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John Wayne was well known for his tough and gristly persona on and off-screen, not holding back on what he really thought of peers he clashed with.<\/p>\n
He lambasted Red River co-star Montgomery Clift as \u201can arrogant little bas**rd\u201d and blasted Gene Hackman as “one of the worst actors in Hollywood.”<\/p>\n
Duke was part of a conservative inner circle that included his long-time collaborator John Ford and it turns out Wayne\u2019s exceptionally rude dismissal of a Gone with the Wind star was rooted in a feud with the director.<\/p>\n
Back in 1953, Clark Gable \u2013 lead of Gone with the Wind which is on Channel 5 today \u2013 starred opposite Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly in Ford\u2019s romantic adventure Mogambo.<\/p>\n
The director was a notoriously bad-tempered character who often humiliated and baited his cast to get better performances out of them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
During the African production, he would make remarks about Gable\u2019s age and weathered appearance. The actor even walked off set in protest of the filmmaker\u2019s treatment of Gardner. The scene of the latter being pushed into a mud pool by a baby elephant was only captured because Ford ignored the actress\u2019 cries for help as he encouraged the crew to keep shooting.<\/p>\n
According to Turner Classic Movies: \u201cGable and Ford had known each other for years, but their personalities clashed when working together. Ford lost patience with what he thought were Gable’s needless requests for retakes and by the end of the shooting Ford and Gable were not even speaking to each other. And they never worked together again.”<\/p>\n
Wayne\u2019s daughter has previously shared specifically why this grated on her father. In her book John Wayne: My Father, Aissa wrote: \u201cDuring the filming of Mogambo, Ford and Gable had clashed again and again and the subsequent feud had simmered for years. In my father\u2019s way of thinking, disloyalty to allies, support in any fashion for their enemies, was expressly forbidden. If Clark Gable took on John Ford, my father\u2019s code demanded that John Wayne stand by his old pal.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a result of his loyalty to Ford, Duke made some extremely rude comments about Gable: \u201c[He\u2019s] extremely handsome in person. That\u2019s one guy that doesn\u2019t need Hollywood to make him look good. But Gable\u2019s an idiot. You know why Gable\u2019s an actor? It\u2019s the only thing he\u2019s smart enough to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
His daughter also shared why her father thought the Gone with the Wind star wouldn\u2019t be able to have another career outside of acting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Wayne saw himself as more of a star than an actor, which was in contrast to Gable\u2019s view of being a thespian.<\/p>\n
Duke said: \u201cI don\u2019t act at all, I react. In a bad picture, you see them acting all over the place. In a good picture, they react in a logical way to a situation they\u2019re in, so the audience can identify with them. All I do is sell sincerity, and I\u2019ve been selling the hell out of that since I started. I was never one of the little theatre boys. That arty crowd has only surface brilliance anyway. Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity \u2013 and I don\u2019t mean simple \u2013 it\u2019ll be good and the public will know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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