Wayne was passionate about playing Cogburn after reading Portis’ novel. The actor enjoyed how Roberts’ True Grit screenplay uplifted the original source material, including a different ending ...

John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn are two of the biggest and most iconic stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, but they only ...

Since then, Wayne usually played cowboys, soldiers, and other assorted heroes. True Grit's Rooster Cogburn was an aging, ...

I tried to buy the book myself. Wayne was also a fan of the way Henry Hathaway directed True Grit. “Remember that one scene, where old Rooster is facing those four men across the meadow ...

After winning the Best Actor Oscar for 1969’s True Grit, John Wayne returned for a sequel with 1975’s Rooster Cogburn alongside Katharine Hepburn. However, Duke had serious health issues going ...

Second, there are those who are nostalgically fond of the defanged and more Cogburn-centric ... hammy post-cancer John Wayne won his only Oscar as the fat, one-eyed, drunken Rooster.

John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 original ‘True Grit’ Source: Distributor 1969’s True Grit is regarded as one of the great Westerns while the remake was a critical and box-office ...

John Wayne's iconic eye-patch from his 1969 film "True Grit" and the Golden Globe award he won for playing drunken U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the movie are to be sold at auction, Heritage ...

By Todd Longwell Hailee Steinfeld (with Matt Damon) was chosen for the role of Mattie in the Coen brothers’ “True Grit” after a nationwide search. Legend has it that when John Wayne charged ...

But that’s no reason to count out Joel and Ethan Coen’s “True Grit,” which ... crusty-but-trusty U.S. marshal Rooster Cogburn, the role that won John Wayne his sole Academy Award.