![]() ![]() In essence, the actor's films were used as a vessel to uphold his staunch conservative beliefs. ![]() On the flip side, Eastwood was steadily climbing up the ladder to stardom, starting on TV with Rawhide, morphing into an international star with Sergio Leone's "Dollars" Trilogy, all of which accumulate to the role that would cement his legendary status, Harry Callahan. At the 1970 Academy Awards, Wayne was honored with his first-ever Oscar for True Grit- a career achievement of sorts that the awards body is prone to give out. When Eastwood emerged as a major movie star in the early 1970s, Wayne's glory days were behind him. As the original face of the Western genre, he did not hold favorable opinions of the new gunslinger riding into town in Eastwood. ![]() These icons, instead of facing off in a pistol duel in the old West, were entangled in an off-screen feud initiated by Wayne. Unfortunately, this dream proposition never came to be. Naturally, one must assume that at some point, particularly in the former's later years, the two stars shared the screen. When playing the word association game, the two names that immediately jump to mind when the word "westerns" is spoken are John Wayneand Clint Eastwood. ![]()
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