Hollywood Remembers John Wayne
John Wayne was born Marion Morrison in 1907 and went to university in California on a football scholarship. During summer vacations Wayne worked as a labourer and prop man for Fox studios, where he developed a close friendship with John Ford, who gave him his first cowboy role in 1928.
John Wayne is best known for his Westerns: as a cattle driver in Howard Hawks’ Red River (1948), an ageing cavalry officer in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and as an Indian-hunter in The Searchers (1958). In four decades of cinema and 250 films, Wayne won only one Oscar in True Grit (1969).
