Actor showed up 3 hours late, John said 5 words that ENDED his career: "Pack your things.'' ....

October 1959. On a ranch outside Brackettville, Texas, John Wayne was directing, producing and starring in The Alamo, the picture he'd dreamed about for more than ten years, paid for with his own money. Every lost hour of daylight came straight out of his pocket. Then a young method actor from New York showed up late. Then he did it again. And on the third morning, the morning of his biggest scene, he opened his trailer door in a silk dressing gown with a china teacup and told the Duke, "My artistic process can't be rushed." What John Wayne did next, in front of more than two hundred crew members, became one of the quietest and most legendary firings in Hollywood history. But what he did that night, when nobody was watching, is the part almost nobody knows. This is a story about professionalism, respect, and the difference between dedication and self-indulgence. #JohnWayne #TheAlamo #TheDuke #ClassicHollywood #Hollywood #Professionalism #OldHollywood #Western #JohnFord #HollywoodStories