Anne Bancroft recalled producer and director John Ford's tearing pages out of the script and described him as "Marvelous but loony."
Jane Chang was deeply impressed by the fact that John Ford took the trouble to direct her in the Chinese language.
Final theatrical movie that John Ford directed ending a career that had spanned 53 years and included six Academy® Award nominations resulting in four Oscar® Awards for Best Director---The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and The Quiet Man (1952).