 22.
“Mervyn was a nice man”: Ed Faulkner to SE.
“There were three directors”: AMPAS, Winton Hoch file, John Gallagher, “Winton Hoch, Master of Technicolor,” American Classic Screen, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1982.
“On August 21”: Ed Faulkner to SE.
“We have had seven”: USC, Batjac Collection, box 23, folder 14, Lukather to Meyers, 9-13-67.
Warners tried to add $150,000: USC, Batjac Collection, The Green Berets file, Shuman to Carpenter, 12-31-67.
“to make an exciting”: AMPAS, John Wayne, John Wayne, “His Hat Is Off to ‘Green Berets,’ ” Los Angeles Times, 1-28-68.
“immoral . . . a simple-minded”: AMPAS, The Green Berets files, Michael Korda, Glamour, October 1968.
“a cliché-ridden throw-back”: AMPAS, The Green Berets files, John Mahoney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6-17-68.
“a filmmaker of truly monstrous”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Renata Adler, “The Absolute End of the ‘Romance’ of War,” New York Times, 6-30-68.
Mike Wayne wrangled: USC, Batjac Collection, box 23, folder 14, M. Wayne to Kiwitt, 10-14-70.
“They overkilled it”: Suid, p. 256.
“All I know”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Will Tusher, “John Wayne’s View of Movies a Fooler,” The Hollywood Reporter, 2-5-75.
“It’s Cowboys and Indians”: AMPAS, The Green Berets files, Ronald Gold, “Wayne Hopes to Avoid Politics,” Variety, 11-1-67.
“I know he was right-wing”: Bertrand Tavernier to SE.
“I’m about as political”: Batjac Productions, Official Report of the 29th Republican National Convention.
“I could get John Wayne”: Mike Wayne to SE.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
“Dad was on vacation”: Michael Wayne to SE.
“You’re a pretty smart”: Henry Hathaway to SE.
“I looked for weeks, literally”: Ibid.
“Old Henry”: Dean Smith to SE.
“My problem with her”: Ibid.
“I studied his films”: Dennis Hopper to SE.
“I’m sure this one”: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection, True Grit files, Wayne to Wallis, 10-14-68.
“If they’d been real bullets”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Angela Fox Dunn, “Ten Stars Remember the Duke,” New York Times syndication, 1989.
“It’s not an easy thing”: Lilley, Gary Combs interview, p. 46.
“It was a courtroom scene”: Patrick Wayne to SE.
“Acting in the movie business”: George Kennedy to SE.
“I plead with you”: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection, True Grit, Wayne to Wallis, 1-28-69.
“Usually, I attend”: AMPAS, John Wayne, John Wayne as told to Maurice Zolotow, “It Happened Like This,” American Weekly, 11-7-54.
“very drunk”: Bragg, p. 329.
“Westerns are different today”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Frank Barron, “John Wayne, The Iron Duke, Sets 2-4 Pics for Next Year,” The Hollywood Reporter, 5-28-68.
“There is nothing”: AMPAS, Hal Wallis Collection, Hazen to Davis, 9-30-69.
“Rooster Co
gburn”: Cecilia deMille Presley to SE.
“For my father”: Michael Wayne to SE.
“the best dancer ever”: Lee Meriwether to SE.
“Look at that face”: Aissa Wayne, p. 161.
“When we got through shooting”: Eyman, Five American Cinematographers, p. 144.
“He had huge hands”: Lilley, Christopher Mitchum interview, p. 131.
“Aren’t we getting”: Andrew Fenady to SE.
“Are you a professional”: Fagen, p. 198.
“Who is the smart son of a bitch”: Michael Wayne to SE.
“It wasn’t a script”: Ed Faulkner to SE.
“Wayne had a hard time”: McBride, p. 118.
They scoured the set: Anthony Petkovich, “Mike Henry: From James Bond to Tarzan to John Wayne’s Green Berets,” Filmfax, October/November 2011.
“You know what your uncle did?”: Aissa Wayne, p. 105.
“still as tough”: Dean Smith to SE.
“Doing anything tonight?”: Ed Faulkner to SE.
“Well, why don’t we go”: Lilley, Christopher Mitchum interview, p. 133.
“Don’t worry”: Bob Shelton to SE.
“I see pay-TV”: USC, John Wayne, Arthur Lewis, “The Duke Copters in for a Chat—And Talks Tough About the Movies,” Burbank Daily Review, 8-18-73.
“Rio Lobo is bad”: USC, Special Collections, Warga, draft of tape 2A, April 1971.
“Anybody else would have made it”: Kane manuscript, p. 52.
“looked like a big man”: John Sacret Young notes, courtesy of Young.
“Every year the same sword”: Ibid.
“Because he worked so much”: Alicia McFarlane to SE. All subsequent quotes from McFarlane derive from this interview.
He had first editions: All this comes from Heritage Auctions, The Personal Property of John Wayne Auction Catalog, 2011.
“You’re healthy”: Christopher Wayne to SE.
“He’s mine and I want to be with him”: USC, Special Collections, Warga, draft of tape 2A, April 1971.
For Christmas 1972: Aissa Wayne, p. 166.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
“Oh God, rest his soul”: Dan Ford to SE.
“Where’s the camera?”: Bob Shelton to SE.
“It was the biggest show”: William Harbach to SE.
“I came into this business”: AMPAS, John Wayne, Elliot Mintz, “The Real Last American Hero Is John Wayne,” Chic, 7-78.