Wayne died on June 11, 1979, in Los Angeles, California. He was survived by his seven children from two of his three marriages. During his marriage to Josephine Saenz from 1933 to 1945, the couple had four children, two daughters Antonia and Melinda and two sons Michael and Patrick. Both...
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John Wayne Gacy. Self: The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science. John Wayne Gacy was born in 1942 and grew up in a working-class neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. His father, John Stanley Gacy (1900-1969), was an alcoholic and beat him frequ
Wayne lost a lung and two ribs to cancer in the 1960s but was declared cancer-free by 1969. Unfortunately, the disease returned in 1978 when he was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Although he battled the disease valiantly, John Wayne died on June 11, 1979, at the UCLA Medical Center. No...
John Wayne was notoriously known for having affairs during his marriages. He married three times and divorced twice; the latter of his two wives are from Latin America. After separating from his third wife, he had a romantic relationship with his former secretary,Pat Stacy,until she died in ...
Americans would turn to the movies for a much-needed distraction from their economic woes, and critic John Mosher found a couple of mild diversions starring Greta Garbo and Clara Bow… MUM’S THE WORD…Greta Garbo and Lew Ayres in The Kiss. The film was a rare silent in the new age of...
This particular motif would become the spine of Wayne’s screen persona, so often playing the figure in movies – and then with less success in real life – who beyond being a great shot or fighter is also a man blessed with raw-boned wisdom, one who’s been around the block a few ...
Wayne died on June 11, 1979. Stomach cancer. "The Big C," he called it. He had lived for quite a while on one lung, and then the Big C came back. He was near death and he knew it when he walked out on stage at the 1979 Academy Awards to present Best Picture to "The Deer ...
When he wasn’t doing Westerns, two types of films attracted Ford most. One was anything and everything with an Irish theme, from the taut “The Informer” to the romantic “The Quiet Man,” where Wayne and O’Hara go at it one more time. He even turned the quintessentially Welsh “...
John Wayne. Actor: True Grit. John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry. Clyde developed a lung condition that requ