I mean he was able to work with big time mo's like Montgomery Clift and Lawrence Harvey with out any problems. If he had a problem with them he would never have worked with them. It would have come through on screen.
In fact he hired Laurence Harvey to play Colonel William Travis in his life long obsession "The Alamo." Harvey was gay and continued to beg the Duke to have sex with him through out the filming of the Alamo. The Duke just laughed him off and continued to make the picture. He didn't give a shit. He just gave him a job in one of his most prominent roles alongside Richard Windmark and the great Chill Wills.
Of course that is not enough for the facists who demonize everyone who does not toe the gay line. But then again the Duke didn't give a shit.
Why should we?
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Well, you're either gay or a homophobe, right? It's down to that at this point.
How could he have worked so long in Hollywood if he wasn't tolerant?
It's self-evident.
Hey the Duke was a piece of meat when he started out.
Marlene Dietrich saw him in the commissary and had him sent to her dressing room. He make a couple of movies with her while he banged the crap out of her even though his type was more your hot tamale kind of chica.
Monty Clift disdained the Duke and Ward Bond and most of the guys who worked on "Red River" as old school conservatives. In fact the only one he stayed friendly with was the Duke who acted with him without any problems.
It was perhaps Clift's best role other than his coda in "Judgment at Nuremberg" when he was a wreck.
The pussy new jerk midget Dick Cavett wrote a glowing piece In the NYT about meeting the Duke. The guy who was Tommy Morrison's first trainer is a friend of mine in KC. He dubbed him the Duke because there was allegedly a distant relative of Wayne. Morrison was a white trash idiot and probably didn't even know who Wayne was. My friend loved Wayne. I gotta a lot of Tommy Morrison stories but who really cares.
Rock Hudson liked John Wayne because he was only producer in Hollywood that would give him a movie role in the late 60s. I think it was the "Undefeated".
They got along fine on the set.
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