Simviation Forum - Any John Wayne fans here?

Oct 31^st, 2010 at 3:56pm

Steve M Offline
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I have seen every one of his movies twice or more. The older Mr. Wayne got the better his movies were..
Here's a quote from an article I read.
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John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, in 1907. When he was a boy, his family moved West settling in Lancaster, California and later Glendale, California where he would come to be known as Duke. Marion's dog, an Airedale, was named... Duke, and soon the local Glendale firefighters started calling Marion Duke, too. Duke's academic and athletic success at Glendale High led to a football scholarship at the University of Southern California (USC). A body surfing accident at Newport Beach cut short his promising athletic career, so the former tackle looked to studio work to help pay his tuition. In a film called The Big Trail, Marion Morrison became John Wayne, and the movie business and the country would never be the same. John Wayne's monumental film career spanned five decades. He appeared in more than 175 films, more than a dozen directed by John Ford alone. For an entire generation, he was Hollywood's biggest and most durable box-office star. Incredibly versatile, Wayne starred in just about every genre Hollywood offered: war movies, romantic comedies, police dramas, histories. But it was the Western in American cinema where Wayne made his most lasting mark. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award, winning the Oscar for Best Actor in 1969 for True Grit. And his powerful performance in The Searchers has been singled out by filmmakers and actors alike as the greatest performance by an actor on film, ever. In 1964, John Wayne was diagnosed with lung cancer and beat it, after a lung and several ribs were removed. Fifteen years later he was again diagnosed with cancer -- this time of the stomach, succumbing to the disease at age 72. Posthumously, Wayne was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. A year later, in 1980, President Jimmy Carter awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor. Wayne is among only a handful of individuals who have received both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. To this day, Wayne appears in the Harris Polls annual listings of Americas favorite movie stars, ranking seventh in 2009. He has never been out of the top ten since the Polls inception. In his honor, the John Wayne Cancer Foundation (JWCF), founded in 1985 by Wayne's children, is an organization that brings courage, strength and grit to the fight against cancer. Since its founding, JWCF has supported awareness programs, education programs and support groups, and has also been committed to groundbreaking cancer research and education at the John Wayne Cancer Institute. The JWCF recently launched Team Duke, a fundraising effort for athletes of any level focused on a goal who want to fight cancer along the way.

Flying with twins is a lot of fun..

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