Series:
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
