Happy 100th birthday, John Wayne!

The Orange County Register ^ | May 24, 2007 | NIYAZ PIRANI

[ConservativeStatement]

If there's one thing I've learned from asking readers to send in stories about John Wayne, it's this: people really loved the guy.

Even if they didn't know him personally, many speak of brief encounters with his gentle ways and humorous personality as if they're talking about somebody they've known for years.

The Duke turns 100 years old Saturday, so we thought we'd celebrate with our very own birthday card.

[united1000]

	1926 - GREAT K & A TRAIN ROBBERY
	1926 - BROWN OF HARVARD
	1926 - BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT
	1927 - THE DROPKICK
	1927 - ANNIE LAURIE
	1928 - MOTHER MACHREE
	1928 - HANGMAN'S HOUSE
	1928 - FOUR SON'S
	1929 - WORDS AND MUSIC/Duke Morrison
	1929 - SPEAKEASY
	1929 - SALUTE
	1929 - NOAH'S ARK
	1929 - THE FOWARD PASS
	1929 - THE BLACK WATCH
	1930 - ROUGH ROMANCE
	1930 - MEN WITHOUT WOMEN
	1930 - CHEER UP AND SMILE/Duke Morrison
	1930 - BORN RECKLESS
	1930 - THE BIG TRAIL
	1931 - THREE GIRLS LOST
	1931 - THE RANGE FUED
	1930 - MEN ARE LIKE THAT
	1931 - MAKER OF MEN
	1931 - GIRLS DEMAND EXCITEMENT
	1931 - THE DECEIVER
	1932 - THE VOICE OF HOLLYWOOD No.13
	1932 - TWO-FISTED LAW
	1932 - THAT'S MY BOY
	1932 - TEXAS CYCLONE
	1932 - THE SHADOW OF THE EAGLE
	1932 - RIDE HIM COWBOY
	1932 - LADY AND GENT
	1932 - THE HURRICANE EXPRESS
	1932 - THE HOLLYWOOD HANDICAP
	1932 - HAUNTED GOLD
	1932 - THE BIG STAMPEDE
	1933 - THE THREE MUSKETEERS
	1933 - THE TELEGRAPH TRAIL
	1933 - SOMEWHERE IN SONORA
	1933 - SAGEBRUSH TRAIL
	1933 - RIDERS OF DESTINY
	1933 - THE MAN FROM MONTEREY
	1933 - THE LIFE OF JIMMY DOLAN
	1933 - HIS PRIVATE SECRETARY
	1933 - COLLEGE COACH
	1933 - CENTRAL AIRPORT
	1933 - BABYFACE
	1934 - WEST OF THE DEVIDE
	1934 - THE TRAIL BEYOND
	1934 - THE STAR PACKER
	1934 - RANDY RIDES ALONE
	1934 - THE MAN FROM UTAH
	1934 - THE LUCKY TEXAN
	1935 - THE LAWLESS FRONTIER
	1934 - BLUE STEEL
	1934 - `NEATH THE ARIZONA SKIES
	1935 - WESTWARD HO
	1935 - TEXAS TERROR
	1935 - RAINBOW VALLEY
	1935 - PARADISE CANYON
	1935 - THE NEW FRONTIER
	1935 - LAWLESS RANGE
	1935 - THE DESERT TRAIL
	1935 - THE DAWN RIDER
	1936 - WINDS OF THE WASTELAND
	1936 - SEA SPOILERS
	1936 - THE OREGON TRAIL
	1936 - THE LONELY TRAIL
	1936 - THE LAWLESS NINETIES
	1936 - KING OF THE PECOS
	1936 - CONFLICT
	1937 - IDLE OF THE CROWDS
	1937 - I COVER THE WAR
	1937 - CALIFORNIA STRAIGHT AHEAD
	1938 - BORN TO THE WEST
	1937 - ADVENTURES END
	1938 - SANTA FE STAMPEDE
	1938 - RED RIVER RANGE
	1938 - PALS OF THE SADDLE
	1938 - OVERLAND STAGE RAIDERS
	1939 - WYOMING OUTLAW
	1939 - THREE TEXAS STEERS
	1939 - STAGECOACH
	1939 - THE NIGHT RIDERS
	1939 - NEW FRONTIER
	1939 - ALLEGHENY UPRISING
	1940 - THREE FACES WEST
	1940 - SEVEN SINNERS
	1940 - THE LONG VOYAGE HOME
	1940 - THE DARK COMMAND
	1941 - WHEEL OF FORTUNE
	1941 - STARS PAST AND PRESENT
	1941 - THE SHEPARD OF THE HILLS
	1941 - A MAN BETRAYED
	1941 - LADY FROM LOUISIANA
	1941 - LADY FOR A NIGHT
	1942 - THE SPOILERS
	1942 - REUNION IN FRANCE
	1942 - REAP THE WILD WIND
	1942 - PITTSBURGH
	1942 - IN OLD CALIFORNIA
	1942 - FLYING TIGERS
	1943 - A LADY TAKES A CHANCE
	1943 - WAR OF THE WILDCATS (IN OLD OKLAHOMA)
	1944 - TALL IN THE SADDLE
	1944 - THE FIGHTING SEABEES
	1945 - THEY WERE EXPENDABLE
	1945 - FLAME OF THE BARBARY COAST
	1945 - DAKOTA
	1945 - BACK TO BATAAN
	1946 - WITHOUT RESERVATIONS
	1946 - DESERT COMMAND
	1947 - TYCOON
	1947 - ANGEL AND THE BADMAN
	1948 - WAKE OF THE RED WITCH
	1948 - RED RIVER
	1948 - FORT APACHE
	1948 - 3 GODFATHERS
	1949 - SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
	1949 - SANDS OF IWO JIMA
	1949 - THE FIGHTING KENTUCKIAN
	1950 - RIO GRANDE
	1951 - OPERATION PACIFIC
	1951 - FLYING LEATHERNECKS
	1952 - THE QUIET MAN
	1952 - BIG JIM McLAIN
	1953 - TROUBLE ALONG THE WAY
	1953 - ISLAND IN THE SKY
	1953 - HONDO
	1954 - THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY
	1955 - BLOOD ALLEY
	1955 - THE SEA CHASE
	1955 - ROOKIE OF THE YEAR (TV)
	1956 - THE CONQUEROR
	1956 - THE SEARCHERS
	1957 - JET PILOT
	1957 - LEGEND OF THE LOST (TIMBUCTU)
	1957 - THE WINGS OF EAGLES
	1958 - THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA
	1958 - CHINA DOLL
	1958 - I MARRIED A WOMAN
	1959 - THE HORSE SOLDIERS
	1959 - RIO BRAVO
	1960 - THE ALAMO
	1960 - NORTH TO ALASKA
	1961 - THE COMANCHEROS
	1962 - HATARI!
	1962 - HOW THE WEST WAS WON
	1962 - THE LONGEST DAY
	1962 - THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
	1963 - DONOVAN'S REEF
	1963 - McLINTOCK!
	1964 - CIRCUS WORLD
	1965 - THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
	1965 - IN HARMS WAY
	1965 - THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER
	1966 - CAST A GIANT SHADOW
	1967 - EL DORADO
	1967 - THE WAR WAGON
	1968 - HELLFIGHTERS
	1968 - THE GREEN BERETS
	1969 - TRUE GRIT
	1969 - THE UNDEFEATED
	1970 - CHISUM
	1970 - RIO LOBO
	1971 - BIG JAKE
	1972 - THE COWBOYS
	1973 - CAHILL -UNITED STATES MARSHAL
	1973 - THE TRAIN ROBBERS
	1974 - MCQ
	1975 - ROOSTER COGBURN
	1975 - BRANNIGAN
	1976 - THE SHOOTIST

[Cobra64]

[ConservativeStatement]

There is some interesting info on IMDB.com. I'm not sure if it is all accurate but here goes (it is probably too long to post in its entirety):

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/bio

[RobbyS]

Thanks. I will check it out. Obviously I am a big fan.

[advertising guy]

my stories about John Wayne.........The Duke’s neighbor in Orange County was named Jack Early and a friend of mine.

Remember the old Oldsmobile station wagon with the glass paneled roof ? Duke bought one and took it to the coach builders ( the ones that make limos) and had the roof raised 6 inches so he could wear his hat. Mr Early said when the station wagon came back from the coach builders it was spotless and the Duke drove it everywhere. But he never washed it EVER....Mr Early said he thought John Wayne thought it was a stage coach.............lol

2nd story......some will remember the chinese man always in the Duke’s movies. That man was a dear freind of his and never had much money and the Duke hired him to be his gardner.Now the Duke’s house was western styles with rocks and cactus everywhere. Rod Taylor,a Wayne friend was visiting once and saw the china man and asked the Duke why he needed a gardner since John Wayne’s house did not have one blade of grass...............the Duke looked at Taylor ,smiled and answered, Ohhh, I make him surrender to me every day............lmao

[jazusamo]

I can’t remember the first time I saw Stagecoach but it had to be in the early 50’s, I was a kid and it was a great movie.

It’s still a great movie and may well be the best Western ever made.

[Fast Moving Angel]

''Not the brandy, you dope!!!'' John Wayne to Lee Marvin, bar fight, Donovan's Reef, 1963. One of the best movies -- and certainly the best scenery -- ever made.

[buccaneer81]

On June 20, 1979, the Orange County Board of Supervisors renamed Orange County Airport to John Wayne Airport.

Sad thing is, that would never happen today. They'd name it after some "oppressed" illegal alien who died in the desert because the gringos failed to rescue him .

[laotzu]

Eulogy by Ronald Regean?

[peeps36]

John Wayne stands for everything the left is trying to destroy. He is a real man, unlike the two gay cowboys/sheep molesters from Brokenback Mountain. America was a great country when its men were like John Wayne. It suffers today because there are less John Wayne types and too many fairies like John Edwards and John Kerry.

[Moolah]

On his album, “America, Why I Love Her,” Wayne recorded a narrative of “The Hyphen” which might well be the shortest and best summation of his feelings for this country;

THE HYPHEN
The Hyphen, Webster’s Dictionary defines,
Is a symbol used to divide a
compound word or a single word.
So it seems to me that when a man calls himself
An “Afro-American,” a “Mexican-American,”
“Italian-American,” An “Irish-American,”
“Jewish-American,”
What he’s sayin’ is, “I’m a divided American.”
Well, we all came from other places,
Different creeds and different races,
To form a nation...to become as one,
Yet look at the harm a line has done-
A simple little line, and yet
As divisive as a line can get.
A crooked cross the Nazis flew,
And the Russian hammer and sickle too-
Time bombs in the lives of Man;
But none of these could ever fan
The flames of hatred faster than
The Hyphen.
The Russian hammer built a wall
That locks men’s hearts from freedom’s call.
A crooked cross flew overhead
Above twenty million tragic dead-
Among them men from this great nation,
Who died for freedom’s preservation.
A hyphen is a line that’s small;
It can be a bridge or be a wall.
A bridge can save you lots of time;
A wall you always have to climb.
The road to liberty lies true.
The Hyphen’s use is up to you.
Used as a bridge, it can span
All the differences of Man.
Being free in mind and soul
Should be our most important goal.
If you use The Hyphen as a wall,
You’ll make your life mean...and small.
An American is a special breed,
Whose people came to her in need.
They came to her that they might find
A world where they’d have peace of mind.
Where men are equal...and something more-
Stand taller than they stood before.

Happy birthday to the Duke. May we never forget him nor what he stood for.

[united1000]

There are some great patriotic things from John Wayne here you can listen to or download, Wavs and MP3s:

 

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/usa/john-wayne.htm

[mirkwood]

[Mr. Jeeves]

The best man Hollywood produced int he last century. I can watch his movies over and over - today’s films, just once or twice.

[Sender]

“We’re burnin’ daylight...plenty of time to sleep in the grave.” -Happy Birthday, JW! Fill yore hand!

[Fiji Hill]

Ever see The War Wagon?

I saw it when it was in the theaters.

[ConservativeStatement]

How would you grade it? I may watch it later tonight.

[Little Bill]

"Stage Coach" and the "Maltese Falcon", are the only films that I have watched more than 20 times, most are once and out the door.

[No Blue States]

[quikdrw]

Amen to that!!!!!