Western genre movie in The Quiet Man and his leading lady had big words about appearing as The Duke’s love interest.

Famed U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur watched one John Wayne movie once a month for every month because he loved the ...

Movie star John Wayne and director John Ford became one of the most iconic filmmaker and actor duos ever to move through Hollywood. It all started with their fateful meeting when Wayne worked as a ...

Actor John Wayne frequently collaborated with director John Ford. However, their deep friendship went through some rough patches that bled into their careers. As a result, Wayne and Ford ...

Ford was already an A-list director when he began championing Wayne, leading to the actor’s breakthrough role in the 1939 Western “Stagecoach.” Still, writer-producer Kenneth Bowser also ...

John Wayne and John Ford collaborated on some of the Hollywood Golden Age’s best-loved Westerns from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Perhaps their most famous was ...

At least, that’s how Wayne describes his first interaction with the man who would become his mentor — director John Ford. In 1926, according to what John Wayne wrote in his unfinished ...

In 1939, while shooting the seminal western “Stagecoach,” John Wayne got his first taste of director John Ford’s biting, often cruel, sense of humor. After inviting the “Duke” in to see ...

John Ford and John Wayne — a friendship and professional collaboration that spanned 50 years, changed each others’ lives, changed the movies, and in the process, changed the way America saw ...

Considered one of Wayne’s all-time classics, this Howard Hawks-directed adventure let him tap into some darkness on screen. John Ford’s delightful romance was a bit of a departure for Wayne ...

corporeal John Wayne and his longtime collaborator and tormentor, the film director John Ford. “I think some of the confusion today about masculinity stems from the fact that we no longer grow ...

Director Sam Pollard remembers the first John Ford/John Wayne film he ever saw: THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, which he watched in 1962 at a theater in Harlem along with his brother ...