Angel and the Badman
1947
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Mar 23, 2023 · Gail Russell, co-star of "Angel and the Badman," was trapped in the middle of a scandalous feud between John Wayne and his second wife, Esperanza "Chata" Baur.
Apr 14, 2024 · In 1947, Russell performed one of her most famous roles as the innocent Quaker love interest of John Wayne in Angel and the Badman. It was during filming that Wayne first noticed that Russell's struggle with alcohol outweighed her problems with shyness.
Gail Russell, a voluptuous young actress with dark hair and an aura of powerful grace played the Quaker girl who converts John Wayne, a gunfighter and criminal, to a peaceable life. She may or may not have converted him to other activities as well.
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Republic Pictures borrowed her to be John Wayne's leading lady in a film Wayne was producing, Angel and the Badman (1947). Also at Republic she did Moonrise (1948) for Frank Borzage. Russell returned to Paramount for Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948), directed by John Farrow, who had made Calcutta.
Mar 31, 2020 · Rightly or wrongly, John Wayne’s fiery and jealous second wife Esperanza “Chata” Bauer, believed he was having an ongoing affair with Gail Russell, fueled by his early morning return home from a late night at the end of filming Angel and the Badman. Wayne had also made the mistake of loaning money to Russell so she could put a down ...
Mar 1, 2012 · John Wayne & Gail Russell romanced at the Cottonwood Hotel during their 1946 movie filming of Angel and the Badman, filmed in Sedona, reviewed at the Rialto Theater, Cottonwood, AZ.
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