True Grit memories from Kim Darby and Glen Campbell She fondly recalls working with Wayne. He was there on the set before anyone else and knew every line perfectly, Darby said. After the production finished filming, Darby remembered, there was a photo shoot at Paramount Pictures with the stars who were working at the studio at the time, which were John Wayne, Barbra Streisand, Clint Eastwood, Goldie Hawn.… Robert Evans was in the middle. I was sitting on the curb a ways away watching. The Duke stepped out of the picture and he said, Hey, kid. He put out his arms and lifted me up and brought me over and put me in the center of the picture. How wonderful is that? She did, though, have a bit of a problem with Hathaway, who was 71 when he directed the film. He was an old prop man and he usually focused on the prop man and he would just yell at him no matter what he did, Darby said. Although they had gotten along well when she first met him at the studio, Hathaway yelled at her on the first day of shooting. It got me so off guard, she said. I just got up and went back to my dressing room. Eventually, the two had a heart-to-heart talk in the dressing room. I said, Henry, Ill do anything you want, just dont yell at me again. After that day, we went along swimmingly. Campbell, now 74 and living in Malibu, said he also ran into problems with Hathaway. After being yelled at one day, Campbell recalled that he told the director, You know, I can get on a horse and get out of here and get in my car and go back to L.A. He kind of looked at me and said, Well, I have been tough on you. That was Henry Hathaway. By the late 1960s, Campbell was a popular recording artist with his hits like By the Time I Get to Phoenix and was the star of his own CBS variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. But he had never acted before True Grit. I never thought about being an actor because I am a singer and a guitar player, said Campbell. But he was thrilled working with the Duke, he said, because he had been a fan of the actor since he was a kid growing up in Delight, Ark. It was just amazing, Campbell recalled. He was so much like my dad. He was a very nice guy. Campbell, who still performs, made only one other feature, 1970s disastrous Norwood with Darby. I enjoyed doing movies; I just wasnt an actor, so to speak, he said. But he joked that he nonetheless did a good deed in True Grit. I made John Wayne look so good in a movie, Campbell said, that he won his only Oscar. Extract courtesy of Los Angeles Times Jan 4, 2011.
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