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04-06-2016, 10:06 PM
Young John Wayne was a serious hunk in his first lead role
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Wayne with co-star Marguerite Churchill.
Image: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Marion Robert Morrison was born in Iowa in 1907, and moved with his family to California in 1916.*He dropped out of the University of Southern California after breaking his collarbone in a bodysurfing mishap and losing his football scholarship.
As a favor to the football coach, who had given them free game tickets, Western director John Ford and actor Tom Mix gave Morrison jobs as an extra and prop boy. He struck up a friendship with Ford, and soon graduated from extra to bit player.
In 1930, at Ford's recommendation, director Raoul Walsh cast the 6'4" hunk in his first leading role, dismissing Morrison’s inexperience by saying he just needed to “sit good on a horse and point.” Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/06/young-john-wayne/)
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Wayne with co-star Marguerite Churchill.
Image: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Marion Robert Morrison was born in Iowa in 1907, and moved with his family to California in 1916.*He dropped out of the University of Southern California after breaking his collarbone in a bodysurfing mishap and losing his football scholarship.
As a favor to the football coach, who had given them free game tickets, Western director John Ford and actor Tom Mix gave Morrison jobs as an extra and prop boy. He struck up a friendship with Ford, and soon graduated from extra to bit player.
In 1930, at Ford's recommendation, director Raoul Walsh cast the 6'4" hunk in his first leading role, dismissing Morrison’s inexperience by saying he just needed to “sit good on a horse and point.” Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/06/young-john-wayne/)
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