Mel Brooks recently recalled how he came to cast Gene Wilder as the Waco Kid at a 50th anniversary screening of 'Blazing Saddles' in Los Angeles Luke Chinman is a writer at PEOPLE. He joined PEOPLE in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy quite ...

John Wayne was the biggest country star for decades, and there are several big movie roles he turned down to ensure his reputation in Hollywood.

Marion Morrison belongs on the Mount Rushmore (or should we say, Monument Valley?) of movie stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Never heard of him? We bet you have. He went by John Wayne. The ...