One of the most important collaborators in John Wayne is partially responsible for the Academy Awards

Most film lovers know that John Ford gave John Wayne is a big break with “Stagecoach” of 1939, a lot of surprise to the young actor. After meeting in the twenties of the twentieth century when Wayne was working as a pillar (meeting Wayne Wayne literally Ford) The husband will work together intermittently over the following years, but only with the Duke in small, non -spoken roles. Ford has already waited for more than a decade to bring Wayne to the Grand League championships With “Stagecoach” and then his career and life in general were not the same.

But this is only part of how John Wayne’s legend starts. The actor, whose real name was Marion Robert Morrison, won the support of another influential director early in his career when Raul Walsh gave him his first role in “The Big Trail”. This 1930 screen is designed to celebrate the centenary of the Oregon Trailer, and Wayne was distinguished as Trapper Breck Coleman, which drives a large train on the road. Though The “The Big Trail” was often governed by the advanced camera technology and the great depressionIt was widely impressive and before it in several ways. The film was filmed in a wide format of 70 mm, known as Fox Azem. The scenes were filmed in seven states of more than 700 original American actor and five different actors of English, Spanish, Italian, French and German issues. Perhaps most importantly, the film presented the fans to John Wayne as a pioneering man.

Although the film failed to raise its noble ambitions due to the fact that the coordination of the Fox greatness was often unable to absorb it, the film was a major step in the Wayne profession, especially while waiting for his other teacher, Ford, to give him the opportunity to apply a major feature. But Walsh’s contribution to the profession of Wayne was not over “The Big Trail” or even after the actor was thrown at “Stagecoach”.

In an interview with The real WestRichard Shekel, Richard Shekel, talked about how Raul Walsh and John Ford felt responsible for launching the John Wayne profession. He said: “(Walsh) was very proud, as he feels – I think it was a source of disagreement between him and Ford (laughs) – that he found John Wayne somewhat.” What’s more, Senkl recalled that Walsh claimed that he was the person who gave John Wayne his theatrical name. “He said he was reading a book on the American revolutionary general” Madoni Wayne “, he remembered Senkel. “I think Wayne would be a good name for Marison Morrison. This is how the name came.”

elsewhere Wayne claimed that the theater name came from Execs StudioBut the fact that Walsh wanted to take the credit at least explaining how he felt the Duke. There was a feeling of a friendly chance but also the responsibility on the one hand, which was clearly proud to take Wayne from one of the theater to a pioneering man. “The new pioneering man made a thin boundary man,” Walsh wrote in his autobiography. “His representation was instinctive, so that whatever or who was playing it. Later, under the supervision of John Ford, he joined the ranks of immortal films. There is a lot of pride in the knowledge that I discovered as a winner. Not only that. I also found a great American.”

This is the great praise, given a place of Walsh in industry. The man was not just a director but rather a former actor who was also a founding member of the Academy of Arts and Motion Sciences (ampas). In this way, Walsh is definitely considered one of the most important collaborators in Wayne, but it is one of the most due to his respect.

Raul Walsh was born in 1887 in New York, but he had some of his cowboy credentials. After the death of his mother, Walsh, 15, traveled through Texas to Montana, and visiting Cuba before the beef worked in Mexico. His movie appeared for the first time in DW GRIFFTH’s Silent Silent Epic 1915 “Birth of a Nation” In which John Wilkes Booth played. But wallet is remembered much more than his guideline talents. After John Wayne gave his first role in the “The Big Trail”, he worked in Paramount, but he found more success in Warner Bros. James Kagney and Hamrani Bogart broke out the “Roaring Twenties”. The 1949 “White Heat” movie starred James Kagney alongside Edmund Operen and became one of the most famous films Walsh. He only worked with Wayne again in the 1940s, “Dark Command”, who was associated with the Duke with his western colleague Icon Roy Rogers.

Somewhere between all of this, Walsh found time to participate in the founding of the Academy of Arts and Animation, which, of course, became known as the “Oscars”. In January 1927, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Louis B. Mayer gathered 36 prominent film industry at a banquet, held at the Ambassador Hotel that has been closed since then. There he found Walsh himself in a respectable company. Among the other directors included in the founding members of the 36 -year -old Cecil B. Demil, Henry King and John M. Staling alongside a full range of actors, writers, producers and more. Unfortunately, Walsh himself will never receive a nomination from the academy that helped find it despite a profession permeated by true classics.

It does not necessarily care. At that time, Walsh was sitting at the banquet of his ambassador hotel, Wayne was still just a boy to support Fox. But he soon climbed to the stars, he helped in a small part of Walsh, who might not give him his real penetration, but he clearly saw the amazing capabilities in a young Marion Morrison. In the same way that the “The Big Trail” was before his time, then, he was also a lack of his ability to identify the real stars in a modest theater.