John Wayne was one of the biggest movie stars of all time, but there was one role he refused that could have altered the ...
Red River, Rio Bravo, Stagecoach ... other than the Ethan Edwards character. I always loved John Wayne’s performance in it, but I just never cared for the movie. It’s the kind of ’50s western I don’t ...
John Wayne’s most iconic collaborations were with director John Ford, most famously in their epic Westerns. The filmmaker was notorious for verbally attacking his actors on set to get a better ...
It’s like people now, they want to have a franchise of Superman or whatever these Marvel things are so they can make multiple movies on the same subject. But John Wayne had through the 40s ...
"The Green Berets," starring John Wayne, encountered scathing reviews upon its release in 1968. The rare movie supporting the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War at the time was ...
Even a star as iconic as John Wayne understood the ... thing as I’ve ever been in,” groused Wayne. (Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Interestingly, at this time, Wayne wasn’t just playing a college student ...
The film has largely been forgotten as far as both John Wayne and Roy Rogers’ greater filmographies are concerned, but at the time, the flick was one of the few Westerns nominated for multiple Oscars.
Considering his wise breadth of Westerns over the span of about 50 years, one might think that John Wayne worked with just about everybody, and, for the most part, you'd be right. But there’s ...