Playboy Interview: John Wayne
May, 1971
Playboy Interview: John WayneFor more than 41 years, the barrel-chested physique and laconic derring-do of John Wayne have been prototypical of gung-ho virility, Hollywood style. In more than 200 films--from "The Big Trail" in 1930 to the soon-to-be-released "Million Dollar Kidnapping"--Wayne has charged the beaches at Iwo Jima, beaten back the Indians at Fort Apache and bloodied his fists in the name of frontier justice so often--and with nary a defeat--that he has come to o...