Tag: Hollywood
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The Inside Story: What Led Steve McQueen to Decline a Role Opposite Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
The 1969 movie is considered one of the greatest Westerns ever made, going on to win four Oscars. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid followed the two real-life Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker played by Paul Newman and Harry Longabaugh portrayed by Robert Redford. In the movie, the two criminals are on the run…
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How Frank Sinatra and Kirk Douglas Extended Their Support to John Wayne in His Last Days!
John Wayne was honoured by Hollywood stars Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas and US Presidents in an incredibly touching way during his final days when he was dying from cancer. John Wayne suffered years of ill health during his final couple of decades. The heavy-drinking and smoking star had a lung and some ribs removed in…
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How Did the U.S. Government and Wayne’s Peers Acknowledge John Wayne in the Company of George Washington and Thomas Edison?
Movie actor John Wayne had an undeniable fervor for America and the values he aligned with it. As a result, he defended them the best that he could on the silver screen and with his interactions with those who served. Wayne earned an award for “paying his dues” to America in his own way, as…
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How Did Clint Eastwood’s Path Diverge from John Wayne’s Thanks to His Pivotal Decision to Take on This Role?
Clint Eastwood rose to fame with his ‘Man with no Name’ character in Sergio Leone’s popular Spaghetti Westerns, the Dollars trilogy. Eastwood starred in three films that made him a breakout star and has since been a part of many Westers, both as an actor and a director. While Eastwood’s role as the Man with…
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Surprising Revelation: Kevin Costner’s Unexpected Take on Western Films and Clint Eastwood’s Parallel Path
Taking a look at the rear-view mirror in the journey of Hollywood, everyone remembers the good old days when Western films dominated not just the US, but the entire world. And leading that charge was the legendary Clint Eastwood, along with stars like Kevin Costner following close behind. To this day, the effect of those…
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From 175 to 100: Discover John Wayne’s Most Beloved Films That Stood the Test of Time
Before he was one of Hollywood’s most bankable and iconic Western movie stars, actor John Wayne was an Iowa-born USC lineman named Marion Morrison. Morrison lost his football scholarship due to a shoulder injury from a bodysurfing accident and landed a job in 1927 as a prop guy on the Fox Studios lot. That gig…
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Spike Lee Deliberates on John Wayne’s Take on ‘Perverted’ Films—An Intriguing Conversation
When we look back at the history of Hollywood icons, there are some that simply do not stand the test of time. The icon of western cinema, John Wayne, is one such individual, having made some of the greatest movies of the 20th century, such as The Searchers, True Grit and The Man Who Shot…
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The Jaw-Dropping Incident That Director John Ford Kept Under Wraps in THE SEARCHERS
John Wayne and John Ford collaborated on some of the Hollywood Golden Age’s best-loved Westerns from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Perhaps their most famous was 1956’s The Searchers, which is on BBC Two this afternoon. The film saw Duke play a Civil War veteran spending years searching…
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Remembering an Icon: The Enigmatic Passing of Clint Eastwood’s Longtime Associate
Actress and director Sondra Locke, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her first film role in 1968’s “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” and went on to co-star in six films with Clint Eastwood, has died. She was 74. Locked died November 3, 2018 at her Los Angeles home of cardiac arrest stemming…
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Kevin Costner’s Unconventional Journey: Bringing ‘Dances with Wolves’ to Life
Long before Kevin Costner had even considered stepping into the director’s shoes, he and the film’s writer, Michael Blake, were just friends. “You know, I had a friend… a real pain in the ass friend,” Costner recalled, explaining how his attempts to help Blake in the film industry tended to backfire. “I would get him…