John Wayne and Clint Eastwood are arguably the two greatest Western actors of all time, but a rift between them kept the duo ...

Years before Clint Eastwood or John Wayne (or even Gene Autry or Roy Rogers) came along, another actor reigned as the king of ...

There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves,” Wayne stated at the time. After several decades and countless Western ...

Marlon Brando won Best Actor but ... it slammed it. John Wayne, still fuming, reportedly criticized Brando for sending “some little unknown girl and dressing her up in an Indian outfit.” ...

Co-starring opposite John Wayne ... The young actor would do as Duke told him, but then director Howard Hawks would yell “Cut!” and tell him not to take the step. The Western star then told ...

Following the film’s success, Wayne received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination, which he really felt should have gone to his role in John Ford’s Western, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

The movie is True Grit, the 2010 adaptation of the 1969 classic originally led by John Wayne ... Best Actor for his amazing performance." A critic hailed True Grit as the pinnacle of Western ...

9. Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948) Epic Western from a master filmmaker that gave John Wayne the type of part in which he excelled, as the stubborn, driven rancher determined to see a cattle drive ...

Manufacturers of bone combs were paying $1.25 for Indian ... and John Wayne, a smoke-wagon Siegfried, represented in different ways a more mature attempt on the part of the western hero to behave ...

but not every star is a popular actor. That dichotomy has been at the heart of Hollywood since the beginning, and John Wayne made a few enemies when he reigned as the biggest draw in the business and ...