Director John Ford Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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- On March 31, 1973, at the first ever AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony, director John Ford was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Richard Nixon. Ford won 7 Academy Awards over the course of his career for some of his best known films, STAGECOACH, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY and THE QUIET MAN in addition to winning Oscars for his two documentaries shot during World War II, THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY and DECEMBER 7th.
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It is a Hollywood fact that Orson Welles studied John Ford's Stagecoach countless times to school himself prior to directing Citizen Kane. Orson Welles at this point was the wonder kid of theater and radio. Citizen Kane would be his first film. Orson wanted to study the best so naturally, he chose Ford's Stagecoach which advanced the art of film directing. Ford showed interior ceilings as Orson famously would in Citizen Kane. Orson also studied how Ford had Stagecoach edited.
The man was ill and near the end of his life but what a great movie director he was. Thanks for the entertainment Mr Ford.
and the art
John ford deserves everything everywhere
I love Jack Lemmon's story about his meeting with Ford.
I was in this dude office once. Never forget
Are you Steven Spielberg?
He would find this speech boring as shit. He's right in the middle of the frame.
Medal 🏅 of Freedom ...would be sweet Medal, to have accomplished
We are looking at a genius here.
While I will admit John Ford produced some of the finest quality movies in Hollywood he was mean to his actors and frequently picked in John Wayne a lot
What an amazing human being.
John Ford made one of my favorite movies with Maureen O'Hara valuing her furniture more than her husband John Wayne. My wife Liv Alexander also loves me because I love her more than her Norwegian furniture -- Vic Alexander
I love that thing he does with his tongue -- like an old, wrinkly lizard! Ford was the master!
Greatest American director. Rough exterior but gentle soul. Tough guy act was a defense mechanism for the arrogant pricks of Hollywood. John Wayne owes his stardom to Ford. R.I.P. Coach.
I love him
What's fascinating about Ford's filmography is he created this mythology of the old West and then he gradually tore it down.
Missed that event, brains and I've seen them all.
@@trackdusty Too bad.
He was one tough curmudgeon. But he made some great films.
Wow, strange to see a time when people liked Nixon
If you look at some of his achievements, EPA, SALT treaty, Clean Air act, Clean Water act, Cancer act, etc. He was rather a good president if u ask me.
@@rockyracoon3233 Also the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
The grotesque expansion of the state is not the action of an effective leader of the free world.
He actually did a lot of good things as president and was popular until watergate. He only gets remembered for the bad stuff
@@65g4 : …and now we have a complete political party, going back to “Loverboy Clinton” and what we have now, intent on self-enrichment and selling America to the ChiComs. Watergate pales in comparison to what these traitors are doing.
God Bless President Nixon and John Ford!!!
I think he was the last president forrest gump met!
I don't understand why Nixon didn't give the award to a USA Vietnam soldier who returned from a war ?
The presidential medal of freedom is reserved specifically for civilians. It's not a military medal.
Ah. John ford admired by many, hated by many. Orson welles worshipped him, Jimmy Cagney nearly kicked his ass.
Ford was a self loathing homosexual.
Wtf is going on with his tongue, what is he licking?!
That thing he does with his tongue, he reminds me of a lizard. An old curmudgeon.
first
when these awards actually meant something.....
ford...made many films for the military..and prior to the war used his boat to ..well..some say spy...but forget all that..his movies are what matter...he was one of the best....to bad..he never came out...but gay men in those days..didnt have the courage
"to bad" eh? Lol!
Where is John ford buried he looked dead here ?
John Ford and Nixon- guys from a time when men were men( and Hollywood wasn’t run by Leftie virtue signallers)