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050 00 $aPN1998.3.F65$bD38 1995
082 00 $a791.43/0233/092$220
100 1 $aDavis, Ronald L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86007073
245 10 $aJohn Ford :$bHollywood's old master /$cby Ronald L. Davis.
260 $aNorman :$bUniversity of Oklahoma,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axv, 383 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe Oklahoma western biographies ;$vv. 10
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 365-372) and index.
504 $aFilmography: p. 343-364.
520 $aJohn Ford remains the most honored director in Hollywood history, having won six Academy Awards and four New York Film Critics Awards. Drawing upon extensive written and oral history, Ronald L. Davis provides a biography of Ford that is far-reaching in its scope.
520 8 $aDavis sketches Ford's life from his childhood in Maine through the many stages of his long and illustrious career. From his silent classic, The Iron Horse, through the transition to sound, and then into the pioneer years in location filming, the golden years of Hollywood, and the movement toward television, Ford made enormous contributions to the film industry - but suffered great personal turmoil.
520 8 $aThe complexity of his personality comes alive here through the eyes of his colleagues, friends, relatives, and film critics. Actors with whom Ford worked, among them John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, and Katharine Hepburn, comment on his skill as a director. His family and friends tell of his navy years, troubled domestic life, political involvements, and battles with alcoholism. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of a man impossible to categorize, an enigma.
520 8 $a. The ultimate windows into Ford's soul may be the films themselves. During his career, Ford made such classics as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Searchers - 136 pictures in all, 54 of them Westerns.
520 8 $aHe is now recognized as a genius with the camera who knew how to tell his stories visually, keeping dialogue to a minimum. His characters, especially the memorable "strong, silent" heroes that figure so prominently in the films, have achieved mythic dimensions. The director himself, however, once claimed, "The real star of my Westerns has always been the land." Indeed, it is Ford's ability to capture the magnificence and poetry of Western landscape that has earned him the highest respect.
600 10 $aFord, John,$d1894-1973.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79064952
650 0 $aMotion picture producers and directors$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107730
830 0 $aOklahoma western biographies ;$vv. 10.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86717149
852 00 $bglx$hPN1998.3.F65$iD38 1995