Paint Your Wagon

…out his film career with Paint Your Wagon (1969), a lumbering, expensive ($20 million) musical western, with unlikely co-stars Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin, a script by Paddy Chayefsky, and Lerner-and-Loewe songs (from the 1951 stage musical on which it was based). Like Paint Your Wagon, Logan’s late-career stage productions…

…as a singing cowboy in Paint Your Wagon (1969), though his recording of the song “Wand’rin’ Star” became an unexpected hit. His ability to show tenderness, as he did in Monte Walsh (1970), was not often exploited by directors. His last great role was that of another determined World War…