RIO BRAVO was John Wayne’s big return to Westerns after The Searchers and saw The Duke confronted by his much younger female lead, Angie Dickinson. The...
Movie star John Wayne deeply enjoyed playing games, such as bridge and dominoes. He wasn’t ever against having a strong drink and sharing good company with...
Had he signed on, The Frisco Kid could very well have been John Wayne’s final Western, but Harrison Ford eventually nabbed the role. Wayne built his...
Movie star John Wayne had a hug at his final public appearance at the 1979 Academy Awards that he said he wouldn’t miss for anything else...
True Grit actor John Wayne finally earned his first Oscar, which the cast and crew of Rio Bravo wanted to celebrate. He was often criticized for...
The great Clint Eastwood is most famous for his work as one of Hollywood’s most successful leading men in the 1960s and 1970s. He first made his name...
Back in 1959, critics were already asking if John Wayne was too old to be playing gunslinger leads. Rio Bravo was released that year and the romantic age...
Actors John Wayne and Ronald Regan both know what it’s like to be a star in Hollywood. The Western actor was undeniably the bigger movie star,...
Wayne (1907-79) was born in Winterset, Iowa, and named Marion Morrison after his grandfather, a Civil War hero. The family moved to the Los Angeles area,...
During the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1920s, actors and actresses shot to fame—but only if they tailored their images to the demands of the...
