Look, any man who can win the heart of Sophia Loren is pretty cool in our book. It was definitely a more social game than something on a screen. It is a total lack of creativity to have someone play a character and use their own name. After a screen career of more than 40 years, Wayne was honoured with an Academy Award for his portrayal of the drunken, cantankerous, but endearing U.S. In the final assault on March 6 there were not three attacks, with the first two repelled. John Wayne, byname Duke, original name Marion Michael Morrison (see Researchers Note) , (born May 26, 1907, Winterset, Iowa, U.S.died June 11, 1979, Los Angeles, California), major American motion-picture actor who embodied the image of the strong, taciturn cowboy or soldier and who in many ways personified the idealized American values of his era. Of course Waynes Smith has Claire Trevor tagging along as his love interest while the real James Smith did not take his wife with him on his illicit raids. The 1950s would see Wayne star in an Ireland-set romantic comedy The Quiet Man (1952) and two westerns, The Searchers (1956) and Rio Bravo (1959). Now, I am not trying to disparage all of the Mikes in the world, but John Wayne does not strike me as a Mike. It is the worst of the bunch, but the character name has four syllables. The portrayal takes liberties with the real character of the man being depicted in the film, but not in a negative way. // --> What's the title? Waynes character in this film pursues a noble goal (rescuing his kidnapped niece from a renegade Comanche leader), but his obsessive behaviour and blatant bigotry reveal him to be as mad as he is heroic. By the end of the war, Wayne was firmly established as one of Hollywoods top stars. They lived near what is now Roswell, New Mexico. Most of what is known of him is based on his own autobiography, without corroborating support or evidence, and absent from British records, such as the fall of Fort Bedford in 1769. From 1942-43 he was in a radio series, "The Three Sheets to the Wind", and in 1944 he helped found the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a Conservative political organization, later becoming its President. He would reprise that role in the 1975 film Rooster Cogburn. He mentions that reporters were saying that he had been drunk the night before the battle and that Sherman might find himself in command, an inaccuracy since there were officers senior in rank to Sherman present at the battle and its aftermath. My all time favorite name is Rooster Cogburn! The interaction between Wayne and Maureen O'Hara is magical and hard to beat. It could have been that the gunpowder being provided in reality was for peppering the rum, a favorite technique of flavoring of the Eastern Indians. Home > Fun > Movies > Hollywood Actors > Print Preview,