FW: query; "Winning Isn't Everything"

[Frank Abate]

FWIW, the Oxford History of World Cinema, in its write-up on John Ford (pp.
288-89), does not mention the TATW title in its "Select Filmography".  For
1940, he did The Grapes of Wrath.  He also had 3 feature films released in
1939, and one in 1941, and one in 1942, and then was in the US Navy for
WWII, so I expect he did not squeeze in anything else around that time.

I think the John Ford-John Wayne connection was the likely cause for this
apparent confusion.

Frank Abate



On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Laurence Horn wrote:

> "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."  The bio traced the
> line to UCLA coach Red Sanders (IIRC--I was only half-listening at
> that point) and then played an excerpt from a John Ford movie,
> _Trouble Along the Way_, in which a child--not the ex-big time
> college coach fallen on hard times but maybe his young
> daughter--unmistakably utters the infamous line.

The earliest anyone has found this Red Sanders quote is in the 1953 movie
_Trouble Along the Way_.

Fred Shapiro


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