Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in Sands of Iwo Jima, a movie reenacting it. At 42, the Hollywood actor felt he was too old to play Sgt John M Stryker, and at one ...
John Wayne was furious when caught using an oxygen mask on the set of The Sons of Katie Elder, but his co-star Dean Martin ...
W hen thinking of John Wayne, it’s nearly impossible not to picture him as the no-nonsense cowboy in the Western genre — the ...
In her new book, “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine,” Alissa Wilkinson paints the famously reserved author as an unabashed fan of Hollywood, especially the ...