Welcome to the JWMB!! My dad introduced me to Duke movies as a kid, my favorite is the searchers.
Posts from Kevin in thread „How Did You Become A John Wayne Fan?“
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Hi Bill Walker and welcome to the JWMB! Glad you took the time to join.
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Welcome saperry50 to the JWMB!!
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Those where the good ol' days.
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My Dad took me to see True Grit and I was hooked. When TV started running westerns, we always made a point of watching them together
Same with me. My dad introduced me to westerns JW westerns to be exact.
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Tell us how you became a John Wayne fan!!
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Hi All,
Happy to be here, and I would love to share a couple of pictures from back in the day. The first is one of my Dad and Uncle DukeI love this photo! Duke looks cramped in the VW.
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Welcome to the JWMB @DukeFan#1 glad you found is! My favorite Duke movie is The Searchers.
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@Bravo welcome. You've come to the right place for all things Duke & more.
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Very cool photos @chickiverson love seeing Duke in casual photos!!
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Ditto to what Mark posted! Welcome, make yourself at home here!
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Welcome aboard @LarryR glad you found us too.
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Hello everybody...my story is one you have heard many times before...my Father was a fan of his movies, and I remember watching them on British Television as a child....
Recently, decided to watch them all again...and all these memories came flooding back....damn...I'd forgotten just how good he was....
Found this site by accident while surfing for John Wayne photos...and think I may never leave...and I've just arrived !!!!!!Welcome RedRiverDee, your story is similar to mine, so I started a website.
Thanks for joining & being apart of our community!
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Hello all,
This is my first posting to the site, so talking about how I became a Wayne fan seemed a good place to start. To be honest, I'm pretty new to Wayne fandom. I'm only in my 20s and didn't grow up watching Wayne or even many westerns for that matter, but I'm currently in school to be a film historian and starting watching some Wayne westerns from the late 40s and 50s like Red River, the cavalry trilogy, Hondo, and others and got hooked. Especially in the academy, there is a pervasive idea that all of Wayne's work is virulently racist, sexist, imperialist, and any other "ist" you can throw in there, but when you go back and watch the movies there is so much complexity and nuance that often gets overlooked. So right now I'm working on a research project on the Duke's international appeal in the 1950s and what drew people around the world to Wayne fandom at the time. Speaking of which, anyone know a good way to get a look at international posters for Wayne's movies? Many of the studio archives in LA don't have those advertising materials. Anyway, glad to be here, and I look forward to posting again sometime.rmeeuf welcome to the site, and I'm glad you posted.
There is this prevailing attempt to dis-credit Duke on so many levels. What is truly amazing is that the harder the 'anti-duke' members of the industry try to dis-credit his works the more popular he seems. Almost 30 years out from his death he's still found in the top 10 in the Harris Poll, and named as the Top Money-Maker of All Time in the Quigley Publishing Company annual star poll.
As for the international posters I'm sure that there would be someone here on the board that could help you in that area.
Cheers,
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I was exposed to John Wayne movies at a very early age, it seemed that every holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and the 4th) my Dad would have some JW movie on the tube. I'm more of the Duke western nut
, than a military one. But I'll watch either one just the same.
