The Green Leaves of Summer The Green Leaves of Summer "The Green Leaves of Summer" is a song by Paul Francis Webster, with music by Dimitri Tiomkin, written for the 1960 film "The Alamo". It was performed in the film's score by the vocal group The Brothers Four. In 1961, the song was nominated for an Academy Award; its parent soundtrack, for the film "The Alamo", was awarded a Golden Globe Award for "Best Original Score". In "The Alamo", the song is heard on the last night before the Battle of the Alamo. Davy Crockett (John Wayne), when asked what he is thinking, responds "not
Linda Cristal taking on her first English-language role as Margarita in the 1956 Western film "Comanche". Following her Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in "The Perfect Furlough" (1958), Cristal went on to roles in "Cry Tough" (1959), "Legions of the Nile" (1959), "The Pharaohs' Woman" (1960), and was asked by John Wayne to play the part of Flaca in his epic "The Alamo" (1960). In 1961 she had a key role in the western "Two Rode Together". Along with these and other film roles, Cristal appeared in episodes of network television series. She played a kidnapped Countess opposite