Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
Joan Didion fell in love with movies as a girl but would sour on Hollywood after working there, Alissa Wilkinson writes in ...
One of John Wayne's Last Westerns Was Also an Odd First for the Genre Icon
As one of the final motion pictures made by the Duke in the early 1970s, Big Jake is a great film. While many may emphasize the film's particularly violent tone (in fact, this author has before), one ...
John Wayne ‘exploded in rage’ when caught using oxygen mask on set with Dean Martin
John Wayne was furious when caught using an oxygen mask on the set of The Sons of Katie Elder, but his co-star Dean Martin ...
The Clint Eastwood movie that was made to correct a John Wayne classic: “It lacked all the guts”
Clint Eastwood and John Wayne were western stars from very different eras who played characters with very different moral compasses.
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John Wayne was in so much pain he couldn't sleep on The Train Robbers with Ann-Margret
In 1973, aged 65-years-old, he had been living with one lung for ... Despite his health problems on the movie, Wayne refused to delay filming and strived forward. Ann-Margret had fond memories ...