Farraday joins forces with Kelso to overcome Yellow Hawk's men and take the gun back, turning the battle in the fort's favor. He sells it to tribal leader Chief Yellow Hawk, who uses it during an attack on a fort against soldiers, women and children. Behind her back, Farraday and Benjy smuggle the gun out of town in Nora's wagon.Ī mercenary, Brett Manning, befriends the soldiers on the trail, then betrays them, shooting Benjy and stealing the gun. Stopping off in a town for supplies and information, Farraday falls under the suspicion of a Pinkerton detective, Frank Kelso, who has been assigned to locate the stolen Gatling gun. They come to the aid of a Rebel-hating Yankee nurse, Nora Curtis, whose wagon is stuck in the mud. In Ohio in 1865, a Gatling gun is being transported by a Confederate Army officer in civilian clothes, calling himself Jim Farraday, and a sergeant, going by Benjy, to aid the Southern cause in the war. Her ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.This section needs expansion. She died in Los Angeles, California, September 10, 1996, aged 74, from a respiratory ailment that developed from lymphedema, a swelling of the extremities. She was a staunch Republican and appeared at a 1968 GOP cocktail party fundraiser for Richard Nixon. She had no children from her marriage to Ireland, or subsequent two marriages. Divorced from Haymes in 1949, Dru married Red River and All the King's Men co-star John Ireland less than a month later. The couple had three children: Richard Ralph Haymes (born July 24, 1942), Helen Joanna Haymes (born May 13, 1944), Barbara Nugent Haymes (born September 19, 1947). She was the elder sister of Peter Marshall, an actor and singer best known as the original host of the American game show Hollywood Squares.īefore moving to Hollywood, Dru met and married popular singer Dick Haymes in 1941. Her film career petered out by the end of the 1950s, but she continued working frequently in television, most notably as "Babs Wooten" on the 1960-61 sitcom, Guestward, Ho!.Īfter Guestward, Ho!, she appeared sporadically for the rest of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, with one feature film appearance, in Sylvia (1965), and eight television appearances.įor her contribution to the television industry, Dru was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She appeared in the James Stewart drama Thunder Bay in 1953 and then a Martin and Lewis comedy 3 Ring Circus (1954). Louis (1952), about major-league baseball pitcher Jerome "Dizzy" Dean. She gave a well-received performance in the dramatic film All the King's Men (1949) and co-starred with Dan Dailey in The Pride of St. She was often cast in western films such as Howard Hawks's Red River (1948), John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Wagon Master (1950). Over the next decade, Dru appeared frequently in films and on television. Dru was spotted by a talent scout and made her first film appearance in Abie's Irish Rose (1946). When she moved to Hollywood, she found work in the theater. After finding employment as a model, she was chosen by Al Jolson to appear in the cast of his Broadway show Hold On to Your Hats. ![]() Joanne Dru (Janu– September 10, 1996) was an American film and television actress, known for such films as Red River and All the King's Men.ĭick Haymes (1941–1949 divorced) 3 childrenīorn as Joan Letitia LaCock in Logan, West Virginia, Dru came to New York City in 1940 at the age of eighteen.
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