Saturday, 19 August 2023

A Quartet of Four-Patch Blocks

 

Jimmy Stewart, talking about the horse he rode in movies for twenty-two years: “I never was able to buy Pie because he was owned by a little girl, Stevie Myers, who’s the daughter of an old wrangler who used to wrangle horses for Tom Mix and W.S. Hart. He retired and he gave this horse to her. Pie was a sort of a maverick. He hurt a couple of people. Audie Murphy rode him a couple of times. He nearly killed Glenn Ford, ran right into a tree. But I liked this darned little horse. I got to know him like a friend. I actually believed he understood about making pictures. I ran at a full gallop, straight towards the camera, pulled him up and did a lot of dialogue and he stood absolutely still. He never moved. He knew when the camera would start rolling and when they did the slates. He knew that because his ears came up.”

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