John Wayne: The Life and Legend (124 page)
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Authors: Scott Eyman
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“She’s some woman”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Molly Haskell, “Wayne, Westerns and Women,”
Ladies’ Home Journal
, 7-76.
“Ambition?”
: MOMA, John Wayne, Joseph N. Bell, “John Wayne’s Scrapbook,”
Good Housekeeping
, 6-76.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
“Scott is not a western star”
: William Self to SE. All subsequent quotes from Self derive from this interview.
Such was Wayne’s desire
: William Self to SE.
Then the doctors did a biopsy
: Gretchen Wayne to SE.
“He wasn’t fully engaged”
: Miles Hood Swarthout to SE. All subsequent quotes from Swarthout derive from this interview.
He showed Siegel
: Siegel, p. 4.
“We all felt”
: Hugh O’Brian to SE. All further quotes from O’Brian derive from this interview.
“It started with a quote in the Carson City newspaper”
: Ron Howard to SE. All subsequent quotes from Howard derive from this interview.
“He didn’t do too badly”
: Siegel, p. 17.
“I just don’t seem to have”
: USC, John Wayne, Roderick Mann, “John Wayne—A Natural as The Shootist,”
Los Angeles Times
, 3-7-76.
“Wayne wasn’t particularly reflective”
: Lauren Bacall to SE. All subsequent quotes from Bacall derive from this interview.
“Jack Ford used to tell me”
: AMPAS,
The Shootist
files, Joseph McBride,
Variety
, 1-29-76.
“Will you get”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Molly Haskell, “Wayne, Westerns and Women,”
Ladies’ Home Journal
, 7-76.
“You don’t beat it, friend”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jim Bishop, “Duke Was the Real Thing,”
Columbus Citizen-Journal
, 6-20-79.
“Anyplace I go”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Joan Dew, “John Wayne: Riding into the Sunset,”
Coronet
, 8-76.
“You’re really fucking this up”
: Kane manuscript, p. 10.
“Let’s shoot the dying scene first”
: Siegel, p. 32.
“Stop acting so silly”
: Stacy, p. 101.
“You’re the only man”
: Burt Kennedy to SE.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
She gently suggested
: Stacy, p. 103.
“They were buddies”
: Barbara Sinatra to SE.
“Gene and I have known”
: Glendale Library, Special Collections, “Wayne Honored Recalls Early Days,”
Glendale News-Press
, 4-8-97.
“You won’t get”
: Kevin Brownlow shared his notes of his day with John Wayne with SE.
“I really was brave”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Charles Champlin, “John Wayne—The Truest Grit,”
Los Angeles Times
, 6-13-79.
“I’ll show you”
: MOMA, John Wayne, “Reagan Angered John Wayne,”
New York Times
, 3-16-87.
“Quite obviously, there are some”
: Batjac Productions, “Statement Regarding Panama Canal Treaty,” 10-11-77.
“The truth is”
: Aissa Wayne, p. 175.
Great Western agreed
: MOMA, John Wayne, Col. Barney Oldfield, “When Wayne Says Draw, He Doesn’t Mean from an S&L Bank,”
Variety
, 11-1-78.
“It was not”
: Haskell Wexler to SE. All subsequent quotes from Wexler derive from this interview.
“I was a nonentity”
: Kristin Glover to SE. All subsequent quotes from Glover derive from this interview.
he was beginning to lose weight
: Bert Minshall to SE.
Then Wayne contacted Allen
: Joe Musso to SE.
“If I can do it”
: Christopher Wayne to SE.
On the night of April 2
: Roberts and Olson, p. 624.
“I saw it was raining”
: MOMA, John Wayne, Maurice Zolotow, “How Duke Made Friends with Death,”
Los Angeles
, 3-79.
A month later
: Stacy, p. 158.
“If I could pick”
: USC, John Wayne, Will Tusher,
Variety
, 9-25-78.
“Christ, everybody’s gone”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Bill Kelly, “John Wayne,”
South Bay
, 7-81.
“I found a book”
: Ron Howard to SE.
“You know why Gable’s”
: Aissa Wayne, p. 39.
“I think the best”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Bill Kelly, “John Wayne,”
South Bay
, 7-81.
“Wealth? Bob Hope has wealth”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Bill Kelly, “John Wayne,”
South Bay
, 7-81.
“I was coming”
: William Wellman Jr. to SE.
“I have it, Aissa”
: Aissa Wayne, p. 188.
“In the last few years”
: Bert Minshall to SE.
“I hate to let her go”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Roderick Mann, “Duke at 71: The Last Authentic Hollywood Hero,”
Los Angeles Times
, 8-6-78.
“I gotta say it”
: Ibid.
“By the end of the two days”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, “John Wayne: Everybody’s Hero,”
The Saturday Evening Post
, undated but 1979.
“Who are you pulling for?”
: Christopher Wayne to SE.
Each day, three thousand letters
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jerry Belcher, “ ‘Wayne Doing Beautifully,’ Specialist Says,”
Los Angeles Times
, 1-20-79.
Stacy was heartened
: Stacy, p. 191.
“they still shone clear and calm and resolute”
: Aissa Wayne, p. 195.
Most of the time
: Stacy, p. 197.
“I don’t want any damn long faces”
: Bert Minshall to SE.
On Easter Sunday
: Stacy, p. 204.
“No, Bert”
: Bert Minshall to SE.
“I’m going to do it”
: Kane manuscript, p. 53.
“You’ve got to shoot”
: Ibid.
“He rested until”
: Stacy, p. 14.
“He looked like death”
: Howard W. Koch to SE.
“He allowed us to see”
: USC, Constance McCormick Collection, John Wayne, Vol. III, Molly Haskell, “The Myth,” May/June 1980.
“One time I caught”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Bill Kelly, “John Wayne,”
South Bay
, 7-81.
“To Duke”
: Cecilia deMille Presley to SE.
“Is that for Charlie?”
: O’Hara, p. 282.
“Good evening,” said Wayne
: Ibid., p. 287.
Wayne called Olive Carey
: Harry Carey Jr. to SE.
“It was how people”
: Tom Fuentes to SE.
In his bedroom
: Gretchen Wayne to SE.
“They didn’t leave me anything”
: Roberts and Olson, p. 638.
He thought about suicide
: Stacy, p. 211.
“I just can’t wear it”
: Mike Wayne to SE.
“You need to write the Duke”
: Darcy O’Brien to SE.
“What a lovely morning”
: Aissa Wayne, p. 206.
Pointing to an intravenous
: Michael Wayne to SE.
Robert Parrish cabled
: Parrish,
Hollywood Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
, p. 186.
“It’s got me this time, Mike”
: Caine,
What’s It All About?
, p. 407.
As an old woman
: Barbara Sinatra to SE.
“we’ll keep on praying”
: Heritage Auctions,
The Personal Property of John Wayne Auction Catalog
, Reagan to Wayne, April 1979, p. 88.
“At the end”
: Patrick Wayne to SE.
He asked her to repeat it
: Roberts and Olson, p. 644.
“We were married”
: Christopher Wayne to SE.
“The last week”
: Patrick Wayne to SE.
“Is it your wish”
: MOMA, John Wayne, “Priest Tells How John Wayne Became a Catholic on His Deathbed,”
National Enquirer
, 7-3-79.
“On the morning of his death”
: Patrick Wayne to SE.
Aissa Wayne was there
: Aissa Wayne, p. 214.
“When you have as many kids”
: Christopher Wayne to SE.
“My grandmother was very devout”
: MOMA, John Wayne, “John Wayne’s Grandson Reflects on His Priesthood,”
St. Anthony Messenger
, undated.
“My dad was not”
: Patrick Wayne to SE.
The Mass was conducted
: MOMA, John Wayne, “John Wayne Buried,”
Variety
, 6-19-79.
When word came
: Buford, p. 297.
EPILOGUE
The thirty-page document
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Jeffrey Perlman, “Wayne Leaves Estate Valued at $6.8 Million,”
Los Angeles Times
, 6-20-79.
The house in Newport Beach
: MOMA, John Wayne, “Estate of John Wayne Sold for $3.48 Million,”
New York Times
, 3-14-80.
Louis Johnson sold
: Pattie, p. 78.
“He’d look at it and say”
: Mike Wayne to SE.
“The thing that he required”
: Mike Wayne to Leonard Maltin, Maltin archives.
“Because of his films”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Steven Smith, “On the Trail of Wayne Mementos,”
Los Angeles Times
, 11-18-85.
“He treated me square”
: Dean Smith to SE.
“The thing about Duke”
: Bogdanovich, p. 297.
“If he told you tomorrow’s Christmas”
: Davis, p. 8.
“He got up every morning”
: Ibid., p. 14.
“I think he was very aware”
: Ibid., p. 158.
“Westerns didn’t die”
: Andrew Fenady to SE.
“No one, for example”
: Baldwin, p. 30.
“Wayne [could] be tough or tender”
: Basinger, “John Wayne: An Appreciation,”
American Film
, June 1976.
“vitality”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Roger Ebert, undated Wayne obituary.
“He didn’t suffer fools gladly”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Charles Champlin, “John Wayne: Truest Grit,”
Los Angeles Times
, 6-13-79.
“a . . . Jungian process”
: AMPAS, John Wayne, Andrew Sarris, “John Wayne’s Strange Legacy,”
The New Republic
, 8-4 & 11, 79.
“He was smart”
: O’Hara, pp. 279–80.
“I found myself”
: USC, Special Collections, Warga Collection, “Barkis Is Willing.”
“double visions of events”
: John Sacret Young journal, courtesy of Young.
“Do I miss him?”
: Maureen O’Hara to SE.
“Lucky career”
: USC, John Wayne, book proposal, Charles Champlin, “Old Duke, He’s Still Getting By,”
Los Angeles Times
, 11-26-76.
Once, gazing at the Heisman trophies
: USC, John Wayne, “USC Friends Remember Duke,”
Trojan Family
, August/September 1979.
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