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When you find yourself in Fort Worth, you can stop by a museum dedicated to one of America's greatest actors.
John Wayne might not have been a Texas native, but he always had a fondness for the Lone Star State.
"He's done a lot of movies about Texas and certainly about American heritage," says son Patrick Wayne, who became a Hollywood actor in his own right, "and the core values of what it means to be an American are strongly felt here down in Texas."
In the Fort Worth Stockyards, you can… [Read More]
One of our long time members @itdo has published a book titled: John Wayne Was Here: The Film Locations and Favorite Places of an American Icon which is available online at Amazon.com. I would encourage anyone interested in John Wayne to check out this book. It's certain to be a fascinating read.
Roland Schaefli (itdo) wrote:
It's been right here, on Dukewayne.com, that I got the inspiration to put this book together. I found that a
Members of the Friends of the Fort nonprofit will host a reception for Anita La Cava Swift at 4 p.m. July 13 at Darby Junior High School, 616 N. 14th St. The event will celebrate Swift’s time in Fort Smith and will include a screening of the 1969 John Wayne movie, “True Grit,” as well as a discussion on the film’s accuracy and influence on Fort Smith, said Floyd Robison, treasurer for the Friend of the Fort.
“We are excited about this because this is in line with the 50th anniversary of the… [Read More]
"Paramount Pictures has set Chap Taylor to script a drama inspired by the 1962 John Ford-directed Western classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which starred John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin. In the original, Stewart played an idealistic lawyer who tries to bring the rule of law to a lawless frontier town. Marvin played Valance, an outlaw headed for a showdown after the lawyer stands up to him. Wayne played a gunslinger who tries to teach
“Mad Anthony” Wayne raised a militia unit at the beginning of the Revolutionary War and participated in the invasion of Canada. He fought in the Battle of Trois-Rivières, and led forces at Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Independence. “Mad Anthony” Wayne fought at Brandywine in 1777, then harassed British General Howe as his troops marched towards Pennsylvania. He fought at Germantown, and quartered the winter at Valley Forge.
In 1778, Wayne attacked at the Battle of Monmouth, and in 1779, he led a… [Read More]
The two military bad-ass actors were featured in a 1992 Coors Light commercial.
R. Lee Ermey and John Wayne once shared some screen time together — kind of.
The two military bad-ass actors were featured in a 1992 Coors Light commercial.
Now, Wayne died in 1979, but footage of him was repurposed to make it look like he was in the commercial, which was a big deal at the time as the tech was relatively new, especially for a TV spot.
In the commercial, Ermey — who died Sunday at the age of 74… [Read More]
When John Wayne and Perry Como rolled into Colonial Williamsburg to film a Christmas special in 1978, one local boy tried hard to meet them and would hold on to the memory for decades.
Blake Patterson was about six years old in the fall of 1978, when Como and Wayne came to Williamsburg with a crew to shoot “Perry Como’s Early American Christmas,” a colonial-themed television program.
Patterson, a web developer who lives in Alexandria, didn’t know who Como was. But his father was a fan of… [Read More]
