Hollywood icon John Wayne didn’t just star in the 1960 epic “The Alamo.” He produced it, directed it, starred in it and paid for a healthy chunk of it out of his own pocket. He then promoted the heck ...

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" ...

By no means a remake of Wayne’s histrionic chronicle—“there was hardly a line of historically accurate dialogue in it,” says North Carolina State University historian James E. Crisp—the new, $90 ...