Sean Martin Feeney arrived in Los Angeles from Portland, Maine, in 1914 at the age of 19. Like his older brother Francis, an actor and director, he took the last name Ford. Everyone called him Jack; the name John Ford was first seen on the credits of his hugely popular 1924 Western feature, The Iron Horse, starring Harry Carey. When Ford reported for work at Carl Laemmle’s newly minted Universal Studios, there was little more than a few stages and a row of dressing rooms. By 1916 the compan
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