John Wayne starred alongside Stewart Granger in the 1960 Western, North to Alaska, which proved to be the funniest movie of his career, but also often underrated.

John Wayne was reportedly in favor of the idea, but an agreement was never reached because Wayne only offered the writer $10,000 for the script, which was less than what Bowers wanted for it.

It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy quite like John Wayne. Getting his start in B-movies in the 1930s, Wayne ...