"Duke Wayne symbolized just this, the force of the American will to do what is right in the world. He could have left no greater legacy."
Ronald Reagan
“Several years were to pass before I could watch Duke’s movies without crying. Gradually, the pain of losing him faded, and I was able to think about what he meant to me and the country he loved so much. In that time, amazingly, his popularity continued to grow, and is still growing.”
- John Wayne: My Life with The Duke by Pilar Wayne
John Ford-Dreaming of The Quiet Man. A documentary with rare footage, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the film. Gala screening on May 25th at the John Wayne birthday celebrations in his hometown, Iowa. In cinemas next June.
On the set of Horse Soldiers, 1959, Wayne and Holden are bemused as Ford gets all the attention from fans
Duke roughhousing with Michael (left) and Patrick at home in Encino. December 1942
With director James Edward Grant and son Michael
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http://johnwayne-thealamo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=720
Duke with second wife Chata and children from his first marriage : Michael, Toni, Patrick, Melinda. Early 1950s
“Now you just get your cotton-pickin’ hands off my cotton-pickin’ thing.”
‘The way he lifted his eyes and wrinkled the top of his brow-that signal in his films that told us he’d had enough and that the action was about to start. He created that for the camera and never used it off-screen.’ Maureen O’Hara
‘I’m a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger, and a kisser-that’s my nature’. John Wayne.
With Aissa on the set of The Alamo, 1960
