John Wayne marathon on Turner Classic Movies

smokeyjoe53":2vd2qhvm said:
Little known fact: John Wayne actually started his movie career as "Singing Cowboy"............
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Well, Pilgrim, they tried to make him a singing cowboy but finally figured out he could fake fight a heck of a lot better than he could sing.
Jet Pilot.
 
pojocrusader":1o3ormhf said:
51eleven":1o3ormhf said:
smokeyjoe53":1o3ormhf said:
smokeyjoe53":1o3ormhf said:
Did I ever tell ya'll I once played pojo with Tommy Lee Jones?.................
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Before Lonesome Dove.....................
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You played pojo with Call?
They Were Expendable.
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What does any of this mean
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Pojo's kind of a pun on polo.
Tommy Lee played Call in Lonesome Dove. Call was very, very, very loosely based on Charles Goodnight by Larry Mc Murtry.
Expendables is a John (Marion Morrison) Wayne movie.
Oop's, almost forgot. The Barbarian and the Geisha.

Pee Ess. Hint: if you missed it earlier Leonard Slye= Roy Rogers= singing cowboy # 2.
 
Hint # 2. Autry was born near Tioga TX (near Denton), location of house he was born in is now under water in Lake Ray Roberts. He was raisied in Achille & Ravia OK. Later bought a ranch outside Berwyn OK & the townfolk's renamed it Gene Autry. http://www.cow-boy.com/museum.htm
Dad stopped by there on the way to ??? when I was a kid. It was closed but I remember the grounds.
Blood Alley.
 
Daddy's Duke Story. End of WWII Army Staff Sargent in the Phillipines. 1949? a guy who worked for him & knew he liked to fly (had a piper cub) suggested they join the Marine Corps Reserve & they could fly such & such a plane through the Naval Reserve Base. Korea, activated. El Toro, CA., Flight Crew Chief. John Wayne & co come to shoot scenes for Flying Leathernecks. "Filming" plane breaks down. Dad seeks & obtains permission to use a base plane for 3-4 filming runs (most flight scenes in the movie come from a film library). They remove a door & anchor down a tripod.
That evening the crew & a few others were invited to steaks & drinks with the Duke in a tent on site.
I was told he was the same in person as on screen, down to earth.
 
51eleven":7o45prce said:
Daddy's Duke Story. End of WWII Army Staff Sargent in the Phillipines. 1949? a guy who worked for him & knew he liked to fly (had a piper cub) suggested they join the Marine Corps Reserve & they could fly such & such a plane through the Naval Reserve Base. Korea, activated. El Toro, CA., Flight Crew Chief. John Wayne & co come to shoot scenes for Flying Leathernecks. "Filming" plane breaks down. Dad seeks & obtains permission to use a base plane for 3-4 filming runs (most flight scenes in the movie come from a film library). They remove a door & anchor down a tripod.
That evening the crew & a few others were invited to steaks & drinks with the Duke in a tent on site.
I was told he was the same in person as on screen, down to earth.
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Really cool story
 
pojocrusader":10unsl8h said:
51eleven":10unsl8h said:
Daddy's Duke Story. End of WWII Army Staff Sargent in the Phillipines. 1949? a guy who worked for him & knew he liked to fly (had a piper cub) suggested they join the Marine Corps Reserve & they could fly such & such a plane through the Naval Reserve Base. Korea, activated. El Toro, CA., Flight Crew Chief. John Wayne & co come to shoot scenes for Flying Leathernecks. "Filming" plane breaks down. Dad seeks & obtains permission to use a base plane for 3-4 filming runs (most flight scenes in the movie come from a film library). They remove a door & anchor down a tripod.
That evening the crew & a few others were invited to steaks & drinks with the Duke in a tent on site.
I was told he was the same in person as on screen, down to earth.
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Really cool story
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I read once that after finishing filming The Sands of Iwo Jima, the Duke brought in several cases of whiskey and shared them with the Marines that DoD let them use as extras.
 
pojocrusader":3ufe8v7t said:
That will be fun if you come to pojoland. Why no ranch too wet for uncle pete?
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This Afternoon - Cloudy. Chance of drizzle. Highs in the mid 30s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.

Tonight - Rain or freezing rain in the evening...then rain after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday - Rain in the morning...then light rain likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the northwest 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 80 percent.

Saturday Night - Decreasing clouds. Lows in the lower 20s. North winds 10 to 20 mph.

Me and the deer have an agreement, I won't kill them in the rain
 
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