{"id":3882,"date":"2005-11-15T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2022-10-09T20:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T00:48:28","slug":"john-wayne-appreciation-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3882","title":{"rendered":"John Wayne Appreciation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

<\/i>, by Peter Bogdonavich:<\/p>\n

And after forty years in films, Duke had more excitement about the job than most people just starting out. He liked working with newcomers, too, and was generous with advice; those who didn’t let ego stand in their way could learn quite a few good tricks. And all of this came without a note of pomposity or pretentiousness. In fact, he always seemed genuinely surprised, even slightly embarrassed, by praise. Without ambiguity, [Howard] Hawks said to me that “when you have someone as good as Duke around,” it became “awfully easy to do good scenes” because the actor helped and inspired everybody.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n