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  • John Wayne squinting Big Jake

    John Wayne Wasn't Going To Let His Age Hold Back His Stunt Work On Big Jake

    By Travis Yates

    Even though Wayne's career was winding down by the time Big Jake was filmed, it didn't stop The Duke from doing most of his own stunt work.

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  • John Wayne in The Shootist

    John Wayne Fought A Constant Battle Behind The Scenes Of The Shootist

    By Anthony Crislip

    The Shootist is a touching elegy to a long-gone version of the Old Wes

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  • John Wayne sitting against rock True Grit

    True Grit's TV Rights Sparked A Legal Battle With John Wayne

    By Travis Yates

    True Grit would win John Wayne his first Oscar, thus making the film much more valuable when it came to selling the TV rights.

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  • True Grit John Wayne

    John Wayne Wasn't Going To Let A Stuntman Be The Last Thing True Grit Audiences See

    By Jeremy Smith

    Chuck Roberson was John Wayne's longtime stunt double, but one pivotal moment in True Grit was all Duke.

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  • John Wayne She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    Going Outside Of His 'Image' Gave John Wayne His Favorite Performance Of His Career

    By Jeremy Smith

    As director John Ford said of his frequent leading man: 'I didn't know the big son of a b**** could act.'

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  • John Wayne as Henry, the Ringo Kid is seen in closeup in Stagecoach

    Why John Wayne And John Ford Briefly Clashed On The Set Of Stagecoach

    By Joe Roberts

    John Wayne butted heads with John Ford during production on Stagecoach, but that was seemingly all part of the legendary director's plan for the actor.

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  • John Wayne's Breck Coleman sits on a horse in The Big Trail

    The Movie Stunt That Almost Killed John Wayne Before His Rise To Fame

    By Joe Roberts

    John Wayne nearly died while making a biblical epic. He survived, but the stunt claimed multiple lives and resulted in many injuries.

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  • John Wayne stands in a doorway as John T. Chance in Rio Bravo

    John Wayne Named His Son After His Most Iconic Western Character

    By Jeremy Smith

    John Ford's The Searchers is widely considered one of the best Westerns ever made, and John Wayne even named his son after his character in the movie.

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  • John Wayne's J. B. Books looks down against a blue sky in The Shootist

    John Wayne Broke One Of His Biggest Rules For This Movie

    By Joe Roberts

    John Wayne had a rule for the characters he played that he ended up breaking for the gritty 1974 Dirty Harry knock-off McQ.

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  • Jeff Bridges The Last Picture Show

    Big Jake Could Have Been A Team Up Between A Young Jeff Bridges And John Wayne

    By Jeremy Smith

    A new legend and an older legend almost crossed paths in a non-legendary movie.

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  • John Wayne's Breck Coleman stands in a crowd in The Big Trail

    How John Wayne Got His Name (And The Duke Nickname)

    By Joe Roberts

    John Wayne was not born John Wayne. Here's how the legendary actor got his stage name, as well as his famous nickname Duke.

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  • John Wayne and Gail Russell in Angel and the Badman

    Becoming A Producer Brought Big Changes To The Way John Wayne Approached His Films

    By Jeremy Smith

    Wayne made plenty of red-blooded, patriotic films, but it says something that the first film he produced was the pacifistic Angel and the Badman.

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  • John Wayne commands the troops as Davy Crockett in The Alamo

    John Wayne Only Directed Two Movies In His Career (And They're Both War Stories)

    By Jeremy Smith

    Western film icon John Wayne was an incredibly prolific actor, but he only tried his hand at directing twice and wound up telling war stories both times.

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  • J.B. Brooks looks off camera contemplating his mortality in his home in The Shootist

    John Wayne Had One Unique Condition For His Last Western

    By Rusteen Honardoost

    Knowing The Shootist would be his last film, John Wayne insisted on an unusual condition that would ensure the Western honored more than just him.

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  • John Wayne The Big Trail

    How Gary Cooper Indirectly Gave John Wayne His First Big Hollywood Break

    By Jeremy Smith

    When Gary Cooper said no, a young man named Marion Morrison said yes.

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  • John Wayne in Stagecoach

    John Wayne Started His Career In Show Business By (Literally) Knocking Over John Ford

    By Anthony Crislip

    A macho hazing ritual.

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  • Some of John Wayne's most famous roles

    The 27 Best John Wayne Films, Ranked

    By Jack Hawkins

    With his distinctive gait, easy drawl, and tough morality, John Wayne is both a Hollywood icon and the star of these classic films.

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  • John Wayne in The Quiet Man

    How John Wayne Helped Revolutionize The Art Of On-Screen Fighting

    By Drew Tinnin

    Working with director Robert Bradbury, The Duke found a much safer way to shoot a realistic fight scene.

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  • John Wayne and Eiko Ando in The Barbarian and the Geisha

    John Wayne Considered Working With John Huston One Of The Biggest Mistake Of His Career

    By Shae Sennett

    'I was in too deep to get out.'

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  • John Wayne Fort Apache

    John Wayne Saved His Young Co-Star From The Wrath Of John Ford On The Set Of Fort Apache

    By Jeremy Smith

    John Wayne knew exactly how John Ford operated, so he helped an inexperienced John Agar deal with him.

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  • John Wayne True Grit

    John Wayne Considered True Grit To Be His 'First Decent Role In 20 Years'

    By Jeremy Smith

    Rooster Cogburn is obviously great, but we have a bit of a bone to pick with Mr. Wayne about the timeline here.

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  • John Wayne as Tom Doniphon wearing a cowboy hat in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    What Made John Ford So Special, According To John Wayne

    By Joe Roberts

    John Wayne and John Ford made a lot of movies together, and while their working relationship could be contentious, Wayne's respect for Ford was genuine.

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  • The Alamo John Wayne

    Warner Bros. Playing Financial Games With Films Goes Back To The Days Of John Wayne

    By Jeremy Smith

    'I still don't know, and I don't think anybody else does, how they do it.'

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  • True Grit, Jef Bridges

    Jeff Bridges Dangerously One-Upped John Wayne In One Of True Grit's Best Scenes

    By Debopriyaa Dutta

    Unlike John Wayne, Jeff Bridges performed True Grit's famous climactic action scene for real in the Coen Brothers' version of the Western.

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  • Harrison Ford The Frisco Kid

    John Wayne Could Have Cost Harrison Ford His Chance To Work With Gene Wilder On The Frisco Kid

    By Jeremy Smith

    Ford battled Wayne for the part and won, though Wayne's presence was still felt on set.

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  • John Wayne as John Mason and Sheila Terry as Janet Carter look shocked as they stand side by side in Haunted Gold

    John Wayne Only Made One Horror Movie In His Entire Career

    By Joe Roberts

    John Wayne not only starred in his lone horror movie early on in his career, but it was also a remake that helped establish his leading man chops.

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  • John Wayne Claire Trevor Stagecoach

    John Wayne Named These Three Roles As His Favorite To Play

    By Jeremy Smith

    John Wayne's three favorite movie roles - which he revealed on the Phil Donahue Show in 1976 - may surprise you.

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  • John Wayne in The Searchers

    John Wayne's Attempt To Break Out Of Westerns Led To One Of The Lowest Points In His Career

    By Travis Yates

    'In six months exhibitors wouldn't touch a John Wayne [movie] with a 10-foot pole.'

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  • Dennis Hopper as Moon holding a teacup in True Grit (1969)

    John Wayne Broke One Of His Biggest Rules For This Iconic Dennis Hopper Western

    By Joe Roberts

    John Wayne usually followed a list of rules for his films, but for True Grit, which featured a young Dennis Hopper, he decided to break one.

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  • True Grit John Wayne Glen Campbell

    Casting John Wayne Led To Some Strict Rules On The Set Of True Grit

    By Jeremy Smith

    You couldn't talk about two things on the set of John Wayne's Oscar-winning film.

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