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7.50" x 8.00"
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2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
13.00" x 13.50"
John Wayne as Colonel Mike Kirby The Green Berets 1968 Framed Print
by David Lee Guss
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John Wayne as Colonel Mike Kirby The Green Berets 1968 framed print by David Lee Guss. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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John Wayne as Colonel Mike Kirby in The Green Berets, 1968. Ballad was used on the soundtrack for this pro Viet Nam War effort directed by... more
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Artist's Description
John Wayne as Colonel Mike Kirby in "The Green Berets," 1968. "Ballad" was used on the soundtrack for this pro Viet Nam War effort directed by Duke.
Despite being a laughable, simplistic mess capped by the sun setting in the east, this pro Vietnam project was surprisingly very successful at the box office. Must have been that John Wayne magic.
Despite being dead for years he remains among the top ten most popular movie actors. He was born Marion Morrison and disliked being called John. He was called Duke the name for a dog he had in childhood.
Wayne never legally changed his name. There is no recorded meeting of Duke and Barry. Like Frank Sinatra Duke never served in the military despite almost winning WW2 by himself on the sound stages and back lot at Republic Studios.
Commander John Ford belittled him until the end for shirking his military obligation. Officially he was exempted for being the sole bread winner for 4 children. Those in the know say it wa...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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Beverly Guilliams
Congrats on Your Sale!!! ...Fantastic
Norman Johnson
Nice portrait David. Congratulations on your sale.
David Lee Guss replied:
Hi, While never serving in the military, Duke certainly looked the part. DLG