Actors John Wayne and Ward Bond were compatriots for more than 30 years. Both played football at the University of Southern California. Both got their showbiz starts in the 1929 film Salute. They appeared in 23 movies together, many of them Westerns directed by John Ford.
The story goes that during a hunting trip in the 1950s, Wayne accidentally shot Bond in the butt—wi

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