John Wayne gives Bobby Vinton some advice in a scene from The Train Robbers. The Movie: One of John Wayne’s last films, The Train...

John Wayne as Temujin and Susan Hayward as Bortai in a scene from The Conqueror. OK, whose big fat idea was this, anyway?! (The answer,...

The first time the name "John Wayne" appeared on the big screen was in the opening credits of The Big Trail (1930). Marion Morrison, the...

We're pleased to let you know that our editor, Mark Orwoll, has signed a contract with literary agent Jeff Herman to represent our book...

Leni Braun (Sigrid Gurie), Dr. Karl Braun (Charles Coburn), and John Phillips (John Wayne)--and lots of dust--in an early scene from...

Last year the folks at Top Famous Tube put together what we can only call a video scrapbook of John Wayne, showing one iconic image from...

The Morrison Family c. 1918, with the future "John Wayne" (and his Airedale, Duke), left. Photo: Pinterest Last week we wrote about John...

The character of Rooster Cogburn appeared twice, once in the eponymical 1975 film and once in 1969’s True Grit. The similarities between...

Ben Johnson in an early Hollywood publicity shot. Photo: Wikiwand. That face! That voice! Actor Ben Johnson’s physical presence just...

Guns Donovan (Wayne) tries to appear fatherly, and fails miserably, in Donovan's Reef. The Background: John Wayne’s relationships with...

"None of that cow purch. Give us whisky." John Wayne at the bar, Rio Lobo. The most famous cliché in Westerns is a cowpoke loping into a...

Puff Rogers (Wynne Gibson) and Slag Bailey (George Bancroft) stake broken-down pug Buzz Kinney (John Wayne) to a meal in a scene from...

Some movie-goers leave their seats the moment “The End” fades in. Others—and we like to think the readers of John Wayne Speaks are among...