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Do you remember John Wayne? A man of outstanding personality, one of the most famous screen cowboys of all time or just the Duke, he still remains one of the USA's favorite actors. Here are some little-known facts about John Wayne.
#1: He was an avid chess player
Wayne played almost everywhere, often taking his miniature chess board with him.
#2: His real name was Marion Mitchell Morrison and Wayne didn't like it as he thought it to be feminine-sounding
His first nickname was "Duke", the same as his favorite dog's name. Starting his acting career, John Wayne choose his new name together with the Fox Studios team. Anyway, John always preferred to be called "Duke". He said John Wayne was only his TV personality.
#3: John Wayne became an actor by accident
As a USC student, he used to be a surfer for a long time, but quit after sustaining a serious shoulder injury. Marion Morrison lost his football scholarship and found a job as a property-man at Fox Studios. Three years after he got his first leading role.
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#4: John Wayne as a bookworm
He adored Agatha Christie's works, but his two favorite novels were The White Company (1891) and Sir Nigel (1906) by Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle.
#5: He was once a sports journalist
Being a student, John was a talented sportsman. But he also made good progress in his classes. Young John Wayne wrote sports reports for a school newspaper and was the president of the Latin Society! By the way, he wrote his articles under the pen-name M.M.M.
#6: Joseph Stalin once ordered to assassinate John Wayne for his anti-communist position
The man hired to kill the actor was intercepted by the FBI.
#7: He was actually bald
John Wayne's hair started to come off at the beginning of the 1940s, so he started wearing a hairpiece from 1948. He never denied it. “It’s not phony. It’s real hair. Of course, it’s not mine, but it’s real” he said.
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I and my Dad knew John Wayne very well and the two women he also married. Since my Dad was in charge of movies and writing daily news paper and Hollywood reports John had him come to his home and then the airport was named after him too.
An actor that you couldn't get sick of any of his movies the way he walked with that swagger and the saying "That'll Be the Day" also in his movies they all weren't action a lot had comical touch like McLintock Rooster Cogburn,Hatari,North To Alaska, that one is one of favourites
He was working as a propertuy man in a pirate's movie filmed near Santa Catalina island,. when the leading lady fell overboard. While all the xcast watches in awe, he dived and brought her up to be rescued. Director Raouls Walsh said that the movies needed REAL heroes, like him and not pansies. He made "Stagecoach" but then filmed lots of two-reelers before becoming a real movie star.
He got that bracelet, he wore frequently, from the people of Vietnam while filming or shortly after filming the "Green Berets". It was a gift to him & he valved it highly. He can be seen wearing it in many of his films.
This brilliant Actor was always my favourite I will never understand why the Alamo although wasn’t the complete true story which he produced directed and starred in was not a box office hit must have seen the film lots and lots of times nether the less the man is a legend R I P
Shaun O'Donoghue, It's true--My Dad was in the Marines and he said they had them drive threw after the bomb went off (not sure how long after} and they were behind hills of sand, with their backs turned and capes thrown over their heads--and went it went off he could see the bones in his hand. You tell me that didn't contribute to a lot of health problems. Mistakes were made and they didn't know enough and sent these men into something that changed their lives forever. My Dad had problems and contributed to an early death. Guinea pigs is what I called it.
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