"of) the main performer(s) on one or several songs. An Evening with Glen Campbell and the Royal Philharmonic was recorded at The Royal Festival Hall in London in 1977 by BBC television. The video was released in 1985. Glen Campbell Live was taped during a 1981 concert in Dublin. The double album Glen Campbell Live has a similar set-list, but was not recorded at the same event. The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour with Special Guest Stars: John Wayne, Tim Conway, Carol Burnett, Three Dog Night contains an episode of The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. This video was released in 1990"
"True Grit (novel) True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in ""The Saturday Evening Post"". The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross, who recounts the time when she was 14 and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel, Tom Chaney. It is considered by some critics to be ""one of the great American novels."" The novel was adapted for the screenplay of the 1969 film ""True Grit"" starring Kim Darby as Mattie Ross, Glen Campbell as Texas Ranger LaBoeuf and"
"for his performance as Rooster Cogburn in ""True Grit"", one of the top box office hits of 1969. ""True Grit"" was released on June 11, 1969, earning USD$14.25 million at the box office. A second film version, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, debuted in December 2010. Portis published several short pieces in ""The Atlantic Monthly"", including the memoir ""Combinations of Jacksons"" and the story ""I Don't Talk Service No More"". As of 2010, Portis lived in Little Rock, Arkansas. Novels Nonfiction Short fiction, articles, etc. Charles Portis Charles McColl Portis (born December 28, 1933) is an American"
"Charles Portis Charles McColl Portis (born December 28, 1933) is an American author best known for his novels ""Norwood"" (1966) and the classic Western ""True Grit"" (1968), both adapted as films. The latter also inspired a film sequel and a made-for-TV movie sequel. A newer film adaptation of ""True Grit"" was released in 2010. Portis has been described as ""one of the most inventively comic writers of western fiction"". Charles Portis was born in 1933 to Samuel Palmer and Alice Waddell Portis in El Dorado, Arkansas. He was raised and educated in various towns in southern Arkansas, including Hamburg and"
"as his dream comes true. Norwood (film) Norwood is a 1970 American Comedy film that reunites ""True Grit"" co-stars Glen Campbell and Kim Darby, also featuring Joe Namath. It was based on the novel of the same title, written by Charles Portis (who also wrote ""True Grit""), but updated from the original 1950s setting to 1970. The film marked the penultimate screen appearance of actor Jack Haley. As of 2015, there has yet to be a DVD or Blu-ray release, though ""Norwood"" is sometimes available to stream on Netflix in America. Norwood Pratt has just finished his enlistment in the"
"Norwood (film) Norwood is a 1970 American Comedy film that reunites ""True Grit"" co-stars Glen Campbell and Kim Darby, also featuring Joe Namath. It was based on the novel of the same title, written by Charles Portis (who also wrote ""True Grit""), but updated from the original 1950s setting to 1970. The film marked the penultimate screen appearance of actor Jack Haley. As of 2015, there has yet to be a DVD or Blu-ray release, though ""Norwood"" is sometimes available to stream on Netflix in America. Norwood Pratt has just finished his enlistment in the United States Marine Corps and"
"was considered a needless reworking of the plot of ""True Grit"" combined with elements of ""The African Queen"". A made-for-television sequel aired in 1978 entitled """" and starring Warren Oates and Lisa Pelikan. The TV-movie featured more adventures of Rooster Cogburn and Mattie Ross. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen released another film adaptation of the novel, also entitled ""True Grit"", with thirteen-year-old actress Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross, veteran actor Jeff Bridges playing Rooster Cogburn, Matt Damon as LaBoeuf, Barry Pepper as Lucky Ned, and Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney. Their version, focusing on Mattie's point of view, follows"
"the novel more closely than the 1969 film. The Coen movie is shot in settings more typical of the novel. (The 1969 film was shot in the Colorado Rockies and the Sierra Nevada, while the 2010 film was shot in Santa Fe, New Mexico as well as Granger and Austin, Texas.) In November 2010, The Overlook Press published a movie tie-in edition of ""True Grit"", featuring an afterword by Donna Tartt to accompany the 2010 film adaptation. It reached #1 on The New York Times's Bestseller List on January 30, 2011. True Grit (novel) True Grit is a 1968 novel"
"the CMA's top award as 1968 Entertainer of the Year. Campbell played a supporting role in the film ""True Grit"" (1969), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer. He also sang the title song, which was nominated for an Academy Award. Glen Travis Campbell was born on April 22, 1936, in Billstown, a tiny community near Delight in Pike County, Arkansas, to John Wesley (a sharecropper) and Carrie Dell (Stone) Campbell. Campbell was of Scottish descent and was the seventh son of 12 children. The family lived on a farm where they barely got by growing"
"of the same name by Charles Portis. Filming was done in Texas and New Mexico. Hailee Steinfeld stars as Mattie Ross along with Jeff Bridges as Marshal Rooster Cogburn. Matt Damon and Josh Brolin also appear in the movie. ""True Grit"" was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Ethan Coen wrote the one-act comedy ""Talking Cure"", which was produced on Broadway in 2011 as part of ""Relatively Speaking"", an anthology of three one-act plays by Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen. ""Inside Llewyn Davis"" (2013) is a treatise on the 1960s folk music scene in New York City's"
"the years. His gravestone shows his full name to be Reuben Cogburn, a fact which he gave freely in the 2010 version of the film (and in the 1975 sequel to the original movie before that). Rooster Cogburn (character) Reuben J. ""Rooster"" Cogburn is a fictional character who first appeared in the 1968 Charles Portis novel, ""True Grit"". The novel was adapted into a 1969 film, """"True Grit"", and from that a 1975 sequel entitled """"Rooster Cogburn"" was also produced. The character was also featured in a made-for-television sequel, entitled """", made in 1978. The Coen brothers released a new"
"and wins on the bus ride back to the South. ""Norwood"" was adapted as a movie in 1970, starring Glen Campbell as the title character, with Kim Darby and the football star Joe Namath. Like ""Norwood"", his novel ""True Grit"" (1968) was first serialized in condensed form in ""The Saturday Evening Post"". The story is told in first person from the perspective of Yell County native Mattie Ross. At the time of the novel's events, she is a prim, shrewd, strong-willed, Bible-quoting 14-year-old girl. When her father is murdered in Fort Smith by Tom Chaney, a hired hand, she sets"
"produced ""True Grit"", for which John Wayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor of 1969, and its sequel. After moving to Universal Pictures, he produced ""Mary, Queen of Scots"" (starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson) and ""Anne of the Thousand Days"" (starring Richard Burton and Canadian-born actress Geneviève Bujold). He received 16 Academy Award producer nominations for Best Picture, winning for ""Casablanca"" in 1943. For his consistently high quality of motion picture production, he was twice honored with the Academy Awards' Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He was also nominated for seven Golden Globe awards, twice winning awards for"
"but ""True Grit"" (1969), produced by Hal Wallis, was extremely popular, and won John Wayne a Best Actor Oscar. He may have stepped in for George Seaton in directing some winter outdoor scenes for the all-star ""Airport"" (1970), which stars Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin. He made a war movie with Richard Burton, ""Raid on Rommel"" (1971), then made another Western for Hal Wallis, ""Shoot Out"" (1971). Hathaway's 65th and final film was ""Hangup"" (1974), a blaxploitation movie. Hathaway died from a heart attack in 1985 in Hollywood and is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. His"
"Academy Award for Best Song and the Golden Globe. A film sequel, ""Rooster Cogburn"", was made in 1975, with Wayne reprising his role and Katharine Hepburn as an elderly spinster, Eula Goodnight, who teams up with him. The plot has been described as a rehash of the original ""True Grit"" with elements of the Bogart-Hepburn film ""The African Queen"". A further made-for-television sequel titled """" appeared in 1978, starring Warren Oates as Rooster Cogburn and Lisa Pelikan as Mattie Ross and featuring subsequent adventures of the valiant pair. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen directed another adaptation of the novel."
"Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany is a collection of non-fiction, journalism, short stories, and single play - ""Delray's New Moon"" - by the novelist Charles Portis, the author most famous for ""True Grit"". Subjects covered by Portis include the civil rights movement, a road trip in Baja, and Elvis Presley's visit to his aging mother. Some of the works originally appeared in such publications such as the New York Herald Tribune and Saturday Evening Post. At the time of its first publication in 2012, it was the first work by Portis in twenty-one"
"""True Grit,"" which has twice been adapted as films of the same name. Parker is a featured character in the sequel to the first film. He was portrayed by James Westerfield in the 1969 movie and by John McIntire in the sequel. He was played by Jake Walker in the 2010 remake of ""True Grit"". Zeke Proctor, one of Parker's deputy marshals, is featured in Larry McMurtry's 1997 novel ""Zeke and Ned"". Carlyle Mitchell, in his penultimate acting role, was cast as Judge Parker in the 1961 episode, ""A Bullet for the D.A."", on the syndicated television anthology series, ""Death"
"the same name. It reached number 3 on the US pop chart, remaining in the Top 100 for 15 weeks. In addition, the song also topped the American country music chart for two weeks, and the adult contemporary chart for six weeks. The 1969 song ""True Grit"" by composer Elmer Bernstein and lyricist Don Black, and sung by Campbell, who co-starred in the movie, received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Song and the Golden Globe for Best Original Song. After he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for television's ""The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"" variety show, Campbell was given"
"Redhead from Wyoming,"" starring Maureen O'Hara, dealt with similar themes; in one scene Maureen O'Hara's character is told, ""It won't be long before they're calling you Cattle Kate."" In the 1968 novel ""True Grit"" by Charles Portis, the main character, Rooster Cogburn, was involved in the Johnson County War. In the early 1890s Rooster had gone north to Wyoming where he was ""hired by stock owners to terrorize thieves and people called nesters and grangers... . I fear that Rooster did himself no credit in what they called the Johnson County War."" Films such as ""Heaven's Gate"" (1980) and ""The"
"years later, Henry Hathaway also directed John Wayne in his first Academy Award-winning role of Indian Territory U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the original screen version of ""True Grit"" (1969). In addition to Wayne, actors Strother Martin, Dennis Hopper, and Jeremy Slate were all cast in that film as well. Johnny Cash sang a song in 1965 also called ""The Sons of Katie Elder"", written by Elmer Bernstein and Ernie Sheldon. The film's background instrumental theme music was also composed by Elmer Bernstein. The film was roughly based on the 1888 true story of the five Marlow Brothers (George H.,"
"in the 1969 film True Grit, as well as the 1960 film North to Alaska also starring John Wayne, the 1966 Steve McQueen film Nevada Smith, and the 1971 film Shoot Out with Gregory Peck, which also starred True Grit's Jeff Corey. Hot Creek (Mono County, California) Hot Creek, starting as Mammoth Creek, is a stream in Mono County of eastern California, in the Western United States. It is within the Inyo National Forest. The creek begins its course in the eastern Sierra Nevada named as Mammoth Creek. It originates as an outflow of Twin Lakes, just south of Mammoth"
"divorce in 1969. In 1970, she married James Westmoreland; the marriage ended in divorce later that same year. ""Doris"" Edna Garrrtt's daughter in law. Kim Darby Kim Darby (born Deborah Zerby; July 8, 1947) is an American actress best known for her role as Mattie Ross in the film ""True Grit"" (1969). Darby was born Deborah Zerby in Los Angeles, the daughter of professional dancers Inga (Wiere) and Jon Zerby (the ""Dancing Zerbys"" or ""Dancing Zerbies""). Her father nicknamed her Derby saying ""I thought Derby Zerby would be a great stage name"". Her mother was from Budapest. Her mother's siblings"
"Union Major Warren C. Bronaugh against riding into Confederate lines. When Younger was captured in the James-Younger Gang robbery of the Northfield, Minnesota First National Bank, Elkins, Bronaugh and Foster (who was then editor of the St. Louis Evening Journal) were to argue for clemency for Younger. In the 1969 movie True Grit, character Rooster Cogburn (played by John Wayne) tells Mattie Ross that he lost an eye at the Battle of Lone Jack, calling it ""a scrap outside of Kansas City."" Union: Major Emory S. Foster Confederate: Colonel Jeremiah ""Vard"" Cockrell Battle of Lone Jack The Battle of Lone"
"film version of ""True Grit"". The novel is narrated by Mattie Ross, churchgoing elderly spinster distinguished by intelligence, independence, and strength of mind. She recounts the story of her adventures many years earlier, at 14, when she undertook a quest to avenge her father's death at the hands of a drifter named Tom Chaney. She is joined on her quest by Marshal Reuben J. ""Rooster"" Cogburn and a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf (pronounced ""La-beef""). As Mattie's tale begins, Chaney is employed on the Ross's family farm in West-Central Arkansas, near the town of Dardanelle in Yell County. Chaney is not"
"by Columbia Pictures to work on ""Diamond Head"" (1963). She also wrote the screenplay for ""True Grit"" (1969), which earned its actor, John Wayne, his only Oscar. She wrote steadily through the next decade and had many of her films produced. Marguerite Roberts Marguerite Roberts (21 September 1905 – 17 February 1989) was an American screenwriter, one of the highest paid in the 1930s. After she and her husband John Sanford refused to testify in 1951 before the House Un-American Activities Committee, she was blacklisted for nine years and unable to get work in Hollywood. She was hired again in"
"Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Corey and Strother Martin. The title song, sung by Campbell, was also Oscar-nominated. ""True Grit"" was adapted again in 2010, starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Hailee Steinfeld. Frank Ross is murdered by his hired hand, Tom Chaney. Ross's young daughter, Mattie, travels to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where she hires aging U.S. Marshal Reuben ""Rooster"" J. Cogburn to bring Chaney in, raising his fee by shrewdly horse trading with Colonel Stonehill. Mattie has heard that Cogburn has ""true grit."" She gives him a payment to track and capture Chaney, who has taken up with outlaw"
"player. From the late 1940s, he played in major films, including ""Captain from Castile"" starring Tyrone Power, ""I Am an American"" (1944), ""Key Largo"" with Humphrey Bogart (1948), ""Lust for Gold"" with Glenn Ford (1949), ""Broken Arrow"" (1950) with James Stewart, ""War Arrow"" (1953) with Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler and Noah Beery Jr., ""The Black Dakotas"" (1954) as Black Buffalo, ""Drums Across the River"" (1954), ""Walk the Proud Land"" (1956) with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft, ""Alias Jesse James"" (1959) with Bob Hope, and ""Indian Paint"" (1964) with Johnny Crawford. He made a brief appearance in ""True Grit"" (1969) as"
"the history of Fort Smith, Arkansas has been memorialized in the novel ""True Grit"", and the two movies it inspired, ""True Grit"" (1969) and ""True Grit"" (2010). The grocery store was a failure, and they were forced to sell the business and return to Mount Carmel, Illinois, but Zimmerman remained close to his cousin Harry Hinde, who later was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives, operated several businesses, and speculated in real estate. In later years, along with their uncle Charles T. Hinde, they invested in real estate and mines in New Mexico. The New Mexico properties only returned"
"James Dean, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Michael Forest, James Hong, Sally Kellerman, Shirley Knight, Bruce Lee, Penny Marshall, Jack Nicholson, Darrell M. Smith, Diane Varsi, Sharon Tate, Rita Moreno, Leonard Nimoy, Sally Forrest, Anthony Perkins, Rob Reiner, Robert Towne, Barbra Streisand and Robin Williams. In 1962, Corey began working in films again, and remained active into the 1990s. He played Hoban in ""The Cincinnati Kid"" (1965) and Tom Chaney the principal villain in ""True Grit"" (1969) and was Sheriff Bledsoe in ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" (also 1969) who warned Butch and Sundance that no good would come of"
"cross-examines John Wayne in ""True Grit"" (1969). Born to Jewish parents, he was married to actress Kim Stanley from 1958 until 1964; the couple had a child, Laurie Ryder. He was the brother of actress Olive Deering (1918–1986). Ryder was a Democrat who supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election. Alfred Ryder Alfred Ryder (born Alfred Jacob Corn; January 5, 1916 – April 16, 1995) was an American film, radio and television actor, who appeared in over one hundred television shows. Ryder began to act aged eight and later studied with Robert Lewis and Lee Strasberg."
"body double was needed for Elizabeth Marvel (who played the adult Mattie). After a nationwide call, the Coen brothers cast Ruth Morris – a 29-year-old social worker and student who was born without a left forearm. Morris has more screen time in the film than Marvel. In the holiday weekend following its December 22 North American debut, ""True Grit"" took in $25.6 million at the box office, twice its pre-release projections. By its second weekend ending January 2, the film had earned $87.1 million domestically, becoming the Coen brothers' highest-grossing film, surpassing ""No Country for Old Men"", which earned $74.3"
"Hal B. Wallis Harold Brent Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is best remembered for producing ""Casablanca"" (1942), ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1938), and ""True Grit"" (1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Errol Flynn. Later on, for a long period, he was connected with Paramount Pictures and oversaw films featuring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Elvis Presley, and John Wayne. Aaron Blum Wolowicz was born October 19, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of"
"the 1960s, mostly in midsized parts, but also in a few larger supporting roles. Some of his more notable appearances include the role of Capt. Paul Cabot Winston in ""Captain Newman, M.D."" (1963), Chiz in ""Countdown"" (1968), and Gordon in ""The Rain People"". Duvall had a small part as a cab driver who ferries McQueen around just before the chase scene in the film ""Bullitt"" (1968). He was the notorious malefactor ""Lucky"" Ned Pepper in ""True Grit"" (1969), in which he engaged in a climactic shootout with John Wayne's Rooster Cogburn on horseback. Duvall became an important presence in American"