American Titan: Searching for John Wayne (60 page)

Colbert, Claudette, 96, 102

Coleman, George, 228

Coleman, Ronald, 125

Collier’s,
78

Columbia Pictures, 57–59, 82, 169, 192, 204n, 221n

Comancheros, The,
285

Come Back, Little Sheba,
203n

Communism:

anti-Communist films, 195

and anti-Semitism, 186–87

and FBI, 191, 267

and Hollywood blacklist, 3–4, 135, 153–55, 170, 174, 185–87, 190–93, 202, 204n, 205, 249–50, 278, 281, 284, 307

and Hollywood Ten, 100, 204n, 273

and HUAC,
see
HUAC

and MPA, 129–30, 149–50, 152–54, 169, 186, 191, 204n

and unions, 73, 100–102, 149, 150–51

and Vietnam War, 300

Waldorf Statement, 153, 154n, 191, 279

Wayne against, 3, 5, 74, 101, 105, 129, 135, 136, 144, 148, 149–55, 169, 173, 174, 185–87, 202, 205, 208, 227, 249–50, 262, 272, 278, 300

Compulsion,
284

Conflict,
64, 76

Conners, Mike, 212

Connery, Sean, 309n

Conqueror, The,
210, 220–22, 248, 250–51, 269

Conway, Jack, 28, 30n, 106

Cooper, Gary, 3, 8, 45, 51, 81, 82, 98, 109, 149, 162, 196, 203–6, 210, 227, 235

Cooper, James Fenimore, 102

Cooper, Merian C., 72, 81, 186, 203, 233, 234

Corey, Jeff, 320n

Cornell, Kathleen, 334

Cosmopolitan,
287

Costello, Lou, 28, 172

Couderc, Pierre, 50n

Coward, Noel, 124

Cowboys, The,
325–26

Crabbe, Buster, 58

Craig, Yvonne, 248

Crawford, Broderick, 3, 4, 111, 169, 180, 181

Crawford, Joan, 116, 125

Crisp, Donald, 149

Cristal, Linda, 273

Crockett, Davy, 177, 212, 236, 247, 262, 270, 272–77, 301, 302, 317

Cromwell, John, 106

Cronkite, Walter, 315

Crosby, Bing, 131, 172, 202, 227

Crowther, Bosley, 98, 161, 167, 171, 208, 243, 276

Cruze, James, 82

Cukor, George, 2, 87, 106, 107

Cumming, Irving, 44

Curtis, Ken, 237, 248, 271

Curtiz, Michael, 2, 40, 170, 209, 285

Custer, George, 159

Dailey, Dan, 248, 252

Dakota,
137

Darby, Kim, 319, 320

Dark Command, The,
97, 98

Darkness at Noon,
152

Dark Victory,
90

Dassin, Jules, 125, 280

Daves, Delmer, 257

Davis, Bette, 90, 107

Davis, Ron, 189

Davis, Sammy Jr., 271, 331, 340

Dawn Rider, The,
64n

Day, Doris, 309n

Day, Laraine, 147–48, 218

Days of Wine and Roses, The,
290n

Dean, James, 165, 197, 209, 243

Deceiver, The,
58

December 7,
141n

Dee, Frances, 115

Deep Throat,
7

Deer Hunter, The,
340

de Havilland, Olivia, 161, 206

Dekker, Albert, 123–24, 128

De Laurentiis, Dino, 332, 333

Del Rio, Delores, 158

DeMille, Cecil B., 110, 119, 149–50, 179n, 185–87, 188, 192, 203n, 243n

Dern, Bruce, 325–26

Desert Trail, The,
64n

Desilu Productions, 221

Destry Rides Again,
81, 87, 110, 284

Devine, Andy, 40, 79, 82, 83, 177, 286, 289, 335

De Wilde, Brandon, 248

Dickinson, Angie, 258, 259

Dieterle, William, 150

Dietrich, Marlene, 45, 96, 116, 125–26, 204, 205, 283

and
Destry,
81, 110, 184

and
Pittsburgh,
125

and
Spoilers,
123

Wayne’s affair with, 107, 109–13, 115, 118, 122–23, 125

Directors Guild, 72–73, 101, 103, 186, 187, 190

Dirty Harry,
205, 329

Disney, Walt, 3, 106, 129, 151–52, 163, 177, 212, 236, 247, 262, 276, 284

Dmytryk, Edward, 135, 136, 236n, 294

Doctor Bull,
71

Doering, Otto C. “Ole” Jr., 158

Donen, Stanley, 2, 180n, 192n

Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,” 131, 158n

Donovan’s Reef,
286, 295–96

Dors, Diana, 252

Dorsey, Tommy, 143

Douglas, Kirk, 179n, 180, 181, 229, 249, 273n, 297, 303, 307

Douglas, Paul, 180

Driscoll, Bobby, 163

Drop Kick, The,
30n

Dru, Joanne, 165, 175, 241

Drums Along the Mohawk,
87, 102

Duke (dog), 21

Dunne, Irene, 96, 97, 149

Dunne, Phillip, 105

Durocher, Leo, 147–48

Duvall, Robert, 320

Dwan, Allan, 3, 178–79, 180

Earp, Wyatt, 157–58

East of Eden,
243n

Eastwood, Clint, 205, 235, 249, 323n, 329, 334, 340

Easy Rider,
5, 245, 329

Edelman, Louis, 196

Edeson, Arthur, 50

Edison, Thomas A., 73

Edison Trust, 46

Edwards, Blake, 290n

El Dorado,
305–6, 309, 310, 323, 333

Eldridge, Florence, 105

Elmer Gantry,
270

Englund, Steven, 150–51

Enright, Ray, 123

Erickson, A. F., 41, 44

Evarts, Hal G., 50

Everson, William K., 23, 88, 98

Exodus,
279, 280

Eyles, Allen, 118

Fabian, 274

Fairbanks, Douglas Jr., 63

Falk, Peter, 280

Famous Artists Corporation, 96

Far Country, The,
234

Farrow, John, 212, 222, 223, 229n

Farrow, Mia, 319

Fast, Howard, 273n

FBI, 191, 267

Feldman, Charles K., 96–97, 99, 111, 119, 123, 125, 153, 163, 166, 169, 219, 249, 283–84, 298, 306

Fellows, Robert, 145, 218

Fenton, Frank, 253

Ferrer, Jose, 4, 290n

Feurer, Cy, 124

Fidler, Jimmie/Jimmy, 112

Field, Betty, 117, 118

Fighting Kentuckian, The,
174, 176–77

Fighting Seabees, The,
130, 131, 137, 172, 208

Fitzgerald, Barry, 104

Fitzgerald, Ella, 219n

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 41

Five Easy Pieces,
323, 329

Fix, Paul, 48n, 74, 75, 86, 175, 218, 223

Flame of Barbary Coast,
134

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe,
60

Fleischer, Richard, 135, 284

Fleischman, A. S., 227

Fleming, Victor, 45, 87, 90, 91, 149, 150, 232

Flight of the Phoenix, The,
217

Florey, Robert, 130

Flying Leathernecks,
197

Flying Tigers,
124–25, 137, 172

Flynn, Errol, 213

Fonda, Henry, 4, 91, 219n

and Academy Awards, 106

and
Drums Along the Mohawk,
102

and Ford, 67–68, 102–5, 159, 232, 234, 242

and
Fort Apache,
159–61

and
The Grapes of Wrath,
102, 150, 158

and
Mister Roberts,
159n, 232

and
My Darling Clementine,
157–58

and
The Power and the Glory,
158–59

wartime service of, 120

and Wayne, 102–3, 157, 340

and
Young Mr. Lincoln,
67, 102

Fonda, Peter,
Don’t Tell Dad,
159n

Fontaine, Joan, 107

Ford, Dan, 73n, 79, 122, 289

Ford, Francis (Frank), 32, 33

Ford, Gerald R., 334

Ford, Glenn, 213

Ford, John, 29–34, 74, 138, 157–61, 219

and Academy Awards, 8, 72–73, 91, 107, 141, 193, 203, 206, 231, 332

and
Alamo,
262–63, 268–69

and
Araner
(boat), 67, 75, 78, 79, 176

and Argosy, 103, 158, 159, 174, 231, 232, 233

and
The Big Punch,
33–34

and blacklisting, 185–87, 190–91, 192

and
The Black Watch,
41, 71

death of, 328, 341

and
Donovan’s Reef,
295–96

and Fonda, 67–68, 102–5, 159, 232, 234, 242

and
Fort Apache,
159–61

and
Four Sons,
39–40

and
The Fugitive,
158–59

and
The Grapes of Wrath,
102, 104, 150, 190, 191

Hawks’s films compared to, 161–62

health problems of, 248–49, 287, 332

and
The Horse Soldiers,
260–61

and
How Green Was My Valley,
193

influence of, 89, 162, 175–76, 238, 244

influences on, 103, 104

and
The Long Gray Line,
232

and
The Long Voyage Home,
103–5, 142

and
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,
161, 286–91

and
Men Without Women,
41–42

and
Mister Roberts,
229n, 232–33

and
Mother Machree,
30, 31, 70

and MPA, 149, 154, 191

as “Pappy,” 39, 289

and
The Quiet Man,
6, 64, 188, 193n, 198–201, 202–3, 231

and
Red River,
166, 168

reputation of, 70–71, 72, 86, 205, 232–33, 234

and
Rio Grande,
187–90

and
The Searchers,
3, 24, 229, 233–45, 248, 276

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

and
The Soul Herder,
33

and
Stagecoach,
6, 78–80, 81–91, 103, 145, 157, 162, 198, 205–6, 235

and
The Sun Shines Bright,
231–32

and
They Were Expendable,
142–44, 157

and
3 Godfathers,
170–71

and
True Grit,
2, 4

Ford, John (
cont.
)

and
Wagon Master,
197

war service of, 105, 120–21

and wartime propaganda films, 105

as Wayne’s mentor, 37, 43–44, 67–68, 77–78, 95, 102–5, 122, 127, 143, 146, 172, 190, 225, 262–63, 289

and
The Wings of Eagles,
251–52

and
Young Mr. Lincoln,
67, 102

Ford Productions Company, 288

Foreign Affair, A,
283

Foreman, Carl, 3–4, 204, 205, 206, 325

Fort Apache,
85, 159–61, 163, 165, 166, 167, 169, 172, 174, 185, 191

Forward Pass, The,
41

For Whom the Bell Tolls,
162, 210

Four Sons,
39–40

Fox, William, 28, 29, 45, 46, 52, 71

Fox Studio, 28, 29, 33, 39, 43–47, 52, 55, 56, 71;
see also
Twentieth Century-Fox

Francis, Robert, 236n

Frankel, Glenn, 122

Frankovich, Mike, 332

Fraser, Harry, 67n

French New Wave, 244

Freud,
192

Frontier Playhouse,
172

Fugitive, The,
158–59, 314–15

Furstenberg, Betsy von, 215n

Furthman, Jules, 195

Gabin, Jean, 123, 125

Gable, Clark, 91, 106, 120, 149, 152, 171n, 232, 234, 270

Gamet, Kenneth, 171

Gardner, Arthur, 329

Gardner, Ava, 232

Garfield, John, 63n, 144, 170

Garland, Judy, 106

Garnett, Tay, 110, 111, 135n

Gatewood, Henry, 83

Gaynor, Janet, 206

Gaze, Gwen, 77

Geer, Andrew Clare, 223

General Teleradio, 221

Gentleman’s Agreement,
303

Gere, Richard, 193n

Geronimi, Clyde, 229

Giant,
228, 243

Gibson, Diana, 77

Gibson, Hoot, 23, 261

Gidley, Gass, 228n

Giesler, Jerry, 201, 211

Gilmore, Stuart, 278

Girl Can’t Help It, The,
243n

Girls Demand Excitement,
55–56

Gleason, James, 147

Glendale, California, 19–21, 23, 24

Glendale Union High School, 25

Glennon, Bert, 88, 91n

Gobel, George, 252

Godard, Jean-Luc, 244, 259, 343

Goddard, Paulette, 119

Gold, Ernest, 280

Goldwater, Barry S., 295, 301, 337

Goldwyn, Samuel, 46, 71, 104, 165, 280

Gone With the Wind,
81, 87, 90–91, 119, 124, 150, 233, 275, 316

Goodbye Mr. Chips,
1, 90

Gorbeck, Willis, 288

Gordon, Bernard, 249

Gould, Elliot, 323n

Goulding, Edmund, 90

Goulding, Harry, 88n

Gower Gulch, 62–63

Grable, Betty, 202, 207

Graduate, The,
318, 329

Graham, Sheilah, 224

Grainger, Edmund, 125, 178

Grandeur process, 45, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52

Grand Hotel,
88

Granger, Stewart, 274

Grant, Cary, 2, 57, 106, 129, 162, 249, 255, 309

Grant, James Edward, 145, 178, 179n, 262, 296, 308

Grapes of Wrath, The,
99, 102, 103, 104, 107, 150, 158, 190, 191

Great Depression, 66, 100, 101

Great Dictator, The,
106

Greatest Show on Earth, The,
203n

Greatest Story Ever Told, The,
294

Great K and A Train Robbery, The,
29, 30n

Green, Alfred E., 63n, 191

Green, Guy, 300n

Green Berets, The,
300, 302, 306–7, 308, 310, 313–18, 321, 325

Greene, Graham, 158

Green Hell,
210–11

Grey, Nan, 76

Grey, Shirley, 60

Grey, Virginia, 134

Grey, Zane, 42n

Griffith, D. W., 33, 44, 70

Gulliver, Dorothy, 59

Gunfighter, The,
169–70, 333

Gunga Din,
87

Gunsmoke,
234–35