John Wayne was one of the biggest movie stars of all time, but there was one role he refused that could have altered the ...

John Wayne earned a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for one of his most iconic roles, as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits, in Allan Dwan's SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Haunted by ...

From "The Searchers" to "Rio Bravo," John Wayne is synonymous ... The ceremony in question saw Wayne and Broderick Crawford receive nominations for Allan Dwan's "Sands of Iwo Jima" and Robert ...