John Wayne in Shakespeare

[Betsy]

Sorry I can't do the Shakespeare lingo ...

But here's some trivia from John Wayne movies ...

RE: The Cowboys:

Shortly after the film's release, Bruce Dern received death threats for his character killing John Wayne by shooting him in the back.

When John Wayne informed Bruce Dern that Dern's character would shoot Wayne's, he told Dern that audiences would hate him for it. Dern responded by saying, "Yeah, but they'll sure love me in Berkeley."

RE: The Sons of Katie Elder

This picture marked the return of John Wayne to work after having a cancerous lung removed just four months earlier. He insisted on doing all his own stunts to show the public that the illness hadn't slowed him down.

The film was shot in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. When he wasn't working, John Wayne often had to breathe using an oxygen tank.

When John Wayne is dragged into the river, you can hear a child calling out, "Dad!". This was his three-year-old son Ethan Wayne, who was watching off camera.