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(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 ...

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 ...

Lynn Haney’s book, Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life, explained how Peck received the honor of the top Western star of the year in 1950 from the Reno Chamber of Commerce for The Gunfighter.