John Wayne remained tight-lipped about a comment made to him in one of his movies and referred to it as a 'trade secret' ...

Wayne was born as Marion Robert Morrison on May 26, 1907, in a small square home on the corner of South Second Street, right behind where the museum now stands on John Wayne Drive. With a strange ...

A heavy smoker, John Wayne – nicknamed the Duke – received a lung cancer diagnosis when he was 57; he then had his left lung removed. Fast forward to 1979, and the father-of-seven had a ...

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