John Ford’s Legacy


There’s a very touching story about one of John Ford’s daughters, Victoria, in The New York Times. With both parents in prison, she and her brother were taken in by an aunt who lives in South Carolina, where Victoria found her voice as a writer and won a college scholarship. Read it here.

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