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S.A. Halewood. Writer: Division 19. Suzie's first screenplay One More Kiss, produced by Paul Brooks (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and starring Gerry Butler (The 300) won the Audience Award at the Atlantic Film Festival.
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Feb 19, 2018 · John Wayne, Susan Hayward, and 90 other people developed cancer after filming “The Conqueror” near a nuclear testing site. Vintage Hollywood. News. Strangeness. Feb 19, 2018 Domagoj Valjak. Susan Hayward and John Wayne sitting together surrounded by unidentified actors in a scene from the film 'The Conqueror', 1956.
John Wayne died 41 years ago, but his legacy looms large over Hollywood to this day and remains the face of the American Western. His name has become a controversial topic once again though, as activists are calling for the John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California to be renamed. Wayne's 1971 Playboy interview is often cited as a reason ...
January 1965. Birth name. Suzanne Alison Halewood. Mini Bio. Suzie's first screenplay One More Kiss, produced by Paul Brooks (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and starring Gerry Butler (The 300) won the Audience Award at the Atlantic Film Festival.
- Joanne Dru – Red River
- Donna Reed – They Were Expendable
- Gail Russell – Angel and The Badman
- Patricia Neal – Operation Pacific
- Lauren Bacall – Blood Alley
- Susan Hayward – Reap The Wild Wind
- Marlene Dietrich – Seven Sinners
- Claire Trevor – Stagecoach
- Vera Miles- Rookie of The Year
- Maureen O Hara – Rio Grande
The actress first appeared opposite John Wayne in “Red River”, with JW playing ruthless trail leader Thomas Dunson, offering to sire children with her in the manner of a bull mating with a heffer. Not surprisingly Dru, as pioneer Tess Millay, spurns Dunson’s offer and takes up with Dunson’s orphaned friend Matt Garth instead, played by Montgomery C...
We’re somewhat surprised Donna Reed isn’t lauded as much as other actresses of her generation, seeing as she starred in two of the most famous Hollywood classics ever made, “It’s A Wonderful Life” and “From Here to Eternity”, the latter garnering her a Best Supporting Actress award in 1953. Along with those two films, her understated role as army n...
Gail Russell was one of the most beautiful of Wayne’s co-stars, but alas was also one of the most tragic, dying of alcoholism at the much too young age of 36. She really hit the big time in 1947 when she won the role of the young Quaker girl, Penelope Worth, in “Angel and the Badman”, nursing wounded outlaw John Wayne back to health. In the film, R...
Next to Katherine Hepburn, Patricia Neal is probably the most award-laden of all Wayne’s female co-stars with Academy, Tony and Global nominations to her name along with a BAFTA for her role opposite Duke in the Preminger war epic “In Harm’s Way”. Prior to this, she appeared as Wayne’s estranged wife in “Operation Pacific”, giving a convincing perf...
Husky of voice and extremely easy on the eye, it was inevitable that Lauren Bacall would end up in the arms of John Wayne sooner or later, onscreen of course, appearing opposite JW for the first time in “Blood Alley”. Wayne is in full commie-baiting mode as the captain of a steamer attempting to sneak a group of villagers out of communist-ruled Chi...
Hayward comes about six places down on the cast list for “Reap the Wild Wind”, so her role is not that substantial. She’s just required to scream a lot as she drowns in the hold of a boat that has been scuppered by the dastardly Captain Jack Stuart, a rare villainous role for JW. A couple of years later Hayward played opposite JW in “The Fighting S...
It appears to be a matter of public record that Mr. Wayne and Miss Dietrich enjoyed a “meaningful relationship” for nigh on three years whilst Wayne was married to his first wife, Josephine Saenz. The couple first linked up, onscreen anyway, in “Seven Sinners”, a comedy drama romance of sorts in which Dietrich played the improbably named torch sing...
Claire Trevor qualifies as one of the most frequent leading ladies in the films of John Wayne, managing to get her man in three of the four films she appeared in with him. First up, of course, is “Stagecoach”, in which she plays lady of the night Dallas, expelled from the town of Tonto for being too free and easy with her favours. Although billed a...
Vera Miles is best known in the JW world for her role as Laurie Jorgenson in “The Searchers”, the long-suffering girlfriend of Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter), who leaves home to accompany JW on a five-year odyssey to help rescue the niece of Ethan Edwards from the Comanche chief Scar. The actress had a much more robust role in “The Man Who Shot Lib...
No prizes for guessing who occupies the number one slot in Wayne’s list of leading ladies with whom he appeared with the most. Maureen O Hara, once described, appropriately, as ‘illegally beautiful’, was also a very good actress and more than capable of holding her own onscreen opposite Wayne. Their first pairing was in John Ford’s cavalry movie, “...
Marion Robert Morrison [1] [a] (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed " the Duke ", was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies. His career flourished from the silent era of ...
Box office. $750,000. Bigga than Ben is a 2008 British black comedy film written and directed by Suzie Halewood. The film is based on the 1999 Russian novel of the same name. It was released on 10 October 2008 in the United Kingdom and 18 November 2008 in the United States.
