In 1959, critics questioned whether John Wayne, then 51, was too old to play the lead in gunslinger films.Despite the ...

John Wayne made some of the greatest Westerns ... resulting in the part having a profound effect on his personal life. Duke loved the character so much that he named his youngest son Ethan after ...

(DMN Archives / AP) If all-powerful movie star John Wayne can lose his life savings not once but ... I started in 2019 with my personal hero, Benjamin Franklin, who as a 19-year-old printer ...

Appearing in around 170 movies across half a century, John Wayne remains an icon ... Further on into the museum were items from Wayne’s personal life including one of his cars and his firearms ...

Decades after that meeting, the John Wayne Birthplace Society convinced ... "The Family Man," a focus on Wayne's personal life; "The Actor," a look at his films; and "The American," a display ...