Two Half-Deaf Actors in a Movie

Many years ago, famous actor Richard Widmark was deaf in one ear. Also, another famous actor Jimmy Stewart was deaf in one ear.
Making it worse was that director John Ford was late deafened.
Both Widmark and Stewart worked together on one movie, directed by Ford.
It was confusing. In one scene, Stewart and Widmark were placed across the room. Stewart's deaf ear was opposite Widmark's deaf ear - and they could not easily communicate with each other. And they could not hear the commands by Ford!
The cameraman had to use hand signals to tell these two actors what to do!
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