He became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, but John Wayne once saw acting as just ‘a brief detour’. His real dream was to become a film director. Cinema’s most iconic cowboy could have spent his days behind the camera had he not inadvertently stepped in front of one on a John Ford set, allowing the […]
Read MoreSTOELTING SISTERS SING WITH JOHN WAYNE’S DAUGHTER FOR MAUREEN O’HARA
Iowa’s Stacie and Carrie Stoelting sang the National Anthem with John Wayne’s daughter, Aissa Wayne. The trio sang for screen legend Maureen O’Hara at a sold-out event with hundreds in attendance. Maureen O’Hara visited Iowa on Saturday Winterset, John Wayne’s birthplace. For her final public appearance, the 92 year old actress visited Winterset to help […]
Read MoreJohn Wayne celebration a tribute to co-star Maureen O’Hara
You could be forgiven if you thought John Wayne was born in the back of a covered wagon headed west across the Plains or came into this world in a one-room thatched-roof house in a small Irish village. Such was the towering stature of this actor (larger than life, if you must) that there was […]
Read MoreMaureen O’Hara visits birthplace of friend John Wayne in last public outing
Irish 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 MoreJohn Wayne Birthday Celebration, May 27-28 2011
Winterset, Iowa: Legions of John Wayne fans from throughout the United States and Europe will be gathering at Duke’s Iowa birthplace this spring for Winterset’s annual John Wayne Birthday Celebration. This year’s event salutes the epic films best known as director John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy: Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande. […]
Read MoreProposal to twin Cong with John Wayne’s hometown
MOVES are gathering pace to twin Cong, with the town of Winterset, Iowa, in the United States, where John Wayne was born. The proposal is understood to have met with the approval of screen legend Maureen O’Hara who considered Wayne, whose nickname was ‘Duke’, her best friend. She starred in a number of other movies […]
Read More‘Quiet Man’ star Maureen O’Hara to visit John Wayne’s birthplace for annual celebration
Irish screen legend Maureen O’Hara,92, the flame-haired siren best known for her role opposite John Wayne in “The Quiet Man”, is joining the John Wayne Birthplace along with her family in Winterset, Iowa on May 24 & 25 for their annual John Wayne birthday celebration. O’Hara recently moved to Boise, Idaho to live with her […]
Read MoreOSCARS A GOOD NIGHT FOR WESTERN FANS
OSCARS A GOOD NIGHT FOR WESTERN FANS Hal Needham Tonight’s Academy Awards were shared among an unusually wide number of films, the result of a year with so many exceptional films. The highlights for Western fans? DJANGO UNCHAINED won Best Original Screenplay — Quentin Tarantino, and Best Supporting Actor — Christoph Waltz. LINCOLN won Best […]
Read MoreWestern character actor Harry Carey Jr. dies at 91
LOS 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 […]
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