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Ford wanted to make The Quiet Man first, but Republic Pictures studio president Herbert Yates insisted that Ford make Rio Grande first, using the same combination of Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; Yates did not feel that the script of The Quiet Man was very good, and wanted Rio Grande to be released first to pay for The Quiet Man.
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Ford wanted Lucas to kill off Han Solo at the end of either sequel, saying, " That would have given the whole film a bottom ," but Lucas refused.
Ford wanted Tracy for the lead role in his next picture, a prison movie.
The next day however, Ford announced to Wayne that he wanted him to play the role.
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Ford and Quiet
Lord Killanin was also a director of many companies and dabbled in the film industry, collaborating with his lifelong friend, John Ford, on The Quiet Man.
Those skills proved helpful many years later when she was able to take and transcribe production notes dictated by John Ford for the screen adaptation of Maurice Walsh's short story The Quiet Man.
Cooper and his friend and frequent collaborator, noted director John Ford, formed Argosy Productions in 1947 and produced such notable films as Wagon Master ( 1950 ), Rio Grande ( 1950 ), The Quiet Man ( 1952 ), and The Searchers ( 1956 ).
He had a long-time working relationship with directors John Ford and Frank Capra, performing in such films as The Searchers, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Quiet Man, and Fort Apache for Ford, with whom he made 25 films, and It Happened One Night and It's a Wonderful Life for Capra.
Curtis teamed with Ford and John Wayne in Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, The Wings of Eagles, The Searchers, The Horse Soldiers, The Alamo and How The West Was Won.
Slaughter will perform a show at Halfway Jam festival in Royalton, Minnesota in July 2011, with Lita Ford, Cinderella, Skid Row, Stephen Pearcy, Kix, Quiet Riot and Firehouse.
Republic's most acclaimed movie was The Quiet Man ( 1952 ), directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara.
* July 12-Première of the romantic comedy-drama film The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara, set in 1930s Ireland and with much location filming around Cong, County Mayo.
In 1951, the film director John Ford came to the west of Ireland to film what would become a movie classic, The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara.
After working as an assistant director on a few smaller films, Ford gave him the assistant director job on the film The Quiet Man ( 1952 ).
He was friendly with the director John Ford, and actor John Wayne, whom he advised during the making of the film The Quiet Man.
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