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Box Office Mojo: To attain that level of consistency throughout their work is a tremendous accomplishment—? He was notorious for cutting dialog—for reaching in and getting the essence. Dan Ford: Everybody said it: Ford liked the same people and that was the stock company.

Ford grew up with Silent pictures. How Being Gay Led To John Wayne’s DOWNFALL In Hollywood. He'd take all this great Frank Nugent dialog and cut it and find the meat. It might have been financial, too. The leading man was Jimmy Stewart, whom he respected as an actor immensely, who was really the money actor in it, though [Wayne's] by far the most important character and he had a much more interesting part.

Dan Ford: That was Ford. John Wayne was one of the most iconic stars to ever appear on the screen, but his legacy as an actor and his personal life have both been the subject of debate. The Iron Horse gets a little play because it was quite successful. The cast were also more sophisticated actors—like George Bancroft—and the commonly told story goes that Ford rode Wayne because everybody knew Wayne was Ford's friend and Ford wanted to get the other actors on Duke's side—in order to help [Wayne].

Dan Ford: Look at him—he was playing the guy who doesn't get the girl who becomes a drunk—in his mind he felt that he didn't have the main part and he was John Wayne. If you couldn't tell a story visually, forget it. It's shot in 70 millimeter and it came out when sound was coming out and people were more interested in sound.

Box Office Mojo: Who generally owns the rights to Ford's movies? He was a sensational card player, like Ford, a big drinker, like Ford was, and they had a lot in common. 'The Big Trail' failed at the box office, primarily due to its use of a new widescreen format that many theaters couldn't accommodate.

The guy he really needled was Ward Bond, because he kind of went around asking for it. He even used the same crew. They were outdoor guys, they both loved boats—they spent every nickel they had on their boats—and it was a personal friendship. He was such an appealing, likable, fun guy to be around—a man's man.

All rights reserved. Dan Ford: I haven't seen some of the really old ones. Box Office Mojo: So part of the John Ford process was to use certain actors in whom he identified a particular quality he liked? It's a great film [about the] Dakota and Oklahoma land rush. Box Office Mojo: John Wayne said that a director such as George Cukor would try to make the movie fit the script and that your grandfather would try to make the script fit the movie.

Dan Ford: —They were a lot alike. Ford had similar relationships with Henry Fonda, George O'Brien, back in the Silent [movie] days—O'Brien just couldn't make the transition to a talking actor. Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy under which this service is provided to you.

John Wayne was known for his rugged macho character roles and his conservative opinions, but he once started alongside a "queer" Hollywood icon of gay cinema. He hated long-winded speeches. Dan Ford: John Ford would change the script and cut the dialog. I don't think Wayne appreciated that.

He needled everybody. John Wayne was an American actor who was best known for his leading roles during Hollywood’s Golden Age. He was born on May 26, , in Winterset, Iowa, as. Dan Ford: On Stagecoach , John Wayne and other people told me that everybody [working] on the movie knew that Wayne and Ford were friends, that they were fishing and drinking buddies.

Dan Ford: They Were Expendable , though one of his best that most people probably aren't familiar with is Three Bad Men because it's silent and it didn't make money.