Wayne had been honoured with the Hollywood footprints after his Oscar-nominated performance in the Sands of Iwo Jima, about the World War 2 battle between the US and Japan. And what fans may not know is that actual black sand from the Pacific island was flown in specially to Los Angeles for the ceremony.

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There were also movies he wished he’d never made, co-stars he didn’t get along with, contemporaries he couldn’t stand, and directors he’d refuse to work with under any circumstances, but hearing Wayne lambast his own acting was about as rare an occurrence in the ‘Golden Age’ as any, but that didn’t mean it couldn’t happen.

John Wayne confessed that "the best advice of my life" was handed to him during a foul-mouthed rant on the set of The Shepherd of the Hills, which was released 84 years ago.