Dorothy Jordan (American actress) Ford, forming Argosy Productions in 1947. It was for Argosy's "The Sun Shines Bright", directed by Ford in 1953, that Jordan again came out of retirement, for a small role. She later had a small role as the sister-in-law of John Wayne's character, Ethan Edwards, who seeks Jordan's daughter, played by Natalie Wood, in the epic 1956 Argosy film "The Searchers". Jordan appeared once more, in a small role in the John Ford film "The Wings of Eagles" in 1957 before retiring permanently. Jordan and Cooper lived in Coronado, California and remained married until his death of cancer on April
John Wayne February 22, 1966). Pilar was an avid tennis player. In 1973, she encouraged him to develop the John Wayne Tennis Club, which today is the Palisades Tennis Club in Newport Beach, CA. Several of Wayne's children entered the film and television industry; Wayne's son Ethan was billed as John Ethan Wayne in a few films, and played one of the leads in the 1990s update of the "Adam-12" television series. His stormiest divorce was from Esperanza Baur, a former Mexican actress. She believed that Wayne and co-star Gail Russell were having an affair, a claim which both Wayne and Russell