The iconic, career-ending death scene that John Wayne filmed for The Shootist nearly happened 26 years earlier, via a 1950 ...

The Searchers featured an appalling mistake by Ward Bond that had to be covered up for years to avoid the "terrible temper" and physical attack of director John Ford. When the filmmaker finally found ...

John Wayne's on-screen image and name have been synonymous with Hollywood's Golden Age, though it's not the name the Western icon was born with.

Wayne’s association with the so-called ‘threat’ was nothing if not interesting: he once found himself on the receiving end of an FBI investigation when J Edgar Hoover thought he was making a communist ...

“I called him aside and said, ‘Duke, do you think you could direct this picture better than I can?'” he recalled. “With Duke, you have to let him know who’s the boss on set. We went back, and Duke ...

John Wayne was a great Hollywood cowboy, but when it came to his money, he couldn't shoot straight.(DMN Archives / AP) If all-powerful movie star John Wayne can lose his life savings not once but ...

Actor John Wayne often defines the Western movie genre. He also stands as an American cultural icon for many folks around the country. However, Wayne didn’t serve in the military, which always ...

But John Wayne is here. You can feel him in the wind, you can see him through the mirages, in the clumps of cottonwoods, you can sense him where the streams cut the rolling land.