Month: January 2023

Robert Duvall : He was an institution unto himself,” Duvall said of The Duke “and that final film he did, The Shootist, it was wonderful what he did

One of Robert Duvall’s early breakout roles was in True Grit. You remember Ned Pepper, don’t you? Folks ask Duvall…

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Western star .. Wayne was having an affair with actress Marlene Dietrich of losing this relationship was the real reason Wayne didn’t want to go to war

When actor John Wayne visited American soldiers in Vietnam in the summer of 1966, he was warmly welcomed. As he…

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Duke and William Holden managed to negotiate a whopping $775,000 (almost $8 million today)

John Wayne couldn’t stand John Ford on The Horse Soldiers set and begged the film’s producer to lie to the…

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“I think making The Alamo became my father’s own form of combat,” said Wayne’s daughter, Aissa

When John Wayne decided he was going to do something, there wasn’t much anyone could do to stop him. His…

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John Wayne – whose last “role” was Star Wars – starred in everything from ice hockey drama Idol Of The Crowds – where the actor had never played prior to filming – or action movies like California Straight Ahead

John Wayne tried to break his Western typecasting early on in his career – which almost destroyed it. A look…

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Wayne and Cohn endured a “hostile” encounter, the latter telling the star: “Keep your goddamn fly buttoned on my studio

JOHN WAYNE was left heartbroken and feeling like a “failure” because he had disappointed the “two people he cared for…

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Ethan Wayne When you’re a kid, you don’t realize there’s a big John Wayne banner following you around

I loved everything I did with my dad. He carried these autograph cards, and as a little kid, it was…

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John Wayne.. described Martin as making “a lot of musical junk” in his films, that led to him “kissing girls”

The western legend made the blunt joke at his co-star’s expense, leaving an audience in stitches John Wayne, the Academy…

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John Wayne left a masterpiece for life in the movie ”The Cowboys’ (1972) ”.

In 1948, John ‘Duke’ Wayne teamed up with brilliant director Howard Hawks for the classic Western, “Red River”. In the…

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Rio Lobo (1970), the last collaboration between John Wayne and Howard Hawks.

𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 “𝑅𝑖𝑜 𝐵𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑜(1959),” 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 “𝐸𝑙 𝐷𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑜(1967)” 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 “𝑅𝑖𝑜 𝐿𝑜𝑏𝑜(1970)”; 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑…

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