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...
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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... Read Full Story
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