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John Wayne 3 Godfathers Publicity Photo 1948-2013 #3 Framed Print
by David Lee Guss
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John Wayne 3 Godfathers Publicity Photo 1948-2013 #3 framed print by David Lee Guss. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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This Technicolor Western is a Ford remake of his 1919 Marked Men,starring Harry Carey (1878-1947). As with many of the director's former close... more
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This Technicolor Western is a Ford remake of his 1919 "Marked Men,"starring Harry Carey (1878-1947). As with many of the director's former close associates, they were barely speaking. (Ford sadly did not have any real friends, as any person of spine refused to bend to his dictatorial hand.)
Ford had not cast Carey for decades. But the very day he died the quarrelsome director offered his son, Dobe, the role that had been played by his father 29 years before. (An action the elder Carey had predicted; a complicated mixture of Irish guilt and loyalty.)
The remake was shot in the Mohave Desert in 130 degree heat, with Ford driving Dobe mercilessly, saying that Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy (1924-1971) had begged him for the role.
The film opens with Ford's second-unit director Cliff Lyons, posing as the recently deceased actor, sitting atop Carey's horse, Sunny, silhouetted against a sunset on a MGM backlot hilltop, with the text: "Bright Star of the earl...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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