John Wyane Giant Shadow [Paperback]

C Mcgiverm (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 19, 2001

"My real name is Marion Morrison...I'm happy people call me 'Duke'...If you were my size, wore cowboy boots and a big hat, outrode, outfought and outshot all the bad men in the west...how would you like to climb down off a horse, throw your saddle over the corral rail and then walk off-camera to sit down in a chair labelled Marion?" "I don't work for the producers...I don't work for the studio...I don't work for the critics...I work for the audience...I try always to give the best of myself so that people aren't disappointed in me." "When the doctor taps you on the shoulder and says, 'You've got cancer' the sun sure doesn't shine any brighter. Yeah! I was scared. I was tough to get along with. I'd discovered I was fallible." A flesh and blood study of John Wayne, unashamedly aimed at the audience, the way he liked to do business. McGivern allows Wayne to tell his own story, mostly in his own words. It is the story of a man who chose to leave normality behind to create his own legend. Of all the complexities and composites that made up John Wayne, the image perhaps shines the brightest, but whilst his face is still seen on the TV screens around the world people will remember a man of true courage and honesty.

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Review

"Eating and drinking to his fans, it is articulately written, exhaustively researched and jam-packed with quotes..." -- Modern Woman: Ireland, March 2002. "The biography of a giant of a man who also cast a long shadow over the film industry..." -- Brave New World Website, October 2002.

About the Author

C. McGivern is a graduate of Brunel University and is the author of The Lost Films of John Wayne and Ronald Reagan, The Hollywood Years. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 428 pages
• Publisher: Gazelle Distribution Trade (October 19, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0954003101
• ISBN-13: 978-0954003104
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,607,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A strongly commended biography, August 9, 2004

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This review is from: John Wayne: A Giant Shadow (Paperback)

Marion Morris is better known to his millions of enthusiastic fans around the world by his theatrical name, John Wayne -- and to his friends and colleagues as "Duke". In John Wayne: A Giant Shadow, Hollywood historian C. McGivern presents those fans with a 465-page biography that provides an informed and informative biographical history of one of the most popular actors to ever sit a horse, or hold a pistol, or ride off into the sunset. Now now in a substantially updated and expanded third edition, John Wayne: A Giant Shadow is a strongly commended biography that does full and complete justice to an American icon. Also highly recommended as "must reading" for John Wayne buffs is McGivern's earlier title: The Lost Films Of John Wayne 0954003136, $29.95) which although published overseas by Sammon Publishing is now readily available in the United States through Seven Locks Press