John Wayne: a Giant Shadow - Softcover

C Mcgiverm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954003101 ISBN 13: 9780954003104

Publisher: Gazelle Distribution Trade, 2001

Synopsis

"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." A flesh and blood study of John Wayne, unashamedly aimed at the audience, the way he liked to do business. McGivern allows Wayne to tell his own story, mostly in his own words. It is the story of a man who chose to leave normality behind to create his own legend. Of all the complexities and composites that made up John Wayne, the image perhaps shines the brightest, but whilst his face is still seen on the TV screens around the world people will remember a man of true courage and honesty.

About this title

About the Author:

C. McGivern is a graduate of Brunel University and is the author of The Lost Films of John Wayne and Ronald Reagan, The Hollywood Years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gazelle Distribution Trade
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0954003101
• ISBN 13: 9780954003104
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428