My happy birthday greetings to Mr. Marion Michael Morison [read as JOHN WAYNE] Vanity

May 25,2005 | Myself

[TMSuchman]

Hello All; This is an early birthday greeting to the Duke. I will not be able to be here on line on May 26, due to a fight with the local "jack-booted" thugs in our county. So I will post my greeting today a day early!

Please post your favorite momory & or movie on this thread.

Respectfully

[Borges]

His Centennial is in 2 years. In the last years of his life, Steven Spielberg offered him the role of General Stillwell in '1941'. Wayne turned it down after reading the script which he felt was an anti-American farce. It's a shame it would have been a cool way for him to go out.

[GVnana]

Seen 'em all. Love 'em all. The Cowboys.

[meandog]

"Stagecoach," "Rio Bravo," "The Quiet Man," "Sands of Iwo Jima," "Harm's Way"

[Callahan]

Don't forget "The Searchers."

[jscd3]

"Stagecoach," "Rio Bravo," "The Quiet Man," "Sands of Iwo Jima," "Harm's Way"

All really good, but don't forget the two that REALLY matter:

The Searchers

The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance

The two best westerns ever made. Period. They are the standard against which all others are measured...and against which all others come up short.

The Searchers is so good that even my 13 year old daughter (who HATES westerns) thinks that it is great film.

[Mr. K]

WAaaaaaaallll I think I'm a-gonna wrassle me a grizzly, an' kiss me a purty gal~!

[Callahan]

My favorite Duke moment:

While visiting Harvard, some hippy punk tried to goad Wayne by and asking about his toupee. "It's real hair alright," said Duke, "It aint mine, but it's real."

[meandog]

Yeah, loved The Searchers...the best scene is the end when the Duke picks up a terrified Natalie Wood and, instead of killing her as he indicated through the movie, says "Let's go home, Debbie."

[Callahan]

"Feo fuerte y formal."

Ride on, Duke.

[meandog]

I also believe "The Shootist" is one of the top 10 westerns.

[mewzilla]

[Millee]

“I aim to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. What'll it be?”.
“I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.”
“Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!”

[Old Mountain man]

"Where ya goin'?"
"To rob a train!" Last line in The Train Robbers.

[Pompah]

" I WON'T BE WRONGED, I WON'T BE INSULTED, I WONN'T BE LAID A HAND UPON, I DON'T DO THESE THINGS TO OTHER PEOPLE, AND I REQUIRE THE SAME FROM THEM. J.B. BOOKS THE SHOOTIST

[bruin66]

The two best westerns ever made. Period.

I submit, for your consideration High Noon the first of the "modern" westerns. IMHO, of course...

[Big Digger]

You people are sad. John Wayne made movies, period. If you enjoyed them, and reminiscing floats your boat, fine. But an American hero, sorry, no sale. Wayne was a movie hero, and a real world fraud.

[TMSuchman]

You may have your ideas, but keep that up "thems fighten words" We are reminsening about a movie hero of ours, so if you don't like it, please leave the thread!

[TMSuchman]

BTW if you would have every read the book by his wife Pilar, you would have understood that he was a very human man with all of it's frailties. But he stood for what WE think is good & decent! He was a true conservative in all of it's meaning, He stood for the troops when it was not fashionable to,cared for the environment [in fact he held 2 patents on oil recycling that are still required for all large ocean going ships today], employed his family [all of them] in his movie companies, cared for his parents [even though he did not like his mother] and a lot more.

So sir, if you do not like this thread like I said before don't read it & shove off!

[Finny]

I live in So. Cal, near Newport Beach, which was John Wayne's home for many years. Read in the local paper not too long ago some reminscences of locals' experiences with John Wayne. One woman wrote how many years ago, she had taken her brood of children to Penney's to buy some school clothes. Wayne was apparently not an ostentatious consumer, but rather drove fairly every-day cars and shopped at everyday kinds of stores, like Penney's.

Anyway, she's shopping with her kids, her hands full keeping track of them, and looked to see where one of her little boys had wandered off to. She looked around and saw that he had approached John Wayne, who happened to also be shopping in the store. The little boy was standing in front of Wayne, looking up at him in awe. The mother, a sensible woman, decided not to bother Wayne herself; meanwhile, Wayne was looking around, trying to catch the eye of whoever this kid's mom was, just to make sure she was in the area. He saw the mom, they nodded to each other briefly to communicate that she knew where her little boy was and was keeping an eye on him, so Wayne relaxed and chatted with the kid, putting a hand on the kid's head, smiling. It was a brief visit, and when the little boy came back to the mom, he had with him a signed business card given to him by John Wayne.

The mother remembered the experience as being a great example of Wayne's class and kindness, taking the time to talk to a little kid. I alwyas felt that the mom deserved a lot of credit, too, for not bothering Wayne and letting him and the little boy have a quiet moment together. Classy gal, classy guy.