Luck, spunk helped young mom land 'True Grit' role
Luck, spunk helped young mom land ‘True Grit’ role
What are the odds? How did a young mother from Montrose end up as a camera double in 1969’s “True Grit”? A little luck, timing, her haircut and spunk!
In the late 1968, Hollywood came to Ouray County. Director Henry Hathaway had worked on “How the West Was Won” and hoped to film another movie set in the San Juan Mountains. Charles Portis’s novel, “True Grit,” seemed the perfect match. So Ouray County was transformed into Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory (politically in...
