John Wayne's prop collection The Alamo 1960 Old Tucson Arizona 1967-2009
by David Lee Guss
Title
John Wayne's prop collection The Alamo 1960 Old Tucson Arizona 1967-2009
Artist
David Lee Guss
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
"There's right and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the other. You do the one and you're living, You do the other and you may be waking around, but in reality you're dead as a beaver hat."
"It was like I was empty. Well I'm not empty anymore. That's what's important, to feel useful in this old world, to hit a lick against what's right even though you get walloped."
"Republic, I like the sound of the word. Some words give you a feeling. Republic is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat, same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first steps, or his baby shaves, makes his first sound as a man. Some words can give you a feeling that that makes your heart warm....Republic is one of those words."...John Wayne as Colonel Davy Crockett, "The Alamo"
These words were written by James Edward Grant, Duke's favorite screenwriter. "The Alamo" was a labor of love for Wayne. Cost over runs caused him to go broke, even mortgaging his house.
"The Alamo" was the first film Wayne directed: "I wanted to direct from the first time I set foot in a studio, but I was sidetracked by acting for something like 30 years." And he got sidetracked in the making of "The Alamo." In 1948 John Ford's son Pat had written a first screenplay for his father's production company Argosy. That same year Duke and "Pappy" Ford had even announced the film during a location-scouting trip for "3 Godfathers," when they visited the actual Alamo.
But the film's somber ending and expense to mount caused the project to be abandoned. Wayne never gave up. In shopping it around Hollywood, executives nixed it unless Wayne could work with Ford or another top director. And Ford had warned Duke not to both star in and direct it himself. But Wayne raised, mostly from right wing Texas millionaires, $10.4 million. Duke was on a mission: "This picture is America."
@2009 David Lee Guss Film homage, JW, The Alamo, Alamo props, building and contents destroyed in 1995 fire, Old Tucson, AZ, 1967-2009
Uploaded
April 18th, 2013
Statistics
Viewed 223 Times - Last Visitor from Beverly Hills, CA on 03/01/2024 at 3:58 PM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Tags
Comments
There are no comments for John Wayne's prop collection The Alamo 1960 Old Tucson Arizona 1967-2009. Click here to post the first comment.