Gail Russell: Last News

News of the affair reached to his wife Josephine, who was furious, and asked a priest to talk to her husband. Eyman wrote in the book: “Dietrich was very near the last straw.” John “knew the marriage was over”, said the author, after realising his wife was unable to drop the subject. However, it wasn’t the last time the actor would become entangled in extra-marital affair scandals. His second wife, Esperanza Baur, had believed her husband was seeing actress Gail Russell.Despite the accusation, both actors denied they were having an affair. It came after John and Gail filmed the 1946 film Angel and the Badman, where they were involved in love scenes. According to the Outsider, John arrived back late at his estate one night, and Esperanza was waiting for him with a loaded gun. As he walked through the front door, the actor’s wife tried to shoot him. Somehow, the happy couple stayed together for another seven years before eventually divorcing. They were ultimately married for 8 years, from 1946 to 1954. That same year, he married actress Pilar Pallete, with whom he stayed married until his death in 1979. He died from stomach cancer at the age of 72 after suffering from serious health problems in the latter stages. In 1973, the year Cahill US Marshall was released, Wayne told journalists: "I'm pretty much living on borrowed time."John, also known as The Duke, had a long career in Hollywood, starring in 74 films from 1926 until 1976. 

John Wayne rose to prominence as an American actor and filmmaker who became a popular icon through his starring roles during the "Hollywood Golden Age".The three-time married actor is especially known for his appearances in Western and war films, his career having flourished from the silent era of the 1920s through the American New Wave that began in the mid-Sixties.In total, Wayne — whose real name was Marion Robert Morrison — starred in 179 film and television productions.In the legend's real life, the actor had a tumultuous love life, most notably with his second wife Esperanza Baur, who assumed he had been having an extramarital affair.Esperanza was a former Mexican actress and the second of John’s three marriages, who had believed her husband was seeing actress Gail Russell.Both actors denied having an affair despite the accusation.John and Gail filmed the 1946 film, Angel and the Badman, where the pair were involved in love scenes during the movie.The actor's other half was unimpressed and later accused the actor of having an affair.According to the Outsider, following a wrap party for the film, John arrived back at his estate late.But an allegedly intoxicated Esperanza had waited to catch her husband.As the actor walked through the door, she attempted to shoot him.Despite the drama, the couple remarkably stayed married for almost seven more years before they eventually divorced.The Hollywood actor tied the knot with Esperanza in 1946 but the couple called it quits with a high-profile divorce in 1954.John was first married to his wife Josephine Wayne after the pair tied the knot in 1933 but they called it quits 12 years later.James May 'hospitalised with broken rib as stunt goes horribly wrong'[LATEST]Nigella

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