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CLICK HERE for a list of films starring John Wayne on TV showing in the near future. This site is set for my area listings, click the link next to "Local listings for:" (just to the right of the date) and enter your zip code
and TV provider for listings in your area.
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On Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel this month is sparse on John Wayne films. The only one listed is SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949). It will be shown on March 25, 2014 at 9:30 AM pacific time. Please check your cable or satellite listings for the time in your area.
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As you are probably aware Olive Films has acquired the Republic Studios library from Paramount Pictures. This is significant because a lot of the films released by Republic Studios are no longer available on DVD. The Olive Films releases are not only on DVD but also Blu-Ray. I have incorporated these releases in the John Wayne Store. For Blu-Ray titles and DVD titles click these links.
In the movies section, there are John Wayne DVDS, some by directors that the Duke worked with most often, and Blu-Ray discs of John Wayne films plus a section of Blu-Ray discs not starring the Duke. Olive Films has acquired the Republic Pictures rights from Paramount Pictures. They have previously released, on Blu-Ray and DVD a lot of John Wayne films, check the store for these releases. Here is hoping that they will release (and re-master) other John Wayne films in the near future.
In the music section you can get the CD of John Wayne's 1973 album America, Why I Love Her. Also there are CDs of film themes and scores and other western music.
In the books section, one page of John Wayne books and a page of books about other actors and actresses, plus books of interest about Hollywood. There is a new book of interest, Maureen O'Hara: The Biography, that was published October 1, 2013.
There are other sections of interest such as posters and pictures of John Wayne and some of his female co-stars and other western themes.
The last section is Misc Goodies, items that didn't fit into the other categories. This section has been re-done with 2014 calendar, puzzles, glasses and mugs, playing cards and all kinds of unusual things.
I hope you will visit the John Wayne Store and check out all of the interesting items that we offer. Scroll down the main store page for many specials that are of interest to John Wayne fans and classic movie fans as well.
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Here are some interesting links to pages of interest around the Internet.
Olive Films released the John Wayne produced film Bullfighter and the Lady (1951) on Blu-ray and DVD and is available in the John Wayne Store, just click the links. There is a good review of the blu-ray release by Matt Hinrich from the DVD Talk website linked here with the authors permission.
Bruce Dern is again in the news with his new film Nebraska but things have not always been rosy for him. Here is link to an article, How shooting John Wayne killed Bruce Dern�s career from JWAYNE.com The UN-official John Wayne Fan Site.
Glendale High School to change auditorium name to honor movie legend John Wayne
MTI Film recently completed an all-new digital restoration of North to Alaska, Twentieth Centur Fox�s 1960 comedy starring John Wayne.
On May 20, 2014 Warner Home Video with cooperation from Paramount will release the John Wayne Epic Collection. This collection includes 40 John Wayne films on 38 discs, 20 page lay flat book, 17 artifacts of special John Wayne memorabilia with script pages/covers, correspondence, and many other special features. Check out this article on this Johw Wayne Epic Collection that spells out all the information for this release.
We are remembering Shirley Temple who passed away on Monday, February 10, 2014 at the age of 85. died monday 02/10/2014 at age 85. She began her career in 1932 at only four years old. She almost single-handly kept 20th Century Fox afoat in the 1930s. Her movie career was basically over by 1949, even though she had a TV series, Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958-1961). As Philadelphia Thursday in the 1948 film, Fort Apache, she co-starred with John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and her husband at the time, John Agar.
She was named a delegate to the United Nations, in 1969, by President Richard Nixon. From the late 1960s onward, she was increasingly active in Republican Party politics. She served as U.S. ambassador to Ghana (1974) United States Chief of Protocol (1976)and Czechoslovakia and held other government-related positions.In the summer of 1976, she was named Chief of Protocol for the State Department, and United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1989).
According to author Garry Wills in "John Wayne's America", director John Ford had serious issues with women, which carried over onto his sets. When he made Wee Willie Winkie (1937) with Shirley, she was a child as well as the top box office star in America and he treated her well. When she was cast in Fort Apache (1948), she was a young woman and he did not. Like her role in Wee Willie Winkie (1937), she played the "cute but unmanageable troublemaker at the post" who is befriended by and relies on an avuncular sergeant, both times played by Victor McLaglen. McLaglen had been blackballed by Ford for the previous seven years, but was brought back into the Ford stock company with this film. When Ford met Shirley, whose husband John Agar he had also cast in the picture, he rudely asked her, "Now where did you go to school, Shirley? Did you graduate?".
Born Clay O'Brien Cooper on May 6, 1961, and best-known as the pint- sized "Hardy Fimps" in the western coming-of-age film, The Cowboys (1972). He was also in the short lived TV series of the same name (1974). He also played John Wayne's youngest son in Cahill: United State Marshal (1973) Clay O'Brien became a favorite with John Wayne, who appreciated a real cowboy when he met one. Remaining pint-sized for several years, Clay could be found in pleasant but typical Disneyesque fare throughout the 1970's before he left acting and returned to cowboying full-time, where his undisputed talent truly lies. Clay has the respect of cowboys everywhere, holding more Team-Roping championships than anyone and is the holder of Seven World titles in Team-Roping. Clay's rodeo achievements are impressive by any standard .
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I hope you will visit the John Wayne Store and check out all of the interesting items that we offer. Scroll down the main store page for many specials that are of interest to John Wayne fans and classic movie fans as well. The store has been updated and lots of new items have been added. If you are not shopping at the John Wayne Store soon, you're burnin' daylight!
In the movies section, there are John Wayne DVDS, some by directors that the Duke worked with most often, and Blu-Ray discs of John Wayne films plus a section of Blu-Ray discs not starring the Duke. Olive Films has acquired the Republic Pictures rights from Paramount Pictures. They have previously released, on Blu-Ray and DVD a lot of John Wayne films, check the store for these releases. Here is hoping that they will release (and re-master) other John Wayne films in the near future.
In the music section you can get the CD of John Wayne's 1973 album America, Why I Love Her. Also there are CDs of film themes and scores and other western music.
In the books section, one page of John Wayne books and a page of books about other actors and actresses, plus books of interest about Hollywood.
There are other sections of interest such as posters and pictures of John Wayne and some of his female co-stars and other western themes.
The last section is Misc Goodies, items that didn't fit into the other categories. This section has been re-done with 2014 calendar, puzzles, glasses and mugs, playing cards and all kinds of unusual things.
Your comments or suggestions are always welcome and encouraged. I am always on the look-out for John Wayne and/or classic film information to pass along in these little newsletters, if you come across any news on these subjects, please let me know.
Later Pilgrim,
Paul Newton
