Okay, I love this clip! That said, between The Duke and Guy Madison (both of whom had lindy follows dancing around them)...who do you think would win on a dance off?
To me that is awesome seeing John Wayne getting up & dancing. I am so used to seeing him Tall in The Saddle that seeing him on a dance floor dancing is fun & classic. John Wayne did so many things for Our Country, he is to this day an American Icon. He never served due to a football injury, however he received the Congressional Medal of Honor known as "John Wayne-American" May 21, 1979. If Congress thinks he should be remembered for doing all he did then so be it! Just ask Maureen O'Hara?
I get sick and tired of all the losers that either "forgive" Wayne or "condem" him for not serving in the military. HE WAS 4-F MORONS. All he could have done is go on USO tours. He felt (and I believe rightlt so) that using his talents thru movies was the best support he could give the war effort. NOW LET ME ASK THIS. WE are engaged in several wars. Man or woman; YOU have no excuse not to serve by your standards.
Truthfully, John Wayne was quite the dancer in real life. Fred Astaire said the Duke was so light on his feet that he'd missed his true calling. In his younger years, he was reputed to be a habitual club-crawler, especially dance clubs. In 1926, he beat three women in a Charleston contest at USC.
John Wayne was sent to visit wounded GIs in hospitals during WW2 and he was soundly told to get the hell away from them. The guys who'd actually seen combat didn't want any piece of some Hollywood goof who portrayed a false and misleading version of war onscreen.
John Wayne is the best of the best IMHO! From western hero to jitter-bug dancing, he's the best ever to grace the silver screen... Wish his tradition had remained to this day, but sadly, it did not!
@JEAN1926 Right on sweet heart, you tell em, They just are ignorant, and don't know any better. If they'd live when he did, they'd how great an american he really was. Too bad there aren't a few like him in DC, or maybe the white house, it'd be a lot differrent,and our president wouldn't be bowing to all the assholes around the w2orld, like our current idiot is."MISS ME YET"?
@JEAN1926 Right on sweet heart, you tell em, They just are ignorant, and don't know any better. If they'd live when he did, they'd know how great an american he really was. Too bad there aren't a few like him in DC, or maybe the white house, it'd be a lot differrent,and our president wouldn't be bowing to all the assholes around the world, like our current idiot is."MISS ME YET"?
Damn, women dressed so beautiful in floral dresses and what not. I wish us women can wear dresses again one day and not look "over dressed" Now most of the women look like dried up expensive hookers. Look at Megan Fox.
We had the movie Angel and the Badman on video tape and were running it in fast forward for whatever reason, and you could really see how smooth his walk is. Most fast forward points up jerky movements people make. But not our Johnny boy. He was SMOOTH.
I completely agree with the comment Pinkerton9 made about the class women had then. I always try to carry myself with class and dignity that is usually not seen today. By the way this is the Lindy Hop not the Jitterbug.
@Kittlionheart hahahahaah the world was very screwed up then too, but everyone was too busy chain smoking and drinking to notice. Especially the knuckleheads in hollywood. lol
I can give him a pass as many films he made during this time really helped the war effort and put forth a positive image of the American GI and the patriot spirit which was highly needed for people at home and overseas. So he did do his part in some ways by this and kept it up until his death.
@IanRush77 Wayne was exempted from service due to his age (34 at the time of Pearl Harbor) and family status, classified as 3-A (family deferment). Yes the studios did use their pull to keep him out as he was a BIG money draw for them but Wayne didn't actively push to enlist either. I
agree with lanoftheshanks - why oh why do people insist on airing their opinions on "race" on you tube?! Im not here to read ignorant remarks JUST COMMENT ON THE VID !!!
wtf?! this movie is about john wayne. take your fuckin' ignorance elsewhere and enjoy the dancing and music. god almighty every video has some kind of debate over random shit.
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y'all got wayne figured wrong. he was too wise to join the military in WW2 for it he was worth his weight in gold to recruitment by insipiring useful idiots to die instead of him and his ilk. if useful idiots like clarke gable etc wanted to join for whatever reasons thats ok...just don't expect wise men like duke to get all ''patriotic'' about some bullshit war that would be over in a few years.....
Yeah, them Nazis would have just come to their senses and dismantled all the death camps and pulled out of Poland, Austria and France without anyone raising a finger eventually, right? Of course an Irish person, part of a country that sat on their arses during the war, would say this.
He wanted to join. There is proof he wanted to join the military. His producing company wouldn't let him, john wayne even sent a letter to them asking if he should join.
He was so typecast in his career, he essentially portrayed John Wayne in his movies. But if you watch one of his movies as if you'd never heard of him, and watch him without prejudice, he comes across as an excellent actor. He had something.
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the blacks in this country are destroying it. They are awarded jobs and positions they do NOT merit simply because of the color of their skin. It is called the "dumbing down of America". Name me ONE black-run country, or even city, that is a shining example of success. You can't. If blacks hate whites so much, why do they push themselves into white neighborhoods? I am sick of blacks calling the race card to cover for their laziness and inabilities.
This was an interesting clip its been a long time since I've seen this one may have to see if I can find it just so I see Wayne dance again. Thanks for posting. Ps I really wish those of you who don't like Wayne would just visit other videos and let those of us who do watch them without your two cents worth.
I'm white but also gay, and I do not accept the criticism of black and other minority resistance as simply "complaining". The squeaky wheel gets the grease. It's the only strategy minorities have. If white society were not so racist, then no one would have to complain, and there would be no cause to complain
Blacks have so many opportunities today, that they did not have before. As MLK said, judge by the persons content, not by the color of skin. Its not the color of skin...its the way people act. I am white, and I will not make excuses for the fact that I do not like alot of what blacks are doing today. It is the merit of people. There are other races beside black....latino, asian, American Indian...they don't seem to need that much attention. And they don't seem to contantly complain.
@califgirl11 You believe the mad in media don't you?! We've fought in all your wars been your most faithful servants! I'm a former US Marine infantryman, my father a world war tanker and my brother is a veteran police sergeant! And please don't tell me you voted for Obama! You obviously do not know what your white higher ups got planned for Blackfolks and other people of color! And they always use others as a buffer zone! My family is not an exception either.l Two of sisters are teachers!
@gjohnsoningary Yep, and like the statistics prove, 98% of the crime in thUSA, is committed by blacks, and only make up 2% of the prison system. Now, say again just how mistreated the blacks, and people of color are. Theres good and bad in all races, my freind.
@bigjack940 I'm not your friend first off. but believe lie that 98% of the crimes committed in this country are committed by Black people. This country was founded by criminals, murderers, child molesters, rapists, sexual deviants, thieves, swindlers, liars and other assorted freaks! America is in the scriptures as the bastion of every unclean and hateful bird! I am not your friend! John Wayne was making movies about war at the same time my father was in Europe fighting the Nazis!
Sierria64, the Duke was born in1907 and I think a majority of white males born in that era were racist. But I know for a fact that the Duke didn't have hate for minorities, it was how everyone was brought up. I a,m sure black men born in 1907 didn't have much love for white men either. Now you can't say John Wayne was a racist. Because he had 3 inter racial marrages. He married 3 latin woman and that was in a time when THAT didn't even happen. His first marrage was in the early 1930's.
That's very true. I think the term racist is bandied about much too frequently. We've learned to apply our present day standards to a time when the majority of people's attitudes towards other races was very different. I don't really see the benefit in labeling or accusing these people once they're dead - we just have to accept that our awareness of these issues has changed a great deal, and they were only a product of their age, as we are of ours.
my granmother ( luella ) worked as a maid at rko/mgm in the 1930's , 1940's until 1955. from the stories about duke she often said that he referred to black people " hey nigger" ,black men as boy ... and women as gal she said on one occasion he even addressed bill robinson ( the dancer) as boy /nigger and told him to not look at him ..he wold not even shake his hand ..so racist yes
@ellecto That's the attitude of the descendants of the persecutors: the attitude of the descendants who have profited from harm done to others, in the past. But trying to bury it doesn't bring justice to those who suffered from it. It's like forgetting about the holocaust. Or let's forget our war dead. If you have any respect for your ancestors, you don't let the world forget what they suffered. They are the only reason we exist: The only reason. No them, no you.
Hang on - no one said anything about forgotting the incidents of history. To a certain extent, events such as the Holocaust or a world war are impossible to forget - they overshadow the future for longer than many people even realise and in ways that are often surprising. All I was saying was that we should attempt a kind of empathy with people in the past before we apply the moral codes and values of our generation to them. How can we hope to understand them otherwise?
no kevin419..my granmother ( luella)worked as a maid at rko/mgm in the 1940's and 1930 until 1955. i am black she said that he was so racist / untorlorent that he always adressed the black men as boy ... and women as gal she said on one occasion he even addressed bill robinson as boy /nigger and told him to not look at him ..he wold not even shake his hand ..so racist yes
Although that's shocking and unacceptable by today's standards, behaviour like that was more common then. If this is true, I think it merely suggests that Wayne was a not-all-that unusual example of his generation's attitude. Therefore, I don't really see the benefit of griping about it now: the iconic figure that Wayne presents is a part of that generation, and has to be viewed within its context.
Maybe thats true maybe not, but your bitchin about a man that was born over 100 years ago things were different for everyone. now for racist look at black society today and your leaders jesse jackoff al sharpie and every single time something doesnt go your way here comes the race card.black society has more now than they ever have so get over it and move on.
@scorzeny45 You tell em son, and follow , with if they d on't like it, catch a plane and fast as you can to africa, and then tell us all , how bad the USA is.
Thanks for the share - G. My father would be turning in his grave - John Wayne Dancing!!! lol Great to see big Macho Man types letting their hair down - Love it.
You are totally right. Back then men had to work for their girl, like it should be done. Today it is the first gal that shakes her moneymaker like a cheap ..., well you know. Glad i am not the only one who thinks like that!
Maybe some has already mentioned this, but the gorgeous woman Wayne is dancing with is Adele Mara, one of the most popular actresses at Republic Pictures in the 40's.
this is interesting to watch, what movie is this? and John Wayne dances like me! stiff and does not know what to do! lol i don't like to dance either! funny how me and the Duke share that! and i think he did all right for a guy who did not dance much!
So what would Ethel Mertz say about Fred being there w/out her? Nice video all the same. Pipe down kids. Don't get all huffy and personal. Enjoy the vid and keep your hands to yourself.
Okay, I love this clip! That said, between The Duke and Guy Madison (both of whom had lindy follows dancing around them)...who do you think would win on a dance off?
sabinoson 3 days ago
John Wayne doing lindy hop tricks (if not outright lindy hop.) Now, 20 years or so later in the 1960's, did he do the twist at the Starlight Club?
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wojo47 4 weeks ago
"Friend...goood."
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0:31 Fred Murtz XD
@RURALWARROOM Transmutate?
Velox415 3 weeks ago
Ahh, the beautiful Adele Mara!
ronleon62 2 months ago
I'm amused that he acts like he doesn't know what to do, and seconds later he's slinging this girl around in all the complicated acrobatic moves.
hebneh 2 months ago
never mind it being a film, i think the cast were really enjoying themselves lol...luv it...
roseelee1 3 months ago
Damn the way that blonde moves....
deftdrummer 3 months ago
His dancing is almost as wooden as his acting.
fiddlinshim 4 months ago
Aint that Fred Mertz, too? Still looking for Lucy in this clip
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To me that is awesome seeing John Wayne getting up & dancing. I am so used to seeing him Tall in The Saddle that seeing him on a dance floor dancing is fun & classic. John Wayne did so many things for Our Country, he is to this day an American Icon. He never served due to a football injury, however he received the Congressional Medal of Honor known as "John Wayne-American" May 21, 1979. If Congress thinks he should be remembered for doing all he did then so be it! Just ask Maureen O'Hara?
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nemeckathleen1 5 months ago
and everyone thought he was just a cowboy
realfunny7 5 months ago 3
fucking hollywood..its destroyed humanity
kssson 6 months ago
I get sick and tired of all the losers that either "forgive" Wayne or "condem" him for not serving in the military. HE WAS 4-F MORONS. All he could have done is go on USO tours. He felt (and I believe rightlt so) that using his talents thru movies was the best support he could give the war effort. NOW LET ME ASK THIS. WE are engaged in several wars. Man or woman; YOU have no excuse not to serve by your standards.
bigoxe1 6 months ago 6
what a gorgeous man!
taedonsgirl 6 months ago
Oh...the monkeys have no tails in Samboango!
AbsoluteMonarchist 6 months ago
Impresionante John Wayne.
¡Que pedazo de Actor!
Exceptional John Wayne.
That Great Actor!
escenariosdecine 7 months ago in playlist Dean Martin, John Wayne & Jimmy Stewart
Truthfully, John Wayne was quite the dancer in real life. Fred Astaire said the Duke was so light on his feet that he'd missed his true calling. In his younger years, he was reputed to be a habitual club-crawler, especially dance clubs. In 1926, he beat three women in a Charleston contest at USC.
moproducer 7 months ago 2
those look like good times
RayWilliamJohansen 7 months ago
hey i thought fred mertz didn't know john wayne, but there he was, with a front row seat watching him dance up a storm.
i'll bet lucy and ethel would have been pretty mad if the found out, and fred didn't willingly introduce them to him!, lol
wntoply6 8 months ago
Who knew?
samurbancode 9 months ago
And just when I thought I saw everything...
mrgears 9 months ago
He may not be that great of a dancer but he sure was handsome! :)
spongegirl4eva 9 months ago 4
Well old Marions not much of a dancer now is he?
chanctonbury63 9 months ago
How about Adele Mara's legs when she is dancing?
jeff65623 9 months ago
John Wayne was sent to visit wounded GIs in hospitals during WW2 and he was soundly told to get the hell away from them. The guys who'd actually seen combat didn't want any piece of some Hollywood goof who portrayed a false and misleading version of war onscreen.
bapyou 10 months ago
Wait..... Is that Richard Nixon at 00:30 !?!? I didn't know that he was in this movie.
JunRa308 10 months ago
william frawley is in this!
pimpdaddy1098 11 months ago
Anyone else think young john wayne looks like liam neeson?
premie612 11 months ago
I see Bill Frawley in there, jeez, was that guy ever young?
tikiduck 11 months ago
John Wayne is the best of the best IMHO! From western hero to jitter-bug dancing, he's the best ever to grace the silver screen... Wish his tradition had remained to this day, but sadly, it did not!
settinhen 1 year ago
They'd have treated the Wayne no worse than they treated Michael Bolton on DWTS 2010. Boy, Duke, that was....well, stiff.
66fredo99 1 year ago
He's no Fred Astaire!
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Mrgarfman97 1 year ago
This was as about as exciting as watching weeds grow. zzzzzzzzz.
coomason5 1 year ago
John Wayne was more man than any men of today's generation could hope to be.....
JEAN1926 1 year ago
@JEAN1926 Right on sweet heart, you tell em, They just are ignorant, and don't know any better. If they'd live when he did, they'd how great an american he really was. Too bad there aren't a few like him in DC, or maybe the white house, it'd be a lot differrent,and our president wouldn't be bowing to all the assholes around the w2orld, like our current idiot is."MISS ME YET"?
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@JEAN1926 Right on sweet heart, you tell em, They just are ignorant, and don't know any better. If they'd live when he did, they'd know how great an american he really was. Too bad there aren't a few like him in DC, or maybe the white house, it'd be a lot differrent,and our president wouldn't be bowing to all the assholes around the world, like our current idiot is."MISS ME YET"?
bigjack940 1 year ago
haha ended with a sex joke. lol
PatrioticAstronaut 1 year ago
whos tht dancing with the duke?
wwemad09 1 year ago
Chill out, watch the dancing, have some fun. This has nothing to do with racism.
ssmarilyn 1 year ago
Note at 0:30 lower-left screen: William Frawley ("Fred Mertz" of "I Love Lucy" fame)!
WSenator1 1 year ago 2
Betcha didn't know he could dance. . .Well, he cant! (Wah-hah!)
weightfeather1 1 year ago
Its like watching Joe Louis wrestle.
stargate121 1 year ago
Would have been fun to see him on dancing with the stars!
tessakib 1 year ago
Damn, women dressed so beautiful in floral dresses and what not. I wish us women can wear dresses again one day and not look "over dressed" Now most of the women look like dried up expensive hookers. Look at Megan Fox.
RetroZombieee 1 year ago 3
mel gibson look a like.
drew7473 1 year ago
CB Construction Battalion.
websuspect 1 year ago
I think his dancing is a wooden as his acting
johnboy48 1 year ago
@johnboy48 And THAT from someone named johnboy....are you serious?
Lindajo1955 1 year ago
@johnboy48 I'm sure you're a regular Brando. Moron.
AmericanOutlaw87 1 year ago
GO DUKE GO !!!
redwing46901 1 year ago
No!
thethomasmontgomery 1 year ago
Anyone know if the Duke was wearing a piece here?
7beers 1 year ago
We had the movie Angel and the Badman on video tape and were running it in fast forward for whatever reason, and you could really see how smooth his walk is. Most fast forward points up jerky movements people make. But not our Johnny boy. He was SMOOTH.
rufusminnie 1 year ago
Awesome clip.
jfj619 1 year ago
De Dancing Duke!
BigTex541 1 year ago
Wow The Duke was so stiff doing the jitterbug in this one it's no wonder the women liked him so much. ;-)
Aggedor1959 1 year ago
Fred Mertz was there. And the lady with him wasn't Ethel. It was war time, and sometimes people did things they later regretted.
impCaesarAvg 1 year ago
LOL
JeffTheFutureJaros 1 year ago
There's not much real jitterbug, certainly no Lindy. Really just aerials.
djanddance 1 year ago
I completely agree with the comment Pinkerton9 made about the class women had then. I always try to carry myself with class and dignity that is usually not seen today. By the way this is the Lindy Hop not the Jitterbug.
jlittlewolfe 1 year ago
John Wayne was so good looking back then!
elcash53 1 year ago
@Pinkerton9.. I agree with you! Today is much different as back then..
bnsffreighttrain 1 year ago
Wow watching this video makes me see how far our society has fallen. Things were so much better back then.
friscolobo 1 year ago 3
What a man...
Alienshadow5 1 year ago
The good ole days. The world is so screwed up today.
Kittlionheart 1 year ago
@Kittlionheart hahahahaah the world was very screwed up then too, but everyone was too busy chain smoking and drinking to notice. Especially the knuckleheads in hollywood. lol
PatrioticAstronaut 1 year ago
Wayne's dance partner in this scene was Adele Mara and she was GORGEOUS! She was 21 at the time and just died on May 7, 2010 at the age of 87!
ronleon62 1 year ago
if onl the world could have been stuck in this era
nebulae87 1 year ago 3
I can give him a pass as many films he made during this time really helped the war effort and put forth a positive image of the American GI and the patriot spirit which was highly needed for people at home and overseas. So he did do his part in some ways by this and kept it up until his death.
the60sKid 1 year ago 10
@IanRush77 Wayne was exempted from service due to his age (34 at the time of Pearl Harbor) and family status, classified as 3-A (family deferment). Yes the studios did use their pull to keep him out as he was a BIG money draw for them but Wayne didn't actively push to enlist either. I
the60sKid 1 year ago
A Scotsman entices "The Boss" to jitterbug,
ChefDeenoh 1 year ago
john wayne was a freak
Treefrogs2 1 year ago
@Treefrogs2 Well, maybe. I guess you'd know.FREAK.
bigjack940 1 year ago
I love it. John Wayne was a great sport.
AnOmbreRose 1 year ago 24
agree with lanoftheshanks - why oh why do people insist on airing their opinions on "race" on you tube?! Im not here to read ignorant remarks JUST COMMENT ON THE VID !!!
HardcoreJungFunk 1 year ago 3
@HardcoreJungFunk i feel the same way but it's gonna keep happening cause people won't let it go
purplehaze3000 1 year ago
wtf?! this movie is about john wayne. take your fuckin' ignorance elsewhere and enjoy the dancing and music. god almighty every video has some kind of debate over random shit.
LandoftheShanks 1 year ago
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John Wayne was a nazi/fag
mastertoker69 1 year ago
old movies are so funny
nemesis700 1 year ago
y'all are brainwashed. but i'll argue no more with this generation of useful idiots....
irishbollix 1 year ago
You always jitterbug better when Fred Mertz cheers you on!
SlappyFrankenstein 1 year ago 2
@SlappyFrankenstein Best comment in this thread!
7beers 1 year ago
yo irish why dont you foooooooooook right offffffffff you C***
151166diane 1 year ago
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y'all got wayne figured wrong. he was too wise to join the military in WW2 for it he was worth his weight in gold to recruitment by insipiring useful idiots to die instead of him and his ilk. if useful idiots like clarke gable etc wanted to join for whatever reasons thats ok...just don't expect wise men like duke to get all ''patriotic'' about some bullshit war that would be over in a few years.....
irishbollix 1 year ago
Yeah, them Nazis would have just come to their senses and dismantled all the death camps and pulled out of Poland, Austria and France without anyone raising a finger eventually, right? Of course an Irish person, part of a country that sat on their arses during the war, would say this.
SlappyFrankenstein 1 year ago
He wanted to join. There is proof he wanted to join the military. His producing company wouldn't let him, john wayne even sent a letter to them asking if he should join.
IanRush77 1 year ago 2
@IanRush77 Oh, jeez , don't tell them that. You just ruined their whole day.
bigjack940 1 year ago
I love this clip. Wayne looks a bit uncomfortable, but the girl dancing with him is quite good.
joeparkson 1 year ago
He also danced it "Pittsburg" with Marlene Dietrich
vulnaviadraco 1 year ago
He is so cute when he is a bit shy!
MissYoungClassic 2 years ago
I love a good party ...
:-)
tunenito 2 years ago
Hubba Hubba doddle doddle!
VictrolaJazz 2 years ago
its true that people with his build are quite lite on their feet so they make fairly good dancers
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SergioMendendez 2 years ago
Did you notice William Frawley in the back ground who played Fred Mertz on I love Lucy?
lander4545 2 years ago 4
@lander4545 he was cranking the valve open when a Jap shoots him later giving his death scene.
facmptr 2 years ago
john wayne looks so different without his cowboy hat on almost didn't recognize him, he's one of the best
canadiangirl20 2 years ago
He was so typecast in his career, he essentially portrayed John Wayne in his movies. But if you watch one of his movies as if you'd never heard of him, and watch him without prejudice, he comes across as an excellent actor. He had something.
shaggybreeks 2 years ago 2
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the blacks in this country are destroying it. They are awarded jobs and positions they do NOT merit simply because of the color of their skin. It is called the "dumbing down of America". Name me ONE black-run country, or even city, that is a shining example of success. You can't. If blacks hate whites so much, why do they push themselves into white neighborhoods? I am sick of blacks calling the race card to cover for their laziness and inabilities.
pask54 2 years ago
Yeah, they started the Civil War, didn't they? Stop embarrassing white people, troll.
shaggybreeks 2 years ago
impresionante
SUPERHATARI 2 years ago
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How funny was that? Massively funny! Just goes to show that America's cowboy a total dick!
fijago 2 years ago
This was an interesting clip its been a long time since I've seen this one may have to see if I can find it just so I see Wayne dance again. Thanks for posting. Ps I really wish those of you who don't like Wayne would just visit other videos and let those of us who do watch them without your two cents worth.
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I'm white but also gay, and I do not accept the criticism of black and other minority resistance as simply "complaining". The squeaky wheel gets the grease. It's the only strategy minorities have. If white society were not so racist, then no one would have to complain, and there would be no cause to complain
gabsylv 2 years ago
It is the height of insanity to dare compare the agenda of sexual deviancy with that of black people, here and abroad.
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Blacks have so many opportunities today, that they did not have before. As MLK said, judge by the persons content, not by the color of skin. Its not the color of skin...its the way people act. I am white, and I will not make excuses for the fact that I do not like alot of what blacks are doing today. It is the merit of people. There are other races beside black....latino, asian, American Indian...they don't seem to need that much attention. And they don't seem to contantly complain.
califgirl11 2 years ago 10
well said
MagillJohnM 2 years ago
@califgirl11 ..... be quiet
purplehaze3000 1 year ago
@purplehaze3000 LOL!!!!!!
califgirl11 1 year ago
@califgirl11 You believe the mad in media don't you?! We've fought in all your wars been your most faithful servants! I'm a former US Marine infantryman, my father a world war tanker and my brother is a veteran police sergeant! And please don't tell me you voted for Obama! You obviously do not know what your white higher ups got planned for Blackfolks and other people of color! And they always use others as a buffer zone! My family is not an exception either.l Two of sisters are teachers!
gjohnsoningary 1 year ago
@gjohnsoningary Yep, and like the statistics prove, 98% of the crime in thUSA, is committed by blacks, and only make up 2% of the prison system. Now, say again just how mistreated the blacks, and people of color are. Theres good and bad in all races, my freind.
bigjack940 1 year ago
@bigjack940 I'm not your friend first off. but believe lie that 98% of the crimes committed in this country are committed by Black people. This country was founded by criminals, murderers, child molesters, rapists, sexual deviants, thieves, swindlers, liars and other assorted freaks! America is in the scriptures as the bastion of every unclean and hateful bird! I am not your friend! John Wayne was making movies about war at the same time my father was in Europe fighting the Nazis!
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racist bastered ...... no dancing fucker ....
war monger
sierria64 2 years ago
Sierria64, the Duke was born in1907 and I think a majority of white males born in that era were racist. But I know for a fact that the Duke didn't have hate for minorities, it was how everyone was brought up. I a,m sure black men born in 1907 didn't have much love for white men either. Now you can't say John Wayne was a racist. Because he had 3 inter racial marrages. He married 3 latin woman and that was in a time when THAT didn't even happen. His first marrage was in the early 1930's.
kevinc419 2 years ago 4
That's very true. I think the term racist is bandied about much too frequently. We've learned to apply our present day standards to a time when the majority of people's attitudes towards other races was very different. I don't really see the benefit in labeling or accusing these people once they're dead - we just have to accept that our awareness of these issues has changed a great deal, and they were only a product of their age, as we are of ours.
ellecto 2 years ago 13
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my granmother ( luella ) worked as a maid at rko/mgm in the 1930's , 1940's until 1955. from the stories about duke she often said that he referred to black people " hey nigger" ,black men as boy ... and women as gal she said on one occasion he even addressed bill robinson ( the dancer) as boy /nigger and told him to not look at him ..he wold not even shake his hand ..so racist yes
sierria64 2 years ago
@ellecto That's the attitude of the descendants of the persecutors: the attitude of the descendants who have profited from harm done to others, in the past. But trying to bury it doesn't bring justice to those who suffered from it. It's like forgetting about the holocaust. Or let's forget our war dead. If you have any respect for your ancestors, you don't let the world forget what they suffered. They are the only reason we exist: The only reason. No them, no you.
lamontlewis 1 year ago
@lamontlewis
Hang on - no one said anything about forgotting the incidents of history. To a certain extent, events such as the Holocaust or a world war are impossible to forget - they overshadow the future for longer than many people even realise and in ways that are often surprising. All I was saying was that we should attempt a kind of empathy with people in the past before we apply the moral codes and values of our generation to them. How can we hope to understand them otherwise?
ellecto 1 year ago
no kevin419..my granmother ( luella)worked as a maid at rko/mgm in the 1940's and 1930 until 1955. i am black she said that he was so racist / untorlorent that he always adressed the black men as boy ... and women as gal she said on one occasion he even addressed bill robinson as boy /nigger and told him to not look at him ..he wold not even shake his hand ..so racist yes
sierria64 2 years ago
Although that's shocking and unacceptable by today's standards, behaviour like that was more common then. If this is true, I think it merely suggests that Wayne was a not-all-that unusual example of his generation's attitude. Therefore, I don't really see the benefit of griping about it now: the iconic figure that Wayne presents is a part of that generation, and has to be viewed within its context.
ellecto 2 years ago
thanks... this was a true story
sierria64 2 years ago
Maybe thats true maybe not, but your bitchin about a man that was born over 100 years ago things were different for everyone. now for racist look at black society today and your leaders jesse jackoff al sharpie and every single time something doesnt go your way here comes the race card.black society has more now than they ever have so get over it and move on.
jripper1234 2 years ago 4
the whitest answer ever
MiamiIndianTribe 2 years ago
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u forgot to mention he's a faggot- i hope worms are eating out his asshole like i would jenna haze
MiamiIndianTribe 2 years ago
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Draft dodging racist coward.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
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yep!!!!!! that niga is a racist war monger
sierria64 2 years ago
Good! He was so young in this movie!
dearmalika 2 years ago
GOD ,,, I WISH I COUDNY DANCE LIKE THAT
coocher2009 2 years ago
John Wayne was the MAN.
griffislo 2 years ago 4
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he was a faggot
MiamiIndianTribe 2 years ago
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How a crap actor like wayne lasted as long as he did ill never know but then Yanks are easily pleased
cpnstav 2 years ago
Shouldn't he be killing Japs?
Spartacus217 2 years ago
im related to john wayne and johnny appleseed no joke !
DontDoThisAtHome109 2 years ago
How do you know? lol
umisoubi 2 years ago
Well i'll be....the duke dancin ! is that ed asner? the guy who played in I love Lucy??? on the left??
Docrob 2 years ago
That was William Frawley in that Movie who Play Fred Mertz in I love Lucy......Not Ed Asner...
jjiizm 2 years ago
THank you so much...your sure right..my memory...did you notice it was him before i said it?
Docrob 2 years ago
fantastic Duke wish you were still making the movies love ya xxx
151166diane 2 years ago
*ROFL*
aplantage1 2 years ago
the duke is gettin jiggy wit it!
thevoiceisbydon 2 years ago
was that willam frarly
RandinReya 2 years ago
yea I had the same question?
mm1sis 2 years ago
Da DUKE dancing like that!!! JEEZ, next thing I expect to see is Gary Cooper french kissing...
WA4RRN 2 years ago
Go Duke!!!
swkccr 2 years ago
That party looks great! Who was John Wane?
tedlicious 2 years ago
You don't no who john wayne was?
scrubs4077 2 years ago
when American actors didnt bash america,like todays jerks sean penn,danny glover,susan sarandon,martin sheen and all the other leftwing liberal pigs.
scorzeny45 2 years ago
@scorzeny45 You tell em son, and follow , with if they d on't like it, catch a plane and fast as you can to africa, and then tell us all , how bad the USA is.
bigjack940 1 year ago
Thanks for the share - G. My father would be turning in his grave - John Wayne Dancing!!! lol Great to see big Macho Man types letting their hair down - Love it.
rockchick80s 2 years ago
In this movie "Fighting Seabees", William Frawley (Fred Mertz) gets killed nasty by a sniper right while he's singing an irish tune.
LosAngeleno1959 2 years ago
And then John Wayne says, 'I'm gonna kill every last one of them bug-eyed monkeys if it's the last thing I do!'
MattieA65 2 years ago
LOL
DMBKristen41 2 years ago
I think I saw william frawley.
noliberalism 2 years ago
thought i saw him too
hotpink910 2 years ago
the good ol days....
ToaOfFlameX 2 years ago
i love how you can see william 'fred mertz' frawley among the applauding spectators!
liqueena 2 years ago 2
I think women were prettier back then and acted feminine...like women! There was charm and sweetness that you don't see today. {and I'm a woman}
Pinkerton9 2 years ago 22
@Pinkerton9
You are totally right. Back then men had to work for their girl, like it should be done. Today it is the first gal that shakes her moneymaker like a cheap ..., well you know. Glad i am not the only one who thinks like that!
89092302 1 year ago 3
@Pinkerton9 Agreed. Women back then were HOT--And they were hotter because they left the goodies to the imagination.
Aggedor1959 1 year ago 2
@Pinkerton9 back then it was all about the family and it kinda still should.
LuciantheGrim 1 year ago
This was a related video in Adam Wan is Gay by YouTube user Bashe86 LOL
mickbynes 2 years ago
did anybody notice the fellow who plays Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy!!
marco82garcia 3 years ago
está bien que dejes por un momento de manejar el rifle y trajines con el cuerpo de una mujer
hefalu 3 years ago
Maybe some has already mentioned this, but the gorgeous woman Wayne is dancing with is Adele Mara, one of the most popular actresses at Republic Pictures in the 40's.
sandaglad 3 years ago
I never see John Wayne dance.He dance little not much.I really miss John Wayne's show. Smile!
vikingwoman73 3 years ago
this is interesting to watch, what movie is this? and John Wayne dances like me! stiff and does not know what to do! lol i don't like to dance either! funny how me and the Duke share that! and i think he did all right for a guy who did not dance much!
BRENTHENRY1989 3 years ago 2
funny, tongue-in-cheek. thankfully, they did not try to pass him off as a dancer
somewhere6 3 years ago
lol :D
bullyboy1863 3 years ago
So what would Ethel Mertz say about Fred being there w/out her? Nice video all the same. Pipe down kids. Don't get all huffy and personal. Enjoy the vid and keep your hands to yourself.
mariojac 3 years ago 2
From what I hear she was probably happy to get rid of him for the night. John Wayne dances like me, stiff and broken.
blinko656 3 years ago
Good observation.
blinko656 3 years ago
I'll go w/ Pigsick1's comment. But yeah, he was the idealized male image of the period. Couldn't dance though.
mariojac 3 years ago