As John Wayne usually played heroes, he needed an excellent villain to fight, and the best appeared in his movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. John Wayne movies are almost a genre of their own ...

Although he's known as the most iconic western movie actor of all-time, John Wayne’s path to stardom wasn’t as easy as it ...

Those two men are John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. Throughout their heralded careers, the two men never worked together, even though they once had the opportunity to do so. Instead, politics ...

In 1976, 69-year-old John Wayne offered his farewell to Hollywood and the Western genre withThe Shootist, which tells the tale of an aging gunfighter dying of cancer in Nevada at the turn of the ...

But one of America’s most enduring icons of toughness—John Wayne—remained stateside. Over the years, Wayne’s decision not to fight became a source of controversy. Though he was seen on ...

Although Stanley Kubrick wrote one Dr. Strangeloverole with John Wayne in mind, that did not stop the famous star from turning the part down. John Wayne’s Westerns remain his most famous movies ...

The acting collaboration between John Wayne and Vera Miles spanned five movies released between 1955 and 1968, but two ...

He's an all-American hero archetype despite this, and apparently, it's at least partially because Russell was channeling ...

This is what the biggest star of this period, John Wayne, did when he launched his Batjac Productions in 1952 with the godawful "Big Jim McLain," a political thriller that valorized House Un ...