John Wayne is a titan of Hollywood’s Golden Age, but everyone has to start somewhere. Four years before getting his big break in 1930’s The Big...
“You know, most of my friends were still the kids in school. I just didn’t think I could face my fraternity brother if they saw this...
After learning of Reagan’s stance, Wayne wrote: “Now I have taken your letter, and I’ll show you point by goddamn point in the treaty where you...
The 26-year-old later said of the two political conservatives: “They laughed and drank and told dirty jokes and slapped each other on the back. They tried...
John Wayne made a lot of movies with a lot of actors, starring alongside the likes of Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Maureen O’Hara, Kirk Douglas, and Katherine Hepburn, and that barely...
As a result, Wayne’s action scenes in The Train Robbers had to be scaled down, with co-star Rod Taylor remembered Duke being “slightly” infirm during the...
Speaking previously with Culture Map Austin, she said that the number one reason Rio Bravo holds up decades later is because of John Wayne. Dickinson said:...
McQueen added: “I don’t like people pawing me. ‘Take your hands off me’, I said. What had I got to lose from a little fight? I’ve...
Back in 1964, John Wayne had a cancerous lung and a few ribs removed, leaving him stricken with health problems for the rest of his life. Duke would...
In 1952, he starred in Bend of the River, an adaptation of Bill Gulick’s novel Bend of the Snake. The Western followed James Stewart’s tough cowboy...
