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Ford, J. mss., 1906-1976

Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu

Creator
Ford, John, 1895-1973

Title
Ford, J. mss., 1906-1976

Collection No.
LMC 1378

Extent
7,000 items

Language
Materials are in English

Abstract
Consists of the correspondence, papers, and memorabilia of motion picture director John Ford, 1895-1973.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Ford was christened Sean Aloysius Feeney but changed his name after joining his older brother Francis, who had taken the name Ford, in Hollywood in 1913. John Ford began his motion picture career as an actor, stunt man, and prop man. In 1917 he became a director on the film The Tornado and directed over 130 films during his lifetime. Ford married Mary McBryde Smith in 1920 and they had two children: Patrick Roper born in 1921 and Barbara Nugent born in 1922.

Ford's first great success, The Iron Horse in 1924, came after directing about fifty other films, chiefly Westerns. From 1927 to 1939 Ford directed more than thirty films, only one of which was a Western. He won his first Academy Award during this period for The Informer (1935), a film about the 1922 Irish rebellion. His next Academy Awards were for The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and How Green Was My Valley (1941). Two documentaries that he directed during World War II, The Battle of Midway and December 7th, also received Oscars. His last Academy Award was for another of his Irish films The Quiet Man (1952).

An enthusiastic member of the Naval Reserve, Ford formed the Naval Field Photographic Reserve in early 1940. This unit was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services and Ford was ordered to report to Washington on September 11, 1941, just after completing How Green Was My Valley. He spent the war years doing documentary work in the Pacific, North Africa, Europe and India.

In February 1945 Ford took a leave of absence from the Navy to film They Were Expendable. He used his salary received from that picture to create the Field Photo Home, a club for the veterans of the Field Photographic Unit. He ended his naval duties on September 28, 1945.

The following March Ford and producer Merian C. Cooper formed Argosy Productions. This company produced eight pictures, seven of which were directed by Ford. Among these were three of Ford's most famous and commercially successful films--the trilogy of Cavalry stories: Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande. Ford continued making films throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. His last film was 7 Women in 1966. Two documentaries about Ford and his work were made in 1971: The American West of John Ford and Peter Bogdanovich's Directed by John Ford. The former was co-produced by Ford's grandson Daniel Sargent Ford. A few months before his death Ford received the American Film Institute's First Annual Life Achievement Award. He died on August 31, 1973.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into the following series: Correspondence; Scripts and Production Materials; Legal Materials; Miscellaneous; Photographs and Stills; Oversize; Tapes; Bound Volumes; Films; and Additions.

Scope and Content Note

There are ca. 2500 items in the correspondence files, 1906-1976, which are arranged chronologically. Most of the material dates from the late 1930s through the 1960s. The correspondence is chiefly to or from Ford and concerns both his personal and his professional lives.

The scripts and production materials, 1915-1971, include items from the early silent movies, television programs, virtually all of Ford's films since 1940, and the documentary The American West of John Ford. Typical of the materials found in these files are scripts and script changes, cast and staff lists, production reports, shooting schedules, background materials, budgets, statements of accounting, publicity, etc.

The legal materials, 1917-1974, are divided into two categories. First are the general materials, filed chronologically, which include studio contracts, materials about the formation and operation of production companies, and non-film matters. Second are files relating to individual films, arranged chronologically by production date rather than by the date of the item.

The miscellaneous section contains materials concerning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences; addresses; the Bel Air Association; the Field Photo Home; financial materials, both corporate and personal; membership cards and awards; Navy materials; passport information; clippings and articles; sheet music; transcripts and summaries of interviews conducted by Dan Ford in preparation for his biography of John Ford, Pappy: The Life of John Ford (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979); writings by other people; the Young Men's Temperance and Social Purity Association and Emerald Bay Yacht Club correspondence, 1936-1957; and an index to the collection prepared by Dan Ford and the notebook pages from which manuscripts were removed. The latter frequently contain notes by Dan Ford.

There are about 3,500 photographs and movie stills in the collection. Over forty-five of Ford's films are represented by photographs, including several silents. There are also stills from other people's movies; photographs of family members and friends; Ford's 1932 trip to Asia; military photographs; photos from World War II; portraits of John Ford and of other people; pictures of boats, the Field Photo Home and of Ward Bond's funeral at the Home; and other miscellaneous photographs.

Tape recordings in the collection are of interviews conducted by Dan Ford with John Ford, as well as family, friends, and associates of John Ford.

The films in the collection are The Lost Patrol (1934), The Informer (1935), Stagecoach (1939), The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Battle of Midway (1942), In Memoriam: Manuel Quezon (ca. 1945), The Fugitive (1947), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Wagon Master (1950), The Sun Shines Bright (1953), and an undated home movie. The home movie may not be used in its present format.

Additions continue many series in the original collection. They include correspondence from John Ford, Daryl Zanuck, members of the Ford family, and letters of condolence regarding John Ford's death; screenplays for What Price Glory and Sergeant Rutledge; original drafts and reviews of Dan Ford's biography of his grandfather, Pappy: The Life of John Ford; Mary Ford's Canteen Book, with signatures of celebrities and other friends of the Ford family; a Memorial Tribute Register, also with signatures; John Ford's original "Employee's Starting Card" identifying him as a Hollywood director; and John Ford's FBI file and Official Navy Records.

Note on Indexing Term - "Voyages and travels": Included in the collection are some naval materials. In 1945 Ford made They Were Expendable, a film about PT boats in the Pacific during WWII. Included in the collection are some notes about the film and PT boat maneuvers.

Additional Physical Form Available

Some audio materials have been reformatted for use in the repository only.

Indexing Terms

Related Material

The Lilly Library holds other collections related to John Ford. The largest of these is the Killanin mss. containing 358 items. These are photocopies of materials relating mostly to Ford's The Rising of the Moon which was produced by Four Provinces Productions. The Film mss. contains stills and publicity poses for Stagecoach and posters for The Long Gray Line, The Rising of the Moon, Sergeant Rutledge, Two Rode Together, Cheyenne Autumn and 7 Women . There is a separate collection pertaining to Four Men and a Prayer. In addition, the Lilly Library houses books pertaining to the life and work of John Ford.

See also the Ford, J. mss. II and Ford, J. mss. III , both at the Lilly Library.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Acquired: 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1994

Usage Restrictions
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.

Preferred Citation
[Item], Ford, J. mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Processing Information
Processed by Lilly Library staff.

Completed in 1982

Series:
Correspondence

Files are arranged chronologically, but a partial list of correspondents arranged alphabetically is provided below.

Correspondents, A-D

View All (119)
Abbott, Harry P.
Adams, Nick
Aitken, William Maxwell
Alberti, Jules Robert
Allen, Elizabeth
Alphand, Herve
Amadori, Luis Cesar
Anderson, Lindsay Gordon
Andrews, Adolphus
Armour, Lester
Armstrong, George N.
Arnow, Maxwell
Arthur, Robert
Baker, Carroll
Baker, Hettie Gray
Baker, J. Edwin
Baker, Peter Gorton
Baker, Wilder Dupuy
Ball, Lucille
Bare, Richard L.
Barron, Carter Tate
Basevi, James
Baxter, James Phinney
Beaverbrook, baron
Beecher, William Gordon
Belafonte, Harry
Bellah, James Warner
Belli, Melvin Mouron
Benjamin, Bea
Berger, Clarence Quinn
Berggren, Noel David
Bergin, William Edward
Berkey, Russell Stanley
Bernstein, Marver Hillel
Bernstein, Nahum Amber
Birdwell, Russell J.
Bloomberg, Daniel J.
Blue, Rupert
Bluestone, George
Blumenberg, Hans C.
Boetticher, Budd
Bogart, Humphrey DeForest
Bogdanovich, Peter
Bogdanovich, Polly (Platt)
Bolton, Alfred Jack
Bond, Ward
Bradley, Omar Nelson
Brand, Harry
Brann, Louis Jefferson
Breen, Joseph Ignatius
Brewster, Ralph Owen
Broger, John Christian
Brooks, Richard
Brown, Harry Joe
Brown, Kathryn Frances (McGraw)
Brown, Ned
Brown, Sara Baird (Stroud)
Brownlow, Kevin
Bryant, Katherine (Potter) Cliffton
Brylawski, Fulton M.
Buck, Jules
Bulkeley, John Duncan
Burke, Arleigh Albert
Burke, Billie
Cagney, James
Caillet, Lucien
Campbell, George
Campbell, Robert Lord
Capra, Frank
Carey, Harry
Carey, Olive (Golden)
Carney, Robert Bostwick
Casey, William Joseph
Cavanaugh, John Joseph
Childs, Andrew L.
Christie, Julie Frances
Clancy, Carl Stearns
Clancy, Fog Horn
Clarey, Bernard Ambrose
Clifford, John David
Cohen, Wolfe
Cohn, Harry
Coll, Raymond H.
Collins, Seaborn P.
Connolly, Joseph E.F.
Considine, John William
Cooper, Dorothy (Jordan)
Cooper, Merian C.
Cotter, George Edward
Cowen, William Joyce
Crawford, Joan
Curtis, Carl Thomas
Curtis, Ken
Cushing, Edward Harvey
Dahl, Roald
Damon, Ralph Shepard
Darwell, Jane
Davis, Gary Corbett
De Mille, Cecil Blount
Defrees, Joseph Rollie
Del Rio, Dolores
Depinet, Ned E.
Devine, Andy
Dewar, Donald A.
Disney, Walt
Dixon, Thomas
Doering, Otto Charles
Donovan, James Britt
Donovan, Ruth (Rumsey)
Donovan, William Joseph
Douglas, Kirk
Dover, William B.
Dowdey, Clifford Shirley
Doyle, Adrian Malcolm Conan
Doyle, Austin K.
Duncan, Charles Kenney
Duncan, Sandy
Dunne, Philip
Durgin, Calvin Thornton

Correspondents, E-H

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Eastman, George Lockwood
Edison, Charles
Edwards, Ralph Livingstone
Einfeld, Charles
Eisenstein, Sergei Mikahailovich
Engel, Samuel G.
Engle, Clair
Fairbanks, Douglas Elton
Farley, James Aloysius
Farrow, John Villiers
Fay, William Patrick
Feeney, Josephine
Fellers, Bonner Frank
Fernandez, Emilio
Ferrer, José Vicente
Fetchit, Stepin
Fier, Jack
Figueroa, Gabriel
Finucane, Charles Cecil
FitzSimmons, Charles
Flaherty, Vincent X.
Flynn, Emmett
Fonda, Henry
Force, Roland Wynfield
Ford, Barbara Nugent
Ford, Daniel Sargent
Ford, Francis
Ford, John
Ford, Mary McBryde (Smith)
Ford, Patrick Roper
Ford, Philip
Ford, Robert
Forrestal, James
Fowler, Gene
Francis, Irene
Frawley, Patrick J.
Freeman, Young Frank
Gable, Clark
Gallery, Daniel Vincent
Gary, Romain
Ghormley, Robert Lee
Gibson, Hoot
Gilpatric, Roswell Leavitt
Ginna, Robert Emmett
Githens, William French
Gleason, Jackie
Goldbeck, Wilis
Goldstone, Jules C.
Goldwater, Barry Morris
Goldwater, Richard M.
Goldwyn, Samuel
Gollings, Franklin O.A.
Goodman, Mort
Goodman, Steve
Goodrich, Annie Warburton
Gordon, Alex
Gordon, Michael
Gotlieb, Howard Bernard
Grace princess of Monaco
Graff, Robert D.
Graham, Sheilah
Grainger, James Ross
Grant, James Edward
Grant, Robert Allen
Grauman, Sid
Gregory, Donald Munson
Griffith, Beverly
Guinness, Sir Alec
Gussow, Mel
Hageman, Richard
Hale, Robert
Haley, Jack
Halsey, William Frederick
Hanna, Richard Thomas
Harris, Richard S.
Harshbarger, Helen Grace (Davie)
Hart, Henry
Hart, William Surrey
Hathaway, Henry
Hatswell, Donald
Hauck, Arthur Andrew
Hawkins, Jack
Hays, Will Harrison
Hayward, Chuck
Hayward, Leland
Healy, James A.
Heath, E. Percy
Hecht, Harold
Helfrich, Conrad Emile Lambert
Helm, Edith (Benham)
Henebry, John Philip
Hepburn, Katharine
Hepburn, Richard Houghton
Herschensohn, Bruce
Hickey, Robert Ferdinand
Hoch, Winton C.
Holden, William
Holdridge, Herbert Charles
Hope, Bob
Hopper, Hedda (Furry)
Hughes, Arthur Montague D'Urban
Hughes, Francis Massie
Hughes, Helen (Rooney)
Hughes, Rulon Stanley
Hull, Cordell
Hunter, Jeffrey
Hurley, Patrick Jay
Hurst, Brian Desmond

Correspondents, I-L

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Ingersoll, Stuart Howe
Irvine, Dallas
Irving, Frederick Augustus
Ivens, Joris
Jaffe, Lou
Jarman, Claude
Jessel, George
Job, Thomas
Johnson, Edwin Carl
Johnson, Julian
Johnson, Louis Arthur
Johnson, Nunnally
Jones, Herbert A.
Jones, Stan
Joy, Jason S.
Kahanamoku, Duke Paoa
Kahane, Benjamin Bertram
Kalmus, Herbert Thomas
Kanin, Garson
Kelley, Arthur W.
Kellogg, Ray
Kenyon, Curtis
Killanin, baron
Killanin, Mary Sheila Cathcart (Dunlop)
Kimbel, William Anthony
Kirk, Alan Goodrich
Kirkland, David
Klein, Philip
Knecht, Peter D.
Knight, Arthur
Knopf, Edwin H.
Korda, Sir Alexander
Koshland, William A.
Kramer, Stanley
Kurosawa, Akira
Laemmle, Carl
Laemmle, Edward
Lake, Stuart Nathaniel
Lambert, Gavin
Lamour, Dorothy
Landy, George
Lawrence, Robert L.
Lee, Anna
Lemmon, Jack
LeRoy, Mervyn
Lew, Rose
Lewis, Cliff
Lichtman, Alexander
Lloyd, Richard Dafydd Vyvyan Llewellyn
Lombroso, Henry
Lorentz, Pare
Luce, Clare (Boothe)

Correspondents, M-P

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MacArthur, Douglas
MacKenna, Kenneth
MacLeish, Archibald
Madden, Doreen
Madden, John Edward
Maguire, William Augustus
Maharg, John D.
Mahin, John Lee
Malden, Karl
Malige, Marcel E.
Malin, Patrick Murphy
Mankiewicz, Joseph Leo
Manziarly, Alexandre de
Markey, Gene
Marsh, Mae
Marshall, George Catlett
Mayo, Claude Banks
Mazurki, Mike
McBride, Joseph Pierce
McCain, John Sidney
McCarey, Leo
McCarthy, Frank
McCarthy, Joseph Jefferson
McCrea, Joel
McGowan, John P.
McGuinness, James Kevin
McIntyre, Robert B.
McKenna, Siobha ,n
McLaglen, Andrew Victor
McLaglen, Victor
McLendon, Gordon Barton
Mishkin, Leo
Monro, Charles Bedell
Monta, Rudolph
Montague, Anne (Cavendish)
Moon, Heran
Morgan, Frank
Morris, Michael
Morse, Mel
Moses, Vivian M.
Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm
Murphy, George Lloyd
Natwick, Mildred
Neblett, Benjamin H.
Neilan, Marshall
Newberry, C. Bruce
Newman, Alfred
Newman, Robert V.
Nichols, Dudley
Niven, David
Nixon, Richard Milhous
North, Henry Ringling
Nugent, Frank Stanley
Nussbaum, Max
O'Brien, Edmond
O'Brien, George
O'Brien, Pat
O'Casey, Shivaun
O'Dea, Jimmy
O'Flaherty, Liam
Olivier, Sir Laurence Kerr
O'Neal, Ryan
O'Neill, Carlotta (Monterey)
O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone
Paine, Thomas Otten
Parker, Albert
Parrish, Robert
Parsons, Louella (Oettinger)
Patterson, Robert Porter
Pavan, Marisa
Peck, Gregory
Petrauskas, John
Pettebone, Jean
Peyton, Patrick Joseph
Pickens, Andrew Calhoun
Powell, Bonney M.
Power, Tyrone
Powers, Francis
Powers, James Ellis
Pramoj, Momwrajong Seni
Price, John Dale

Correspondents, R-T

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Rackin, Martin Lee
Radford, Arthur William
Ramsey, Logan Carlisle
Reagan, Ronald
Reid, Cliff
Reinecke, Edwin
Reinhardt, John
Rich, Frances
Rissient, Pierre
Rittenberg, Saul Nathan
Robinson, Lennox
Rogers, Ted
Romanoff, Michael
Rondi, Gian Luigi
Roos, Allan
Roosevelt, James
Roper, Elmo
Saal, William M.
Sanders, Harry
Schary, Dore
Schein, Harry
Schickel, Richard
Schulberg, Budd
Seaton, George
Selznick, David Oliver
Shakespeare, Frank Joseph
Shapiro, Victor Mansfield
Shavelson, Melville
Shaw, Frank L.
Shaw, Hervey S.
Sheehan, Howard J.
Sheehan, Winfield R.
Shields, Paul Vincent
Shurlock, Geoffrey Manwaring
Siciliano, Italo
Sidney, George
Siegel, Sol C.
Sinclair, Gregg Manners
Sinclair, Upton Beall
Sistrom, William
Skouras, Spyros Panagiotes
Sloane, Paul
Small, Edward
Smith, Bernard
Smith, Wingate
Speaks, John Charles
Spencer, Frederick A.
Spingold, Nathan Breiter
Sprague, Albert Tilden
Stallings, Laurence
Stanwyck, Barbara
Steinbeck, Elaine (Scott)
Sterne, Meta C.
Stevens, George
Stewart, James Maitland
Stout, Archie
Strickling, Howard
Struble, Arthur Dewey
Sullivan, John Lawrence
Sutker, Victor
Swope, Herbert Bayard
Sylvester, Arthur
Symington, Stuart
Taft, Robert Alphonso
Talley, Truman Hughes
Thalberg, Irving Grant
Thomas, Lowell Jackson
Thorpe, Jim
Tobin, John Everard
Toland, Gregg
Tolstoy, Ilia A.
Totman, Fred N.
Towers, Constance
Tracy, Louise (Treadwell)

Correspondents, U-Z

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Ubans, Juris Konrads
Umbreit, Kenneth Bernard
Vanderbilt, William Henry
Vardaman, James Kimble
Vaughn, Robert
Vidor, King Wallis
Wald, Jerry
Walsh, Raoul
Wanger, Walter
Warner, Jack Leonard
Warren, Earl
Wasserman, Lew Robert
Wasson, George F.
Watkins, Arthur Thomas Levi
Watt, Milt
Watts, Richard
Wayne, Esperanza (Baur)
Wayne, John
Wayne, Michael A.
Wead, Frank Wilber
Webb, Robert A.
Wedemeyer, Albert Coady
Wellman, William Augustus
Weltner, George
Wexley, John
Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt
Whitney, Eleanor (Searle)
Widmark, Richard
Willebrandt, Mabel (Walker)
Willoughby, Charles Andrew
Wilson, John Cree
Withrow, James Renwick
Wood, George A.
Wood, Samuel Grosvenor
Woods, Thomas Frederic Mackie
Wootten, William Patrick
Wright, Loyd Earl
Wurtzel, Harry L.
Wurtzel, Sol M.
Yadoff, Oleg
Yarnell, Harry Ervin
Yates, Herbert John
Yost, Robert M.
Zacharias, Ellis Mark
Zachary, George J.
Zanuck, Darryl Francis
Zanuck, Richard Darryl
Ziffren, Lester
Zimbalist, Sam
Zinneman, Fred
Zumwalt, Elmo Russell

Box 1 1906-1946

Box 2 1947-1957

Box 3 1958-1976, Undated

Series: Box 3 Scripts and Production Materials

Contains materials for films and television programs, 1915-1971, directed by Ford, unless otherwise indicated.

Arranged chronologically.

Folder 37 Sunset Land, 1915

[not directed by Ford]

Continuity and subtitles; synopsis, list of locations

Folder 38 The Brain Specialist, 1916

[not produced?]

Synopsis

The Doctor's Advice, 1916

[not produced?]

Inspiration, 1916

[not produced?]

Synopsis

Folder 39 #2442, 1917

[directed by Francis Ford]

Sets; notes concerning sets

Folder 40 Cheyenne's Pal, 1917

Continuity and subtitles

Folder 41 Bucking Broadway, 1917

Continuity and subtitles; list of locations

Folder 42-43 Wild Women, 1918

Continuity and subtitles (2); list of locations

Folder 44 The Scarlet Drop, 1918

Continuity and subtitles; list of locations

Folder 44 The Untamed, 1918

Printed story and synopsis

Folder 45 The Rustlers, 1919

Continuity and subtitles; list of locations

Folder 46 A Gun Fightin' Gentleman, 1919

Story

Folder 47 Marked Men, 1919

Continuity and subtitles; list of locations

Folder 47 The Sheriff of Wasco, 1919

Memo, with synopsis

Folder 48 Just Pals, 1920

Subtitles

Folder 48 The Man of God, 1921?

Synopsis

Folder 49 The Face on the Barroom Floor, 1923

Synopsis

Folder 50 The Iron Horse, 1924

Location newsletters

Folder 51 3 Bad Men, 1926

Titles; publicity

Folder 52 Four Sons, 1928

Miscellaneous comments by W.R. Sheehan; title suggestions; notes in Ford's hand

Folder 53 Strong Boy, 1929

Scenario

Folder 54 Up the River, 1930

Script, pp. 48-60 only; continuity; cast list

Folder 54 Men Without Women, 1930

Notes in JF's hand

Folder 55 Seas Beneath, 1931

Script

Folder 56 The Brat, 1931

Script

Folder 57 The Lost Patrol, 1934

Suggestions for cast; summary of earnings

Folder 57 Judge Priest, 1934

Screenplays (2)

Box 4
Folders 1-2
The Informer, 1935

Script; partial script; summary of earnings; accounting of earnings

Folder 3 Prisoner of Shark Island, 1936

Cast list

Folder 3 Mary of Scotland, 1936

Script

Folder 4 The Plough and the Stars, 1936

Script

Folder 5 Wee Willie Winkie, 1937

Script

Folder 6 The Hurricane, 1937

Script

Folder 7 Four Men and a Prayer, 1938

Script

Folder 8 Submarine Patrol, 1938

Script; cast and staff lists

Folder 9-10 Stagecoach, 1939

Script; cast and staff lists; budget estimates; statements of accounting

Folder 11-13 Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939

Scripts (3)

Folder 14 Drums Along the Mohawk, 1939

Script; cast and staff lists

Folder 15 The Grapes of Wrath, 1940

Staff and cast lists

Folder 16-17 The Long Voyage Home, 1940

Script changes; foreword and epilogue; set list; crew list; musical score

Folder 18 Tobacco Road, 1941

Script; script changes

Folder 19 How Green Was My Valley, 1941

Script

Folder 20 The Battle of Midway, 1942

Dialogue; continuity

Folder 21 Code of the Navy, ca. 1942

(presented by the U.S. Naval Radio and Signal School) Cast list; continuity

Folder 22 They Were Expendable, 1945

Notes and PT maneuvers

See also: Oversize 14, Bound volume 17

Series: Box 1-16 Oversize

Box 1 (Oversize) Correspondence

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Small to John and Mary Ford. n.d. (card)

Box 2 (Oversize) Scripts and production materials

They Were Expendable--Story board, 11 items

Box 3 (Oversize) Scripts and production materials

7 Women--Accounts

Box 4 (Oversize) Miscellaneous

Field Photo Home--Zoning map

Box 5 (Oversize) Miscellaneous

Membership cards and awards--American Legion citation

Box 6 (Oversize) Miscellaneous

Printed--Clippings

Box 7 (Oversize) Miscellaneous

Printed--Articles

Box 8 (Oversize) Miscellaneous

Studio materials--Telephone numbers

Box 9 (Oversize) Photographs

Family and friends

Box 10 (Oversize) Photographs

Portraits--John Ford

Box 11 (Oversize) Photographs

Portraits--Other people

Box 12 (Oversize) Photographs

Boats

Box 13 (Oversize) Photographs

Field Photo Home

Box 14 (Oversize) Photographs

Miscellaneous

Box 15 (Oversize) Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Director: The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Box 16 (Oversize) Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Director: How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Series: No Box Tapes

Audio tapes of interviews conducted by Dan Ford. Names of interviewees and some of the topics discussed are listed after the tape numbers.

Tapes 1-2: Mark Armistead

Tapes 3-4: James Warner Bellah (side 1 only of Tape 4)

Tapes 5-6: Katherine (Potter) Cliffton Bryant

Tapes 7-11: Harry Carey (side 1 only of Tape 11)

Tapes 11-12: Olive (Golden) Carey (side 2 only of Tape 11)

Tape 13: William Clothier (side 1 only)

Tape 14: Joanne Dru

Tape 15: Philip Dunne

Tape 16: Allan Dwan

Tapes 17-18: Henry Fonda

Tapes 19 Barbara Nugent Ford

side 1: Gossip, social

side 2: Mr. Roberts

Tape 20 Barbara Nugent Ford (side 1 only)

Tape 20 John Ford

side 2: Hurricane, Tobacco Road, Wee Willie Winkee

Tape 21 John Ford

side 1: Portland, Early years

side 2: Early years

Tape 22 John Ford

side 1: How Green Was My Valley, Merian C. Cooper

side 2: Stagecoach, Wanger

Tape 23 John Ford

side 1: Stagecoach, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

side 2: Rio Bravo, The Searchers, Last Hurrah, Maureen O'Hara

Tape 24 John Ford

side 1: Harry Cohn, Mayer, Navy, Grotsky

side 2: Navy, Europe, Midway

Tape 25 John Ford

side 1: Westerns, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

side 2: Westerns, Ft. Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Tape 26 John Ford

side 1: Monument Valley, Men without Women , Nichols, Lost Patrol

side 2: Nichols, O'Neill, The Long Voyage Home

Tape 27 John Ford

side 1: Early years, John Wayne, Lincoln, 3 Bad Men, Quiet Man

side 2: Quiet Man, Yates, How Green Was My Valley, Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincoln, Zanuck

Tape 28 John Ford

side 1: Frank Nugent, Stagecoach, Ft. Apache

side 2: Ft. Apache

Tapes 29-30: John Ford

Iron Horse

Tape 31 John Ford

side 1: Directing, Goldwyn, acting

side 2: Acting

Tape 32 John Ford

side 1: Midway, Burma, Stillwell

side 2: They Were Expendable, My Darling Clementine

Tape 33 John Ford

side 1:Early years, Portland, Planned Parenthood, The Informer, directing debut

side 2: Q & A Early years

Tape 34 John Ford

side 1: Ward Bond, The Informer

side 2: The Informer, The Rising of the Moon, The Grapes of Wrath

Tape 35 John Ford (side 2 is blank)

Iron Horse

Tape 36 John Ford (side 2 is blank)

They Were Expendable

Tape 37 John Ford

side 1: Ward Bond

side 2: Ward Bond, Cheyenne Autumn

Tape 38 John Ford (side 2 is blank)

Alamo, Horse Soldiers, Korea

Tape 39 John Ford

side 1: John Wayne

side 2: John Wayne, acting

Tape 40 John Ford (side 1 only)

Mogambo, Gable, directors, They Were Expendable , Valentino

Tape 40 Katharine Hepburn (side 2 only)

Tape 41 Mary Ford

side 2: Tom Mix

Tape 42 Mary Ford

side 1: Araner

side 2: Araner, war years

Tape 43 Mary Ford

War years

Tapes 44-45: Mary Ford (side 2 of Tape 44 is blank)

Tape 46 Ben Goetz (side 1 only)

Tape 46 Philip Dunne (side 2 only)

Tapes 47-48: Chuck Hayward (side 2 of Tape 48 is blank)

Tapes 49-51: Katharine Hepburn

Tapes 52-53: Frank Hotaling (side 2 of Tape 53 is blank)

Tapes 54-58: Lefty Hough (sides 2 of Tapes 54 and 58 are blank)

Tapes 59-60: Ben Johnson (side 2 of Tape 60 is blank)

Tape 61 Nunnally Johnson

Tape 62 Anna Lee

Tape 63 John Lee Mahin

Tapes 64-65: Lee Marvin

Tapes 66-69: George O'Brien (side 1 only of Tapes 66 and 68)

Tape 66: John Ford, Robert Arthur, et al. (side 2 only)

Tape 68: John Ford (side 2 only)

Tape 70 Robert Parrish

Tapes 71-72 Wingate Smith

Tapes 73-74: James Stewart

Tape 75 John Wayne

side 1: First contact with Ford in the 1920's

side 2: Stagecoach, use of Republic Writers' Quiet Man, problem at Republic

Tape 76 John Wayne

side 1: Bringing Ford to Republic, Merian C. Cooper, Victor McLaglen, Bolton

side 2: Ford on the Araner, Emerald Bay Yacht Club, WWII's effect on Ford, war experiences, They Were Expendable, Jim McGuinness, Another Republic Deal

Tape 77 John Wayne (side 2 is blank)

Ford's post-war politics, Ward Bond

Tape 78 John Wayne

side 1: Tobacco Road, Ward Bond, Bolton Mallard, Pedro Armendariz

side 2: Ford's social circle in Mexico and on the Araner, early friendship, They Were Expendable, Ward Bond, Robert Montgomery, Gene Markey

Tape 79 John Wayne

side 1: They Were Expendable, Spig Wead, Ford with actors vs. Hawks, Hathaway, Wellman, Huston

side 2: Working relations with Ford on later films, Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Stagecoach

Tape 80 John Wayne

side 1: Later years, Merian C. Cooper, Jack Pennick, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , Maureen O'Hara

side 2: The Alamo, sentiments on contemporary America

Tape 81 Albert Coady Wedemeyer

Tape 82 Terry Wilson

Series: No Box Bound Volumes

1. Scripts and production materials

The Last Hurrah: Accounts - General Ledger

2. Scripts and production materials

Donovan's Reef: Accounts - General Ledger

3-4. Miscellaneous

Field Photo Home: Financial Materials

5-15. Miscellaneous

Financial materials

16. Miscellaneous

Yacht log: The Araner, 1934-1948

17. Photographs

Miscellaneous: Brazil, l943-l944

Series: No Box Films

The films may not be used in present format

The Battle of Midway (1942 )

16 mm (1 reel)

The Fugitive (1947 )

16 mm (3 reels)

How Green Was My Valley (1941 )

16 mm (3 reels)

Ford pesonal print

In Memoriam: Manuel Quezon (ca. 1945 )

16mm and DVD

The Informer (1935 )

(2 reels)

"Mr. Ford"

The Long Voyage Home (1940 )

16 mm (3 reels)

The Lost Patrol (1934 )

16 mm (2 reels)

Skipper Ford's print

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949 )

16 mm (3 reels)

Stagecoach (1939 )

16mm (3 reels)

The Sun Shines Bright (1953 )

16mm (3 reels)

Wagon Master (1950 )

16mm (3 reels)

"Ford personal print"

1 undated home movie

16 mm

1 silent film, Europe

16 mm

The Searcher

16 mm (3 reels)

Series: Additions

These additions reflect as closely as possible the arrangement of series in the original collection.

Subseries: Correspondence

Box 28
Folder 1
Memorandum from Navy Department. 1937

Folder 2 Ford, John to Hauck, Arthur A. May 20, 1938

Folder 3 Telegrams to John Ford. 1947-1969

Folder 4 Zanuck, Daryl to Ford, John on Front and Center (When Willie Comes Marching Home). Jun. 9, 1949

Folder 5 Ford, Patrick and Carroll to Ford, Dan. 1962-1964

Folder 6 Ford, Patrick to Smith, Bernard. 1963

(multiple copies)

Folder 7 Ford, Patrick and Carroll. 1965-1966

Folder 6 "Auntie" to Ford, Dan. 1968

Folder 9-12 Ford, Dan (from Vietnam) to "Pop and Carroll." [1968-1969?]

(4 folders)

Folder 13 Conway, Mickey. 1969

Folder 14 Worden, Hank to "Jack" (John Ford). Mar. 16, 1973

Folder 15 Letters of condolence to Mary Ford (John Ford's death). 1973

Folder 16 Telegrams of condolence to Mary Ford (John Ford's death). 1973

Folder 17 Brown, Jim (NBC News) to Feeney, Josephine. Dec. 28, 1973

Folder 18 Devine, Andy. Sept. 5, 1973

Folder 19 Reagan, Ronald. Sept. 6, 1973

Folder 20 General correspondence. 1973

Folder 21 Anderson, Lindsay. 1975-1992

Folder 22 "Michael" (Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin). 1976-1988

Folder 23 Ford, Patrick and Caroll. 1978-1979

Folder 24 Webb, James H. 1981-1982

Folder 25 Bogdanovich, Peter. 1985-1991

Folder 26 Parrish, Robert. 1991

Folder 27 Hill, Walter. 1993

Folder 28 Houghton, Katherine. Apr. 21, 1995

Folder 29 General, 2006, undated

Folder 30 Ford, Patrick to "Grampy" (John Ford), undated

Subseries: Scripts and Production Materials

Box 28
Folder 31
Front and Center (When Willie Comes Marching Home). Jun. 4, 1949,

Final shooting script

Folder 32 Charmaine (What Price Glory). Sept. 20, 1951,

Final script

Folder 33 What Price Glory. Nov. 20, 1951,

Final shooting script

Folder 34 The Sun Shines Bright. Jul. 15, 1952,

First draft

Folder 35 Captain Buffalo (Sergeant Rutledge). Jul. 8, 1959,

Final script

Folder 36 The American West of John Ford. Air: Dec. 5, 1971,

Folder 37 A Salute to John Ford. March 29, 1973,

Final draft

Subseries: Photographs

Box 28
Folder 38
John Ford

Folder 39 John Ford "Portraits"

Folder 40-42 John Ford and others

Folder 43 Ford family

Folder 44 John Wayne

Folder 45 Others

Folder 46 Avaner: Catalina – Honolulu

Box 29
Folder 1
Dublin "Black and Tans"

Folder 2 Far East 32-33

Folder 3 Field photos

Folder 4 Military

Folder 5 John Huston

(autographed)

Folder 6 Douglas MacArthur

(autographed)

Folder 7 Scrapbook pages

Folder 8 NBC photos and miscellaneous

Folder 9 Dan Ford photos, Vietnam

Folder 10 Miscellaneous

Folder 11-12 Original negatives

Subseries: Miscellaneous

Box 29
Folder 13
AMC film preservation promotional packet

Folder 14 "Bill of Rights" Special Committee of the Screen Directors' Guild

(copy)

Folder 15 Bound manuscript by Ferran Molto Fernandez on El Delator (The Informer)

(Spanish)

Folder 16 Brochure: "John Ford's Centenary"

Folder 17 Bumper-sticker: "God Bless John Wayne"

Folder 18 Cannes program 1995, includes John Ford retrospective

(French)

Folder 19 Chandler Sprague article on The Iron Horse,

Corrected draft

Folder 20 Coronet Mine share certificate, Jul. 18, 1950

Folder 21 Employee's Starting Card, "Jack Ford," 1917-1918

Folder 22 "For Mary and Jack,"

Newsclips and magazine

Folder 23 Francis Ford,

Biography and index

Folder 24 Genealogical materials

Folder 25 Hard-bound pressbook: The Alamo

Folder 26 Interview with Patrick Ford

Folder 27 Invitation to Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner

Folder 28 John Ford, FBI file

Folder 29-30 John Ford Index

Folder 31-33 John Ford's Official Navy Records

(Vol. I and II)

Folder 34-36 John Ford's Official Navy Records

(copy 2)

Box 30
Folder 1
John Huston articles and clippings, 1972

Folder 2 Lindsay Anderson's review of The Unquiet Man, Oct. 29, 1982,

Draft

Folder 3-4 Magazines

Folder 5 Mary Ford's Canteen Book

Folder 6 Memorial Tribute Register for John Ford [1973]

Folder 7 Newspaper clippings, AFI tribute to John Ford [1973]

Folder 8 Newspaper clippings, Barbara Ford, undated

Folder 9 Newspaper clippings, Cannes tribute to John Ford, 1995

Folder 10 Newspaper clippings, John Ford, 1970s

Folder 11 Newspaper clippings, John Ford tributes and death, 1973

Folder 12 Newspaper clippings, Katharine Hepburn book, 1995

Folder 13 Newspaper clippings, John Wayne, 2006

Folder 14 Newspaper clippings, undated

Folder 15 Oral history interview with Dan Ford, Southern Methodist University

(hard-bound)

Folder 16 "The Papers of Howard Hawks," register, Brigham Young University, 1978

Folder 17 Pappy,

Publicity

Folder 18-19 Pappy,

Reviews (United States)

Folder 20-21 Pappy,

Reviews (England)

Folder 22 Paris 1945: An O.S.S. Photo Mission

(hard-bound)

Folder 23 Press kit: The Searchers (50th Anniversary)

Folder 24 Press kit: A Turning of the Earth (The Searchers)

Folder 25 Program: Tribute to Olivia de Havilland, 2006

Box 31
Folder 1
Receipt for bowties, 1950

Folder 2 Robert Parrish correspondence and research materials ("December 7")

Folder 3 Thank-you ads to John Ford ( Variety, Mar. 30, 1973)

Folder 4-6 Untitled inventory and appendices

Folder 7 The West of John Ford, articles, 1971

Folder 8 Wisdom Award of Honor, certificate

Subseries: Writings

Box 32
Folder 1-2
Beachhead,

Typescript, various pages

Folder 3-5 Beachhead,

Typescript, pp. 1-350

Folder 6-8 Beachhead,

1st draft, pp. 1-389

Folder 9-12 Pappy,

Original typescript, pp. 1-306, 486-621

Folder 13-16 Pappy,

Corrected proof, pp. 1-389

Folder 17 Marine: The Story of Lt. Gen. "Chesty," Puller

Drafts and production materials

Subseries: Audio-Visual

Box 33 The Searchers: Behind the Scenes/Wayne and Ford: Silver Spur Awards,

DVD

John Ford Funeral Service,

DVD

John Ford BBC Interview,

DVD

John Ford's The Rising of the Moon,

DVD

The Searchers: 50th Anniversary Screening,

DVD

The American Film Institute Life Achievement Awards: John Ford, 1981,

Videocassette

The Searchers: 50th Anniversary Screening, 2006,

Videocassette

Stagecoach and Rising of the Moon, both recorded 1981,

Videocassette

"Uncle Jack's Mass" (John Ford's funeral, 1973),

Videocassette

"John Ford 1968 BBC Interview,"

Videocassette

The Searchers: Behind the Scenes/Wayne and Ford: Silver Spur Awards, Omnibus promotional TV spots for The Searchers and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, featuring John Ford and John Wayne (includes "Silver Spurs Award" for Ford and Wayne in Reno, NV, ca. 1950 ),

¾ Videocassette

John Ford interview,

Audiotape, 3 reels, 3 ¾ ips

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