Steve Carey (1945-1989) was a wonderful poet & loving friend. We would hang on the phone every day for an hour, sometimes chatting, often doing our own thing together. I still can hear the boom in his voice when he called: NorNau! I was thinking the other day of how terrific he was in Bob Rosenthal & Johnny's play Our Version of Heaven, especially reading Ted's poems.
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Jul 21, 2022 7:54 AM EDT
Didn't know about Steve and was the grandson of Western star and actor Harry Carey according to the part of the NYT obit that my system would allow me to read!
- Michael Sharpe
Comment by ~ Elinor on Jul 21, 2022 9:48 AM EDT
Yes, & his grandmother was Olive Carey, also an actor, in The Searchers. His father was Harry Carey Jr., who was also in a lot of John Ford movies, notably doing the Roman riding with Ben Johnson (❤️) in Rio Grande. His mother was the daughter of Paul Fix, yet another early actor.
Jul 21, 2022 11:49 AM EDT
Had a book about The Searchers a while back and also Ford's Westerns. It's roughly based on Cynthia Parker's circumstance and there are other books about her, one of which I purchased on ABE a year or so ago. She - Cynthia - had a son by her Commanche husband who was Quanah Parker, more or less the last Commanche chief and who surrendered to the US military later becoming a successful businessman. There is a town in East Central Texas named 'Quanah' in his honor with a statue of him. The film, however, was filmed around Arizona's Monument Valley which Ford used as a location for seven movies in all!
- Michael Sharpe