John Wayne was in perhaps the biggest creative rut of his career in 1969. He’d just made the worst film of his career outside of “The...
In 1966, the legendary cowboy actor Clint Eastwood appeared in Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. This Spaghetti Western film featured Eastwood as The...
Although they were celebrities for different reasons, Ron Howard worked with John Wayne on one of The Duke’s late-period movies. Howard said Wayne gave him some interesting advice. In addition, Howard...
While a younger audience might not know what The Beverly Hillbillies was, it was a major sitcom for people around in the 1960s. The story of a country bumpkin who strikes...
John Wayne starred in 169 movies, playing so many heroic cowboys that many Americans believed he had single-handedly won the West – and he came to...
Easily overlooked amid the prolific acting career and larger-than-life persona was John Wayne’s generosity. He was generous with his family, whom he welcomed into his own career with...
A bit of some harsh criticism, from one Western icon to another. John Wayne remains one of the most influential and widely known Western and ԝаr action...
There isn’t a more instantly identifiable movie location in the United States than Monument Valley. Situated at the Arizona-Utah border, the area provides a visually striking...
Thanks to his role as Rowdy Yates on the popular Western television show “Rawhide,” Clint Eastwood became famous. It was this role that propelled him into...
Pressed by a close friend during a night of heavy drinking to describe his greatest sexual escapade, the usually private and polite John Wayne eventually gave...