I’d like to say that I had met John Wayne under a mesa in Monument Valley or as the sagebrush swirled across the foothills of the Sierra Nevada....
The Green Berets (1968)Directors: John Wayne and Ray KelloggEntertainment grade: E+History grade: Fail From relatively modest beginnings in the 1950s, the war in Vietnam boomed into an epoch-defining...
The year 1969 was a true inflection point for the American western, a once-dominant genre that had become a casualty of the culture, particularly when Vietnam...
Both the house and the man are smaller than you would expect, a result of the diminishing effects of old age that come to us all,...
Joseph Stalin ordered the KGB to assassinate John Wayne because he considered his anti-communist rhetoric a threat to the Soviet Union, according to a new biography of the...
To many, the words True Grit mean one thing: John Wayne’s Oscar-winning performance in the classic western. But for Joel and Ethan Coen – whose film...
DURHAM, N.C. — John Wayne’s heirs are taking Duke University to court over the family’s right to market bottles of bourbon branded with the late movie...
“This is the west sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The famous line uttered by a newspaperman in John Ford’s masterpiece The Man...
On this day in history, May 26, 1907, John Wayne, the iconic actor who is known for epitomizing the American West, is born in Winterset, Iowa. Named...
At 69, John Wayne rides tall with his fans (1976) “John Wayne has an endless face and he can go on forever.” – Louis B. Mayer...
