Posted on 03/30/2014 11:07:03 PM PDT by kingattax
Sorry! I don’t know Tombstone. I think the last modern western I saw was Chisum, lol!
I was going to ignore your typical freeper rant until you got to the coup de grace about “lousy” acting. You are a lousy judge of acting. In fact, I think you probably have never appeared in an acting class or taken a film course in your life - but correct me if I am wrong. Next, I’d like your opinion on ballet theater followed up by your opinion on the last staging of Aida at the Met.
Wayne was one of the greatest of film actors. That is one of his enduring legacies. Embarrassing yourself here at FR will never change that.
You will see the great silent screen beauty, Louise Brooks, in one of his 3 Mesquiteer movies. She was way down on her luck at the time she made it, fell for the Duke, but I don’t think anything ever happened on that front. I had an old grainy videotape of it which got lost in one of our many moves. So pleased to read someone’s post who really knows his stuff!
“At least none of them were “Carlos Danger.”
Kirsten Powers buddy.
The Mesquiteers movie with Louise Brooks is entitled “Overland Stage Raiders” (1938), and the print quality of that one on the new Olive dvd is probably the best of the lot. Absolutely stunning print. Probably my favorite of Wayne’s Mesquiteers movies (which run from hot to cold), too. Truthfully, I never thought Wayne really fit into the Mesquiteers series too well, since his personality was a bit too much like Ray Corrigan already. Corrigan and Bob Livingston might not have liked each other in real life, but the chemistry of their prickly rivalry worked, moreso than when Wayne joined the series, taking the place of Livingston.
Never got to meet Brooks, but I did meet a few of Wayne’s 1930s leading ladies over the years, like Muriel Evans, Cecilia Parker, and Adrian Booth (aka Lorna Gray). Didn’t ask any of them about Wayne, though!
Yep, Overland Stage Raiders, that’s it.
My brother, a Wayne expert, would probably love to talk to you. Unfortunately, he doesn’t do Free Republic.
“We were close friends with him and his wife Pilar.”
My wife worked in downtown Costa Mesa for several years, and would see him at the dry cleaners on E. 17th St.
He would acknowledge recognizing her, and exchange pleasantries.
We partied with them at the Istmus of Catalina throu the 60s and 70s.
We also knew the family from Glendale where he was from before he moved to Balboa.
Cheap shot!
As a kid and a football fan, one of the toughest men I ever saw was a guy named Marion...
Marion Motley, NFL Hall of Fame.
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