Wayne was becoming a successful prop man and bit player when Walsh arranged for him to star in the Big Trail (1930), a big budget extravaganza that was a heavy gamble for the troubled Fox studio. Wayne also worked as a stuntman and extra for other directors like Raoul Walsh and Frank Borzage. However, director John Ford saw something of himself in Wayne, and got him a job as an assistant prop man, the same job Ford’s brother had gotten him thirteen years earlier. Viewing Hollywood as Babylon on earth, Josie’s parents forbade her to see Wayne.
Believing that regardless of how hard he worked as a law student, his fraternity brothers would always be better connected since their fathers owned the law firms, he quit university and began working full-time at Fox. Despite taking on a second part-time job, he quickly went into debt at his fraternity. Unfortunately, a shoulder injury received a week before starting his sophomore year meant that he was dropped from the regular team and lost his scholarship. When Tom Mix arranged for some of USC’s football players to have summer jobs at Fox Studios in exchange for box seats at the games, Wayne was one of the lucky players. They undoubtedly became even more concerned when Wayne’s parents divorced on February 13, 1929. Since he was 19, she was 16, and he was a poor, Protestant, scholarship student, who washed dishes, her parents were far from overjoyed. He proved to be good enough at football to earn a scholarship at the University of Southern California (USC), but the scholarship was not enough, so he waited tables and washed dishes at his fraternity, Sigma Chi.ĭuring college, Wayne began dating Josephine Saenz, the daughter of a rich, socially prestigious, Roman Catholic, Hispanic family, who considered themselves Spanish-Americans, not Mexican-Americans. Wayne grew up in Madison County, an extremely patriotic area, where Independence Day was a bigger event than Christmas. Wayne worked part-time and joined youth organizations to avoid trouble at home, so he received his all-American, anti-communist values through his membership in the Boy Scouts, the YMCA and the De Molay, the anti-communist youth wing of the Masons. Unfortunately, Clyde never made a lot of money and was too generous to friends, so the family often had to move when they could not pay the rent. By all accounts his parents’ marriage was not a happy one, Clyde was a dreamy optimist and Molly was money-oriented. Born Marion Morrison on May 26, 1907, Wayne understandably hated his name, and took his dog’s name, Duke, as his nickname.
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