Looking like the star he would become, circa 1936.
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In 1939’s
New Frontier,
one of the Republic Three Mesquiteers westerns, with Ray (Crash) Corrigan and Phyllis Isley, soon to be renamed Jennifer Jones.
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With Claire Trevor in
Stagecoach
(1939).
The cast of
Stagecoach
rehearsing. From left: John Carradine (in profile), Andy Devine, Berton Churchill, Donald Meek, George Bancroft, John Wayne, Claire Trevor, and unidentified pianist.
With his first wife, Josephine, and Claire Trevor at a costume party circa 1940.
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A still that captures some of the chemistry that propelled Wayne and Marlene Dietrich through three movies as well as a lengthy off-screen affair.
With Harry Carey Sr., yet another father figure/mentor in
The Shepherd of the Hills
(1941).
A snapshot from Wayne’s three-month tour of New Guinea and related areas during World War II.
With his second wife, Chata (right), and her ever-present mother.
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Pedro Armandariz, Harry Carey Jr., and Wayne in John Ford’s
Three Godfathers
(1948).
With Montgomery Clift in Howard Hawks’s
Red River
(1948).
As the haunted Sergeant Stryker in Republic’s
Sands of Iwo Jima
(1949).
As Nathan Brittles in
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
(1949), with Victor McLaglen, Ben Johnson and George O’Brien.