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Rio Grande is a 1950 American romantic Western film [4] [5] directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. It is the third installment of Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", following two RKO Pictures releases: Fort Apache (1948) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). [ 6 ]
By virtue of his second marriage, Curtis was a son-in-law of film director John Ford. Curtis teamed with Ford and John Wayne in Rio Grande. He was a singer in the movie's fictional band The Regimental Singers that actually consisted of the Sons of the Pioneers; Curtis is not listed as a member of the principal cast.
Wayne made his debut at the age of 11, as an uncredited extra in the romantic Western film Rio Grande (1950). He went on to appear in 10 more film with his father, John Wayne; The Quiet Man (1952), The High and the Mighty (1954) - as a props assistant, The Conqueror (1956), The Searchers (1956), The Alamo (1960), The Comancheros (1961), Donovan's Reef (1963), McLintock!
Three verses to this song were sung by Ken Curtis and The Sons of the Pioneers in the 1950 John Ford movie Rio Grande, [2] though the film was set in the 19th-century Wild West. Richard Dyer-Bennet recorded the song on his first self produced LP Richard Dyer-Bennet 1, (1955).
From the Argosy picture "Rio Grande," directed by John Ford, 1950. The Sons of the Pioneers as the regimental singers, with lead vocalist Ken Curtis, serenade Maureen O'Hara as Kathleen Yorke. In Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives sings the drunken gardener this song.
American actor, director, and producer John Wayne (1907–1979) began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation. He frequently worked in minor roles with director John Ford and when Raoul Walsh suggested him for the lead in The Big Trail (1930), an epic Western shot in an early widescreen process ...
Ken Curtis: serial Western Drums in the Deep South: William Cameron Menzies: James Craig, Barbara Payton, Guy Madison: traditional Western Fort Defiance: John Rawlins: Dane Clark, Ben Johnson, Peter Graves, Tracey Roberts, George Cleveland, Ralph Sanford, Iron Eyes Cody, Dennis Moore, Craig Woods, Dick Elliott: B Western Fort Dodge Stampede ...
Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/notes 1960: 13 Fighting Men: Harry W. Gerstad: Grant Williams, Brad Dexter, Carole Mathews: United States: B Western The Alamo: John Wayne: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills, Ken Curtis, Denver Pyle, Chuck Roberson, Guinn Williams, Richard Boone, "Big" John Hamilton