John Wayne Called His ‘True Grit’ Casting an ‘Accident’ the Author Didn’t Want
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John Wayne’s unbelievable moment with Richard Burton after winning his True Grit Oscar
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How The Coen Brothers’ True Grit Remake Beat The Original (& Revitalized The Western Genre)
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John Wayne knew he was ‘living on borrowed time’ after heartbreaking news from friend
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John Wayne’s bizarre ‘superstitions’ that made him ‘fly off handle’
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John Wayne explained why he ‘betrayed’ his morals on classic film
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John Wayne Was Almost Too Sick to Film ‘Rooster Cogburn,’ Here’s Who Might’ve Replaced Him in the Movie
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John Wayne Revealed Why He Allowed Rooster Cogburn to Cuss in ‘True Grit’
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John Wayne: 6 Most Iconic Rooster Cogburn Quotes From ‘True Grit’
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John Wayne was so ill on final movie The Shootist that the film was almost cancelled
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