When Maureen O'Hara as Mrs Yorke makes her entrance sitting in the covered wagon she is helped down by a trooper but as she reaches the ground her dress snags on the wagon and she untangles it. Is the dress snagging a goof or part of the action to delay her from seeing John Wayne as he walks up to the wagon to greet her?
I've always wondered.
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I think it is deliberate to, as you say, delay the face-to-face with Kirby. My theory is that perhaps on the first take, the dress was caught and Ford said, wait a minute - let's keep that in.
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Thankyou misspaddylee, I think you are correct in saying Ford wanted to keep the dress snagging on the wagon in the scene and I can imagine that may have taken a few 'takes' as it was a breezy location shoot.
I just hope that the prickly personality of Ford and the easy-going but not- to-be-messed-about-with irish temperament of Miss O'Hara did'nt have a falling out if the wind blew the dress off it's 'mark'.
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