Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in The John Ford Stock Company

Company of Heroes.
Harry Carey Jr.

Scarecrow Press, 1994.
Hardcover in jacket, as new. Signed by Harry Carey Jr and his wife.
First edition.

From one of the great cowboy and western actors ever, and also was filmed in about 100 other films. . He did a book signing at Phantom Bookshop in the early 1990s. Such a gentleman and so personable. He is the last of the "John Ford Stock Company" and passed away on Dec. 27, 2012.

First edition, hardback as new in jacket. Signed by Harry Carey, Jr. on the title page and also by his wife Marilyn on the dedication page. Great book about the John Ford acting company and other information about such actors as John Wayne with whom Harry Carey, Jr. worked with. Photos. When Harry Carey, Sr. died in 1947, director John Ford cast Carey's 26-year-old son, Harry, Jr. in the role of The Abilene Kid in "3 Godfathers". Ford and the elder Carey had filmed an earlier version of the story, and Ford dedicated the Technicolor remake to his memory. Company Of Heroes is the story of the making of that film, as well as the eight subsequent Ford classics. In it, Harry Carey, Jr. casts a remarkably observant eye on the process of filming Westerns by one of the true masters of the form. From She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Wagon Master to The Searchers and Cheyenne Autumn, he shows the care, tedium, challenge, and exhilaration of movie-making at its highest level. It is the most intimate look of John Ford at work ever written. He also gives us insightful and original portraits of the men and women who were part of Ford's vision of America: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, and Ben Johnson. Funny, insightful, and brutally honest, Illustrated. by Photographs. 8vo -