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Excerpt from an article found in the New York Times: “As General Motors is painfully aware, no car seems to have lost so much of its cool as the Cadillac sedan, which once held popular culture in its thrall. Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, John Wayne and Roy Rogers drove Cadillacs. For Elvis, buying them seemed […]

One afternoon while playing cards at the Lakeside Golf Club of Hollywood, actors Forrest Tucker and John Mitchum, the brother of Robert Mitchum, persuaded John Wayne to ride into a recording studio and narrate John Mitchum’s patriotic poetry over musical accompaniment. Mitchum, who died last week at 82, was a cowboy poet who appeared in […]

From the ashes of Sept. 11 arise the manly virtues. Peggy Noonan Friday, October 12, 2001 12:01 a.m. EDT A few weeks ago I wrote a column called “God Is Back,” about how, within a day of the events of Sept. 11, my city was awash in religious imagery-prayer cards, statues of saints. It all […]

(Los Angeles)Burt Kennedy, a writer-director of movie and TV westerns who worked with cowboy stars ranging from John Wayne to James Garner, died on Thursday at age 78, associates said. Kennedy, who was born into a travelling stage act known as “The Dancing Kennedys” and was once hired by Wayne to be a script writer, […]

THE HARRIS POLL #72, December 6, 2000 While the Presidential Race remains uncertain, Americans have once again voted for Harrison Ford as their favorite movie star for the third year running. Mr. Ford, who portrayed a heroic President in the action-packed “Air Force One”, ranked highest among women and whites. John Wayne and Mel Gibson […]

In the late 1950s, John Wayne hocked just about everything he owned to fulfill his dream of making a movie about the Alamo. To say he threw himself into the project is an understatement. He produced the film, directed and starred in it. Wayne had such high hopes, he even dared to think that it […]

This Ford Supercab “The Old Duke”, was originally owned by John Wayne (born in Winterset, Iowa in 1907). It was especially built for him in Canada by Ford, with a one ton chassis and stainless steel gears.