The Big Trail' actor John Wayne gained massive fame, and here's why director Raoul Walsh thinks he caught on the way he did. Before The Big Trail, Wayne worked in the props department at Fox.

director Raoul Walsh saw a star quality in him and decided to cast John Wayne in The Big Trail, making it his first leading role in any movie. The Big Trail was a revolutionary film at the time as ...

Although he's known as the most iconic western movie actor of all-time, John Wayne’s path to stardom ... but early films like ...

John Wayne worked with Dean Martin, Kirk Douglas, Jimmy Stewart and Katharine Hepburn, but none of them were his favourite co-star. His favourite may surprise.

John Wayne is a titan of Hollywood’s Golden Age, but everyone has to start somewhere. Four years before getting his big break in 1930’s The Big Trail, Marion Morrison – who went by Duke Morr ...