Broken Arrow - Delmer Daves (1950) - Genealogies

Jeff Chandler is Cochise in this hopeful vision of peace between Whites and Apaches, with Jimmy Stewart in his first major western role (10 years after Destry Rides Again, the first of many western roles). 4 years later, Chandler is the dying Cochise in Sirk's Taza, Son of Cochise with Rock Hudson as Taza, and Barbara Rush as Taza's wife Oona. Both reappear in Sirk's Captain Lighfoot the following year, while Chandler is in another Sirk's costume drama (about Attila this time; Chandler is a Roman) in 1954, Sign of the Pagan. But then, in 1952, Chandler had again been Cochise (this time at George Sherman's Battle at Apache Pass), and one way or the other was busily engaged in those years trying to find peace between a couple of Indian tribes (the Kiowas, through war, in War Arrow; the Sioux, through diplomacy, in The Great Sioux Uprising) and Whites. It does seem that after Taza, Chandler killed off Cochise for good -- or, for that matter,any impersonation of Indian leaders.
A good cycle, that: make peace with Stewart, back up on the backstory by going over Apache Pass (which Stewart mentions in Broken Arrow...), and then, after a couple of less graceful tries, make your exit with Taza.
Ah, genealogies. Now, seems only Bertrand Tavernier is bothered that a Jewish actor should play Cochise (but he's not bothered by Debra Paget playing Soonseearayh, and she's no Apache that I know). What this genealogy suggests to me is rather good Hollywood sense in using an actor: Daves took a bet on him, his stature carried the role, then Hollywood tried to squeeze all the juice out of that orange, and then he went off to other things.
Bird of Paradise of 1951 has him and Debra Paget again (when do they get enough of a good thing?) on a South Sea island now...