The 53-year-old actor took a liking to Vera Miles, who played Laurie Jorgensen with him in The Searchers.According to a biography of John Ford, after the...
In the end, George Peppard was cast as Paul even though director Blake Edwards didn’t want him, being overruled by producers. Quoted in Sam Wasson’s Fifth...
Pilar had become addicted to barbiturates, but Wayne had refused to admit her to a private sanitarium, believing he could help her overcome it on location...
Regardless, Duke and co-star Walter Brennan didn’t get on with “arrogant little bastard” Clift and so kept away when not shooting together. The young actor would...
In her book John Wayne: My Father, Aissa wrote: “During the filming of Mogambo, Ford and Gable had clashed again and again and the subsequent feud...
Elvis began spending a lot of time theorising with Larry, swapping books and researching new ways of looking at life.Priscilla looked back on the King’s relationship...
The actor in question was Robert Duvall, who played Lucky Ned Pepper in True Grit, which is on ITV4 today. The almost 92-year-old was 38 at...
Wayne’s Lt Col Owen Thursday co-star found the director’s stubborn refusal to rehearse emotional scenes infuriating. Fonda discovered that if he wanted to discuss a scene...
The Lt Mickey actor wasn’t the only member of the cast to suffer Ford’s rudeness and bullying though. Wayne’s Lt Col Owen Thursday co-star Henry Fonda...
During this period, Wayne was America’s cowboy star, having acted in his first Western in 1930’s The Big Trail, before making iconic movies with John Ford...
