73-1058: (Redirected from Jennie Lee ) Jennifer , Jenny , or Jennie Lee may refer to: People [ edit ] Jennie Lee (American actress) (1848–1925), American stage and silent film actress Jennie Lee (British actress) (1854–1930), British stage actress Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge (1904–1988), British politician and life peer Jennie Lee (dancer) (1928–1990), American stripper, burlesque entertainer and actress Jennifer Lee (equestrian) (born 1965), Hong Kong equestrian Jennifer Lee (filmmaker) (born 1971), Walt Disney animation screenwriter and co-director Jennifer Lee (scientist) , Antarctic researcher and scientist Jenny Lee (venture capitalist) (born 1972), Singaporean venture capitalist Jennifer Nicole Lee (born 1975), American model and actress Jennifer 8. Lee (born 1976), American journalist and author Jennifer Lee (sociologist) Other uses [ edit ] "Jennie Lee" (song) by Jan and Arnie Jenny Lee Bakery ,
146-416: A Klansman in D. W. Griffith 's 1915 The Birth of a Nation . He married Mary McBride Smith on July 3, 1920, and they had two children. His daughter Barbara was married to singer and actor Ken Curtis from 1952 to 1964. The marriage between Ford and Smith lasted for life despite various issues, one being that Ford was Catholic while she was a non-Catholic divorcée. What difficulty was caused by this
219-770: 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." Thirty years later, historian Stephen E. Ambrose reported that the Eisenhower Center had been unable to find the film. A film partially matching Ford's description was unearthed by the U.S. National Archives in 2014. Other researchers assert that Ford did not personally land on Omaha Beach on D-Day (arriving rather
292-579: A Nation (1915). Another notable performance of the actress occurs in Lloyd Ingraham 's A Child of the Paris Streets , in which she portrays Madame Dufrane. John Ford John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford , was an American film director and producer. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during
365-701: A Pittsburgh-based bakery Tokimonsta (real name Jennifer Lee), American electronic musician and producer See also [ edit ] Jennifer Worth (1935–2011), née Lee, British nurse and author, depicted as "Jenny Lee" in TV series Call the Midwife Jenny Lee-Wright (born 1947), British actress Jenny Lee Smith (born 1948), English golfer Jennifer Jason Leigh (born 1962), American actress Jennifer Leigh (born 1983), American poker player Jennifer Leigh Warren , American actress Jen Lee (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
438-533: A company that made radio-controlled target aircraft during World War II). It was one of Ford's first big hits of the sound era—it was rated by both the National Board of Review and The New York Times as one of the Top 10 films of that year and won an Oscar nomination for its stirring Max Steiner score. It was followed later that year by The World Moves On with Madeleine Carroll and Franchot Tone , and
511-532: A consummate visual stylist and master storyteller." Ford was born John Martin "Jack" Feeney (though he later often gave his given names as Seán Aloysius, sometimes with surname O'Feeny or Ó Fearna; an Irish language equivalent of Feeney) in Cape Elizabeth, Maine , to John Augustine Feeney and Barbara "Abbey" Curran, on February 1, 1894, (though he occasionally said 1895 and that date is erroneously inscribed on his tombstone). His father, John Augustine,
584-478: A critical and commercial hit, grossing over US$ 1 million in its first year (against a budget of just under $ 400,000), and its success (along with the 1939 Westerns Destry Rides Again with James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich , Cecil B. DeMille's Union Pacific with Joel McCrea , and Michael Curtiz's Dodge City with Erroll Flynn), revitalized the moribund genre, showing that Westerns could be "intelligent, artful, great entertainment—and profitable". It
657-497: A day or two later) and that John Ford's D-Day footage is by and large a "tall tale." Ford eventually rose to become a top adviser to OSS head William Joseph Donovan . 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". He survived "continuous attack and was wounded" while he continued filming, one commendation in his file states. In 1945, Ford executed affidavits testifying to
730-493: A footnote in film history". —Film historian Richard Koszarski , 1976 Ford's brother Eddie was a crew member and they fought constantly; on one occasion Eddie reportedly "went after the old man with a pick handle". There was only a short synopsis written when filming began and Ford wrote and shot the film day by day. Production fell behind schedule, delayed by constant bad weather and the intense cold, and Fox executives repeatedly demanded results, but Ford would either tear up
803-403: A letter recounting the experience of the film's production, quoted Ford saying of Wayne's future in film: "He'll be the biggest star ever because he is the perfect 'everyman.'" Stagecoach marked the beginning of the most consistently successful phase of Ford's career—in just two years between 1939 and 1941 he created a string of classics films that won numerous Academy Awards. Ford's next film,
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#1732801155849876-472: A newly commissioned score by Michael Mortilla. 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. There
949-509: A period of several decades, including Ben Johnson , Chill Wills , Andy Devine , Ward Bond , Grant Withers , Mae Marsh , Anna Lee , Harry Carey Jr. , Ken Curtis , Frank Baker, Dolores del Río , Pedro Armendáriz , Hank Worden , John Qualen , Barry Fitzgerald , Arthur Shields , John Carradine , O. Z. Whitehead and Carleton Young . Core members of this extended 'troupe', including Ward Bond, John Carradine, Harry Carey Jr., Mae Marsh, Frank Baker, and Ben Johnson, were informally known as
1022-582: A physician who was caught up in the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy and consigned to an offshore prison for treating the injured John Wilkes Booth . 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. During filming of Wee Willie Winkie , Ford had elaborate sets built on
1095-450: A powerful effect on Ford. Murnau's influence can be seen in many of Ford's films of the late 1920s and early 1930s— Four Sons (1928), was filmed on some of the lavish sets left over from Murnau's production. In November that year, Ford directed Fox's first all-talking dramatic featurette Napoleon's Barber (1928), a 3-reeler which is now considered a lost film. Napoleon's Barber was followed by his final two silent features Riley
1168-594: A prominent Hollywood actor-writer-director with his own production company (101 Bison) at Universal . Ford started out in his brother's films as an assistant, handyman, stuntman and occasional actor, frequently doubling for his brother, whom he closely resembled. Francis gave his younger brother his first acting role in The Mysterious Rose (November 1914). Despite an often combative relationship, within three years Jack had progressed to become Francis' chief assistant and often worked as his cameraman. By
1241-688: A strong influence over the movie and made several key decisions, including the idea of having the character of Huw narrate the film in voice-over (then a novel concept), and the decision that Huw's character should not age ( Tyrone Power was originally slated to play the adult Huw). How Green Was My Valley became one of the biggest films of 1941. 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. It
1314-741: A trove of 75 Hollywood silent films was rediscovered in the New Zealand Film Archive , among which was the only surviving print of Ford's 1927 silent comedy Upstream . The print was restored in New Zealand by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences before being returned to America, where it was given a "Re-Premiere" at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on August 31, 2010, featuring
1387-407: A vast, harsh, and rugged natural terrain. He is credited with launching the careers of some of Hollywood's biggest stars during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, including John Wayne , Henry Fonda , Maureen O'Hara and James Stewart . Ford's work was held in high regard by his contemporaries, with Akira Kurosawa , Orson Welles , Frank Capra , Andrei Tarkovsky , and Ingmar Bergman naming him one of
1460-537: A wide range of films in this period, and he became well known for his Western and "frontier" pictures, but the genre rapidly lost its appeal for major studios in the late 1920s. Ford's last silent Western was 3 Bad Men (1926), set during the Dakota land rush and filmed at Jackson Hole , Wyoming and in the Mojave Desert . It would be thirteen years before he made his next Western, Stagecoach , in 1939. During
1533-426: Is also his earliest complete surviving film as director, and one of only two survivors from his twenty-five film collaboration with Harry Carey. In making the film Ford and Carey ignored studio orders and turned in five reels instead of two, and it was only through the intervention of Carl Laemmle that the film escaped being cut for its first release, although it was subsequently edited down to two reels for re-release in
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#17328011558491606-620: Is also notable for early screen appearances by future stars Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews . Although not highly regarded by some critics—Tag Gallagher devotes only one short paragraph to it in his book on Ford —it was fairly successful at the box office, grossing $ 900,000 in its first year. The film was banned in Australia. Ford's last feature before America entered World War II was his screen adaptation of How Green Was My Valley (1941), starring Walter Pidgeon , Maureen O'Hara and Roddy McDowall in his career-making role as Huw. The script
1679-911: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jennie Lee (American actress) Mary Jane Lee (September 4, 1848 – August 5, 1925; known professionally as Jennie Lee ) was an American actress of the stage and screen. Lee appeared in more than 50 films between 1912 and 1924, working especially in character parts under the directors John Ford and D. W. Griffith . She began her stage career at age nine and went on to support such actors as John Edward McCullough , Joseph Jefferson , Edwin Booth , and Helena Modjeska . She and her husband, actor William Courtright , appeared together in Griffith's Intolerance (1916). Lee portrayed Mammy in The Birth of
1752-574: Is probable they would have continued working together, but their collaboration was cut short by Rogers' untimely death in a plane crash in May 1935, which devastated Ford. Ford confirmed his position in the top rank of American directors with the Murnau -influenced Irish Republican Army drama The Informer (1935), starring Victor McLaglen. It earned great critical praise, was nominated for Best Picture, won Ford his first Academy Award for Best Director, and
1825-400: Is renowned for his Westerns , such as Stagecoach (1939), My Darling Clementine (1946), Fort Apache (1948), The Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); though he worked in many other genres, including comedies , period dramas , and documentaries . He made frequent use of location shooting and wide shots , in which his characters were framed against
1898-532: Is some uncertainty about the identity of Ford's first film as director—film writer Ephraim Katz notes that Ford might have directed the four-part film Lucille the Waitress as early as 1914 —but most sources cite his directorial début as the silent two-reeler The Tornado , released in March 1917. According to Ford's own story, he was given the job by Universal boss Carl Laemmle who supposedly said, "Give Jack Ford
1971-673: Is unclear as the level of Ford's commitment to the Catholic faith is disputed. Another strain was Ford's many extramarital relationships. Ford began his career in film after moving to California in July 1914. 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. Francis played in hundreds of silent pictures for filmmakers such as Thomas Edison , Georges Méliès and Thomas Ince , eventually progressing to become
2044-591: The English Channel on the USS ; Plunkett (DD-431) , which anchored off Omaha Beach at 0600. He observed the first wave land on the beach from the ship, landing on the beach himself later with a team of Coast Guard cameramen who filmed the battle from behind the beach obstacles, with Ford directing operations. The film was edited in London, but very little was released to the public. Ford explained in
2117-525: The Golden Age of Hollywood , and was one of the first American directors to be recognized as an auteur . In a career of more than 50 years, he directed over 130 films between 1917 and 1970 (although most of his silent films are now lost ), and received six Academy Awards including a record four wins for Best Director for The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952). Ford
2190-789: The Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif. , a heavily filmed location ranch most closely associated with serials and B-Westerns, which would become, along with Monument Valley , one of the director's preferred filming locations, and a site to which Ford would return in the next few years for Stagecoach and The Grapes of Wrath . The longer revised version of Directed by John Ford shown on Turner Classic Movies in November 2006 features directors Steven Spielberg , Clint Eastwood , and Martin Scorsese , who suggest that
2263-651: The Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif. , to film a number of key shots, including the pivotal image depicting the migrant family's first full view of the fertile farmland of California , which was represented by the San Fernando Valley as seen from the Iverson Ranch. The Grapes of Wrath was followed by two less successful and lesser-known films. The Long Voyage Home (1940) was, like Stagecoach , made with Walter Wanger through United Artists. Adapted from four plays by Eugene O'Neill , it
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2336-753: The John Ford Stock Company . Likewise, Ford enjoyed extended working relationships with his production team, and many of his crew worked with him for decades. 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 . Most of Ford's postwar films were edited by Jack Murray until
2409-641: The Khyber Pass starring Victor McLaglen and Myrna Loy is Ford's first all-talking feature; it was remade in 1954 by Henry King as King of the Khyber Rifles . Ford's output was fairly constant from 1928 to the start of World War II; he made five features in 1928 and then made either two or three films every year from 1929 to 1942, inclusive. Three films were released in 1929— Strong Boy , The Black Watch and Salute . His three films of 1930 were Men Without Women , Born Reckless and Up
2482-492: The " Jupiter " and " 119 " locomotives that met at Promontory Summit when the two ends of the line were joined on May 10, 1869. 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. While he proved himself a commercially responsible director, only two or three of his films had earned more than passing notice. The pre-1929 Ford, according to Andrew Sarris , seemed to deserve "at most
2555-593: The 1920s, Ford also served as president of the Motion Picture Directors Association , a forerunner to today's Directors Guild of America . Ford was one of the pioneer directors of sound films; he shot Fox's first song sung on screen, for his film Mother Machree (1928) of which only four of the original seven reels survive; this film is also notable as the first Ford film to feature the young John Wayne (as an uncredited extra) and he appeared as an extra in several of Ford's films over
2628-455: The Cop (1928) and Strong Boy (1929), starring Victor McLaglen ; which were both released with synchronised music scores and sound effects, the latter is now lost (although Tag Gallagher's book records that the only surviving copy of Strong Boy , a 35 mm nitrate print, was rumored to be held in a private collection in Australia ). The Black Watch (1929), a colonial army adventure set in
2701-870: The Irish neighborhood of Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine, and his father worked a variety of odd jobs to support the family—farming, fishing, a laborer for the gas company, saloon keeping, and an alderman. In interviews John Ford said that his family was well off, he said that they had a farm and his father fished. John and Barbara had eleven children: Mamie (Mary Agnes), born 1876; Delia (Edith), 1878–1881; Patrick; Francis Ford , 1881–1953; Bridget, 1883–1884; Barbara, born and died 1888; Edward, born 1889; Josephine, born 1891; Hannah (Joanna), born and died 1892; John Martin, 1894–1973; and Daniel, born and died 1896 (or 1898). Feeney attended Portland High School, Portland, Maine , where he played fullback and defensive tackle. He earned
2774-708: The River , which is notable as the debut film for both Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart , who were both signed to Fox on Ford's recommendation (but subsequently dropped). Ford's films in 1931 were Seas Beneath , The Brat and Arrowsmith ; the last-named, adapted from the Sinclair Lewis novel and starring Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes , marked Ford's first Academy Awards recognition, with five nominations including Best Picture. Ford's efficiency and his ability to craft films combining artfulness with strong commercial appeal won him increasing renown. By 1940 he
2847-408: The biopic Young Mr Lincoln (1939) starring Henry Fonda , was less successful than Stagecoach , attracting little critical attention and winning no awards. 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
2920-749: The finest prewar pictures". Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) was a lavish frontier drama co-starring Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert and John Carradine; it was also Ford's first movie in color and included uncredited script contributions by William Faulkner . It was a big box-office success, grossing $ 1.25 million in its first year in the US and earning Edna May Oliver a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance. 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 )
2993-429: The first of his three films with Will Rogers . The World War I desert drama The Lost Patrol (1934), based on the book Patrol by Philip MacDonald , was a superior remake of the 1929 silent film Lost Patrol . 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
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3066-478: 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. As a result, Ford shopped the project around Hollywood for almost a year, offering it unsuccessfully to both Joseph Kennedy and David O. Selznick before finally linking with Walter Wanger, an independent producer working through United Artists . Stagecoach is significant for several reasons—it exploded industry prejudices by becoming both
3139-558: The greatest directors of all time. Subsequent generations of directors, including many of the major figures of the New Hollywood movement, have cited his influence. The Harvard Film Archive writes that "the breadth and measure of Ford's major contributions to the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema, and to film language in general, remains somewhat difficult to discern.... Rarely recognized in full are Ford's great achievements as
3212-633: The grounds of the Crags Country Club (later the Fox ranch, now the core of Malibu Creek State Park). Another reported factor was the nervousness of Fox executives about the pro-union tone of the story. William Wyler was originally engaged to direct, but he left the project when Fox decided to film it in California; Ford was hired in his place and production was postponed for several months until he became available. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck had
3285-484: The highly successful Judge Priest , his second film with Will Rogers, which became one of the top-grossing films of the year. Ford's first film of 1935 (made for Columbia ) was the mistaken-identity comedy The Whole Town's Talking with Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur , released in the UK as Passport to Fame , and it drew critical praise. Steamboat Round The Bend was his third and final film with Will Rogers; it
3358-488: The integrity of films taken to document conditions at Nazi concentration camps. 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. Ford created a part for the recovering Ward Bond , who needed money. Although he was seen throughout the movie, he never walked until they put in
3431-490: The job—he yells good". The Tornado was quickly followed by a string of two-reeler and three-reeler "quickies"— The Trail of Hate , The Scrapper , The Soul Herder and Cheyenne's Pal ; these were made over the space of a few months and each typically shot in just two or three days; all are now presumed lost. The Soul Herder is also notable as the beginning of Ford's four-year, 25-film association with veteran writer-actor Harry Carey , who (with Ford's brother Francis)
3504-542: The late 1920s. 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 and it has since been restored and digitized. Ford directed around 36 films over three years for Universal before moving to the William Fox studio in 1920; his first film for them
3577-504: The latter's 1961 death. Otho Lovering , who had first worked with Ford on Stagecoach (1939), became Ford's principal editor after Murray's death. During his first decade as a director Ford worked on dozens of features (including many westerns) but only ten of the more than sixty silent films he made between 1917 and 1928 still survive in their entirety. However, prints of several Ford 'silents' previously thought lost have been rediscovered in foreign film archives over recent years—in 2009
3650-476: The lead roles, but eventually accepted Ford's decision to cast Claire Trevor as Dallas and a virtual unknown, his friend John Wayne , as Ringo; Wanger reportedly had little further influence over the production. In making Stagecoach , Ford faced entrenched industry prejudice about the now-hackneyed genre which he had helped to make so popular. Although low-budget western features and serials were still being churned out in large numbers by " Poverty Row " studios,
3723-513: 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 . The Dudley Nichols – Ben Hecht screenplay was based on an Ernest Haycox story that Ford had spotted in Collier's magazine and he purchased the screen rights for just $ 2500. Production chief Walter Wanger urged Ford to hire Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich for
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#17328011558493796-466: The movie's iconic images of the American West. John Wayne had good reason to be grateful for Ford's support; Stagecoach provided the actor with the career breakthrough that elevated him to international stardom. Over 35 years Wayne appeared in 24 of Ford's films and three television episodes. Ford is credited with playing a major role in shaping Wayne's screen image. Cast member Louise Platt, in
3869-468: The next two years. 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. [2] Just before the studio converted to talkies, Fox gave a contract to the German director F. W. Murnau , and his film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), still highly regarded by critics, had
3942-406: The nickname "Bull" because, it is said, of the way he would lower his helmet and charge the line. A Portland pub, named "Bull Feeney's" in his honor, was open from 2002 to 2023. 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. In addition to credited roles, he appeared uncredited as
4015-666: The photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services and made documentaries for the Navy Department. He was commissioned as a commander in the United States Navy Reserve . According to Searching for John Ford, "Ford and his men concentrated largely on secret photographic missions for the OSS." In 1961 Ford told a magazine, "Our job was to photograph both for the records and for our intelligence assessment,
4088-545: The salary of the U.S. president at that time (although this was still less than half the income of Carole Lombard , Hollywood's highest-paid star of the 1930s, who was earning around $ 500,000 per year at the time). With film production affected by the Depression, Ford made two films each in 1932 and 1933— Air Mail (made for Universal) with a young Ralph Bellamy and Flesh (for MGM) with Wallace Beery . In 1933, he returned to Fox for Pilgrimage and Doctor Bull ,
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4234-451: The string of classic films Ford directed during 1936 to 1941 was due in part to an intense six-month extramarital affair with Katharine Hepburn , the star of Mary of Scotland (1936), an Elizabethan costume drama. Stagecoach (1939) was Ford's first western since 3 Bad Men in 1926, and it was his first with sound. Orson Welles claimed that he watched Stagecoach forty times in preparation for making Citizen Kane . It remains one of
4307-431: The telegrams or hold them up and have stunt gunman Edward "Pardner" Jones shoot holes through the sender's name. Despite the pressure to halt the production, studio boss William Fox finally backed Ford and allowed him to finish the picture and his gamble paid off handsomely— The Iron Horse became one of the top-grossing films of the decade, taking over US$ 2 million worldwide, against a budget of $ 280,000. Ford made
4380-590: The time Jack Ford was given his first break as a director, Francis' profile was declining and he ceased working as a director soon after. Ford's films used a 'stock company' of actors, far more so than many directors. Many famous stars appeared in at least two or more Ford films, including Harry Carey Sr. , (the star of 25 Ford silent films), Will Rogers , John Wayne , Henry Fonda , Maureen O'Hara , James Stewart , Woody Strode , Richard Widmark , Victor McLaglen , Vera Miles and Jeffrey Hunter . Many of his supporting actors appeared in multiple Ford films, often over
4453-495: The work of guerrillas, saboteurs, Resistance outfits." He won two more Academy Awards during this time, one for the semi-documentary The Battle of Midway (1942), and one for the propaganda film December 7: The Movie (1943). Ford filmed the Japanese attack on Midway from the power plant of Sand Island and was wounded in the left arm by a machine gun bullet. Ford was also present on Omaha Beach on D-Day . He crossed
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#17328011558494526-481: Was Just Pals (1920). His 1923 feature Cameo Kirby , starring screen idol John Gilbert —another of the few surviving Ford silents—marked his first directing credit under the name "John Ford", rather than "Jack Ford", as he had previously been credited. Ford's first major success as a director was the historical drama The Iron Horse (1924), an epic account of the building of the First transcontinental railroad . It
4599-558: Was a huge hit with audiences, coming in behind Sergeant York as the second-highest-grossing film of the year in the US and taking almost $ 3 million against its sizable budget of $ 1,250,000. Ford was also named Best Director by the New York Film Critics, and this was one of the few awards of his career that he collected in person (he generally shunned the Oscar ceremony). During World War II , Ford served as head of
4672-484: Was a large, long and difficult production, filmed on location in the Sierra Nevada . The logistics were enormous—two entire towns were constructed, there were 5000 extras, 100 cooks, 2000 rail layers, a cavalry regiment, 800 Native Americans, 1300 bison, 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
4745-405: 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 . 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. Ford's first feature-length production was Straight Shooting (August 1917), which
4818-424: Was acknowledged as one of the world's foremost movie directors. His growing prestige was reflected in his remuneration—in 1920, when he moved to Fox, he was paid $ 300–600 per week. As his career took off in the mid-Twenties his annual income significantly increased. He earned nearly $ 134,000 in 1929, and made over $ 100,000 per annum every year from 1934 to 1941, earning a staggering $ 220,068 in 1938 —more than double
4891-939: Was born in Spiddal , County Galway , Ireland, in 1854. Barbara Curran was born in the Aran Islands , in the town of Kilronan on the island of Inishmore (Inis Mór). John A. Feeney's grandmother, Barbara Morris, was said to be a member of an impoverished branch of a family of the Irish nobility , the Morrises of Spiddal (headed at present by Lord Killanin ). John Augustine and Barbara Curran arrived in Boston and Portland respectively in May and June 1872. They filed their intentions to marry on July 31, 1875, and became American citizens five years later on September 11, 1880. The John Augustine Feeney family resided on Sheridan Street, in
4964-608: 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. Noted critic Andrew Sarris described it as the movie that transformed Ford from "a storyteller of the screen into America's cinematic poet laureate". 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 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. During production, Ford returned to
5037-413: Was hailed at the time as one of the best films ever made, although its reputation has diminished considerably compared to other contenders like Citizen Kane , or Ford's own later The Searchers (1956). The politically charged The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)—which marked the debut with Ford of long-serving "Stock Company" player John Carradine —explored the little-known story of Samuel Mudd ,
5110-602: Was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won two Oscars, for Best Supporting Actor (Thomas Mitchell) and Best Score. Stagecoach became the first in the series of seven classic Ford Westerns filmed on location in Monument Valley , 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. Ford skillfully blended Iverson and Monument Valley to create
5183-484: Was one of Ford's personal favorites; stills from it decorated his home and O'Neill also reportedly loved the film and screened it periodically. Tobacco Road (1941) was a rural comedy scripted by Nunnally Johnson , adapted from the long-running Jack Kirkland stage version of the novel by Erskine Caldwell . 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
5256-468: Was scripted by Dudley Nichols and Ford, in consultation with O'Neill. Although not a significant box-office success (it grossed only $ 600,000 in its first year), it was critically praised and was nominated for seven Academy Awards—Best Picture, Best Screenplay, (Nichols), Best Music, Original Score ( Richard Hageman ), Best Photography ( Gregg Toland ), Best Editing (Sherman Todd), Best Effects (Ray Binger & R.T. Layton), and Best Sound ( Robert Parrish ). It
5329-514: Was written by Philip Dunne from the best-selling novel by Richard Llewellyn . It was originally planned as a four-hour epic to rival Gone with the Wind —the screen rights alone cost Fox $ 300,000—and was to have been filmed on location in Wales, but this was abandoned due to the heavy German bombing of Britain. A search of Southern California locations resulted in the set for the village being built on
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