by Scott Eyman
Sturges, Preston, 124
Stylus, The, 28, 29–30
Submarine Patrol, 94
Suddenly, Last Summer, 306
Suid, Lawrence, 195, 438
Sullavan, Margaret, 394
Sunrise, 41, 51
Support Your Local Gunfighter, 398
surf dives, 25
Surtees, Bruce, 523
Swan Lake, 509
Swarthout, Glendon, 519
Swarthout, Miles Hood, 519, 520, 521, 523, 524, 531
Sweeney, Alfred, 418
Swing Out, Sweet Land, 464
Taft, Robert, 209
Tail o’ the Cock restaurant, 240
Takei, George, 432–33
Tales of Wells Fargo, 317
Tall in the Saddle, 147, 199
Tall T., The, 264
Talmadge, Richard, 384
Taming of the Shrew, The, 375
Tarantino, Quentin, 569
Taurog, Norman, 35, 140
Tavernier, Bertrand, 439
Taylor, Elizabeth, 443, 542
Taylor, Jud, 497
Taylor, Robert, 140, 163, 166
Taylor, Rod, 299, 382, 418, 425, 427–28, 489–91
Teamsters, 435
Telefon, 520
Telegraph Trail, The, 67, 558
television, 203
Temple, Shirley, 179
Terhune, Max, 100
Texas, 160, 247
Thalberg, Irving, 56, 145, 159
Theatre of Blood, 508
They Came to Cordura, 335
They Drive by Night, 86
They Were Expendable, 10, 99, 139, 151–52, 157, 176, 179, 204, 287, 464
Thing, The, 302
Thomas, Augustus, 61
Thomas, J. Parnell, 163
Thompson, Frank, 311, 340
Three Faces West, 106
Three Girls Lost, 60
3 Godfathers, 184–85, 202, 434
“Three Mesquiteers, The” (western series), 91–93, 99–100, 101, 147, 370, 376
Three Musketeers, The, 65
Three Sheets to the Wind (radio show), 123–24
3:10 to Yuma, 569
Three Texas Steers, 99–100
“Till the End of Time,” 169
Time, 208, 384
Time Machine, The, 382
Tiomkin, Dimitri, 166, 256, 330, 332, 335, 340, 341, 371, 422
Tobacco Roads, 163
Todd, Richard, 196
Todd-AO, 314, 315, 318, 343
To Have and Have Not, 173–74, 302
Toland, Gregg, 107
Toledo, Ohio, 382
Tompkins, Jane, 57
Tone, Franchot, 385
Tonight Show, The, 476
Torrijos, General, 537
Totten, Robert, 526
Track of the Cat, 260, 264, 284
Tracy, Spencer, 70, 156, 159, 252, 289, 292, 293, 299, 301, 462, 517, 523, 542, 570, 571
Trail Beyond, The, 80
Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The, 111
Train Robbers, The, 489, 491–92, 493, 494, 504
Trem Carr Productions, 74–75, 81–82
Trevor, Claire, 94, 95, 98, 120, 253, 369, 413, 487, 534, 554
Trilling, Steve, 109, 238
Trinity, 534
Trouble Along the Way, 228–29, 231, 462, 498
Truckee, Nev., 233
True Grit (film; 1969), 2n, 10, 279, 356, 378, 400, 417, 442–51, 452, 453, 456, 494, 511, 513, 515, 516, 517, 531, 545, 566
True Grit (film; 2010), 569
True Grit (Portis), 442, 444, 461, 477, 512
Truman, Harry S., 407, 429
Trumbo, Christopher, 505, 507
Trumbo, Dalton, 166, 505, 507, 508
Tryon, Tom, 386
Tucker, Forrest, 190, 193, 455, 456
Tucson National Country Club, 376
Tumbleweeds, 54
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 54
Turner, Lana, 261, 262
Turrell, Park, 30
Twelve O’Clock High, 196
20th Century Fox, 238, 252, 281, 282, 286–287, 293, 352, 353, 394, 314, 333, 353
Twist, John, 114, 261
Two Rode Together, 321, 342
Tycoon, 183, 199
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (play), 16
Undefeated, The, 451, 452–53, 454
Underground Railroad, 16
Underworld, 299
Unforgiven, 569
Union Pacific, 126
unions, 140, 143, 166
United Artists (UA), 51, 171, 189, 283, 289, 293, 306, 309, 310, 313, 315, 317, 319, 331, 332, 334, 336–38, 339, 342, 343–44, 370–371, 375, 379, 397, 413
Universal Studios, 51, 72, 85–89, 90, 109, 113, 202, 306, 371, 418, 432, 438, 474, 511, 515, 516, 520
Unmarried Woman, An, 552
Uris, Leon, 534
USO tours, 133–37
Utah Film Festival, 544
Valenti, Jack, 430, 431–32, 562
Valentino, Rudolph, 25
Valenzuela, George, 486, 550
Valley Forge, 347
Van Dyke, W. S., II, 254
van Gogh, Vincent, 293
Vanoff, Nick, 465
Variety, 57, 60, 84, 88, 99, 141, 144, 158, 190, 202, 245, 274, 332, 335, 336, 338, 361, 433, 434, 437, 465, 495, 531
Velez, Lupe, 56
Vengeance Valley, 224
Ventura, Michael, 4
Vera Cruz, 352
Verdon, Gwen, 298
Veterans Administration, 204
Victory at Sea, 487
Vidor, King, 94, 140, 142, 200
Vietcong, 433
Vietnam (country), 431, 432, 436, 437, 438
Vietnam War, 136, 429–30, 431, 433, 438
Vigil, The (newsletter), 162–63
Villa, Pancho, 23
Village Voice, The, 531
VistaVision, 274
Vogel, Virgil, 346
Voight, Jon, 449
von Schmidt, Harold, 549
von Sternberg, Josef, 110, 112, 199, 200–201, 299, 385
Vorhaus, Bernard, 169
Wages of Fear, The, 86
Waggner, George, 206
Wagner, Robert, 274
Wagon Master, 196, 345
Wagon Train (TV show), 345–46, 347–48, 349
Waikiki Beach, 154–55
Wake of the Red Witch, 146, 202, 203, 216, 263, 391, 439
Waldorf Statement, 165–66
Walker, Robert, Jr., 420–21, 422
Walker, Robert, Sr., 204, 421
Walk in the Sun, A, 193
Wallace, George, 468
Wallis, Hal, 109, 224, 387, 388–89, 390–91, 393, 441, 442–43, 446, 447, 450–51, 511–16, 542
Wall Street Journal, 283
Walsh, Raoul, 13, 46–47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54–55, 59, 83, 105–6, 107, 109, 305, 316, 462, 570
opinion on Wayne’s acting skills of, 105–6
Walters, Barbara, 547
Walthall, Henry B., 66–67
Wanger, Walter, 94, 95–96, 108–9, 168
Warburton, Cotton, 34
Warga, Wayne, 478, 481–82
Warner, Harry, 210, 247–48, 433
Warner, Jack, 163, 210–11, 232, 234, 236–37, 238, 243, 247–48, 253, 255, 256, 262, 263, 274, 281–82, 283–85, 305, 433, 434, 438, 459
Warner, Sam, 248
Warner Bros., 42, 51, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 81, 86, 105, 109, 204, 209–10, 226, 228, 230–31, 232, 234, 236, 237, 238, 243, 247–48, 255, 256, 257, 258, 260, 261, 263, 264, 265, 271, 273, 281, 282, 283, 284–85, 305, 371, 432, 433, 435, 436, 437, 452, 453, 454, 473, 477, 480, 482, 489, 492, 493, 494, 502, 520, 524, 542
WarnerColor, 254
Warren, Earl, 349
Warren, John S., 565
Warren, Robert Penn, 167
War Wagon, The, 418–23, 425, 432
Washington, Denzel, 5
Wasserman, Lew, 418, 436
Watch on the Rhine, 143
Watergate, 497
; Wayne, Aissa, 21, 136, 242, 290, 351, 404, 406, 411–12, 452, 462, 463, 472, 485, 486–87, 497, 499, 504, 511, 534, 538, 545, 546, 549, 554, 560, 561
Wayne, Antonia “Toni,” 11, 70, 230, 297, 406, 412, 413, 565
Wayne, Christopher, 462, 543, 548, 559, 560
Wayne, Ethan, 462–63, 475, 486, 487, 504, 531, 550, 551, 554, 566
Wayne, Gretchen, 40, 115, 117, 118, 155, 157, 226, 230, 286, 297–98, 317, 394, 406, 408, 411, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 462, 470, 486, 489, 504, 511, 554, 559, 560, 567
Wayne, John, 42
ability to compartmentalize of, 88
aborted memoir of, 481–82
Academy Award of, 449–50
accidental shooting of Bond by, 148–49
acting techniques of, 410–11, 452–53, 527
as actor, 569, 570–71, 573
affairs of, 61–62, 70, 109–10, 113, 114–15, 157
agent of, 120–21, 122
art collection of, 565
artwork and books collected by, 549–50
athletic scholarship of, 32, 38
audience of, 83–84, 157
awkwardness of, 73
banjo played by, 24–25
birth name of, 15, 16
birth of, 15, 16, 49
boldness of, 206
breathing problems of, 391, 446, 456, 473, 479, 515, 522, 523, 542, 543
bullying suffered by, 22
business ventures of, 470–71
B westerns of, 66–69, 71, 72, 75, 79, 81, 82, 84, 93, 100
cancer of, 387–91, 392–93, 395, 473, 515, 519, 525, 528, 546, 548–49, 556, 558
Careys and, 112–13
catalogues as obsession for, 21
cattle ranches of, 354, 377, 426, 566
Chata and, 117–18
childhood of, 15–31
Columbia contracts of, 61–62
commemoration of, 566
competitiveness of, 403, 405, 415
Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to, 557
in conversion to Catholicism, 560–61
cronies of, 71, 132
death of, 561
and death of Ford, 495–96
declining health of, 528–29, 544–46, 553–61
deferments taken by, 129–30
Dietrich and, 109–11, 113, 114, 115, 120, 121
as director, 158n, 162, 214
as distrustful of artists, 124
divorce from Josie of, 115, 117–18, 119–20
draft classification of, 129, 131
drinking of, 76, 148, 155, 214
ear infection of, 130
early acting of, 26, 35–36, 58–59
education of, 20, 22–23
Encino house of, 139
exuberance of, 29–30
as family man, 398, 402, 412
as father, 402–3, 404–5, 411–12, 414–15, 462–63, 472, 485, 486–87
favorite songs of, 169
in fight with Spencer Tracy, 70
film collection of, 139
financial problems of, 538, 545
first screen credit of, 45
Fix and, 148
football played by, 23, 26, 32, 37–38, 40
Ford’s relationship with, see Wayne/Ford relationship
formality of, 76
Fox’s release of, 60
funeral of, 562
on future of movie industry, 459
gallantry of, 570
generosity of, 116, 122–23
gentleness of, 67
as grandfather, 413, 461–62
Grant and, 158–60
Great Western commercials by, 538–41
grudge against Cohn of, 66
as handsome, 27
at Harvard premier for McQ, 501–2
health problems of, 533, 535
heart problems of, 519
hepatitis of, 544
high school activities of, 28–29, 30
on homosexuality, 468–69
honesty of, 86–87
HUAC and, 165
ice skating of, 87
inability to sing of, 77
Jack Warner and, 210–11
Josie and, 559
journalism studied by, 28
knife throwing of, 50–51
as lacking self-confidence, 75–76
lack of aggression in, 27, 32
as leader, 30
Life interview of, 467–68
Lone Star westerns of, 71–72, 74, 76, 77, 78–79, 81, 85
loyalty of, 355, 370, 372, 414, 417
male chauvinism of, 540
Marguerite Churchill’s rumored affair with, 53
marriage to Chata of, 154–56, 169–70, 183, 210
marriage to Josie of, 69–71, 114–15
Mascot serials of, 62–65
as mentor to young actors, 195
Michael as business manager for, 406
Mix disliked by, 34
motorcycle crash of, 24
moviemaking theories of, 161–62
movies watched by, 25
name change of, 48–49
Newport Beach house of, 398–99, 400–401
nickname of, 22
at 1979 Academy Awards, 551–53
O’Hara and, 553–54, 571, 573
O’Hara’s rumored affair with, 484
open heart surgery of, 543
Oscar nominations of, 196, 409
OSS application of, 131–32, 136
parental substitutes of, 33, 37, 112
patriotism of, 136
physical grace of, 58, 74, 87
Pilar’s relationship with, 408, 427–28, 483, 497, 498–99, 504, 511
Playboy interview of, 467, 468
political and social views of, 20, 33, 76, 136, 140, 150, 159, 167, 199–200, 209, 375, 407, 459, 465–70, 509, 537–38, 539
poverty of, 32, 37, 38–39, 43
as president of Motion Picture Alliance, 166, 205–6
as producer, 122, 157–58, 183–84, 192
prop man jobs of, 41–42, 44, 47, 49
radio show of, 123–24
reading habits of, 24, 365, 405, 461–62, 479, 533–34
as referee at “smoker,” 128–29
relentlessness of, 206
religion of, 118
Republican fundraising by, 485
Republic contract of, 90–94, 106, 122, 138–139, 204, 217
reputation of, as director killer, 196
rising status of, 146–47
romantic comedies of, 123, 153–54
Roos’s relationship with, 116–17
salaries of, 34, 36, 42, 44, 48, 52, 62, 66, 68, 74, 84, 85, 90, 93, 113, 120, 122, 138–39, 171, 189, 197, 209, 212, 359, 363, 364, 366, 370, 377, 387, 432, 442, 450, 456, 481, 489, 492, 508, 517
Schlesinger contract of, 66–69, 81
screen character of, 44, 72–73, 74, 77, 113, 126–27, 156, 160, 173, 176
screen tests of, 47
shyness of, 27–28
Siegel and, 522, 523–25, 526, 530
silent comedies of, 36
slipping box-office appeal of, 494, 496, 510
smoking by, 385, 393–94
Stacy and, 533
Stacy’s relationship with, 498, 504–5, 511, 518, 550–51
star quality of, 58
stunts performed by, 150
superstitiousness of, 405
ulcer of, 183
union card of, 45
Universal movies made by, 85–89
unpretentiousness of, 568
at USC, 32–33, 37–39, 40, 42
USC honorary doctorate awarded to, 427
USC quit by, 39
USC tickets sold by, 37
USO tour of, 133–37
Vietnam protesters and, 429–30
Vietnam trips of, 431
on Walsh, 55–56
Warner Bros. deal of, 209–10
war pictures of, 147
weight loss of, 535, 541
Welles and, 165
on
Westerns as art, 395
will of, 565
Will Rogers’s advice to, 60
work ethic of, 203–4, 373, 405, 421, 527, 529, 568, 571
World War II contribution of, 129–37
Yates relationship with, 216–18
Wayne, John, films of:
Adventure’s End, 85, 86, 87, 88
The Alamo, 58, 103, 183, 206, 214–17, 263, 264, 284, 295, 305, 306, 308, 309–44, 345, 351, 355, 370, 377, 379, 385, 388, 430, 435, 438, 482, 521, 536, 546
Allegheny Uprising, 105
Angel and the Badman, 122, 157–58, 159, 217, 241
Annie Laurie, 35
Back to Bataan, 149–51, 199
The Barbarian and the Geisha, 293–96, 312, 401, 481
Big Jake, 93, 451, 474–76, 484, 492, 566
Big Jim McLain, 226, 227–28, 231, 256, 257, 258, 284
Big Trail, 8, 46–59, 61, 63, 82, 94, 99, 105, 125, 182, 243, 279, 316, 541
Blood Alley, 260, 268–69, 271, 284, 423
Born to the West, 89–90, 289
Brannigan, 504, 505, 507, 508–9, 511
Brown of Harvard, 34–35
Cahill U.S. Marshal, 393, 489, 492–93, 494, 498, 504
California Straight Ahead!, 85, 86
Cast a Giant Shadow, 397
Central Airport, 68
Chisum, 179, 451, 454–56, 489
Circus World, 2n, 378, 379–81, 382–85
College Coach, 68
The Comancheros, 270, 334, 350, 352–56
Conflict, 85, 88
The Conqueror, 199, 200, 264–65, 266–67
The Cowboys, 451, 476–81, 482, 494, 566
Dakota, 138
Dark Command, 105–6, 109, 487
The Dawn Rider, 71
Donovan’s Reef, 365–66, 377, 378
El Dorado, 376, 378, 423–24, 425, 566
The Fighting Kentuckian, 192–93, 206, 217, 257
The Fighting Seabees, 138, 146–47, 170
Flame of the Barbary Coast, 138, 149, 170
Flying Leathernecks, 199–200
Flying Tigers, 127, 140
Fort Apache, 10, 152, 178–82, 196, 199, 202, 224, 246, 267, 362, 491
The Greatest Story Ever Told, 385
The Green Berets, 420, 422, 429–39, 441, 448, 450, 454, 467, 478, 516, 566
Hatari!, 334, 337, 350–52, 353, 377
Hellfighters, 436, 453
The High and the Mighty, 232, 246, 252–56, 270, 271, 284, 311, 315, 329
His Private Secretary, 69
Hondo, 10, 232, 235–39, 242–45, 256, 257, 258, 259, 279, 284, 311, 315, 439, 477, 545, 568
The Horse Soldiers, 306–8, 312, 401
How the West Was Won, 321, 364–65
I Cover the War, 85–86, 88
Idol of the Crowds, 85, 87, 88
I Married a Woman, 302
In Harm’s Way, 378, 385–87, 393
In Old California, 126–27
In Old Oklahoma, 119, 138
Island in the Sky, 10, 231, 232–35, 256, 257, 270, 284
Jet Pilot, 199, 200–202, 265, 267
Lady and Gent, 66
A Lady Takes a Chance, 123
The Lawless Frontier, 74