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Show The Ladies and Locales in John Waynes Reel Life ' ' When An Tribute to John Wayne airs Friday at 7:00 p.m., the fast-pachour of November 26, ABC-Tentertainment will mark a festive reunion for Hollywood's most durable and popular star and three lovely ladies with whom he has shared billing on more than one occasion. Leading the list with a record number of five appearances is Maureen OHara, followed closely by Claire Trevor with four and Angie Dickinson with two. Throughout his long and illustrious career, Wayne had appeared opposite many other glamorous and talented actresses and usually in settings far from the Old West. The ladies: Sophia Loren, Lana Turner, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Claudette Colbert, Jean Arthur, Claudia Cardinale, Jennifer Jones, Patricia Neal, Janet Leigh and Colleen Dewhurst, to name but a few. The locales: The pastoral hills of Ireland (The Quiet y train (Without Reservations), Man), a crack Pacific ("Sands of Iwo Jima), the coal mines of the war-tor- n Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh") and that states Revolutionary War frontier (Allegheny Uprising). Hes been on the water (commander of a freighter in The Sea Chase); under it (the Florida seacoast and dangerous reefs in DeMilles Reap the Wild Wind); up in the clouds (The High and the Mighty and Jet Pilot) and on an East Africa game reserve (Hatari). It doesnt seem to matter what the role or where the locale. Audiences worldwide accept John Wayne as the quintessential American hero. Tribute to John Hosted by Frank Sinatra, An Wayne, benefiting Variety Clubs International, the charitable show business organization dedicated to helping underpriviledged and handicapped children throughout the world, is sponsored by Sears, Roebuck and Co. and the series of With Paul Keyes, noted for Laugh-I- n American Film Institute Salutes to Orson Welles, James writer, the Cagney and William Wyler, as producer-hea- d All-St- ar ed V program also spotlights, rollicking, alphabetically, Charles Bronson, John Byner, Glen Campbell, Sammy Davis, Jr., Monty Hall, Bob Hope, Ron Howard, Lee Marvin, Rowan and Martin, James Stewart and Henry Winkler. nt Ann-Margr- cross-countr- ' " ' All-St- ar ' , ; Seen with Wayne in stills from three of his over 200 films are, top left, Julie Bishop in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949); top right, Lauren Bacall in the The Shootist (1976) and Maureen O'Hara in "McLintock!" (1963). John Wayne poses beside the many awards he has won PAGE 10 TV WEEK In a long and distinguished acting career. |