John Wayne A Giant Shadow - Book By C Mc Givern
John Wayne A Giant Shadow - Book By C Mc Givern
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John Wayne A Giant Shadow - Book By C Mc Givern

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The perception of life that most of us share is, in large part, created by the producers, directors, and the stars of motion pictures. John Wayne was perhaps the most powerful of all the Hollywood images. This is the story of the man who lived in the shadow of the image. 

"My real name is Marion Morrison...I'm happy people call me 'Duke'...If you were my size, wore cowboy boots and a big hat, outrode, outfought and outshot all the bad men in the west...how would you like to climb down off a horse, throw your saddle over the corral rail and then walk off-camera to sit down in a chair labelled Marion?" "I don't work for the producers...I don't work for the studio...I don't work for the critics...I work for the audience...I try always to give the best of myself so that people aren't disappointed in me."

"When the doctor taps you on the shoulder and says, 'You've got cancer' the sun sure doesn't shine any brighter. Yeah! I was scared. I was tough to get along with. I'd discovered I was fallible. I hope I appeal to the more carefree times a person's life. I'd like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than the problems of the world."


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