December 27, 1941 –
20th Century Fox released John Ford’s film, How Green Was My Valley, starring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara and Roddy McDowall on this date.
Sara Allgood was the only actor who gave John Ford any trouble. At one point, she complained that a scene they were about to shoot wouldn’t play. Ford called writer Philip Dunne to the set and relayed her opinion to him. Having worked with Ford before, Dunne knew what to do. He ripped the scene out of the script and said, “Now it plays!” Then Ford turned to Allgood and said, “The sonofabitching writer won’t do anything to help us, so we’ll have to shoot it the way he wrote it.“
The Haus of Dcaligari 