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“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday?” Do you know who said the John Wayne? His real name is Marion Michael Morrison. His family moved out west.During college, he started getting steg jobs. After college, his acting career took off. Wayne had really bad health problems, but he still delivers good movies. John Wayne is debatably the best actor of the 20th canary and has the best movies. Marion Michael Morrison also was known as John Wayne. He was born on May 26, 1907, in Winterset IA. As a 13 pound baby, he was born to father, Clyde Leonard Morrison, and mother, Mary Alberta. His younger brother, Robert was given Wayne’s original middle name and his was changed to Michael. His father was a pharmacist in Iowa. The Morrison …show more content…

Waynes first big move was The Big Trail in 1930. In the early 1930’s he played the singing cowboy, Singing Sandy in theater series. Then he got the name John Wayne in 1930 and there's are some of his biggest hits.Then later in 1945, he was in They Were Expendable, Red River 1948, Fort Apache 1948, The Quiet Men 1952, The Searchers 1956, Rio Bravo 1959, True Grit 1969, and his last movie The Shootist 1976. According to most movie critics, his worst movie of his career was the 1956 movie, The Conqueror, where he played Genghis Khan the Mongol. He even directed his first movie in 1960 and got the academy award in 1969 for to True Grit. Much of what we see in Wayne’s characters is credited to a good friend of his, Yakima Canutt. Who was a stuntman in many of Wayne’s films? Wayne has been in 250 movies in his career and has been the started in 142 of those 250 movies. He has (died) 8 times in his filming career. He was never knocked out of the top ten actors in his career. Wayne had an affair with famous actress Marlene Dietrich and he was married three times and has 7 children. He had very conservative values. President Reagan and Wayne were close friends. Wayne was very anti-communist. So much so that Russian leader Joseph Stalin ordered his assassination. He avoided sniper in

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