BIOGROPHY OF JOHN WAYNE

He was borned on May 26, 1907. Son of CLYDE and MARY they named him "MARION MECHAEL MORRISON"

His father was apharmacist with a lung candition which reqwred him to move the family to a wormer southern California climate. There his father tried todo some ranching near the Mojave desert.Marion and his younger brother Robert went to school on a horse and swam in an irrigation ditch.

After the ranch failed the family moved to Glendale where Marion, sold newspapers' and delivered medicenes for his father. At the same time Marion had a dog an airedale by the name of "DUKE" (this is the source of his own nickname).

He did good in school succeeding in football and academicas. In 1925-to-27 hewent to theUniversity of Southern California on a football scholarship. He would give actor TOM MIX football tickits in exchange for a summer job as a prip man.

On the set he became close friends with director JOHN FORD forwhom among others, he began doing bit parts, some billed as John Wayne. "Man Without Women in(1930) was his first featured fiml. I (1939) FORD castedhim in "STAGECOACH" after more than 70 low-budget films.

He was in more then 250 movies form 1930 to 1976 in 1944 he helped found the Motion Piictur Alliance for the Preservation of American Idals,later he became its president. In 1963 he got cancer in his lungs and had one removed,in 1978 there was open-heart surgery the following year he died. He recived the bast actor nomination for "Sands of IWO Jima" (1949) and wone the Oscar for his role as Rooster Cogburn in "Ture Grit" (1969).

He was best remeberedfor his parts in "Stagecoach" as The Ringo Kid in (1939) and in The ManWho Shot Liberty Vaance (1962). John Wayne was married 3 times and had 7 children.His first wife was Josephene Saenz form 1933 to 1944 she gave him four children,Michecl was borned in 1934, Toni was borned in 1936, Patrick was borned in 1938, and Melinda was borned in 1940. In 1946 to 1954 he was marred to Esperanza Bauer she had no children. He Took his third wife in 1954 Pilor Palette, she had three children,Aissa wasborned in1956, Ethan was borned in 1962, and Marisa was borned in 1966.