John Wayne
John Wayne
John Wayne (1907–1979), born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, was an American film actor known as "the Duke," whose roles in westerns and war films came to embody courage, loyalty and self-reliance on screen. After an injury ended his football scholarship at the University of Southern California, he worked as a prop man at Fox Film, where he met director John Ford. Years of modest western films followed until Ford cast him as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach (1939), the turning point of his career. Their partnership went on to produce She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man and The Searchers, and Wayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor for True Grit (1969). He received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1979 and, posthumously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and he remains closely associated with the classic American western.
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Each was named by the American Film Institute among the greatest screen legends of classic American cinema. Clark Gable starred in Gone with the Wind (1939), and John Wayne defined the Western from Stagecoach (1939) onward. Audrey Hepburn won an Academy Award for Roman Holiday (1953) opposite Gregory Peck and starred with Cary Grant in Charade (1963). Marilyn Monroe, a leading comedic star of the 1950s, made her last completed film, The Misfits (1961), with Gable.
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