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Joe D. -> RE: Are these real? (1/14/2014 10:38:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: rustysi
OK, I gonna get a whoopin'. IIRC didn't the DUKE beg off when he was drafted, something about last surviving male heir in his line (Marion something or another). So he could not have been in any of these places.[X(]
from John Wayne, Man and Myth
By Pat Dowell
Sept. 25, 1995
After "The Big Trail" flopped, Wayne spent nearly 10 years of drudgery in the B-western trade, until stardom came at last in the John Ford film "Stagecoach" in 1939. To enlist in 1942 meant to risk all his new-found fame and growing wealth, and besides, as a father in his thirties, he was entitled to a deferment. Many in Hollywood waived their deferments, but the poor kid whose dad had tried to dirt-farm the Mojave Desert couldn't take the chance. Other actors did risk all, and some lost, returning to the public's indifference. Some of them were supplanted by Wayne himself, who took his deferments until service became a moot point, a fact he was ashamed of for the rest of his life.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/wayne.htm
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