THE JOHN FORD PAPERS IN THE LILLY LIBRARY
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 1:
side 2: Tom Mix
Tape 42 Mary Ford
side 1: Araner
side 2: Araner, war years
Tape 43 Mary Ford
Wat 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
