Information: - Republic Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production-distribution corporation in operation from 1935 through 1959, based in Los Angeles, California. It had studio facilities in Studio City and a movie ranch in Encino. It was best known for specializing in Westerns, movie serials, and B films emphasizing mystery and action. Republic Pictures was also notable for developing the careers of John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers. It was also responsible for the financing and distributing of several John Ford-directed films during the 1940s and early 1950s, and one Shakespeare film, "Macbeth" (1948) directed by Orson Welles. - Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film starring John Wayne that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. The film also features John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker, was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant, and directed by Allan Dwan. The picture was a Republic Pictures production. - John George Agar, Jr. (January 31, 1921 April 7, 2002) was an American actor. He is best known for starring alongside John Wayne in the films "Sands of Iwo Jima", "Fort Apache", and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon". In his later career he was the star of B movies, such as "Tarantula", "The Mole People", "The Brain from Planet Arous", "Revenge of the Creature", "Flesh and the Spur", and "Hand of Death". He was the first husband of Shirley Temple. - Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor, director, and producer. An Academy Award-winner for "True Grit" (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades. - Forrest Meredith Tucker (February 12, 1919 October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker worked as a vaudeville straight man, aged fifteen years old. A mentor provided funds and contacts for a trip to California, where party hostess Cobina Wright persuaded guest Wesley Ruggles to give Tucker a screen test, based on his photogenic good looks, thick wavy hair and height of six feet, five inches - putting him into the same league as John Wayne, Chuck Connors, Fess Parker, James Arness, and Peter Graves, Arness' younger brother. Tucker was a sight reader who needed only one take, and his film career started well despite a perception in most Hollywood studios that blond men were not photogenic, but he enlisted during World War II. After twenty years mainly spent in westerns and action roles, he returned to his roots showing versatility as a comedic and stage musical actor. He also became identified with a character in the TV show "F Troop", in which he played a manipulative Cavalry Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke (quite similar to Phil Silvers's role as MSgt Ernie Bilko). Tucker struggled with a drinking problem that began to affect his performances in the later years of his career. - James Edward Grant (July 2, 1905 February 19, 1966) was an American short story writer and screenwriter who contributed to more than fifty films between 1935 and 1971. He collaborated with John Wayne on twelve projects, starting with "Angel and the Badman" (which he also directed) in 1947 through "Circus World" in 1964. "Support Your Local Gunfighter" was released in 1971, five years after his death. - Nicholas Ray (August 7, 1911 June 16, 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie "Rebel Without a Cause." - Flying Leathernecks is a 1951 Technicolor action war film directed by Nicholas Ray , produced by Edmund Grainger , ( who had produced Sands of Iwo Jima ) and starring John Wayne and Robert Ryan . The movie details the exploits and personal battles of United States Marine Corps aviators during World War II. Marines have long had the nickname '' leatherneck , '' hence the title . - Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American melodrama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers filmed in CinemaScope. Directed by Nicholas Ray, it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum environments. The film stars James Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood. - Allan Dwan (3 April 1885 28 December 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. What entity does 'flying leathernecks' has the relation 'screenwriter' with?
james edward grant