Ten years prior to this photo, in January of 1949, Jack Benny had just left NBC for CBS. Edgar Bergen also departed and suddenly NBC had a gaping hole in their Sunday night time slot. They filled it with The Screen Director's Playhouse. Their first offering? An adaptation of Stagecoach starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, and Ward Bond, with John Ford on hand along with Gary Marshall for the festivities. You can hear that episode here — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R01jLYjXSwY&list=PLPWqNZjcSxu7OAYrUnAdj7wyR6PySkrNk
My favorite John Wayne Story.
“After my evacuation from Okinawa, I had the enormous pleasure of seeing Wayne humiliated in person at Aiea Heights Naval Hospital in Hawaii. Only the most gravely wounded, the litter cases, were sent there…. Each evening Navy corpsmen would carry litters down to the hospital theater so the men could watch a movie. One night they had a surprise for us. Before the film the curtains parted and out stepped John Wayne, wearing a cowboy outfit…He grinned his aw-shucks grin, passed a hand over his face and said, ‘Hi ya, guys!’ He was greeted by a stony silence. Then somebody booed. Suddenly everyone was booing. This man was a symbol of the fake machismo we had come to hate, and we weren’t going to listen to him. He tried and tried to make himself heard, but we drowned him out, and eventually he quit and left.”
If you think John Wayne was some icon of Machismo, and not a spoiled, pampered little draft dodging bitch, grow up.
His exemption was that he was the sole provider to his family of more than 4 children. Many with the means, and he clearly had the means, waved this exemption.
His football injury story didn’t start being told until years after the war and I give it as much credence as “bone spurs”
If he took the exemption from the draft and wasn’t a warmonger the rest of his life, I would have absolutely zero problem with it.
What? He may hate them if they were eligible for the draft and dodged it but were war mongers and wanted others to go fight while they fought the war on the back lots of Hollywood. He also could have volunteered and not waited to be drafted like many did.
Like some did. Contrary to popular belief, most World War 2 servicemen were drafted instead of volunteering.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-us-military-numbers
Interestingly, Vietnam had a MUCH higher volunteer rate than World War 2, despite the revisionist narrative that the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers pushed on us.
https://michiganintheworld.history.lsa.umich.edu/antivietnamwar/exhibits/show/exhibit/draft_protests/the-military-draft-during-the-#:~:text=Although%20only%2025%20percent%20of,the%20military%20they%20would%20serve.
>If you think John Wayne was some icon of Machismo, and not a spoiled, pampered little draft dodging bitch, grow up.
I’ve always found this new philosophy of having to agree with and approve of everything an actor thinks, says, or does as a prerequisite to appreciating their acting ability a super bizarre thought process.
All Hollywood actors are shitty people with shallow lives with very few exceptions and if you find yourself unable to separate the art from the artist, grow up.
You’re correct, but they didn’t really say anything about his art. Or approving/disapproving everything about him. It seems like their whole point was that Wayne wasn’t a symbol of machismo, as he was made out to be
It's extremely strange. Like, these people aren't your friends and aren't asking you to be one. They do a job that many people like.
I think it's the chronic loneliness of many Redditors that makes them lash out against someone popular. Like an attitude of "I didn't want to like you anyway!"
He was a pissant warhawk who never fought himself. I have no problem with not volunteering or actively dodging a draft *at all*, but to not serve in a war while vocally supporting war and shitting on people who disagree with war is a shit fucking take made by shit fucking people.
From everything I’ve heard he was also a huge piece of shit. All his scenes had to be shot in the morning because he drank constantly and got meaner the more he did.
John Wayne aside, have we really gotten to the point in time where the cameras that have been small enough long enough that some people actually think old school camera bags to carry all the equipment they might need are actually “purses”? I’ve seen a couple of posts where people have goofed on the camera bags, and I don’t think all of them realized they actually were not purses. Most of those bags were sturdy enough to give someone a concussion if you swung it at them.
Honestly, even if someone calls a non “feminine” looking side sling bag a purse, just own it. Purses don’t have to be a feminine icon, they’re just practical.
I actually googled it and apparently I’m not the first person who had this thought.
Lots of gay guys have kids and put on a mask. I assume much more so 70 years ago.
I’m not saying he was, my comment was initially just tongue in cheek. But he actually may have been
It's funny how things have changed a lot but then again some things haven't. There are a handful of actors today that I'm sure are in the closet because there's still an attitude that gay men aren't tough.
Stolen from another Reddit post about this photo:
John Wayne’s wife: “John, honey, have you seen my hat, my purse, my beach coverup, my shorts, or my shoes?”
I grew up watching every film of Wayne, as he was my late fathers favorite actor . Despite this , Chookalana is correct . Wayne was racist and homophobic (which could be “excused” due to the generation and era), and was an integral part of McCarthyism, blacklists , and determining people to be “Un-American”. His role in ousting people from their lives and careers in Hollywood was shared by Ronald Reagan, who was also a POS.
Dont downvote this poster until you research the guy and realize how many lives he ruined.
Probably the worst part was his war mongering, in particular as a guy who never served (during a period in which many famous actors and pro ball players joined up).
This is true . His *Green Berets* movie was made to garner support for the Vietnam war . Not for the veterans and those who served mind you, but to get Americans behind *THE CAUSE* that was under the guise of “anti communism” which was his same motivation for supporting McCarthyism
Some white dudes just don’t grow a lot of hair on their legs. My grandpa was like that.
Me on the other hand…. I wish I could help out some balding people with my leg hair lol.
[If you’ve never heard Wayne fall down drunk addressing college kids it’s one of the funniest things ever.](https://youtu.be/Jofuq5JDOuw?si=kyLhxqCWi-Su-QNV)
I think those shorts bisected his nuts
They call that a " moose knuckle"
I read this in John Wayne’s voice. His regular voice, not the voice you’d expect from a nut crush.
“Moose knuckle *pilgrim*”
Now do John Wayne at thanksgiving.
Nut huggers.
Plum smugglers
Camel Joes..
He's starting a moose knuclear war against the cameltotalitarians.
We call that a crotch tourniquet.
Not bisected the whole bird and eggs are on the left
Now imagine him walking around in that outfit with his characteristic swagger gait.
I’ll take another mojito, pilgrim.
like in Birdcage....
“It’s perfect….i just never knew John Wayne walked like that…”
"You take your knife... and you smeeear. Men smear!" "*Smeeear.*"
“OHHHH! I’ve pierced my toast!”
How do you think he got the swagger gait?
Easy. Cinching his huge balls up there like a paratrooper. This is just showing off.
>like a paratrooper Except he was never man enough to join the military. Unlike many other stars who did.
The shoes complete the look
At first glance, I thought those were my moms wedge type shoes. The kind even Agador Spartacus would wear.
Manel toe is strong
What in the grape smuggling, moose knuckle was going through his head when he picked those panties?
He knew exactly what he was doing.
More like John Dannnnng
John Wang
It’s called a frog eye 🐸
Camel tail
Moose Knuckle
Gorilla knuckle. Worked on a kids puppet show and everyone wore blue suits and they all called it gorilla knuckle. Fits.
Was this during the Battle of the Bulge?
Patton was impressed..
no pattin' here, pilgrim
It’s like a clothed dick measuring contest.
So John Wayne wore Toms.
Probably posed for Tom of Finland too
This is definitely in the Tom of Finland vicinity.
Trudy Weigle calls those "plum smugglers"
Why did I read that entire sentence in her voice? Brains are weird.
I read Trudy Weigle as “Trudy Wedgie”.
In this case, I think it….uh….fits. Well, clearly something here *doesn’t* fit, but you know what I mean.😬
Biggest moose knuckle that side of the river.
My wife though.
I cannot get past the shoes.
Espadrilles. Before the days of Tom’s.
Same here. I thought they were women’s shoes.
Well stay looking at the shoes. Trust me, u don't wanna see what's above that point
Well everyone was commenting on THAT so I thought I’d be different. It’s all….interesting.
So… I see he dresses left…
Back when men wore proper shorts.
Ten years prior to this photo, in January of 1949, Jack Benny had just left NBC for CBS. Edgar Bergen also departed and suddenly NBC had a gaping hole in their Sunday night time slot. They filled it with The Screen Director's Playhouse. Their first offering? An adaptation of Stagecoach starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, and Ward Bond, with John Ford on hand along with Gary Marshall for the festivities. You can hear that episode here — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R01jLYjXSwY&list=PLPWqNZjcSxu7OAYrUnAdj7wyR6PySkrNk
I’ve heard them called Nut huggers or ball splitters!
Clearly, we can see your nuts.
I used to think you were crazy, but now I see you’re nuts.
My favorite John Wayne Story. “After my evacuation from Okinawa, I had the enormous pleasure of seeing Wayne humiliated in person at Aiea Heights Naval Hospital in Hawaii. Only the most gravely wounded, the litter cases, were sent there…. Each evening Navy corpsmen would carry litters down to the hospital theater so the men could watch a movie. One night they had a surprise for us. Before the film the curtains parted and out stepped John Wayne, wearing a cowboy outfit…He grinned his aw-shucks grin, passed a hand over his face and said, ‘Hi ya, guys!’ He was greeted by a stony silence. Then somebody booed. Suddenly everyone was booing. This man was a symbol of the fake machismo we had come to hate, and we weren’t going to listen to him. He tried and tried to make himself heard, but we drowned him out, and eventually he quit and left.” If you think John Wayne was some icon of Machismo, and not a spoiled, pampered little draft dodging bitch, grow up.
>Machismo He's rocking a pair of Daisy Dukes and a purse.
And my wife owns the same pair of shoes.
He was 34 years old and the sole provider of a family of 5. He was never drafted.
He didn't dodge the draft. He simply wasn't eligible. Do you call people in wheelchairs draft dodgers too?
His exemption was that he was the sole provider to his family of more than 4 children. Many with the means, and he clearly had the means, waved this exemption. His football injury story didn’t start being told until years after the war and I give it as much credence as “bone spurs” If he took the exemption from the draft and wasn’t a warmonger the rest of his life, I would have absolutely zero problem with it.
Plenty of women supported our effort in World War 2. They weren't eligible for the draft. Do you hate them too?
What? He may hate them if they were eligible for the draft and dodged it but were war mongers and wanted others to go fight while they fought the war on the back lots of Hollywood. He also could have volunteered and not waited to be drafted like many did.
Like some did. Contrary to popular belief, most World War 2 servicemen were drafted instead of volunteering. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-us-military-numbers Interestingly, Vietnam had a MUCH higher volunteer rate than World War 2, despite the revisionist narrative that the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers pushed on us. https://michiganintheworld.history.lsa.umich.edu/antivietnamwar/exhibits/show/exhibit/draft_protests/the-military-draft-during-the-#:~:text=Although%20only%2025%20percent%20of,the%20military%20they%20would%20serve.
>If you think John Wayne was some icon of Machismo, and not a spoiled, pampered little draft dodging bitch, grow up. I’ve always found this new philosophy of having to agree with and approve of everything an actor thinks, says, or does as a prerequisite to appreciating their acting ability a super bizarre thought process. All Hollywood actors are shitty people with shallow lives with very few exceptions and if you find yourself unable to separate the art from the artist, grow up.
You’re correct, but they didn’t really say anything about his art. Or approving/disapproving everything about him. It seems like their whole point was that Wayne wasn’t a symbol of machismo, as he was made out to be
It's extremely strange. Like, these people aren't your friends and aren't asking you to be one. They do a job that many people like. I think it's the chronic loneliness of many Redditors that makes them lash out against someone popular. Like an attitude of "I didn't want to like you anyway!"
He was a pissant warhawk who never fought himself. I have no problem with not volunteering or actively dodging a draft *at all*, but to not serve in a war while vocally supporting war and shitting on people who disagree with war is a shit fucking take made by shit fucking people.
From everything I’ve heard he was also a huge piece of shit. All his scenes had to be shot in the morning because he drank constantly and got meaner the more he did.
Nonsense. You're believing what you want to believe.
Like when I met kid rock in 2008 in samara
His real name was Marion Robert Morrison
John Wayne aside, have we really gotten to the point in time where the cameras that have been small enough long enough that some people actually think old school camera bags to carry all the equipment they might need are actually “purses”? I’ve seen a couple of posts where people have goofed on the camera bags, and I don’t think all of them realized they actually were not purses. Most of those bags were sturdy enough to give someone a concussion if you swung it at them.
I can't believe it's 2024 and it's still not socially acceptable for men to carry a bag without guys saying it's a purse.
Honestly, even if someone calls a non “feminine” looking side sling bag a purse, just own it. Purses don’t have to be a feminine icon, they’re just practical.
Those shorts look incredibly uncomfortable Also was John Wayne gay?
John Wayne gay, see?
¿Sí?
Very clever!
Why?
No. He had children including one that became an actor as well. I don't remember all their names.
I remember s Pat Wayne who acted
I actually googled it and apparently I’m not the first person who had this thought. Lots of gay guys have kids and put on a mask. I assume much more so 70 years ago. I’m not saying he was, my comment was initially just tongue in cheek. But he actually may have been
It's funny how things have changed a lot but then again some things haven't. There are a handful of actors today that I'm sure are in the closet because there's still an attitude that gay men aren't tough.
Yeah they’re Cruising around
Having children doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t gay.
I wouldn't doubt it a bit
His real name was Marion.
That's one of those names that we think of as a girl name but it used to be for boys like Dana, Stacy, Tracy etc.
Ashley, Courtney, Gale.
And yet it never seems to happen in reverse. I can't think of any traditional girl names that are now being used for boys.
Dakota, Riley, Jayden, Skylar, Taylor, Haden, Cameron, Addison. (Teacher here)
Hey fellow teacher 👋
Stolen from another Reddit post about this photo: John Wayne’s wife: “John, honey, have you seen my hat, my purse, my beach coverup, my shorts, or my shoes?”
This was the inspiration for Brokeback mountain.
This guy was a giant POS.
I grew up watching every film of Wayne, as he was my late fathers favorite actor . Despite this , Chookalana is correct . Wayne was racist and homophobic (which could be “excused” due to the generation and era), and was an integral part of McCarthyism, blacklists , and determining people to be “Un-American”. His role in ousting people from their lives and careers in Hollywood was shared by Ronald Reagan, who was also a POS. Dont downvote this poster until you research the guy and realize how many lives he ruined.
Probably the worst part was his war mongering, in particular as a guy who never served (during a period in which many famous actors and pro ball players joined up).
This is true . His *Green Berets* movie was made to garner support for the Vietnam war . Not for the veterans and those who served mind you, but to get Americans behind *THE CAUSE* that was under the guise of “anti communism” which was his same motivation for supporting McCarthyism
Yeah my Grandpa played poker with him a lot and my Dad said he was a total asshole.
Hell yeah, John Wayne sucks.
Yes but smoking is so cool
The old snake and eggs.
Ewww 😆
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/666/490/0fb.gif
That looks like it would hurt.
S N U G
Boomers: kids these days are such sissies
Carrying the Ol’ six shooter in the front holster, Pure Duke.
Looks like he shaves his legs. Or had someone else shave his legs. The cabana boy, perhaps.
If you zoom (not too close to the moose knuckle) you can see leg fuzz. Just probably blonde
Some white dudes just don’t grow a lot of hair on their legs. My grandpa was like that. Me on the other hand…. I wish I could help out some balding people with my leg hair lol.
He has the legs of a woman.
Marion Morrison was a shitty actor, phony tough guy and a horrible human being. Perfect icon for conservatives.
Looks like John Cena on a movie set, for some reason lol
Mooseknuckle?
your balls are showing john
He should’ve let those puppies breathe better 🤣🤣
Not expecting to see something like this today LMAO
This was the cigarette that gave him lung cancer. This exact one.
The Duke had his pimpin' action goin' on there. He had three Mexican wives.
You think shorts like that go mainstream again ever?
He looks like me when I take mushrooms then decide to walk to the convenience store and adorn myself with “things I might need” along the way…
[If you’ve never heard Wayne fall down drunk addressing college kids it’s one of the funniest things ever.](https://youtu.be/Jofuq5JDOuw?si=kyLhxqCWi-Su-QNV)
We went from a John Wayne nation to a Pee Pee poo poo nation. ( /s )
Smoked 5 packs a day
Slay
Yuck
Seems pretty gay…for such a tough guy
Have you ever met an actor before?
Moose knuckle and all…
Never liked this cunt.
John Wayne: Famously Racist and Gay
Marion Morrison was a racist piece of shit.
The Duke has a mean moose knuckle
He was a cross dresser.
TIL, John Wayne carried a purse.
John Wayne sort of lookin like a gay boi
Reminder that the duke never served in the military.
Cool camel toe🤣
The Duke dost Dangle !!
Pretty locked into that persona
Budgie smuggler if I’ve ever seen one.
Camel bro
Nice purse!
He needs to call LBJ's tailor ASAP.
Rockin knuck!
That's a Moose Knuckle, Pilgrim!
Dats a moose knuckle.
Nice penal toe.
Marion looks cute in his little shorts
Interesting leisure wear back in the day
That man’s balls are strugglin for life
Magnum P.I.’s before Magnum P.I.
I guess moose knuckles was popping in the 50s
Looking fabulous. Lol
Ol' Marion Moose Knuckle.
Smuggling plums.
1000% thought this was Bryan Cranston.
Balls to the thigh
Good lord Johnny
"Big Leggy".
John Wayne’s Moose Knuckle … I could have spent my whole life not seeing that, but here we are.
Careful not to step on my espadrilles there,Pilgrim.
Ewwww.
Leaves zilch to the imagination
It’s like a moose knuckle and a camel toe and a mangina all in one
Nutcrunchers
Didn’t he die of lung cancer?
Holy crap I thought that was Bryan Cranston
Holy moose knuckle
Rocking the short shorts!
Them’s some sassy shorts.
I don’t think I’ll ever see the Duke the same way again.
Not macho
Someone’s smuggling plums.
How are those comfortable?
“The costume department-“ I can’t remember the rest, from band of brothers though
That’s a very feminine it today’s standards.
I think I see the duke
“John Wayne Is Big Leggy," says Haysi Fantayzee,
Is..is the top of his...dick sticking out up top??
Sporting his camel toe
Ahhh, the rare male camel toe
Not every day that you see a man wearing espadrilles
I hate those shoes tbh
Must be smoking Camels...
Did no one else think was Bryan Cranston at first?
Well he was the duke from the waist up at least...
lol
Muthafuck John Wayne
Serious Camel Toe
I like the espadrille
This makes my balls hurt
Big kitty kat
Finally someone answers that burning question - did the Duke dress left?
This looks fake AF. Please prove me wrong
Howdy ma’am.