Perhaps their most famous was 1956’s The Searchers which saw Duke play a Civil War veteran spending years searching for his abducted niece, played by Natalie...
John Wayne might’ve been full of macho swagger on the big screen, but off-screen he was given to fretting. A large portion of the blame for...
10 years after his breakout performance in John Ford’s “Stagecoach,” John Wayne found himself the object of some critical derision due to his insistence on giving...
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...
Hollywood is packed with big celebrity feuds; however, few reach the point of threatening death. Clint Eastwood, the award-winning director and western movie star, once stated...
It’s rare to see John Wayne back down in a standoff, but that’s exactly what happened when shooting one of his most revered films. By 1939,...
It’s been nearly half a century since John Wayne last donned his iconic stetson hat to play a Western hero, but the actor’s name is still...
In the early days of the classical Hollywood era, the demand for new movies was so great that studios created low-budget production wings (known as B-units)...
Once John Wayne established himself as a bonafide movie star as the Ringo Kid in John Ford’s “Stagecoach,” he steadily built up his fanbase via hits...
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...
