Kim Darby made her mark in the 1969 version of True Grit. She was not an obvious choice for the lead of Mattie Ross, who was supposed to be 14. Darby was 22 and had given birth to her first child; she was in the middle of a divorce during the shoot.
Star John Wayne and director Henry Hathaway both objected to her casting, feeling she wasn’t right for the role (and neither
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