To: Ozguy1945
She was in the Hughes film
The Conqueror, starring John Wayne...and shot 130 miles from the atomic test site in Nevada.
They're still arguing whether the many cases of cancer in cast and crew were caused by radioactive contamination. Hayward was the object of the immortal Wayne line:
I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman. Delivered as only The Duke could...
To: Billthedrill
She was John Wayne's sweetheart in Reap the Wild Wind where neither were the leads. That movie and I'd Climb the Highest Mountain in which she played a rural minister's wife are my favorites of her films, as they are both quite different from her other movies.
15 posted on
03/14/2023 2:26:35 AM PDT by
skr
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To: Billthedrill
AH HA!
Mention her name and this movie is always the one which
comes to mind. Why always the first, unsure (John Wayne?
filming location?) That the two both died of cancer after
filming here, does make one wonder.
30 posted on
03/14/2023 8:16:13 AM PDT by
V K Lee
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