Faro dealer The Shootist John Wayne
by David Lee Guss
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Faro dealer The Shootist John Wayne
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David Lee Guss
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In Duke Wayne's final film, "The Shootist," his aging gunslinger has a fight to the death in a saloon against three assailants. His final, and most deadly, opponent is a faro dealer, played by Hugh O'Brien, who actively campaigned for the role.
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them."...John Wayne as John Bernard Books, "The Shootist"
Maureen O'Hara writes in her autobiography,"'Tis Herself," about appearing before Congress shortly before Duke died to urge them to strike a medal honoring him with just the right inscription. She couldn't come up with the right word, actor or cowboy wasn't good enough. She called Duke one of the three greatest men she had known, her father and recently deceased husband, Charlie Blair, being the other two.
She went on to say, without a prepared statement, that John Wayne was her dearest friend. "To the people of the world, John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor, John Wayne is the United States of America. He is what they believe it to be. He is what they hope it will always be. It is every person's dream that the United States will be like John Wayne and always be like him....I beg you to strike the medal for Duke; to order the president to strike it. And I feel that the medal should say just one thing: "John Wayne, American."
In late May 2013 O'Hara was honored in a John Wayne birthday celebration held in Duke's birth place of Winterset, Iowa.
Long a resident of her native Ireland, she now resides in Idaho to be near her grandchildren.
@2012 David Lee Guss Film homage, The Shootist, faro dealer, Crystal Palace Saloon, Tombstone, AZ, 2004-2012
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