Star Trek back in the 1960s<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nFor reasons obscured in the mist of time he apparently turned down the opportunity to play the role once the show was picked up by the network so the part went to DeForrest Kelly instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marilyn said if her father had taken the role in Star Trek she and Dobe would have probably been receiving me in their mansion in Bel Air instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marilyn also regaled me with a story about how they met up with a tired and emotional John Wayne at a party one night. He asked Marilyn for a dance then promptly waltzed across the room holding her upside down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said a remorseful Wayne was full of apologies the following day, and sent her a large bouquet of flowers \u2013 but she decided it was best not to dance with Mr Wayne again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I stayed in touch with both Dobe and Marilyn over the years, and I\u2019m happy to say that due to the research I carried out on Ford\u2019s silent films I was able to send them copies of some of the recently discovered films Dobe\u2019s father made with Ford, such as The Scarlet Drop (1917) and A Gun Fightin\u2019 Gentleman (1919) for his collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We sent each other Xmas and New Year greetings for a while then things went quiet towards the end of 2011. The news came through just after Xmas in 2012 that he had passed away at the age of 91.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the Ford aficionados who might be reading this, you\u2019ll know that the director paid tribute to Harry Carey Senior at the beginning of 3 Godfathers, dedicating the film to \u2018the brightest star in the Western sky\u2019, just after Carey had passed away in 1948. Well, there\u2019s another star in the Western sky now, shining just as bright. And I\u2019m happy so say I had the privilege of actually meeting him once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Happy trails, Dobe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I first made contact with Harry Carey Jr., or \u2018Dobe\u2019; as he came to be known, back in 1998. I\u2019d met up with the film director Andrew McLaglen at Pinewood studios to discuss a script I\u2019d written about the making … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[8,6,4],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6931,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions\/6931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}