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American actor, director, and producer John Wayne (1907–1979) began working on films as an extra, prop man and stuntman, mainly for the Fox Film Corporation. He frequently worked in minor roles with director John Ford and when Raoul Walsh suggested him for the lead in The Big Trail (1930), an epic Western shot in an early widescreen process ...
Marion Robert Morrison [1] [a] (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed "the Duke", was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.
War drama: MGM [340] Those Three French Girls: Harry Beaumont: Fifi D'Orsay, Reginald Denny: Comedy: MGM [341] Those Who Dance: William Beaudine: Monte Blue, Lila Lee, Betty Compson: Crime: Warner Bros. [342] Three Faces East: Roy Del Ruth: Constance Bennett, Erich von Stroheim: War/Romance: Warner Bros. [343] The Three Sisters: Paul Sloane ...
John Wayne, Virginia Brown Faire, George "Gabby" Hayes: United States: traditional Western The Man from Utah: Robert N. Bradbury: John Wayne, Polly Ann Young, Anita Campillo: United States: traditional Western 1935: Alias John Law: Robert N. Bradbury: Bob Steele, Buck Connors, Earl Dwire: United States: traditional Western Annie Oakley: George ...
The Great Battles of the Civil War (TV series 1994) Sherman's March (1986) Civil War Combat (TV Series 2000-2003) Gettysburg: 3 days of Destiny (2004) [citation needed] 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed Women (2006), TV, recounting the Battle of Antietam; Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: The Cost of Freedom (2006) [citation needed]
The series was the only one of its kind to be specifically named and ranked in contemporary polls of the top Western film stars. From 1937 to the end of the series in 1943, the Motion Picture Herald consistently ranked the series in its top 10, reaching a peak of fifth place in 1938, when a pre-Stagecoach John Wayne was the series lead. [6]
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During the 1930s, after starring in The Big Trail (1930), its subsequent commercial failure meant that Wayne was relegated to minor roles in A-pictures, or starring, with his name over the title, in many low-budget Poverty Row Westerns, mostly at Monogram Pictures and serials for Mascot Pictures Corporation, such as The Shadow of the Eagle. [5 ...