I wonder how many regular kids have that kind of freedom anymore, either!
When I met Ethan here in New York a year or two ago, he told me a little detail about his childhood that also speaks to this subject. He said his father disliked having entourage or personal security around his home, so that even when one night he heard what sounded like a prowler around the house, he remembers his father just getting out of bed like any Dad and going to check things out for himself. Celebrities today have so much personal security which was unknown to the Wayne family, even though he was arguably the most famous man alive.
Re: John Wayne, Lest We Forget
Posted: January 30th, 2013, 8:01 pm
by tinker
I wonder how many regular kids have that kind of freedom anymore, either!
Not to many I suspect. I know my brothers reaction when I suggested if my niece wanted to come up and ride when he could not drive her was that she get on the train and I would meet her at the station. I may as well have suggested she travelled alone to Afganistan. She was 15.
I always like the stories of John Wayne meets real people
Thank you for finding that article...I think I enjoyed it the most. Talk about normal life, that may have been the closest he could get to it. I find it amusing that people now find the way the Wild Goose was fitted out to be "spartan".
Re: John Wayne, Lest We Forget
Posted: February 22nd, 2013, 10:49 pm
by MissGoddess
I wasn't sure where else to post this, but here is a John Wayne movie (that I have never seen) I just found on YouTube:
His Private Secretary (1933)
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It's a young Duke Wayne in a contemporary setting and his leading lady is Evelyn Knapp. I'm sure it's nothing great, but should be fun
Re: John Wayne, Lest We Forget
Posted: April 12th, 2013, 9:30 am
by Maricatrin
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My latest video ... for any lady John Wayne fans in a romantic mood.
Re: John Wayne, Lest We Forget
Posted: April 12th, 2013, 9:46 am
by CineMaven
Nice. Liked that you included "Tall In the Saddle."
Re: John Wayne, Lest We Forget
Posted: April 12th, 2013, 5:35 pm
by Maricatrin
Thanks, CineMaven, glad to oblige.
Re: John Wayne, Lest We Forget
Posted: May 26th, 2013, 10:01 am
by moira finnie
Happy Birthday to John Wayne, born 106 years ago today. Sometimes I forget that there was once a time when Mr. Wayne was not just a legendary presence (and underrated actor). He was also a strikingly angelic looking youth, as evidenced from this screen cap from Arizona (1931), a moist little movie about a triangle between sisters Laura La Plante (boo, hiss!) and June Clyde vying over this 24 year old, not long out of West Point in the course of the story:
