John Wayne on TCM
John Wayne in The Alamo. Photo: Courtesy Turner Classic Movies.
It’s John Wayne day on Tuesday, Aug. 18, as Turner Classic Movies continues with its "Summer Under the Stars" series.
One of the most popular film stars ever, John Wayne was almost invariably John Wayne (or the screen version of himself) no matter who or what he played. But then again, the same can be said of Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and other well-respected actors of the studio era. I’m not quite sure why Wayne is generally regarded as less of an actor than those other performers, but perhaps one explanation is that Westerns and war movies aren’t perceived as settings for a real actor, and Wayne made his [...]
by Andre Soares | August 14, 2009
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Tags: Baby Face, Classic Movies, John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, McLintock, Summer Under the Stars, TCM, The Alamo, The Green Berets, Turner Classic Movies
STAGECOACH Screening
Stagecoach is the next 1939 best picture Oscar nominee to be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” Directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne and Claire Trevor, Stagecoach will be presented on Monday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The film will be introduced by John Ford’s grandson, Dan Ford.
Beginning at 7 p.m., the evening will also feature the second and third chapters of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, in addition to the animated short The Film Fan, [...]
by Andre Soares | May 27, 2009
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Tags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Alexander Toluboff, Ben-Hur, Bert Glennon, Boule de suif, Buster Crabbe, Christian-Jacque, Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, Donald Meek, Dorothy Spencer, Dudley Nichols, Ernest Haycox, Frank Harling, Gary Cooper, George Bancroft, Guy de Maupassant, John Carradine, John Ford, John Leipold, John Wayne, Leo Shuken, Los Angeles Screenings, Louise Platt, Micheline Presle, Otho Lovering, Richard Hageman, Stage to Lordsburg, Stagecoach, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Wanger, Westerns
THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, HONDO, McLINTOCK!: John Wayne on DVD
Paramount Home Entertainment and Paramount’s Worldwide Television Distribution, in association with John Wayne’s old Batjac Productions, will be distributing several Wayne titles on DVD beginning in spring 2005.
The upcoming releases include:
Island in the Sky (1953), a rarely seen adventure film about a plane crash in sub-Arctic Canada;
Hondo (1953), a Western based on a story by Louis L’Amour, who was erroneously nominated for an Academy Award in — and was later withdrawn from — the Motion Picture Story category; additionally, Hondo earned Geraldine Page her first Academy Award nomination (as best supporting actress);
the comic Western McLintock! (1963), partly inspired by Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, and co-starring Maureen O’Hara and Stefanie Powers;
and a fully [...]
by Andre Soares | October 24, 2004
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Tags: Adventure Movies, Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, DVDs, John Wayne, McLintock, Plunder of the Sun, Robert Mitchum, The High and the Mighty, Track of the Cat
