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Refusing a lucrative contract offered by Zanuck at 20th Century Fox that would have guaranteed him $600,000 per year, Ford launched himself as an independent director-producer and made many of his films in this period with Argosy Pictures Corporation, which was a partnership between Ford and his old friend and colleague Merian C. Cooper.
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- John Martin Feeney, February 1, 1894, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, U.S.
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Argosy Pictures: The Independent Film Company of Director John Ford and Producer Merian C. Cooper. Excerpt from Hollywood Renegades by J. A. Aberdeen. Before going independent, John Ford was one of the most acclaimed directors of classic studio era.
View full company info for Argosy Pictures (US) 1. The Quiet Man. 1952 2h 9m Passed. 7.7 (42K) Rate. 85 Metascore. A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union. Votes 41,578.
Argosy pictures was an independent film company organized to give John Ford and Merian C. Cooper creative freedom for motion picture production. Working with Walter Wanger Productions, RKO, Republic, and MGM, Argosy produced ten films between 1940 and 1953: The Long Voyage Home, The Fugitive, Fort Apache, Three Godfathers, She Wore a Yellow ...
Argosy Pictures Corporation business records, 1939-1958. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83593409. The records provide insight into legal and tax aspects of film production, as well as documenting the search for suitable story material and researching aspects of a film before production.
