The first time I walked through his birthplace in Winterset, all I could think was, "how could such a big man have been born in such a tiny little house?!"
:-)
Posted on 05/25/2007 6:44:54 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
If there's one thing I've learned from asking readers to send in stories about John Wayne, it's this: people really loved the guy.
Even if they didn't know him personally, many speak of brief encounters with his gentle ways and humorous personality as if they're talking about somebody they've known for years.
The Duke turns 100 years old Saturday, so we thought we'd celebrate with our very own birthday card.
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Thanks, I just watched it again and a few more.
I grew up watching his movies and he died the year I got out of the Army.
If I’m not mistaken that converted minesweeper of Wayne’s was moored from time to time just off a small island (Bay Island) in Newport-Balboa harbor. My parents vacationed there during the summer most every year.
Cleaning out an old vault a few years ago I found a Tom Mix film. Anyone remember him? Even got an old projector to work so we could watch it. Fiddled it with a long time to try and get the sound to work...before I realized there wasn’t any.
I discover that while troll YOU TUbe other night I been thinking about the Duke
There was cool documnetary got into psyche of John Wayne they saying probably reason why John marry Latina women was he has dysfunictal family life when he was child he want Mother figure
Also they think Duke didn’t died because of cigarrte smoke do you remember that movie Conqueor where he play Geingus Khan they think his cancer come from test site 100 miles away that US army used
They totally badmouth US army in this docuemntary
P 40 still you have that
Honey contact Library of Congress said you have Tom Mix movie they want restoraiton some of his film
OH MANNN you know what other day I hear somebody found in their attic Laurel and Hardy silent movie that hasn’t been seen in public for 80 years
That they found Rudolph Vatineo and Gloria Swanson movie Beyond the rocks in private collection they restore it I have on DVD
I tried a local group and they said that copies of that one still exist....so it is not a ‘lost’ film. They did advise not smoking around it though. :)
OH WOW that cool
Well I hear somebody discover recently maybe copy of Greta Garbo lost movie classic Divine Woman which you could see nine minute surving print on TCM sometime that just rumor I just hope it is true
When I think of lost film one film that make Go me GRRRR was Erich Von Streiem The Greed that movie was oringally 11 hours long cut to 122 minutes TCM restore with still and other stuff to 4 1/2 hours
I hear the restormed film version is little a bit like what Erich want
Erich Von Streiem I think for youngest on FR he play Butler on Sunset Blvd Max the butler
...There was, of course, one who took exception to the anti-hero Westerns of the 1960s, and that was John Wayne. He took the code into the 1960s and the 1970s with him. There is an interesting story that illustrates this point. When Don Siegel was directing the final showdown scene in The Shootist (1976), John Wayne’s last movie, the script called for Wayne’s character to shoot one of his antagonists in the back. John Wayne refused to do it. Siegel told him that Clint Eastwood had done it when he, Siegel, had directed Eastwood. John Wayne replied, “Well, I don’t do it.” The script was rewritten to accommodate John Wayne. A minor difference? No, ‘it’ makes all the difference in the world.
John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Randolph Scott, Roy Rogers, Joel McCrea, and countless other Western heroes represented a proud, long line of men who supported the code, the code of great knights, swashbucklers, and saints. That code is gone now. Not even our Christian leaders would recognize it, and if they did they would condemn it. But the code existed, and the American Western is one of our reminders that it did once exist...
Hopefully, a lot of things that would be lost to history pre-internet will make its way to the public domain post-internet. I had a lot of things I was just going to toss as old junk until I found out that they were worth a lot of money. :)
The movie exteriors were shot at [I believe] St. George, Utah, which was downrange from the nuclear test sites. They actually trucked sand from there to Hollywood when they did the sound stage work.
Although one of the Duke’s worst flicks [and one of the worst of all time], I must have seen that movie 15 times when I was a kid. John Wayne gave me an abiding interest in Mongol history, the Great Khans, and history in general.
Best Wayne Movies:
Overall: The Searchers, the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Fort Apache.
Best Fights: The Quiet Man, McLintock, Donovan’s Reef
Comedy: The Quiet Man, McLintock.
You know what TCM score the right of four LOST consider Lost RKO film from Pre Code history of Hollywood one of them was classic orignal Man to remember with Lionel Barrymore in remake this one start other dude
My fav line is McClintock was to one guy
I got touch of hangover Bureaucrat don’t push me
You know what I gather from McClintonck he was original Reagan econocmic conservative before it was fasionable he hate Big govt taxes and stuff
MAN Duke was original Reagan conservative
FYI AMC is doing 24 hours of John Wayne all day tomorrow starting at 5:45 AM EST in a few hours. TCM has been celebrating all week long and is airing a few as I type.
One of my favorite John Wayne quotes:
“Battles are fought by scared men who would rather be some where else...” - John Wayne - In Harms Way
Awesome story!
You know what do you know that Bruce Dern got death threats after Cowboys premire even Laura Dern mention that she got cruelly goof on by her classmates HA HA your daddy kill the Duke
That cruel saying to a child
The Sons Of Katie Elder.
The first time I walked through his birthplace in Winterset, all I could think was, "how could such a big man have been born in such a tiny little house?!"
:-)
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