Ever heard of Marion Robert Morrison? Well, he is perhaps better known by his stage name, John Wayne. The actor was a mainstay in the golden age of Hollywood, and perhaps most famously, helped to ...

John Wayne was the biggest country star for decades, and there are several big movie roles he turned down to ensure his reputation in Hollywood.

Katrina Anderson has an avid interest in film, TV, and pop-culture. She has a MA in English Literature from Simon Fraser University. Her thesis project described the literary qualities of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Wayne laid the foundation for the western genre John Wayne broke out onto the western scene in the late 1930s, but by the ...

Every few years, movie lovers ask what happened to the Western — the film genre that helped launch America’s film industry at the dawn of the 20th century and constituted up to a quarter of ...