John Wayne and John Ford had one of the greatest actor-director partnerships in movie history, but working together wasn't ...

John Wayne starred in a number of iconic Westerns, but this 1956 masterpiece has a more personal meaning for the star than ...

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 ...

Director John Ford and John Wayne had one of the most fruitful collaborations in celluloid history, making 11 films together over 23 years. Ford had befriended the young Wayne in the late 1920s ...

In 1947, John Ford and John Wayne kicked off the first of their Calvary Trilogy movies in Fort Apache, which would be followed by She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande. The Western was filmed in ...

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 ...

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 ...