John Wayne’s Rio Bravo released 65 years ago this week and his much younger leading lady co-star Angie Dickinson shared how “adorable” Duke was on set. Back in 1959, John Wayne made a patriotic comeback to Westerns in Rio Bravo. After John Ford’s The Searchers, Duke had made an effort to move away from the […]
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Ann-Margret remembers John Wayne’s determination to stay strong, despite his declining health. Elvis’ Viva Las Vegas co-star shared how Duke gave her the confidence she lacked on the set of The Train Robbers, which is on ITV4 this afternoon. By the 1970s, John Wayne was coming towards the end of his career as a Hollywood […]
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Academy Award nominee Stuart Whitman, who had a half-century career playing rugged tough guys, died Monday at age 92. The actor, known for working alongside John Wayne in a series of Westerns, had been suffering from skin cancer, according to TMZ. He died at his home in California. “Old Hollywood lost another one of its […]
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Andrew V. McLaglen, a specialist with the sagebrush who directed John Wayne in five films and helmed scores of episodes of the classic CBS Western series Gunsmoke, Have Gun — Will Travel and Rawhide, has died. He was 94. McLaglen, whose father was the Oscar-winning British actor Victor McLaglen, died Saturday at his Friday Harbor […]
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Shirley Temple Black would become an actress-turned-ambassador as an adult, accepting posts in Ghana andf Czechoslovakia. Be assured, however, she always will be most lovingly remembered as our most successful child actress. (Surely one of you knows all the lyrics to “On the Good Ship Lollypop!” Or can name the film in which she sang […]
Read MoreMaybe, just maybe, the curse is finally off Bruce Dern’s career — the curse that has plagued him for four decades as the guy who shot John Wayne. After all, the laurels are mounting these days for the 77-year-old actor, thanks to his performance in Nebraska as a cantankerous dad who believes he has struck […]
Read MoreScreen legend Maureen O’Hara’s latest act may be her happiest in years. According to O’Hara’s biographer and manager Johnny Nicoletti, her 93rd birthday bash has followed on in the spirit of the highly successful trip she took in May to visit the John Wayne Birthplace Museum in Winterset, Iowa. O’Hara moved to Boise, Idaho late […]
Read MoreIrish screen legend Maureen O’Hara (92) has said her visit this weekend to the birthplace of her friend and acting co-star John Wayne in Iowa will be her last public appearance. She announced the end to her public life as her family said they had hired new Irish lawyers to seek more information about her […]
Read MoreLOS ANGELES — Harry Carey Jr., a character actor who starred in such Westerns as “3 Godfathers” and “Wagon Master,” has died. He was 91. His daughter, Melinda Carey, said he died Thursday of natural causes surrounded by family at a hospice facility in Santa Barbara, Calif. “He went out as gracefully as he came […]
Read MoreSix months ago, the one-time Beach Boys frontman and country singer par excellence was told he had Alzheimer’s. Now he talks exclusively about his music and his memories. In November 2003, Glen Campbell drove his BMW into another car in Phoenix, Arizona. He then left the scene of the incident and was later picked up […]
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