John Wayne

John Wayne

A community portal about John Wayne with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: John Wayne, popularly known as "The Duke," was an Academy Award winning, American film actor whose career began in silent movies in the 1920s... [more]

A community portal about John Wayne with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: John Wayne, popularly known as "The Duke," was an Academy Award winning, American film actor whose career began in silent movies in the 1920s. He was a major star from the 1940s to the 1970s. He is famous for his distinctive delivery and walk. While his acting didn't show great range, he was very effective within his limits. He featured heavily in Westerns and World War II epics, but he also made a wide range of films from various genres, biographies, romantic comedies, police dramas, and more. He epitomized a certain kind of rugged individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 13.

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Georgia-based full-service architecture and interior design firm Heery International has won commissioning of major improvement project for John Wayne Airport (JWA) in Orange County, California. Read Full Story
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An exploration of John Wayne's film career isn't complete without looking at Wayne's films from the 1930s, when he starred in a string of low-budget Westerns and action films. The 1934 movie Blue Steel is one of several Lone Star Productions Westerns (distributed by Monogram Pictures) that featured Wayne. Here's your opportunity to watch Blue Steel, and to learn more about this film and about the career of screen legend John Wayne. Enjoy Blue Steel! Read Full Story
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Screen legend John Wayne has a filmography that begins in 1926 and spans several decades. Wayne's film work in the 1930s includes several Westerns for Monogram Pictures (Lone Star Productions), including the 1935 movie Texas Terror. Here's your opportunity to watch John Wayne in a full-length version of Texas Terror, and to learn about this movie and the actors, producer and director. Enjoy the movie! Read Full Story
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By the 1940s John Wayne's film stardom was established. The 1947 Western, Angel and the Badman, was distributed by Republic Pictures, and marked Wayne's first experience as both film producer and film star. Learn more about Angel and the Badman, its cast and director, and watch this classic Western here, too. Enjoy the movie! Read Full Story
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John Wayne, who spent the 1930s working in low-budget films, received a big career break at the end of the decade when director John Ford insisted on casting Wayne in a starring role in a big-budget Western, Stagecoach. Released in 1939 by United Artists, Stagecoach launched John Wayne's career as a major film star. Stagecoach also received great critical acclaim and several Academy Award nominations, and earned Ford a New York Film Critics Award for Best Director. The American Film Institute in 2008 released a series of Top Ten film genre lists, and designated Stagecoach as ninth on its list of the 10 best ... Read Full Story
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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced an award of approximately $8.8 million for John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, California, for the construction of an inline baggage handling system at New Terminal C. The system will come on-line in late 2011 and enhances TSA's efforts to strengthen security at airports across the country.  
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US Airways will close a maintenance station at John Wayne Airport early next year as the airline slashes routes and lays off employees to plug the airline’s massive losses over the past year, the company announced this week.  
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From the good folks at John Wayne Airport: Commercial Airliner, Taking Off Buy From Art.com Airline passenger traffic at John Wayne Airport increased in August 2009 as compared to August 2008. In August 2009, the Airport served 833,962 passengers, an increase of 0.04% when compared to the August 2008 passenger traffic count of 833,655. Commercial Carrier flight operations increased [...]  
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The Coen Brothers are about to put up their Dukes by remaking John Wayne's 1969 Oscar winner. Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen are remaking the 1969 Western classic True Grit. John Wayne won an Oscar for playing the drunken, rascally Marshall Rooster Cogburn, who reluctantly assists a young girl in tracking down her father's murderer. The Coens are in talks with Jeff Bridges for the Cogburn role, Matt Damon for the part of a young Texas...  
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Warner Home Video will release John Wayne's The Green Berets as a Blu-ray DVD on January 5, 2010. The release will include the original trailer and vintage production featurette. Given the controversies that persist about the movie, it's a bit frustrating that there won't be any new special features covering the film's legacy. Wayne stirred up a hornet's nest among his political opponents when he released the film in 1968 at the height of the...  
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