Stagecoach Cast Publicity Photo 1939-2013
by David Lee Guss
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Stagecoach Cast Publicity Photo 1939-2013
Artist
David Lee Guss
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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"Stagecoach" was John Ford's first western in 12 years. It was shot in 1938 in the, up to that time, rarely used as a film location, Monument Valley on the Navajo Indian Reservation in northern Arizona straddling the Utah border.
Years later Wayne called the Valley "heaven" then and John Ford "probably the finest artist" he ever knew.
The ensemble cast was impeccably assembled. All eyes are drawn to Donald Meek, who played the whiskey drummer, whose product is systematically plundered by the alcoholic doctor, played by Thomas Mitchell on the lower right.
Mitchell won an Oscar for best supporting actor.
Other cast members include
stage driver Andy Devine on the top left, gambler John Carradine on the top right and Ford's older brother Frances sitting next to Mitchell.
Frances Ford had been a distinguished silent film director who had mentored John in the business, but whose excessive drinking destroyed his career.
John usually cast Frances in bit roles, without dialogue, in his motion pictures.
Some critics feel it was out of spite as the director was a sadist.
Maureen O'Hara called him one (and a closet gay man) in her autobiography.
Clare Trevor, next to Duke, got top billing as the prostitute.
Duke was the lowest paid actor of the leads.
"Stagecoach" was nominated for best picture but lost to "Gone With the Wind."
@2013 David Lee Guss Film homage, cast, Stagecoach, 1939, 2013
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