JUST IN: John Wayne: Katharine Hepburn lambasted 'b*****d' Rooster Cogburn starPilar, who married Wayne in 1954, detailed how he exuded the patience other directors had with him, with his own actors, and she picked up just how much he enjoyed leading a cast on set.
She added: "Although there were days when he used as many as 26 or 27 different camera setups, nothing escaped his watchful eye. "He seemed to be everywhere at once, correcting the way an extra sat his horse or carried his gun, rearranging props, working with the actors, praising his crew. "Despite the pressure and workload, Duke's love for directing showed. "DON'T MISS:John Wayne 'asked to move out of Queen's way' in Hollywood snub [ANALYSIS]John Wayne's 'violent confrontation' with co-star sparked feud [INSIGHT]Clint Eastwood and John Wayne's searing rebuke of Marlon Brando [LATEST]Ford, born in 1894, was the force behind the 1962 film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which starred Wayne as the movie's hero Tom Doniphon, and is the only man to win four Best Director gongs at the Oscars.
In a report in Closer News Weekly in 2022, Scott Eyman, who was a biographer of both Wayne and Ford, described how filming for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance left the director poorly, mainly due to his ever-aging health.
After the production was finished, Wayne was set to be handed an award, and he wanted to the director to be the man to hand his prize over to him.
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