Word: stagecoach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caroline never lacks for playmates. When a "young giant" of a stagecoach driver hides her in a hayloft, she senses that he is "in no mood for preliminaries." Moments later, "a thousand tiny spears of hay [bite] into her bare thighs." At novel's end, sans husband or other encumbering alliances, Caroline cheats the guillotine by dressing up in a sailor suit and reporting for duty on a French frigate bound for America...
...film after film, Wayne has larned the bad 'uns that villainy don't pay. In Stagecoach, possibly the best western picture ever made, he laid low two badmen with his trusty Winchester, reloading for the second kill as he dived to the ground to dodge the bullets of the first. As a white-clad lieutenant in a picture called Seven Sinners, he managed, by sheer force of innocence and a trusting heart, to turn a bedizened sinner (Marlene Dietrich) into a good woman and to preserve the honor of the U.S. Navy as well. Only very rarely...
Success and the complications that go with it have robbed Wayne's own life of much of the simplicity he finds good. Before Stagecoach, he was a "serenely happy" husband, says Josephine Wayne. Five years later, after the birth of their fourth child, Josephine and Duke were divorced. Busy with his commitments at one studio after another, and conscientiously conferring over every step of every production, he found less & less time for the hearty outdoor pastimes-hunting, fishing, deep-water sailing-he likes best, and the long evenings of poker, bridge and horseplay he shared with his strapping friends...
Rock-jawed Cinemactor John (Stagecoach) Wayne, 44, recently named for the second time by movie exhibitors as Hollywood's No. 1 box-office draw, announced "with regrets" on his sixth wedding anniversary that he and his Mexican-born wife, Esperanza Baur, had separated, but hoped to patch it up eventually...
...most cynical Hollywood moviemakers reacted with a cold chill of alarm. This was no Payton-Tone free-for-all, 'or Gardner-Sinatra burlesque. This time the triangle revolved around some of Hollywood's shiniest showpieces. The husband: Dartmouth man Walter Wanger (rhymes with Grainger), 57, noted producer (Stagecoach, Algiers) and former Academy Award president. Walter Wanger had been on the financial skids since his monumental flop, Joan of Arc; after another failure he went into bankruptcy for $175,000. But he was still a man whose name stood for respectability, culture and the intellectual values at the crossroads...