John Wayne's Clothes
Tedthecat85
gray/tan pants, solid colored shirt, brownish vest, white kerchief, and the
same cowboy hat? Did Big John or some other Hollywood type have a sudden
epiphany that no other wardrobe choice could be as good? Is there any other
actor who has a similar "uniform" that he wears for all roles he does in a
genre?
GrapeApe
Sure, if the character is the same.
What was weird in John Waynes case, they were apparently DIFFERENT characters
in different situations, although you could pretty much say it was always the
same archetype in the same situation. It was really the same character, if it
was a John Wayne Western. What about a John Wayne war movie?
You could almost make the same argument for other Male movie stars whos star
rose under the studio system. (female stars were tied in closer to the fashion
industry) Cary Grant, suit, often a tuxedo, and so on. Even Spencer Tracy,
whose clothes were not so similar to the standard uniform 'man in suit'
uniform of the other stars in urban situation roles, had clothes often similar
from role to role. He might be in Rumpled tweed... something slightly
dishelveled.
Hank Gillette
tedth...@aol.com (Tedthecat85) wrote:
> Is there any other
> actor who has a similar "uniform" that he wears for all roles he does in a
> genre?
John "The Wad" Holmes
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Hank Gillette
Carl Fink
wrote:
> Is there any other actor who has a similar "uniform" that he wears
> for all roles he does in a genre?
There's one who has a uniform he wears for roles in *various* genres.
From www.jabootu.com:
At this point I'd like to take a second to discuss Caine's
wardrobe. Theres little doubt that Caine habitually chose
the threads that his film characters would wear. That's
because it seems like he wore the exact same outfit that
hes wearing here in about ten straight years worth of
films. By which I mean a navy blue, double breasted
blazer with bronze buttons, a blue, open-necked dress
shirt, worn either alone or with a cravat, and tan
slacks. I always wanted to systematically go through and
record for posterity the presence of the line, "This guy's
good!" in every Steven Seagal movie. Maybe to that
project list I should go through the two thousand movies
Caines been in and see how many times he in fact wore
this outfit.
By Jabootu's chief acolyte Ken Begg, reviewing _The Holcroft Covenant_.
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Carl Fink ca...@dm.net
I-Con's Science and Technology Programming
<http://www.iconsf.org/>
chris greville
"GrapeApe" <grap...@aol.comjunk> wrote in message
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> >What's the deal with the "uniform" that the Duke wore in all of his
Westerns:
> >
> >gray/tan pants, solid colored shirt, brownish vest, white kerchief, and
> >the
> >same cowboy hat? Did Big John or some other Hollywood type have a sudden
> >epiphany that no other wardrobe choice could be as good? Is there any
other
> >actor who has a similar "uniform" that he wears for all roles he does in
> >a
> >genre?
>
> Sure, if the character is the same.
>
> What was weird in John Waynes case, they were apparently DIFFERENT
characters
> in different situations, although you could pretty much say it was always
the
> same archetype in the same situation. It was really the same character,
if it
> was a John Wayne Western. What about a John Wayne war movie?
John Wayne just played John Wayne. The scripts or storylines were
incidental.
On the day his death was announced, a newspaper hoarding pronounced " John
Wayne Dead".
Underneath it, someone had written "The hell I am".
Chris " Enjoyed most of his films as easy on the eye escapism" Greville
John Dean
"Tedthecat85" <tedth...@aol.com> wrote in message
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We're not counting William Boyd, right?
ISTR the Duke always used the same six-gun & the same gun-belt.
ISTR also that James Stewart gad a favourite horse that appeared in all his
Westerns.
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John Dean
Oxford
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N Jill Marsh
<john...@frag.lineone.net>wrote:
>ISTR also that James Stewart gad a favourite horse that appeared in all his
>Westerns.
ISTR that James Stewart was better known for wearing the same hat in
all his westerns, for many many years, and there was some sort of
problem with this in one of the later ones - with him and Henry Fonda
- perhaps _The Cheyenne Social Club_?
Google proves me wrong, as usual. He did have a favourite hat, but
Henry Fonda had nothing to do with it:
http://www.jimmy.org/tour/cowboyhat.html
His horse, Pie, actually appeared in 17 movies; he was Stewart's most
frequent co-star:
http://www.wildwestweb.net/pie.html
And here's what JS says about both:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/showing/nft/interviews/stewart/08_hatshorses.html
nj"yippee-yi-yay for the Union"m
"I have holes poked in me rendering me
useless to collectors." - jerkcity #411
John Dean
"N Jill Marsh" <njm...@storm.ca> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 12 May 2002 13:00:27 +0100, "John Dean"
> <john...@frag.lineone.net>wrote:
>
> >ISTR also that James Stewart gad a favourite horse that appeared in all
his
> >Westerns.
>
>
>
> http://www.bfi.org.uk/showing/nft/interviews/stewart/08_hatshorses.html
>
Ta
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John 'old softy' Dean
Oxford
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bill van
> Can anyone tell me what John Wayne are worse today some pretty old late
> 20&30somelate 60&70
bill
Les Albert
wrote:
>Can anyone tell me what John Wayne are worse today some pretty old late 20&30somelate 60&70
mccarv...@gmail.com
Howard
anything, but the obvious answer is Lassie.
