Ornery

Ornery

KING: Last scene of "The Quiet Man" Maureen's character whispers something in the ear of John Wayne's character. Whatever she said apparently shocked Wayne because his head jerked back and his eyes grows wide with disbelief. Wayne never told anyone what she said and John Ford the director never did either. 

O'HARA: That was the deal. When John Ford said you are to say so and so To Wayne, I said, what? Me? No way. And he said, you're being ordered to do it. You do it. And I realized it was nothing I could do. When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in. And I said, well there's one stipulation. That you will never tell anybody what it is that you demanded that I say. And, John Wayne will never tell. And the three of us made the deal. 

KING: One can imagine it was sexual or cursing or both? 

O'HARA: Little bit of both. 

KING: And Wayne did not know you were going to say it? 

O'HARA: No. Didn't you see the look on his face when he turns around?

KING: That's one of the most famous endings of movies ever, right. So that must have been the question asked of you. That movie was such a big hit. 

O'HARA: Everybody asks me. Even my lawyer in New York asked me the day before yesterday. I said I'm tired telling you, never. Duke is dead. 

KING: Was it nervous for you to say it? 

O'HARA: It was awful. I hated it. 

KING: Did you only have to say it once? 

O'HARA: Only once. Not twice. Well, you wouldn't get the reaction.
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/02/lkl.00.html

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  1. Tim O'BrienOctober 25, 2015 at 11:51 AM

    In another life, I wrote a long scene about an argument between John Wayne and John Ford in the bar of the Outrigger Waikiki. It mostly involved artistic differences and the tedium of getting stepped on by horses. I wish I'd known this story at the time.

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