Published On: Mon, Jul 31st, 2023
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John Wayne was so ill on final movie The Shootist that the film was almost cancelled

John Wayne suffered from ill health for the last 15 years of his life, being hospitalised for two weeks on his last movie The Shootist with influenza. At one point, doctors were even unsure if they would allow Duke to complete his final picture, in which he played an old gunslinger with cancer opposite James Stewart.
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