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John Wayne wasn't pleasantly surprised when a film he considered to be one of his worst became a success. Instead, he was ...
Having made over 179 films, it's unsurprising that John Wayne has some that he's less proud of. There was one, however, that ...
“Whilst filming a scene where the main tent catches fire, John Wayne was almost killed when the set collapsed. As he was ‘fighting’ the fire, Duke was to be cued by the assistant director when to ...
Then 23-years-old, Iowa-born John Wayne starred in the 1929 western 'The Big Trail',' an early wide-screen film. To shoot the ...
The other three competitors were Richard Brooks’ Elmer Gantry, Jack Cardiff’s Sons and Lovers, and Fred Zinnemann’s The ...
John Wayne was - and, 32 years after his death, still is - one of this country's most popular actors, ranking third just this year in a poll of America's favorite movie stars (after Johnny Depp ...
Wayne and Hathaway’s final two movies together were their least successful ventures with 1957’s Legend of the Lost and 1964’s Circus World. John Wayne was very ‘particular’ about the ...
John Wayne wasn't much into superheroes, at least not so far as we can tell. The Duke was known for helping establish the Western archetype of gruff cowboys, hardened lawmen, and valiant heroes who ...
John Wayne had a yacht named Nor’wester John Wayne | Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images Wayne once had a 76-foot yacht in California over the course of the 1950s and 60s called the Nor ...