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SECRETS Behind Hollywood
About-to-be-divorced John Wayne made attempts at reconciliation
John’s first marriage to Josephine Saenz foundered on the shoals of her desire for a social life, despite four children
BY MIKE
• I have a theory that the reasons for the breakup of John Wayne’s second marriage are deeply rooted in his first.
Here is the background.
Wayne’s first marriage was in 1933 to Josephine Saenz, daughter of a Mexican government official and a devout Catholic.
John, too, is a Catholic — that is, he is but he isn’t. His folks were, but they went their separate ways when he was fifteen, so he wasn’t actually brought up as a practicing member of the Catholic faith.
Josephine was Society with a capital S. John was just plain Duke (his friends in Hollywood still call him that) Morrison, bit player and stunt man. Josephine’s
CONNOLLY
society was the real thing— strictly Pasadena, not Hollywood. She is still high society and, incidentally, still a very beautiful woman.
To John, things came the hard way. He got his big break in “The Big Trail” in 1929, made by Raoul Walsh for the old Fox Company. Walsh had discovered him at Fox Studio working as a prop man for the summer. The various studios made a practice of giving kids — particularly football players — jobs during the vacation months, and Wayne, who made the varsity team in his sophomore year at the University of Southern California, was being touted as a coming football star.
“Trail” was intended to ( Continued on page 100)
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