A black and white photograph of the late actor John Wayne in a tuxedo staring at the camera. - John Springer Collection/Getty Images Actor John "The Duke" Wayne rose to stardom during Hollywood's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Wayne laid the foundation for the western genre John Wayne broke out onto the western scene in the late 1930s, but by the ...

When it comes to epic Westerns, John Wayne is the Hollywood giant who always instantly comes to mind. Having made The Searchers, Fort Apache, and Rio Bravo, among many other iconic horse operas, one ...

Every few years, movie lovers ask what happened to the Western — the film genre that helped launch America’s film industry at the dawn of the 20th century and constituted up to a quarter of ...

While The Sons of Katie Elder is remembered fondly today, making the Western was an uphill battle for John Wayne.

Actor John "The Duke" Wayne rose to stardom during Hollywood's Golden Age as a fixture of Western movies. Even if you don't like the genre, it's hard to deny the impact of classics like "True Grit" ...