Despite its uncompromising humanist and political stance, Ford's screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (scripted by Nunnally Johnson and photographed by Gregg Toland) was both a big box office hit and a major critical success, and it is still widely regarded as one of the best Hollywood films of the era. [62] Fort Apache was followed by another Western, 3 Godfathers, a remake of a 1916 silent film starring Harry Carey (to whom Ford's version was dedicated), which Ford had himself already remade in 1919 as Marked Men, also with Carey and thought lost. The Grapes of Wrath was followed by two less successful and lesser-known films. In a career of more than 50 years, Ford directed more than 140 films (although most of his silent films are now lost) and he is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. Their horses are moving, but straight away from the camera, and so the viewer gets the over‐all impression of looking at a still picture. In 1930, the Fox company released “Men Without Women,” a vividly photographed drama about 14 men trapped in a submarine. John Wayne, then 41, also received wide praise for his role as the 60-year-old Captain Nathan Brittles. Which three films are the only to win the Big Five Oscars? In fact, Eastman used to complain that I exposed so little film. [citation needed] The film failed to recoup its costs, earning less than half ($100,000) its negative cost of just over $256,000 and it stirred up some controversy in Ireland. Moreover, Hangman's House (1928) is notable as it features John Wayne's first confirmed onscreen appearance in a Ford film, playing an excitable spectator during the horse race sequence. By 1940 he was acknowledged as one of the world's foremost movie directors. Academy Awards stage. [37] Ford's third movie in a year and his third consecutive film with Fonda, it grossed $1.1 million in the US in its first year[38] and won two Academy Awards—Ford's second 'Best Director' Oscar, and 'Best Supporting Actress' for Jane Darwell's tour-de-force portrayal of Ma Joad. He also visited the set of The Alamo, produced, directed by, and starring John Wayne, where his interference caused Wayne to send him out to film second-unit scenes which were never used (nor intended to be used) in the film.[68]. He won two Oscars for Best Documentary and was the first recipient of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1973 when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work. [104] Below are some of the people who were directly influenced by Ford, or greatly admired his work: In December 2011 the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA), in association with the John Ford Estate and the Irish Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, established "John Ford Ireland", celebrating the work and legacy of John Ford. He's built this whole legend of toughness around himself to protect his softness. The hard‐working Mr Ford directed three other movies that year, including “Hangman's House,” which introduced Marion Michael Morrison, a strapping young stunt, man whom Mr. Ford later renamed John Wayne. He rarely drank during the making of a film, but when a production wrapped he would often lock himself in his study, wrapped only in a sheet, and go on a solitary drinking binge for several days, followed by routine contrition and a vow never to drink again. William Wyler and Frank Capra come in second having won the award three times. (1952), a World War I drama, the first of two films Ford made with James Cagney (Mister Roberts was the other) which also did good business at the box office ($2 million). Me., but grew up in Portland. Presented by Barbra Streisand. “I've seen virtually all of the 140 Ford movies,” Mr. Nixon proclaimed. According to records released in 2008, Ford was cited by his superiors for bravery, taking a position to film one mission that was "an obvious and clear target". Best Director: John Ford, The Searchers. He prepared the project but worked only one day before being taken ill, supposedly with shingles, and Elia Kazan replaced him (although Tag Gallagher suggests that Ford's illness was a pretext for leaving the film, which Ford disliked[63]). Music (Song) - Our Love Affair in "Strike Up the Band" Music and Lyrics by Roger Edens and Arthur Freed Ford won a total of six Academy Awards. Although low-budget western features and serials were still being churned out in large numbers by "Poverty Row" studios, the genre had fallen out of favor with the big studios during the 1930s and they were regarded as B-grade "pulp" movies at best. [93], The Academy Film Archive has preserved a number of John Ford's films, including How Green Was My Valley, The Battle of Midway, Drums Along the Mohawk, Sex Hygiene, Torpedo Squadron 8, and Four Sons.[94]. The first John Ford Ireland Symposium was held in Dublin, Ireland from 7 to 10 June 2012. The all-star cast was headed by Richard Widmark, with Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Dolores del Río, Ricardo Montalbán, Gilbert Roland, Sal Mineo, James Stewart as Wyatt Earp, Arthur Kennedy as Doc Holliday, Edward G. Robinson, Patrick Wayne, Elizabeth Allen, Mike Mazurki and many of Ford's faithful Stock Company, including John Carradine, Ken Curtis, Willis Bouchey, James Flavin, Danny Borzage, Harry Carey Jr., Chuck Hayward, Ben Johnson, Mae Marsh and Denver Pyle. He was as good as his word—for precisely seven days. February 23, 2007 by EmanuelLevy. 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The supporting cast included Jeffrey Hunter, Ward Bond, Vera Miles and rising star Natalie Wood. Made for the US Navy and filmed by the Pacific Fleet Command Combat Camera Group, it featured Ward Bond and Ken Curtis alongside real Navy personnel and their families. Read Later. Here are 10 classics the Academy ignored. "[85] Carey credits Ford with the inspiration of Carey's final film, Comanche Stallion (2005). The following year, Mr. Ford won praise for the direction of “Arrowsmith,” Samuel Goldwyn's immensely popular soap opera about a valiant physician, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis. Ford explained in a 1964 interview that the US Government was "afraid to show so many American casualties on the screen", adding that all of the D-Day film "still exists in color in storage in Anacostia near Washington, D.C."[47] Thirty years later, historian Stephen E. Ambrose reported that the Eisenhower Center had been unable to find the film. He then called for an end to politics in the Guild and for it to refocus on working conditions. Three films were released in 1929—Strong Boy, The Black Watch and Salute. ?em vaguely it was about gangsters and stool‐pigeons”), “The Informer” won the first New York Film Critics Award as the best picture of the year, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences singled it out for several Oscars. It remains one of the most admired and imitated of all Hollywood movies, not least for its climactic stagecoach chase and the hair-raising horse-jumping scene, performed by the stuntman Yakima Canutt. Written by: Ray Routhier “The Quiet Man” will be shown Feb. 6 in Damariscotta as part of the John Ford 125 Years film festival, celebrating the Maine-born director. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Rio Grande (Republic, 1950), the third part of the 'Cavalry Trilogy', co-starred John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, with Wayne's son Patrick Wayne making his screen debut (he appeared in several subsequent Ford pictures including The Searchers). Before the Academy Awards ceremony that year, John Wayne opened up to movie critic Roger Ebert about why he thought he likely would not win the Oscar. Set during the Irish War Of Independence and adapted from the novel of the same name by Liam O'Flaherty, the film was a heavy favourite at the Oscars that year. Ford is famous for his exciting tracking shots, such as the Apache chase sequence in Stagecoach or the attack on the Comanche camp in The Searchers. “The Lost Patrol,” made in 1934 with Victor McLaglen and Boris Karloff as its stars, carried out the Ford conception of sight‐over‐sound. 1. His words were recorded by a stenographer: My name's John Ford. Republic's anxiety was erased by the resounding success of The Quiet Man (Republic, 1952), a pet project which Ford had wanted to make since the 1930s (and almost did so in 1937 with an independent cooperative called Renowned Artists Company). Korea: Battleground for Liberty (1959), Ford's second documentary on the Korean War, was made for the US Department of Defense as an orientation film for US soldiers stationed there. It was erroneously marketed as a suspense film by Warners and was not a commercial success. Other films of this period include the South Seas melodrama The Hurricane (1937) and the lighthearted Shirley Temple vehicle Wee Willie Winkie (1937), each of which had a first-year US gross of more than $1 million. Shot on location in Monument Valley, it tells of the embittered Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards who spends years tracking down his niece, kidnapped by Comanches as a young girl. You would feel spiritually awakened all of a sudden. Here are 12 outrageous Oscars decisions that look more ridiculous with every passing year. “The Grapes of Wrath” won Mr. Ford his second Oscar. He made numerous films with the same major collaborators, including producer and business partner Merian C. Cooper, scriptwriters Nunnally Johnson, Dudley Nichols and Frank S. Nugent, and cinematographers Ben F. Reynolds, John W. Brown and George Schneiderman (who between them shot most of Ford's silent films), Joseph H. August, Gregg Toland, Winton Hoch, Charles Lawton Jr., Bert Glennon, Archie Stout and William H. Clothier. Ford was highly intelligent, erudite, sensitive and sentimental, but to protect himself in the cutthroat atmosphere of Hollywood he cultivated the image of a "tough, two-fisted, hard-drinking Irish sonofabitch". His shock was evident as he accepted the award and talked about having accepted Oscars on the behalf of others on two separate occasions. Mankiewicz's account gives sole credit to Ford in sinking DeMille. The chase is so breathless, so breathtakingly framed and photographed that it becomes almost unendurable for the viewer. Mr. Ford's curmudgeonly personality came out in infrequent interviews, which he hated and which he used as he wished to contradict statements he had made in other interviews. Best Loser: The Big House. Ford repeatedly declared that he disliked the film and had never watched it, complaining that he had been forced to make it,[51] although it was strongly championed by filmmaker Lindsay Anderson. “The Tornado,” released in 1917, was the first Ford‐directed movie. [78] If a doomed character was shown playing poker (such as Liberty Valance or gunman Tom Tyler in Stagecoach), the last hand he plays is the "death hand"—two eights and two aces, one of them the ace of spades—so-called because Wild Bill Hickok is said to have held this hand when he was murdered. prev next. He later moved to California and in 1914 began working in film production as well as acting for his older brother Francis, adopting "Jack Ford" as a professional name. He himself was quite at a loss. The Soul Herder is also notable as the beginning of Ford's four-year, 25-film association with veteran writer-actor Harry Carey,[20] who (with Ford's brother Francis) was a strong early influence on the young director, as well as being one of the major influences on the screen persona of Ford's protege John Wayne. Just before the studio converted to talkies, Fox gave a contract to the German director F. W. Murnau, and his film Sunrise (1927), still highly regarded by critics, had a powerful effect on Ford. I mean a group of men have picked on probably the dean of our profession. I admire him. After the war, Ford remained an officer in the United States Navy Reserve. The first John Ford film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture was the 1931 adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel Arrowsmith. It was not a major box-office hit although it had a respectable domestic first-year gross of $750,000, but Ford scholar Tag Gallagher describes it as "a deeper, more multi-leveled work than Stagecoach ... (which) seems in retrospect one of the finest prewar pictures".[36]. It was his last Western, his longest film and the most expensive movie of his career ($4.2 million), but it failed to recoup its costs at the box office and lost about $1 million on its first release. The Searchers was accompanied by one of the first "making of" documentaries, a four-part promotional program created for the "Behind the Camera" segment of the weekly Warner Bros. Presents TV show, (the studio's first foray into TV) which aired on the ABC network in 1955–56. Z. Whitehead and Carleton Young. It's ironic, but typical, that the biggest Oscar winning movie set in Wales was made in Hollywood. Even the play and movie on which its based, "The Front Page," got three Oscar nominations. His only completed film of that year was the second installment of his Cavalry Trilogy, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Argosy/RKO, 1949), starring John Wayne and Joanne Dru, with Victor McLaglen, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Mildred Natwick and Harry Carey Jr. Again filmed on location in Monument Valley, it was widely acclaimed for its stunning Technicolor cinematography (including the famous cavalry scene filmed in front of an oncoming storm); it won Winton Hoch the 1950 Academy Award for Best Color Cinematography and it did big business on its first release, grossing more than $5 million worldwide. Ford stared down the entire meeting to ensure that DeMille remained in the guild. Stagecoach (1939): John Ford’s Great Oscar-Winning Western, Catapulting John Wayne to Movie Stardom. (Sean O'Feeney remained Mr. Ford's legal name throughout his life.). Ford's next film, the biopic Young Mr Lincoln (1939) starring Henry Fonda, was less successful than Stagecoach, attracting little critical attention and winning no awards. Read more: How to watch the 2020 live in the UK. In November he made The Bamboo Cross (Lewman Ltd-Revue, 1955) for the Fireside Theater series; it starred Jane Wyman with an Asian-American cast and Stock Company veterans Frank Baker and Pat O'Malley in minor roles. [50], His last wartime film was They Were Expendable (MGM, 1945), an account of America's disastrous defeat in The Philippines, told from the viewpoint of a PT boat squadron and its commander. Filmed on location in Mexico, it was photographed by distinguished Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (who later worked with Luis Buñuel). Fort Apache (Argosy/RKO, 1948) was the first part of Ford's so-called 'Cavalry Trilogy', all of which were based on stories by James Warner Bellah. Adapted from four plays by Eugene O'Neill, it was scripted by Dudley Nichols and Ford, in consultation with O'Neill. Most of Mr. Ford's films bad merit, but particularly excellent were those for which he won the director's award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—“The Informer,”, plus “The Grapes of Wrath,” “How Green Was My Valley” and “The Quiet Man.” He was also the only director to be cited four times by the New York Film Critics. It did considerably better business than either of Ford's two preceding films, grossing $950,000 in its first year[67] although cast member Anna Lee stated that Ford was "disappointed with the picture" and that Columbia had not permitted him to supervise the editing. John Ford is currently the only director to win four Oscars for Best Director, followed by Frank Capra and William Wyler with three. He was the first director to win consecutive Best Director Oscars (in 1940 and 1941). Ford later referred to it as one of his favorites, but it was poorly received, and was drastically cut (from 90 mins to 65 mins) by Republic soon after its release, with some excised scenes now presumed lost. Although not generally appropriate geographically as a setting for his plots, the expressive visual impact of the area enabled Ford to define images of the American West with some of the most beautiful and powerful cinematography ever shot, in such films as Stagecoach, The Searchers, Fort Apache. Supposedly a “B” picture that Mr. Ford sneaked over the studio bosses' heads (“I told ? While Despite his often difficult and demanding personality, many actors who worked with Ford acknowledged that he brought out the best in them. DeMille's move to fire Mankiewicz had caused a storm of protest. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. I don’t agree with C. B. DeMille. Second, and most important, what was the film nominated against and did great films lose Best Picture this, a lesser work. Was it a huge surprise? Several weeks later we discovered the cause from Ford's brother-in-law: before emigrating to America, Ford's grandfather had been a labourer on the estate in Ireland of the then Lord Wallscourt: Ford was now getting his own back at his descendant. It was followed by Wagon Master, starring Ben Johnson and Harry Carey Jr, which is particularly noteworthy as the only Ford film since 1930 that he scripted himself. The movement of men and horses in his Westerns has rarely been surpassed for regal serenity and evocative power. Ford is credited with playing a major role in shaping Wayne's screen image. His once sandy hair had grayed and become wispy, but his still jaunty, arm‐swinging gait belied his years. They filed their intentions to marry on July 31, 1875 and became American citizens five years later on September 11, 1880. To this day Ford holds the record for winning the most Best Dire… Ford won a total of six Academy Awards. Ford usually gave his actors little explicit direction, although on occasion he would casually walk through a scene himself, and actors were expected to note every subtle action or mannerism; if they did not, Ford would make them repeat the scene until they got it right, and he would often berate and belittle those who failed to achieve his desired performance. The musical score, often variations on folk themes, plays a more important part than dialogue in many Ford films. Recurring visual motifs include trains and wagons—many Ford films begin and end with a linking vehicle such as a train or wagon arriving and leaving—doorways, roads, flowers, rivers, gatherings (parades, dances, meetings, bar scenes, etc. [21] Ford's last film of 1917, Bucking Broadway, was long thought to have been lost, but in 2002 the only known surviving print was discovered in the archives of the French National Center for Cinematography[22] and it has since been restored and digitized. [2]. Next, was its choice as Best Picture a shock? They'd rather make a goddamned legend out of him and be done with him. Ford had many distinctive stylistic trademarks and a suite of thematic preoccupations and visual and aural motifs recurs throughout his work as a director. [86] Ford's evocative use of the territory for his Westerns has defined the images of the American West so powerfully that Orson Welles once said that other film-makers refused to shoot in the region out of fears of plagiarism.[87]. Carey's son Harry "Dobe" Carey Jr., who also became an actor, was one of Ford's closest friends in later years and featured in many of his most celebrated westerns. [4] His father, John Augustine, was born in Spiddal,[5] County Galway, Ireland, in 1854. Angela Aleiss, "A Race Divided: The Indian Westerns of John Ford,", sfn error: no target: CITEREFStoehrConnolly2008 (, Kevin Brianton, Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild and the Impact of the blacklist, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2016, Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, 1950 Academy Award for Best Color Cinematography, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, "Funeral for John Ford Set on Coast Wednesday", "Tarantino 'Unchained,' Part 1: 'Django' Trilogy? John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and naval officer. It was presented to Mr. Eastwood, at a reception in Burbank, California, by Michael Collins, Irish Ambassador to the United States, Dan Ford, grandson of John Ford, and Áine Moriarty, Chief Executive of the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA). A special last-minute booby prize came in the form of the Oscar in 1973 for the score he composed for his film Limelight (made in 1952 but not seen … This movie is a little horror, so it was a bit surprising it made the Oscar list at all. [43], How Green Was My Valley became one of the biggest films of 1941. It starred veteran actor Charley Grapewin and the supporting cast included Ford regulars Ward Bond and Mae Marsh, with Francis Ford in an uncredited bit part; it is also notable for early screen appearances by future stars Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. [9] What difficulty was caused by this is unclear as the level of Ford's commitment to the Catholic faith is disputed. He followed in the footsteps of his multi-talented older brother Francis Ford, twelve years his senior, who had left home years earlier and had worked in vaudeville before becoming a movie actor. ", Although Ford was to become one of the most honored of Hollywood directors (by film-makers as well as critics) his reputation in 1928 was modest at best. In 1939, Ford began to make a series of outstanding films starting with Stagecoach, which … (“All actors,” he once fumed, “are children — unborn children.”). He told Roger Ebert in 1976: Up until the very last years of his life ... Pappy could have directed another picture, and a damned good one. I don't think I've ever even voted in a Presidential election.”. Who do think you are to talk to me this way?" The supporting cast included Dolores del Río, J. Carrol Naish, Ward Bond, Leo Carrillo and Mel Ferrer (making his screen début) and a cast of mainly Mexican extras. The Screen Directors Guild staged a tribute to Ford in October 1972, and in March 1973 the American Film Institute honored him with its first Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony which was telecast nationwide, with President Richard Nixon promoting Ford to full Admiral and presenting him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. [76] Script development could be intense but, once approved, his screenplays were rarely rewritten; he was also one of the first filmmakers to encourage his writers and actors to prepare a full back story for their characters. Stagecoach became the first in the series of seven classic Ford Westerns filmed on location in Monument Valley,[34] with additional footage shot at another of Ford's favorite filming locations, the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif., where he had filmed much of Wee Willie Winkie two years earlier. The following year, Mr. Ford competed with himself for a director's Academy Award. Ford won his first Oscar for Best Director adapting Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer in 1935, a tale of the Irish War of Independence. ", such as its parodic use to underscore the opening scenes of Stagecoach, when the prostitute Dallas is being run out of town by local matrons. As the man related his misfortunes, Ford appeared to become enraged and then, to the horror of onlookers, he launched himself at the man, knocked him to the floor and shouted "How dare you come here like this? Earning John Ford one of his four Academy Awards for Best Director, The Grapes of Wrath saw its director head in a surprising new direction, trading in the patriotic lens his earlier movies were shot through for a much more cynical one – possibly opening the door to similarly subversive works such as 1948’s Fort Apache. Throughout his career, Ford was one of the busiest directors in Hollywood, but he was extraordinarily productive in his first few years as a director—he made ten films in 1917, eight in 1918 and fifteen in 1919—and he directed a total of 62 shorts and features between 1917 and 1928, although he was not given a screen credit in most of his earliest films. According to an account repeated in Tag Gallagher’s John Ford: The Man And His Films, among others ... won one of four documentary Oscars for 1942. Although he was seen throughout the movie, he never walked until they put in a part where he was shot in the leg. It starred Victor McLaglen as The Sergeant—the role played by his brother Cyril McLaglen in the earlier version—with Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Alan Hale and Reginald Denny (who went on to found a company that made radio-controlled target aircraft during World War II). When looking at adjusted domestic box office grosses, Ford’s movies, grossed almost $5 billion in box office dollars. Accepting the Award, Mr Eastwood said: "Any kind of association with John Ford is most directors' dream, as he was certainly a pioneer of American filmmaking and I grew up on his films. He was the recipient of five Academy Awards including a record four wins for Best Director. Sergeant Rutledge (Ford Productions-Warner Bros, 1960) was Ford's last cavalry film. Ford directed sixteen features and several documentaries in the decade between 1946 and 1956. He saw the dangers of expelling DeMille. It would be thirteen years before he made his next Western, Stagecoach, in 1939. He couldn't have stood through that sad story without breaking down. Ford's legendary efficiency and his ability to craft films combining artfulness with strong commercial appeal won him increasing renown. It was nominated for ten Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actress (Sara Allgood), Best Editing, Best Script, Best Music and Best Sound and it won five Oscars—Best Director, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp), Best B&W Cinematography (Arthur C. Miller) and Best Art Direction/Interior Decoration. His ideas and his characters are, like many things branded "American", deceptively simple. Sir Donald Sinden, then a contract star for the Rank Organisation at Pinewood Studios when he starred in Mogambo, was not the only person to suffer at the hands of John Ford's notorious behaviour. 2. The logistics were enormous—two entire towns were constructed, there were 5000 extras, 100 cooks, 2000 rail layers, a cavalry regiment, 800 Indians, 1300 buffaloes, 2000 horses, 10,000 cattle and 50,000 properties, including the original stagecoach used by Horace Greeley, Wild Bill Hickok's derringer pistol and replicas of the "Jupiter" and "119" locomotives that met at Promontory Point when the two ends of the line were joined on 10 May 1869. [citation needed]. He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. [49] In 1945, Ford executed affidavits testifying to the integrity of films taken to document conditions at Nazi concentration camps. Stagecoach (1939) was Ford's first western since 3 Bad Men in 1926, and it was his first with sound. Ford has four Golden Globe nominations for acting. 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