Jim Roots wrote:Looks like Wayne to me, too. But I'm with Gary (who's always lonesome on this site, it seems) in wondering why Wayne, with his obsession with war both in movies and in real life, wouldn't have ever been specific about starring in one of the two or three most famous war movies of the silent era. Even if he played nothing more than a grunt in the distance in one short scene, he would have made hay out of it in talking about his early career.
And if that's not a wedding ring, what else would he be wearing on that finger on his left hand? It's not too big -- about the same size as mine, which is no monster. It's definitely not a swatch of light -- that would have to be some hell of a spotlight to put a thin bright band on nothing but a single finger, not even a slight spillover onto his other fingers, and no shadow on the knuckle.
Jim
It's actually more shaped like a school ring, if it is actually a ring.
And actually, Wayne did not get that many opportunities to discuss his early film career in full-length interviews to begin with, he really did not like to discuss his 30's career, which he usually dismissed as slavery in cheap B westerns, he'd talk about people he met in those years like Yakima Canutt and Paul Fix, but very little specifics about the films themselves. Ditto with his early career in the 20's, except to talk about John Ford, he only mentioned working in the Educational Comedies in one interview.
RICHARD M ROBERTS