Back in 1950, John Wayne starred in Rio Grande, the third of his Cavalry Trilogy (alongside Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon) with director John Ford.

Cast and crew struggled terribly with the extraordinarily scorching Utah location, with units and levels having to be in-built such difficult situations.

To make issues worse the actors needed to carry out in heavy interval costumes of the nineteenth century.

Although a minimum of Duke was in a position to put on a smaller toupee to look barely older as his Lieutenant Colonel Kirby Yorke character.

The movie would even be his first of 5 starring roles reverse Maureen O’Hara, who shared a set tragedy from manufacturing in her autobiography.

In O’Hara’s memoir Tis Herself – which also recounted the bruising left by Wayne spanking her on McLintock! – the main girl shared how some stuntmen died in the course of the capturing of Rio Grande.

The unlucky solid members fell from their horses throughout a scene in the course of a muddy river and tragically their our bodies have been allegedly by no means recovered.

On a lighter be aware, the infamous director John Ford managed to prank visiting Hollywood producers on set.

Ford couldn’t stand Hollywood executives badgering him when he was making an attempt to work. The filmmaker was significantly enraged when producer Herbert J Yates and Republic govt Rudy Ralston confirmed up demanding he get on with filming when it was already 10 within the morning.

The story goes that the director replied: “Just as soon as you get the hell off my set” earlier than he performed a sensible joke on them at suppertime.

Ford employed certainly one of his actors Alberto Morin to fake to be a French waiter with poor English.

And in the course of the meal he “by chance’ broke plates and spilt soup on the Hollywood fits, who by no means managed to grasp what was actually occurring.