Alivia Velez

Legend 🙏🏻

TRUE GRIT (1969) marked the first and only time John Wayne won an Oscar. The actor played Rooster Cogburn, a part that he actively campaigned for after reading the novel the film was based on. 🏆

10 years before filming EL DORADO (1966), Robert Mitchum was replaced by John Wayne in BLOOD ALLEY (1955) after Mitchum got into a physical altercation on set. 👊

Despite any bad blood the pair may have had, Wayne was excited to shoot with Mitchum, and they became good friends on the set of the 1966 Western. 🤠🤠

When filming a fight scene for DONOVAN'S REEF (1963), John Wayne underestimated an uppercut thrown at him by Lee Marvin, leading Wayne to fall and crash into a table. Director John Ford decided to leave the scene in the movie. 😂👊

HONDO (1953) was one of over 30 films produced by John Wayne. Wayne considered this one of his favorite movies, citing that it reflected his values of honesty, loyalty, bravery, self-reliance and independence.

𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐜𝐋𝐚𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐧...
Born Dec. 10, 1886 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
Died Nov. 7, 1959 of congestive heart failure in Newport Beach, CA
Victor McLaglen’s career took him into mining camps, prize rings, vaudeville stages, war trenches and talking pictures.
At 14, he enlisted in the British Army. Because of his size and physique, he was recruited as a member of the King’s Life Guards at Windsor Castle. Later wanderlust sent him to Canada, where he mined silver in the Cobalt country.
He proceeded to Ontario, where he acquired the Eastern Canada boxing championship. Later, in Vancouver he fought a six-round exhibition bout with Jack Johnson, world’s heavyweight champion.
He toured with a circus and then devised a vaudeville act in which he posed in tableaus representing “The Discus Thrower” and such classic pieces of sculpture. His brother, Arthur, joined the act and the two toured the U.S., Australia and finally Cape Town.
After World War I he made several British movies before coming to Hollywood in 1924 to star in J. Stuart Blackton's "The Beloved Brute."
He appeared in role after role as a soldier of fortune and adventure, working up to his unforgettable performance as Captain Flagg in “What Price Glory.” In 1935 he set the world to weeping with his portrayal of the dimwitted giant, Gypo Nolan, in “The Informer.” McLaglen won an Oscar for his performance.
In 1952 he played one of the leading roles in the hilarious epic of Irish rural life “The Quiet Man.” His portrayal of "Red" Will Danaher won him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.

Legends! 30 years after The Shawshank Redemption