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: AMPAS, John Wayne, Phil Levine, “Scandal Editor Shot; A Slip, Says Hunter,” New York
Daily News
, 9-6-56.
“The South American”
: USC, Batjac Collection,
Los Angeles Herald Express
, 2-20-53.
“He’s still angry at me”
: Aissa Wayne, p. 58.
“She was a tiny thing”
: Gretchen Wayne to SE.
He told her
: Roberts and Olson, p. 387.
“My racket isn’t writing letters”
: McGivern, pp. 56–57.
After eight years
: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, box 17, folder 21, Fellows to Warner, 3-2-54; also USC, Batjac Collection, memorandum of Warner deal, 11-26-52.
“I know you”
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection,
Operation Pacific
.
In May 1953
: USC, Batjac Collection, Wayne to Schaefer, 5-12-53.
“I’ve profited by the mistakes”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 51, folder 19, Bob Thomas, “Wayne-Fellows Show Way to Indie Profits,”
Hollywood Citizen-News
, 12-14-53.
“I never had a more difficult”
: James Lydon to SE.
“Ran
Island in the Sky
”
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, Warner and Trilling to Wayne, 4-29-53.
“Had wonderful preview”
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection,
Island in the Sky
file, Warner and Trilling to Wayne, 7-3-53.
“I was under the impression”
: Batjac Productions, box FOD 1230, Wayne to Warner, 9-18-53.
“all media” camera
: MOMA, John Wayne, Thomas Wood, “Hollywood Ends Mexican’s Siesta,”
New York Herald Tribune
, 7-19-53.
“We had a wonderful”
: Batjac Productions, Wayne to Warner, 6-12-53.
“We are throwing away”
: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, box 16, folder 16, Wayne to Warner, 6-17-53.
“Saw three reels”
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection,
Hondo
file, Warner to Wayne, 6-18-53.
“Farrow has done everything”
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection,
Hondo
file, Wayne to Warner, 6-20-53.
“She thought that was cute”
: Kane manuscript, p. 36.
“I went out with the boys”
: Lilley, Terry Wilson interview, CD Companion to
Campfire Conversations
.
“Every morning”
: Davis, p. 175.
“for the first time”
: USC, Batjac Collection, Feldman to Wayne, 7-8-53.
“I am goddamned sick and tired”
: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, box 16, folder 16, Wayne to Trilling, 7-7-53.
“ ‘Aw, Geraldine’ ”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 402.
Wayne’s accountant
: AMPAS, John Wayne,
Los Angeles Herald-Express
, “Alimony Suit Holds Up Film,” 5-29-53.
the court filings revealed
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Mrs. John Wayne Tells Court Rep Paid Her 78G as ‘Spending Money,’
Variety
, 5-28-53.
Wayne turned red
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “John Wayne Enraged by ‘Liar’ Charge,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, 5-23-53.
“Why doesn’t someone”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Tell Wife’s Drinking,” 10-20-53.
“We were making the picture”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Wayne Fidgets and Squirms, Tells Drinking, Quarrels with Chata,”
Los Angeles Herald-Express
, 10-28-53.
“From the fact”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Mrs. Wayne Loses, Gets Only $1,100,”
Hollywood Citizen News
, undated.
“John took me home”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Louella Parsons, “Gail Russell Shocked, Denies Impropriety,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, 10-21-53.
Entered into evidence
: AMPAS, John Wayne, James Bacon, “Divorce for Each in John Wayne Case,”
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
, 10-29-53.
Wayne was obligated
: Olsen, p. 113.
“
Hondo
screening last night”
: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, Hendricks to Warner, 11-12-53.
“That’s the finest woman”
: Kane manuscript, p. 26.
“There’s nothing”
: Ibid., p. 24.
“He was very tenacious”
: Liesl Bradner, “The Duke, Unguarded,”
Los Angeles Times
, 10-16-11.
“It got big laughs”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Maurice Zolotow, “Well, There Were These Two Fellers, Dean Martin and Paul Keyes,”
TV Guide
, 11-11-72.
“too good to be”
: Clothier to SE.
“Bill Clothier was like my father”
: Michael Wayne to SE.
“The men around me”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Helen Itria, “Big John,”
Look
, 8-53.
“What do you people”
: Kane manuscript, pp. 37–38.
“He had to sing”
: Maureen O’Hara to SE.
“Jack Warner was a”
: Vincent Sherman to SE.
“Jack Warner was a rude”
: James Garner to SE.
“There were times”
: Vincent Sherman to SE.
Hopper’s own belief system
: Jennifer Frost, “Hedda Hopper, Hollywood Gossip and the Politics of Racial Representation in Film, 1946-1948,”
Journal of African American History
, 2008.
“You can’t get into”
: Batjac Productions, John Lee Mahin interview, undated but 1980.
“Duke really went into the work”
: Thomas Morgan, “God and Man in Hollywood,”
Esquire
, 5-63.
“My agent”
: Vincent Sherman to SE.
“He was a very”
: Vincent Sherman to SE.
Wayne estimated the membership
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, “Trouble Along the Way,” UPI, 11-2-51.
“They were really American”
: Sean Axmaker, “Budd Boetticher,”
Filmfax
, 6/7-11.
“Hell, Duke didn’t know”
: MOMA, John Wayne, “The Wages of Virtue,”
Time
, 3-3-52.
CHAPTER TWELVE
MGM had just accepted
: James Curtis to SE.
Wellman took runs
: AMPAS,
The High and the Mighty
file, Aline Mosby, “Stars Nix Air Saga, Regret It,”
Los Angeles Daily News
, 7-7-54.
“I didn’t know”
: Eyman,
Five American Cinematographers
, p. 131.
“Wellman directed”
: Karen Sharpe Kramer to SE.
“I thought to myself”
: McGivern, p. 88.
“Wellman scared”
: Robert Stack to SE.
Billy Wilkerson
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 51, folder 19, W. R. Wilkerson, “Trade Views,”
Hollywood Reporter
, 4-29-54.
Only half joking
: Kane manuscript, p. 22.
“his behavior has shaken”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Fellows to Wayne, 2-10-54.
Fellows suggested
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Fellows to Wayne, 2-10-54.
“The picture may be bad”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Grant to Wayne, 2-10-54.
“I feel that”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Wayne to Grant, 2-10-54.
“You take up too much”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Wayne to Grant, 2-12-54.
“Liquor got to Bill”
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Fellows to Wayne, 2-15-54.
The company drafted
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 10, Fellows to Hungate, 2-16-54.
“I knew suddenly”
: USC, Batjac Collection, folder marked “Grant, James E.—writer—Misc.”
“The most remarkable”
: Lilley, Jack Williams interview, CD. Companion to
Campfire Conversations.
“I knew I was never”
: Karen Sharpe Kramer to SE.
In three years
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 7, Wayne to Allenberg, 6-21-56.
“Perhaps some actors”
: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, box 17, folder 4, Wayne to Trilling, 9-15-54.
“Long dialogue at the beginning”
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, “Notes from John Wayne on Sea Chase,” undated.
“The sparks often fly”
: Tab Hunter to SE.
“He was a consummate pro”
: Hunter, p. 105, rest of quote, Tab Hunter to SE.
“Speed it up”
: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection,
The Sea Chase
, cutting notes.
Wayne persuaded William Wellman
: All this from USC, Jack L. Warner Collection, box 17, folder 21, Robert Fellows to Jack Warner, 3-2-54.
“My father wasn’t really”
: Colin Grant to SE.
Fellows would be out
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection,
The Sea Chase
, Fellows to Hurson, 5-24-56.
In the breakup
: USC, Batjac Collection, box 1, folder 7, Fellows to Batjac, 11-12-63.
“Everybody’s got to get”
: Kane manuscript, p. 40.
“You won’t believe it”
: Ibid., p. 42.
Hughes agreed to pay
: Batjac Productions, Obringer to Wayne, 4-29-54.
“$100,000 does not even start”
: Batjac Productions, Wayne to Hughes, 4-29-54.
Wayne harbored feverish fantasies
: Batjac Productions, Wayne to Feldman, 11-4-55.
“Everything points”
: Batjac Productions, Feldman to Wayne, 2-4-57.
“That goddamn bitch”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 411.
Gregg Barton remembered
: Lilley, Gregg Barton interview, p. 10.
“Dogs are great”
: Kane manuscript, p. 39.
Armendáriz decided to steal
: Kane manuscript, p. 33.
“He was a very, very shy”
: USC, Special Collections, Warga, draft of tape 6A, April 1971.
One day Tom Kane
: Kane manuscript, p. 33.
“Wellman had a terrible temper”
: Michael Wayne to SE.
“Mitchum started bouncing”
: Ibid.
There was a forty-five-minute meeting
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection,
Blood Alley
file.
“I was apprehensive”
: MOMA, John Wayne,
MacNeil/Lehrer Report
transcript, 6-12-79.
there was a wild party
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “Blood Alley Party Sends Five to Jail,”
Los Angeles Examiner
, 2-12-55.
“They were so much fun”
: William Wellman Jr. to SE.
he had mellowed
: Ibid.
“He’s a wonderful”
: John Wayne to SE.
As Mitchum and his wife, Dorothy
: Aissa Wayne, p. 34.
“a nice guy”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Helen Itria, “Big John,”
Look
, 8-53.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
“I don’t think the price”
: Batjac Productions, Wayne to Feldman, 3-30-57.
ten to twenty setups
: USC, Hal Roach Collection,
Rookie of the Year
budget and schedule.
He received $250,000
: Landesman, p. 317; Batjac Productions, Wayne to Merian Cooper, 6-15-55.
“had a blanket over him”
: Harry Carey Jr. to SE.
“Go shit”
: Robert Wagner to SE.
“She thought he”
: Robert Wagner to SE.
“brutal in spots”
: USC, Warner Bros. Collection, MacEwen to Warner, 12-5-55.
“This was the heart”
: Frankel, p. 241.
“Ford goes very far”
: Pippin, p. 109.
“Such landscapes and feelings”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 422.
“The big man standing alone”
: AMPAS,
The Searchers
file, William C. Reynolds.
“We had a vertical”
: AMPAS, Winton Hoch, John Gallagher, “Winton Hoch: Master of Technicolor,”
American Classic Screen
, vol. 1, No. 3, 1982.
As the critic David Overbey once observed
: MOMA, John Wayne files, David Overbey, “John Wayne Reconsidered,” 1976.
“Wayne was never”
: Terry Curtis Fox, “The Duke of Deception,”
Film Comment
, 9/10-79.
“I don’t see any reason”
: F. Anthony Macklin, “I Come Ready,”
Film Heritage
, Summer 1975, p. 30.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
“if you can get”
: USC, Jack L. Warner Collection,
Sea Chase
file, box 27, Trilling to Wayne, 4-23-55.
“Duke [gave] me”
:
Moving Images
Pinewood Dialogues, David Schwartz and Budd Boetticher, movingimagessource.us./files/dialogues.

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