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Wayne And Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero

Author: Nancy Schoenberger.

Wayne And Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero

Author: Nancy Schoenberger.

$27.95 $7.98
Item #: D14251
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2017
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
ISBN: 9780385534857
For more than 20 years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team, turning out many of the finest Western films ever made, including The Quiet Man, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. John "Duke" Wayne began as a bit player in "B" Westerns, but he was strapping and handsome, and Ford saw his potential, making him a star with ... More
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For more than 20 years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team, turning out many of the finest Western films ever made, including The Quiet Man, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. John "Duke" Wayne began as a bit player in "B" Westerns, but he was strapping and handsome, and Ford saw his potential, making him a star with Stagecoach. But as Nancy Schoenberger reveals here, by 1960 the bond of their friendship had frayed, and Wayne felt he could move beyond his mentor. Few of Wayne's subsequent films would have the brilliance or the cachet of a John Ford Western, but viewed together the careers of these two men changed moviemaking in ways that endure to this day.


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