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Lucille Ball Tops List of Dead Celebs NEW YORK – Lucille Ball is America’s most beloved dead star. The company that developed the “Q score” that broadcasters and advertisers quietly consult to measure a personality’s popularity has done a survey that tests the reputation of performers who have gone on to that big soundstage in […]

Each year Harris polls Americans about their favorite actors. The answers aren’t all that surprising – Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, George Clooney. Yet there at No. 7 – between Clint Eastwood and Denzel Washington – sits John Wayne, who was born in Winterset, Ia. Even though he’s been dead for 25 years, he […]

All Available for the First Time on DVD May 3 from Warner Home Video BURBANK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 23, 2005– The John Wayne Legendary Heroes Collection — featuring five classic films from the larger-than-life American hero — will debut on DVD May 3 from Warner Home Video. All five titles in the Collection, including “Blood Alley,” […]

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Paramount Home Entertainment and Paramount’s television distribution entities have entered into an agreement with Batjac Productions, the production company founded by John Wayne, for worldwide DVD and television distribution. The agreement was announced today by Thomas Lesinski, President, Paramount Pictures, Worldwide Home Entertainment, Joel Berman, President, Paramount Worldwide Television […]

WASHINGTON – He crossed “Rio Bravo” and “Red River.” He fought at “Fort Apache” and on “The Sands of Iwo Jima.” He was “The Quiet Man” and won an Oscar as Rooster Cogburn in “True Grit,” but everyone knew him as the Duke. Next month, movie hero John Wayne will get his own postage stamp. […]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Legendary film producer Hal B. Wallis had quite a run in Hollywood’s salad days. The former publicist and onetime protege of Jack Warner worked with some of the biggest names in the business, and his name was associated with some first-class films, not the least of them “Casablanca.” He talked […]

Wayne Flies over “The O.C.” Fri Jun 11, 1:15 PM ET Add Television – E! Online to My Yahoo! By Sarah Hall Looks like John Wayne (news) has got more staying power than The O.C.’s fictional crew of tawny teens. Two days after an Orange County supervisor made the ill-advised suggestion that John Wayne Airport […]

LOS ANGELES – In 1939, an Irish miss of 18 landed in Hollywood not knowing what to expect. Her education came swiftly as she was thrust into stardom with her first movie and became a pawn in the big-studio system. With customary frankness, Maureen O’Hara recounts her life story in “‘Tis Herself,” written with John […]

Kim Darby has many memories of the time she spent working with John Wayne. She only wishes she had more. Darby was barely 21 when she starred with him in the 1969 film “True Grit.” She was going through a divorce at the time and brought her newborn daughter to the set each day. Amid […]