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  The Independent

  Sacheen Littlefeather: Actor says John Wayne tried to remove her from Oscars stage after political speech

  Actor and activist rejected Marlon Brando’s Oscar on his behalf at the 1973 ceremony, which apparently angered Wayne

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  The Telegraph

  John Wayne was the original Oscars disgrace

  Until lately, there was a tendency to roll our eyes about Marlon Brando rejecting his best actor Oscar for The Godfather in 1973. Couldn’t he just play ball, show up and say something nice, like anyone else? What was he trying to prove, sending in the Apache actress Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse the award for him, as a protest against the brutal treatment of Native Americans in Hollywood’s output?

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  The Independent

  Film academy apologizes to Littlefeather for 1973 Oscars

  Nearly 50 years after Sacheen Littlefeather stood on the Academy Awards stage on behalf of Marlon Brando to speak about the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has apologized to her for the abuse she endured

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  The Telegraph

  Coarse, sleazy, unreconstructed – we’ll never see another actor like James Caan

  On the set of Howard Hawks’s 1966 western El Dorado, the story goes that John Wayne was playing chess between scenes. On the opposite side of the board was some 20-something nobody from television who’d starred in Hawks’s previous film: a car-racing thriller which had spluttered at the box office. Wayne, meanwhile, was still a Hollywood icon, riding high in the twilight of the studios’ glory years.

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  The Guardian

  Philomena to Jerry and Marge Go Large: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

  Judi Dench and Steve Coogan star in a terrifically moving true story, while Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening play a couple who find a loophole in the lottery … and try to win big

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  The Independent

  Dark Winds gives the doomed American West of Yellowstone one last shot at redemption

  HIT PAUSE: This new noirish crime drama centres the indigenous Navajo experience, says Amanda Whiting, and is all the better for it

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  Men's Health UK

  The Stuntman Who Inspired Brad Pitt's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Character Is More Badass In Real Life

  Hal Needham's life included cross-country street races, fights with John Wayne, and jumping off a 30-foot ledge onto a moving stagecoach. He was the inspiration for Brad Pitt's character in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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  The Independent

  The Magnificent 20: The greatest westerns of all time

  From John Ford classics to Sergio Leone gems, these are the best films the genre has to offer

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  The Guardian

  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance at 60: the great American western

  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance at 60: the great American western. John Ford’s 1962 masterwork remains a surprisingly downbeat film about the west with never-better performances from James Stewart and John Wayne

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  The Telegraph

  ‘An excessive amount of slaughter’: what The Longest Day got right – and wrong – about Normandy

  For producer Darryl F. Zanuck, The Longest Day was a matter of victory or defeat. “Either I will go broke, or make the greatest picture ever,” he said.

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