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John Wayne's Way: Life Lessons from the Duke
By Brode, Douglas & Eliot, Marc
- ISBN
- 9780762796298 9780062269003 9780062269034
- Publisher
- TwoDot Dey St: HarperCollins
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Reviewed on December 1, 2014 | Arts and Humanities
Marion Morrison of Winterset, IA, moved to Southern California in 1914 at age seven. He went to the University of Southern California on a football scholarship, which led to bit parts in the movies, and was noticed and rebranded as John Wayne. In 1939, the director John Ford made him a star in the movie Stagecoach. Wayne made two dozen films with Ford and remained a renowned actor until his death in 1979. Eliot, who has written biographies of Cary Grant, Clint Eastwood, and Walt Disney, studies Wayne as an auteur. Eliot's focus is on the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
