Monday, March 05, 2007
Saddle Up Pilgrim
It's funny that they haven't made a bio-pic about John Wayne yet. Heck, they made one about Ray Charles within months of his death.
Instead, Paramount is coming out with some new box set DVD collections...including a True Grit special version. One of the greatest movies of all time in my view...
John Wayne: American Hero, Icon, Legend
Instead, Paramount is coming out with some new box set DVD collections...including a True Grit special version. One of the greatest movies of all time in my view...
John Wayne: American Hero, Icon, Legend
There ain't many left like him. Today, Tom Hanks comes about as close as you'd ever get to the old style professional actors of Hollywood's golden age.
I wonder what the town of Winterset is doing to celebrate his 100th Birthday?
The man who became the embodiment of the great American Western hero was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa. John Wayne first worked in the film business as a laborer on the Fox lot during summer vacations from U.S.C., which he attended on a football scholarship.True Grit indeed.
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