“This is true …”: Why did John Wayne wear this strange nickname?

John Wayne was not just the king of cinema cowboys. His friends and close staff, such as director John Ford or actor Kirk Douglas, were simply called a “Duke”. But where does this popular nickname come from from time to time newspapers to talk about the Western star?

“It’s true and it’s left!”

A. Talk show In 1976, when he promoted the last giants of Don Sea, which will be his latest film, John Wain answered this question, which is asked within the public and the reason is very simple:

“Because I had a a Terrier airedale When I was little. He went to school and stopped in front of the fire station. One of the firefighters -the rescuer knew the name of the dog, the so -called dog’s name. He was a great Duke and I was a little Duke. That’s the truth! And it was left. “

Thus, the Duke (Duke in French) the title of improvised nobility, but in 1970 an Oscar actress’s heart for a valuable animal for the role of a hundred dollars.

“Duke” as well as the pseudonym of Wayne

Easily or by accident, John Winn will also perform several characters named Duke during his long career. This is the case with the Western bilateral law with Tim McCaque (1932), then Captain Dru (1937), his daughter and his cowboy (1943), La Bell de San Francisco (1945) and surgery in the Pacific (1951).

We can see that he uses this nickname as a pseudonym, as Wayne signs his appearance with musical words and music (1929) under the pseudonym “Duke Morrison”, in particular his nickname, who accompanies his true family because his true name was Michael Marion Morrison.