The blended Wayne family: Wayne, his second wife, Chata, and the children from his first marriage: Michael, Melinda, Patrick and Toni.
Wayne the Cold Warrior, with Walter Pidgeon and Ward Bond at an American Legion event in Miami in 1951.
With Maureen O’Hara in
The Quiet Man
(1952).
With Lassie as Sam the Dog, in
Hondo
(1953).
With third wife, Pilar, and their new daughter, Aissa, 1956.
As Genghis Khan with Susan Hayward in the Howard Hughes howler
The Conqueror
(1956).
As the implacable Ethan Edwards in John Ford’s
The Searchers
(1956), with Monument Valley in the background, and Harry Carey, Jr., on the left.
Bringing Debbie (Natalie Wood) home in
The Searchers,
with Jeffrey Hunter alongside.
With Angie Dickinson in Howard Hawks’s
Rio Bravo
(1959).
The set for
The Alamo
in Brackettville, Texas, just before filming began.
On the set of
The Alamo,
with cameraman and strong right arm William Clothier.
As Davy Crockett in
The Alamo.
This is the photo that served as the basis for the image of Wayne on the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded him in 1979.
With John Ford on the set of
The Alamo
(1960).
About to face down Lee Van Cleef and Strother Martin in John Ford’s
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962).