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...
To television viewers of the mid-1970s, fans knew her as Sgt. “Pepper” Anderson; to her friends, while growing up in LaMoure County, she was known as...
John Wayne was a man of many contradictions. America’s favorite film cowboy preferred sailing on his yacht, The Wild Goose, to a riding in a saddle....
The Quiet Man was a passion project for John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, and John Ford. However, they had to jump through some hoops and shoot Rio...
When the free love movement blossomed in America in the 1960s, many folks started to look at relationship dynamics in more nuanced ways. It went hand...
