John Wayne - When The Duke lost his Toupee (Funny Scene)

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Every real Duke Fan knows, that he used mostly a toupee in his motion pictures. on this scene from "North to Alaska", so funny when he noticed whats happen.

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[Richard40171]

There's a photo of the Duke entertaining troops in Vietnam and he doesn't wear his toupee, is mostly bald. Same with Clark Gable; there's a photo of him without his false teeth meeting troops during WWII. I suppose they think it's improper to be fake when people are risking their lives for their country.

[magovenor]

I think the movie was North to Alaska, I remember seeing this scene and jumping up and down about the bald spot after the hat came off.

[ronetteloverz]

The Duke may have lost his toupee...he may have lost his lung...but he never lost his guts.

[gnoccafan]

you really couldn't tell so much. he still the duke to me hair or no hair.

[ferdonandebull]

Liked all the old actors . If you look at the war records these guys really believed in service . How many you see going into the service now days?

Who ever mentioned Christopher lee is right on. He done things that would make John Wayne puke....

[Richard40171]

@grimblebrumble17889 Stewart obviously didn't carry Duke's weight, in Westerns! But Duke couldn't touch the emotional highs S brought to films such as VERTIGO, the Capra classics, the Anthony Mann westerns, & the same year he did drama so well in VERTIGO, do comedy equally well in BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE, & even there he can play both sides well (the way he scolds witch Elsa Lancaster for entering his apartment in the beginning). And what an enduring career, even with the war interruption.

[Richard40171]

@grimblebrumble17889 With all due respect to Palance and Ladd I think Victor Young's music was as much a character in that film as they. I think Ladd's height added to the importance of a gun, which compensated for his size.

[grimblebrumble17889]

@Richard40171 Oh my favourite active service actor has to be Christopher Lee. Volunteered for the Winter War against the Soviets due to his ability to speak Russian and then he went on to be an intelligence officer in the long range desert group, the forerunner to the special air service. And then he was in SOE which was even more secretive and murderous than MI5 or 6. These were the men that used to give the SS bad dreams lol.

[grimblebrumble17889]

I read up on Palance. I would never of guessed. Mind you the 2nd world war plastic surgery was pioneered by British surgoens working on RAF air crews. Shane was made by Palance and his grinning gunman in that. But there you are again the likes of Alan Ladd, not particularly physically imposing but carried the weight of someone to be respected in that film. You cant always have someone act a role, theres alot to be gained from personal experience.

[grimblebrumble17889]

@Richard40171 Richard Todd was a British actor who actually played his commanding officer in the Longest Day. One of the first British paras into france. I certainly have some of my favourite Stewart films such as Shenandoah, but I never felt he carried the same prescence as Wayne or Mitchum. I think the big difference today is that actors are thrown into being celebrities with all the media hype and they dont achieve icon status in the same way. I want a good film now I wait for the Coen Bros

[Richard40171]

@grimblebrumble17889 How the hell Nicholson won for AS GOOD AS IT GETS is beyond me. It's all "Jack," not acting at all. I don't think people know a freaking thing about acting anymore. Stewart as probably the greatest actor we ever had; act rings around Brando, tho I love Brando in his early films (MEN, STREETCAR) too. I think he checked out rather early in his career: if they're stupid enough to pay me all that money for talking into a camera, let them. Dusty I think is the only real actor.

[Richard40171]

@grimblebrumble17889 today if you make 5 mediocre films (like Demi Moore) you're called a legend for the rest of your life. JC! Stewart made dozens of classics; Fonda, Duke, Grant. It took them half a century to be called a legend. Inflation happens with movies as with money. Frankly I don't think Brando really acted after his first years. WATERFRONT is mostly mannerisms, what Stanislovsky called "stenciling," rehashing old movements. DeNiro hasn't acted in at least 10 years; nor Nicholson....