John Wayne out of costume with flag Metal Print
by David Lee Guss
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John Wayne out of costume with flag metal print by David Lee Guss. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of a metal print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 1/16" thick aluminum. The aluminum sheet is offset from the wall by a 3/4" thick wooden frame which is attached to the back. The high gloss of the aluminum sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results.
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Duke poses, out of costume, with an American flag in the twilight days of his life.... more
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Duke poses, out of costume, with an American flag in the twilight days of his life.
Duke died in 8 of his films:
"Central Airport"
"Reap the Wild Wind"
"The Fighting Seabees"
"Wake of the Red Witch"
"The Sands of Iwo Jima"
"The Alamo"
"The Cowboys"
"The Shootist"
He had already died at the beginning of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and he died offscreen (conveyed to the audience in a floating newspaper headline in the poignant last image in John Ford's "The Long Voyage Home.")
(One of the last survivors of John Ford's stock company, Harry Carey, Jr., died in December 2012, at age 91 of natural causes.)
In an odd twist Duke might have left us years earlier. His virulent anti-Communist stance incurred the wrath of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, himself a fan of Westerns.
Stalin commanded the KGB to assassinate Duke, but his successor Nikita Khruschev rescinded that order.
{Note: Duk...
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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